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]

Unless they're heavily medicated.

At least work's going to be light.

[blindfoldcode]

Exactly. I'm working on that part. [There's a soft sigh.] I don't think I could play in front of a crowd at this point.

[wounds]

Not sure most of us could.

[blindfoldcode]

Well, you broke your arm. It's a little different...

[wounds]

You almost died. Is mental or physical trauma worse, you think?

[blindfoldcode]

I could physically play if I needed to.

[wounds]

I could still sing.

... The instrumentation would be off, but everything important's still there.

[blindfoldcode]

You've got some luck, then. If I'd hurt my arm, I wouldn't be able to do anything.

[wounds]

Yeah, strings like that are impossible one handed.

[blindfoldcode]

At least if I couldn't play, the bass missing would be pretty hard to notice. They could do a few gigs before people wondered where I was.

[wounds]

The bass is critical in rock. It gives the rhythmic and harmonic foundation.

The audience might not notice right away, but your band needs you to keep their rhythm.

[Ah, musical brainwashing at work.]

[blindfoldcode]

I wasn't talking about the band. They'd worry the whole time. I'm talking the fans.

They could probably play my lines from a speaker or something, though.

[wounds]

I could never go missing like that.

[Sure is the front man, sure is stuck as the vocalist.]

[blindfoldcode]

That was the point of picking up the bass. I can fade into the background.

And everybody's good enough to pretty much let me do it.

[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.