time keeps on slippin, slippin into a mingle

[adorabilities]

Who: you crazy idols that are going stir crazy
Where: anywhere
When: 353

[you know what? sometimes, you just need to get out and mingle amongst the common folk

so, what's up?]

Comments

[weenwoon]

[Catch him anywhere around the city basically being like . It's been a time, so he'll just indulge in bad habits.]

[overworker]

[She's on the run in a new outfit, but... it's difficult to avoid him, even if she thinks maybe she should. She goes back and forth about it but ultimately approaches quietly.]

...Letty?

[weenwoon]

[He practically chokes on his cigarette at the sound of her voice, dropping it and coughing before turning around, flustered.]

R-Renny? Oh heavens, you are fine... I wanted to come see you after the game, but your unit said you'd left...

[overworker]

[She raises her hands to try and tell him he doesn't have to but. Too late. She sighs, speaking up with a guilty tone.]

Ah-- I'm sorry. I... didn't mean to worry you... I seem to have been doing that to a lot of people lately.

[weenwoon]

...Renny, it's not your fault that you were picked by them as a victim. And I think--it's impossible not to worry, after a game like that. About anyone. I think there's barely a person here who hasn't been affected.

[overworker]

...even so, because of me, my unit did something I can't agree with, while I could do nothing. And someone else suffered when I... when I should have been the one to endure it.

[She shakes her head and quickly shifts.]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bother you with my personal problems. I actually came because you looked like... maybe you could use some company.

[weenwoon]

[She small so he's going to just. Kneel down and take her hands.]

Renny.

[overworker]

Wh-what...?

[Her face colors but-- she curls her fingers around his happily. She doesn't really like people seeing her corrupted eyes, but.]

[weenwoon]

If it had been anyone else from your unit who was the hostage, would you have blamed them? Would you have refused to do all you can to protect them?

[overworker]

I... Even then, I would have tried to stop them. I want to protect my unit, but... not by sabotaging and hurting others unnecessarily.

...maybe my unit deserves someone better. Someone who's not so soft and indecisive.

[weenwoon]

[He strokes her hands gently.]

...I don't think it's a bad thing to be soft.

[overworker]

[She squeezes his hands just a bit more firmly.]

I'm... going to figure things out. And then I'll go back.

[SHE HASN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU THOUGH, MISTER!!!]

But something's bothering you too, right? I don't know if there's anything I can do but... I'd be happy to listen, if you think it might.

[weenwoon]

[Time to enter the loop of "no YOU let me take care of you first".]

It... has been a trying time, yes. But I want to help you figure things out, too. And I don't want you to feel guilty for being yourself.

[auguryofinnocence]

[Almost stops to say hi,

>smoking

Nope nevermind, see ya later]

[weenwoon]

[sorry buddy it's been a time

he'll just give a half-hearted wave tho. maybe u can catch him later when he's Not smoking, just staring into the sunset tiredly.]

[auguryofinnocence]

[It's been a time.

Well if Levity's still there on his way back to the dorms on the same route then that sure is a reason to check in. Even though he scrunches his nose up for the smell of smoke and stands a little further than he would normally. Gross. Putrid flesh caves? fine and good. cigarettes? the absolute worst.]

Not taking the games well?

[weenwoon]

[That's ok, you can yell at him from fifteen feet away. I assume that's a big enough distance I don't know imperial]

Among other things. You?

[auguryofinnocence]

[it's ok canada's weird and does both. height is imperial but distance is metric, ovens are fahrenheit but weather is celsius. and yet I simply do not know what the heck a yard is or how to convert f to c.

Anyway he's probably like 2 or 3 meters away or something, not absurd but definitely giving it some space. He shrugs.]

I haven't had any issues personally.

[But. Glory. Ascians. He's livid about it all anyway.]

[weenwoon]

[oh canada..............]

...I had to sew Angel back together after the game. And... before that, I had to kill my girlfriend in the behead game because otherwise I would have to kill Lily. Jason thinks we hate him and he's gone into hiding. Also, me and Five hate each other now, probably. And Alexander told me what happened to our world, so now I can't take any more memories because I'm too scared I'll remember the Final Days and some part of me remembers anyway and it's just this endless existential horror at the back of my mind and sometimes I think that all of this is just the result of my mind's feverish attempts at cogitation in my last moments before death and none of this is real. And if I stay alone long enough I'll lose my grip on even this imagined reality completely and then I'll be gone for good.

[sorry if you were expecting like, a normal answer.]

[auguryofinnocence]

[Well like some of that he expected more or less since he knows about the games and all but. Sure didn't know Emet told him. Or about fighting with Five. Let's, uh, take it from the top?]

...I see. Well, as far as I can tell Jason does that all the time, if you don't hate Five then you can't hate each other, and you are most certainly not in some imagined false reality though such ideas can be tempting in traumatic situations.

[weenwoon]

...Just because he doesn it all the time doesn't mean that it's--alright. And fine, it's Five who hates me. Or if you want we can amend it all to "dislike each other strongly".

[He polarizes a random pebble to his hand to yeet into the distance.]

And I don't know about that last part. It would explain a number of things.

[auguryofinnocence]

A convenient explanation, but isn't that a disservice to the rest of us, then? To merely be inventions of your mind.

[weenwoon]

If you are real, yes. If you are not, no.

[auguryofinnocence]

Well I can assure you I am real. Do you think your mind would come up with all this? Perhaps a concept such as this place, but something like my family?

[weenwoon]

[Okay, that gets a small smile from him.]

I don't know. If I had, you would probably have been a little taller.