FOUL TOXINS

[lovestained]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 498

[ Welcome to the Game Tower! On the screen is The Red Sea Witch, who does a curtsy before speaking to the audience: ]

Gyahaha, hello! ✩ Today's show is a game long-time viewers might recognize! The rules are simple: poison others and don't get poisoned! Have fun~✩


RULES | ROOMS | EFFECTS | ENDGAME + WINNERS

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[sangreine]

Really. [ one thumb brushes his cheek, almost sweetly. ]

And do you know why I haven't taken a memory for seven weeks? So I could have the energy to support you when you get yours. So I wouldn't put any more strain on the people around me. And you've never noticed.

Is that very good for my long term situation?

[ She leans in close to his face, a looming threat in her smile. ]

Do you know how much of myself I hide from you out of fear?

[happydreamed]

I... thought you weren't taking them because they caused you distress.

[Okay, yeah, that he does feel guilt about, even knowing she wouldn't be talking like this normally.]

[sangreine]

Oh? And how do you know that? When was the last time you asked, or even thought to?

[ She steps even closer. Hmm, even when she's pissed there's still attraction. That irritates her. ]

Are you afraid of what I'd see if I did take more memories? Or do you just not care? Be honest, now. [ the or I'll snap your neck is very much implied. ]

[happydreamed]

I fear for you. That you will discover some other pain that lurks in your biology, or find some new crime to hate yourself over. I will always love you no matter what you remember about yourself, but I don't want you to spend your days in suffering.

[sangreine]

[ Her head cants to one side and she hums in consideration, tap-tap-tapping a finger on his cheekbone. ]

And what if I discovered some new crime, a dark piece of myself, and I liked it? Would you still love me then?

[happydreamed]

Even then.

[...it couldn't be too much of a crime if she liked it. She's too good a person for that.]

[sangreine]

Good.

[ She bumps his nose with the tip of hers. ]

and would you let me turn you once we're in Teyvat and I've regained my abilities? Then you can love me forever.

[ Lie and save your skin or tell the truth and risk her displeasure... choose wisely. ]

[happydreamed]

[If she knows he lied she'll be displeased anyway so-]

No. I will not.

[sangreine]

[ Her expression curdles, red-glowing eyes staring him down. ]

Then what good are you to me? [ She practically hisses the words, right in his face. ]

[happydreamed]

I love you without being forced to by your blood, Aliza. Is that not enough?

[sangreine]

I thought so. But --

[ Her mood shifts abruptly, sorrow leeching her anger away. ]

It means you're going to leave me, just like everyone else.

[happydreamed]

I'm already dead. Do you expect me to die twice?

[sangreine]

[ She smiles an awful smile ]

Shall we test that?

[happydreamed]

This isn't death, here.

[Hurts a lot! Not real death.]

[sangreine]

And I suppose you can't even die as long as your powers are on, hm~? No matter how much it hurts.

...But you did say you loved me. Although I wonder if you're rethinking that by the moment. [ Give her an excuse, go on ]

[happydreamed]

Never.

[Especially not when she's not in her right mind, like this. He can withstand pain if he has to.]

[sangreine]

Never, hm?

I'm inclined to ask you to prove it.

[happydreamed]

If you need proof...

[He summons up his Heart Weapon, steel fan dancing out to her chest - and leaving her without a scratch. It won't even hurt.]

[sangreine]

[ Watching the fan with casual interest, then sliding her arms around him which is probably not a hint less threatening than her hands on his face. ]

You'd never hurt me, would you?

[happydreamed]

Not willingly.

[There are, unfortunately, Games. That's kind of what started all this.]

[sangreine]

[ If she had a warning siren it would be screaming right now (later on, she'll love him all the more for telling her the truth even when she was out of her damn mind, but right now? That is the Wrong Answer.) ]

Oh, right. Your unit. Those you put above everyone else. Lucky you, I guess.

I never had that. My unit here doesn't want me. Before I came here, the only people that put me first did so because they had no will to choose otherwise, you just said so.

So I really have nothing to lose, do I?

[ She lifts her sheathed katana and pats it against her leg menacingly ]

[happydreamed]

-Did you know, I spoke to Aradia before? I don't know the rest of your unit well enough to say, but I know she cares for you.

[Even if she might show it strangely, being - Aradia.]

[sangreine]

[ Dead eyed ]

Dia loves everything and everyone. Not a euphemism. Ask her sometime. She has no special affection for me.

[happydreamed]

I see. And you need to be first, or it doesn't matter at all.

[Even though he loves her, it isn't enough.]

[sangreine]

You really don't have ambitions of living very long, do you? It's a good thing you're cute, or you wouldn't get so many warnings.

[ Pull back Doc, there's only so long she can be antagonized before pouncing ]