Week 3.

[trustmods]

WEEK 3 Two more people are dead. Byakuren Hijiri has been murdered and Undyne has been executed. That brings us up to four deaths and twenty-five remaining Participants. You're doing well. Take all of Saturday to rest and sleep. You've earned it. On Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock. With no more bodies to be discovered, it seems you're safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've remembered something else. Or was that another really bizarre dream? Like last week, there's a new floor to explore. A reward for your efforts, of course. There's something else new, however, and as you approach the foyer you might hear the beautiful sound of... chickens? Chickens. Those are definitely chickens. It looks like Tabby's petition has worked, you have chosen chickens. Perhaps even more important are the rule changes, effective immediately. You might want to take note of them. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 25

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[OOC: Welcome to week three of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains as well!

The Letters and Switchboard posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

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[clearasmud]

[ He's doing his best. It has to be okay for what it is, or...

Youko's content to stay like that for a very long time, but once she feels their embrace coming to an end: ]

I know it isn't enough, [ because nothing can be. she knows. ] but I'll always try to be here for you. Until one of us dies, that won't change.

The people in my life are what make it worthwhile. So the quality of their lives is very important to me for that reason.

[decrees]

Don't talk like that.

[The words are out there before he can think about them and Logan's shaking again, though he's trying to get some sort of control over himself.]

...Please.

["Until one of us dies" he can't handle that thought right now. He can't afford to die and Youko... He can't lose Youko. He can pretend to handle things in front of the others and maybe sometimes he'll succeed, but he can't do this without Youko. It's probably not right to latch onto someone so hard in such a short amount of time... but it's not like this is the first time Logan has relied solely on one person to keep him sane.

Hopefully this goes better than everything that happened with Reaver.]

I'll do everything I can but... for now... Don't talk about death as though it is inevitable.

[It is and he knows that, but he has to keep hoping that maybe they'll find a way out of this place.]

[clearasmud]

[ Youko's first thought is that Logan is responding to her saying she wasn't enough.

That assumption is cleared up the moment he continues.

The difference in human and youkai lifespan was something Youko accounted for without thinking - she hadn't thought about how it would sound within the context of their current conversation, because she hadn't thought.

She'd tried to reassure Logan and all she'd achieved was frightening him. But that said something too, didn't it? ]

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

[ "I wasn't thinking" - if she said that, wouldn't it just upset Logan further? ]

I... I just meant, I...

[ "There's nothing left for me back home, what I have here is it" - wouldn't that make it seem like he was only important to her because there was nothing else? When that wasn't true, that wasn't true in the slightest. ]

...I won't.

I'll be careful. I'll look after myself. I'll look after you. I'll look after us. And... I'll see your smile again. Someday. [ -she throws in as an awful joke, smile shaking and tears falling. Because everything hurts, it hurts too much right now. ]

[decrees]

Youko...

[It's obvious Logan isn't sure what to do with that, and for a moment all he can do is stare. He's fully aware that his smile is stupid-looking and he hates it, but apparently that's something Youko wants to see again, even if it was intended as a joke.

He pulls her into a hug again, his grip firm.]

We'll do everything we can to get out of here. As many of us as possible. Then... Maybe then...

[Things won't be okay. They'll never be okay, but--]

Perhaps then everything will be alright again.

[clearasmud]

[ Yeah, she's just going to. Snuggle the hell into him. ]

I don't think so.

[ I'm sorry, were you not expecting Youko to be painfully blunt about that, or... ]

But I know that as long as I make it out of here with you, that'll be more than okay enough for me.

[ If she could pray for one single, possible thing, and one single, possible thing only - that would be it. ]

[decrees]

[That's... Well. That's certainly something. It's far too soon to start thinking about that. He has to go back to Albion, but that...

Well, he wouldn't mind bringing Youko back with him. He might enjoy that, actually.]

I'll do everything I can to make that a reality. I cannot die in here.

[Not after everything that's happened already. Still, his grip tightens a bit and he tries to keep his shoulders from shaking again.]

[clearasmud]

I won't let you. I won't.

[ It's foolish to say such a thing, but - if he does die? The only one who has to live with that broken promise is her. That's okay. As long as Logan lives, he can take comfort in the fact that she hasn't failed him.

What comes next doesn't matter much anymore. ]

...Logan, I want to stay here tonight.

