HOMOPHONIC 🌺 SHU LYN O'KEEFE

[piteous]

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[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. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ me reminding myself this tonal whiplash is happening while vash has a fucking false moustache on. ]

...

[ and what a whiplash it is. ]

What, get them in before the inevitable happens? [ he's not even being a debbie downer, he's just a ✨ realist ✨ unfortunately. ]

[piteous]

[ YEAH. He'S WEARING THE MUSTACHE. ]

Ideally, we should have nice moments in between. [ He's going through the backdrops. ] Never forget how to laugh and smile.

[roseoftexas]

That sounds a bit like a motivational poster. One of those "in the darkest there is always light" things you see pinned up on notice boards and plastered on Full Circle.

[piteous]

There's always a silver lining after a storm.

[ In a serious Motivational Narrator voice.

They can pick maybeee a blue lighting? And the LED can say "TOO COOL FOR FOOLS" or something. Vash is just going through everything with his Lorax stache. ]

Full Circle a place in New Sieg?