in the middle of summer [ OPEN MINGLE ]

[postictal]

Who: Anyone!
What: Catch-all Denny mingle for the last week or so of July
When: Anytime between July 25th and July 31st
Where: Denny
Warnings: Label your stuff if it comes up



[Feel free to use this as a catch-all for whatever your character might conceivably be doing here. Are they loitering outside? Delivering supplies/food? Helping improve the place because god it certainly needs it? Cooking? Socializing? Eating? Just wanting to booze it up? GO WILD.]

[There are nominal rules but if you don't get caught you don't have to deal with them, so you do you.]

Comments

[braceforimpact]

I know what I'm talking about!

[Kaworu is irked. But Hector is half right; Kaworu doesn't have much worldly knowledge that isn't SEELE's dictum. And the way Kaworu talks is a direct mirror of their arcane, religiously-dictated script. But he knows what it means. He wouldn't have said it if he didn't.]

You don't like it because it's true.

[vagabone]

Yeah, right. That sounded rehearsed. And what's Lilim?

[Oh, he's going to regret that question, he can feel it. Every time he opens his big mouth and asks another damn question, Enso's castaways tell him something nightmare worthy, or so it seems.]

Forget it. I'm dead, that's just how it is. I should be in the land of the dead where I belong, in my own home, but I'm not.

[braceforimpact]

Lilim, the progeny of Lilith, that covers the earth without number.

One of the many of humankind. Like you.

[But... you know, not you.]

That's not rehearsed.

[And you're still not dead. Kaworu might have breezily explained the origin of all life on Earth just now, but he gives Hector a withering look mere seconds after.]

[vagabone]

[Thanks for the otherworldly Biblical talk, Kaworu. Ugh.]

It is too, you're still doing it. And none of it proves I'm lying!

[braceforimpact]

[...now you're just being contrary. His brow creases slightly.]

It would if you knew anything about your own world.

[Kaworu knows that's an unreasonable demand, and there's no real peevishness to his delivery--just that insufferable air, like he knows so much more than he's saying.]

I can only use the words Lilim gave me to describe it, though. It's humanity's language for the reality it inhabits... I'm just borrowing it.

[vagabone]

[His own world... that's right.]

Look, maybe we're not from the same worlds, which makes this whole argument stupid.

[And you are so not human, you great big lying hypocrite. But he's had more than enough disagreement for the day.]

[braceforimpact]

[Kaworu, however, is not buying it.]

Of course it's not the same world.

[There are no skeleton-shaped humans where he comes from, Hector.

...Sachiel doesn't count.]

....

This is stupid.

[He agrees, just not for the same reasons.]

[vagabone]

This is stupid.

[It needed saying three times.]

Different worlds, different rules. Who cares? Why are we fighting about it?

[braceforimpact]

[Different worlds doesn't mean different rules. Kaworu knows this.

But he also doesn't care, and he definitely doesn't feel like fighting about it. If he were human, maybe he'd understand it better--he's not Chairman Keel Lorenz, he just knows what parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls SEELE thought fit to educate him on for his objective. They cared a whole lot about this subject because they wanted to change their fates.

Must be nice.

He slumps back into his chair.]

....

Let's stop.

[Please.]

[vagabone]

[That makes two people who don't care. Let the guy go around telling people Héctor's alive and make a fool of himself.]

Okay. Okay, I'm stopping.

[braceforimpact]

[Oh, Héctor. Kaworu doesn't need you to make a fool of himself.

But even once Héctor relents, he remains slouched in his chair. He stays that way for a really uncomfortable period of time. In total silence.

If Héctor doesn't speak up first, he'll eventually say something, but only two words:]

.... now what?

[vagabone]

[Strangely, he's quiet. Granted, people are quiet sometimes--but those 'sometimes' are rarer for this blabbermouth here.]

I don't know. What, are you still waiting for me to go away?

[Come on, he was sitting at the table first!]

[braceforimpact]

[Kaworu is actually not inherently chatty--so the quiet doesn't faze him at all.

Actually, he blinks once when Hector speaks.

Go away? Is that what people do in situations like this?]

Oh.

No, not really. I just haven't been in this situation before.

[He gets up, placing one hand on the table briefly. He pauses before walking away, offering Hector a specific smile.]

Good luck.

[...and then he leaves.]