[NO. Don't ask it like that!!! He grits his teeth gently.] You can stay, I'll just-- [NO!!!] Hey, where the hell are you going? Why am I the Good Cop here? I'm supposed to be the Bad Cop. [DON'T LEAVE HIM BY HIMSELF. BRO.
He glances from Cloud to Lup.] Are you going with him? [Now he has to wait to see what she says, so there. She has the bigger bed? Listen, he is a man, and he is stupid, he doesn't know. Maybe she wants to leave.
As if Lup wouldn't force them to carry her and her shit back to her room just to look them dead in the eyes and say not to leave her alone, making them figure out whether they want to be mean or nice.]
a pause. her poor alcohol brain is really trying here. she reaches for the clothes at the end of her bed, and then:]
It'd, um. It'd be nice if both of you stayed. [she does like her bed better than jason's, but also, whether or not she gets to have two of her favorite people keep her company is more important than her bed status.]
[They're great at this. He absolutely just looks at Cloud like he expects all of this to hinge solely on Cloud for some reason. It does. His hand rubs the back of his neck at his hairline. Goddammit.]
I mean, it's a queen. It's not that small. [Three adults can sit on a queen bed, okay, even if one of them is a dorito. This is his way of conceding without admiting it and also washing his hands of being responsible.] If I can put up with Roy, I can deal with Cloud for a few hours. Maybe you can dump her back in her room after she's finally gone to sleep. [She is right there, but that's the point.
He swats his hand through the air at her in a back-back motion.] Get in the middle. [Imagine they put Cloud in the middle. "No one knows if Cloud is going to even stay." He's weak to Lup asks.]
her ear flicks happily when jason tsuns his way back over to the bed. she scoots appropriately, and then settles down back under the blankets. i'll be nice and say she got halfway through putting clothes on again so she's at the very least wearing a shirt.]
[ he's looking at them both in bed like this is some kind of trap where they are going to tell PUNKED, but he is also not like. leaving. just baffled. and wary.
Jason goes around to the other side, leaving Cloud with the edge that is closest to the door in case he gets so worked up he wants to bolt. See, he's nice?
He left to get water without shoes, so he doesn't have to take anything off. He does not get under the covers, shut up. He sits in a half slouch on top of them. BUT HE'S ON THE BED. Cloud only has the bed because Jason has dumped the gun holsters in the only desk chair here. Sucks.]
I'm not drunk, dammit. I just know she is drunk enough to probably cry if you don't do it, and then later bring it up as a reminder when you're arguing about something else entirely since she's a woman. You want that?
[ cloud has a vivid flashback to aerith cheerfully asking him for permission to kill when they visited misogyny town and he covers his mouth to hide a laugh when lup hits jason. but also like. outside of the woman part jason isn't wrong. lup would absolutely talk about how mean he is forever. so he is not going to comment either way on that one.
his soldier outfit got all fucked up by him dying in it (rude) and while he usually still carries the buster sword anyway he was not bringing it over three bedrooms down just to bring back lup. this is important because after the put-upon sigh when lup pouts at him all he has to do is kick off his boots to go sit on the other side of lup on the bed. a little stiffly.
look he is still shy he is just pretending this is a normal thing to do ]
...Fine. I'm pretty sure I'd be considered an accomplice when one of you snaps and chokes the other one to death if I left now.
[ it could happen. we are ignoring that cloud is the one who was murdered in this game so far ]
[It doesn't hurt at all, he barely feels it, but he says,] Ow! [anyway like it does since he's a brat. He rubs the spot brattily. Also, I am playing Jason, so unfortunately for Cloud, we will not be ignoring it.]
Says the guy who was the dead one?
[CLOUD IS GOING TO RAG HIM ABOUT BRINGING THIS UP AGAIN, BUT HE IS MAKING A POINT HERE THAT NEITHER HIM NOR LUP HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THIS.]
The only one who is snapping is probably Lup when she gets the headache that's coming from drinking too much at a party.
[lup like yes, i would bring up how mean you were in the future but it's not because i'm a woman it's because i'm a brat]
Quit it! No dying. It is Wednesday!
[she huffs. also, she punches cloud in the leg for good measure. he didn't even do anything! it's fine, because she pats him after she does it like that makes it better, and then holds onto his clothes to stop him from running away.]
If you killed me I'd haunt you forever. [she grumbles at jason, settling down. despite all of her fake temper, it's pretty clear that she relaxes significantly once both of them are there. her shoulders go loose, and while she's not really in the proper position to hold onto jason too without it being supremely uncomfortable, she does press back against him, claiming her spot.]
