ROUND 3

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[ 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.]

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Hallucinations - Glory, cw hanahaki, dissection, plant horror

[idolpro]

You find Intensity after the game—hoping that he's safe, that he's well. He turns to look at you, and the words die in your mouth; his face is bloodied, his expression stern. Future is Now has been hurt once again, and you just can't stop it. He holds up a hand to forestall you saying anything—"You'll just make it worse, if you do anything," he says, and turns away.

When you open your mouth to protest, to call him back, though, all that falls from your mouth are morning glory petals, your mouth dry and mealy like it's been full of dirt. The words come through it garbled, and no one you talk to—not King, not Yugi… not even Griffin or Shrike seems to be able to understand what you're trying to tell them. They tell you to calm down, to relax, to be quiet—not to be so angry. To accept things. B just shakes his head, and scurries away; Joker looks at you strangely, before making his apologies and going back to his friends.

You were just trying to say you cared. Why does it always come out wrong? Why are your feelings always wrong? And why do these damned flowers keep coming out of your mouth?

You have to get them out. You have to get them out, so you can say what you mean, so you can be clear, but it seems like there's no end—the longer it goes on, though, you can't help but think that maybe the problem is just that they can't speak your language. That you need to slice them open, plant seeds in their bellies.

Through his disdain, Intensity doesn't notice the knife, until you split him open from his navel, and plant the seeds you coughed up there. But he doesn't speak back to you in the only tongue you can put words into, now—instead, he just bleeds, and bleeds, and the light fades from his eyes.

But you have to keep trying. With each one of them—maybe one of them will learn. Maybe one of them will understand.

Re: Hallucinations - Glory, cw hanahaki, dissection, plant horror

[idolpro]

Take 1 punishment (if you take another I won't notice):

Physical:
> Hanahaki disease (coughing up flowers when it's one sided love but it can be whenever)
> Tongue removed
> Loss of hearing

Non-Physical:
> Just accepts all that is told
> Longing for someone's care/kindness
> Increased self-doubt