Pizza Party

[ruffboi]

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[ruffboi]

Hey, hey, c'mon. He's injured, too.

[Anyway.]

Look, we wanted to talk to you 'cause we know you've got a role, and also we've got roles! Plus, pizza. Fun, right?

[survivaltricks]

[TOO LATE HE HAS STOLEN TAAKO'S DRINK, DON'T BE A JERK AKIRA]

[though afterwards he does find a seat some??? where??? to sit in as he nurses the martini glass close to his chest but doesn't actually drink from it]

How long have you all known about each other. . .?

[chaoticlootral]

Well, I had good suspicions on, uh, a few of them for a week or so now, and then confirmed the rest Saturday.

[survivaltricks]

[points at wei wuxian, beau, taako and magnus]

You four were on my list after this past week for various reasons.

[then to flayn!]

Sanji and I found her last week.

[and then to tonbokiri]

. . . he did a good job of flying under my radar, though.

[chaoticlootral]

I don’t think I was, like, trying to be subtle for you, Brain Genius.

[SORRY AKIRA]

[survivaltricks]

-- to be fair, I wasn't, either!

[HE WAS SO TIRED OF BEING ALONE :(]

[chaoticlootral]

[GIGGLESNORT

but. seriously. they. listen, we’ve all been through ‘feeling like we are so alone’ shit akira. what a mood.]

Well, you’re part of the gang now, bud. Listen— we, um, I don’t think you can see it, but after we all met up, a little something happened. [He holds up his wrist.] The sequins on our scrunchies started to turn gold. So we figured we’d loop you in, see what happens?

[survivaltricks]

[this is why he was sad about Sanji u_u but being here-- surrounded by people he knows have been in the same boat as him for the past six or so weeks-- does help him feel a little more. . . at ease]

Hn. . .?

[he lifts up his own scrunchie, and-- as of the tag above-- the sequins on his own scrunchie begin to turn a bright, glittering gold as well]

. . . ah!

[givethemhell]

Ah—! Oh!!

[THE GOLD SEQUINS.]

[daifukus]

[ oh!!! ]

[daifukus]

[ tonbo's just gonna be real smug about this all night. i'm so sorry ]

[survivaltricks]

[HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE]

[givethemhell]

Ah, really? That's a lot of us, haha - not bad.

[GOOD WORK AKIRA.]

[survivaltricks]

[nodding at wei wuxian]

To be fair. . . Sanji was more suspicious of you than I was.

[a lopsided, almost sad smile. sanji isn't here and that sort of makes him sad :( sanji wanted this the most, he thinks. . .]

He was going to check you this week.

[chaoticlootral]

And what exactly was his plan once he found out?

[survivaltricks]

Same as it was with me and Flayn.

Make an offer for an alliance.

[a beat]

Though I guess I'm the one who called it "an alliance." He was too tsundere for that.

[givethemhell]

[He huffs out a little laugh, but Akira also gets a sympathetic look. Losing someone you'd been working with when you otherwise feel Alone In The Void is rough and BOY DO THEY ALL KNOW IT...]

Hah... Well, at least we've cut the work for his successor down.

[survivaltricks]

[hmmmm]

Are you sure he'll have a successor?

[ruffboi]

Like. Sunday.

[survivaltricks]

[oh thank god]

How'd you manage to get past the artificial gag and confirm it with each other?

[ruffboi]

Uh.

[He looks like he's thinking really hard for a second, but.]

Nope. Can't really explain that one. But some of it was just figuring things out. And then once we did, stuff started to change? We could, uh, talk a little more.

[survivaltricks]

[makes a face, but he won't press, because he knows how it goes]

Mmm, yeah. Sanji and Flayn were literally the only two I could talk about things with. I think it was the act of knowing that lifted the gag order.

Heart did say I could straight up ask people if I thought they had a role and maybe be a response since I had one too, but I didn't get the chance to put that in action.

[ruffboi]

Yeah. Heard a rumor that it can work if you show somebody a blank sheet of paper and lie your ass off!

[Lol.]

But. Yeah. We're all on different teams? I think we can tell you - two on each. We only knew about our teammate. But once we started working together, a lot of things were different. So. I think we're on the right track.

[disreguarded]

[ beau giggles at that first part ]

[survivaltricks]

[SNORTS AS HE LOOKS AT BEAU BECAUSE HE HEARD ABOUT THAT]

[Akira looks down at the scrunchie on his wrist, the golden sequins that now decorate the ruffles. he smiles a little]

I think you're right in that we are.

[it's a bit. . . warmer, now that he knows it isn't just him and Sanji and Flayn]

All right, then. Should we start sounding off teams and special privileges?