Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

When the game starts, you find something grabbing onto your ankle and dragging you under the ballpit until you find yourself sitting on a disco floor platform with your team. It is only being held up by eleven balloons.

You make decisions on a cool arcade machine where you can SELECT A TEAM'S BALLOON. If a character is blind or has no hands or smth, you can assume things can be read to you and you can automatically pick through your speech. Thanks, Alexa.

If you look over the platform, you can see a lot of sparkling rainbow spikes below.

Comments

[dragonheartedgirl]

I'm not sure that's the case. ... And I wonder if not everyone ends up feeling that way. Everyone's luck runs out eventually. And even within our own unit, we have so many different people we want to protect, if everyone is the same, but not everyone shows up to every game--the priorities must shift. ... We've had a lot of lucky outcomes in the past, too. I think people sometimes adjust for that, too--to spare people who seem to have had bad luck lately. But when everyone is trying to blindly guess what everyone else will do, accidents happen regardless.

I think it's less that we're not liked enough--and more that there's just no way to be protected a hundred percent of the time.

[inspiteful]

I know that, it's just...

It's just kind of hard when you realise there's no way someone will always be on our 'side'. Especially in a place like this. You can understand it in your head but it doesn't make it feel less bad anyway.

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[dragonheartedgirl]

[ wow. somehow--she didn't think that that was something that would bother eclipse. maybe because he took his friend pulling a knife on him so in stride? but even he's hurt by something like that... ]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ she's quiet for a moment before continuing. ]

I think... you're not wrong to feel that way, and it's supposed to be like that. Rather, that's another way they try to inflict pain on us.

...

But I think... it's natural, that a group of strangers thrown together should have such radically different principles and priorities. And when you have that sort of atmosphere, internal conflict and shifting and differing reasons.... I think the more that one can try to accept that chaos, but also realize that love, or the lack thereof, is necessarily attached to a unit's choice--and to seek to understand the reasoning behind it--even though it hurts, it acts like an antivenom to a snake bite.

[inspiteful]

[ His relationship with Crane is another thing entirely -- he can take her pulling a knife on him with class because he Believes in her, perhaps somewhat unreasonably. But that is a relationship of mutual unconditional faith, and he even when he knew it wasn't physically possible for her to always be there for him, he could trust in her having his back and vice-versa.

Here? ...Not so much. It kind of stings more than he'd ever expected. ]

Yeah, I suppose that's just how it goes. Maybe this is what growing up feels like, a little.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ whups I typod on that last tag; should have been "isn't a sign of love or not" ]

It's certainly painful like that.