imeeji_frontstage | 🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

Who: Everybody!
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 517, Morning

[ you arrive in the game tower to the sound of a deafening siren, but there's no surreal transformation this time. the interior has already changed, looking like the inside of a submarine... if you had to guess! if the hissing pipes and flashing lights haven't already started grating on your nerves, then surely all of the random beeping and booping computers will. suddenly, all of the tv screens flicker to life, ]

[ ...dⁱ_ng! it looks like the elevators have arrived. ]

I really do hope you know that I don't take even an ounce of pleasure from making you play all of these ~awful games [ she's definitely all of the sincere. ] but here we are again. [ big biG BIG sigh. ]

I would be, should be, impressed that some of you managed to solve Shi's puzzles, but I don't really think that you d~i~d~. Instead, I believe there was a lot of guessing going on! [ squints accusingly!!! ] So if you enjoy guesswork so much, then have I. got the. game. for you.

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...it sucks, and I'm sorry this is something you know too. [ another sigh. ] But thanks, for all of that, I'm not sure I would have been much help had our positions been reversed, but I like to think I would have tried. [ he doesn't remember the details of their relationship, but he still feels some kind of strong connection. it's... weird... and he can't explain it. he felt the same thing around zhongli and scaramouche and a few others. unexplainable feelings. ]

Is this what we're regularly subjected to? [ because what the fuck. ]

But your back is fixed, right? It's just the nerve damage that's followed? I can try to help. We can do things slowly. Try to get you back to where you were.

I'm sure you'll be great about it. But you have a little while to consider it before it happens. [ Best way to tell someone you're running out of time, right? This is assuming she doesn't just sleep for a few decades, but she won't be a very good torture victim if she's hibernating. She considers it far more likely that they'll reset her memories and let her loose, see what happens. It's standard soap opera fare. ]

It's as fixed as it can be, yeah. Doctor says it might be a few weeks or months before the nerves heal. I guess I could buy a new spine, but that sounds like a painful process. I might just wait a little while and see how things go.

I don't doubt that it's an awfully painful process normally... but, here, things aren't nearly as bad. What with sensitIV's healing abilities. They can do a lot of crazy shit. I don't think it would be as bad as you think. They can knock you out, numb you completely, and swap them like it's nothing... this place has never really made a whole lot of sense, but if you'd like to shelf the idea for now I'd totally get it.

If you ever decide to go through with it and you want somebody there let me know.

Not painful for me, maybe. But whatever sIV does that would have to actually do it. Take my spine out and put a new one in. Considering it would probably be Venti, I'm not sure I can risk that if it might heal on its own. [ She'd much rather just. Suffer. What else is new. ]

But thank you for offering. If it comes to that, I might take you up on it. Doctor would want to be there but I don't want him to have to see that.

It doesn't have to be him. I'm sure having to work on somebody close to him would be difficult. A lot of the other sensitIVs are capable... you and I both know that little pink one is pretty good at dealing with strange circumstances.

But just... keep me in the loop. I'll be there for you.

I know they're capable, just... ah, never mind. Thank you for the offer, I'll think about it.

[ She will not, but it's appreciated. She's definitely not putting Alala and Caeli in the same place together on her account again, even though she's fairly sure nothing would happen. It just seems a bad idea all around, cruel to them both in very different ways. ]

In the meantime, I can use my levitation abilities to get around. So really, it's no great loss. [ So much of her identity is based around physical activities that it's a HUGE loss. She's just trying to make efforts to be less emotionally demanding, so acting like this is no big deal is go. Unfortunately, her corruption has other ideas and streaks of her hair turn white. ]

...levitating around isn't the same. [ he gets the feeling she's not going to seriously consider the offer, but he put it out there, and just short of forcing her to seek help that's all he can do. ] I guess you can always revisit it in a few days... see how this... is... [ he's sure he'll hate. he knows he would, and they're not too different when it comes to these things. ]

What's with... your hair..?? [ motions to the white streaks. ]

[ She pats her hair as if smothering a spark and looks thoroughly irritated. ]

It's a corruption that insists on projecting my feelings to everyone. Great of them, right?

-- So I guess it's clear that I'm not really fine with this, but I don't want to make anyone go through the whole procedure of fixing me up when it might go away on its own. I'm trying to be less of an imposition on everyone around me all the time.

...eh. [ he crinkles his nose. ] I hate those kinds of things. I have my ears and tails... [ and his eyes. ] but yours is a bit more obvious, since I'm sure people just kind of assume the both move on their own. [ prrrrobably not. ] Kind of, yeah, ...eheh. I don't think you're an imposition for something like this, Rin.

[ She sort of assumed they moved on their own too, but she thought of them as any set of animal ears and tail. Like how a dog will perk their ears and wag their tail when happy, or a cat's ears will pin down when they're threatened or anxious. ]

I know you don't. Everyone keeps assuring me that I'm not imposing, but I have eyes. I suck up all the air around me when I'm upset. A friend of mine once told me that I'm like a child, and he's not wrong. With my memories as messed up as they are I'm no better than a willful toddler. I'll never be a normal immortal but I don't have to be like this. If I care about the people around me then I should put them first.

🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

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