i'm a friend of the irresponsible fools

[blindfoldcode]

Who: Kido and Open
What: being dumb
When: Halloween afternoon/night
Where: Out and about because reasons.
Warnings: Kido is not a very good role model.

Kido's pretty much still firmly stuck in emotional hell. She hasn't left her room or slept for more than a few hours in days, and even now the only reason she's out is because she can probably get by mostly unnoticed. A busy night, she reasons, and that's why Tsubomi Kido is trying to get away with being nowhere near anybody she cares about.

The longer she thinks about it (and the more sleep she loses), the more guilt weighs on her. And the more guilt weighs on her, the less able she is to cope with interacting with the people she let down knows.

So. Halloween. Back alleyways. Dodging anyone who might notice her, hood hanging over her eyes (which are already protected by dark glasses), scarf pulled over her mouth, Kido's comfortable blending into the scenery and picking up "old" habits that might not be... family friendly.

So please note these three situations:

(A)
Kido may or may not be approaching strangers asking if they have a light. She may or may not at this point in time have a pack of cigarettes in hand. She may or may not be obviously too young to be doing this shit Kido why. Still, she's not all together and completely forgot a lighter. So she might as well bug someone else for it...

(A.5)
UNTIL SHE REALIZES SHE KNOWS YOU. This is what she gets for wearing sunglasses in the dimming light. She hasn't done this sort of shit since she joined up with System Crash. She didn't want to be any more out of place than she already felt like she was. Plus she has some sense of courtesy for the fact there are younger kids into the band. She's not heartless.

But yeah if Kido realizes she knows you, her eyes are going wide and she is recovering by... hiding her face by pulling the scarf up more. Brilliant Kido. You are a master of disguise.

(B)
As the night wears on and the sun sets, Kido is making good on all her threats of spray painting. She's pretty brazen with it, spraying down a wall with an undoubtedly mature sentiment about one thing or another. But it's surprisingly not in purple, but bright red. Not that she feels particularly heroic. Just that she wants to prove it wrong--something inside of her disagrees. Red isn't the color of heroes. She just wish she knew why she was fighting it so much.

But someone please talk her into going home. She's gonna get arrested and cause a scandal at this rate.

Comments

A

[traumatizing]

He doesn't recognise Kido straight off - he was drunk when they talked at the Gala (and they both had masks on) and hers was hardly one of the faces he was looking out for at the whole... Carnival situation. But Halloween is a great time to let off steam away from the rest of the band, and that's what he's out to do. Between bars when he's approached for a light.

Terry starts for a moment - the assumption being that he's been recognized himself, but he relaxes once he parses the question and gestures to the box in her hand, "I'll swap you."

[blindfoldcode]

She taps the bottom of the box to get one or two to pop up from the rest and holds it out to him. "I shouldn't be doing this shit anyway."

Seriously, she's sure she'll get angry frowns if someone smells the smoke on her when she gets back. She's been really good about not pulling this kinda stuff, anymore, at least. It's just been a hell of a time lately.

"You look like you need one, anyway."

[traumatizing]

He snorts, amused, and takes the offered cigarette. He gives Kido a bit of a considering look - she looks familiar somehow - but it's not important and he shakes it off as he lights his smoke and offers the lighter over.

"I look that great, huh?"

[blindfoldcode]

She lights her own with a shrug. "I thought you thought I was going to mug you or something." Kido doesn't really bother getting to know people's faces, and even if she recognizes him, she's not going to say shit. She's not fond of having the spotlight shined on her, either.

[traumatizing]

Terry laughs and tilts his head, raising an eyebrow as if she's said something ridiculous. "Well no offence, but you do look kind of shady."

[blindfoldcode]

She laughs at that, coughing for a moment after. "All the better to keep creeps away, you know?"

[traumatizing]

"Whatever works, huh?" Can't blame a person for that really, no one wants to get harassed by creeps and weirdos when they're just out doing whatever.

[blindfoldcode]

"It's also a pretty good idea to hide my face out here." She shrugs again. She doesn't have a lot of fans, but... There's a few here and there. And she doesn't necessarily want her actions going back to HQ.

[traumatizing]

"Yeah?" Terry raises that eyebrow again, looking at Kido suspiciously. "How come?"

[blindfoldcode]

She raises an eyebrow in return. "You'd ask that after I just said I was trying to stay secret?"

[traumatizing]

"I thought we were bonding." He smirks a little, but he'll back off on the questions. Unless she's like a murderer on the run or something, he doesn't really need to know. And if she was, it's not like she'd say.

[blindfoldcode]

"Is that what you call it?" She snorts. She likes this guy, though. "I'm probably just being paranoid. I doubt anyone would recognize me with the people I have around me most of the time."