[ it also didn't hurt cloud, but he's not even being a brat he's being offended he was punched. he didn't do anything!! and then jason makes fun of him for dying!!! it's illegal. he can't even leave because lup grabs onto him. he leans back with an annoyed sigh that is mostly real, because how did he end up in this position? how. why. he is never doing anything with either of these two again. ]
You can't say "no dying" and then say you'll haunt Jason in the same breath.
[He folds his hands and arms behind his head and wavers as Lup backs up on top of his side. It's fine. He'll be the ass man this time.]
I told you I was the Bad Cop. She's always mean to me like this, I'm used to it. I'd think she was a pod person if she wasn't. We just can't all have your innocent-looking baby face.
[ it's repeated in muttered offense, because what the fuck, todd. how dare you. also flurry didn't say it but i will shut the fuck up anna with that ass man joke lup has no ass ]
Ask Gemini and Claude to do this next time if we're so mean. [ tiredly. aware that lup is not even listening because she is half passed out. ] I didn't drink enough for this shit.
How am I rude? [WOW. This isn't a lie.] Gemini? That guy's kind of a dick.
[Guy as in person, Jason doesn't know if it's a man or a woman. But they are sassy to Jason for obvious reasons, so he doesn't see how this tracks.] Maybe they just have a thing for you. [He just kind of makes a face when Claude is mentioned. His nemesis...]
Yeah, I would love to see Claude and Gemini bothering to sit on the bed with you while you're drunk. --Hey, are you asleep already? Wow.
[this is going to be very funny when she's dead later and this is the last thing they said to her
anyway, her flat ass is struggling to stay awake.]
No, Claude has a girlfriend. [mumbles into her pillow. and then she falls silent, breathing evening out. she's still clinging to cloud. unlucky for him.]
Lup, c'mon. [ it's muttered because of his personal space :( it gone. after a beat where it's obvious she's asleep he kind of sighs, long suffering, looking at Jason over her ] ... Who even asked about that guy's girlfriend...?
[He says this exactly like he expects Claude to never have a girlfriend ever, but that is just because they're enemies. Lup isn't even going to answer probably, it's rhetorical. He folds the arm on their side down so he can glance from Lup to Cloud.
He shrugs.]
Maybe she tried to get him to do what we're doing, but he's too chaste and pure unlike the rest of us.
["his personal space" she's holding onto his pants leg with one hand, he has plenty
she doesn't answer, but she does, in fact, scrunch up in her sleep and sigh as the lava glow cracks across her skin brighten and dim with her breathing. have fun chatting boys.]
[ his pant leg IS his personal space!!!! it's six feet around him at all times!!! he makes no move to move her anyway. ]
That guy doesn't look chaste to me. [ he has no bad opinion of claude, only neutral, but he saw the dude's profile quote. he saw it. he's also clearly giving up on being shy and moving a little to try and make himself comfortable on jason's bed. this is hilarious. ] You know she's never letting us live this one down when she wakes up, right?
[ that she made them all share a bed and cuddle. he doesn't even sound annoyed about it, he is resigned. this is it. this is their life ]
[He should not laugh, but he snorts anyway because he's thinking about the frog and also the weird ass quote.] Maybe women are into chinstraps, I don't know. [That's mean. THEY'RE BEING MEAN.
He watches Lup for a long moment to make sure she is asleep. Then he carefully shifts onto his side while half lying down because it's HIS bed, and he is going to be comfortable on it, dammit! He folds one arm under his head and puts the other one between him and Lup's back because he will not put it across her and end up touching Cloud also.]
Worse, she's going to be asking us to do it every time because she found out she likes it. Just warning you now. [Help them.] I would ask if you're taking her back when you go, but it doesn't look like you're going anywhere actually. Want me to turn off the light so you don't have to look at me?
[ lup is asleep so i guess i will tag so flurry can eyes ]
Will it work to shut you up too? Because that's a two-in-one. [ jason is truly walking into these. but he sighs and puts his right arm behind his head to get comfortable. it cannot be the left because that's still a motherfucker. ] Sure. Might as well accept my fate with this sleepover.
[ he says nothing about doing it again because he can live in denial of this not becoming a thing. he CAN. ]
[Damn. FLURRY CAN SEE WHAT JASON PUTS UP WITH AT ALL TIMES.]
Gonna be honest despite your sass: probably not. I stay up most of the night.
[No one has every questioned it, but Jason probably doesn't walk around too much during the day, and when he does, he's grumpy because he stayed up for his usual graveyard shift. Bats.
He does not mention to Cloud that when he moves off the bed to get the light, Lup is probably going to latch onto him since he's the only one left. Cloud's problem now. He gets off the bed with way more finesse and skill than normal for someone his size and moves around to switch the light off.]
