week 6

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[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[motherfucking_ghost]

[Church mostly just grins a stupid grin at him in an equally mature way before prodding the hood back up. And maybe flipping the paper over.]

Iiiiit's not for you. It's stupid, trust me. You know how I love my stupid shit. As you so love pointing out. Are you making the rounds?

[scourgingstars]

Oh, my, we're keeping secrets now.

[He placed a hand dramatically over his heart, feigning being offended.]

I'm so deeply hurt.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay, look, it's dumb, and I probably should've totally gone to you, but, fuck it, I didn't want--can we maybe talk about something other than whatever it was that I was writing that I'm now no longer writing and will probably just throw away, okay.

[scourgingstars]

Oh, you've just made a critical mistake. Now I'm actually interested.

[no one wants ardyn interested in anything they're doing. that way only brings disaster.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[s h i t]

Uh. I. Uhhhhhhh.

[He's going to do some quick thinking and shove that piece of paper down into the kigu. There. Now it's lost forever.]

[scourgingstars]

...You are a tremendous child. After all this, could it really have been so embarrassing?

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's not so much that, it's...I mean a little bit. I don't uh. Wwwwant to ruin your mood.

Y'know, more than usual.

It's kinda sentimental?

[scourgingstars]

My mood is in a constant state of 'ruined', in case you'd not noticed. And the more defensive you get, the more I wonder what you're actually up to.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay. Um. Preface. I don't really know Latin, annnnnd Clarith and I aren't, uhhhhhhhh. Seeing eye to eye right now?

1/3

[scourgingstars]

What the hell is Latin-

[record scratch]

[scourgingstars]

[....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god(s)]

[scourgingstars]

That is the most absurdly sentimental thing I have ever heard.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[HEY YOU KNOW THAT HOOD HE PROPPED BACK UP HE'S PULLING IT BACK DOWN NOW. HE HAS NO FACE. HE IS BIRB NOW. SQUAWK.]

Don't make it worse.

[scourgingstars]

['don't make it worse', he said to chancellor ardyn izunia, who spent two thousand years making everything worse]

Oh, but it's so very funny that you would try to figure that out phonetically because you knew I would mock you to one end of the mansion and back if you asked outright.

As I am doing right now.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I didn't wanna ruin the moment and ask you then, and since you sorta...it was a, y'know, a symbolic sort of letting go of--I didn't want to ask you now either!

I have done nothing wrong in my life, ever, to deserve this derision. [He says, still trying to disappear into the kigurumi.]

[scourgingstars]

Ruining the moment, that's even more foolishly sentimental.

[sorry church. he's laughing at you now.]

You are completely unbelievable.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ffffff, oh my god. This is why I didn't want to answer you about what I was writing. [How far into...or even off of this chair can Church sink? Let's find out!]

[scourgingstars]

Stop whining and give me that pen.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Nnnnnnnooooooooo.

[Okay but fine he flops a hand on the table and hands over the pen.

...And realizes hey maybe he also needs uh. paper. to write on. Hold on. There is some shifting going on in that kigu. And eventually a hand pops out where the face would be, so, like, it looks like some vaguely horrifying thing where a black cartoon chocobo has eaten a man alive. Slaps down the paper, crinkled. The blank side up, thanks. Don't uh...don't try to read his attempts at deciphering sung Latin.]

[scourgingstars]

You really are ridiculous.

[Ardyn said that with a quiet laugh as he started writing in the usual neat script, following with:]

I can't believe you're actually wearing that, either.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Blue's my color, but I was...feeling...

[mumblegrumblethisistheworst] sentimental.

Also I kept getting told they're cozy as shit, so I was bound to put one of them on eventually.

[scourgingstars]

So you've said. Loudly, I might add.

[He clearly had not forgotten the deafening friendship speech. A moment later, he set down the pen and handed the paper back to Church.]

There. All you needed to do was ask.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[It takes him a moment, but he actually wiggles back up into the seat properly and peeks through the hood and takes it.

And reads it.

And jesus lucian christ it's about as feels-inducing as he figured it was just listening to it. Nope. Not gonna get choked up reading stupid-ass Latin-that-isn't-called-Latin. Nuh-uh. From this angle, it's hard to see his face as it is still, and that's for the best. Give him a moment.

Aaaand okay go, game face on.]

Yeah, well, I didn't know that because the whole thing seemed pretty final and I was trying to be a good boy and not bother you with it. I was gonna ask Clarith. She's nnnnot in the mood to deal with people. Or with anything. I think.

I got some of the words, anyway. Better than nothing.

[scourgingstars]

I doubt she and I are on the most amicable terms right now as well. [Ardyn shrugged, picking up the pen again and twirling it between his fingers.]

I'm sure you came reasonably close. Regardless, now you have it done accurately.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[He's not going to dig his hole deeper by explaining how close he may or may not have gotten.]

You too, huh? Yeah like...sometimes I think I get it, but then she insists that I don't, and then she has to go and slap me? Not a big fan of that. I mean maybe if I'm in bed with someone we can talk slapping, but in general?

Just thought maybe she was gonna be the last person I'd have a shouting match with is all. Or Arianna.