open ♔ september castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || First half of September, any time between the September squiring ceremony and the War announcement on September 18th
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month.    Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Drax @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ the desk
Sam @ the desk
Henry @ the desk
Kate Bishop @  roof/dining hall/library/grounds/bathrooms/desk/Dragon's Hoard/etc
Abigail @ Movie theater / library /firing range / training room
Francesca & Val'drin | closed
Penelope & Sam @ the woods
Emma Frost @ the library
Spike @ rec room
Lydia, Stiles, Astrid, Adam | closed

Comments

[bittersweeter]

I walked people to their deaths with my little cat paws, I can see why white cats are bad omens. [ she crouches to pet lemon again, SHE IS VERY FOND OF THIS DOGGIE. ]

[mydesigns]

[chuck and sookie decide to stop being lazy bitches and investigate lila now that she's giving lemon attention.]

Sleepwalking? [wis 23. will probably seems ... more unsettled by this than the average person. lila already has a good clue as to why.]

[bittersweeter]

Mhmm. [ fine doges, she will put her shit down to pet you all. ] Little tap on their forehead and they'd walk out in their pjs to where my cousin and Cassel were waiting outside. Cassel would turn them into something, which effectively killed them, and then Barron would wipe his memory while Anton put me back in the cage. Not a bad system, really. [ except for the cat in a cage part. ]

[mydesigns]

Doesn't sound like a good system for you. [of course will notices. he cares more about animals than people. even when the cat is actually a people too.]

[bittersweeter]

That wasn't really Anton's problem. [ and that is why anton is dead. sux 2 b u. ]

[mydesigns]

... Were you really a cat?

[bittersweeter]

For three years. [ yes hello doggies you are so interesting. ]

[mydesigns]

Oh.

[yeah it's too early for him to process that shit beyond wow that's fucked up.]

[bittersweeter]

Anyway. I won't need to peek anymore, I can just touch you before you go to bed now. [ she straightens up again, giving the dogs a couple last pets. ] So. Enjoy you future nightmare free sleep.

[mydesigns]

That doesn't ... bother you?

[bittersweeter]

What?

[mydesigns]

The coming into my room every night.

[bittersweeter]

[ she shrugs. ] Your brain will teach itself to block the nightmares out eventually. It's not going to last forever. And ten minutes to help you sleep isn't a big deal.

[mydesigns]

[shrug.] If it doesn't bother you. I have my doubts about my brain teaching itself to block out nightmares, though.

[bittersweeter]

Alright, fine, your brain will teach itself to accept the nightmares.

[mydesigns]

Thanks to you? [he looks over at her like WOW GEE THANKS FOR THE HELP GURL THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WANTED.]

[bittersweeter]

Yes. [ shut up will. ] Now that you won't be inundated with nightmares every night, they will be easier to deal with when you do have them. [ you're welcome. ] At least, in theory, that's how dreams and nightmares work for normal people.

[mydesigns]

Normal. That's not a word I hear in association with me very often.

[bittersweeter]

I tried it for ten minutes. It was boring. [ she shrugs. she is really incapable of being normal unless she spontaneously loses her dream work. and since arthur petrelli isn't creeping around here... ]Normal is... subjective, anyway.

[ which she says with the kind of resignation that seems to imply that lila knows will is well aware of that fact. they're fucked up, normal isn't ever going to happen. doesn't mean she doesn't... still want it sometimes. ]

[mydesigns]

[he just nods.] I don't think I could even make an attempt. [his overwhelming amount of empathy is just ... who he is. it's an intangible part of him. he can't imagine life without it like idk a psion could imagine life without telekinesis. he only gets glimpses of normal through other peoples' eyes.]

[bittersweeter]

It wouldn't be worth it. [ one last pet for lemon. ] Later, Will. Good morning. [ she smiles, fleeting, at her own salutation. ]