[ godmods lup to say this does happen and jason gets to hear cloud's disgruntled and mildly distressed noise. he is not surprised, but he was HOPING, okay. he doesn't say shit about it because he knows jason will just be mocking ]
... Your vigilante thing? [ cloud's guessing. sometimes you learn a man's dad is called batman and him being nocturnal makes sense based on that. ] No wonder you've got that attitude all the time. You're missing naptime.
[ he is being an ass considering cloud has no excuse for his own attitude. for both of them it's just the trauma. ]
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He glances from Cloud to Lup.] Are you going with him? [Now he has to wait to see what she says, so there. She has the bigger bed? Listen, he is a man, and he is stupid, he doesn't know. Maybe she wants to leave.
As if Lup wouldn't force them to carry her and her shit back to her room just to look them dead in the eyes and say not to leave her alone, making them figure out whether they want to be mean or nice.]
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a pause. her poor alcohol brain is really trying here. she reaches for the clothes at the end of her bed, and then:]
It'd, um. It'd be nice if both of you stayed. [she does like her bed better than jason's, but also, whether or not she gets to have two of her favorite people keep her company is more important than her bed status.]
Or, my bed is, bigger? Uh. [help]
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Uh.
[ DON'T LOOK AT HIM FOR HELP FOR THIS ??? ]
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[They're great at this. He absolutely just looks at Cloud like he expects all of this to hinge solely on Cloud for some reason. It does. His hand rubs the back of his neck at his hairline. Goddammit.]
I mean, it's a queen. It's not that small. [Three adults can sit on a queen bed, okay, even if one of them is a dorito. This is his way of conceding without admiting it and also washing his hands of being responsible.] If I can put up with Roy, I can deal with Cloud for a few hours. Maybe you can dump her back in her room after she's finally gone to sleep. [She is right there, but that's the point.
He swats his hand through the air at her in a back-back motion.] Get in the middle. [Imagine they put Cloud in the middle. "No one knows if Cloud is going to even stay." He's weak to Lup asks.]
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her ear flicks happily when jason tsuns his way back over to the bed. she scoots appropriately, and then settles down back under the blankets. i'll be nice and say she got halfway through putting clothes on again so she's at the very least wearing a shirt.]
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Uh. [ again. eloquent. ] Are you both drunk?
[ he's looking at them both in bed like this is some kind of trap where they are going to tell PUNKED, but he is also not like. leaving. just baffled. and wary.
and maybe shy shut the fuck up ]
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Jason goes around to the other side, leaving Cloud with the edge that is closest to the door in case he gets so worked up he wants to bolt. See, he's nice?
He left to get water without shoes, so he doesn't have to take anything off. He does not get under the covers, shut up. He sits in a half slouch on top of them. BUT HE'S ON THE BED. Cloud only has the bed because Jason has dumped the gun holsters in the only desk chair here. Sucks.]
I'm not drunk, dammit. I just know she is drunk enough to probably cry if you don't do it, and then later bring it up as a reminder when you're arguing about something else entirely since she's a woman. You want that?
[lup is right there]
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she hears that, and immediately punches jason in the side. pathetically, but listen.]
Don't be misogynistic, you wet paper towel. [rude!!!!!
and then, flopping back down onto the bed, she looks over at cloud with a pout:] Don't leave me with him.
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his soldier outfit got all fucked up by him dying in it (rude) and while he usually still carries the buster sword anyway he was not bringing it over three bedrooms down just to bring back lup. this is important because after the put-upon sigh when lup pouts at him all he has to do is kick off his boots to go sit on the other side of lup on the bed. a little stiffly.
look he is still shy he is just pretending this is a normal thing to do ]
...Fine. I'm pretty sure I'd be considered an accomplice when one of you snaps and chokes the other one to death if I left now.
[ it could happen. we are ignoring that cloud is the one who was murdered in this game so far ]
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Says the guy who was the dead one?
[CLOUD IS GOING TO RAG HIM ABOUT BRINGING THIS UP AGAIN, BUT HE IS MAKING A POINT HERE THAT NEITHER HIM NOR LUP HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THIS.]
The only one who is snapping is probably Lup when she gets the headache that's coming from drinking too much at a party.
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Quit it! No dying. It is Wednesday!
[she huffs. also, she punches cloud in the leg for good measure. he didn't even do anything! it's fine, because she pats him after she does it like that makes it better, and then holds onto his clothes to stop him from running away.]
