intermission mingle

[idolpro]

Who: people
Where: from outside the game tower to the hotel lobby or around either building
When: Day 50, evening

[ well that was WILD. or maybe not wild for people who decided to be smart and not try to bother monsters.

there are quite a few people milling about now from the game. careful, some of them are monsters. ]

Comments

[sonof]

[ kind of sighs out ]

The shop really does have everything. I see.

[awakenerd]

[Eventually finding it and passing it over.]

Conveniently. I guess it wouldn't be fair to mangle us repeatedly and leave sensitIV an increasing advantage.

[sonof]

[ skims the shop info on scar removal before passing the phone back ]

Suppose I was worried over nothing at all, then.

[awakenerd]

I wouldn't say worrying over having a potential gaping chest wound lurking in your skin as a scar is nothing.

[sonof]

It is if I can just get rid of it.

[awakenerd]

Well it's not something I would have thought possible if Sanguine hadn't mentioned it, either.

Then again I also wouldn't have even considered your worries, but they make sense.

But you can see why everyone's frustrated and worried about you too, right? They just love you.

[sonof]

I know.

[awakenerd]

...Did you not want to explain, for their feelings?

[Like "hey I don't trust you not to use this ability some day to open a gaping chest wound" would be pretty cold, he supposes.]

[sonof]

I doubt they'd accept the reasoning without an argument, and I don't have the energy for one right now.

[awakenerd]

Yeah. I'm kind of amazed you're still conscious.

[sonof]

The numbing helped.

[ and the water ]

[awakenerd]

That's not terribly reassuring... Knowing you have to be numb to endure it doesn't make it seem like any better of an idea, you know?

[sonof]

That wasn't meant to be an argument. Or a reassurance, really.

[ smokes ]

[awakenerd]

That's fair.

... Thanks, by the way. For helping me understand your reasoning. And sorry if I was stressed or snippy about it.

[He's still stressed over Yasuragi MISSING PARTS but y'know.]

[sonof]

Oh, of course, how awful of you to show concern for me.

[awakenerd]

Would saying "I'm a monster" be too soon?

[sonof]

The very worst kind.

[awakenerd]

That's me. Here to torment you.

[sonof]

[ around the pipe in his teeth ]

If this is torment then perhaps there's some masochism in me after all.

[awakenerd]

[Pfft.]

What a journey of self-discovery we've been through. You're a masochist and I'm a monster. I feel more at ease with my knew knowledge already.

[But for all his teasing he is in fact very endeared by that, what a sweet thing to say.]

[sonof]

Seems like a promising combination.

[awakenerd]

As long as we're both happy, who's to judge?

[sonof]

The audience?

[awakenerd]

Who's to judge whose opinion I might remotely care about?

[sonof]

The trick is not to care about anyone's.