Mingle time!

[heavyliesthecrown]

Who: Idols
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 443; Whenever

[ So I heard we got some newbies. Let's release them into the wild! ]

Comments

Re: LIVE - WHAT'S IN A NAME (monologue)

[warpweft]

Not sea witch.

I really dislike the sound of that one.

Re: LIVE - WHAT'S IN A NAME (monologue)

[warpweft]

....so it's just this one city.

Re: LIVE - WHAT'S IN A NAME (monologue)

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yep.

Re: LIVE - WHAT'S IN A NAME (monologue)

[romanticlove]

Then that one is out. That's fine. What other kinds of witches do you know?

[at_heart]

[ His expression flickers, thinking over the exact words she said, and then Lupine pauses. ]

...When you say 'the person who did that should suffer', you mean you, don't you.

[sangreine]

Yeah.

[ She tenses, like she knows she should be upset about this. ]

Is that so wrong? Given what I did.

[at_heart]

[ Pushes out a slow, soft breath. ]

I mean, I don't know about wrong. Seems unfair to me, but — it's not my memory. I can't tell you how to feel about it.

[ ...He needs to get her inside soon, but Lupine hesitates to actually enter the hotel just yet. ]

—Can't speak for the person you were talking to, either, and I realize it might not be easy for you to really put yourself in anyone else's shoes right now, but... can you try to imagine something for me?

[sangreine]

It seems exactly fair. I made them suffer.

[ But, okay. She shrugs as best she can while being carried. ] Okay, I'll try.

[at_heart]

[ He still doesn't agree with you that you were fully in control of yourself — you seemed so out of it, almost spellbound, and without more context he's inclined to blame the guy in the suit — but he knows that's a losing argument. ]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[ Smallest beat. ]

If I said to you, "I want to suffer," do you think you'd find that comforting?

[sangreine]

[ She thinks for a long moment. ]

Probably not comforting. But it would matter what you were talking about.

[at_heart]

Are you sure about that?

[ Gently, for all that gentleness probably doesn't matter to her right now. ]

What if this other person said it? Even after they told you they'd done something horrible. You really care about them, don't you? [ Smallest pause. ] We tend to not want the people we care about to suffer, even if it might be just.

[forgottenmercy]

[holds out a slender, small hand to her.]

Ah, here...

Maybe it, ah, might help to come in from the cold...?

Re: LIVE - WHAT'S IN A NAME (monologue)

[outofoffice]

Bold of you to assume I'm talented with no proof.

Or perhaps desperate.

[outofoffice]

Of course. Well -- do keep that philosophy in mind in the weeks to come.

[sangreine]

Of course it's not what I'd want for them. But if I care about them I can't just say they're wrong for what they're feeling.

[ This is very Kitsu-related, in case anyone perceptive is seeing massive overlap there. ]

[outofoffice]

[ THIS IS PROOF OF PROGRESS, RIGHT?? ]

Hmmm~? Did you want something more, then?

[sangreine]

[ She may be emotionless but she's not dead ]

Don't I always?

[sangreine]

Oh... thank you.

[ She takes the offered hand and stands up, graceful but somewhat sluggish ]

[at_heart]

[ Well, it certainly reminds him of what's been going on with Kit enough for Lupine's expression to sour, but he cinches his eyes shut and focuses. ]

Did they? Tell you you were wrong for feeling like that, I mean.

[ouji4board]

Okay!! Let's do this thing!

[ he's commandeered a corner of the lobby for himself, and is about to do something very stupid (no one is surprised)...

starting off easy with one: he notices UmbAc merch at a pawn shop, and has a nice, easy chat with the clerk about the team. she doesn't recognize him as one of them.

so he's going to get another one: the bank heist that debuted them as the Umbrella Academy. ]

Whoo. Right. Okay!

[ that's two decent ones! So he's gonna get four: snippets of Vanya (reading her book, seeing and avoiding her), Allison (seeing her doing well), and Diego (getting bailed out of holding) around the city. ]

Awwww, sibs. Another one is pushing my luck, probably buuut... Let's do the thing!

[ does the thing. it's immediately post-apocalypse, and seeing his siblings' dead bodies, meeting a baby Five. This one leaves him wide-eyed and ashen, shaking as he clutches his phone. ]

Fuck. Fuck, fuuuck... Fuck, fuck, fuck, should've stopped while I was ahead. Fuck.

[sangreine]

Pretty much. Basically it couldn't have gone worse.

But I wanted to know if they could handle everything with me and now I guess I know.

[firstworldproblem]

Overachievers. All of you. Three is supposed to be the limit.

[He holds out his arms, inviting a hug.]

[ouji4board]

I was doing okay! Until I wasn't.

[ IMMEDIATELY BURYING HIMSELF IN AGAINST ]

[firstworldproblem]

I know. I know.

[He holds him in a hug letting him hide as long as he needs.]

[ouji4board]

Ugh. Ughhhh.

...Five was so tiny.

[ he doesn't look too different than he does now but also he was ENTIRELY DIFFERENT wow klaus didn't realize how much of an adult he normally sees Five as until just now ]