ROUND 3

[idolpro]

[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]

[♫]

Comments

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

[stops in place, nah she's angry crying as she clenches her fists at her side]

You're not even going to say anything?! You know I can't even hurt you, right, my powers are fucking useless here! Can't even press a stupid button!

I hate it, everyone always has an advantage over me here!

And know what, I hate you, too!

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[wonderlandgirl]

No.

[Calm calm calm, unfamiliar, icy, she doesn't like it, it doesn't feel right it isn't her but it has to be because she has to survive, she has to fight, she has to get through this, for the others, for everyone: so they know, they know that pep!pep! don't just give up without trying. They'd all been so angry, with all of them--

[Calm. She has to embrace it, as cold and strange as it is.]

I didn't.

[She sighs.]

I'm sorry.

[And she's all coiled tension. Motion, stilled.

[She'll move again, if she must.]

1/2

[resonantblue]

[choking back some sobs,]

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

[then barking a laugh]

Ha! "Sorry?" Didn't think peps valued their own lives, I'm shocked!

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[wonderlandgirl]

Why not?

[She's calm enough to ask that, now.]

Doesn't everyone do that?

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

Not you fucks! I see how you lose games, and I'm pretty sure it was intentional that one time.

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[wonderlandgirl]

But that doesn't mean we don't want to live. Or - or that we're not scared, when we die.

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

Well, you went and proved that just now, didn't you, Bubblegum Bitch?

Good on you!

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[wonderlandgirl]

What else should I have done?

[And she feels something else there, beneath the flat, level calm, something that isn't sorrow or guilt or fear--]

Well? What else should I have done?

[--and she's startled enough to let her grasp slip on her anger.]

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

...

[she chuckles, but she sniffs shortly afterwards, crying sucks]

Know what? I'm not going to answer that for you! Dwell on it, wallow in it, I want you to struggle!

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[wonderlandgirl]

You think I wouldn't if you did?

[Nobody wins these games. She's known that for a very, very long time.]

Re: Song vs Wednesday

[resonantblue]

Yeah, but in a way I would've preferred! I lost because it's not fair and now I have to suffer for it? No, you can struggle!

I won't forget this!