[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

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Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[cw_suicide]

... good or bad white?

[accessorytomurder]

.........................


Laundry room white.

[cw_suicide]

Hmm...

[probably sounding a little sly which... he is. and he's lifting up a cool hand to tip her chin up while he looks down at her.]

That doesn't sound like disinterest.

[accessorytomurder]

D-Did I... seem disinterested? Um, did... did you and Xian-kun think that I didn't...?

[cw_suicide]

It's more the degree of interest.

We can always check with Wei-kun, but I certainly don't mind if you watch or join in.

[accessorytomurder]

I-I, um... I just, I...

[She squirms a little.]

Sometimes... i-it feels like I, um, I'm really outclassed, is a-all.

[cw_suicide]

Beyond classes being clearly fake constructions of society...

... I'll let you in on a bit of a secret.

[relaxing his hold and leaning in close]

Even by going by class... Wei-kun and I definitely don't fit in with ours. We've just learned to fake it very well.

He's actually a bit of an idiot about things like that, himself. He didn't even know he had interests in men before the house, for one thing. For another, judging by how much of a tease he is... it probably was the first he also did anything like that, also.

So, in fact, you're both about even in that regard. And as for me... well... emotionally speaking...

[his issues are pretty obvious]

[accessorytomurder]

Oh, I know that.

[She tilts her head back and cups his cheek, with a small upside down smile, fond beneath her impressive flush.]

I meant, more like... you know, that teasing. That... that ease, e-even if it's not, um, not totally legitimate. I, uh, I don't... know how to do that. I just, sort of, I-I look at you two for too long a-and, um, and then I just... choke up on feelings, I-I think. ...it's easier and harder with Ango-san, because, um, because I don't want to push him or be... too much. But, I... I still want to be something! To all of you.

...I want that most of all.

[cw_suicide]

[he blinks at the touch on his face, and then again at that last part.]

... you are something to me.

[accessorytomurder]

I-I know. I just want to keep... to keep doing that. Being that. Being... being what I think you deserve, not just what you think you're lucky to get.

[cw_suicide]

[... sighs.]

Hitoka~ You've got it completely backwards, you know that?

You're definitely far more than I deserve. And, if anything, you could do much better than someone like me. Saphir-kun--or I guess it's -san now?--hasn't been wrong on this point.

[mostly mentioning because one of the loudest objectors]

I'm definitely not the one settling for something.

[accessorytomurder]

That's... what I mean exactly, Osamu. I want to give you what I think you deserve. Not what you do.

[She pinches his cheek.]

...the doctor, um, he... I think, more than anything, he just... remembers me crying, before. A-And, I don't know about better, or worse, or how to score that. I just...

I know that you're what makes me happy. And somehow, Xian-kun and Ango-san make things even happier, but you all alone would be enough, too, if for some reason we had never gotten the chance to meet them, here. ...okay?

[cw_suicide]

[he doesn't object to his cheek getting pinches or to what she's saying, but it's probably clear that this is an area he's not as confident in--not that he disbelieves her or how she thinks of it, but...]

... okay.

Just... if it weren't for you, I would have done much worse in that house. I'm not saying that lightly.

[accessorytomurder]

It was easy to be brave and work hard, when it was for all of you.

[cw_suicide]

It's still something really hard for me, though.

Hitoka has her own strengths, after all.

[accessorytomurder]

...well, I did, at least.

[She sighs.]

I... still have pepperspray and perseveration, at least...

[cw_suicide]

Mm, that's true.

[time to take her hands and press them against his chest, even.]

[accessorytomurder]

She lays her head against his shoulder.]

...I'll try to get better at flirting.

[Maybe that will help take the constant edge off, for a while.]

[cw_suicide]

You've always done really well with me, if it helps anyway.

Probably Wei-kun could use some of your flirting, too?

[accessorytomurder]

...I feel like he'd try to like anything I did, which is, um... kind of a problem with the two of you.

[cw_suicide]

Did it ever occur to you that we like anything you do because we like you and thus anything you do?

Rather than trying to appease you, it's definitely we like you.

Appeasing behavior is more like what I do with Gilgamesh, you know.

[accessorytomurder]

But there are things you like more. I found out yours by accident, but I'm not sure about Xian-kun.

[cw_suicide]

His really aren't that different from mine...

Though I think he's less, ah... wanting for, mm, the sharper aspects?

[rip Wei Wuxian]

Admittedly, I'm still figuring him out, but...

[sometimes you have very similar tastes and feel comfortable enough service topping another bottom, listen.]

[accessorytomurder]

So he won't get excited over me talking about duct tape. Got it.

[cw_suicide]

... I mean. The binding aspect, maybe.

I actually used a scarf as a leash on him recently.