FAMILY MEETING 2.0

[succiduous]

Who: Everyone. All Y'all. You Cannot Escape.
What: Info share because I know y'all got the plot
When: Late August, post Flower-Murdering
Where: The Inn
Warnings: triggers should be tagged appropriately in post headers! please and thank you!!


[Gnosis has government assigned himself "guy who bothers everyone about the plot" this time around. He craves information. You have information. You will give the information up during what he's calling a Town Hall, but was previously called a Family Meeting.

People who do not show up for the "what the fuck just happened this month" meeting will not be forcibly dragged into it, but will receive the most Disdainful, Judgemental look. Can you truly stand to be judged so harshly by a 35 year old man... no. You cannot. (You probably can actually he's not that intimidating.)

There are no snacks (currently) but there is freshly-brewed tea by Gnosis himself, and there's a framed corkboard he's brought downstairs (presumably out of his room) with notes on it, as well as some of those mysterious photographs that have been taken of everyone that he's asked to have. You know, so he can piece this puzzle together. Once everyone's gathered...]

Let's get started. Some of you have been here longer than others, so I hope you can volunteer information so we can figure out where we are and why, and anything else we later arrivals might have missed from the collective puzzle. Please try to stay on task.


[[ooc: hi hello this is your share-the-plot-ICly log, with the goal of a) catching up new arrivals and b) making sure information circulates ICly to avoid metagaming. which like that hasn't been a problem but you know, just in case. if you've never done one of these before they function a bit like this where everyone shares important info they've discovered with the class.]]

Comments

[harmacy]

[he snatches it maybe a little too roughly, sorry, he's in a very bad mood all the sudden for completely unrelated reasons

he skims a few pages, glaring like the book has personally offended him already... it doesn't take long to find the part that Elsword probably doesn't realize is relevant here. he's scowling now, fingers digging into the edges of the cover.]

... Hmph. What a load of nonsense. [slams it shut, all but tosses it back onto the table. ignore the weird purple lights streaming off his left eye now that's normal.] It's all fabricated, so it doesn't matter. The photos, this book—none of it is remotely possible. It's all just another stupid trick of this place.

I'm disappointed, Elsword. You shouldn't be so gullible. And you shouldn't withhold information from me, especially if you can't even recognize it for what it is.

[mooninthewater]

[ Uh oh, lover's quarrel-- ]

Oh, ah, Doctor Add, I'm sure he didn't mean it...

[ Translation: Don't fight. :( Hold hands and make up- ]

[harmacy]

Didn't mean what? He already admitted to it, there's nothing further to discuss.

[divorce............. 2]

[simplicitas]

But you get—

[Upset, distantly, when something doesn't go according to plan; angry, when someone brings up the past (and this is clearly The Past in some way, look at that Baby Add! he's so small and cute!); frustrated, when he doesn't understand something.

Elsword doesn't feel like arguing in front of the general audience so he, again, clamps his mouth shut. There's no point.]

...okay. I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking.

[harmacy]

You rarely are.

Next time, leave the thinking to me. Your particular talents are better used elsewhere.

[amhran]

Add. Don't say that, I know you are full of anger and there is a darkness in your heart, but you should not place those feelings upon Elsword. He only wished the best for you.

[harmacy]

Caoimhe, please stay out of this. I'm not angry, as I have already explained I am simply disappointed.

[




no he's definitely angry]

[amhran]

And say things you don't mean to him?

I wont.

[ WELL HE'S SEATED ACTUALLY GOOD! BECAUSE SHE WAS CONCERNED FOR HIM!! Thought he was making his life more miserable. Instead she takes a chair and sits next to him. ]

Could I sit with you for a bit?

[harmacy]

[he was ready to play nice again and move on from this topic. why does everyone have to make this so difficult? he doesn't want her pity—

he pushes the wing off his side, three dynamos flying down to support him as he stands back up. whoops, what was that about him being good and sitting]

Why don't you sit with Elsword for awhile? This nosy atmosphere is unbearable. I need some fresh air.

[amhran]

Alright, I will keep Elsword safe until you come back. Please take it easy.

[ ADD + 1 bardic inspiration.

Caoimhe will watch him move away and now instead. Replace where Add's seat was, keeping it warm for the time being. She looks over toward Elsword - DOES HE HAVE WINGS?!?!?!?! ACTUAL WINGS?!?!? ]

[harmacy]

[He already has one foot forward, but he hesitates at her words. An unexpected response, a miscalculation... why does it always play out like this? She's supposed to get mad, try to stop him, not... this.

... well, he has no choice now. He clamps his jaw shut, looking away, burying the feelings that crawl up from his chest. Add makes an effort to hobble with dignity, towards the door and outside without looking back.

