[Day 212] Well it woulda been coulda been worse than you would ever know... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Everyone!
Open: Open
When: Day 212, evening
Where: in front of the Distillery
What: No one died during the horrible plague scare! That's reason enough for a feast and a mingle log right?
Format: Any!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any but will adjust if needed

[Someone has been busy today. The kitchen and Distillery has been noisy and bustling, a departure from the much more quiet days when the illness was spreading through the Bastion and survival was once more on the uncertain scale of things. Somewhere around the time that the night cycle begins, when the sky is more of an orange-ish glow fading in to blue and purple, a large spread of food has been set up near the Distillery with glass lanterns hanging overhead.

Just like any other time there has been a feast be it random or planned, there is a wide selection of food on the covered, decorated tables. There's even meat this time! And yes, Aoi, your doughnuts have been transferred from your trees to a platter on the table. There's even a section for Paar, complete with massive amounts of bbq'd mammoth meat! You can thank Colin for that.

There's really no announcement for the feast, but chances are if you're outside at any point today you'll see the progress towards the set up, or smell the delicious scents wafting over the Bastion. (There might even be music playing, if Colin finds a way to provide it!)

Either way, come dusk food will be ready and mingling will be had!]

(ooc: Standard mingle log right here. Throw your threads up, poke other people's threads, and eat all the food!)

Comments

[bedheadstyle]

Exactly!

[Which is why he's more than willing to stuff his face full of food.]

As much as she wants me around. Sometimes she gets annoyed and just wants to be left alone. But that's fine! I think everyone gets like that.

[bulletofhope]

True... nothing wrong with wanting your solitude.

[ A beat. ]

Though you still want to be with her too, right?

[bedheadstyle]

Well... of course. She's my friend.

[Still not getting it.]

[bulletofhope]

No, no... I meant as a lover. Right?

[ Haruka Kokonose: Super High School Level Obliviousness ]

[bedheadstyle]

[At least until that moment.]

Wh-what? What makes you think something like that?!

[bulletofhope]

Nothing--! Nothing... I was just joking.

[ Really. Naegi raises his arms in defense, laughing awkwardly before quickly changing the subject. ]

... that said, how is Takane doing, anyway?

[bedheadstyle]

... she's... cranky. That's to be expected, though.

[He hesitates, then adds quietly]

Actually I think she's pretty depressed about all of this. Not that she'd ever admit it. She's sleeping a lot more than she usually does and it's hard to get her out of the apartment most days.

[bulletofhope]

Ah... I can't blame her. With the kind of situation we've been thrown into, I can understand why it would be depressing...

[ Naegi himself feels that had he not been in Hope's Peak before this, the circumstances they're in would be overwhelming to him... ]

I think... what she needs now is for you to be there for her. You're very close to her, right? I think she'd appreciate it, even if she doesn't say or act it outright.

[bedheadstyle]

We didn't have a lot of friends back home but the ones we did have we were pretty close to. I'm sure she doesn't like thinking about that, or the family that we both lost...

[Her grandmother, his parents... and of course Shintaro and Ayano.]

I'm trying to be, but she keeps acting like she doesn't want me around all that much. I'm probably just annoying her, really.

[bulletofhope]

... I don't blame you or Takane at all. I have some friends where I'm from that I wouldn't mind seeing again, even if I know a few of them have arrived here safely... it's not the same, if that makes any sense?

[ read: some of the more pleasant people that died during the Hope's Peak killing game... ]

Can you really be so sure about that, though? She could be putting up a tough front because she doesn't want you to see her falling apart because of our current situation...

[bedheadstyle]

I don't know. She won't talk to me about it. I try to bring it up and she just gets angry at me...

[Which is her usual way of being anyway so Haruka is having difficulty telling what's genuine and what's hiding her true feelings.]

[bulletofhope]

... sounds like that's her usual way of dealing with things, based on what you've told me about her.

[ Takane plz ]

... I still think it would be good if you stayed around her. Be there for her. Because whether she's aware of it or not, you're... kinda the only person she knows from home that's here with her now.

[bedheadstyle]

[Takane please is a pretty common way of looking at things in relation to her.]

Well... if that's what you think I should do.

[bulletofhope]

I think it's all you really can do... sometimes, support and reassurance is all that a person can give.

[ Especially in this unique situation they're all in... ]

[bedheadstyle]

That's true. I just want her to be alright.

[bulletofhope]

... I think she will be. She has someone like you there for her when she needs it; that's certainly a lot more than if she were going through everything by herself.

[ Naegi really believes this. ]

[bedheadstyle]

That's true... I hate to think of what would have happened if she wound up here alone.

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... really, both you and Takane just need to take it one day at a time. It's all any of us can do here given the circumstances, as depressing as it may sound.

[bedheadstyle]

It is kind of depressing.

[Well a lot more than "kind of" but...]

But it's almost like an adventure, too.

[bulletofhope]

An adventure...? How so?

[ Because that's certainly not a word he'd use to describe their current predicament right now... ]

[bedheadstyle]

[Haruka knows it's sounds weird, but that's just how he sees it.]

I didn't get to go many places back home, because of my condition. There was just... school, and sometimes going to places in town. But there was this whole world beyond that and I knew deep down I'd probably never get to see it.

But now I'm here, and even if that world is gone this is still some place new for me. With new faces and new things to see.

[bulletofhope]

[ . . .

It takes a while for Naegi to process it, but it... does make sense, in a way. The world beyond the walls, as it were. He could relate to a degree since he was in that same situation in Hope's Peak, though he wasn't compelled to kill to find out what was beyond its walls.

Still, it was the first time he'd considered this as such. ]

I guess that's true if you put it like that, huh...? I never really considered it like that but it makes sense...

[bedheadstyle]

[He knows it sounds weird, and he even gives a nervous, odd laugh to that effect.]

I know it's strange. Kind of depressing, too. That's just how I see it, though...

[bulletofhope]

I wouldn't necessarily call it depressing, actually.

[ Naegi tilts his head, glancing at Haruka curiously. ]

Sure, it could be depressing, but... I think it admirable, actually. It's a better way to view things than if we just took it for what it is.

Of course, it doesn't change the fact that our circumstances are still bad as is, but it's better than seeing everything as completely hopeless, right?

[bedheadstyle]

R... really? You think so?

[Color Haruka surprised. He's far more used to Takane's reactions to things he says.]