idolpro | CAPTIVE GAME: Heart Soldier Senshi & Challah

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loki and yasuragi

CAPTIVE GAME: Heart Soldier Senshi & Challah

[ You're in a room with no doors or windows, about the size of a living room. Depending on how many of you are around, it might feel a little cramped. The walls and ceiling are draped with fabrics, the floor covered in colorful rugs and piles of sitting cushions, but you can see the dirt ground and untreated wood walls peeking through in places. There are three or so oil lamps to light the space, each placed on a stump-like round little table that isn't big enough to hold much else. It's kind of cozy, but...

Most of the cushions are embroidered with an array of colors, but there's one pillow in particular, set aside from the rest, that's solid black – King's position color. ]

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[ you say that but you're all arguing pretty hard over there ]

What happens if I don't cry?

We don't get King back. We gotta trust whoever's got him ain't shitty to him.

[ frowns!! ]

I don't want to keep him from you, but... I don't know how to help you either.

I mean... I guess.

There anything that makes you cry? Like... watching real sad Youtube videos or whatever?

I don't like it when my sister gets hurt... or my unit, but then I get angry more than sad. I don't like seeing anyone get hurt.

[ blinks, wait ] What's youtube?

I'll show you.

[Digging his phone out]

C'mere.

[Pulling up.... uh, how about an animated version of The Giving Tree]

[ HUH... she watches it with open fascination, wow!

and when the tree gets cut down and all that... well, she seems somewhat pensive about it but not exactly sad ]

I'm glad that at least the tree was able to give him one last thing...

Yeah... I mean, I guess so.

[...welp. About now is when his onion is getting here]

[Please hold while he cuts it by her, and also starts up another Youtube video]

[ this is like the most bizarre sleep over ever.

her eyes do start tearing up from the onions, but.. tearing up doesn't actually count.

she maybe STARTS to cry at the video but then-- ]

Oh, they get to be together again! How nice! [ i'm so sorry she's like this hurricane ]

[ also, she's a little distracted ] Is that food? It smells awful.

[Okay this clearly isn't working!! Time to up the ante.

Seto steps in with his tear gas spray and hits her with it from a few feet away.]

Jesus, dude! You coulda warned her!

[ or, honestly, warned both Hiryuu and Challah

since at the very same time Seto decides to douse her with tear gas, Hiryuu is performing--Buddy System, letting their captive feel--the full weight of her sadness, her fear, the uncertain but deeply-gnawing sense of guilt and responsibility and shame--that she's capitulating to this, that... maybe, perhaps, in some way, she is responsible for "Layli's" actions.

I guess now in addition to crying, she is also coughing terribly. ]

[ PROBABLY EVERYONE IN THE ROOM COULD HAVE USED SOME WARNING

challah does not know what a Leyli is but this is all. a lot. all at once.

when the spray hits her face she screams, hunching over to rub at her eyes-- which only makes it worse honestly. she is definitely crying. she's also kind of hyperventilating. her senses are absolutely assaulted, both physically and mentally. she's sobbing. she's shaking. ]

[ Oh no. Poor Challah. She can feel all that--and tries to send her some reassurance and reaches out to hold her. Even though she is also a little panicked because she can't hardly breathe ]

It's--it's okay, Challah...

[ okay no

no talking, only coughing ]

You were taking too long—!

[Honestly he could have warned everyone because any gas in this small a space isn't going to be very contained, and his eyes quickly start watering too]