give your friends a surprise

[closewithnewintown]

Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.

["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."

the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.

the note reads:]

I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.

- Nao Sato

[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.

either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.

click.

it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.

"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"

the exact same way, she's decided.]

We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...

And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!

[smiles]

Comments

[bloodmetries]

Hey, I've got a question.

[ Akira raises his hand just slightly, his voice flat and expression a little distant. He's been to the side overhearing conversations but he's curious about one thing: ]

Kawai and Komaeda, can I take 'em out? Just to talk. They'll come back alive.

[contrarily]

( O_O )

[bloodmetries]

[（=_=）]

[contrarily]

( WHAT THE FK BITCH )

Take us out like, on a date or kill us?

[bloodmetries]

[ Again, without even blinking: ] You're not my type. And I already said that you'd come back alive.

[commences]

( komaeda raises his hand too, but a few tables away. )

We haven't even went out on our first date yet...

( he puts it down, staring... )

[bloodmetries]

[ With zero hesitation: ]

My best friend would mercy kill me if I ever considered you dateable.

[commences]

( there's this little budding excitement when he hears the word "kill", but instantly it dies down on the next word he says. sighs, when he thought the magic was happening. )

Oh, that's too bad. ( but also, ) I doubt our host would want us going anywhere, but we can have a nice conversation here.

( liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike. )

Do you like cats?

[bloodmetries]

I'm not here to have that kind of conversation.

[ He cants his head slightly, his tone leveled. ]

Do you know Akki?

[insecution]

Must Komaeda-san be allowed to come back alive?

[ Shinobu smiles, all sharp and razor thin like a knife’s edge. Those in favor of killing Nagito, say ‘aye.’ ]

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer agrees with this, he's nodding. Not saying "aye" but he's nodding like, yes, good, kill him.]

[commences]

( :) )

[bloodmetries]

If you want him dead I wanna get paid for it.

[insecution]

I don’t want him dead. I want him to be made to suffer the same pain his victims suffered.

[ There’s a difference. ]

[decrypter]

Please do not kill Mr. Komaeda.

[mark this date on your calendar, someone wants him alive.]

[insecution]

You’re right; we shouldn’t kill him.

[ … ]

We should have him slice open his stomach to atone for his sins instead.

[comprises]

[damn his twin isn't popular is he!!

Joshua puts a hand on his chin, considering...]

May I ask why there's the animosity? He's been nothing but kind and helpful to me.

[because they're worsties, but still.]

[insecution]

He wasn’t nearly so kind to the previous student council president.

[ Or Izumi, for that matter, but the dead can’t really object to having their limbs hacked off. That’s why Shinobu’s here to protest on their behalf. ]

[samuraiwomen]

[ SO TRUE QUEEN. Sara is also nodding. ]

[comprises]

[this is going to be something, isn't it.]

And what's your word on them coming back alive? I'd rather not have anything happen to Komaeda, as we're so close.

[in the worst way possible. terrible, really.]

Unless there's a way I could come too...?

[bloodmetries]

I’m not gonna hit them unless they piss me off.

[ And they can just take his word for it? He’s not going to sit and get people to trust him or whatever. ]

You guys dating or siblings? [ A pause. He wants to ask “or both” and blame the doll for that. ] Nah. I’m talking to him privately, if I can. If we stay here just mind your business.

[comprises]

Oh dear, trying to get into my personal life now? We could be twins...or we could be married, for all you know.

[this is...something...]

He's just so incredibly dear to me, you see. I just want to make sure people have his best interests at heart. I'd hate to see him hurt...

[maybe the tone of voice he's using at that last sentence is a little bit threatening. he's not about to lose any of his pawns here, after all, because he's a little bit...eccentric.]

[closewithnewintown]

That sounds like something somebody who wouldn't bring them back alive would say.

[bloodmetries]

I'm being honest.

[ He probably did make it sound too fishy... whatever. ]

I don't throw hands until someone does it first.

[closewithnewintown]

Considering how both of them are, that isn't actually that reassuring.

[puts hands on hips] If you aren't willing to say whatever you need to say to them in front of the group, do you really need to say it?