kido doesn't do festive holiday music

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Who: Kido and OPEN to her friends/people she thinks she owes.
What: The bestowing of gifts
When: IDK whenever the bestowing of gifts should occur.
Where: System Crash's Penthouse, Pride HQ, and quiet places she can meet up with her Virgo friends.
Warnings: Kido and Celty are gonna get pelted with crackers but otherwise...

[Kido's on a fucking mission to act like she's okay. She's like. Still all sorts of messed up, but she's trying to act like she's gonna make it.

A
And during the holidays that means a s h i t t o n of baking. She has been pretty busy in the System Crash penthouse the last day or two making like a trillion cake rolls. Oh god why is she doing this cookies would be easier, but cookies are also something everyone's going to be making.

Every even slightly imperfect cake is going to get shoved onto her bandmates. She can't give something imperfect. Someone might think she actually made it. And like she doesn't want herself associated with baking it fucks with the rebel image. But there she is in the kitchen, long sleeved tee shirt with rolled up sleeves, slippers and an apron, super concentrated like this is her life.

Don't judge her.

B
And like now she has to give them out. It's easier to do in HQ. She's not being tailed here. She's knocking on the doors of any friends (and anyone who she feels she owes a favor to), super casually like she's. Totally not been baking for the last too many hours straight.]

Hey. ... You like sweets right?

[THAT'S EXACTLY HOW YOU GIVE A GIFT.

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Except for Junkyard Carnival. At some point, they're gonna find themselves dealing with cracker pentagrams all over their goddamn wall.

And a cheese platter, mostly because she's terrified of Luci, with a nice little card, written in red, promising it's not poisoned and also "PS: Fuck you, Xanxus."

How she got in there? A fucking mystery.

C

And of course there's Virgo to worry about. Most of her friends are Virgo. So there's going to be texts, to friends and, again, people she feels she owes a favor to.

Are you free? Think you could meet me at the music store on [street]?

Yup. That's not threatening and absolutely cannot get her in trouble if Lesedi reads it.

She's feeling pretty good about this all in all.

It's a great distraction from the glowing yellow eyes in her dreams that keep startling her awake.]

Comments

[wounds]

Maybe it was because of your eyes.

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[She makes a half-amused noise at that.] There's nothing heroic about those.

All that matters is you like them.

[wounds]

Who knows?

[There's the most wistful smile on his lips.]

I think red's my favorite color. [The color of the gloves of somebody important to him.

He wishes he remembered them properly.]

[blindfoldcode]

I'm glad. [She won't mention there is red in the gifts she got for every important person in her life.

Then she looks startled, like she's realized something.]

Crap, I invited you in and forgot to ask if you wanted a drink or anything. Sorry.

[Whether that's programming or remembering her actual childhood, who knows.]

[wounds]

[He looks vaguely confused. Drink? He doesn't need to drink.

That doesn't seem right either.

The programming's starting to clash with himself- and it's been clashing badly since his fall.]

It's fine. Don't worry about it.

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Just wanted to check. Manners and everything.

[Considering her startling lack of manners in everything else...]

[wounds]

Didn't think you had those.

[Genos you rude little shit.]

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[Kido rips off a small part of a cookie and throws it across the table at him.

Mature.]

[wounds]

[It hits him straight in the face.]

Seems like I'm right.

[He'll close his eyes and start cleaning off the lenses of his sunglasses.]

[blindfoldcode]

You don't have to wear those in here, you know. If we're filmed to the point they'd catch us, I'd already be back in that lab.

[wounds]

Yeah, but I still don't want a manager catching it.

[blindfoldcode]

Oh, you'll know when Jin shows up. There'll be warning.

[wounds]

Kid's easy to miss and I don't want to deal with the repercussions of these.

[So he pushes the glasses right back on.]

Contacts didn't hide the glow well.

[blindfoldcode]

Think they'd buy an encounter with radioactive waste?

[wounds]

I haven't been anywhere near radioactive waste.

[blindfoldcode]

Does Lesedi know that?

[wounds]

No, but Kid does.

[And Kid reports back to Lesedi.]

[blindfoldcode]

Hey can I ask you something?

[wounds]

Go for it.

[blindfoldcode]

Does your manager ever get really mad?

[wounds]

I... Haven't seen him get mad.

[But he also does what he's told all the time.]

[blindfoldcode]

Oh. [She's quiet then.] I just noticed Jin has a habit of, uh, getting too close.

[And Greg's manager didn't seem any better.]

[wounds]

[No. Something bad has happened, he can feel it.

Can he fix this? Should he fix this? He wants to fight.]

What has she done?

[blindfoldcode]

[No. Bad Genos. Stop trying to fix Kido's life it' hopeless.

She shrugs, offhandedly.] I argue with her a lot. Or I used to.

[wounds]

[He has one hell of a justice streak, it just can't be erased out of him.]

She did something, didn't she?