WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? OUR TALES RIVAL JUST TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE!

[bloodisthicker]

[...so, uh, that was a thing that happened. Tarrlok was completely ready to do the politician thing and come up with a speech or something for most of whatever the hell that excuse for a trial was, but everything got all confusing, baffling, and horrifying and completely inexplicably, he can't find the words.

Maybe he just... needs a day. Tomorrow will probably be fine. For now, though, Misa volunteered to make brownies, and he was going to make a Northern Water Tribe comfort food specialty.

...even if they only had shortening and not actual animal fat and it'd been a while since he'd made it, but it tasted... alright? Definitely not as good as the stuff back home, but it was hard to get that good, anyway.

...there's also the matter of setting things up in a location other than the dining hall, because even though that's cleaned up, it still feels pretty tasteless to hold a wake literal feet from the place you found someone's bloody corpse.

So, a little later on in the day, a lovingly personalized note will be slid under everyone's doors:



And if the Survivors choose to head to the library, they'll find a... well, okay, it's a bunch of boxes from the storage room of comparable size stacked up on each other to kind of resemble a table. The dining hall ones don't even seem like they'd fit in the library, so Team Afterparty clearly had to improvise. One side is filled with plates, bowls, and spoons, and the other is filled with brownies, cookies, and a big bowl of berry aqutak. There are also chairs dotted throughout the room in a sort of vague circle --- close enough together that if people want to talk, they can, but far enough apart that it'd be easy to drag it off for some privacy.]

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[ratingspoint]

[You know, Mettaton will watch Sigrun suck at setting clothes on fire for a moment before he...turns around, wanders back to his room, and comes back with a couple of things with him.

The most immediately pressing is the lighter he's going to hand over to her.]

...This might help, darling.

[captainobnoxious]

Thanks. Matches suck, how does anyone use them?

[Lighters are so much better for burning things, on the other hand, look at it go.

It's still a sucky excuse for a funeral though, plainly seen on her face.]

[ratingspoint]

[He'll watch it burn for a little bit before he reaches out again, whapping her arm lightly with something bendy and plastic and noxiously orange and watching it wrap around her wrist.

Looks like someone else got those slap-bracelets out of the machine, and apparently this is just how we declare friendship around here. Attaching random bits of fuck-only-knows-what to people.]

Are you going to be all right?

[captainobnoxious]

[Oh my god, Mettaton. Thanks. She appreciates it, patting the spot beside her. Sit down, friend.]

Yeah. It's not the first time I've seen people die, whether they were strangers or friends. It's a reality that we face, that we accept every time we go out, and I've seen more gruesome deaths and injuries than what we saw today.

[So it's that part she's fine with, playing with the lighter absently.]

It's not that though. I want to know what the hell he did to Zagi's body and if he plans to do that with the rest of us when we eventually die, too. The dead should stay dead, [something she stresses heavily,] so seeing my brother up and about makes me want to wring that maker guy's neck.

[being emotionally competent is not fun???]

[ratingspoint]

[It's not like he minds being on the floor; god knows sometimes he'll just kind of lie there for reasons only known to himself and people back home that he hasn't talked to in a good long time, so.]

...Monsters don't leave bodies behind.

[It takes him a moment to say it, and really, it's just sort of something to say, but he's going somewhere with this eventually. Maybe.]

We don't bleed, and once we're gone that's it - there's nothing physical like that left behind. It was...strange, actually seeing someone still there at all after they died.

...It's probably weird to say that it was good to see that. Upsetting, sure. But we could actually work out what had happened to him - and, you know, knew anything had happened to him at all. It took all the guessing out of it. We usually don't get closure on death unless we see it for ourselves.

[captainobnoxious]

[That's so weird to hear. The not leaving bodies part. Very weird, but alright.]

So it was something new for you, huh. Hope it wasn't too shocking for your circuits.

