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

Re: MARRIAGE?

[tenebraecious]

[cupping his face with both hands]

You will protect yourself, be cautious and aware, because I cannot endure seeing you hurt by him once more. You are all that is left to me, Noctis.

Re: MARRIAGE?

[runawayprince]

[Ugh. Why does she have to be cute and cup his face like that? He's being bullied.]

He hasn't actually hurt me, though.

[That he remembers.]

Just everyone around me or remotely close to me, it feels like.

Re: MARRIAGE?

[tenebraecious]

And he held a reason for that, but that reason is not here any longer. The end he sought has been postponed here. However, it was arrived at.

[searching noctis for a beat, fingers stroking his cheek idly]

He may be able to let you go, but that will only come from compassion from you or not being reminded of his former ambitions.

Re: MARRIAGE?

[runawayprince]

[Does he want to show Ardyn compassion? Not really. Not after what he did to Luna, not after taking one of his friends too. He has so many reasons not to and that's the hard part, isn't it?]

I really don't think he deserves compassion.

[He's trying to be honest instead of bottling it in.]

I understand what you're saying though.

[Ugh.]

Anyway... I guess I'm kind of ruining your support group.

[Chewing on that a bit-]

I don't... know a lot about marriage, or people in general, but... I'm glad you want to know this stuff or think about this stuff. I'm glad we can talk about stuff we want to do in the future, whenever or wherever that is.

[Children, a wedding, just being together. He's glad for it.]

Re: MARRIAGE?

[tenebraecious]

Everyone deserves compassion, kindness. And you could not ruin this or anything for me.

I believe marriage is something that everyone creates for themselves along with whomever they have the good fortune to share their time with, so I will always be lingering on these matters and am ever ready to discuss them with you, my dear Noctis. We can learn together.

Re: MARRIAGE?

[runawayprince]

[It kills him a bit inside that she can still be compassionate after Ardyn had hurt her. He doesn’t know if he will ever forgive that. Maybe he will eventually. It didn’t matter. She was what mattered.]

Yeah. I want to learn with you.

[He kisses her, even knowing they’re in public or people might be watching. He kisses her because he wants to. It makes him feel grounded beside her.]