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[idolpro]

Who: Anyone
Where: Gametower
When: Day 513 evening

[Finally all participating idols are drawn back to the game tower by a string. As the last people enter, the threads covering everything start to turn clear and fade from sight. The kiosk and phones ping with the final announcement.]

Our winners for this event are:
☆ZRAEL! For really bringing their Most. The teasing, the spice, the way they twist the knife! All the fans can't wait to see their next reactions!
avante en garde & LiliS! Shout out to Burnt Cinnamon Roll and 🐺 for being too precious. These soft feelings just weren't meant to last.

Thank you again to our fans for all your votes and views. Whether you showed up to support the choices of your favorite idols or did a hate-watch campaign to break up a ship you didn't like, we appreciate your enthusiastic participation to the end!

[And that's the show! The kiosk sinks and disappears into the ground, the Gametower finally fully returning to normal. The idols on the winning units will be able to 'toggle' off the strings they've been carrying around throughout the game. All they have to do is take the string and will it back to normal and the color will run clear and the string fades from view, the connection safely back in the metaphysical realm.

But the rest will find their threads still linger. Maybe they were lucky and whatever colors they landed on before the game ended was close enough to their normal relationships, or something else more tolerable, or they were unlucky and it's the most wildly weird relationship they could have. Either way their threads still spill off them and at this point, if it's not what they want... they might have some feelings to process.]

Comments

[ergospheric]

I had conflicting emotions. From the game.

[coinstar]

Whatever you say. I'm sure the game was part of it.

[ergospheric]

The game was most of it...

[coinstar]

[p o u t s]

So was it all just the game?

[ergospheric]

Well, all my threads were green when the game started. I didn't know you yet. So having threads that were orange or black or yellow didn't make sense.

[coinstar]

[looking at the ground]

I forgot about the strings... I didn't try to figure much out.

[ergospheric]

But it's not like they were brainwashing or something, either... so it's not like it was ALL the strings.

[coinstar]

It's just confusing... Sorry, it's not your fault. I thought doing what they asked in the game was simple as that. I'm being stupid now.

[ergospheric]

[ pats his head :| ]

[coinstar]

[HUFFS]

I don't hate how that feels.

[ergospheric]

It's fine. We can be friends still.

1/2

[coinstar]

[makes a complicated face for a brief moment]

[coinstar]

Right. Of course!

[lost the happy! but the happy's back!!1]

[ergospheric]

...?

[coinstar]

Don't worry about it! I'm still decompressing from the game, that's all. Guess it shook me up more than I thought.

[DOES. A. SPIN. COULD A PERSON WHO HAS FEELINGS MORE COMPLICATED THAN CONSTANT JOY TWIRL LIKE THIS NEVER]

[ergospheric]

Do you... not want to be friends?

[coinstar]

N-no, what!? It's not that, it couldn't be further from that.

[ergospheric]

You just looked sad about it.

[coinstar]

Like I said, my feelings just got more jumbled by the game than I thought. I definitely want to be friends.

[ergospheric]

All right, if you're sure...

I think if you won you can fix the threads for yourself?

[coinstar]

I'm sure--

[A FAULT IN HIS LIES DETECTED NO]

Gyah!! O-of course I can...

[ergospheric]

So hopefully you'll feel better after.

[coinstar]

I'm better! I'm better right now!!

[ergospheric]

[ PATS HIM AGAIN??? ]

[coinstar]

[leans into his touch]