sleepover sleepover SLEEPOVER

[phantasmagorial]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[crypddyd]

I don't mind mine, but... I must admit there's some charm to having a nickname, isn't there?

[emberserker]

I'm not sure about charm, but at least we could come up with something for His Majesty so we don't have to go about doing that.

[phantasmagorial]

It's definitely too awkward to be calling someone "Your Majesty" on a daily basis.

[ CALL OUT POST ]

[emberserker]

Especially as his actual name.

[phantasmagorial]

Then it's settled. We're coming up with something new.

[ WITHOUT HIS INPUT, APPARENTLY? ]

[schardynfreude]

[EXCUSE]

Let me know when you've decided what my new name should be. Do I at least get veto power?

[emberserker]

I don't see why not, it isn't as if it matters.

[schardynfreude]

Names matter.

But at least in this case, these titles of ours hold less power than true names. [SHRUG]

[emberserker]

What, do you suspect we'll be cursed?

[schardynfreude]

I'm not saying literal power--though in the afterlife with souls turning into beasts, I suppose anything is possible. I just mean that names matter. As a part of identity, which we are all lacking at this time.

[emberserker]

That's true enough. Letting go of the past in order to be reborn, is it? I'm not sure.

[schardynfreude]

Rei indicated it's more about, ah, moving past one's sins? Though I have to wonder how one could do that if one does not remember what their sins are. And, should we come to remember more of ourselves, what does that say about our chances of being reborn anew?

...Perhaps that's too deep a topic when we're contemplating nicknames more comfortable than 'Your Majesty'.

[crosscutting]

I was kinda just thinking of him as 'why-emm', honestly.

[Rolls off the metaphorical tongue, so to speak.]

[phantasmagorial]

That's still not a proper name, though. We definitely need to come up with something better.

[ Your Majesty is just Too Cursed ]

[crosscutting]

[For a second she has an urge to defend the validity of a two-letter name, but...then she thinks better of it, and shrugs.]

I...yeah, I guess. He doesn't really seem like a king to me, anyway. Maybe a priest, if anything.

[phantasmagorial]

He does?

[ Rei tilts her head as she thinks that over. ]

Hm, I guess... are there any titles you can call priests by?

[crosscutting]

[she chews on her cheek a bit thinking. ...crap, did she ever go to church?]

Uh...

...Dea...con...? That's the most name-y one I can think of.

[mementomoritz]

Um... Vicar, reverend... bhikku? No, that one's for monks...

[alcahest]

There's pastor, and Father... Cleric? I don't think they're very good for names, though...

[ five foot girl squad out here brainstorming to name this grown man. ]

Um, if I'm using the name of a famous magnum opus, then... maybe the name of a historical king?

[phantasmagorial]

Oh, that might be a good idea. [ Nodding to herself. ] I don't know any off the top of my head... but if it's good enough for a king then it's definitely good enough for us.

[mementomoritz]

Whose history, though? It doesn't seem like we're all from the same place...

[crypddyd]

True... I am rather sure I was a noble of some sort in life, so I likely had a King or Queen already. So it's a bit awkward.

[emberserker]

Oh, you remembered something specific about that, then?

[crypddyd]

Not specifically- more I remembered my training, both in combat and in courtly behavior. Perhaps I was a knight of some sort?

[emberserker]

It could well be. The lives we came from sound all over the place, and we barely even remember them.