audience: cloud

[mygod]

Comments

[residentmerc]

Feeling's mutual. Guessing you haven't made any progress?

[mygod]

[ they pause, thoughtful ]

... steps forward and steps back.

After what happened to Death, it was a larger step back.

[residentmerc]

... Harder to look into things with one less member?

[ and also like emotional damage or whatever ]

[mygod]

Yes. And they suspect the three of us more now, so we need to exercise a higher level of caution.

[residentmerc]

That's about what I expected. [ hmm ] Kind of figured you guys would try to stay clear of us for a few days to let shit die down, to be honest.

[mygod]

The veil goes up when we speak to you in large groups, which is the most suspicious. Otherwise, I do not believe they have all the time in the world to monitor us in every interaction...

It is also suspicious for us to change behavior entirely if we were never doing anything wrong.

[residentmerc]

So stuff like that trial and our first meeting?

[ was it up for halloween... was it ]

[mygod]

And the candy.

[ yea it was ]

[residentmerc]

.......

You put it up for that...?

[ im not saying he is judging but also ]

[mygod]

You were all literally being given treats.

[residentmerc]

Yeah, no one made you do that.

[ sorry he was too busy making out with aventurine to think about things gosh ]

[mygod]

Pesto was excited about it, and Death had a soft spot for holidays.

[residentmerc]

[ damn. now he is dead so he can't even make fun of the thing. ]

... Still kind of a weird holiday.

[mygod]

I understood nothing about it.

The candy wasn't bad though.

[ they kept eating it even though they got cursed,, ]

[residentmerc]

... Wasn't that one cursed?

[mygod]

Plenty of them were.

[ it's an easy opening so, ]

Too distracted to notice?

[residentmerc]

[ stop tALKING ABOUT IT the man is DEAD ]

Too busy gathering them to eat them.

[mygod]

[ laughs ]

I see.

[ in the most doubting voice ever ]

Did you not receive a new batch today?

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. Shared them with Aerith.

[ mmmmmoving on ]

That Pestilence's idea of a reward?

[mygod]

How quickly you both tend to rebound.

[ stop ]

Probably. They really like the whole candy bit.

[residentmerc]

Both? [ WHO IS AERITH REBOUNDING FROM THAT ISN'T ZACK (he clearly did not mean aerith) but also, alright: ] Look, the guy's dead, and I'm not the biggest fan of having my head messed with. Give it a rest.

[mygod]

[ simply: ]

I teased him plenty when he came seeking solace after it wore off, so consider it a matter of evening the score.

But fine. If it truly irks you, I'll drop it.

[ they just wanted to mock both parties equally ]

[residentmerc]

... Seriously, how many people did he talk to about this...?

[ everyone keeps talking to cloud about it!!!! aventurine!!!!! ]

I thought Yuffie was bad enough.

[mygod]

[ laughs faintly, but not too mockingly this time. aventurine is dead after all... ]

Could it be that you are not processing it with enough people?

[residentmerc]

What's there to process? It wasn't real.

[ cloud "never process a single emotion and bury it deep inside until you die" strife ]