week one | overflow

[marriagebroker]

Ok, weirdos.

Boom Boom Room | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

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[ordimame]

[raising his voice]

. . . I'm sorry for calling you a roleplayer! The other day!

[claps his hands together and bows his head]

Seriously!

[this is a real GOMEN NASAI moment]

[hexensabbat]

Oh.

[She lifts both hands at that, palms out.]

No, no, seriously, it's fine! You don't have to get all apologetic like that...!

[That's so sincere!! It's almost a little embarrassing!]

[ordimame]

[IT'S BECAUSE HE IS EMBARRASSING, SO SORRY RINGO]

You have to understand, things like that aren't just "hard to conceptualize!" They just don't happen back where I'm from. They don't exist!






So my worldview is in a bit of a disarray right now.

[for, like. the billionth time in his life. which is, truly, not a great feeling]

[hexensabbat]

Well. Yeah. We noticed.

[Sorry, dude.]

Still! You're coming around to it, huh? That's great! You're definitely going to have a way less stressful time of it from here on out if you can just kind of... accept it? I guess?

[ordimame]

"Coming around to it" is. . . a strong way to put it.

[still thinks he may have been drugged?? not outside the realm of possibility for him?]

. . . give me a little more time for that.

[hexensabbat]

[A laugh.]

Okay, okay... take your time.

There's more to learning what we're all about beyond just whether or not we're AI or vampires anyway.

[ordimame]

I know that.

[. . . a small huff!]

People are complex. [a beat] That word is meant to include all non-people present, too.

[hexensabbat]

Yeah, there you go! So long as you've got an outlook like that, you'll be just fine.

[ordimame]

[somehow, he does not feel like he'll be just fine!]

I still plan on doing my best! My goals have not changed.

[nodnod]

[hexensabbat]

Those goals being...?

[Spill!! Spill the beans, bean man!]

[ordimame]

Meeting people. Making connections!!

[some. . . other things, but those are too deep to share with someone he just met]

[hexensabbat]

So the romance aspect? Good! That's promising!

[She seemingly takes it at face value, at least.]

I think a lot of people feel that way.

[ordimame]

. . . it doesn't have to be romantic. I'll be okay if I just make some new friends.

[not that he hasn't come to truly appreciate the ones he has back home, but. . . they're a different kind of friend. not the kind he is seeking here]

I hope everyone here feels that way at least a little bit, even if their major priorities are different.

[hexensabbat]

If it's just about making genuine connections, then I think that's probably true. Even if people won't admit to it.

That's part of just living life, yeah?

[Making connections with other people.]

1/2

[ordimame]

[he looks a bit surprised when she says that, before his gaze grows distant for just the briefest of moments]

[. . .]

[ordimame]

. . . yeah! I think you're right. It definitely is!

[blink and you'll miss it!]

[hexensabbat]

[She has hung out with way harder to read people than you, Mr. Bean.

But she lets it go for now.]

Anyway! Let's be friends. Maybe we can't predict what's going to happen over the next four weeks, but we can at least do that much, yeah?

[ordimame]

Huh??

[visible surprise!! but it gives way to an exasperated (pos) laugh]

I don't know if I've ever made a friend just by suddenly deciding that we were. [MAYBE THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, BEAN-CHAN] But sure! . . . let's be friends.

[hexensabbat]

Sounds like you're overcomplicating it to me!

[Cheerfully but also with a shit-eating grin.]

See how easy it was doing it my way?

[ordimame]

[SAID TO A MAN WHO OVERCOMPLICATES EVERYTHING--]

[. . . but also what's with that shit-eating grin!! it sends his hackles prickling a bit, but not in a bad way. in a way that is unfortunately, exasperatingly, painfully, horrifically familiar]

I hope you're not expecting me to actually answer that.

[his PRIDE]

[hexensabbat]

[She just snorts at that.]

I think it'd be good for you if you did, but I'm not gonna make you.

[ordimame]

Good for me. . .

[stares at her for a long moment like he ain't sure if he should ask. instinct says he should not ask! and yet—]

Good for me how?

[hexensabbat]

Because it'd mean you're worrying less about what people think of you and just enjoying the moment more!

[Let go of your PRIDE, sir!!]

[ordimame]

[no!!!]

Is that why you're here? To "enjoy the moment?"

[hexensabbat]

Well... yeah, more or less. I want to experience as many human things as I can for as long as I've got.

This felt like a pretty unique opportunity to hit a lot of 'em, you know?