cloud ☁️

[unrecked]

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[skyagain]

[ for once something from murdergames era one that matches...huh. cloud looks pensive at that, getting over his full embarrassment. ]

Yeah. Realm had something like that, too. We were the ones delivering the letters, but ... they'd get messed up in transport sometimes. Words got censored. Maybe... we'll get real letters on this side after a while too.

[unrecked]

[Some things change, some things stay the same! Hurting the living... always the same...]

Censored? Makes sense, I guess. Don't want too much getting out, ruining the "game." We couldn't write anything about our deaths, or killers. Just sentimental stuff. Like what you did.

[WILL HE LET CLOUD LIVE IT DOWN FOR TWO SECONDS? No.]

[skyagain]

Forget Lup, I'm the one who's gonna be fighting you if you don't shut up about that. [ GRUMBLING EMPTY THREAT ] But yeah. Back then we thought it was the transport between that messed it up, but it must've been programmed that way. Most of them managed to share info anyway, at least.

[ a beat ]

Then again, it wasn't always accurate.

[unrecked]

[Is this a friends to lovers arc, Zia?? Don't threaten Jason with fighting, that's his love language.]

We're just going to have to hope Clementine doesn't hate us all enough to not talk to us. Well, unless she somehow tomorrow scrapes out of death the way you did. Even if some things are left out, we should be able to piece it together.

[skyagain]

[ NO ONE IS LOVERSING CLOUD. the mention of clementine makes him grimace and he hasn't even killed her yet. hilarious. ]

... She'll work with us if she gets there. We already talked about it.

[unrecked]

[LET CLOUD FIND LOVE

He peers at Cloud, quiet for a moment, like he's probably trying to read him about the conversation topic.]

Guess she got The Talk from more than one of us then.

[skyagain]

... I doubt she needed it. She's smart.

[ the answer to reading him is that he looks exhausted and bummed out and angry all at once thanks ]

[unrecked]

[Oh, mood. Very mood. This is why they get along maybe.]

She is smart. I don't think we'll have to worry. When we played the "Trolley Game" in the room, she wanted to pick the option that saved the most people. Sure, the people she cared about were some of the "most," but still. She said people should look out for each other.

[skyagain]

[ they are best friends anna live with it ]

... Yeah. That sounds like her. She worked pretty hard back in the Realm to help coordinate everything so everyone would get out.

[unrecked]

[tch]

So we don't have to worry about anything except the communication not existing, or it being intercepted too badly.

And tomorrow, of course.

[skyagain]

... And tomorrow. [ he frowns ] She's probably going to try and fight whoever else is up there if she can.

[ lol, lmao ]

[unrecked]

Good for her.

[lol]

I didn't peg her as the type of person who would go down without much of a fight.

[skyagain]

She's not. But no one's going to enjoy it if she's trying to fight someone they like. Usual bias.

[ or it'll be cloud and it wont matter ]

[unrecked]

I know, but that's how they want the game played. To create groups, to pick sides. It disrupts us focusing on the hotel, on Nightman since we're too busy being worried about each other.

[STOP]

[skyagain]

Yeah. I know. Doesn't make it any less bullshit.

[ again this speculation does not matter ]

[unrecked]

I don’t disagree. I’m just saying. The more we start creating divides, the less we’re going to accomplish.

But I know that’s going to happen anyway. It’s natural, especially between people who have history.

[skyagain]

Yeah. Best we can hope is what, some bridges between the divides?

[unrecked]

Yeah.

[A pause.]

I mean, sure, maybe for the rest of you. Whatever. Build some bridges.

[skyagain]

That was believable.

[ jay, please. your posturing. ]

[unrecked]

Shut up, I'm serious.

[There's no venom.]

I don't think too many people here would be against bridging the gaps between us if it was an option. It won't keep any of this from happening, though.

[skyagain]

Not so long as those shadows are around to force our hands if we don't play along, no. [ he shakes his head ] But it's a start.

[unrecked]

[He gives Cloud a hefty pat on the shoulder, a kind of sassy one really.]

Well. Good luck rallying everyone together in friendship. I believe in you.

[skyagain]

No way in hell. [ lightly kicks jason under the bar. ] I don't care what that letter says, pick someone else. I'm not cut out for that crap.

[unrecked]

Ow. [Childishly, he sort of kicks back near the boot.] It isn't going to be me. I pulled a gun out already.

So I guess we're fucked if someone else doesn't step up to the plate. I don't know, maybe Estelle can do it. [Who else here is friendship-based and nice.] Uh. [...] Mo...lly...? Kazunari.

...Shit. We have so few.

[skyagain]

[ cloud actually thinks about it but estelle was his pick ]

... That Rin kid when he's not being annoying...?

[ how's this an endorsement. ]