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]

Comments

[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.