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

[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.

[blindfoldcode]

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.

[wounds]

I haven't run into them so far. I'm hoping it keeps going.

[blindfoldcode]

Except for the whole trying to murder us thing, Virgo's pretty tame in comparison to the people at Pride.

[wounds]

Yeah. If we can just ignore that glaring issue.

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I have friends over there. I'm a little worried about them honestly.

[She is going to get up--she needs something to drink. She's making tea and he'd better not think it's weird.]

[wounds]

[There's nothing wrong with tea.]

Just... don't get yourself into trouble.

[blindfoldcode]

What would you do if your friend were contracted to a label that made them try to kill people?

[wounds]

I'd try to get them out. No matter how dangerous.

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So why are you expecting anything less out of me?

[wounds]

['Because I can do it, but you shouldn't' sounds like an awful argument, even in his head.]

I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying be careful about it.

[blindfoldcode]

[For a second she frowns, and then she nods at something behind Genos.]

Look behind you.

[Take your eyes off of her for just a second.]

[wounds]

[He gives her a confused look, but sure, alright.]

[blindfoldcode]

[There's like literally nothing there.

But that's the point. It won't grab his attention for long. In that second of time, it's getting easier for Kido to disappear. All she has to do is remember--

he says he's worried and there's the briefest pause. She's about to respond when he seems to throw himself into her. The sharp pain in her side, the scream no one can hear, the twist of the knife--

Yeah, that's more than enough to feel her eyes heat up with their power. So sure she has to self-induce trauma to do it, but she's not telling anyone. Maybe it'll get easier over time. And she might not know how to turn it off. But she does know how to turn it on.

When Genos turns back, he seems to be sitting alone.]

[wounds]

[Well that was weird. He turns back, and looks confused.]

Kido?

[He's sure she was here a second ago? She couldn't have left in that time.]

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[It takes her a second or two to return to existence, but she just... reappears like she was never gone in the first place.]

Tell me. Which one of us is gonna have more trouble sneaking around?

[wounds]

How the hell did you do that?

[blindfoldcode]

My eyes aren't just a cosmetic thing. This is what they do.

That night at the party, I kept asking people to help me. Until Celty tripped over me, no one could see me. I thought it was just dark, or Xanxus was being a prick and acting like I wasn't around, but I was wrong.

I'm actually not around.

[wounds]

You just.. disappear?

Oh man. Is it invisibility or disappearance? People couldn't hear you? That sounds dangerous, are you going to be okay? I mean, you seem okay now but...?

[blindfoldcode]

It happens when I get scared or upset. So long as I stay calm, I'll be fine. And people can't see or hear me, but they can touch me. If I did it again right now? You would still be able to see me because you're looking at me.

I don't get all of it, but...

[She looks down again. Her eyes fade from grey back to red.]

I'm starting to understand more. What I'm doing and why I can.

[wounds]

That's... a weird power.

[He probably won't ever understand how it works.]

Do you mostly have control of it?

[blindfoldcode]

I can make it happen. But I can't stop it from happening.

[Not that she wants to admit it but her eyes are literally goin' right now and she doesn't want them to. But every time she thinks about that talk with Xanxus. About how she supposedly got these powers... it just happens.]

[wounds]

That's... gotta be rough.

[He can't at all control his eyes, but at least he knows how to hide them now.

And he has no idea how to help.]