I can imagine! I don't like that way of doing things at all. It's a little... [Bad for the crime scenes? Bad for people who don't like thinking about walking through crime scenes accidentally? Bad for people who like sticking their nose into everyone else's business and don't like not knowing what's happening??]
--Mm, well. At least it isn't anything none of us have experienced.
No, we found all of our bodies. I think the demons enjoyed watching us come across the disgustingly slaughtered remains of people we'd come to view as friends. [A gentle, sloping shrug. He's not bitter or anything.]
But on top of that, the ocean spat back up anything and anyone that was tossed over.
["Sex demons, gross" is exactly a mood. He huffs, and it might be a bit of a laugh.]
From one headache of a mess to another to another! Being alive brings all sorts of troubles, doesn't it? [But he doesn't say it in a PUT ME IN THE DIRT way, at least.]
I will say, it makes it very hard to feel a scrap of charity toward whatever is responsible for dragging us into this place, mm.
[Even if it is troublesome... Hm. He couldn't say he disagrees with that, either way, so he just hums a little in turn. As for their PORTAL MISHAP:]
I wasn't keen on that explanation from the start, to be honest! And I haven't been given much more reason to believe in it since then. I think if it wasn't Evan and Tsurumaru, it would have been something else - and I certainly don't think that us ending up here was just a twist of fate.
[wideload wuxian continues being a curse but now he's a curse with SOUP. He's carrying a little thing of it around from his cooking escapades in the kitchen, and 45 is one of the people he'll mosey over to check in on once he catches sight of her! Wherever that may be... ooo the void.]
[ fuck yeah, soup!!! anyway she's probably not too far from the residential areas, not exactly a good time to just wander off into the far reaches of the camp unless you're a friendless loser like ogata.
but she smiles, mildly, when he comes moseying up. ]
Yes and no, in that order. Can I help you with something?
[WHY WOULD HE POISON ANYONE RIGHT AFTER TRIAL that'd be hilarious though.
But no, he's gone and made soup for everyone YET AGAIN, but he also knows not everyone enjoys being openly fussed over or mother henned. He's taken to bullying people into "taste testing" for him, instead... What a shit.]
It's a sad thing, really! You tell people you've burnt a hole through a wok one time...
[A theatrical sigh... Inside the container is a pretty hearty soup, that said! Like the one he'd been working on last week, it has plenty of fresh vegetables from the garden, but a more robust broth with sesame oil and garlic. He'd replaced the pork with beef this time, too. On a whole, it's a pretty good bowl of soup, even if there's a definitely telltale kick to it because he can't control his hands around peppers.]
[ the spice levels of wwx's cooking should be counted as a deadly poison to anyone with a regular sense of taste
which doesn't apply to anyone present so nvm ]
In their defense, burning a hole through a wok is fairly impressive, just... not necessarily in a good way.
But sure, sure, I'll help you.
[ it's playful, but still more- muted, maybe, than usual. the same sedateness from trial, and he didn't see her last night so who cares about how she was on friday ]
[Half the people in this camp don't count as beings with a regular sense of taste, honestly. In any definition.]
It happens to the best of us!
[Burning a hole through a wok???? But he grins at that, and makes no mention of the sedateness. Sometimes...... a lot happens. And everyone just wants to take a long nap.]
Let me know what you think, alright? I've been getting mixed opinions about what's best for soup flavors, hah.
[HELLO GUN GIRL Wei Wuxian is tucked away in the arts and crafts cabin today, since he doesn't feel like getting wet in the rain. Tragique. He'll look up whenever she moseys around, waving from his little craft seat. He's working on ??? Something?? With glitter???? It's fine.]
Hello, hello! Want to come join me? This is more fun than you'd think!
[ yeets you a disco dm, we'll just pretend it's delayed onset for these few tags
glitter gets everywhere, though... is he just going to become gremlin glittersleeves alongside the bread now? either way, she does settle down nearby because hey, guess who also was interested in the arts and crafts today? the gun. so she's just going to wander on up and either peer over his shoulder or down and over from across the table, however this is working. ]
Hmm? And what exactly are you currently trying to put together?
[Surprisingly he's doing a good job at keeping the glitter off of himself, somehow. WILD. Probably because he's using it in very gentle tiny quantities, on this little tiny crane...
