[OPEN!]

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin + open mingling
Open: Open
When: Day 81, late evening after Bon and Rin get back with Tris and Briar
Where: The Bastion, near the Distillery
What: After returning with two new arrivals, Rin decides to break out some food and a table to mingle around so people can get to know each other. Meanwhile she's acting a little... spacier than usual.
Format: action
Warnings: None

[With two more new arrivals to the Bastion, Rin has gone to the trouble of setting up a small table just outside the Distillery kitchen, covered with a cloth and laid out with several different kinds of food.

There's not a lot of variety, since they're still running on finite resources, but there's enough there for everyone to have a good amount of food, especially since their two new survivors are probably hungry.

There's some grilled fish, steamed rice, corn and a few other vegetables and fruits, as well as some various drinks (no Spirits, though) take from the distillery itself.

Hopefully this will prompt a few people to mingle about and get to know their new neighbors.]

Comments

[unflattering]

Yeah because that reaction really convinces me.

[hellpyre]

Why does it matter anyway? And why do you sound so irritated about it? Geez...

[unflattering]

I'm irritated? No, I'm bewildered as to why you think that you were convincing anyone of the opposite. It's great that you like him, and he should know.

[hellpyre]

It... it is... ? But...

[unflattering]

But what? It's the end of the world, everyone we know is dead, what's it going to matter if you tell him that you like him? It's the keeping secrets part that makes less sense with the end of the world.

[hellpyre]

[Rin just... stares, because really she never thought of it that way, and while it makes sense she wants to argue but can't find the words to do so.

Plus was she really that obvious?!

[unflattering]

[Obvious to a guy that has the ability to literally look into someone's soul and read their emotions, yes. He's been using his Soul Perception frequently, whenever he can, and the ~bloom~ of feelings from Rin didn't go unnoticed.]

So yeah. Whatcha making?

[hellpyre]

[can't she just crawl in to a hole now...?]


. . . potato cakes.

[unflattering]

[No Rin you have to survive and prosper with the rest of us.]

Potato cakes? [And he leans in to check.] Oh, my mom used to make those. Well, until Dad complained there was too much starch.

[Not that he cares what Spirit thought.]

I don't know why he cared so much about what Mom made for dinner, he was never home at those times.

[hellpyre]

[crying forever ok]

Eh they are a little starchy but that's good for us here, y'know?

[unflattering]

Anything is better than having nothing at all. So, do you need help?

[hellpyre]

True!

Yeah, if you want to.

[Rin why would he ask if he didn't want to...]

[unflattering]

...[Seriously, Rin, why would he ask if he didn't want to?]

'Course I do. Anything specific in mind?

[hellpyre]

[she's odd like that]

Uhm... could use more rice. Think you can wash some for me?

[unflattering]

Sure. [YES, rice, he can do this. Rice is a staple diet for people in Death City.

What do you mean that's unusual for a city in America.]

[He'll be a bit more careful about it, though, don't want to accidentally waste precious rice.]

[hellpyre]

[Things are pretty quiet while they work, but eventually Rin breaks it.]

... am I really that obvious?

[unflattering]

Umm...

[He gives her an odd look, then continues with preparing the rice.]

I say that, but...I don't know if it's something anybody else has noticed? Truthfully, I don't really care about things like this, so I don't pay attention normally. But I guess when it's friends of mine and we're all in such close quarters it's easier to notice.

[hellpyre]

... Night mentioned it, too. That's why I was askin'.

[She sighs, shaking her head slowly.]

I'unno if it's even worth tryin' to talk to him. I'm a guy in his world. He has a hard enough time dealin' with the fact that I'm missin' a certain part.

[unflattering]

[He had been turned back as she spoke, but upon hearing "the right part" he turns back again, giving her a sharp look. Whoa, somebody's taking that statement personally!]

You are who you are, regardless of your gender. I doubt Bon is shallow enough to define everything by what genitals a person has, it's the soul that matters most.

[hellpyre]

I didn't say he defines it I just said it might be weird for him! Geez... calm down. It's weird for both of us, okay? Our worlds are the same but different and that's still somethin' we gotta get used to...

[she huffed, going back to her task]

I don't... wanna make him uncomfortable, okay? I care about him, as a friend and more than...

[unflattering]

Nuhn.

[...Maka did you just say "nuhn"

well he's turned back anyway, fussing with the rice.]

You don't know until you try.

[hellpyre]

... m-maybe later...

[if she doesn't chicken out]