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[selfimmolation]

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[sharkgirl]

[

huh]

N... ooo? Not where I'm from, but I'm assuming it is where you're at.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah, I've seen all kinds of hair color. And fur color, too, I guess? But pink-- there's a pretty famous pirate with pink hair that's been on the seas as long as Pops has.

w0, FRIDAY 2

[sharkgirl]

[lucky for you i already had a preloaded one:]

hey are your doors locked???
ace
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanswerrrrrrrrrrrr

is this going through?
are you ok
what is going on
i'm with temenos and hanako and a couple other people in the theater the door is shut and we can't get out

[and then timestamped ten minutes later:]

if i'm not around tomorrow try to find my phone
if someone hurt us i'm going to record it i won't go out this easy

[selfimmolation]

hey are you okay?
I just got these
and the newspaper.

[sharkgirl]

i'm fine
it's fine

where are you

[selfimmolation]

near the casino now?
I've been walking around.

[sharkgirl]

stay there

[and a few minutes later a pink cat will come wandering in his direction. she hops up to climb him, carefully, and thunks her head against his neck. you know what sucks]

[selfimmolation]

[ he'll crouch down to help her hop up tbh, holding her so she doesn't slip when he stands back up ]

Hey. [ there's a lot to wonder about, but he'll start with the many. many texts ] You said you got locked in too?

[sharkgirl]

[thanks buddy]

Yeah. Me and Hanako were screwing around in the theater with the rotating stage, and Temenos figured out the door was locked. Yae Miko and... some other guys were there too.

I thought we were gonna get ganked because of what Hanako did at the party.

[selfimmolation]

If it was retaliation for Hanako, they got the wrong guy. [ scritching absent-mindedly ] Everyone says they got locked some place. I was... in the cafe.

[ sighs a little ]

Whatever happened in there, I guess I slept right through it.

[sharkgirl]

[she leans into it.]

... Why did we all pass out like that? [...] You fell asleep right at midnight?

[selfimmolation]

... Thereabout, I think? I didn't check the time. I've passed out before, but it's usually when I'm eating. [ he has comedic timing narcolepsy. ] But if you did too... Maybe we were knocked out by something?

[sharkgirl]

I didn't see the time but - it was about an hour, I think, that we were all awake.

[her tail curls around the back of his neck gently. she seems like she's going to say something else, but she just hums out a song absently instead.]

[selfimmolation]

[ the song humming takes him a little by surprise and is also distracting. scritch scritch and fuck it he starts to walk. ]

Sounds about right. [ he mulls it over before: ] Sorry I didn't text back.

[ he couldn't, but she was worried, so he's sorry. ]

[sharkgirl]

[she doesn't mean to do it, and she kind of just makes a face when she does. why.

a pause, and then:]

It's fine, don't... like, it's not a big deal. [it was a little but it's okay. she clears her throat.] ... Did you talk to him a lot?

[selfimmolation]

... Kind of. We mostly talked about Groot. Or through him, I guess? I like the kid. [ he frowns a little, looking up ] I wonder how he's doing now. Did you? Talk to him.

[sharkgirl]

Yeah. I promised Groot I was going to figure out how to speak his language.

[...]

And Rocket said I'd fit in with his crew.

[selfimmolation]

[ ah. ]

I didn't hear much about them, but I can see that. [ if the crew could have people like groot and rocket in it. ] Guess we'll have to see if we can figure out Groot's language on our own. Can't leave the kid unable to be understood by everybody, right?

[sharkgirl]

[zetsu took the knife and twisted it as far as it could go]

... Yeah. Yeah, you're right. [she is glad she is a cat right now. cats don't have human functioning tear ducts!]

Do - do you... [she stops. starts again.] Do you think they picked him because he wasn't human?

[selfimmolation]

Oh. [ he says that like he hadn't thought about it, because he hadn't. ] I don't know. There's always people like that, who think less of others because of what they look like. [ [one piece voice] if you're not a furry it's racism ] Reigen seemed to think we were being targeted for the hero thing. Goat and the others used to be twelve.

[sharkgirl]

Yeah. I talked to Phoenix about it. They said the other four, um. Marigold Monkey, Silver Horse, Pink Pig, and Black Dragon. They died right before we all got here, in the big fight that destroyed the city.

But he wasn't really the type to - it just doesn't feel right that he'd be the first to go. Not for hero reasons. He blew up the fountain.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah, I heard as much.

[ there's a huff there ]

... Makes sense. [ that it was rocket, he means. he shakes his head. she is still being pet ftr ] He said he and Groot had done heroics before. Though...sort of by circumstances. Maybe that's why? If they knew he already was one in his world.

[sharkgirl]

[the only reason she is as calm as she is is because he is petting her]

... Yeah. Yeah, maybe that was it. [and not because he was different. she just falls silent here, for a bit, and then:] Did you have any weird things happen to you? With the - like, I can't stop feeling like I want to sing.

[selfimmolation]

[ this is great timing because mods forgot me and only give me this ten minutes ago. the perils of curfewing alone ]

... Huh. Maybe? I've been really craving coffee since this morning, but I don't even like it most of the time. Is that why you were humming earlier?

[sharkgirl]

[HELP don't curfew alone i hate you i've already lost one blorbo to tutorial]

Mmhm. And uh, Saya was really hungry, and I think Reigen could hear ringing in his ears. [thuds her head - somewhere, is he carrying her what is even going on here, she just hides her face.]