WED BED BEHEAD: avante en garde

[idolpro]

[You wake alone with your unit in what appears to be a dressing room. There's nothing on the costume racks right now, but you have vanity seats and a couch to chill on if you like.

On a table in the center of the room, there is an ornate metal box with three slots on top. The slots are labeled with the names of three other units: LiliS, Heart Soldier Senshi, & AlcheME!. Next to the box a laminated copy of the IC rules is taped down, and beside it lie four cards:

♦ a green card with a picture of two linked rings and the word "WED"
♦ a blue card with a picture of a rose and the word "BED"
♦ a red card with a picture of a guillotine and the word "BEHEAD"
♦ a purple card with a picture of two circling arrows and the word "INSTEAD"

You have til 9pm PST to submit your votes.]

Comments

[worthathousand]

...And if I were to choose here, how would it help.

If I were faithless, and asked us to behead Heart Soldier for the crime of not having a close enough connection to me, how would that change the outcome, next to the needs of the others here.

[deicider]

It sounds like you've already decided. It's not up to me to tell you if that's right or not.

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[worthathousand]

Cardinal—
Among the things I would promise you, there is this: I will never need to be told my own ideals.

[worthathousand]

[ shoulders sinking, a bit ]

...That isn't why I came to talk to you at all.

[deicider]

[Cardinal grabs her shirt collar.]

Get a hold of yourself, General. Were you really trying to justify to that kid why he should be content to stand down?

[worthathousand]

[ a startled blink, but she straightens ]

Tsukasa should know the full extent of what is at stake.

But if that is really what I sound like now, then I ought to be brought before the Domain Lord in shame.

[ it's equal parts genuine response and military roleplay, which... helps, actually. ]

[deicider]

Tsukasa is more than intelligent enough to discern reality for himself. Everything he said was perfectly correct and well-considered.

[worthathousand]

It isn't a matter of intelligence.

I... [ faltering, a moment ]
...do not know if you heard all that I said to him. I nearly failed that youth, in interjecting with Kohime. But the rest of my words, I have the scars to prove.

[deicider]

[They let go of her.]

Just be careful. People are going to start accusing me of being a bad influence on you.

[There's a sharp note of bitterness.]

[worthathousand]

[ She, too, drops her military-perfect posture. After a moment's hesitation, she leans in to brush a strand of their hair away from their face. ]

They're eight turns of the seasons too late for that complaint.