w7 not-curfew: everyone confess your crushes to ylfa.

[rewriter]

[we are depressed. we are in ikea. we are depressed in ikea.]

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[westedge]

[ i'm sorry he is facedown on a bed near a majority of people (or on the floor) and just sort of lamenting his life choices. ]

Not how I thought my day would go, but sure. May as well happen.

[camena]

[ probably sitting next to him. and just patting him on the back. there, there. ]

I'd be really impressed if you had predicted this, somehow.

[westedge]

[ rolling a little to glance at her. ]

I mean not to this extent, no. [ but he has been anxious the whole week already thank you! ] But it sort of sounds like we have a new plan for in the morning.

[camena]

Right. Destroy the graffiti. Buuut is it gonna be as easy as just painting over it or something?

[westedge]

Of course not. If Ruby put them there herself she likely has a few traps or something set up or something that'll stop us from immediately removing it.

[camena]

It would be nice if it was as easy as just fixing some tape players...

[westedge]

I thought of those, too, when Nightingale was talking about jumping to points in time. Kinda wish it was that simple myself. But at least we've got a head start on experiencing time loops?

[camena]

I hope it's not too weird. Like when we kept... skipping things and blacking out.

[ this did not happen for him. she doesn't know. it's fine. ]

[westedge]

...um? [ what the fuck is she talking about. ] Are you...talking about when you'd just totally zone out on me?

[camena]

No, when we'd like... Go somewhere and then suddenly be somewhere else. Like getting slingshot back and forth around the island.

[westedge]

...I feel like I'm blanking on this because I don't totally remember that? Except for that first time in the cave.

[camena]

It happened like a million times. At Fort Milner? And in the woods?

[westedge]

[ . . . ]

Is this like...is this a different loop thing again? I have no idea what you're talking about, like, at all.

[teenrebellion]

[ probably sitting on the floor next to him. his guitar(s) got thanos snapped so he doesn't even have anything to do this sucks. ]

After that letter, it kind of feels like we're going insane.

[westedge]

I mean I kind of felt that way when they all started showing up, but at this point I've accepted it I think. Probably not the takeaway though. [ thinking about the letter though. ] They seemed to be all in the same place again so...they'll be working on their side, at least.

[teenrebellion]

That's what Nightingale said, anyway.

They didn't even tell us what we're supposed to do, just... "instructions to come." I hate this.

[westedge]

Just more missions for us to fumble our ways through and try not to get ourselves killed. Again. I don't even know if we can die if we're already dead. Which, by the way, dying totally sucked. [ god. this is exhausting. ] I don't like waiting but regrouping tonight is our best option for now.

[teenrebellion]

No kidding. If I have to explode a third time, I really will punch Ruby.

[ he has absolutely no desire to do that but god it would be so tempting. ]

They just told me that we should rest for tonight, because who knows what we'll have to do once we get started. That... kind of scares me a little.

[westedge]

God please don't explode a third time, I'm so tired of this happening to you. [ it's never even been kazuki's fault. ]

...I keep thinking about that "defeat" graffiti at Hachiko. I do think we're gonna have to fight at some point, but I don't know what or how. [ so yeah. it's a little scary. ]

[teenrebellion]

It's only one more time than the rest of you...

Yeah. Me, too. Everyone who did have to fight against them had a lot of trouble, and... we don't exactly have a psych that's fight-oriented, either.

[westedge]

I can still hate it. [ mm... ] We can use drift to ram into stuff, at least. I've done it a few times, at least enough to get stuff off our backs. And we've practiced dodging and teleporting a lot, right? We can be okay.

[teenrebellion]

Dodging and teleporting really aren't as good for defeating things, though. That's the problem.

[westedge]

It is if we're working with somebody who has a psych that's meant for combat. I don't mind being bait if it's gonna get attention off of somebody who can defeat whatever the hell we're up against.

[teenrebellion]

Okay, but I kind of mind you being bait?

Besides, that means we'd have to split up. And... I don't know. I kind of don't want to, this far in.

[westedge]

[ he can respect that. ]

...whatever happens, you, me and Alex. No matter what. We'll work with other people when we need to but otherwise we're sticking together.