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Hibiki Ganaha ([personal profile] brandnewday) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2017-10-07 09:54 pm

The world is all one! Unity mind!

[Another week, another set of disasters. Hibiki’s head is still reeling from the lengthy ordeal that was Solf J. Kimblee. But it’s because of that exasperation that she’s able to turn her restlessness into something useful. It’s too late to set about making curry for everyone, so it’s time to make some easier dishes. A replication of Fern’s mac-and-cheese, somehow she’s whipped up some kind of donut to go with her animal-shaped rice balls. There’s coffee, tea...hopefully it’s enough? And if it’s not, Rin has provided some delicious Chinese food. And that always tastes better late at night, doesn’t it?

And for the adults (or the exasperated teenagers), Susan is carting down booze from the bar. Joy. Hibiki’s never written to the group en masse before, but she delivers a piece of paper to everyone while Rin and Susan finish up the preparations. Each paper has a drawing of an animal on it, too.]


Too much has happened today. Whether you want to get angry, cry, smile, laugh, or just be out of your room, you don’t have to do it alone. Rin and I have prepared food for everyone, and Susan’s brought the drinks downstairs so none of us have to go into the bar tonight.

Even if it’s just for a little while, won’t you think about joining us in the dining room tonight? Being together is just as important as working hard. And remember, nankurunaisa!

-Hibiki Ganaha


[Three more candles are lit today. Tabitha Smith. Sigrun Eide. Solf Kimblee. They’re all Cabanela’s doing. There aren't any decorations, but the food is spaced out so everyone should be able to grab something and munch if they need it. It’s not clear how many people will come, but a serious attempt was made this time.]
matchbreaker: (Notre Dame)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-09 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow she never made that super clear, okay?

She rocks a little on the bed, clearly uncomfortable. ]


I'm in here relying on you. I can justify that as being demanding all I want, but the reality remains that I'm invested.
ninehundredlives: ([ sleepless nights ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-09 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[You've always had a pretty clear tone when talking about "humans". Which you do. A fair amount.]

Like it or not, you're locked in here with a ton of us now. It'd probably be half-impossible not to - even Kimblee seemed like he got a little invested in some people, you know?
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-09 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
To say even him implies that he's too far outside the normal to count. I actually found him somewhat admirable, if highly irritating by the end.

[ she's still frustrated. ]

... I'm not blind to the reality of things.
ninehundredlives: ([ the crow ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I never knew him all that well, really. I'd thought he was okay, I guess?

[That opinion has been very, very altered.]

The point is, people bond in things like this. Small spaces...trauma. Does it really matter all that much that they're human?
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matchbreaker: (I refuse to be forgotten)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ She won't push the Kimblee thing. She's... still not sure how she feels, in the end. ]

Of course it does.

[ She waves a hand at Susan, though her eyes aren't making contact there. She's narrowed, looking down at the floor. ]

We're a difference in kind, you and me. ... Even if we pretend I can forgive what's been done to me, the fact remains I cannot eat your food. I have a daily headache tolerating the needs of your eyes. I've gone crazy trying to adapt myself to your sleeping schedules. I survive from your blood.

These differences are real. They matter. Surely you can see that.
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ninehundredlives: ([ the crow ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-09 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Susan swishes her glass for a second, thinking. She sort of wishes she were just plain sober for this - but she's just a little tipsy by now, it's fine.]

Well, sure, of course they're real. And if you were going around draining people dry, that'd be different. But the rest of it...I don't know, what do I care if you eat the same food as me or not? I can barely stomach Aligula's parfaits, but she doesn't hate me for that. You're not hurting anybody with all that.

[But then, her hurting them doesn't really seem to be Elda's concern.]

What was done to you? [Susan could probably connect it to that secret, but that's a bit of a leap.]
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-09 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Blood is life. It's infuriating how few of you seem to get that.

[ She ... what point is there in hiding it? She can spell out all the details, but she just-

Smirks. ]


Two hundred years ago, the humans declared their God wanted us destroyed. Damn near completed it, too. Our kind was all but wiped out. I lost my mother, my father, my uncle, my brother, my grandmother, and my homeland to those monsters.
ninehundredlives: ([ where i've been ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's in bags. Same as how we buy meat at the market, and don't think about the animal it came from.

[But, you know. That is far less important than the, ah. Genocide.]

.....sounds like you've got the right to hate us, then.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ When she puts it like that - that's probably the reason. Humans don't hunt anymore, certainly not in great numbers. Most of them don't even farm or ranch. They're apart from what products they consume in their base form, and more than that, they don't conceive of something hunting them. It's impossible to think of the weight of their blood with that context, isn't it?

... Mmm. ]


Of course I do.

