pc catchall for junpei (crashout)

[uncurtained]

IM PUTTING THE TIMON GIF IN HERE LATER YOU CANT BEAT ME

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[crashout]

[THANKS BECK but actually maybe he phrased it that way to try and ease the tension. Shit's rough, sometimes you gotta make shitty jokes.]

After that, Prompto's portrait made him follow the lead of taking pictures of said-lapdance and the kiss that followed. We had to explain to Hizamaru that it's not a dance to ward off demons and apparently I'm too stiff of a dancer for someone who tried to eat a condom. [Go figure.

But his expression grows serious again.] The paintings were moving on their own though, that's the thing. Leaving their own frames, visiting others...sound familiar?

[uncurtained]

I mean, I’ve seen them move around in their frames, if that’s what you mean.

[However.]

I can’t believe I’m asking this, but did you really try to eat a condom?

[crashout]

--not me! Hizamaru! Do I look like someone who would eat a condom?!

[He'll get back to, like, everything in a second.]

[uncurtained]

...Can I plead the fifth?

[oh my god]

[crashout]

Beck! [WOW??????] If this is what you think of our friendship, I'm gonna have to leave.

[Oh. Look. He actually has an emotion. Wow.]

[uncurtained]

[She laughs, even if there’s a slight wince when she does.]

Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Did you successfully prevent his condom eating?

[crashout]

Unfortunately that was a little before I met him on the first day, but since then I think he's avoided it. So anyway it was some weird sexy game of Simon Says that only ended when I got pushed out of his lap and Prompto took my place. But I had Prompto tell me about the photos he took. Says there was blood all over those, too, even if they were just pictures of Hizamaru and I. I told him to delete them before but I'm almost hoping he didn't listen so I can look closer.

[uncurtained]

That sounds... incredibly awkward.

[And she makes a face when he mentions the blood. Gross.]

What prize did you get?

[crashout]

Awkward is one way of putting it, yeah. [Especially given how he felt about it, but he's not going to clarify. Instead, he seems to be debating on sharing that part.]

I think it's chalk. I want to do some tests on it, see what it does, but it also came with a piece of paper I can't read.

[uncurtained]

[She tilts her head.]

Why can't you read it?

[crashout]

Written in a language I can't read mostly.

[uncurtained]

Can you tell what language it is?

[crashout]

Not anything normal. [Hm.] I'm not a literature major, but I'm bilingual. And the job means dealing with a handful of languages that I can recognize on sight even if I can't read them. Whatever this is isn't even close to anything earthly, I think.

[uncurtained]

[She frowns.]

Can I see?

[Not that she thinks she can decipher it, but she's curious about what it looks like now.]

[crashout]

...just don't tell anybody about this in case it's something weird, alright? [But he pulls out a hunk of chalk and a strip of paper. The paper itself looks like it was ripped from the page it was on, but the language is definitely unidentifiable. Very obviously not-earth-like.]

[uncurtained]

[She reaches out to take it, wincing slightly at the feeling in her arm as she does, but as she looks it over...]

Wait, why don't you want to tell people?

[crashout]

[...shrug. He doesn't feel like explaining he's still mildly paranoid.]

I don't mind telling people I think I can trust. Is that better?

[uncurtained]

I didn't mean to say it was a bad thing... I was just curious.

[She brushes back a strand of misplaced hair.]

[crashout]

[He takes a breath and exhales slowly.]

No, sorry. I get it. [Take these things from him and do as you wanna do, Beck.] I'm just thinking about demonic possession and not knowing when it'll start.

[uncurtained]

...You think that's what's going to happen?

[Bad!! After a few moments, though, she hands everything back to him.]

As expected, I got nothing.

[crashout]

[Into his pockets it goes.]

...have you talked to Dick yet? About what happened yesterday. We weren't sure which of us was going to run into you first.

[uncurtained]

[After a moment, she nods.]

Hard to look him in the eyes knowing it might be there... Right?

[crashout]

[A nod.] Take something like that into account, plus the things we saw and heard, and that little announcement on Monday.

It's too much evidence to only be coincidental, don't you think?

[uncurtained]

Maybe. Okay, probably, but...

[She sighs.]

It's just... hard to think about. The recording on Monday said something about not making the mistakes they did, right? So - maybe we'll be able to stop that from happening in the first place.

[crashout]

The recording also said everyone started turning on each other after the first week. We're starting to run out of time.

[Ah. The real reason he isn't outright trusting everyone.] I'm all for stopping bodily possession and mind control, but...we don't really know how yet. Unless sex is the answer somehow. [There's a smirk.] Like if the body's already busy, it can't take the time to be possessed or something.