( graveyard: we're cursed..........3 )

[nodo]

[ since there's more of us now, let's set up a scene...ish. we're at the beach! hooray!! it's our government mandated party game!! hopefully everyone is going to be well behaved because law won't give two shits. he's already arranging this for some reason unknown to man. indulgences? indulgences....... everyone get your sins in. taps on watch???

of course there is booze because there is always booze. law does not perceive the meth. (if there is any.)

NOW!! EVERYONE. TWO TRUTHS & ONE LIE. ]

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[housewolf]

[Friendliness! Affection! He does like Steven.

Strong amusement.]

One of these is definitely a lie.

[kokytos]

[ Oh. Wow. He blinks a little at these emotions like he's just sidelined by these. Friendliness??? Affection?????? Enjoy the brief disorientation and vague confusion back. ]

Well, you're an actor so the second one, though outlandish, seems like it might be true.

I know you're a bit of a workaholic in a sense, so I feel like the tying down thing might've happened. [ Because his pseudo-family cares about him. ]

...So the collar bit? I have no doubt that you'd let someone do that to you, but.

[housewolf]

[The fondness is not going away, even through Steven's confusion. It's steady even through the other layers of .]

The second one is true. It didn't really have to do with a play.

[A little bit of embarrassment here.] That's true too. They didn't want me to make my birthday cake a second year in a row.

[So obviously the only choice was to tie him to his loft bed. This is just the way Autumn is as a whole.

Oddly the collar bit does not get a hint of embarrassment. There's just a lot of affection around it.]

I've worn a collar before. You're good at this game.

[kokytos]

...

The reasonings behind the tying to the bed is entirely crazy, and yet so entirely you. I'm glad you had people who wanted to do that for you, even if they had to force you to not do it.

[ Lmao. He's just accepted Omi entirely for the kind of guy he is. ]

I'm just a guy of reason, I guess. Though I do want to know what's up with the mascot head if it wasn't for a play.

[housewolf]

[Thanks Steven, this is part of why Omi vibes with you. He loves his friends so much, but please just let him cook.] They definitely got their point across. [He didn't make his own cake this year, but he wanted to.]

That was because the teenagers from a different yakuza group kidnapped our youngest member and we had to get him back. We didn't have time to go through legal means, and we had the mascot heads available.

It was just a convenient way to cover our faces.

[kokytos]

[ ... ]

"A different"? [ ??? ] Aren't you actors? What kind of shit do you keep getting involved in?

The mascot heads were to hide your identity? [ BUT WOULDN'T THEY KNOW BASED ON THE PEOPLE YOUR YOUNGEST MEMBER HANGS WITH. You are feelings waves of bafflement right now. ]

[housewolf]

["Keep getting involved in" nets him a bit of confusion.]

Azami's the son of the yakuza boss that Sakyo works for. They decided they wanted to prove a point, so they kidnapped him.

[There are TWO yakuza from the same family in this theater company!!]

Yeah. [Look.

Azami doesn't really love hanging out with them at this point, and those kids 1. didn't know the actors in the company and 2. normal people are not going to look at people in mascot heads and immediately identify them.]

[kokytos]

Oh, that boy. [ Yeah, he remembers which one that is.

Listen, between like, all the ghost stuff going on, weird situation of the company, fucking YAKUZA SHENANIGANS, it just sounds like you keep getting involved in a lot of wild stuff Omi. ]

...Well, I'm glad everything turned out fine and nobody was seriously hurt? [ HE HOPES? ]

[housewolf]

[Mankai Company is just A Very Weird Place.]

It all worked out in the end, and we managed to get back in time for closing night.

[He has completely dodged the part where somebody may or may not have been seriously injured!]

[kokytos]

................

[ Steven is the type who WOULD catch that. But he will also be courteous and assume that means Omi doesn't want to talk about it, because he's a decent man. ]

Well, I'm glad for that, then. Even if I think that's pretty good grounds to cancel a show for one night.

[housewolf]

[🙃]

It was very close to show start, and people were already in the seats. The adrenaline helped land the action scenes better.

[Sometimes your director has nothing but theater on the brain and you pick up a little bit of that too.]

[kokytos]

Sure? I mean, if you can actually manage to put a positive twist on those kinds of things like that, then more power to you.

[ Omi your ACTING. ]

[housewolf]

I live with a lot of optimists.

[A flair of fondness, friendship and wistfulness. Sometimes you just really miss your family.]

[kokytos]

That's a good thing.

I'd say I'm a pessimist myself. An optimist can help balance that.

[housewolf]

We've got a balance of people at the company.

[Because there are 24 actors, the director and the manager.]

Do you have an optimist back home?

[kokytos]

Hm.

...I guess it'd be Klaus.

[ Of course it'd be. Though "optimist" is a bit of a weird word for it. ]

[housewolf]

Your boss, right?

[kokytos]

Yeah.

[ There's a subtle aura of... well, it's hard to pin down what the emotions are that he has on Klaus. It's... positive? A fondness and like, but it feels very strange. It's objectively the kind of like you would feel towards a friend, someone you've known for years and is familiar, but there's... a small, subtle idolization, idealization there too. ]

It just feels like nothing can get that guy down. No matter what, he's able to keep moving forward.