week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

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

Comments

[irreversal]

You don't need to hold onto memories of people like that.

[ She says it plainly, in that level tone she always gives. With the implicit understanding of someone who's seen this kind of scenario before. In fact, when she thinks of her own schoolmates and the current students... It's actually tragic, how so few of them have functional relationships with their families. For many of them, it's their teachers who fill that void, much like Rom's mentor seems to have. ]

People are always afraid of what they can't understand. It's human nature, but they don't even realize they curse they make of themselves when they do something like that.

[ abandoning their child... awful. ]

[phenomerom]

[ There's something kind of comforting about that -- the fact that Shoko immediately understands what happened. It's a grim reality, of course, but there's a bleak solidarity to be found in the fact that he doesn't need to explain why he was abandoned.

Rom breathes a soft exhale before taking a sip of his coffee. ]

Of course. I'm sure it was terrifying for my parents. They were normal people -- all they knew was that their son kept talking about horrible monsters. I don't particularly blame them, at this point.

[ A pause before he gives a wan laugh. ]

-- ah, though they really should have given me up to an orphanage properly. They just left me in some apartment and told me to stay there. I probably would have died if Towako-san hadn't saved me, haha!

[irreversal]

[ ...Yeah. This hits close to home. Shoko gives a wan laugh of her own, shaking her head. ]

You really could have ended up at Jujutsu High with me, huh... You would have fit right in.