☆ZRAEL - SUPER SESSION

[idolpro]

[ The bar is unit-colored with light unit paraphernalia, although it's all just for show. Fortunately, comfort isn't part of the unit aesthetic this time—all seats are cushioned, whether the booth seats or the bar stools, comfy and lush. Idols can sit anywhere they like, it seems.

There's alcohol available, but everything else is locked behind the wall-cabinet. . . the recipe book is also available to peruse at one's leisure.

Ah—the door opens, and a fuzzy sort of shade steps in. It looks like idols will be serving the Damned, today. . . ? ]

RECIPE BOOK

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

[sangreine]

Why not?

I've gotten really close to a lot of people in other units, but no one on ours. I went grey a little while ago because I felt so uncomfortable being in the dorm, that's probably not a great sign.

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

[constellationprize]

I don't - ... of course if those are your honest feelings, then those are the sorts of things that really happened, but I didn't - ...

It's - I'm not... very smart, and there are a lot of different things that I'm bad at, but the feelings that I have for you as a part of our unit haven't changed at all - the love that I feel for you as a part of our unit hasn't faded at all. And I know that the others all feel the same way, but if - ... if those are your honest feelings, then of course we'll all want to do what we can, too - ...

... If we don't know you well enough, then of course we'd like to know you better, and if the dorm is an uncomfortable place to be, then of course we'd like to do our best to change that, too . . . Of course we all want you to be here!

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

[sangreine]

[ She's quiet for a minute, busying herself with serving the drink up to that... shadow thing. And she thinks about what Dia is saying, despite that part of her -- the part she doesn't much like -- wants to dismiss it out of hand. ]

That all sounds really generous and kind, but I'm nothing more than someone who happened to show up on the unit. I could be anyone and you'd feel the same way. That's not anything like love, not to me.

I want to fix this if we can, but insisting that you care about me when you probably couldn't name three things about me isn't going to do it. And it's not about a checklist of what I want you to do, because I couldn't name three things about you, either.

[ Probably, it takes time. Time and honesty, two things she doesn't think anyone on the unit has offered her -- and she hasn't offered back. ]

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

[constellationprize]

- Of course I could! Your first language is French but you were able to learn others very quickly, you prefer to wear your hair tied back because you don't enjoy being restricted in your movements, and even if it's something that you've been struggling with recently - even if it's something that's really difficult for me to understand, you love to eat all sorts of different foods, and you like to try new things! Even if it's something that you're skilled with, fighting is something that's difficult for you - ... it isn't something that's physical, but regarding your feelings, it's something that you struggle with - that was the reason that the game was so difficult for you, wasn't it? And, besides all of those things -

Besides all of those things - ... I'm not very smart, so I'm sure that there are lots of different things that I don't know anything about besides those - ... and besides those, there are lots of things that are too complicated for me to understand, but it isn't - if it's okay for me to know them, then of course I'd like to do that...!

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

[sangreine]

[ Aliza is quiet again, thinking back when she challenged Venti to name three things that embarrass her and he did it without hesitation, things that she never said to anyone, that he knew because he knows her. The things Aradia said are true enough, at least most of them, but the reasoning isn't accurate at all. But that's her fault too, so she sighs and just starts talking. ]

I learned languages because a rich human kept me to do experiments on, and he made me learn them, and the violin and cello. I keep my hair short because the first time I saw my long hair in a mirror, I punched through it. I eat all the time because my metabolism is so high that I can't keep up. I hate trying new things because I'm afraid of being bad at them.

And I don't struggle with fighting. I like fighting, it focuses me. I struggle with losing control, because it happened before. I slaughtered an entire village of unarmed people, including little children, mothers and their babies. It was the first memory I got, and I asked six different people on other units to kill me if it ever happened again.

It's not that you're not smart, it's that I haven't had a reason to trust you enough to tell you any of that.