imeeji_frontstage | Support Groups!

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))

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ hey??? what the fuck

well. she just spins a chair around to sit on it backwards, arms draped over the back, which still manages to have a slightly prim quality to it in attitude, somehow. ]

Honestly, I think I'm one of two left, but nearly all the others wanted to talk about being wholesome friendly vampire overlords who eat cupcakes all the time. Transferred the only one with decent opinions.

Cupcakes aren't even that good.

[ a pause ]

Who? Gonna be real with you-- I was definitely taking a pot shot at you, for funsies. I don't really know any vampires otherwise.

The other one's on pep!pep!—her name's Ren, white-haired, schoolgirlish, she's got horns and little bat wings. Her parents used to be here, too, on Taisho, but they transferred them out a little bit ago.

The other one who I met after literally everyone descended upon me in front of the communal refrigerator to gawk on day one was on ZRAEL, I think, name of Requiem. I don't think she was excited to see another vampire, which is correct.

... huh, yeah, I don't think I ever talked to that one. Knew of her though.

[ weird how sometimes there's just one specific person you never speak to, ]

I wouldn't have minded getting another chance to talk to her, but I suppose people come and they go.

I can't believe I'm the only one around here that can only drink blood, though. Unfair, honestly.

... do the others get to eat some other food or something? I thought blood was the whole vampire thing.

[ setting her chin in her palm: ]

In addition to blood, I suppose. Kaguya was quite keen on sweets.

...somehow Requiem only ate the color red. Don’t ask me how that works.

Huh. And you can only eat blood, or is it just the only thing that keeps your sated?

Only thing I can eat.

I'm told that rations are categorically worse than getting it, ah, fresh, but that's differently horrible.

Huh. Well, 50/50 on a shared trait, I suppose.

Yeah, rations are bare minimum for things like us. At least blood is easy to source even if you don't buy it from a shop.

Ah...

[ vore zone. ahaha. ]

Mm, well. Thankfully it seems like I don't need much to get by on, but—

It always gets framed as uncomfortably intimate.

I guess they think neck biting's sexy so blood drinking's just a step up, as if there aren't a dozen other sexier places to drink from.

I’m just trying to be as unsexy as possible.

[ stares at her for a long moment,

and gives a wry smile ]

Some of us are just terminally thirsty.

[ a beat, ]

—yeah, I noticed.

Somehow I didn't expect this to finally catch up to me in my hundred-sixties.

Easier to avoid it when you're not locked in a small area with the same hundred people every day.

That's true. Very little personal space here.

I suppose I'm not entirely immune to a desire for closeness, although anyone who thinks that there's going to be sexy biting is going to be disappointed.

[ glances away. ]

... yeah, well. Humans are social and intimate, even if they become monsters. There's no getting around it.

I'm just stubborn and really prefer to feel like I'm in control of my own life, but I suppose that's never going to happen here.

Plenty of shit you can control here, if you know how. At least in my opinion.

Working on it, I guess.

I suppose you've been settled in, even though you were away for a bit.

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