cancry | sleepover sleepover SLEEPOVER

[ With the handful of new Executors awakening after the first batch, Rei's starting to get a little bit dithery. They're getting to be a big group now and while she's more than grateful for the help (and the company), she still finds herself worried about the group's cohesion. After all, Lion had admitted that he'd lashed out when he'd first awakened, Kingslayer and Pariah were at each other's throats and Iris wasn't even sure she wanted to be here at all.

Not that Rei could blame her.

But if they're going to be a team, then they at least need to be civil with each other. And getting in a bit of bonding before they have to go down and potentially double-die couldn't hurt.

So Rei borrows one of the hotel suites – a 'luxury' suite, according to the receptionist but to Rei's eyes, it just looks tacky as all get out. But it's big enough for the whole group and after spending an afternoon dragging in all the blankets she can find (and a few mattresses – thank god there aren't any other actual guests here to complain about her pillaging their rooms), Rei makes one final trip to the conbini to get... pretty much everything she can carry. Alcohol is right out (sorry, wine grandpa) but she brings back bulging bags of sodas, sweet drinks of all kinds and pretty much anything that looks made to be chugged. After that comes everything vaguely snack and candy-like in the store and a few things that might not actually be good to eat, and Rei feels confident in saying she's done.

She'd mentioned to a few of the others that she was having a bit of a get together that night, so all she can really do is wait for them to show up. She's in her pajamas, she's looked up sleepover games in the library and snacks, there's a TV mounted on the wall and she has... never held a sleepover before.

This is gonna turn out just fine. ]

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[Tilting her head curiously, examining the decor.]

I think red would be better, but the pink is nice, too! [Things Medic is figuring out about herself: her favorite color is red, apparently.]

I guess pink is kind of just light red, if you think about it. ["Pastel red", says a brief flicker in her mind, but it's gone before she can pin it down.] ...or maybe it isn't? I don't remember anything about color theory.

I believe you're right. On both counts, though I can find an appreciation for both colors. [huge honkin pink glowy scythe and all] If you add white to red, you'll end up with some form of pink. Call it a lightish red.

And I adore the drapery of the bed, the charming little table, the adorable desk and the frankly out of place mirror. Positively charming.

It's a good color- I like the really bright kind, red like luck and blood and weddings. [...what was that middle one?]

Do you think you did interior design, when you were alive? [Medic being herself, it's hard to tell if she's teasing or not.] Maybe you had to decorate your palace. [Don't kings have people for that?]

[No no, hold on, what was that third one?] I can't say I associate red with luck or with weddings...but then, what would I know? [Has he ever ~~set up and then utterly destroyed~~ been to a wedding? It Is A Mystery!]

I suppose I haven't a clue what I did do when I was alive. The title suggests I was a king, but...even if that were the case... Well, we all know very little for certain, hm? Perhaps I had an eye for color and design and wanted things just so.

Huh... no, I definitely remember red being for weddings? It's just one of those general things, like knowing how doorknobs work or what shoes are- the stuff we never forgot. [She frowns slightly in puzzlement.] I think I can remember other people wearing white instead, but I could swear that was supposed to be for funerals...

[She shrugs.] Maybe it's a cultural difference? [Her specialty is biology, not anthropology.]

Well, if you're a king, you probably get to design things just how you want them, right? You could make your country the most stylish kingdom of them all!

Hm. Cultural differences it is. If I had to put money on it, I would say white was the color of choice for weddings. For the women, at least. But white is typically an important color for all sorts of events, I'm sure, as is black. Red...well, it's at least something that varies things up a bit! Clearly the superior color.

[Her enthusiasm, now that it's not relating to harming herself or others For Science, is likewise charming, and he chuckles.] Perhaps at some point I really ought to peruse the stores of the afterlife for something more stylish and fetching than what I awoke in. [Because people have noticed how...let's call it frumpy, how frumpy he looks outside of his Executor robes.] See what my natural innate senses tell me. [softly: don't]

[Medic has not noticed. Medic is a teenager and thinks fashion is wearing five belts like a JRPG protagonist.]

That could be fun! Even if we don't need extra outfits, sometimes it's nice to express yourself. Maybe you could offer to do makeovers for people!

Perhaps some of us could all go together on a bit of a shopping trip. [He does not use air quotes, but...there are audible quotes there around 'shopping'.] And a bit of experimenting on the side.

[Oh, shit, that word--] Rather I mean that, were we to try and alter the appearances of our other forms, do those alterations stay? Experiments of that sort.

[Yeah, good call on clarifying. There's a brief sense of "aw, darn" from her before she immediately perks back up at the second bit.]

Ooh, that is an interesting question! Especially for someone like Kingslayer, since it sort of seems like they are their outfit?

They are an unusual case on several fronts, to say the least. Though...hopefully in the future they will only use their powers of destroying buildings for good and not for attempting to re-kill their fellow Executors.

They seem pretty nice, when they're not trying to kill me. [She's not really the type to hold a grudge.]

They can at least banter well enough. When they aren't full of inescapable rage. I wonder if they had any hobbies in life.

Maybe they liked sports? They seem pretty athletic! [You know, when they were chucking her across the training field like a javelin.]

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