[ . . . And yet, here she is. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the lamb ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Here she is. Susan can't fault her in the least for her attitude, after learning that. Doesn't she hate flowers, now, even if all flowers aren't those ones? But Elda clearly cares about Sayaka - you can't get away without something like that, in here.]

Yeeeeeeah. You really deserve to get drunk. [Let her pour herself another glass.] So how is this going to work?
matchbreaker: (You no longer live as cattle)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... Yes, yes she does. She hangs her head for just a moment and then... well. ]

It's going to hurt.

[ Like... let's get that out of the way. ] What's more, as I am now I can't erase your memory of it.

[ She's ... still doing disclaimers, isn't she? She'd been so certain earlier. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ open up ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I remembered a woman melting my eyes with bleach on Sunday? I can manage.

[Man, and now we're talking about that, let's take a BIG DRAW OF WHISKEY]

Is there anything I have to do? Stop the bleeding after, or something?
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
--Holy shit, what? What kind of luck does your life have?

[ Err- ]

Of course that won't be needed, it'll seal up instantly. Honestly, from me, you'd normally feel better.
ninehundredlives: ([ knock knock ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shitty luck? It's a long story. [She waves a hand dismissively.] I got better.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure how much you have to do with walking in on that!

[ Like....... wow. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the color today ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I say my world hasn't got magic in it, but I think I'm remembering that maybe it does, a little bit? Not anything you can really control, or...that. But I've died a few times now.

[Something in common with Kimblee. Gross.]

I doubt it's still working here. I don't really want to test it. [Even if it could be really useful, to die and wake up wherever it is they put the bodies. Unless that's an incinerator. She bets she could get back faster than they could toss her in an incinerator.] So...do you have to do it on the neck?

[Because that is, uh, some personal space violation she doubts either of them really want.]
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
... That's traditional. And easiest. So I was going to do that.

[ SURPRISE??? ]

For my part, ever have I said that my world doesn't have magic, but I suppose that some vampire abilities border on it, and perhaps not every world has ghosts. who knows, there could be some more unknowable things at the margins too.

[ a beat ]

Still, coming back from the dead... that's. Astounding.
ninehundredlives: ([ one last time ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh....

[okay that's fun at least she is gonna be drunk!]

Yeah, I...when I tried to kill myself, I had a sort of dream. I woke up in a field of barley, and I met an old woman who called herself the Queen of Maggots. She said she was going to send me back, and make me immortal, so I could kill five people for her. Parasites, she called them...serial killers, more like.

I didn't want it. Any of it. But there wasn't a lot I could do. I probably would have thought it was just one big hallucination, if it didn't start happening for real.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
... Why didn't you have a choice when you got back? Did you get maggots in you?

[ Is this a Fern situation? ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the color today ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I just keep on coming back. It's not like I could just stay dead, if I wanted to. Or maybe I could, and I haven't figured out how...

......there's no maggots. [god let's not talk about fern's deal]
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[ how does she ... mmm. ]

... To me, that sounds like a blessing. But I've made no secret that I'd be fine with living as long as I possibly can. Our circumstances are very different.

[ James gave her that gift. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ my heart is heavy enough ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I guess so. It's a nasty sort of gift to give somebody who was...where I was, then. Now, though...

[She shrugs.]

I could do without murderers stumbling across me every thirty seconds, but when they do, they don't ever expect somebody they've killed to get up again. I can deal with them like no other victim could. It's...better, really, that they come after me and not somebody else.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ she nods at that, but can't make eye contact there. It... it's hard to articulate what she thinks about that. The fact of the matter is that there's no way that someone should be allowed to die... just like that.

Right?

She's... Mmm. She'll work it out when she's feeling less sorry for herself. ]


That's like some honest to goddess superhero stuff though, it's... well, it's amazing, really. If somewhat morbid.
ninehundredlives: ([ wookie noise ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-11 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Susan shrugs. This is more open than she probably would have been about it, but she's tipsy now and it feels like a closer setting in here than talking about it out in the dining hall where anyone could hear would.

That doesn't mean she's more comfortable with being compared to a superhero.]


I think anybody would try to get back at someone who just murdered them. But...yeah. It's pretty morbid.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-12 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh heavens no, I'd rip them to ribbons.

[ Still, rather... she considers how she wants to word this and then slides off the bed to get closer to the other woman. Elda's a lot smaller, but the languid movements still have a sort of predatory deftness to them as she spreads out her long nailed fingers. ]

Rather... I of all people am aware that humans are monsters- demons more than capable of inflicting the greatest horrors known to time and space. But I am a vampire. I could probably break your arm quite easily even now, and normally could erase your memory. For me, vengeance is obvious. But for an individual human woman...? I know I am laying it on thick, but allow me to say it's incredible.

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