unknownseas | but even if the stars and moon collide [afterparty]

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but even if the stars and moon collide [afterparty]

[Well, that sucked!

After about an hour, invitations written in colorful ink appear under everyone's doors.]

Understandable if you're not up to it, but we're having a memorial and "don't wanna be alone" hang-out in the restaurant again.

[The restaurant has very much been decorated with the most rainbow fabric she could find in the department store. Jonathan got roped in, mainly so she could make sure he was doing okay, but also because she assumed that he knew how to put a tablecloth on a table. He seemed like the type, anyway.

After consulting with Undertaker, most of the food that's been set out is more traditional Chinese funeral food than Victorian—you can get a whole roast duck in the restaurant—but she tried for a mix of things. There is fruit, the aforementioned roast duck, and several vegetarian dishes along with potatoes for some reason and... cookies? Okay then.

Joy's trying, because that was way less terrible for her than it was for basically anyone else.

Happy ~~Pride~~ Wrath, New Rapture!]

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Uh, yeah.

[Here he is, opening the door! He is in a now dry undershirt and slacks. However, his hair is down and his shoes are off.]

How crappy are we talkin', damn! Is it strong, at least?

[I can't believe Hagakure is the one who gets spared from. All of that.]

It's horrible! What I'd give for a beer instead, lemme tell ya... [But that's beside the point.] But it's definitely strong. It got me through the night after last trial, and I still got some left.

And you're sharin' it with me instead of one of the pretty girls?

[He offers Hagakure a lop-sided grin. Clearly, Dandy is just poking fun at him.]

Wow.

You are stupid.

[He will accept being called stupid. It's true.]

Eh, girls deserve much better booze than this. We guys can deal with the crappy stuff. 'sides, I haven't had a lotta opportunities to share a drink with a friend, y'know? All my classmates were too young for it.

Classmates?

[He has no right to judge, as he, an adult man... Also went back to highschool, but we just won't talk about it because that episode is wildly cursed so I refuse to acknowledge it as canon-]

Were you recently in highschool?!

[He ushers Hakagooby in with one hand.]

Good for you, man.

I never really managed to finish all the way.

[is this also a double entendre? a yaoi innuendo??? we shall see]

Edited (4 more gay!!!) 2022-07-03 05:28 (UTC)

[Can't wait to see that cursed content for myself! Anyway, he'll come on in.]

Yeah. It's a long story, but I enrolled at Hope's Peak at twenty-one, and like...lost two years of my life 'cause of what happened with the killing game. Legit, it got erased from my memory, so I don't even remember any of it.

[So while he's 23, he is 21 in spirit.]

S'not all it's cracked up to be though honestly, so I don't blame you!

Erased from your memory, huh?

[At the mention of that, he chuckles a little.]

I know how that is.

Are you sure you wanna stay in here? Sorry.

I haven't really freshened up the place.

[It should be noted that the bedsheets are ruffled and his shoes are tossed beside a pile of clothes, but other than that? It's clean, and not pungent. If anything, the room smells of a light, masculine cologne and hair gel. Does he have that shit here? Probably not but he's also [redacted]. So! Hm.]

We can go outside if this feels too intimate.

Somethin' tells me you haven't seen the inside of too many bedrooms.

Wait, really?

[But before they can go into their shared experience with memloss, he's being brutally assaulted with words. Damn, Dandy.]

Well, no, but... I mean, I don't care, dude. My room ain't the cleanest either. And it's not that intimate?

[He's got the bottle and some cups at the ready.]

We're just gonna hang out and have a drink!

[They're just gonna be guys being dudes!!]

Spoken like a true goober, my friend.

[He's gonna clap Hagakure on the shoulder. He can't say "virgin" because Funimation dub rating rules, but that's what he means!]

I'd say bedrooms are pretty... Well! They're fun places, if you can manage to get past the Pearly Gates.

[That's just a fancy way of saying "doors to the bedroom," can we kill him right here and right now? Is it possible for Mayor Fontaine to send a thunderbolt?]

Yeah! Sure, why not.