If you killed me I'd haunt you forever. [she grumbles at jason, settling down. despite all of her fake temper, it's pretty clear that she relaxes significantly once both of them are there. her shoulders go loose, and while she's not really in the proper position to hold onto jason too without it being supremely uncomfortable, she does press back against him, claiming her spot.]
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[ it also didn't hurt cloud, but he's not even being a brat he's being offended he was punched. he didn't do anything!! and then jason makes fun of him for dying!!! it's illegal. he can't even leave because lup grabs onto him. he leans back with an annoyed sigh that is mostly real, because how did he end up in this position? how. why. he is never doing anything with either of these two again. ]
You can't say "no dying" and then say you'll haunt Jason in the same breath.
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[He folds his hands and arms behind his head and wavers as Lup backs up on top of his side. It's fine. He'll be the ass man this time.]
I told you I was the Bad Cop. She's always mean to me like this, I'm used to it. I'd think she was a pod person if she wasn't. We just can't all have your innocent-looking baby face.
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[she mutters into her pillow.] Cloud is mean to me too. Nobody is nice to me except Gemini.
[wehhhhhh pout. she also mutters something about. claude??? but she's already half passed out so it's unintelligible.]
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[ it's repeated in muttered offense, because what the fuck, todd. how dare you. also flurry didn't say it but i will shut the fuck up anna with that ass man joke lup has no ass ]
Ask Gemini and Claude to do this next time if we're so mean. [ tiredly. aware that lup is not even listening because she is half passed out. ] I didn't drink enough for this shit.
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How am I rude? [WOW. This isn't a lie.] Gemini? That guy's kind of a dick.
[Guy as in person, Jason doesn't know if it's a man or a woman. But they are sassy to Jason for obvious reasons, so he doesn't see how this tracks.] Maybe they just have a thing for you. [He just kind of makes a face when Claude is mentioned. His nemesis...]
Yeah, I would love to see Claude and Gemini bothering to sit on the bed with you while you're drunk. --Hey, are you asleep already? Wow.
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anyway, her flat ass is struggling to stay awake.]
No, Claude has a girlfriend. [mumbles into her pillow. and then she falls silent, breathing evening out. she's still clinging to cloud. unlucky for him.]
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[He says this exactly like he expects Claude to never have a girlfriend ever, but that is just because they're enemies. Lup isn't even going to answer probably, it's rhetorical. He folds the arm on their side down so he can glance from Lup to Cloud.
He shrugs.]
Maybe she tried to get him to do what we're doing, but he's too chaste and pure unlike the rest of us.
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she doesn't answer, but she does, in fact, scrunch up in her sleep and sigh as the lava glow cracks across her skin brighten and dim with her breathing. have fun chatting boys.]
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That guy doesn't look chaste to me. [ he has no bad opinion of claude, only neutral, but he saw the dude's profile quote. he saw it. he's also clearly giving up on being shy and moving a little to try and make himself comfortable on jason's bed. this is hilarious. ] You know she's never letting us live this one down when she wakes up, right?
[ that she made them all share a bed and cuddle. he doesn't even sound annoyed about it, he is resigned. this is it. this is their life ]
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He watches Lup for a long moment to make sure she is asleep. Then he carefully shifts onto his side while half lying down because it's HIS bed, and he is going to be comfortable on it, dammit! He folds one arm under his head and puts the other one between him and Lup's back because he will not put it across her and end up touching Cloud also.]
Worse, she's going to be asking us to do it every time because she found out she likes it. Just warning you now. [Help them.] I would ask if you're taking her back when you go, but it doesn't look like you're going anywhere actually. Want me to turn off the light so you don't have to look at me?
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Will it work to shut you up too? Because that's a two-in-one. [ jason is truly walking into these. but he sighs and puts his right arm behind his head to get comfortable. it cannot be the left because that's still a motherfucker. ] Sure. Might as well accept my fate with this sleepover.
[ he says nothing about doing it again because he can live in denial of this not becoming a thing. he CAN. ]
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Gonna be honest despite your sass: probably not. I stay up most of the night.
[No one has every questioned it, but Jason probably doesn't walk around too much during the day, and when he does, he's grumpy because he stayed up for his usual graveyard shift. Bats.
He does not mention to Cloud that when he moves off the bed to get the light, Lup is probably going to latch onto him since he's the only one left. Cloud's problem now. He gets off the bed with way more finesse and skill than normal for someone his size and moves around to switch the light off.]
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... Your vigilante thing? [ cloud's guessing. sometimes you learn a man's dad is called batman and him being nocturnal makes sense based on that. ] No wonder you've got that attitude all the time. You're missing naptime.
[ he is being an ass considering cloud has no excuse for his own attitude. for both of them it's just the trauma. ]
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