COOKING SHOW - 5PM PST - avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ Your unit-colored kitchen has all the basic necessities for cooking, but strangely, there's no refrigerator. There's just a table full of pebble-sized crystals. . . There are candies available in bins next to the crystals as well.

Though you can technically turn the stove on, you can't actually hurt yourself on it. It's like the flames are illusions. Huh.

Upon entering your unit-colored kitchen, you'll find that you can't see or hear anyone from any other kitchen. You're aware that this whole area is magically sight- and sound-proofed; no other unit will hear or see any conversation you have. ]

Comments

[worthathousand]

[ She can't not feel sorrow, looking at him, but there's sympathy now too. ]

I've been... very slow, regaining my own. Perhaps I have feared the truth of my death more than I have admitted to myself.

[ she pauses, the space filled with more sorrow and shame ]

Those of us from Creation... have sometimes gotten together to buy memories, that we might share them. [ there's loneliness: missing someone. ]

[daios]

[It is tough to feel the feelings associated with the things he has done from the perspective of his victims.]

... I see. Yeah, I just haven't had the points to get many yet, but it's.

[It's kinda scary! He doesn't know if he is ready to know about himself, yet.]

[worthathousand]

I'll give you some points, if you want them.

[ is it strange to feel protective of him too, with the rest of it? ]

You don't have to be who you were, M—. Hades. But you shouldn't hide from it either.

[ calmness and certainty, saying that—a kind of resolve. ]

[daios]

[He is still apprehensive... but he nods, agreeing on that much.]

I only fear that what I may learn will change me. But you do not need to give me any points. I will figure it out, with time.

[What did he know then that he doesn't know now?]

[worthathousand]

[ with that same certainty; one could almost call it idealism ]

It will change you if you allow it, yes. But you do not need to allow it—for after all, is that not a kind of surrender?

Your past is your duty to the future. If you are under my care, then I will not let you fall short of your potential.

[ a pause; sorrow and regret again ] ...That is my own duty to the future, after all.

[daios]

[He doesn't have the same unwavering confidence. If he has fallen before, why not again...?]

I will strive to be better.....

[worthathousand]

Good.

[ meeting his eyes, then—something like a threat and also a promise: ]

I don't lower my standards for anyone. I raise them.

[ there's that protectiveness again. ]