Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

Comments

[lackinginfaith]

Noel's? If it was deep blue with a shell and wings like mine, that's hers. Why would the machine even... never mind. Thanks. I'm glad, really.

[penduli]

No problem. I was sort of afraid you'd come back from the dead and skin me if anything happened to it.

[lackinginfaith]

Well, if I'd let Hanamura keep my pearl instead of taking it down there, I probably would have ended up haunting his room, which could be just as horrible for you.

[penduli]

We'd just do stuff in my room! [ ...wait— ] I mean— we wouldn't be doing anything, anyway, just talking and... stuff like that. Not other things.

[lackinginfaith]

[Caren reaches over to ruffle Black's hair.] Calm down, you'll hurt yourself.

[penduli]

[ ...you're younger than him, you're not allowed to do that... ]

Sorry. [ ...uh. ] So, about Yato's shipping chart. Was it... really obvious that I liked Yosuke?

[lackinginfaith]

I was only around for two weeks, and trying not to get attached to all your antics at that, but... yes. A little. Probably more to Yato. He's very invested in these things.

[penduli]

[ ...oh good, it's only one ghost. former ghost.



good. ]

Well, that's good. ...why's he so invested in it?

[lackinginfaith]

I think, in some way, he's like me. Gods live a long time and have to hide things, so they don't exactly have many long-term prospects, and he doesn't want to have flings with humans that he'll eventually have to give up. So he likes other people's love lives. Besides, you know how much he cares about happiness. He wants to bring people fortune.

[penduli]

[ And Caren's too much of a killjoy to join him in shipping. ...probably for the better, less shipwars like that. ]

He's a good guy. [ An awesome god. ] Does that mean you really don't have anyone you like?

[lackinginfaith]

[Three words: Post-death development.]

I try not to think about it. Even if it's not true that we die when we tell you what we are, mermaids are still very closed off. Most humans don't even believe in us, and other beings we either don't see often or ended up starting some war or another against. We still have stories about love, and people talk about wanting love, but it wouldn't generally last. And besides, they always talk about finding some boy, even in a society that's all women. So there's not much hope of even finding another mermaid who'd like me, and even if she did, would she say? And on top of that, I'm a princess. Duty is always going to be more important.

So no. I can't really think about that kind of thing. ...And don't tell Yato, he'll be insufferable about it.