ace catchall

[disingenuous]

still devastated by his death 10 years later

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week 0, tuesday

[disingenuous]

[ she's seated in congratulations. she's looking at the menu with an inscrutable expression on her face, but the fact that there is no food in front of her should say enough. ]

This is your kind of fare, isn't it?

[selfimmolation]

[ meat meat meat and more meat

which is to say ace is here for the meat but he will take conversation too, sliding on over to roxana ]

Am I that obvious? [ yes, but: ] It's kind of looking like it isn't yours, though.

[ no meat? ]

[disingenuous]

[ she smiles as if to say yes, he is that obvious. ]

Steak is a little heavy for me to eat all the time. I doubt I have your kind of energy.

[selfimmolation]

Not that many people do!

[ self-aware. ]

Never heard of meat being too heavy. Huh. Well, they have some side salads too? That'd be lighter, right?

week 0, friday

[selfimmolation]

[ well they knew it was coming but still when he spots roxana out on the terrace because a boy needs his fresh air (he's like a cat desperately lounging on a catio) he nods a little solemnly at her and; ]

Sorry. [ for your team loss... ] You guys get to talk much?

[disingenuous]

[ they all need some fresh air after being trapped for a night. it doesn't matter they were made unconscious. ]

No, not much at all. The team part doesn't matter as much as the part that this is happening, expected or not.

[ everything from her expression to her voice is placid more than anything else. ]

[selfimmolation]

Yeah. [ yeah, a little sighed out because maybe part of him was kind of hoping it would magically not happen. but it did and life sucks. ] But last time, I can't say I was ever thrilled when I'd been asleep next to someone and woke up to them dead.

[ it's different when you are in the room where they were ... or funnier the room where they died ]

[disingenuous]

I can't say I'm thrilled, but I can't say that I'm heartbroken either.

[ she'll be honest enough about that even if it doesn't make her look great. ]

I wasn't attached.

week 0, sunday

[disingenuous]

[ roxana is seated wherever, a cup of coffee that's more or less forgotten at her side. ]

Was that better or worse than what you're used to?

[ hello. ]

[selfimmolation]

Better in some ways, worse in others. [ he will sit down near her because it's not polite to stand and talk like :/ ] We didn't have possession or whatever was happening to Boothill. But ours were being broadcast to the entire city for people to watch like a spectator sport.

[disingenuous]

[ it's cute how he's polite. ]

Yours weren't possessed? What motive were your murderers given? If Boothill is any indication, it may appear here.

[ if it's something that has repeatability anyway. her expression flickers and darkens for a second when he mentions executions being like a spectator sport. ]

Of course. As if something like this isn't enough of a show already, they had to make it an even bigger one.

[selfimmolation]

The first was an accident. Then, some people did it because they wanted to. After that... Threats, mostly. [ he crosses his arms as he recalls them; ] First it was, what, being erased from our own worlds? Memory and all. Then it was... sent specific. That your world and those of the people on your team would be lost. Then on top of all of that, there was some information going around that every team needed to kill once if we wanted to be able to go home. [ it was. a lot. ] I don't know how much of it was true, if any.

[ he shrugs a little ]

The whole theme was "heroes", so when someone got caught they'd label them a villain and set up a public execution. So of course they made it a show.

week 1, friday

[selfimmolation]

[ WELL THEY WERE IN THE SAME CURFEW SO. WAKES UP SEES ANNOUNCEMENT AND IS JUST IN ANGRY RAGE ]

Seriously?

[disingenuous]

[ well. his reaction isn't surprising. roxana unfortunately keeps her calm. ]

I didn't expect two. Or even these two.

[selfimmolation]

... Maybe we should have. They were easier targets now.

[ not that the killer would've known vi would be injured. or like they can even be sure it's not possession. yay!!!!! mystery. he is so clearly frustrated immediately ]

[disingenuous]

They were, but it wasn't too much of a pattern in the Prism. Perhaps the people here are more willing to take advantage, if they were pushed into it this week. Or even if they're not.

[ so much is unknown right now. ]

week 1, sunday

[disingenuous]

[ throws them into the simulation room. ace will have no idea what it is or where it is, but roxana is sitting by a riverside. it's the han river.

she lifts a hand when she notices him. ]

Still in first place. Are you ready for your trip to Australia?

[selfimmolation]

[ This Is Where My Teammate Died, Roxana
Roxana: austrabummer dude

no he'll come sit nearby, observing the simulated place ]

Turns out the rest of my team really cares about winning. [ lightly ] You fancy taking my place if they get what they want?

[disingenuous]

[ if he walked out because of the location and was put off by her greeting, she would have let him leave. ]

I'm not angry to be middling. How are you after the last couple days?

[ she didn't forget this is where anders died. ]

week 2, saturday

[selfimmolation]

[ so how's gay baby jail going for roxana

he actually knocks on the side of the door before coming in even though she has no control over it ]

[disingenuous]

[ baby jail seems fine? at least, roxana isn't looking upset from her spot seated on the bed. ]

You're so polite, Ace.

[selfimmolation]

I took lessons. [ idly like that's not a wild ass thing to do as a pirate. coming over to sit in front of her jail cell ] ... You didn't try to defend yourself back there.

week 7, saturday

[disingenuous]

[ they are wherever ace wants to be. i refuse to choose a location on the last night. ]

Should I say congratulations on your new airport?

[selfimmolation]

[ i also refuse so we can be in the void ]

I don't know. I've never owned anything on land before.

[disingenuous]

[ that makes her chuckle. ]

At least you can view airplanes as ships in the sky.