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[stillarhino]

Sender: Beat
To: Everyone
Subject: a question

yo who heres single?
asking for a friend

[That's it. That's the post.]

[ooc: Both Beat and Trahearne will be replying to this!]

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[stillarhino]

been almost a year for me man
got turned into a scarecrow
got put in a dress outta nowhere
was even a duckling when i first got here

[bakudan_bambino]

That’s a pretty long time

The scarecrow and duckling sound like crazy changes! The dress… not so much. Someone told me they got turned into a cookie before.

[stillarhino]

oh yeah I was one of those soldier things for that
the ones that crack nuts and stuff

if you wasnt a cookie you was some sorta toy

[bakudan_bambino]

A nutcracker?

Think anything crazy will happen at this flower festival that’s coming up?

[stillarhino]

yeah that thing
a nut cracker

[You basically said it before, Beat...]

probably but i aint smart enough to figure out what kinda shits gonna happen
im just hoping one of the guys i put up for the vote wins

[bakudan_bambino]

It’s not a matter of being smart! It’s looking at a scenario and thinking ‘how could this get more strange’. This is all a dream, after all, right?

Do they actually win anything?

[no one nominated him and that’s probably because he doesn’t get out much. There are some people he’s met that he’s voted for.]

Do the losers get some kind of punishment?

[In Gokudera’s home world, they’d either be killed or have horribly bad luck, or… something else extreme.]

[stillarhino]

yeah but like
okay so if its a flower fest whats gonna happen?
we all get made into flowers or something cause thats all i got

[Because really, hell if he knows.]

dunno if they win anything but my man just needs a win
hell he deserves one

[bakudan_bambino]

Weird pollen effects, maybe?

Or we get attacked by birds and bees, ‘cause it’s spring time?

The same guy you’re trying to help get a date?

[stillarhino]

i dunno if im ready for some kinda bird or bee attack man

but yeah the same guy
so if he wins AND gets a date?
thats gotta be pretty sweet yo

[bakudan_bambino]

What if we get turned into birds and bees and we have to do a capture-the-flag scenario? But instead of a flag we have to capture the king and queen on each side?!

[He has a wild imagination, but also… his world is strange so…]

Does he care that much about popularity?

[stillarhino]

yo that sounds pretty sick!
if it was a game like that count me in

[This next part comes a little delayed, with Beat having to think on it.]

nah dont think so
but like i said he just needs some kinda win after a coupla Ls

[bakudan_bambino]

Right?!
Winning or losing, it’d be fun either way.

[And he won’t have to worry about appealing to the Tenth! Ugh… he’s lonely again.]

Maybe having a friend trying to help and nominating him is a win?

[Gokudera isn’t seeing the Ls.]

[stillarhino]

yeah but winnings helluva lot better!

[Boy's got a competitive streak to him.

But he can't help but chuckle to himself at that last bit.]

aight i see what you doing yo
guess theres that if he dont take the crown

[bakudan_bambino]

Feels better, yeah

I don’t know what you’re talking about

I’m trying to say that losers are important too so you could always be a loser WITH him! Misery loves company or something like that

[stillarhino]

yo thats something ive heard my sis say before
heh guess your right
but he part of voting now so guess we gonna see at the festival

[bakudan_bambino]

What part?

Guess so

[stillarhino]

the thing about misery loving company
she was always into sayingsa and stuff like that

[bakudan_bambino]

Oh! It’s a pretty common saying, isn’t it?

Although you don’t give off the impression that you’re miserable. Your friend okay? What kind of uh… Ls was he experiencing? Maybe he needs some other type of pick-me-up

[stillarhino]

me? nah im good yo
but... you ever heard about a noctaere since you got here?

[bakudan_bambino]

I haven’t

[stillarhino]

so if dreamotions like good energy and shit theres also nightmare energy hanging around
i dunno how it works but noctaeres full of that and i know people can turn into them too
you get what im putting down man?

[bakudan_bambino]

I know what nightmares are, and there’s some people here that fight them. I’m looking to join them. That’s about the extent of my knowledge

Is noctaere a place? A monster? A nightmare that’s taken over a person? Or is it something else?

There’s no fuckin… orientation for understanding any of this.

[If there was, he missed it.]

[stillarhino]

from what i know theys people before the all the nightmare takes over
and you gotta find a way to snap them back outta it

[Meanwhile, he only knows after having dealt with two of them already.]

[bakudan_bambino]

So it’s like a condition? A nightmare takes over a person, turns them into a noctaere and you have to reverse it somehow to get them back to normal?

[stillarhino]

yeah i guess
like it all sounds like its a piece a cake but it aint when you really all up in the grill of one

[And he speaks from experience here.]