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.]

Comments

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I am remembering that he cracked a few of my ribs not too long ago.

[She certainly will not.]

[wounds]

I'll make it out in one piece.

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One piece doesn't mean okay, you know. I was in one piece two weeks ago but it was one hell of a bloody piece.

[wounds]

I can't promise I won't get injured.

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You damn well better try not to.

[wounds]

I'll do my best.

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If it's two on one anyway, you'll probably be fine. [Again, she recognizes she is not the warrior type here.]

[wounds]

Reasonably, yes.

I've never seen him fight though.

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He's strong and he likes punching. [And Kido is small and built like someone who avoided every confrontation she could her whole life.

Which she did.]

[wounds]

... Good to know.

[Genos looks like he's built to take a few hits at least.]

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[Man if he saw Kido without the amount of bulk the hoodie adds to her he might never leave her alone. She's small enough that she looks like she'd snap if you shoved her.]

I can't remember much after he punched me in the face or I'd tell you. It's kind of a blur.

[wounds]

It's fine. I'm sure Squalo and I will figure something out.

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What's he got against Xanxus, anyway?

[wounds]

I'm not sure. Probably pissed him off or something.

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You might want to give Luci a heads up. She seems to keep him in check, if things go south.

[wounds]

Lucifer?

Squalo's closer with her. I'll see what we can do.

But Xanxus is pretty wrecked so I'm not sure how long we're going to put off that fight.

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Yeah, I noticed. The night he sent that picture to the tabloids, I'd walked in on him shirtless.

Any idea on what fucked him up like that?

[wounds]

I don't keep up that closely on him.

I thought he was hurt from the Virgo party. Was it something else?

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He was, but he was already hurt when he got there. Unless someone tried to kill him really early on and he was really calm about it.

[wounds]

Huh.

... That's weird. He doesn't strike me as the kind to be calm.

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Because he's not. Fucking knocked me down just because I startled him.

[No, Kido, it's because you were invisible and threw a pillow in his face. He didn't even know he was knocking you over.]

[wounds]

What an asshole.

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[She runs her hand through her hair again, kicking her feet up on a spare chair at the table.]

I guess it takes a while to learn how shitty people around here can be. You're still new--you know to avoid Predator, right?

[wounds]

Luci and Noriko said that when I first ran into them.

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It's the best advice you'll ever get. I don't think they'll try hazing you, too, but if they do it's a wreck.