She can peer over his shoulder!! He glances up, grinning and wiggling the little crane a bit.]
I figured I'd make something to go along with those flower arrangements in our memorial hall! The flowers are nice, but it's still so sparse in there, you know? Come, come - join me!
Then I guess you must be among the very best, huh? All right, let's just go settle down by the bonfire or something while I play guinea pig for your concoction...
[Her punkass teasing just gets him to laugh... ANYWAY GIBS BOWL. He'll follow after her to the bonfire, plopping down with his feet way close to the flame. As always.]
No need to be shy with your critique! Not that I get the feeling you would be, haha.
[ ah, childhood. an experience dolls don't have, but still, there's something familiar about having to eke out a day to day existence, and more specifically, slumming it in the city...
which, coincidentally, is what he's going to get to experience, except the video linked has no fucking subs so i have to live like an animal and write my memshares out.
it's been several days since you've first come into this small, dilapidated city in the yellow zone, and the first time you've attracted this much attention from some of the more unsavory sorts to be found in a city where living is more of a matter of survival and not getting the attention of any predators than anything else. it's strange, though- you have no idea why they would be singling you out over any other hapless civilian who happened to be wandering the streets at this time.
well, you did ruin their criminal enterprise and black market trafficking slash smuggling ring (is it trafficking when they don't think of you as a person?), but they shouldn't have been able to trace that back to you. for all your bravado, though, you're basically unarmed, and they've brought quite an overkill amount of bodies to bear.
"boss! our backup from the west just showed up!" "hold three guys back to seal off the rear- the rest of you, with me!" ... really, isn't this a bit much just for dealing with a single doll? why such a disproportionate show of force?
"you goddamn doll! give us back our credits! if you obey quietly, we'll spare you after chopping off one of your hands!"
...what? "what the hell are you talking about, you scumbag? hands aren't even that valuable to you in the first place, are they?" they ignore you, of course. it's like talking to a brick wall, but... whatever the hell they're going on about, you didn't steal any of their credits.
"get her! we'll take our credits back and then sell her body for a good price! i'll treat whoever catches her to distilled water tonight!"
... this is a terrible ending, but you can't see how you're getting out of this. how miserable, that after everything, the last thing you'd have expected was to fall into the hands of a bunch of roadside thugs. haha, in the end, you can't even keep the simplest promise, can you?
which is when the sound of gunfire breaks out from a nearby alley. "--picking up a new enemy!" "fight back, fight back immediately! what the hell are you lot doing?!"
"hehe, too slow! did you ask the permission of UMP9 before making a move on my big sis?"
... wait, that's that doll you freed the other night. what is she doing here...? does she have any idea what she's gotten herself into- no, of course not. "reina?"
reina beams at you, idiot that she is. "it's not reina, it's UMP9! 45, i know i don't know what it is you're trying to do, but you haven't finished it yet, have you? let me give you a hand!" ]
[ anyway cool! glad we're doing this again. ... she's not going to be the first one to say something, because what do you say to someone after experiencing them being mauled by a dog. ]
Wow though that's also a lot?? THAT'S A LOT. Neat. He hates this life, he hates memshare week most of all. He didn't flash back to his own memory since he was busy experiencing Wild Doll Life instead, so he just. Sighs. Places a hand over his face for a second, and then turns to look at her again.]
--Guessing you just saw something too, hm? I saw a, ah - little sister of yours, I believe.
Hmmm~? Aww, do you not trust that I can be gentle when needed?
[ anyway, time to monch on the soup. as it turns out, living in post-apocalypticesque wastelandia means that sometimes, you get accustomed to pretty bland foods, and even though you've had better for the last several weeks, the kick still takes you a bit by surprise.
that said, it's not killer. it's just a nice surprise. ]
... hmmmm. I think I need to reevaluate. Are you sure you're not just fishing for compliments?
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Date: 2020-06-18 01:36 am (UTC)I can imagine! I don't like that way of doing things at all. It's a little... [Bad for the crime scenes? Bad for people who don't like thinking about walking through crime scenes accidentally? Bad for people who like sticking their nose into everyone else's business and don't like not knowing what's happening??]
--Mm, well. At least it isn't anything none of us have experienced.
