Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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[impacter]

Then I'll assume my guess about you being half-blooded wasn't quite right. So somewhere at least in the realm of two thousand at an absolute minimum, six thousand as a healthy median, perhaps into ten thousand or higher if your previous lives were long... again, not knowing much else for an average lifespan.

[fellheart]

[ a mild half-smile. ]

I did not exactly wake up in this life remembering all the purrevious. Before that, I believed myself just as human as anyone else.

[ (his tail lashes restlessly, against his will. ah. that's a downside to this dare, huh. anyway—) ]

Well. [ the truth charm and alcohol both encourage a freer tongue than he might normally possess, but let's see ... ] I can tell you I can never have been considered full-blooded, all things considered. And purrhaps your guesses are as good as they're going to get, given the limitations of what you know. Your original estimate of the maximum was closer.

[impacter]

Mm. Then yes, I think that's a very long-lived life in its entirety. Though... I can't imagine the shock of having to be introduced to that. Was it hard to accept?

[fellheart]

[ a sudden, abrupt bark of laughter,

he's going to need to down some of his drink before this next response, because honestly. ]

More than you could even begin to know.

[impacter]

[Yeah.... yeah he can't even begin to wrap his head around that. At least he'd gone through his own gradually, with the luxury of his own physical and mental limitations filtering out more and more as the millenia went on. He waded into this neverending life deeper and deeper in increments, the primary reason he could tolerate its emptiness.

What agony, to have to plummet to those depths unprepared.]

You don't need to speak of it. Still... I'm sorry to hear that much. That would be enough to break a normal man.

[fellheart]

Well.

[ a lazy chaser of water, before he picks his wineglass up once more, balancing it between his fingers.

the sprawl of his form in his seat is languid, lax. unbothered in a way that can't possibly be true. ]

I cannot, in any way, shape, or form, have been said to take my awakening gracefully.

[ thanks, truth charm. ]

[impacter]

Mm.

A topic for another time, perhaps.

[He already dislikes this honesty charm a lot, and hearing a story of someone losing themselves is not a topic for public spaces, in his eyes.]

It would be interesting to hear your perspectives later.

[fellheart]

[ this is a hilarious conversation to be having in backdated thread time but ]

Another time indeed, purrhaps.

... though indeed, I wonder what you expect to get out of such a conversation.

[impacter]

Does every talk need to have a gain?

[Like, yeah it's hard sometimes, sure, but still!]

Shall we just keep it as one long-lived soul to another, and leave it at that?

[fellheart]

I find most conversations these days tend to, one way or another.

[ the rs still being rolled helps keeps his tone flippant rather than anything more edged. a lot of things that shouldn't be become transactional when the other party only approaches you because they want something of you. ]

Besides, I know I'm far from one of those whose company you'd willingly seek out with any regularity.

[impacter]

Maybe not. You've made your impatience towards me pretty clear, after all.

But it makes for such a narrow view of the world if we stick only to those whose experiences mirror our own entirely, doesn't it? It doesn't mean we need to agree, or to like each other at the end of it. But I can't say I know much about you or what it is that drives you if I can't be bothered to ask.

I would rather save any judgement or respect of you for the words that come from your own mouth, rather than my own assumptions.

[fellheart]

Don't take it particularly personally. You're hardly the only one to run afoul of any impatience I might have, and I'm well aware my temper is mercurial.

[ it ebbs and flows, comes and passes just as quickly. it's brandished in not a dissimilar way to solomon's own foibles, a measured distance kept from the world around them. a flare here, quieter flickers there.

but his judgments are not so unsteady a thing. ]

My opinion of you is not based on something so fickle as my patience or the lack thereof.

... And, I suppose, in response to your question: I would like to think that we weren't made to be alone.

[ whatever the truth of that may actually be for 'we' as a general collective, anyway. solomon only rephrases something robin's said to him in the past, after all, but robin's smile doesn't reach his eyes at this point. ]

[impacter]

Mm, I'll consider it. [It's not flippantly said, about the closest thing to a serious response he can choose to give for Robin's own self-awareness.

As far as his view on Solomon?]

I'd be disappointed if it was. You seem too broad with your thinking to resort to that out of anything but pettiness, perhaps. But it doesn't match what I've seen of you so far.

[He can see how that smile travels, a statement of body language without mirth, without firm connection - just empty enough to be polite and only polite. He's worn such a smile before, and knows it's not always an invitation to be challenged.]

Mn. I'd also like to think that much. But circumstance and consequences, choice and fate, whether our own or from others... they lead us as they will sometimes.

Loneliness is a rather large enemy to conquer the longer life goes on, isn't it?

[fellheart]

[ for a moment, his smile seems almost brittle— but it passes quickly, and might very well have just been a trick of the light, an odd relief of shadow. ]

Now we're definitely reaching conversational territories most likely best not broached under our current circumstances. If you would actually have a conversation with me, then approach me for one later and ask your questions again.

Perhaps I might think about answering them sincerely.

[ though presumably this conversation is happening before solomon purposely needles at him, so? hm. ]

[impacter]

[yeah this is before the Great Groveling of Jing Yuan because otherwise lol and also lmao]

No need to worry. There's plenty I would rather not discuss with the air full of drink and honesty outside of our control, Robin. We're bound to talk or react in a way we're going to regret otherwise.

Thank you, though, for enlightening me, even if it was pretty brief.