Pretty Pretty Princess: Redux

[enterstageleft]

Who: Those Who Play Games
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 300

[ Today you step out of the elevators and into the game room to find yourselves in an airy Grand Ballroom. Maybe, if you've been here long enough--you might recognize this room?

At the front of the room is a buffet table featuring finger sandwiches, petit fours, and savory pastries as well as a variety of small desserts complemented by bottoms-up turned teacups and steaming hot kettles set up for self-serve. From nowhere to be seen comes the sound of instruments playing. Up above, tethered to the ceiling, are what appear to be long curtains. …

The small, square tables feature place cards that as of yet are mysteriously empty, but other than that--there is nothing on the table. Those who have walked in and might prefer to walk out again will find they are mysteriously barred from exiting…. ]


Tables || Sign Ups || Game Rules || Items & Effects || Turn In & Winning Criteria || FAQ || Talk to the Host

Comments

Re: ENDGAME

[young_atlas]

[He looks up.]

I'm not looking at you.

I'm going to breathe. If you want, you can match my pace.

[And he's going to very audibly breathe in and out. Because he definitely needs to calm down. He's just. Also trying to avoid giving order.]

Re: ENDGAME

[gigadevilbreaker]

N-no. Just go away. Fuckin' go away or-- or I'll make you.

[There's no teeth behind the threat, just the bristling of a small, scared animal.]

Re: ENDGAME

[young_atlas]

[Nero may or may not notice the suddenly long hair. Because S is a girl because Pink is terrible.]

[She'll take the antidote potion when her priorities are shifted.]

...

[Man, she could do a thing she doesn't want to do, but it might actually derail this mental train of terrible.]

I mean.

You're the one who thinks I know how to fight. That might be up to debate.

Re: ENDGAME

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He... doesn't say anything. Just pulls his hood even tighter against his head.

It's a bad day when Nero doesn't want to fight.]

Re: ENDGAME

[young_atlas]

You wanted me to figure out what I could do. You wanted to help, right? [That is bad, but he's still trying to figure out the exact problem.]

[But he shut down at good man.]

Re: ENDGAME

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Kid he doesn't have the emotional energy to try and help someone else with their identity when he's spiraling.

Voice dull, he mutters]

Just fuck off.

Re: ENDGAME

[young_atlas]

[Sometimes you set aside your own emotions to help others and examine the identity issues later.]

You're getting stuck in your own head, aren't you?

Re: ENDGAME

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Well. Now Nero snaps. He didn't want S's help, he didn't want to be examined and manipulated by someone who didn't even know him.

He just wanted to be left alone.

His voice is venom. He hisses like a wounded animal]

And why wouldn't I be?! Now that the city knows I'm a disgusting slut?!!?

Re: ENDGAME

[young_atlas]

[And this is why S is keeping out of easy grabbing distance.]

[Though that answer-]

[Okay, so check the box for issues with control.]

That was literally my second game and even I understand the game was messing with our heads and isn't an indication of what a person is actually like.

So if anyone else at the table actually thinks that, I could probably whip up a long lecture of 'compromised mental facilities and why they aren't a good basis to judge a person by.' Because clearly they're not learning by observation so it'll need to be hammered in the boring way. And I'll do it for anyone else at another round too because they're being dumb.

You're not a disgusting slut.

Re: ENDGAME

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Sounding a mite hysterical now]

Yes, I AM. You don't get it!!

That was my father I was kissing! A-and my other dad's boyfriend!! And he knew exactly what I felt and how, how much I wanted to... beat my dad in every way and...

[oh no this is too much incest.....]

1/

[young_atlas]

[WHAT THE FUCK]

2/

[young_atlas]

[This is indeed a whole lot of incest. ]

[....daddy issues less of a surprise, like that seems normal enough you want to beat your dad-]

3/

[young_atlas]

[....might need to figure out why fighting dad seems normal, but Later]

4/

[young_atlas]

[But Jesus Christ, he knew the games could mess with your head, he knows the death happens, the kissing happens, but he hadn't thought about that in combination that someone's family ishere, is nothing sacred-]

5/

[young_atlas]

[They're demons and you're in Hell, S]

6/

[young_atlas]

Congratulations, you have found the thing that definitely makes me want to punch a person and now I'm disappointed fighting a host is a terrible idea because what the fuck is wrong with them-

DONE (Also forgot I had the girl icons now)

[young_atlas]

[Hand on his face. Deep breath.]

Dude.

You had a really fucked up thing happen to you. Look, you're a mess right now, which is just proof you wouldn't do it normally.

There's fighting you dad, sure, that's not a unique feeling, others get that. People certainly get daddy issues. But the game was warping feelings and messing with you.

It wasn't your fault. You are not to blame. Its a messy situation, but but was the host's fault, not yours. You are not a disgusting slut.

the facepalm was very important

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Nero's brow furrows, still looking deeply suspicious of him.]

Why would you wanna fight a host over that? You don't even know me.

It really was

[young_atlas]

Because they messed you up and that's not right. [Stated simply.]

Especially messing with you when it involves family....its always a roll of the dice if family is gonna be wonderful or a trashfire, and whatever it is, its gonna hit someone hard.

So fuck them for interfering with that especially.

Re: It really was

[gigadevilbreaker]

[A little hoarse,]

I'm not your responsibility.

[young_atlas]

[World is my responsibility.]

You don't have to be my responsibility for me to care about your wellbeing.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Sounds fake]

It's not like we're friends.

[young_atlas]

If you were my friend, you would be my responsibility. [He is the Mom Friend.]

So again, you don't need to be my responsibility for me to care.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[SORRY BUT COMMON DECENCY IS NOT SOMETHING HE'S USED TO]

You don't even know anything about me. How d'you even expect to-- to help?! With anything??

[young_atlas]

You like to fight and see it as something that can be friendly. Whatever the reason, you think people should recognize what they're capable of. Something in that vein. You're conservative when it comes to intimacy. You value what people think of you. You're more afraid of embarrassment then dismemberment.

So not a ton, but enough to know getting trapped in your own head is likely to lead to an anxiety spiral where you convince yourself things are terrible forever.

It'd probably help to break that spiral and get some of those feelings out.

So.

Fight me.