[look at him """smoothly""" bypassing that memloss question]

Edited 2022-07-03 05:48 (UTC)

[GOD.

Hagakure understands where that's going...so after that clap on the shoulder, he just looks at Dandy with genuine curiosity.]

D'you really view 'em like that? To me they're just a place to crash and hang out in.

[So, yeah. Goober behavior, as Dandy would probably say.

He does take a peek around the room, noting how nice it smells. Huh! It's nice. If Dandy's got a place for them to sit, he'll sit, but for now he looks for a surface to start pouring some malort into the glasses.]

Hell yeah!

[There is probably a chair somewhere, yes! Dandy will sit on the bed, across from where Hagakure is sitting.]

A pretty girl? Askin' me if I wanna dance, in our underpants? All alone together? That's an offer I can't refuse, baby!

[Which also leads to him getting nearly murdered on numerous occasions!]

But they can be black holes too, sheesh! Personally, I can't do dark ones with those giant widows overlookin' the city no more. Those places are fancy, but they don't look lived in! It's almost like you're walkin' into a hotel.

Oh, that I totally get! I probably wouldn't take her to my room in that case, honestly... Not until I got a chance to clean it up.

[Which...sure puts what Dandy said earlier into another light, but fortunately Hagakure has not connected those dots quite as quickly.

With the glasses set, he reaches across the gap to hand Dandy his.]

I feel you on that. But if I'm honest, I'm just happy to have windows at all here. During the killing game, all our windows were covered with metal panels 'n' bolts to prevent us from seeing the outside world...and escaping, obviously.

It's hella surreal lookin' out and seeing the ocean of course, but...it's something.

[Dandy, in the privacy of his own room and the company of someone he feels entirely comfortable with, doesn't come off nearly as haughty and boisterous as he does on the outside world. He spends much of his time with a catty pervert (who is also literally a cat) and a Robot who is too good for this world... He loves them dearly, despite the absolute dogshit way that he treats them, and Hagakure's presence has reminded Dandy that he misses them.

It's just that they don't know a lot of things about his past for a variety of reasons, and much of that has been oddly intentional.]

You wanna talk about it?

[He sounds so deeply sorry for that.

Moreso than any worded apologies can convey.

Dandy takes the glass from Hagakure, swirling it around first. Finally, he takes a surprisingly conservative sip.]

There's almost nothin' I hate more than being trapped.

[Ah...

Hagakure hadn't intended to steer this into a downer of a conversation—he was pretty casual when he mentioned the windows—but when he reflects on it...yeah, that was incredibly fucked up, wasn't it? For as much as he's talked about his experiences in his previous killing game to help give the others some idea of what to expect, he hasn't really talked about it yet. About the despair, the anxiety, the brushes with death...

His own sip is far less conservative.]

Resty [Forrest] offered that too. I just...haven't really known where to start. Haven't had time to think about it, really, 'cause it all just bled right into this.

[It's like the killing game never ended even though he had "won".]

You don't have to, if you don't wanna. I'm just lettin' ya know that I don't mind, not one bit.

Or we could just talk about girls! Whichever you'd prefer.

[He dead-eyes the glass of liquor, then wrinkling his nose.]

You're right, this tastes like shit.

Right?

[And yet after holding back a displeased gag, he takes another sip.

And after that, he kind of just...lets it spill out for a bit. He starts talking about the events of Hope's Peak. His arrival at the school and how things got weird from the get-go, which he later learned was due to his memories being messed with. Meeting his classmates, noticing how much the school looked like a prison...Monokuma's arrival, and the announcement of the killing game.

He didn't believe it at first- he thought it was all one sick joke, no matter how realistic that first motive seemed. But then people started dying- one right in front of his eyes. And the trials followed, along with the attempts to establish a routine, and trust within those who remained. It all sounds so familiar, doesn't it? It just kept going from there- one of the murders he was framed for, and another he almost killed someone in self defense. He'd never been so scared for his life.

They did defeat Junko Enoshima in the end, but it came at the cost of so many lives, and if the mastermind was to be believed, there wasn't much of a world for them to return to.]

...I mean, I did leave all that hopeful, y'know. No matter what waited for us on the outside, I was gonna meet it head-on with the others.

