Support Groups! | Super Mega-Live

[worldlyafflictions]

Who: Anyone
Where: Hotel ☆G floor
When: Day 320, early afternoon

[People who tune in to this Live notification or people passing through the lobby today will notice that all the tables and chairs from the sitting area and kitchen have been arranged into groups or circles for people to sit at, and each table has supplies on it, like dry-erase tent cards or stacks of poster board and markers for making signs. There are also 'Hi My Name Is ___' name tags in case people feel like making introductions easier. Pink is seated on a couch with Izanagi, waving at the camera.]

Hey fellow idols--unwilling and willing!--it's been an unnervingly quiet chunka time, hasn't it? But the Christmas episodes have come 'n gone and probably a new year started at some point or another! So let's do a recap episode, or what I'm gonna call the Annual Support Group Live. Basically, I've got a simple survey question for ya: what support group could ya start? What sorts of people do ya feel empathy for 'cause ya've been through the same shit? Or what other crazy thing is more common than ya might expect? Ta answer: shout it out! or better yet, make a sign!

[Gestures to the stacks of supplies and name tags.]

There's all kinds of things people might be going through, right? This is a great opportunity to find others like you! Like, "I'm from a world without all this newfangled technology and it confuses me!" or "My world doesn't have magic at all, but everyone else has super powers and it's not fair!" Our units are important, but finding people who have gone through similar experiences can really help - it's just good self-care to make sure you have someone to talk to about your problems after all!

So come one come all! We'll be making noise down in the kitchen 'n sitting area off the lobby! There might even be spillover in the laundry room, who knows. Other units are welcome ta contribute! After all, for Lilis it's a great opportunity ta explore your feelings, and Taisho knows confession has been ritualized for centuries! I'm sure everybody's got plenty ta add ta this Mega-Live! Let's all get some bonding in while stuff's still chill!

((ooc: Top-level to start a "support group" and put the name in the subject line! They do not have to be serious! This is mainly a self-running live though hosts and cohosts may be around, so feel free to go wild jumping threads. Also, making multiple support groups is legit! Please check out the CO-HOSTS TOP-LEVEL if you want to help make this a Megalive or just for additional Live elements you can reference while threading!

Points Tally:

Hosts and Counter-live Hosts: row 1
Unitmates of Hosts or Counter-live Hosts: row 2
Everybody else: row 3))

Comments

[featherbeaned]

[ repays his licks with a few kisses ]

Honestly, the problem I had in that memory was the opposite of the one I have here. [ Picks up one of his paws to play with ]

How would you feel about someone bowing to you and babbling about how unworthy they are?

[586]

[ he tilts his head and then lets her take his paw. ] Ah, I suppose I wouldn't know how to react to something like that...

But creatures like us are something special, so... I guess I can see why that would happen.

[featherbeaned]

[ Flattens her palm against his, idly measuring the difference ]

There's there's the thing, though: I wouldn't say I'm any more special than anyone else. For every thing I can do that they can't, there'll be something else I can't that they can.

It was weird. Didn't sit right. They didn't know me, didn't even know my name. All they cared about was what I am.

[586]

I should have said 'different'. Like, they're not used to seeing somebody like you, and since they don't know how to explain it, then they immediately think divine. I think that's happened in a lot of different places...

I'm sorry it happened though, and made you feel uncomfortable. But I'm glad they didn't think you were evil and try to kill you on sight, which is the other way it could have gone.

[featherbeaned]

... [ Hm! ]

Oh, right. Yeah. That prob'ly was a possibility, wasn't it.

[586]

[ nods. ] A creature as beautiful and majestic as you had to have been divine, is what I'm sure they were thinking. If you had arrived during a bad time, then it certainly could have been taken as an ill omen and they may have tried to hurt you, as I said, so I'm definitely glad it was the opposite... but being worshiped had to have been... strange...

Humans are weird though.

Just look at how they perceive religion. I honestly think it's just a way for them to shift blame when things don't go their way.

[featherbeaned]

They weren't human. They were ... "vayad'ai" is the name I remember. Sorta human shaped, with li'l horns and a tail and big tufty droopy ears, and lots of pink fur ...

Still a fair point, though. Humans get weird ideas about things that aren't like them.

[ Pauses, and lifts his paw to kiss the back of it ]

You called me majestic.

[586]

...so some sort of creature. [ it sounds kind of cute. ] And even if it hadn't been entirely human anything larger and capable of, ah, [ rolls a claw. ] incredible feats can often times be worshiped for said feats.

[ blinks, staring at her for a long minute. ]

I... I did, yeah, because it's true. I think you're majestic.

[featherbeaned]

[ Blinks back at him ... ... ... ]

[ And she actually blushes ]

Oh...!

[ Oh no, that sends her heart fluttering happily ]

[586]

...

[ smiles as he watches her turn a few different lovely colors of pink. ]

And you're very cute right now.

[featherbeaned]

I'm always very cute!

[ You know what! She's just going to climb up onto his back and flop right on him. ]

[586]

But you're extra cute with sugar on top right now.

[ he's got no problems with that. ]

Want to head somewhere else?

[featherbeaned]

Pentiummmmmm.

[ Aggressively nuzzles the back of his head ]

Let's go, let's go. Wherever you want.

[586]

I don't have a destination in mind, but I think I've had enough of this support group stuff. [ smiles as she nuzzles his head. ]

Want to go get a snack, maybe?

[featherbeaned]

Snacks! Yes!

[ take her to food ]

My body might be smaller, but my appetite isn't!

[586]

Is that a... challenge!

I bet I could eat more than you!

[featherbeaned]

You're on! Be ready to lose!

[586]

Where should we go for our eating contest?

Conbini?

[featherbeaned]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ...

Yeah, that'd prob'ly be the easiest, wouldn't it? Lead the way!

[586]

[ he's going to take off for the conbini. ]

I hope you know what you've gotten yourself into. Should we set a precedent beforehand, like... the winner gets something?