HOMOPHONIC 🌺 SHU LYN O'KEEFE

[piteous]

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[piteous]

[ That's fine and honestly valid. ]

No shirt can wade off the phantom chill...! To think we would still be cursed by the sensation of air and water in the afterlife.

[roseoftexas]

[ fluffs it. ]

Then buy a sweater...? Steal a blanket?

[piteous]

I'll live.

[ Quickly and just normal, like he wasn't just crying earlier. ]

... Didn't want to stay in your warehouse?

[roseoftexas]

I wanted to dry off a bit before I went and settled down for the night. You thought about trying that?

[piteous]

I may be physically dry, but I don't know if my heart will ever recover.

[ Fun dramatics. ]

Just wanted to patrol around and get a temperature check on things.

[roseoftexas]

That's very dramatic of you.

[ very ]

A... temperature check?

[piteous]

Yeah! To see if anyone seems raring to pick fights.

[ On their fine murder thursday, when none of them know that they will be forced into an area. ]

[roseoftexas]

Oh, reading the mood. So, other than Lee Rang who's picking fights with everyone, and Shenhe who is just Shenhe, what's the reading?

[ can't wait for the fall out from this ]

[piteous]

[ The mention of those two get a snort, though wry. ]

... People seem tense or calm.

[ Accepting of what's to come, just waiting to deal with it when it happens. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ shenhe is perfect, no notes. i hope flurry murders with her and i hope it’s amazing. ]

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Yeah, that seems about right. Scared of what might happen, or thinking about how to deal with it when it does.

[piteous]

[ if she murders vash will flip a casket but i think it'd be super funny ]

If we can avoid erasure... Maybe they will change the game.

[ CAUSE HOW ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE THEM KILL? he doesn't know anything about compulsive murder mechanics ]

[roseoftexas]

[ yeah, emotionally destroy vash more and let flurry pop off. ]

... Why?

[ like. what reason would they have to, sir vash? ]

[piteous]

There's no point to senseless suffering?

[ Emphatic and firm on this... ]

[roseoftexas]

They made this game in the first place. They don't won't to, or can't. Otherwise they would've.

[ seems logical, right? ]

[piteous]

[ It is logical, but still. Vash obviously doesn't like it. ]

A game needs players who do want to play... But what happens to the game when they don't play along?

[ IT'S A HYPOTHETICAL, DON'T GO OFF SAYING PEOPLE WILL PLAY, SHU!! He knows some people will play. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ … ]

Are you looking for an actual answer, or do you just want to talk it out and not face any opposition?

[piteous]

[ He smiles at him. ]

You're going to give me a realist answer, aren't you.

[roseoftexas]

Yuuup.

[piteous]

You can say it.

[roseoftexas]

You get forced into it by the people in charge, who twist your arm up behind your back.

[piteous]

That barely makes this a game and more like a dollhouse.

[roseoftexas]

We are kinda being forced to do what they want. Within reason.

[piteous]

I guess that's true.

[ Summertime sadness. ]

You getting along with your team at least?

[roseoftexas]

[ great now that's stuck in my head ]

As well as I can a group of strangers, sure. You're with [ your husband ] someone you know, right?

[piteous]

They seem nice. [ In Vash's opinion. ] Yeah, Wolfwood. We go back.

[ thinks about it. ]

You two have talked right? The similarities here are uncanny.