inspiration to do CRIMES

[foolmetwice]

Who: Mars and EVERYONE
Where: the rooftop of the Tokyo National Museum. . .
When: day 236, evening. . . OR POST-GAME whenever that occurs

['SUP EVERYONE, IT IS A LIVE!!! and the video starts with a selfie-view of Mars standing on the edge of the Tokyo National Museum rooftop. he is aggressively smoking a cigarette (in that anxiety chain-smoking kind of way), is dressed like so, and is holding a pillowcase over his shoulder. he also looks like. . . half put-out, half angry-determined. if that's even a thing]

[???]

[?????]

[a few questions here. a) hasn't he been transferred to Hell Bachelor 2.0 for like a month now, b) how the fuck did he return and then escape HSS without running into his teammates, and c) why]

[at any rate, after a deep inhale (and a deep exhale of curled cigarette smoke) he tosses the cigarette down and stomps it out before finally addressing the camera]

HEY, ASSHOLES!!

Here's a friendly little inspirational speech from your not-actually-emotionally-available-for-a-relationship-thanks-very-fucking-much-Producers and recently returned transferee!!

[shifts the pillowcase against his shoulder and flashes the camera a grin]

It really sucks when they cart you off to star in another program. It sucks when they do it twice!! What the hell, even!! But hey, don't let it get you down. Keep your chin up, your spirits high, etc etc. . . insert other inspirational words here. . . and then when you get back, celebrate with a bang! Make sure everyone can hear you, including those assholes at headquarters who decided you needed to be transferred in the first place!

[he scuffs at the rooftop with the tip of his boots, before rocking back on the balls of his heels]

Anyway, I'm feeling restless, so I'm gonna rob a museum now. And I inspire anyone else who might need to vent some frustrations to do something similar.

[two-fingered salute]

Later!

[and then the video feed swims, there is the sound of shattering glass, and-- uh. the inspirational live ends]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Later, Mars is just set a home-made video from the FiN television in the common room showing the highlights of this Live in rapid succession, including but not limited to:

Getting punched by King

Hiryuu almost running over him with a horse

Fox wielding a sword

Req smashing him into the ceramics

Getting owned by Glory

Phantom thieving shenanigans with Prim and North

No A footage though because he turned off the goddamn lights

Also no hugging. And no sappy stuff. Of course.

A bucket of freshly popped popcorn is also in frame.

And the following sparkle text superimposed over the clips]

CEO: You need to stop leaving jealous bachelorettes in your wake.
CEO: Or you're not going to survive to see Season 4.

[foolmetwice]

[thanks for cutting the sappy stuff, Intensity]

mars: this video makes you look like a creepy stalker

[nevermind that it was ALL BROADCASTED PUBLICLY]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Yeah.

About that.]

CEO: I never said I wasn't.
CEO: If you want to be caught up, you know where to find me.
CEO: Until then, enjoy the "love" taps.

[foolmetwice]

mars: hey, at least you're owning it
mars: i don't want hospitality but i'm FAMISHED
mars: so have some snacks ready for me when i stop by fin

[SO DEMANDING]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Fine.
CEO: But in your order before you come.
CEO: I'll have Blue Eyes pick it up.

[foolmetwice]

mars: spicy curry buns
mars: and some dark roast coffee

[MARS PLZ]

[. . . but! some undefined amount of time later, there's a knock on fin's door!]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[It opens. As does the door to the common room.

Lucky Mars gets a free pass past the snake pit.

He's leaning up against the counter when he arrives, his food in a plastic bag in the counter. Probably cold!

Mars can heat it up himself. They have a kitchen now]

Have a good time?

[foolmetwice]

[well, he did say he didn't want hospitality. Mars greets Intenstiy with a two-fingered salute before he heads straight for the food]

Sure did. And I got it all out of my system.

[FOR NOW]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And getting straight down to business]

What's the last game you were here for? That will help speed up the cliff notes.

[foolmetwice]

[oh, geez. Mars has to pause while he heats up his coffee and food, brows furrowing]

Some kind of truth game, though I didn't play in it. I know I was transferred a few days after your face twin arrived on Heart, too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I don't believe I played in that game either.

