I have a dream that I want to fulfill with you...

[tsugomori]

[ Well, that was an extraordinary trial to have... it was certainly filled with many things that wouldn't be lost to the memory of most, even for weeks to come. Although, the return to "normalcy" could be something that wouldn't seem like it was wanted, it was better than the alternative to returning to anything at all.

With ease, Mikazuki find himself setting up the usual party in the usual place-- that would be the library of course. Notes have been slipped underneath the doors of others, or hung up on the walls to alert them of this post-trial "celebration" -- which was more like a get-together of some sorts now than a real party. ]


Please join us in the library again. Of course, food and drink will be provided.

- Mikazuki, Orihime, Hanyuu, & Estelle

[ The food and drink has been set out, what with there being tea, vichyssoise, cream puffs, and fish for everyone to enjoy. ]

Comments

[plegia]

Oh come now, do you really think I'd eat them all?

[...he probably would have but then lusamine pointed out that he'd be fat and vanity has won out over a desire for cream puffs. trials are the exception!!!]

There's plenty left.

[oyashiromama]

You must always check.

[So once he's done, she'll heat some up herself.]

...Would it be right to say you enjoyed yourself today?

[plegia]

[He'll move out of her way and shove one in his mouth while he considers her question.]

Yes, that's certainly correct. Are you going to tell me how awful that is?

[oyashiromama]

[She shakes her head.]

You're already aware of it, and you already know I disapprove. There's nothing to be gained by lecturing you.

[plegia]

Good, as long as we're both in agreement on that!

[And that's that, as far as he's concerned.]

[oyashiromama]

[That's- okay, you could call that agreement.]

I've just been wondering. [As she gets some cream puffs on a plate to heat up.] You seem to attend the gatherings frequently, the...ones after the trials. What is it you get out of it?

[plegia]

[see you get it!!!]

I don't really get anything out of it. It's better than sitting in my room alone, I suppose?

[LIKE HE GENUINELY NEVER CONSIDERED THIS BEFORE...]

[oyashiromama]

[MY GOD...]

Hm. I...hadn't expected that. You really are...what you see is what you get, aren't you?

[plegia]

[LISTEN EVERY CHARACTER I PLAY IS EMOTIONALLY STUPID]

Precisely! I don't see any reason to pretend otherwise!

[oyashiromama]

The most straightforward tyrant I've ever seen. [She sighs.] You're so self-aware it's astonishing.

[plegia]

Is it really all that astonishing? Every king requires some level of self-awareness, wouldn't you say?

[hmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMM]

[oyashiromama]

Yes, but well- you said so yourself, people often make excuses. [Like Kira....]

[plegia]

Of course they do. Some people can fool themselves into believing those excuses, but at the end of the day... well, why bother? Lying to yourself won't do you any good. Embrace who you are, no matter how terrible!

[OH MY GOD]

[oyashiromama]

[OH MY GOD IS RIGHT??? jesus-]

Good to...know how you feel about that. [what does she do with gangrel she has no idea] In any case, I stand by what I said in there. You've done nothing here, despite everything else, and unless something happens otherwise, I will keep the peace as best I can between you and the others.

[ding! oh cream puffs]

[plegia]

[...]

I really do appreciate that, by the way. You didn't have to say anything like that. I can understand why, of course, but still...

[It prevents the group from trying to cannibalize potentially innocent villains, so it's in everyone's best interests to think like that. Even so, it's nice in a way he doesn't know how to respond to.]

[oyashiromama]

No one deserves to be accused of things they haven't done. [That's...a little clipped.] If we start turning on each other for our pasts, or our reputations, we'll be playing right into the rules of this game...and more people will die, faster. You've done awful things, but...you're a victim of this place, as is anyone else.

[This is all kind of undercut by the fact that she's eating cream puffs and has a little of the filling on her lip.]

[plegia]

[Oh Hanyuu... You really are some kind of saint or something, cream puffs be damned.]

It's a unique way of looking at things, I'll give you that. I wouldn't be surprised if some people thought people like Kimbley and I deserved something like this. Why, I'm sure several of my enemies back home would be thrilled to know this is where I've been taken!

[People are ugly, ugly creatures when it comes down to it, really.]

[oyashiromama]

[Better to be a saint that monster, right???]

This is a place...no matter what anyone's done, they don't deserve it. That, I'm sure of.

[plegia]

[but monsters have more fun!!!!!]

...Even him? Kira?

[That's probably a cruel question to ask immediately after all of that bullshit, but it leaves his mouth before he really has time to think about it. Oh well.]

[oyashiromama]

[Wow, Gangrel, really-]

...Yes. Even Kira.

[plegia]

[Give him a moment to consider what he thinks of that...]

That's a good answer, I think. Don't get me wrong, I don't care about Kira. I never got to know him or Chiyuki. But with that said... I do think it's good that you're not drawing a line where some people deserve this and others don't.

No one deserves this. I think you're right.

[He's certainly not the worst person back home, and even though he'd wish this on Emmeryn and the entire Ylissean royal family, it's because he's biased against them.

Hanyuu is something else alright, and it's something he can genuinely appreciate.]

[oyashiromama]

I may never forgive Kira...or like him, at all. But still, I wish no one had to die. I wish the culprits...could be dealt with another way. That justice could involve redemption, if they so chose. I wish...even Kira...didn't have to be swallowed by that thing.

[...but-]

But...that's not how this place works.

[plegia]

I won't say I agree, because I don't believe everyone can be redeemed. Not in a way that would be acceptable to everyone here, anyway.

[He's certain he can't. Kira can't. Kimbley probably can't either. That's just how things are. It's not something that bothers him any.]

But with that said... I see where you're coming from. That's the way things are here though, and there's nothing we can do to change the Wordsmith's mind on that.

[oyashiromama]

...No... No, I... No matter what we say, or how we communicate with him, I think that's sure.

[There's...a note of hesitance in her voice, though. Just a small one.]