yogen | i don't want to survive, i want to live

Who: Yes
What: Movie Night + Slumber Party
When: 9/11, Saturday Evening
Where: Dorm Common Room
Warnings: A ridiculous amount of Fluff, probably

( it starts out small. a need for comfort food, and a need for something heartfelt but silly and fun, something genuine and kind. ... and, well, she did find a weird. bootleg vhs set of her favorite movie series, hamster space wars. but the dorm is only barely furnished- and it's not like they can just go out and buy a tv or anything. honestly she completely doubts there's even anything beyond the woods. but she remembers a teacher playing the thing and other stuff in the first month of all of this.

it's so long ago...

but there's a television and a vhs player in the school. and nene... nene's tired and sad and is currently out of fucks to give, so at some point in the day, after everyone else has left, nene has returned to the school and, uh. "borrowed" both things. it's fine. they just have to get it back in by sunday evening. don't worry about it. like, it's definitely heavy but she's a tough cookie who tills soil and everything, and also sara and noah both witnessed everything and are accomplices by default, so they had to help carry things too.

(they were completely happy to help on both accounts, she asked very nicely.)

so the "borrowed" television is set up across from one of the larger couches, and the vhs on top of it. she had cookies in the oven, donuts and hot chocolate made and popcorn popped. the common room paintings are covered with sheets of cloth. all that was left was something cozy- but at this point, nene's made so many little cushions and blankets and even cozy pjs that that's super easy. all that was left was letting anyone who wanted to come know too. so at some point in the halls, nene walks down calling out: )

Cartoons in the common room! Bring blankets and stuff!

( and, so everyone knows what their characters are getting into: hamster space wars is a movie series about different factions of hamsters that have been trying for cross planetary peace for ages now, with a villainous faction having sabotaged the final negotiations so they can control the war from the shadows to make the most money and also get the most seeds (Very Decadent). the first movie follows the main hamster and his little group trying to escape the villains after having witnessed the sabotage, and are trying to avoid assassination and end the war for good. the sequels follow allied factions, with hamster galactic wars being the Thrilling Conclusion.

it's heartfelt. it's silly. it's very cute. nene loves it. )

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[ ... ]

Somebody important.

[ I wish I had this icon but looking the other way, I would only ever use these two icons ]

And would this person want you to be lonely?

Edited 2021-09-19 05:06 (UTC)

[ put it back i was ready to be sad ]

...no. It's not like I'm lonely, though... I've got Yacchi.

Yacchi? [please be a person and not a rock please be a person]

Yeah, Yacchi!

[ who is... somewhere in between

Steph's just going to have to take that as a win ]

Is that somebody who's like me, or somebody who's like you? [color or monochrome which set]

Somebody like me! Cuddly and super smart!

[ Compared to... idk what they think of Stephanie. Somebody who doesn't believe in rock sports. Bet Yacchi can find a rock sport. ]

...

Are they "awake," or are they "asleep?" [physical air quotes]

...

When do you mean?

[ sometimes you're both. depends on the sun. ]

[thinks]

I don't know, actually! It's just the creepy way people that aren't transfers talk about us, because being cryptic is their trauma response.

Oh. Well. I'm awake right now, and after ten I'll probably be asleep.

[ ... ]

Yacchi's a stuffed animal.

And stuffed animals can be really good friends! But, it's not like you can talk to Yacchi and have somebody talk back, right? [pause] Right?

Yacchi talks back.

[ who needs real friends when your stuffed animal has it all ]

... You have to tell me if you mean that in a literal way or in a playing pretend way, because this place has magic and that's not a given anymore.

[ a playing pretend—- they're not three anymore! ]

In a real way! Yacchi's really really smart and gives unsolicited advice when you really need something! I'll show you someday!

... Okay, that... sounds like ghosts. Is it ghosts? Because that sounds like ghosts.

No way, Yacchi's soft and super cute! That's the opposite of ghosts. Why don't you believe anything I say?

Ghosts can be soft and cute! There's whole kinds of ghosts that are just about being friendly and nice.

[rolls eyes] And it's because you don't exactly say the whole truth the first time around.

[sus clearly runs in the family]

If ghosts were friendly and nice, they wouldn't be ghosts. Anyways, I'm a good and honest shopkeeper: I don't lie. It's not my fault you can't make inferences.

[ Do they have to spell everything out for everybody? that's how you lose money ]

[...]

Friendly and nice people die, too??? So, there's friendly and nice ghosts.

Why would they be ghosts, though? Ghosts haunt places. Nice people don't haunt.

Maybe they really liked that place, and they want to be able to still look after it. Or, maybe they care about a person there. There's lots of different reasons to stay behind.

[ ... ]

Would they still be friendly and nice if they stayed back, and can't be a part of anything? When everybody's moving on without them. And maybe, over time, they forget about them.

I guess it'd depend on the ghost. What kind of person they are, or were.

[idly kicks her legs]

But, even friendly and nice people would get lonely. There's nothing wrong with that.

How would you feel if nobody remembered you? If nobody talked to you, or played with you, or knew you were here? How would you stand the loneliness?

[ You become a vengeful ghost, that's what you do ]

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