[Even if he's up there with her about their feelings regarding murder and all. Monsters just... disappear... Sigrun clears her throat a little, just to move from her teasing.]

I'm glad the died the way he did, with the whole fair fight and all. It's something he'd definitely would've appreciated. [So this closure is good. It was nice knowing that Zagi died the way he wanted, basically. Fighting someone strong.] I thought that he'd just been attacked at first and went down swinging, so knowing that they both went at it equally really eased me and made me happy in a weird way.

[Sigrun only got to know Kamui a little, but boy was he fun to tease. And he gave Zagi a good death, how can she hate him for that? There's only appreciation.]

But how are you holding up, you bucket of bolts? Are you going to be alright?

[ratingspoint]

Oh, I'm fine, sweetheart, you don't have to worry about me! Besides, it's like you said - Zagi went out the way he would have wanted to, and they both agreed to what they did. So it's not like I can see anything to be sad about.

[...They're kind of a pair of winners, aren't they.]

[captainobnoxious]

[They are such winners here. Seems like only yesterday she was being an asshole with Zagi about Mettaton.]

I meant about actually seeing a body still there, dummy. You might be fine with murder, but like you said, your bodies don't last.

[Learning experience or not, man, it's always rough the first time.]

Well, yours might stick around. I'm not sure what you count as.

[ratingspoint]

...Well, if my body is damaged enough then I will die. But that's not really a big deal - it can always be repaired, once you find someone that knows how.

[ahahahahaha. haha. ha.]

But it actually wasn't my first time seeing a dead human, either. It happens once in a while; we don't see many humans in the Underground, but they have a tendency to not make it out of there once they fall in.

It's rare enough for it to still be strange for me, but it's not too bad, either.

[captainobnoxious]

[Sigrun would offer to learn to repair him, but uh, that requires smarts??? And she is not smart.]

Why don't you see them around that often? I mean, not that they're the most common thing where I'm from anymore either, but still.

[ratingspoint]

[...well, uh.]

We're not in the Underground by choice, let's put it that way. We've been kept separate from humans since some war that happened a really long time ago.

[He says "war" - he means "colossal shitshow", probably.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Ooooh. Same, but with monsters born from a really bad rash.]

So I'm guessing you're not too kind to the humans that happen by.

[ratingspoint]

...A lot of people aren't. My creator and I love them, though - we always have. We're the weird ones, though.

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, you are pretty weird.

[Friends, here. Friends.]

So, what's it like for you then, being surrounded by so many humans now?

[... Kamui's answer of the shrimp being hot really makes sense now.]

[ratingspoint]

[...in fairness, that is a very pretty shrimp...]

It's great, actually - I've wanted to perform for them all my life, after all, and if anything it's a shame that there are so few here.

[captainobnoxious]

[... it is a very pretty shrimp.]

Well, if it's any consolation, these "few" are apparently the only survivors left anywhere, so you've got a really special audience.

[ratingspoint]

That's true, isn't it! Although I wonder if there are any more outside... The Kingmaker had to come from somewhere, after all.

[captainobnoxious]

Apparently, he hasn't always been alone, but I don't know if that means here or wherever he came from.

[Late night talks are like, the funnest thing.]

[ratingspoint]

See - so maybe there's still hope for whatever's out there.

It's just a matter of actually getting out of this place.

[captainobnoxious]

So does that mean you're ready to punch some walls out now?

[ratingspoint]

...I'm pretty sure I can't do that, darling.

[captainobnoxious]

[She is so disappointed, Mettaton.]

Well, alright. If you're totally sure.

[ratingspoint]

Somehow I doubt it would be that easy, anyway.

[captainobnoxious]

You think so? I mean, it just seems to be a bunch of rock to me, and rock falls apart when you hit it hard enough.

[ratingspoint]

Well, we don't know how thick the rock is, for one thing. For another, we don't know what's behind the rock - it could be water or something else that you probably shouldn't breathe in if you don't like dying.