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

[sailorlaughter]

...did you talk to Greg?

[blindfoldcode]

I did. At the party.

... Has she hurt you, too? [With Kido it makes sense, Kido does nothing but talk back. With Tiger... unfortunately, she could make the connection, now. Pinkie and Trucy? She's got nothing.]

[sailorlaughter]

Naaaaah. You?

[Pinkie's not really concerned about herself. She's the oldest and the wittiest, and the gossip in Pride Records is insidious. It's good that someone else knows, though. Even Tiger doesn't know she knows, even though he's probably gonna figure it out pretty soon.]

[blindfoldcode]

[Kido looks away. And in that moment, her eyes are burning red.]

No.

[... She's not a good liar. She's actually a really bad liar.]

[sailorlaughter]

........Kido?

[no no no no no no no]

[blindfoldcode]

[Look she didn't even realize it wasn't something people would find normal until Greg got pissed, okay?]

I'm fine, Pinkie.

[sailorlaughter]

Kido...

[welp now pinkie's tearing up that'll clearly help this]

...what did she do?

[blindfoldcode]

Seriously. Look at me. I'm fine. I'm tough, remember?

[Totally tough. Totally.]

[sailorlaughter]

But you're not supposed to be! Not for things like this! She's our manager, Kido, she's supposed to -

[Take care of them? That's naive. Even Pinkie knows that.]

- she's not supposed to hurt us!

[blindfoldcode]

She laid off when I stopped talking back so much. Her job is to make sure we do what we're supposed to do.

[And now that she does because she's too afraid not to, there's no more problems... Most of the time.]

[sailorlaughter]

Not like that! She's not allowed to DO that!

[But not like...in the way she should report to Lesedi, she thinks. Maybe. Lesedi's a little scary?]

Okay, new rule, no one's talking to Jin alone!

[blindfoldcode]

It's fine. I promise--I'm an adult, I can take care of myself. I have a lot bigger things to worry about than Jin.

[Kido is a child but she's pretty right about being able to take care of herself. And about her bigger Problems. Those are Lesedi. Don't let her know you're thinking of reporting it.]

[sailorlaughter]

You shouldn't have to worry about her at all.

[No, no one here really trusts Lesedi that much. No worries.]

Let me know if she does anything else, okay? We shouldn't all be keeping it secret - we can't help each other if we do that!

[blindfoldcode]

[She frowns at Pinkie and sighs.]

Fine, fine. [Yeah still lying.]