week one | overflow

[marriagebroker]

Ok, weirdos.

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

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[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?

[ordimame]

[. . .]

And how would you say it's been so far?

[hexensabbat]

It's been a blast!

[Earnestly.]

Getting to get to know so many people without there being some sort of big looming danger is way more fun!

[ordimame]

[. . . . . .]

[Ringo seems excitable and earnest, but. . . not naive. he doubts he has to tell her that not all human experiences are good ones. that some of them cut and bite into you so deeply that they leave behind scars that you can never figure out how to heal. no matter how hard you try. no matter how far you run]

[but even if she weren't? well. . .]

[. . . maybe for once, he finds he doesn't want to ruin such honest and pure excitement with his own cynicism]

[his response is light!]

Yeah, I imagine it's way easier to carpe the diem when your life isn't literally on the line. Who would have thought??

[hexensabbat]

[She snorts at that, amused, and points at him cheerfully.]

You'd be surprised how well you can bond with other people when your lives are all on the line, though.

So it wasn't all bad.

[ordimame]

[would I?]

Do these adventures have something to do with the other weird part of your profile?





. . . the devil summoning??