...

he leaves one dynamos behind, so it's fine if he misses anything. don't think you can talk about him like he's not here.]

[simplicitas]

Wait, Add—!

[...

He's gone. There he goes.

Elsword slides forward in his seat until he's laying his head on the back of it, staring up at the ceiling. Ugh... this sucks. The One Dynamo is there to record things so that they can't shittalk, but Elsword remains oblivious to it, and it's as Add said — he doesn't think before he speaks.]

Maybe I should just stop trying...

[Unclear what he means, but he looks suitably miserable, which is ironic considering the whole emotions thing.

And yes, he has wings, but they aren't always out. They're attached to a ring-shaped artifact that floats slightly off his back, but lately he's been developing sensation in those wings... unclear if that's a bad sign of him and the El bonding too much, since they're literally made of raw magic. Anyway, that is to say that he feels it when she nestles into the wings, if she does at all.]

[amhran]

[ He is definitely gone, but she'll notice the weird lingering sentiment that was on his face - but she doesn't know him. Doesn't really understand what that could mean.

Caoimhe doesn't so much as nestle - but her hand reaches out to touch it for a moment. A sense of familiarity to it when she hesitantly wants to lay her hand along its length. However, she remembers that there are more important matters to attend to as opposed to her body instinctively falling into things her soul remembers but her current body does not. ]

Trying what? Do you mean... Reaching out to his heart?

[mooninthewater]

[ Add leaves, and Mizuki just turns to Elsword and expects him to be able to fix this somehow. He messed up big time, huh? He made his heroes fight. He caused them to be at odds with each other. He did this, he ruined this, he hurt them… He even mistook their relationship for something it wasn’t??? But it’s fine, because Elsword knows what to do and…

…

Ah…?? Stop trying? N…no. No, no, no. That’s not supposed to happen, he’s not— Mizuki twists the umbrella so hard in his hands it’s a miracle the metal rods inside don’t snap. ]

S-s… [ Sorry? What good will that do? Mizuki bows his head far enough down to hide his face before he speaks again. ] I messed up, I-I’ll fix this.

[simplicitas]

[To Mizuki:]

It's not your fault. The blame lies with me. I was the one who was hiding that from him. He... doesn't like to talk about the past, or open up much, so I thought it would make him mad. And it turns out I was right, but I didn't expect him to get mad at me... Like I said, I wasn't thinking.

[To Caoimhe, yes these two thoughts connect i'm crying—]

I want to keep doing that, but since he doesn't like to talk about himself, I don't know if I'm wasting my effort. I... want him to let me in. But I'm no good at this sort of thing, and I never have been. I'm not tactful. I'm not smart about it.

It makes it hard to get close, I guess. And it bugs me, because I want to be. ...that's all.

[hey family meetings are a good time to offload your repressed pining emotions right,]

[shineprism]

( chung has- no idea how things got to be so bad so quickly. he hadn't even had time to say anything, or even process what was happening up until it all

just




exploded.

what does he do? (what does he have the right to do?)

after a moment, chung pulls elsword over, wrapping his arms around the other in an embrace. )

[simplicitas]

[elsword is in his depression era™

He sighs, clonking his head against Chung's shoulder. Chung is warm and soft like mashed potato...]

This is the second time... maybe I'm not cut out for this after all.

[mooninthewater]

If you say you're not angry, I'll believe you. However, I-I just want to make sure I didn't accidentally stir anything up with you two. I mean, I don't wanna be why you two broke up...

[ :( ]

[amhran]

[ What WHAT? ]

Broke up...? You mean the ending of... They were - are they courting each other?

[ LOOKS BACK AT THEM LIKE WHATS THE TEA SIS ]

[simplicitas]

[Going from looking distantly like a kicked puppy to "???" within four seconds—

you guys mean breakup as in break up like a boy band, right. you mean like how My Chemical Romance broke up, right, that's what you mean. you don't mean—

hhhhhh]

[harmacy]

[ok but BEFORE Caoimhe gets up in his business and he leaves—]

We're not in a relationship. Whatever gave you that idea?

[spoken with the calm and confidence only a man deeply in denial could ever manage]

[mooninthewater]

...? W-was that supposed to be secret...? Sorry, I didn't know...

[harmacy]

There's no "secret". You've clearly misunderstood...

Forget it, it's not important. Elsword is my patient, and we share a common goal. You shouldn't read so much into things that don't involve you.

[simplicitas]

[very quietly:]

I'm not just his patient. We're also friends...

[yeah two bros just wrapped up in each other about to divorce, this is fine]

[devilishkouhai]

[ She is being a good girl she promised Fel, she is just absorbing the tea. ]