mingle & date

[idolpro]

Who: anyone
Where: date locations?
When: Day 229, lunchtime on

It's turning into a pretty nice day outside! Nice for a walk through the park or the zoo or Tokyo DismaySea. Are you meeting up for some dates? Still making plans with your matches? Helping your friends prep for a super romantic evening?

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looking up the matches then]

No. But you should.

I bet your profile was outrageous. So the list is a potential set of people who work well with outrageous.

[liftoft]

Right... but you get I'm tryin' to hang out with you, yeah?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Waves a hand at X. Yes, he knows.]

Yes, yes.

But there's no reason to not use this opportunity to be a little forward-thinking.

[So. Who DID he match with?]

[liftoft]

[ his profile is about what you'd expect, probably, and a very apt image. His matches are a little all over the place - Todoroki, Man Eater, Scythe, Lucifel, Hurricane, Ryuji, Hardcore, D.VA, Paloma, Dante, Nahri, Nemesis, Glacies and... Glory ]

Forward thinking?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Forward thinking for your---

[Hand motions. You know, your audience things]

Do you know Lucifel and Paloma? Might be worth going on a date with them later if you don't.

[liftoft]

Oh! Hey, great idea!

[ Intensity so smart!! Wow!!! ]

Euh...I dunno about tryna go on a date with Lucifel. First he's got some growing to do.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What makes you say that?

[He looks quite genuinely curious about this response from X of all people. Self-sacrifing!Lucifel seems like a shoe-in]

1/

[liftoft]

[ excuse you, X is a live-at-all-costs, 'every life is equally valuable and don't you dare say otherwise or I'll punch you' type ]

Right, so... first time I met him was after that game where we had to be like 100% our unit traits-- where at the last second Sensitiv ripped everybody open. Were you there for that one?

2/

[liftoft]

Anyway, Sensitiv can heal themselves too, so... when I came across him wandering around with a set of bleeding wounds, I got pissed off! He tried saying something about how he deserved it, 'cause of what he did to all of us or whatever, but to hell with that! Seeing a guy who can heal himself walking around not doing it just 'cause he feels guilty is just annoying! It doesn't undo any of the hurt he did, it just makes him feel like he's bein' punished for it. If he's really sorry, then he should apologize and not do it again!

I tried tellin' him that, but I dunno how much he really got me.

3/

[liftoft]

...Don't get me wrong! I think he's a good guy, and I wanna spend a lot of time talkin' to him. I think he could really use somebody like me to talk to, y'know? If I could rub off on him a little. Maybe average him out to zero?

/4

[liftoft]

...Anyway, that's how it is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[A slow steady blink as he absorbs this]

So how is that not a date?

I mean in the context of this game, and because he is useful. Useful in both directions. He'd probably enjoy assisting you and feel good about it in a non bleeding-all-over-the-floor way. And you don't have a re-occurrence of that "problem".

[liftoft]

Yeah, maybe! We'll see. You mighta noticed, I'm not really playin' this game to win!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

This isn't about the game, X.

This is about your continued survival.

[liftoft]

Yeah, of course!

[ that's not really how you respond to a statement like that but whatever, don't think about it, conversation continues! ]

...You know, I really appreciate you caring so much about that stuff. But you don't gotta make it your problem to solve, 'cause if I'm gonna get fixed I'm gonna have to be the one that makes it happen.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. And I'd feel better about it if you didn't act so flippant about the solution.

Not exactly a show of confidence.

[And then a careless shrug]

But if we're doing a "playdate"---

[Those hand quotes are definitely acted out]

We can buy you a few more days times, yes?

[liftoft]

[ blink blink ]

...Don't take this wrong, 'cause again... I appreciate that you do, just... it's real weird that you, you know.

Care about it? Whether or not I'm bein' flippant or followin' up on it or whatever.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You died.

[As if this was self-explanatory]

Does that not matter at all to you?

[liftoft]

Of course it matters to me. That's what I'm sayin'!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just sighs]

Fine. Fine.

Show me your list.

[liftoft]

Nah, nah--if you got somethin' to say to me in return I wanna hear it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Fine. You want to know what my problem is.

Losing is death. And you know what that means? You lost.

And every time you lose, this place takes a piece of you and replaces it with some of its own. And eventually, if you don't take it seriously, there isn't going to be anything left.

But no one seems to understand that.

[liftoft]

[ tsk ]

I can't afford to think about losin' that way.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's a fact. Not a matter of opinion.

Or do you think you can win a game no matter how many wrong moves you make?

[liftoft]

It ain't a fact, what the hell. You can't just say how you feel about stuff and decide it's a fact, man! Listen... Life's real hard even when we're not trapped in a literal death game. You gotta decide for yourself what satisfies you!

You really don't strike me as the kinda guy who's happy letting other people tell him what counts as winning, but I dunno, you're wrong about me a lot too.