I won't pretend that I intend to stop living

[mildwildchild]

Who: erryone in Pride
What: recovering from the events of December 7
When: late December 7/early December 8 - ???
Where: Pride HQ and wherever else they're allowed to go
Warnings: Carnies? references to I Will Twist the Knife


So maybe you've just gotten back from the most mellow kidnapping ever and you're itching to tell your bandmates about what went on with the cool helmeted guys while everyone else was at that stuffy party. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a little while to tell them, but that's okay - surely you can keep yourselves occupied until everyone else returns.

Or maybe you're one of those who wound up at that party of Naomi's, and your night was a little less fun. Now you're back at HQ, possibly with mended physical injuries and almost certainly with a few new psychological scars. Now's your chance to check in on your friends and bandmates who missed out on all the trauma and deal with things as best you can.

Comments

[wounds]

My band's full of talented people. I just liked the spotlight.

[Well. He used to.]

[blindfoldcode]

Some people are just better suited for it. Tiger and Pinkie are definitely spotlight people.

[wounds]

I don't mind it that much.

Squalo's a spotlight person.

[blindfoldcode]

Never met him. [Spotlight people are tiring. ... Kido's having trouble keeping her eyes open. She takes another drink, though, ignoring it.]

If they tried to offer me a spotlight, I'd probably defect to virgo.

[wounds]

Good thing you ended up with the bass.

[Genos might be a spotlight person on stage and to his fans, but that feels more and more like an act with every passing day.]

[blindfoldcode]

It's all I know how to play anyway.

[wounds]

Good choice.

[He starts picking at his cast.]

I'm learning the piano.

[blindfoldcode]

Piano, huh? [Not what she expected at all.] I was trying to pick up guitar for a while.

[For the record her eyes are just now. Closed. But she's still talking. That's a good sign.

[wounds]

You can play some of it one handed.

Not that I'm going to be seen playing a keyboard on stage anytime soon.

[At least she's still talking.]

[blindfoldcode]

Who knows. You could pick it up fast.

[wounds]

It wouldn't fit with our sound.

[blindfoldcode]

My girlfriend and I played a gig a couple weeks ago. We didn't bring any of our bands.

[wounds]

How was that?

[blindfoldcode]

[She... actually has a kinda dreamy smile on at that.]

It was nice. I never sang in front of a crowd before that, but...

It was really nice.

[wounds]

Definitely sounds like you enjoyed it.

Just because your girlfriend was there?

[blindfoldcode]

She's Virgo. Everything I do with her is more than I expect it to be.

[wounds]

That's gotta be harder now.

[Considering everything that's gone down.]

[blindfoldcode]

... I haven't talked to her since then. [And there goes the dreamy smile.] It feels like I'm missing something.

[wounds]

Do you know what kind of something?

[blindfoldcode]

I have these memories of her. It's like we're connected. I feel different around her... like a better person, I guess. You ever felt that way?

[wounds]

[Maybe there's somebody in his past that convinced him to be a better person.

He doesn't remember them though.]

I feel like my body isn't right. But... I'm starting to feel like I'm not this person.

[blindfoldcode]

[She peeks out one eye.]

That's a damn shame. He seems pretty decent.

[wounds]

[There's something different driving him. It's not music, it's not a thirst for fame...]

Maybe just a few things are off. Flirting seems weirder now than it did when I first got here.

[blindfoldcode]

[Okay both her eyes open and she gives him a look.] You flirt?

[wounds]

I did. Before these.

[He taps his sunglasses.]

And all the memories.