but even if the stars and moon collide [afterparty]

[allatonce]

[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!]

Comments

[buriedstar]

I do.

[ ...this is going to be really funny come Tuesday. ]

Some time ago, something like that was offered to me. Immense power, legendary artifacts, dominion over the Akashic Record and demi-god level familiars. And in exchange I was expected to submit. To give myself over to the system and become a monster, literally and figuratively.

It was so insulting, I think I might have laughed for several minutes? What good is power if you're not the one actually wielding it? I'm not so stupid to fall for the allure of power just for power's sake. It's really, really so—

[ There's more to say here but he stops himself short and takes a breath, a cool smile spreading across his lips. ]

I'll never submit to anyone or anything.

[vholran]

[ Vholran listens to Seo Dawon's words with more than a semblance of interest. Indeed, it looks like the man has had a similar experience in a sense regarding such foolishness.

...Though, he thinks there is a crucial difference:

Each 'Sovereign' did not have a choice. But, that is not something he can exactly prove. It's more of a suspicion, and in the end that does not quite matter. Especially since he will destroy the Great Spirit of Rena himself. ]

I'll be looking forward to that continuing to remain the case, Seo Dawon.

[ But there is no doubt that there is an approval in those words. ]

[buriedstar]

[ Choice is such a funny word. ]

If the system couldn't move me, nothing will. [ Besides himself, obviously. But that should go without saying. ]

I'll be expecting the same of you, of course.