theairlock | the final week

[Eight weeks. Eight weeks of friendship and love, death and loss, hope and despair all muddled together in a cocktail that's too sweet on the tongue and leaves an acid-y pit in the stomach. With nine of them left (ten counting their dear but lone surviving host), things look darker than ever. Come Sunday morning the last of the Champions missing memories will be returned to them while they sleep. For some of them this will reveal answers, for others it might just be a fate worse than death. They could even be death.

But how does the song go? "It's always darkest before the dawn"?

There are no announcements from PAL this week. Not even morning and evening announcements.

Sunday Monday Tuesday

[ooc: Welcome to endgame, everyone! We're all very proud of you for making it all the way to the end. As you can see this is going to be a short IC week but we promise things will not be going down until this weekend (7/7-7/9). On Tuesday we'll be unveiling the OOC post for what to expect during the final investigation. There is no official AC this week, just a check-in and as mentioned above characters will be at their true canon points on Sunday morning.

Buckle up, kids, the ride's not over yet.]

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[If there was one thing Ardyn was good at? It was spite.]

[Except this time it was on a slightly more reasonable scale than destroying a planet.]

Exactly. We'll likely need whatever passes for currency in this universe sooner or later. I can carry the entire damned kitchen as well as everything in the bar, so we can survive with that and sell off whatever else is worth something.

[He was also excellent at using a brilliant mind for possibly nefarious means.]

[SOMETIMES HE CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE HAMMERSPACE MIGHT POTENTIALLY BE REAL] You can seriously fit the interior of a mansion in your fucking magical armory pocket dimension, I can't even this shit.

I could just reach in your pocket and pull out a sandwich. Need some cash, here, let me just fish a beautiful expensive vase from my boyfriend's hair. The possibilities.

The entire interior may be slightly ambitious. 'A kitchen's worth of food, several shelves of alcoholic drinks, and anything of value' sounds very reasonable.

...And I don't keep it in my hair. Sorry to disappoint.

You can keep anything wherever you want, it's a fucking pocket dimension of indeterminate and potentially limitless size. I'm just imagining Junpei shoving an inflatable pool of underwear at you. Why not? It'll fit. Maybe we can sell some show merchandise and be rich as hell.

As brilliant as the merchandise idea is, I've never tested if it had limits, and I am not putting an entire pool--

[Pause. Rewind.]

...Did you actually just call me your boyfriend?

...Huhwha? [Look at him tripping over the sudden derailment of thought like he just caught Ardyn switching to Latin/ancient Lucian.]

Why is everyone accidentally calling me things without realizing it?

I...uh.

I mean we--uhhhhhhh.

Is that too forward? I wasn't thinking about it, it just--it felt natural, I guess?! Since we're--this. The thing we're doing. We're kind of that, right? It's not like it's an inaccurate...description...

I never said that.

[He did, however, say that a little too quickly.Time to play it off like everything was normal.]

I simply meant...that's just a particular level of commitment that I wasn't expecting-...really?

[#nailedit]

Dude. [points to icon, this face]

We're sleeping together, we already got over that hurtle that's using the l-word, we're making promises to not be apart like we're in a god damn Lifetime chick flick except with a lot more murder.

Pretty sure we're already at that level of commitment if not, y'know, past it.

Yes, it just-...it was unexpected.

[you already said that, ardyn.]

Call it whatever you like.

...You don't seem like you're super comfortable with it, so I can uh. Roll it back, a little. You haven't, uh. Had anything like this before. And I kept calling my ex my girlfriend, because shit was complicated. So I mean...I'm more used to it, but I can just not. If you want.

I already said you can call it what you like. It just caught me off guard, that's all.

[look how cool he is he's so cool and not a little bit thrown off at all]

Ardyn.

What do you want to call it? We don't have to call it anything.

...I hadn't thought about it.

Then I'll go back to roomie. It's okay, man, it just came out.

If specific terminology makes some difference to you, we can figure out the details of it later.

[Later here holding the same connotation as after--'once we're out of here'. They'd have time for that, and a number of other things as well.]

[Well, that's...surprisingly wishy-washy of him? But if it's no big deal, then...]

It doesn't really make a difference to me, so--just, are you gonna feel weird if I say boyfriend around other people? If it comes out.

[the guy hasn't dated in two thousand years and he's trying to at like he knows what he's doing.]

I won't stop you.

...Okay. So long as you're sure you're okay with it. Because I'm not trying to embarrass you? Like you'll know if I'm embarrassing you.

You say that as though I'd be completely innocent in that myself. Maybe I'd like to see you ridiculously embarrassed on occasion.

Good luck with that, I embarrass myself enough for the both of us.

One of these days you'll learn not to challenge me.

[hey, church, guess who's getting kissed.]

...I love you, idiot.

[yes? yes. please kisses.]

I look forward to you trying to embarrass the shit out of me. And it's not gonna be by saying you love me, cuz it's the truth.

And I love my boyfriend right the hell back.

You have terrible taste. How lucky for me.

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