I tried to get through to you

[archboxer]

[You know what that was? A fiasco. That was an utter fiasco. Three more people gone on a chance that may not happen! This is horrible. Even if some people dislike her, Rhea... is up to the challenge once more. This time she does it nearly herself: writing out the invitations, ordering the food and telling everyone to meet at the bar. In Ema's honor, of course.

She hands out the invitations herself and if she can't find you, she'll slide yours under your door.]

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Aquarium

[lovelikeyou]

[Lion was locked up in Rose's room all day, so she's bringing him here to swat at some fish a little. As a treat. She hadn't intended to really hang out by the shark tank right now, but seeing Birkin there, she'll walk over (to the bottom where normal people stand).]

Oh, they're back.

[fivestagegod]

Yeah. I was wondering how they're doing, and I'm not really wanting to go to the bar just yet.

[...holy shit that lion, though.]

Where'd he come from?

[lovelikeyou]

He was in the machine.

[Rose turns to look at the lion, who is just. Batting at a fishtank. It's Cat TV.]

...I saw him come out of it, but I'm still not sure exactly how it happened.

[fivestagegod]

...That's fair.

[Some things are not for functioning minds to comprehend, and the vending machine is one of them.]

He must be pleased to not be in there anymore, anyway.

[lovelikeyou]

Mmmm, he is.

[.....]

I'm glad the sharks are okay. Even with everything.

[fivestagegod]

Yeah. I was sort of concerned they'd be put down or something, I know some people do that once an animal has...well, attacked someone, I guess.

[lovelikeyou]

Do they?

[She seems faintly alarmed about this!]

It wasn't their fault.

[fivestagegod]

Yeah, it really wasn't. So I'm glad to see they're all right.

[Despite Nova's best efforts.]

...Hey, thanks for trying to look out for me earlier. I appreciate it.

[lovelikeyou]

Of course. She shouldn't have said something like that to you.

[Even if in retrospect she was clearly just trying to pin suspicion on anybody else.]

I know...well, I don't know how you feel about everyone, but I know you're always trying to help in there. [even if you're extremely abrasive about it all of the time]

[fivestagegod]

It kind of bothers me that she felt the need to say I'd throw Ema in there pretty much for the hell of it, but I don't really care.

[He says, while looking at the sharks rather than at Rose.]

I'm glad that you get what I'm trying to do, though. I don't hate you guys.

[lovelikeyou]

I know you don't. You've been really helpful during a lot of those. I don't think I could ever do that.

[which kind of sounds like she's just talking about how nice she is, but what she means is more...she never really has the stomach to press. even with Nova, when she knew Nova had done it about when everyone else realized. it needs pressing, though.]

[fivestagegod]

[Don't worry, Rose, he gets you.]

Someone has to, and I don't have many qualms about it just in general. So I might as well, I guess.

[lovelikeyou]

Well, it's good for all of us that you do.

[this is Wesker and Asgore but hopefully less terrible, isn't it]

If...you ever do want to talk about it, though, I'm always around.

[fivestagegod]

[...i mean, "hopefully" is a good word to use there yeah

that said, oh.]

...Thanks. I think I'm keeping myself together about as well as anyone can here, it's just kind of a lot. As long as you get that I don't hate you guys or have any desire to feed people to sharks for science, whatever that means, I think it's all right.

[lovelikeyou]

That isn't science, right?

[She didn't think it was science at the time, but she didn't know enough about science to say much.]

[fivestagegod]

No? I can't really see what it would be proving; we've already verified many, many times over that sharks will eat people.

[lovelikeyou]

I didn't think so. But Gem science doesn't really have anything to do with organics - and I'm not a scientist.

[fivestagegod]

That's fair.

We usually do stuff for a reason - there's a whole bunch of ethics stuff tangled up in it, but we can't really get approval for "hey, this is probably going to kill someone but I want to try it anyway" or "I want to cause a bunch of people a lot of undue pain, can you throw money at me so I can do that."

It's why I've been wondering what sort of world it is out there, that the Professor apparently can get funding for stuff like that.

[lovelikeyou]

I'm sure Gem scientists could do things like that. Morganites, or Peridots. But they wouldn't do anything like this - it doesn't seem very practical.

[They don't care about anyone's pain, but at least you can say that's not generally their goal?]

[fivestagegod]

So they're not sadistic, they're just...pragmatic, I guess?

[lovelikeyou]

I suppose. They don't care about hurting anybody, but...usually they'll just shatter you and be done with it.

[There's some stuff she could say about the Diamonds on a personal level, but y'know, she can't.]

I think the Corruption was the most sadistic thing they ever did. I wouldn't have been so surprised if they'd just shattered everyone.

[fivestagegod]

The Corruption...?

[That sounds...not good?]

[lovelikeyou]

When the Diamonds decided to leave Earth, they unleashed some kind of attack on the planet. My shield was able to block it, for me and the two Gems closest to me, but everyone else...they turned into monsters. They can't take their real forms anymore, and their minds are gone. I think they're in pain...or maybe they're just confused and scared.

[But she's only getting that from how they tend to lash out. Who knows? No one ever told her about any powers like that, she has no idea at all what's been done to them exactly.]

[fivestagegod]

That...

[...well. um.]

We're currently dealing with something kind of similar where I came from. Viral outbreak, mutates everyone that gets infected with it. We're trying to contain it for now, but it has potential to have huge ramifications if that doesn't work.

[lovelikeyou]

[Oh. Well. That's something, isn't it?]

Viral? So it's just...still happening?