dreampost: even more after dark edition

[wotanon]

[ shit's going to be sexy in here.

please list what you're open or not open to somewhere in your toplevel pls and thank ]

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[constellationprize]

... Maki?

[ in keeping with the theme she's likewise naked, limbs from the hip down replaced with a set of inky black octopus tentacles, shining faintly iridescent in the dim light. bits of the same coloring mark the rest of her body in uneven splotches along her arms and torso, trailing down to join the mass at her abdomen

she's a bit cautious in how she approaches, though it would seem - by the way she fixes her gaze on everything in the room but the glass, by the blithe-as-ever tone she continues in, it's less to do with maki and more to do with being underwater. ]

Am I dreaming about you right now, or am I in your dream? Um - I guess you could be in my dream too...?

[rollplayinghouse]

[Maki sits up slightly and looks over Aradia's tentacles.]

A dream...?

[and looks around the room]

...I guess it must be mine, unless we have even more in common than I thought.

[she seems fairly unperturbed about this]

[constellationprize]

I'm not sure if I'd dream about being underwater or not, but maybe we do?

[ glances down at a tentacle a little idly, then back to maki, ]

Um - were you waiting for someone else? I'll try to leave if I can!

[rollplayinghouse]

[She has to consider that for a moment.]

...No... I wasn't waiting for anyone.

[constellationprize]

Oh, but aren't you naked...?

[ hmmm ]

... Were you waiting for me?

[rollplayinghouse]

I wasn't waiting for anyone in particular...?

[hmmmm]

No, that's still not quite right. It's not like it could be just anyone...

[constellationprize]

I just thought I would try bullying you a little - I'm sorry, I'm still learning . . .

[ settling down on the floor near the bed - ostensibly she's sitting down, tentacles curling around her relaxed ]

Then - even though you're not waiting for anyone in particular, there are particular people that you want to see, right?

[rollplayinghouse]

It's fine. It's just that it's not bad that you're here.

There are definitely people I'd want to see, and people I'd be unhappy to see, but probably there are people I wouldn't think of who I'd still be happy to see...?

[constellationprize]

Well, we can just talk instead!

What about Intensity? What if he showed up?

[rollplayinghouse]

[flushes slightly]

Well, obviously he would be the best...

[constellationprize]

[ small nod. she gets it ]

Did you get to ask him...?

[rollplayinghouse]

...Not yet. There was the memory game, so we had to talk about some other stuff...

[constellationprize]

Oh -

Was that okay...? It seemed like some people had a hard time there...

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm... A few of his unitmates had a pretty hard time, yeah. We also talked about my memory, though, which was... well, not good. But it wasn't bad, and it helped to figure out some stuff.

[constellationprize]

... What did you remember?

[rollplayinghouse]

[her face darkens a bit]

...It's complicated. I'd thought, based on my last memory... that I killed someone I cared about. The first person I ever cared about, actually. And that I was going to get a bunch of other people killed, too, because I'd given up.

It's all still pretty confusing, but it sounds like that didn't happen, at least.

[constellationprize]

Oh, well - if that's not what happened, then isn't that a good thing...?

[rollplayinghouse]

...That part is definitely good, yeah.

[constellationprize]

[ slowly, like she doesn't quiiite get it ]

... Is there a bad part...?

[rollplayinghouse]

Well, we were still trapped in a killing game. And a lot of people were still dead. Possibly all of humanity was dead but the five or six of us who were left in the game? I wasn't sure.

1/2

[constellationprize]

2/4 actually

[constellationprize]

[ looks away, favoring one of the less fishy walls ]

Oh. Um -

3/4

[constellationprize]

[ hold on a second ]

[constellationprize]

- Wait - Maki! That's...!

[ awful? ]

[rollplayinghouse]

[s...shrugs]

I'd already decided it didn't matter what happened, before, because there's no way it was good. There's some chance now that it wasn't quite as bad as I thought.