[ That's not actually an offer for sex, as much as she wouldn't be opposed. She just... doesn't think he'd take her up on it. For reasons involving recently deceased best friends and otherwise. ]

I don't want to be alone. Not now.

[decrees]

[He would say that's a little forward, but honestly, it doesn't sound like a proposition at all. Besides, now really isn't the time. Logan considers for a moment before tipping his head slightly.]

Where would you sleep?

[...logan you're sitting on a bed, where the fuck do you think she'd sleep]

[clearasmud]

[ ...huh? ]

...Is there a reason we couldn't share the bed?

[ ... ]

I'm pretty sure we can both fit comfortably.

[ ... ]

I can definitely fit in your arms, if it comes to that.

[decrees]

...But that's... That's improper.

[are you fuckin' serious]

[clearasmud]

...What...?

[ what is going through this man's head ]

[decrees]

An unmarried man and a woman sharing a bed is indecent, Youko.

[logan]

[clearasmud]

What?!

[ SHE'S SO CONFUSED ]

N... No...?

[ ??? ]

I share a bed with Kan-chan, sometimes...

[ That... sounds a little hurt, actually...

which shouldn't be too shocking, given he just called her indecent

sasuga, logan






and then the penny drops. ]

...Wait. You're one of those people back home whose minds I have to nudge so they don't care about Kan-chan and I living together?

[ IT'S PRETTY DUMB and as such, highly forgettable when it's no longer a problem. ]

[decrees]

It doesn't matter to me if you lived together or even if you slept together. That sort of behavior is improper for the King of Albion.

[you are literally the only person who cares about that]

[clearasmud]

[ what


















the fuck ]

You say that like being a king makes you better than everyone else!

[ yeahhhh, that was kind of. spoken loudly. ]

[decrees]

Not at all. There are certain expectations that are placed on a king and they are not ones I am willing to break, even here.

[LOGAN OH MY GOD ONLY YOU CARE ABOUT THIS]

[clearasmud]

What expectations?! Back home that kind of thing only gets applied to human women to begin with!

[ THIS IS CONFUSING AND DUMB AND tbh she's kind of mad about the implication he dropped that her having sex with Kantarou would somehow be wrong ]

[decrees]

Why would it only be applied to women?

[...that isn't the point.]

As the King of Albion I am expected to take a wife and it would be improper for me to share a bed with anyone before then.

[...]

Or a husband, I suppose. I haven't given it much thought.

[clearasmud]

I have no idea. Humans are weird.

[ ...although probably less weird in Albion if he wouldn't go to jail for boning a guy.

...when/why did people start caring about that, anyway? she's pretty sure it wasn't always like that...?

...But she's getting distracted. BACK TO ARGUING >:(

except not really, because youko just sounds kind of grumpy when she speaks again. ]

So why would it be improper, anyway?! I never understood!

[ TELL HER >:( ]

[decrees]

It would be sharing an intimate space with someone other than a spouse, that's... Well, it's certainly not something a king should be doing.

[WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THESE STUPID IDEAS, LOGAN]

[clearasmud]

...Why just beds, anyway? No piece of furniture has an exclusive claim on sex.

[ ... ]

...Your mind's kind of in the gutter, you know, making this all about the one thing.

[decrees]

I-- What?

[Well, that's going to get him to color a bit, alright. He's sort of pink, though it's subdued as it usually is.]

[clearasmud]

You heard me! [ Huffing: ] Most of the time I wouldn't care if it was or wasn't, but it's inconveniencing me right now. Us, really. Thinking friends can't share a bed? Or that it must mean we're going to have sex, because that's all beds are to be shared for? Just listen to yourself, honestly.

[ YOU'RE DUMB and apparently a closet pervert? ]

[decrees]

[...Uh. That's. Actually a pretty good point and Logan doesn't seem to know what to do with it.]

I...

[...have been rendered speechless, wow Youko. You did it.]

[clearasmud]

[ Youko, on the other hand, totally expected this. Why wouldn't Logan listen to her?? She's right and well-spoken about it!

Pleased that she's won the argument, if possibly not the war, Youko appropriately relents. ]

If it actually, honestly makes you - not the king part of you, or the part of you that wants to live up to ideals, but the you part of you - uncomfortable, then let's sleep on the floor. But I would much rather share a comfy bed!

[ It'll be so warm and cozy! ]