week 2

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Week 2

[It's been about a week since the Champions woke up in their new consumerist hellscape of a temporary home and, despite a few odd goings on and the bomb incident with Church and Nari, things haven't been as bad as they could be. No one is even dead yet! But let's see how long that lasts.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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[burninglight]

[Not offering any sort of answer at first, Ardyn shifted uncomfortably and started wringing gloved hands, as if to again fidget with some accessory that wasn't there.]

...yes.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Okay, so, your reaction says this is kinda more serious, so. Uh. Don't be nervous, just breathe? [He even puts the roomba down! You now have Church's undivided attention.]

[burninglight]

[When Ardyn spoke again his words came out slow as the steps of one walking on thin ice, unsure which direction would lead to solid footing being abruptly lost.]

I am rather forced to acknowledge that for the time being, it...is perhaps careless of me not to coexist with all of you. And while I have this compulsion I so detest, it is also possible that resisting it and sequestering myself...would be a poor course of action.

[In the uncertain pause that followed, Ardyn pushed violet hair from his eyes only for it to fall right back into the peculiar artfully disheveled state it was perpetually in.]

Much as I hate it, perhaps...relying on others here is to be a temporary necessity.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...

[What does that silence mean? What does it mean? Why is he staring with such intensity.

Without a word, he slides off the table and vanishes from the store. It's minutes, several long minutes, wherein Ardyn might think that somehow he must have said something wrong or offensive, for Church to merely abandon him.

When he returns, and rest assured that he does, he sits right back down where he was and removes his arm from his makeshift sling so he can fiddle with Ardyn's hair, pushing back the offending strands falling into his eyes and pinning them back with a series of bobby pins nagged from Nebula.]

You gotta do something about this if you're gonna keep shoving it all around, it just falls right the hell back.

1/2

[burninglight]

[...ah. Well, that figured. Who would really want to associate with the Accursed, after all? No one would seriously want to be his Shield, if that was truly what was going on here. Noctis was wrong after all, there was no point in this stupid risk he'd taken.]

[People really weren't worth trustin-]

[burninglight]

...what?

[That sounded genuinely awestruck instead of a simple question, Ardyn realizing that Church had actually come back instead of just leaving him to his own literal devices.]

[...which was quickly tempered by a more normal level of confusion at the hands in his hair.]

What--what are you doing?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Every time I'm around you for more than a minute, you do that thing where you push back your long-ass bangs, only they flop right back to where they were before, so, like, we've got a salon, you can tuck 'em back with some pins or something. Now they're not in your face when you work.

[He leans back to inspect his handiwork.] Better?

[burninglight]

[Ardyn just kind of...blinked a couple of times, barely registering a single damn word Church had said.]

You didn't...leave.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I did? To...get the pins? I had to leave?

[Did you contract the stupids suddenly?]

[burninglight]

No, I...that's not what I-

[little bit]

You came back. Instead of simply... [Ardyn gestured with one hand, words briefly failing.] ...walking out to forgo the matter entirely.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Is my touching you making you get all flustered, don't worry, happens to everyone.

[He's joking but his hands are definitely back on the table instead.]

You were just admitting what we all have been telling you from day one. You even said yourself you thought an isolation chamber would only hurt instead of help. Dumbass.

[burninglight]

Wh--no, don't be an imbecile.

[That at least seemed to push Ardyn out of whatever state of shock he was in, folding his arms.]

I...just thought you simply didn't care to hear something like that from me. That perhaps it was too late to bother.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Man, if I didn't like you, I wouldn't hang around you. I'd either punch you or turn around and leave.

Or aggressively mock you. Like. In a nasty way, not in a funny way. Like Richie Rich.

[burninglight]

[honey he doesn't know what that means.]

Wait...you don't? I was rather beginning to suspect you found me an infuriating annoyance.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I got pretty pissy at you before, yeah, cuz of the whole not knowing if you actually gave a fuck or not thing, but I'm over thinking you're a psycho supervillain.

[burninglight]

...That makes no sense. What changed?

[motherfucking_ghost]

The fact that you don't act like a psycho supervillain? The fuck do you think, man, you have existential breakdowns over emotions and then you crack snide jokes and you take care of people. On occasion you get a look like you're gonna murder someone in their sleep and enjoy every moment of it, and that's a little, y'know, but otherwise you're just kind of a fucked up dude. Like the rest of us. Only more fucked up.

[burninglight]

Perhaps you do make a compelling argument.

[i mean. even ardyn had to admit he'd seriously toned down the psycho.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

I am, on occasion, known for that.

Does this mean everyone gets to say 'I told you so' to your face?

[burninglight]

I would prefer they did not.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Told you the fuck so.

So what are you gonna do with your newfound appreciation for people?

[burninglight]

'Appreciation' is a bit too strong a word right now. And I'm not yet certain how to answer that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You just wanted to let me know. That you're coming around on this whole being a person thing.

[burninglight]

Was...that wrong? Should I not have said anything?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Nonono, I'm very proud of you and all that. You were saying it like you were telling someone about the death of a loved one, though. Kinda funny, actually.