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.

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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.

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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.

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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.]

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[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?

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Nothing I'm not used to.

[wounds]

[His heart aches at hearing that.]

You shouldn't be.

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I made stupid choices growing up. Roughousing was the least of my worries.

[wounds]

Plenty of people made dumb decisions. They shouldn't get used to them after they're out of that situation.

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It could be worse. I could have a hand through my chest.

[wounds]

[He sighs, rubs his own chest, and takes one of his own cookies.]

It can always be worse. That doesn't mean it's not bad.

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You don't have to worry about it. I'm fine. I stopped talking back.

[wounds]

Where is she?

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Genos, it's fine.

[wounds]

It's not fine.

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You're not helping anyone by getting mad.

[wounds]

She isn't helping by being shitty to you.

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You think she's gonna be any better if you confront her? I was asking advice. I won't do it again.

[wounds]

[He bites into the cookie. It looks more like he wants to kill it than eat it.

He'll fight her.]

... Fine.

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[She rubs the bridge of her nose.] Shit. This is what I get for trying to talk to people.

[wounds]

[There's not that many ways to make eating a cookie be aggressive.

He's still aggressively eating it though.]

If somebody cares about you, they'll want to make sure you're okay.

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If you get into a fight with a manager, how, exactly, do you think Lesedi's gonna respond? Jin already knocked Greg out cold for trying to help [... she catches herself. she doesn't out Tiger on anything.] someone out!

[wounds]

Then I'll be the one with her anger and you'll be fine.

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Are you stupid or something? Lesedi's insane. She can do things to us--

I don't want you to get hurt like that, too. Okay?

[wounds]

I know she can I just-- I'm just...

[What?

What is he?]

I want to help you.

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You want to help? Eat a damn cookie, let me get you a drink and don't fight my manager.

Don't get fired. I've already lost people to Pride's cuts.

[wounds]

... Fine.

I'm not going anywhere.

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If I can behave, you can.