week 4

[airlockedmods]

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[scourgingstars]

That does sound like a dire change in perspective. What was it, exactly?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He sighs and runs a hand through his hair.]

...Something I wanted to give someone.

[scourgingstars]

Hm...that's unfortunate. [ardyn can you please pretend to sound like you care] Did you recall some terrible falling-out last night?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hah! [It's okay. Junpei sounds like he cares enough for the both of them. Could you be any more bitter, dude? Geez.] That's one way to put it.

[He covers his eyes for a moment, then forces a breath out through his nose.]

She literally fucking stabbed me. What the fuck.

[scourgingstars]

[man. getting stabbed must suck huh.]

Part of the last miserable little game you were stuck in, or do you just get stabbed by women regularly?

[misanthropicprinciple]

No. We'd... we'd just gotten out, actually.

[Crosses arms, looks away, you know the emo drill.]

There was no sane reason to do that to me.

[scourgingstars]

I think by now we can all agree 'sanity' does not always factor into a situation.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Fair.

She was wearing it. She took... what the hell. If she wasn't going to take me with her, why didn't she just...!

[scourgingstars]

...Junpei?

[The low level tone of condescension actually faltered at that, Ardyn watching him in what might almost have been concern.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

You try to--you help people, you go out of your way to care about them, and they fucking turn on you like--like everything you've given up is just garbage.

[scourgingstars]

[you know this would have been a lot worse with a different memory regain and i hate you for that]

...Some people are just entirely self-centered. You were right about that much, I think.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[It's okay, maybe it just means they can commiserate later.]

Doesn't hurt any less if they do it for noble reasons. Still kicks like a bitch--and then you can't even be mad without being wrong.

[scourgingstars]

Not speaking from experience at all, are we?

[he's wise to your nonsense]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Me? Hah. Would forgiving, generous little Junpei ever do that?

[He legit ain't even trying.]

[scourgingstars]

You? Oh, perish the thought. [we're just both being shitkickers today, he's fine with this]

[misanthropicprinciple]

When have I ever been the eensiest bit bitter about humans using other people for supposedly good things? I'm a saint, Ardyn. A regular hero's cheerleader.

[scourgingstars]

My, you're the most patient and agreeable of all of us. The gods themselves would be stunned to see someone who loved humans as unconditionally as you.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Snort-chortle.]

Yeah. You're right. I'm a paragon of virtue.

[Oh, good. He's found a rock to kick around.]

God. I wish I was twelve again and could just pick a fight with the older kids at the middle school. Life used to be simple.

[scourgingstars]

I think life tends to complicate itself for anyone, the longer it goes on.

[misanthropicprinciple]

The more it splits ends, definitely.

[scourgingstars]

Wait until you see how much of a mess it gets in your second millennium.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Do I really look like a man who's going to outlive my reckless streak, Ardyn?

[scourgingstars]

You may yet, if most of us have any say in the matter.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

I know you mean well, but for once, it'd be great if people actually let me live my goddamn life instead of deciding my future for me.

[Like, of all the memory regain days to say something like that to him, Ardyn...]

[scourgingstars]

[whoops]

What, you'd rather decide to die doing something reckless?