But now I'm...here. I'm just back in the same trap again with a different coat of paint.

[It's hard not to sound just a little broken about that.]

[The whole way through, Dandy listens without saying a word. Any silences that pass between them are so severe you could hear a pin drop. He doesn't speak, but his dark, almond-colored eyes are full of an intense sadness, restrained and locked within his chest, but wildly apparent in the stiffness of his body. Sure, this place has been Dandy's least favorite destination by a longshot, with its cruel circumstances and lack of available women to oogle openly...

And yet, what really rips Dandy a new one, more than all the overlapping memories and slowly building paranoia, is the paralysis.

The fact that he couldn't keep anyone from dying, and that he's isn't openly trustworthy enough to carry the emotional weight of the others on his back, no matter how much he'd like to. Dandy is not a delicate speaker, so perhaps that's not a role he can fill, for most.

Suddenly, he rises from the bed.]

[THEN GRIPPING HAGAKURE'S SHOULDERS WITH ALL THE FURY OF A THOUSAND SUNS... HE PUSHES THE TIPPY TOPS OF THEIR GIANT HAIRDOS TOGETHER!!!! It's like frotting, but with hair! Just the tips.]

No! Hakagooby.

You're gonna make it outta here.

[Spoken with even more passion than the aforementioned statements:]

Alive and well.

SO YOU CAN SEE YOUR FIRST PAIR OF BOOBIES, BABY!

In all their blazing, boob-tiful [jesus fucking christ] glory.

Edited 2022-07-03 07:23 (UTC)

[Well that's one way to snap him out of his funk jesus christ???]

D-Dee?!

[Hagakure yelps and nearly drops his drink as Dandy basically fucking bodies him. He...doesn't even know what to say to any of this at first- he's still just trying to register that Dandy is right up in his face and yelling something about boobies.]

I-

[Okay. Okay, his brain is catching up. Despite how utterly absurd Dandy's response to all of that was, the emotion behind it isn't lost on him. Honestly, it's...exactly what he didn't even realize he needed to hear so badly.]

[And again, even though Dandy is literally cheering him on to see his first boobie after hearing about the trauma of Hope's Peak...tears begin to well up in Hagakure's eyes. He does his best to blink them back as he musters a shaky grin.]

Yeah. [sniff] Hey, if we're even in the same 'verse, maybe you could take me to those giant ladies, huh?

Abso-friggin'-lutely, my guy! Me and them don't speak the same language, but that's what translator bracelets are for.

[He jingles the Sonic-ass gold plated wristlet on his... Uh. Wrist.]

I also figured out another foolproof way to flirt with the ladies if this gem of a device ever breaks.

[He blinks one eye in... All that can be described as a series of more blinks, just quickly, but at different paces... And then does something similar with the other eye.]

It's like Morse Code, only with winkin'! Yeah, I know.

[WHAT??? WHAT IS IT... THAT YOU KNOW!!!]

I'm a genius.

[Hagakure literally has no reason not to believe any of this, so he is instead hella impressed.]

Seriously? That works? What were you saying just now?

[He knows...a little morse code. But his brain is in no position to parse any of it right now.]

Of course! You really think I would share one of my personal tips of the trade without testin' it out first?

[HE WOULD! HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD AND IT IS UNDENIABLE!

ALSO HIS MEMORY IS VERY VERY BAD!]

[Hagakure continues to not know any better. Clearly, this is a work of pure genius.

...also, the image of this conversation continuing with Dandy still just right up against him.]

Can you teach me sometime? Then we'd have a secret code only we can speak!

For sure, buddy!

[It absolutely is! Dandy blinks once with his right eye, then once with his left, and then with his right eye once more!]

That's code for a thumbs' up!

[Okay! Okay he is finally taking a step back and taking a more daring sip of that shitty alcohol now, and-]

Edited 2022-07-04 00:22 (UTC)

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why is this gay??? shinichiro watanabe i am sorry

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1/2

2/2 nsfw im disgusting lock me up

1/2 throwing away the key while i'm at it

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1/2 last two parter i swear