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Date: 2020-06-18 02:59 am (UTC)[ is this really better or worse, though... ]
Did it ever turn out that you couldn't find someone? You were on a boat, weren't you? What stopped a demon from just... throwing the body overboard?
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Date: 2020-06-18 03:24 am (UTC)No, we found all of our bodies. I think the demons enjoyed watching us come across the disgustingly slaughtered remains of people we'd come to view as friends. [A gentle, sloping shrug. He's not bitter or anything.]
But on top of that, the ocean spat back up anything and anyone that was tossed over.
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Date: 2020-06-18 03:42 am (UTC)[ a bit different from how the house ultimately just wanted food, but was also making a point. ]
Hm. How distasteful.
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Date: 2020-06-18 03:50 am (UTC)[Considering he's the grandmaster of demonic cultivation and all.]
But yes, everything they did was for their own entertainment, and what entertained them the most was sex and murder.
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Date: 2020-06-18 05:34 am (UTC)[ She's dealt with chuunis, things that thought themselves grand masterminds and puppeteers, but sex demons... gross. ]
For you to have made it out of that, only to end up here... Hm. I couldn't imagine it.
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Date: 2020-06-18 06:19 am (UTC)From one headache of a mess to another to another! Being alive brings all sorts of troubles, doesn't it? [But he doesn't say it in a PUT ME IN THE DIRT way, at least.]
I will say, it makes it very hard to feel a scrap of charity toward whatever is responsible for dragging us into this place, mm.
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Date: 2020-06-18 08:29 pm (UTC)Even the lowest of lives is a life worth living if you choose to cling to it.
[ there's value in living, shrug. even if it is troublesome... ]
Do you think it was something other than a simple portal mishap, then? And that we didn't just bring this upon ourselves with an accident of a kill?
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Date: 2020-06-18 10:13 pm (UTC)I wasn't keen on that explanation from the start, to be honest! And I haven't been given much more reason to believe in it since then. I think if it wasn't Evan and Tsurumaru, it would have been something else - and I certainly don't think that us ending up here was just a twist of fate.
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Date: 2020-06-19 11:36 pm (UTC)[ it's cheerfully lilted out, but. you know. ]
It's a shame our hosts don't trust us, but I suppose they can't be faulted too much for that.
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:24 am (UTC)Have a second? Have you eaten yet today?
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Date: 2020-06-28 03:15 pm (UTC)but she smiles, mildly, when he comes moseying up. ]
Yes and no, in that order. Can I help you with something?
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Date: 2020-06-28 08:59 pm (UTC)He holds his little container up, though!]
If you could help me with taste testing, I'd be grateful for it!
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Date: 2020-06-28 10:14 pm (UTC)she, on the other hand, doesn't really care, but- ]
Were you not able to find anyone else to assist you...?
[ has he scared everyone else away with spice ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 10:17 pm (UTC)But no, he's gone and made soup for everyone YET AGAIN, but he also knows not everyone enjoys being openly fussed over or mother henned. He's taken to bullying people into "taste testing" for him, instead... What a shit.]
It's a sad thing, really! You tell people you've burnt a hole through a wok one time...
[A theatrical sigh... Inside the container is a pretty hearty soup, that said! Like the one he'd been working on last week, it has plenty of fresh vegetables from the garden, but a more robust broth with sesame oil and garlic. He'd replaced the pork with beef this time, too. On a whole, it's a pretty good bowl of soup, even if there's a definitely telltale kick to it because he can't control his hands around peppers.]
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Date: 2020-06-28 10:27 pm (UTC)which doesn't apply to anyone present so nvm ]
In their defense, burning a hole through a wok is fairly impressive, just... not necessarily in a good way.
But sure, sure, I'll help you.
[ it's playful, but still more- muted, maybe, than usual. the same sedateness from trial, and he didn't see her last night so who cares about how she was on friday ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 11:12 pm (UTC)It happens to the best of us!
[Burning a hole through a wok???? But he grins at that, and makes no mention of the sedateness. Sometimes...... a lot happens. And everyone just wants to take a long nap.]
Let me know what you think, alright? I've been getting mixed opinions about what's best for soup flavors, hah.
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Date: 2020-06-29 08:13 pm (UTC)Hello, hello! Want to come join me? This is more fun than you'd think!
(PICK UR POISON and gimme some mems!!)
