week 7

[airlockedmods]

[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

kitchen

[scourgingstars]

...What are you doing up there. You'll break your neck if you fall.

[oh my god, ardyn.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He startles and swears under his breath, but when he looks back and sees Ardyn, the exhalation's one of relief and he just gets back to work.]

What, you wouldn't catch me? I'm hurt, Dad.

[scourgingstars]

...

[junpei, was. was that sarcastic. he can't tell.]

I can't cross a room in under a second anymore, I'm afraid.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Looks like he didn't even notice the slip.]

Aw, the strength of your affection for me wouldn't power you through space and time to save me? Lame.

[He puts the finishing touches on whatever arcane rune he's taping to the ceiling here and gets off the counter so he can put his shoes back on.]

[scourgingstars]

Sorry, I can't spontaneously reactivate the power of kings just to-...

[...that was not the usual junpei-brand sarcasm. processing.]

...Wait, did you actually-?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Huh? Did I what, mean that? No, of course I know you can't do that, I'm not a moron.

[???]

[scourgingstars]

Not that, I-...you didn't even notice what you just said?

[misanthropicprinciple]

That... you love me? Again, not an idiot, I know that one's not true, either.

[scourgingstars]

Try again. Just before that.

[HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO DO HERE]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

'I'm hurt, man?'

[scourgingstars]

That is absolutely not what you said and there is an entire audience of lunatics who will know it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

What? What did I say? Uh, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so I probably didn't mean it...

[scourgingstars]

Why Junpei, I'm so hurt. And here I almost thought you were briefly concussed to the point of seeing me as some manner of father figure.

[coping mechanism: sarcasm]

[misanthropicprinciple]

I--what? I called you what? ...Oh, no.

[Oh, no.]

No no no... I, uh. I have a dad. And a mom. I definitely don't think of you as--pssh, as if.

[scourgingstars]

Right, yes. Of course. Sure.

[??????????? FEELINGS ???????????????]

That'd be, er. Ridiculous.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Y-yeah. I mean, with all the nagging you do? Definitely more of a mom anyway. Or like, a grandma. A mean grandma. It--it'd explain all the scarves, too. Did you knit those yourself?

[scourgingstars]

Why is everyone taking issue with my clothes? This used to be perfectly acceptable of royalty, I just kept it because I'm always cold.

[oh thank shiva a change of subject]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Thaaaaank Christ.]

You know what else used to be perfectly acceptable for royalty? Puffy ermine shorts and tights. I don't see you wearing anything like that, Your Majesty.

[scourgingstars]

Don't call me that. And for the record, I doubt anyone else ever bothered to note whether what I was wearing was archaic or not.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ardyn, dude. Ardyn, no. Everyone's always taking note of what important people wear. It's a thing. There are entire magazines about it. Have you never read a magazine?

[scourgingstars]

Of course I have. But that's not what I mean.

I don't think a single person in Niflheim even once thought to question why their chancellor was wearing Lucian colors, much less something centuries out of date.

In other words, the rest of you are the first anyone's bothered to criticize what I'm wearing.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh, pfft. That's because we're shitheads and aren't afraid of you. That's all.

[scourgingstars]

Yes, I'm well aware you're all idiots with no sense of self-preservation.

Speaking of doing stupid things that might get you killed, you never did tell me what you were doing up there.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh. Uhhhh.

...

........

I was taping a puzzle to the ceiling.

[scourgingstars]

You...do realize that only raises more questions.