Opinions without 3.1415 are just Onions (Week1 post trial)

[ghostricked]

After everything, the house seems almost too still and too mundane. At least as long as the doors to that room remain closed. One by one those covered in what was once their teammate are lead to the showers or change in silence. There is no warm meal waiting for them. No words of encouragement.

Life goes on, regardless.

Comments

[soupervillain]

Y... you really mean it?

[ For the first time in the past day or so, a smile works its way across Giovanni's face. It's small, but it's not nothing. ]

I mean... I guess anyone would be honored to get a one-of-a-kind piece from Giovanni Potage, heh. You got a favorite color, or do you want me to surprise you?

[boardreversal]

Aaah...Well, I think I'd be happy with any color. I'm not really picky about that kind of thing, you know?

[HE NEVER GETS GIVEN A FAVORITE COLOR IN CANON AND I DON'T WANT TO PICK RED, SO,]

[soupervillain]

Surprise it is! I think I have an idea...

[ And no, it's not red. With his hair, that'd be a little too much, you know? ]

Thanks so much for letting me do this for you, Battler. I gotta... I gotta keep busy, you know?

[boardreversal]

Ihihihi, no need to thank me, Potage-kun. I get it - after something like that, you have to keep going somehow.

[He gives a small, sad smile.]

I know what it's like to need to focus on something so you won't fall down and start crying like a baby in front of everyone.

[soupervillain]

Hey, if I cry like a baby, it's an extremely cool and hardcore baby, okay?!

[ But, yeah, Battler definitely gets it. Giovanni puts his knitting down for a minute to look fully over at him. ]

Sounds like you've been through something like... you know, all that... before. Does it... does it get easier?

[boardreversal]

[And he...pauses for a long moment at that question.

Does it get easier?

'...The third game...definitely felt easier.
Even though I was being torn apart regularly by those ass-nee-chans, I felt...
...Like I was more detatched from the situation.
...I still feel like I am, too.']

...I don't think easier's the right word. I think it's more...that it affects you a lot less. You just....get used to it.

[and he sounds like he hates that fact, because...well, he does.]

[soupervillain]

[ Quietly: ] I don't know if I wanna get used to it.

[ On the one hand, it would probably be easier to go about life if he didn't feel a new round of crying coming on every few minutes. On the other... his friends are gone, and one of them killed the other. Is that something he can ever accept being okay with? ]