HOMOPHONIC 🌺 SHU LYN O'KEEFE

[piteous]

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w0, monday

[roseoftexas]

[ (hei voice) selfies.

anyway, sure. time to go do cute selfies i guess? shu is peering in like he's trying to figure out what any of this is. he's not a teenaged girl so he's never been to a selfie studio in his life. ]

[piteous]

[ SELFIES but me late

Vash is one of my teenage girls, the opposite spectrum of Yoo Joonghyuk. He seems to be figuring out something at the studio? When he senses someone— ]

Hey, Shu!

[ A wave. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ SELFIES but the heat making me sleepy.

vash may have one (1) wave. ]

You exploring?

[piteous]

Yeah. I thought the new week would lift the barrier, but...

[ He shows pictures of. A group of blahaj. He took these. ]

We got this and a park instead.

[roseoftexas]

Better than nothing. But we’re still no closer to knowing what that barrier thing even is. [ … ] At this point though, I agree it’s to keep us in rather than shut us out of something.

[ controlled chaos? is that what they’d call it? ]

You don’t like the singular tree and slide?

[piteous]

... Maybe it'll unlock once we choose teams.

[ And the first removal begins, but he doesn't add that. He keeps on smiling, anyway. Look at his shark family. ]

I like the singular tree. It's more than I'm used to.

[roseoftexas]

It doesn’t.

[ there’s a smile on his face that isn’t exactly … pleasant might not be the right word. it’s quite a dry smile. ]

But it’ll vanish eventually.

[ …. hm. ]

No greenery where you’re from?

[piteous]

[ It's fine. They don't need to touch the future chaos and misery. ]

Desert planet. Saaaand as far as your eyes could see.

[roseoftexas]

[ vash is going to have the Best Time here, wow. ]

Desert… [ huh. not the first time he’s heard about a desert planet. ] No cacti?

[piteous]

[ we were ships passing in the night because i really passed out ]

I think there's a prickly pear here and there, but pretty rare.

[ How do you like his shark pieta? They are posed under the neon lights that say "LIVE LAUGH LOVE." ]

[roseoftexas]

[ it’s fine… i too passed out. when will this heat end so i can snap my sleep schedule over my knee once more? ]

I really don’t get how a place can survive without greenery. There’s none? At all? This isn’t just like a desert area and then you stumble across civilisation and parks if you hold out long enough?

[ he fucking hates it, thanks vash. shu has never wanted to live laugh love in his life. ]

[piteous]

[ IHATE GOD, ]

Juuuust sand. The worms are a native species there and they seem to be doing fine.

[ Puts on sunglasses on top of his sunglasses. He comes over with some sunglasses, too.

But ends up holding Shu's hand. ]

We've been trying to contact earth, though. Been at it for a hundred years.

[roseoftexas]

[ god cares not for our plight. ]

Guess they've had more time to adapt.

[ oh.




i guess they are holding hands now. ]

At what point do you give up?

[piteous]

Give up? I think that's something you should ask Rang.

[ Dude with the "give up when the going gets tough." ]

[roseoftexas]

"We won't" would do.

[ ... ]

Mm. He seems kinda flaky, in terms of if something is going to be difficult. Funny that he was the first one to ask about all the potential death, then.

[piteous]

We won't.

[ Does that help. He swings their hands a bit. ]

It seems like he really wants to live again.

[roseoftexas]

There you go.

[ swing, swing, swing. touch week is so funny because shu's fine with this but also like 'hm. what do I do' ]

Don't most people? That's what makes the upcoming weeks so potentially volatile.

[piteous]

He's old, so I thought maybe he'd find fulfillment by now.

[ Speaking of doing things, he bumps their shoulders and whispers: ]

Want to take picture?

[roseoftexas]

Some people go through life without it.

[ like. rich people too. damn. he lets vash bump their shoulders together, and moves with the force of the bump a little lazily. ]

...

I'm not a big fan of photos. Is this place meant to be different, somehow?

[piteous]

Wow. That's sad.

[ He says, being an old person himself, but... They can move on to photos. ]

... I think it's supposed to be... Posed? Pictures? Never seen a place like this myself, but I thought it might be fun to record some memories before shit hits the fan.

[roseoftexas]

Yeah. Fulfilment’s kind of a vague term though. What works for one person does’t work for another, so it probably takes some people longer.

[ grandpa vash ]

… [ he looks thoughtful and then pulls a face — a slight one, with a little twist of the mouth. ] Mm. You’re expecting that to go like they said it would too?

[piteous]

[ It's fine. Don't worry about it. It isn't about him. ]

I'm hopeful that people want to avoid violence.

[ Hopeful doesn't quite mean he's naive. To kind of take the edge off of things, he puts on a mustache that makes him look like the Lorax. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ if he had glasses like vash's he'd be peered at him over them. but he doesn't, so he just gets a flat look. ]

You can have all the hope you want. But people are gonna want to live again.

[ ergo. not even your false Lorax 'tache can save you from that truth, vash. not even speaking for the trees... ]

1/2

[piteous]

Yeah, I know.

[ There are so many here that have something to live for. He knows, so he looks like a sad Lorax. ]

But it doesn't mean we can't keep looking for another way.

[piteous]

It also doesn't mean we can't have some fun times!

[ Vash is weirdly strong for looking like a noodle, so he DRAGS shu to a studio room. ]