crau2 pcs: rupert

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week 0 monday - door #16

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[ whatever dumb decisions led them to opening one of these doors, here they are. let's confess some sins!!

sebastian blinks at the sight of the confessional, which is, after his last game, oddly familiar for someone who's never gone to church. ]

Hey, this is... oh! One of those things!

[agleam]

You've been in one of these before?

[he definitely hasn't, but somehow he gets the sense of what they need to do... and he sighs.]

I don't even think I have anything to confess.

[patently untrue]

[unbested]

Yeah, the computer place had one of these! For some reason. The aliens gave us prizes if we confessed stuff to them. Which I don't... think is usually part of it, but maybe the same thing will happen here!

[agleam]

Maybe! But this still feels kind of awkward for a prize that I didn't even ask for...

[he will be even more salty when he doesn't get anything except being let out of the room, but it's fine.]

I guess let's just get it over with, but it's hard to think of something out of the blue.

[unbested]

I mean, I think it can be pretty much anything as long as it's true. Like if you copied the way someone did something because you thought it looked cool, or tried on someone's wig without telling them even though you weren't allowed to, or, uh... other things...

[agleam]

...Are those hypotheticals?

[casually stalls]

[unbested]

Yes.

[ no. ]

w1, saturday.

[agleam]

[he's walking into the courtyard to find a place to sit, but - he pauses when he sees sebastian for a moment, before he speaks.]

...Hello.

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[ oh. he looks away from the edgeworth statue he was standing in front of. ]

...Hey.

[ awkward... and he's still kind of "oof" at that "eye for an eye" comment he started to make earlier. ]

How's your... um, everything, I guess?

[agleam]

...My everything could probably be better.

[honest, if a little awkward in return. he gives a little frown.]

What about you? You seemed... really distressed, there.

[unbested]

W-well, yeah. And I don't understand why most of the rest of you weren't! I mean— we're sentencing a girl to death for something that already got undone, and that she didn't even have a choice in anyway! It doesn't make any sense at all!

[agleam]

...Just because we weren't yelling about it doesn't mean we don't care.

[a beat.]

In the end, you voted too, right?

[unbested]

...Not for her.

week 2, wednesday night

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[ does rupert still have that bestest boy superlative pinned to his shirt, because if he does, sebastian is just standing somewhere sipping his drink and staring at it sadly.

and if not then he's just staring sadly at the memory of it instead and probably looking like he's inordinately interested in his chest. ]

[agleam]

[he has probably taken it off by now! and he's pausing to look down at his shirt, assuming he's spilled something on himself accidentally. when he doesn't notice anything out of the ordinary:]

...Um, do I have a stain I'm missing or something?

[unbested]

[ i'm sorry in advance for this entire conversation ]

Why did you take that thing off!

[agleam]

[it takes him a second to realize what he means, and then, in a move that will definitely make this worse:]

Oh - the pins? Which one, the best one or the smart one?

[i'm also sorry]

[unbested]

You got a smart one too???

[agleam]

Yeah, Rin gave it to me...

[...]

Are you okay?

w7, saturday.

[agleam]

[he's wandering around with porridge in his arms in all the places they can currently access, but he shifts when he sees sebastian so he can wave.]

Hey! How've you been?

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Oh! Hey. Um, I've been... okay, I guess.

[ that is a lie but it's fine ]

I actually, uh... wanted to... apologize, I guess? For, um, being weird about stuff before...

[ he tugs on the hem of his glove self-consciously. ]

I... kind of avoided you a little after that because it was embarrassing, and... then you were gone, and I just... felt bad about it.

[agleam]

Oh...

[he seems a little surprised, but after a moment:]

Well, apology accepted, but I don't think you did anything wrong. It's not like you knew avoiding me would happen right before... You know.

[awkward.]

[unbested]

W-well, yeah, but... I just. Should have been less selfish and dumb either way. So, um, thanks.

I'm glad you're back.

[agleam]

I don't think you're either of those things.

[sincerely! but he nods.]

It is really good to be back. I missed you all a ton.

[unbested]

What did you do over there? I mean, I heard about the cannibal guy, but...