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Date: 2020-06-29 11:56 pm (UTC)glitter gets everywhere, though... is he just going to become gremlin glittersleeves alongside the bread now? either way, she does settle down nearby because hey, guess who also was interested in the arts and crafts today? the gun. so she's just going to wander on up and either peer over his shoulder or down and over from across the table, however this is working. ]
Hmm? And what exactly are you currently trying to put together?
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Date: 2020-06-30 01:48 am (UTC)She can peer over his shoulder!! He glances up, grinning and wiggling the little crane a bit.]
I figured I'd make something to go along with those flower arrangements in our memorial hall! The flowers are nice, but it's still so sparse in there, you know? Come, come - join me!
[But haha, life ain't easy. As soon as she sits down, she gets to experience childhood!]
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Date: 2020-06-30 01:52 am (UTC)Then I guess you must be among the very best, huh? All right, let's just go settle down by the bonfire or something while I play guinea pig for your concoction...
[ gib bowl ]
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Date: 2020-06-30 02:57 am (UTC)No need to be shy with your critique! Not that I get the feeling you would be, haha.
[HAHA.]
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:16 am (UTC)which, coincidentally, is what he's going to get to experience, except the video linked has no fucking subs so i have to live like an animal and write my memshares out.
it's been several days since you've first come into this small, dilapidated city in the yellow zone, and the first time you've attracted this much attention from some of the more unsavory sorts to be found in a city where living is more of a matter of survival and not getting the attention of any predators than anything else. it's strange, though- you have no idea why they would be singling you out over any other hapless civilian who happened to be wandering the streets at this time.
well, you did ruin their criminal enterprise and black market trafficking slash smuggling ring (is it trafficking when they don't think of you as a person?), but they shouldn't have been able to trace that back to you. for all your bravado, though, you're basically unarmed, and they've brought quite an overkill amount of bodies to bear.
"boss! our backup from the west just showed up!" "hold three guys back to seal off the rear- the rest of you, with me!"
... really, isn't this a bit much just for dealing with a single doll? why such a disproportionate show of force?
"you goddamn doll! give us back our credits! if you obey quietly, we'll spare you after chopping off one of your hands!"
...what? "what the hell are you talking about, you scumbag? hands aren't even that valuable to you in the first place, are they?" they ignore you, of course. it's like talking to a brick wall, but... whatever the hell they're going on about, you didn't steal any of their credits.
"get her! we'll take our credits back and then sell her body for a good price! i'll treat whoever catches her to distilled water tonight!"
... this is a terrible ending, but you can't see how you're getting out of this. how miserable, that after everything, the last thing you'd have expected was to fall into the hands of a bunch of roadside thugs. haha, in the end, you can't even keep the simplest promise, can you?
which is when the sound of gunfire breaks out from a nearby alley. "--picking up a new enemy!" "fight back, fight back immediately! what the hell are you lot doing?!"
"hehe, too slow! did you ask the permission of UMP9 before making a move on my big sis?"
... wait, that's that doll you freed the other night. what is she doing here...? does she have any idea what she's gotten herself into- no, of course not. "reina?"
reina beams at you, idiot that she is. "it's not reina, it's UMP9! 45, i know i don't know what it is you're trying to do, but you haven't finished it yet, have you? let me give you a hand!" ]
[ anyway cool! glad we're doing this again. ... she's not going to be the first one to say something, because what do you say to someone after experiencing them being mauled by a dog. ]
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Date: 2020-06-30 05:13 am (UTC)Wow though that's also a lot?? THAT'S A LOT. Neat. He hates this life, he hates memshare week most of all. He didn't flash back to his own memory since he was busy experiencing Wild Doll Life instead, so he just. Sighs. Places a hand over his face for a second, and then turns to look at her again.]
--Guessing you just saw something too, hm? I saw a, ah - little sister of yours, I believe.
[And some. Other various things. Hm.
Sketch.]
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Date: 2020-06-30 05:16 am (UTC)[ anyway, time to monch on the soup. as it turns out, living in post-apocalypticesque wastelandia means that sometimes, you get accustomed to pretty bland foods, and even though you've had better for the last several weeks, the kick still takes you a bit by surprise.
that said, it's not killer. it's just a nice surprise. ]
... hmmmm. I think I need to reevaluate. Are you sure you're not just fishing for compliments?