day 235 ● an empathy test

[wonderlandgirl]

Wednesday:
☑ Blade: restraint; blindfold; food (9 pt)
☑ Cobalt: food; movie; hug; pampering; teaching (8 pt)
☑ Hiryuu: worries (3 pt)
☑ Hurricane: never have i ever (3 pt)
☑ Levi: hug; hair washing (4 pt)
☑ Moxie: hug; worries; activity (7 pt)
☑ Sabre: hold hands; confession (6 pt)
☑ Shrike: hold hands (1 pt)
☑ Thorn: piercing; hug (6 pt)
☑ Yugi: hold hands; learning (2 pt)

K:
☑ A: worries (3 pt)
☑ D.Va: confession; hold hands; fast car; activity (12 pt)
☑ Hiryuu: stab (5 pt)
☑ Hurricane: confession (5 pt)
☑ Skylark: fight; broken rib (10 pt)

Comments

k

[irregular]

hurricane

[irregular]

[legit tbh

[Maybe his own irritation and bewilderment will temper that a little? It doesn't do a lot on the receiving end but then he was probably due to feel all that shit on his own time anyway. Also, K is on AlcheME!, so his expression doesn't actually shift a whole lot. This is also fine.]

They didn't even give us food this time. Cheap bastards.

[Let's just pretend this is normal I'm only about 80% full of shit every other time I do it.]

Re: hurricane

[crossmyheartandhope]

[anxiety anxiety anxiety, and then, fluttering in behind, a sudden rush of gratitude for the pretense]

R-right? No booze, neither.

Re: hurricane

[irregular]

[yeah, pretending it is. This is way more comfortable let's just-- try to ignore it.

[You say, like you didn't ask for this last time. The thought makes him feel unaccountably embarrassed. Or, well, maybe it's the thought of what Hurricane might be picking up on behind the bullshit, like the bit where you sorta kinda--

[--can we just stuff that in a box. That whole one-sided hopeless thing he's got going on. Box. Please.]

Yeah... like I said, tight. You'd figure if any game'd need us to get a drunk on this'd be it.

Re: hurricane

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Pretending is safe; pretending is normal]

[Doesn't matter that it doesn't help, isn't strong enough, won't hide anything the way it usually does. Does matter that they're going to see, K is going to see, everyone is going to see -]

[That last bit pings as interest - embarrassment - the hasty rush of an attempt not to pay too close attention, don't pry, what is wrong with you -]

Think we could leave and get some?

d.va

[irregular]

[this is a really good question!!]

Hey, uh, haven't seen you since... um, are you okay?

[This guy is 1. concerned and 2. REALLY LIKES YOU.

[Is this weird? y/n]

Re: d.va

[420blazeit]

[ she is still an amnesiac, so she is just kind of... ALL THE CONFUSION. ]

Since???
Were you going to say the other game?

I kind of heard about that, but people have been sort of... [ she rolls her wrist. ] I just heard we lost, and lost bad. [ nothing else. ]

[ she, on the other hand, feels bad, because she doesn't know who he is, but doesn't seem weirded out in the slightest, so that's a plus, right! ]

Re: d.va

[irregular]

Yeah, since...

I dunno. You sorta looked like you were having a bad time, but - I promised B and the others I'd just get out, so...

[Go figure, K feels bad about it. Last thing he needed was to go get involved in that whole whatever it was, and yet he feels bad for staying out of it. Like he was ducking a responsibility or something; like he left someone he really cared for to go dangle.]

Sorry.

Re: d.va

[420blazeit]

No need to apologize. [ she's sympathetic, but she's not going to let him feel bad. ] Survival is key, especially here, and I can take care of myself. I trust you can do the same. Like, we have to trust each other sometimes, bad shit aside. Life is... always going to have stuff like that, even here, and though we might always want to intervene, sometimes we just gotta... not... I'm fine, see, and you are too, so it all worked out.

[ she gives him a smile and tries to send some of her good vibes his way, though they're not as strong as she would have liked, because she's not as fine as she would like. she's still missing her memories after all. ]

skylark

[irregular]

[Hey, twinsies.

[Also, there's a little bit more of it right now because guess what I looked in your extremely annoying direction.]

That a threat?

[Is this a bad idea or a really fucking terrible idea let's find out]

Re: skylark

[morderti]

[it spikes but otherwise keeps at a steady level. he's just irritated as a default really]

Unless you're playing the game, I'm not talking to you.

Re: skylark

[irregular]

No, I'm here for the sheer fucking pleasure of it of course I'm playing the goddamn game.

Re: skylark

[morderti]

So then pick a task.

b

[irregular]

... you okay?

okay for this K can stow the irritation. He's just kind of worried right now.]

Re: b

[liarliarliar]

I'm fine! But I've no interest in a game I can't win due to my lack of violence!

[he is consumed with panic]

Re: b

[irregular]

[okay okay I am definitely worried now]

You wanna go back to the dorms? If you're sitting this one out, I mean. There's a lotta bullshit about down here.

a

[irregular]

[Yeah

[right back atcha, A.]

So. This is even more bullshit than usual.

Re: a

[afailedmurder]

Obviously.

Re: a

[irregular]

What'd they think, haven't had a murder in a while, let's give 'em a prize for it?

hardcore

[irregular]

Huh...?

[This is not the read he was expecting off of Hardcore.

[K's definitely up there in terms of irritation, but this has him confused. And, God help him, slightly concerned. The last thing he wanted off anyone stuck here was that they actually be a kid talking a good game.]

[kingofexplodokills]

[ Oh no. He sees him and he KNOWS he must have felt that so he's now feeling SEEN in a way that he dislikes intensely. Time to cover it up with annoyance ]

What? You got a problem?

[irregular]

[K shrugs.

[Feeling a feel and stuffing it under the mattress is just #AlchemeLyfe, right?]

What? Just with the game.

:)

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Oh, look, it's one of the ever-evasive, ever-feelings-aversive AlcheMEs. She was wondering how you've all been holding up.

She's going to start duckling in behind him, a bright ball of (loveless, careless) curiosity. ]

Re: :)

[irregular]

[Fine, he's fine

[just don't call him on the rest of it, the bit where nothing he's feeling matches up with anything he's got on his face. We just pretend it's not happening; it's just how it all works. If you can't hide it, just pretend you still can.

[He feels her there; half-turns.]

--hey?

[And she doesn't feel right, but whatever. He'll pretend he didn't notice that either.]

Re: :)

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ But that's so interesting. How can she not pry at it? ]

K. ... You're much more anxious about this than you're letting on, aren't you?

[ Straight for the jugular, ]

Why is that?