[A slow blink as the arrival of his double is a better telling of time]

Then you haven't missed much production-wise since Azzy's still MIA and the hosts just come around to do that - host.

They did do a redo of that soul walking game. The same one with Joker and the guillotines and all that other blah blah symbolism. I didn't encounter anyone from your world having one, but Hurricane did. And so everyone got a crash course on Hurricane's world. It sucks.

About two weeks ago, D.Va started having corruption problems where she turns into a monster that attacks everything around her. The trigger for the transformation is still unknown. As is the way to calm her down when she's in that state. You'll probably be dealing with that soon enough.

And just in the last game, Kohime was transferred to avante from BARiTONES. But in the shittiest way possible. Advanced grey disease. And that's saying something, since Eclipse also went through something pretty shitty.

[foolmetwice]

[. . . . . . . . . . JESUS THAT'S A LOT]

[Mars stops heating up his food to whip his gaze towards Intensity again, eyes narrowing]

Holy shit, you don't pull your punches, do you?

[okay. one at a time]

First: is Hurricane okay? I knew from his memories that his world was shitty, but--

[. . .]

Second: how often does she transform? Did she do anything different before it started? Any weird contact with a shitty demon, or. . .?

And third: yeah. . . Eclipse went through something similar. He was about to be transferred away, but I grabbed onto him and stopped the process. When we made it to the other side, he started going gray at an alarming rate. The only thing that would prevent him from turning fully gray or being fully transferred was him putting on an AlcheME! uniform, which transferred him to a new unit.

[TRYING NOT TO SOUND AS BITTER AS HE IS ABOUT THIS and failing]

It's kind of worrying that it's happening more often, isn't it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If you wanted punches pulled, you wouldn't come talk to me.

But let's start with the first. Hurricane is outwardly presenting okay. His soul was a giant battle against whatever was invading and destroying the Earth that he lived on. Space aliens or some shit. And at least when I was there, we were able to defeat them with no causalities.

I don't know how others fared.

Otherwise, I didn't see much. Just a room that represented Heart, and it looked like others had already done some repairs by the time I got there.

[And obviously not going to mention any help that he offered]

[foolmetwice]

[of course he isn't, though Mars is going to assume that he did help in some way. he at least has that much faith in Intensity!!]

. . . ah.

That's-- [. . .] Before I left, Heart was in a rough spot. So if people were able to repair that room for him, then. . .

Good. I'm glad.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[You fool, Mars. You absolute buffoon.]

In some aspects, it seems the dynamic has gotten better.

In the last awful game before this one, Heart managed to save six units working with avante. I hope the high from that hasn't worn off too quickly.

But also I must admit I'm a little sad I don't get to see too much of bitter Hurricane anymore.

[He is teasing.

Mostly]

[foolmetwice]

Yeah? Well, you're just gonna have to deal with it. Tough shit.

[because he wants his team to stop being so stressed out all the time!1]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just laughs at that]

Yes, yes. Of course.

So overall a net positive in terms of paladin morale, if you're asking my opinion.

[foolmetwice]

Well, good.

Prim said that they ate shit in a recent game, so I was a bit worried. But if overall things have gone in a positive direction, then they'll bounce back.

They always do.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They did eat shit in a recent game.

And it was even a game where you couldn't target people, not really. So that's just Heart being Heart.

[foolmetwice]

[oh my god]

Just Heart being Heart. I don't even know what that means anymore.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It means you all have shit luck.

[foolmetwice]

[a small snort]

Not as shit as some, but that sounds about right.

How has fin been? And-- [Gadget]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She had a rough time in the last game. I'm not sure which of her flowers burned as I was ... occupied for the majority of it.

[Also he leaves emotional support to other, more well-suited members of FiN]

I'm sure she'd appreciate you visiting.

[foolmetwice]

[. . . he nods]

I do wanna see her when we're done here. But let's finish up, first.

[moving on!!]

How is Kohime holding up?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not good.

She was avoiding the dorms because she was convinced BARiTONES was out to get her. And then she started going grey. I talked to BARiTONES to see how much of it was paranoia and offered to stay at the dorm with her, but she insisted.

...

She's at least staying in the avante dorm.

So there's that.