I have died every day waiting for you

[lovelikeyou]

[That was, in Rose's opinion, even worse than last week. Any loss of life is an awful waste, but for it all to come of some horrible accident...

This week, she doesn't retreat back to her room. She knows now that the people here, or at least enough of them, like to gather after these experiences. Many of the Crystal Gems were the same way; she remembers their post-battle huddles well. It's not a party, really, but...it's good to be together. To have friends around. Maybe, to remember those who were lost.

So this time, she'll go to the cafeteria herself and request some food for everyone. It's just basic snacks, the kind of human food she knows well enough to ask for. There's some hot chocolate provided, too. She definitely knows people enjoy that. It doesn't take too long, since she isn't making most of it, and then she goes to invite everybody she can find.

She doesn't slip any notes underneath doors, for the people she doesn't happen across. Some Crystal Gems didn't join the groups, or maybe did after one battle but not another. Sometimes they wanted to be alone. She never really understood that...but it wasn't her place to tell them otherwise. Weren't they all about freedom?

Everybody probably knows something like this is going to happen again, anyway. It's their choice to come.]

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[fivestagegod]

[What a goddamn day.

It's been a huge clusterfuck of WELL, THAT HAPPENED and as before, he's not too inclined to socialize immediately; instead, he's... Well, okay, he's taken the frankenpuppet back to the woodshop because he got another marionette from the machine, goddamn and as such he can be found adding to the horrid little abomination for some time before he makes his way back to the cafeteria to see if anyone's in there.

Whether they are or not doesn't really matter to him; he's pretty sure he's not the most popular person and that's fine by him, and as such he can be found at one of the tables drinking...you know what, he'll do the whole hot chocolate thing today, why not, and messing around with some more squares of colored paper, just folding away to give his hands something to do and otherwise remaining to himself unless approached.]

cw: more drunk Nira

[ladygeryon]

[Nira flops down across from him, Aria nowhere to be seen by her side as she stares at the origami he's making for a long time before speaking up.]

Wasn't even mad for her in specific, y'know....mad 'bout the fuckin bullshit coincidence. he jusssst so happened to be bleeding jusssssst as she walked by and now he's gone. the end! noooooo moral!

[fivestagegod]

[He's folding a few different things out of red and white, and while he doesn't look up right away at Nira when she sits down he definitely does at the words.]

Yeah. The whole situation was an experience, to put it one way.

...Are you going to be able to make it back to your room before you pass out? We've got a rule against sleeping outside them.

[ladygeryon]

I w-walked over here din't I? [She tries to tap her hand on the table but slams it harder than expected.] I c'n walk back jus'fine. B'sides, Aria c'n drag me back if she realllly needs to. [It's worth noting that said Pokemon isn't actually by her side.]

Srrrrrrry f'r cussing ex-exsessively at'cha, bytheway. yer an ass some times but ackshully I still like ya. but ch'know one fuck never hurt nobody. [She lifts a finger, blinks, frowns, puts it down, frowns again, and puts her whole hand back down.]

[fivestagegod]

[...Okay, this is kind of.]

I'm not mad at you, and I don't hate you or anything. But come talk to me when you've slept it off, okay?

[ladygeryon]

y'don, I know. but'cha think of me as sssome ssstupid tantrrrrum bitch who can't back up what she sayssss which is fuckin' worse. [She actually manages to point at him for a moment before dropping her hand back down.] Y'think I don'wanna do more than jusssss "point ma ssstick"? We ssssaw what happens iffya try!

[fivestagegod]

I never said that. But go on, keep putting words in my mouth.

woodshop

[mouflon]

[ u h ]

What... is that.

[ Unfortunately, Rin doesn't particularly want to spend time at the afterparty right now, either! Which means Birkin's frankenpuppet time is, unfortunately, being interrupted. ]

[fivestagegod]

An abomination unto the Lord.

[He says, entirely aware of this thing being the way it is.]

[mouflon]

[ Well, that makes Rin's lips twitch in a very faint smile, at least. ]

Yeah, but... Why?

[fivestagegod]

Something to do with myself, primarily. I started messing with it on Wednesday to get out some of the weirdness after the one guy died, and then the machine proceeded to spit more of these things at me. So I might as well make good use of materials while I'm here.

[mouflon]

Good use might be debatable, but I guess it's better than doing nothing with yourself. I'm more of a hit-the-gym person, myself.

[ Or, you know. The equivalent, when a gym isn't regularly available. ]

[fivestagegod]

...Do I look like I've done that even once in my life.

[Again, at least the self-awareness is batting a thousand this evening.]

cafeteria

[pimpplan]

I don't think I'd have pegged you for the type to be doing origami, actually.

[ Zelos sits on a nearby table, muffin in hand and a bottle of water, watching Birkin work with mildest of interest. ]

[fivestagegod]

[Oh, hey, you.]

I'm usually not, but it's something to do with myself. Might as well keep busy.

[pimpplan]

Hey, whatever you gotta do, man. Not everyone's able to just talk their feelings out.

[ He doesn't mean anything by that, it's just... true. He shrugs and takes a swig. ]

[fivestagegod]

[Oh, it's absolutely true.]

Hey, I get enough of that out of my system at trials. I'm pretty sure plenty of people want me to stop talking after those.

[pimpplan]

Hey, somebody's gotta be the asshole in those talks. Better you than me.

[fivestagegod]

It's not like anyone else is going to do it. I might as well.

[lovelikeyou]

[Well, Rose is over here in a different crafting corner, working on her little sewing project. After a minute or two, she'll notice that William is doing much the same and gather up her things to go over there.]

Do you mind if I sit here, too?

[fivestagegod]

[Oh, hey Rose.]

Oh - no, of course not. Go right ahead.

[At least it seems like he got most of his aggression out at the trial, for better or worse.]

[lovelikeyou]

[She'll sit and get on that, then!]

What are you doing?

[fivestagegod]

Origami. I got one of those books with instructions, I thought I'd put it to good use.

[he stole it from aela.]

Decided to give sewing a try?

[lovelikeyou]

I never have before, so I thought it might be fun. I've never done origami either, but that would probably be even harder.

[She says it with a note of humor - her hands too big for this shit.

And, well...they did sort of argue towards the end of the trial there. Rose both does and doesn't want to talk about it. She isn't angry at Birkin - she wasn't really even then - and she doesn't want him to think she is, but...it's hard. To talk about things like that.]

Have you had anything to eat yet today?

[fivestagegod]

[Yeah, he gets it, on the...we should probably talk about it but how do we talk about it front.]

No, but I'll deal with that later. I'm not really feeling like eating much of anything at the moment.

[...]

...That's really all it is. I don't have anything like...Alice's thing going on.