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Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

[When he sees it, he pauses in both surprise and confusion.]

...Satin made a whole design?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

Satin made a whole design.

[ wry. some disquiet too, echoed fear from the moment ]

Couldn't tell me what it was either, except that it wasn't from the Dame and it felt right.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

...Influence from the visions, then...?

[It's disquieting to say the least, but he does get to work applying the ointment once the initial surprise passes.]

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

[ swallows ]

Something like that, I guess.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

...It seems out of character for him, but even I've experienced mental effects.

[Distressing that it led to this, though!!]

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

Wait, you have?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

...Yeah. I went after Cinth the other day because of it.

[Reluctant, ashamed.]

All those mind games got to me.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

[ okay, snow might still be working, but reaching out to gently squeeze his shoulder ]

What happened?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

Mm... He was joking with Foxy, but in my head, it sounded much more sinister. ...I still catch myself, sometimes, thinking that way.

That guy in the vision... he was always looking for situations like that, I think. A stray word or phrase that could mean something bad on the horizon for him.

[It's hard not to feel bad about the whole thing - for how he behaved around others now as a result, but also for the guy who had such a complete lack of trust in the world.]

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

[ doesn't matter whether or not snow is still working, actually; he's pulling snow into a hug right now ]

I'm sorry. That sounds really scary.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

[He'd about finished up anyway, so while the hug is a surprise, he doesn't make a move to leave it - instead leans into it, taking comfort in the show of affection.]

...I didn't expect it to affect me that much. I just have to be more careful next time.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

[ holds tight ]

You don't have to keep taking them. The visions. Less chance of a next time if you stop.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

True... but I have other reasons for taking them, too.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

Like...what?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

...I suppose you could call it curiosity.

Why do you take them, yourself?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

[ quiet for a moment ]

Honestly? They're kind of like...practice. All those weird, terrible, scary visions help me brace myself for the performances. I know it sounds crazy, but they sort of make the pressure easier to handle.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

Because it shows you an example of someone else enduring weird, terrible, scary things?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

Yeah, exactly. It's not easy for vision guy either, but he's more...I don't know. Capable? He wouldn't have freaked out at some of the stuff that's happened here. And I wouldn't now, either.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

Do you want to be more like him?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

I want to be...

[ trails off, considering ]

...strong enough to protect what matters. And I think he has more of an idea how that feels than I do.

So yeah, I guess so. In some ways.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

[His feelings in response are - complicated. He doesn't want that, but he knows it's not his place to say what Aster can and cannot be, so he's immediately trying to bury that initial feeling.]

You and Cinth both, huh.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

I guess?

[ shrugs ]

I don't think it's the same thing. I'm not — whatever. But I've been bad at basically all of these performances, and basically everything in between too, and that'd be okay anywhere else? But not on the murder cruise deluxe.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

You really think that?

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[audacity]

Um. There isn't a single performance that went better because I was there. But there are plenty that went worse.

Re: afternoon 227, during the carnival

[bondsofsuffering]

You did fine in all the social ones, though. And besides that, every time death was on the table, I'm the one with a 2 for 2 track record for arguing the choice that got us all killed.