Endgame: ViewScream

[errours]

Who: spacefaring idols and friends
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 130, evening

[ And then, you’re back in the central room of THEMiS, alive if rather unceremoniously deposited on the ground. Next to you, folded neatly, are the unit clothes you probably changed out of earlier.

Your injuries, if you had any, have already healed, but it may take you a moment to realize that because none of the pain of them has disappeared; it’s just as awful as when it was happening—and faint scarring remains as a lingering reminder. Think of it as a space souvenir!

Speaking of souvenirs!

Everyone seems to have a little enamel pin secured to their shirt or jacket: black with silver writing, how classy!

Pep!pep!, Taisho Roman Revolution, future is now, WILD CITY, ☆ZRAEL, Heart Soldier Senshi, AlcheME!, avante en garde, and BARiTONES have ones that read, “I Survived THEMiS!”
LiliS, sensitIV, and BAD END=DEAD END instead receive the highly coveted rare collectible “DIED IN SPACE” pin.

AlcheME!, Taisho Roman Revolution, and pep!pep! have been stuck with silver holographic star stickers reading WINNER—and indeed members of those units will find 800 points have been added to their accounts.
...Avante en garde members also have cute little pastel star stickers that cheerily proclaim, “A for Effort!”

...As for your host, she spins around in her captain’s chair to face you all again, tossing a handful of gold and silver glitter. ]

Wasn’t that just incredible? The passion you all displayed! The daring escapes! The tragic deaths!

[ a happy sigh ]
It was truly such a joy to be your host today.

Ciao! ♡

[ And with that, she disappears in a cloud of smoke that leaves a lingering smell of incense and honey. ]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Someone is kneeling down next to him and putting a hand on his shoulder. Gently]

[sancrimony]

[ startling, and then immediately bringing his hand up to hold onto that hand against his shoulder like it's a lifeline, another sob wracking his body before he even looks up ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Lucifel...

Pulling him closer so Lucifel can lean up against him]

[sancrimony]

[ we're like not going to talk about this right

honestly, just clinging to him - his body is cold and his joints are stiff, but beyond the warmth he can't stand being alone right now ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Talk about what? I don't know what you're talking about.

While keeping Lucifel close, Intensity lightly traces over the rips in his clothing, repairing the tears where he's able. It's really the best he can do for dealing with how cold Lucifel is]

[sancrimony]

[ glad we are in agreement here

it does take him a while to bawl, but he does eventually calm down enough to figure out that there's actually someone there - ]

Mm -

[ no, that's not right ]

In . . . Intensi, si, sity . . . -sama, the . . . your - unitma - ah, they - are they inju, injured, d, d - ?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Levi is looking after them. I've seen Maiden around as well. You don't have to do anything.

You're staying here until you're ready to go or unless you send me to fetch someone for you.

[sancrimony]

[ giving a nod then, stiff - he takes that order easily enough, but ]

. . . I d-don't . . . w, want to, to be . . . al, lone . . .

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then you won't be.

But is there anyone specifically that you want to be with right now?

[sancrimony]

. . . He -

I s-shouldn't . . .

. . . I, is Whisky-sa, n, here . . . ?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Briefly looks around, not letting go of Lucifel]

I don't see him. Do you want me to take you to Wild City? Or do you want to go back to your dorm and have me call for him?

[sancrimony]

[ just kind of paralyzed by the choice of it ]

- m-my unitmates - first, t, my unitmates first, they should be first - Aniki, and, Nya-san -

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Watching people mill around them -- god, this is fucking chaos]

They're being taken care of. All of you will get to where you need to be.

[sancrimony]

[ tfw the only unit that's ever remotely organized after a trauma game has happened bc their job starts when trauma games end is the one that ate shit and died

with a stiff nod, then ]

- t-then, WILD CITY . . . he'll p, probably be there . . .