You all know I love a good party, right? Maybe you should entertain a dead man's wish, yes? I took great joy in seeing you all at the meeting this week, but I do wonder if we could spice it up perhaps? Some people find plain old information being delivered at a simple group meeting so boring, so perhaps you could allow them to go about distributing it in a far more entertaining way?
Maybe some rousing games to take us away from the dreariness of this place? A party? Those, of course, who would prefer to stay away from all the liveliness (I speak to perhaps one or two people in this letter alone) could perhaps find a much quieter spot to chat business properly as the partying can be very distracting.
I miss you all terribly. I am of the firm belief that even if one █████ ██ █ ██████ █████ ██ █████ █████████, ████ █████'█ ██████ ███████, ████ ████ ███████ █████ ██ ██ ██. Wishing you all the best ███ ██████ ███ █ ██████ ████ █████ ███ ██████ on here ████████ ████. Perhaps same time ████ ████?
Yours, Kaeya Alberich
[Rin is not his usual cheerful self though. That note that got put up right before curfew was very oof to him, and he's sitting around looking troubled. Occasionally he pulls out some trading cards to look at them, but otherwise he'll be quiet unless someone approaches him.]
[Does he want to mope? Yes. Yes he does. But he knows that won't help, so.]
I've been trying really hard the entire time, you know? Ever since day one! I've been telling them again and again, 'don't do anything stupid', 'no killing people', 'it's not worth it, we just have to keep living'. But every time I think I finally got through to 'em, something else happens. Someone gets possessed by a shadow, or someone dies, or someone disappears on a Thursday and comes back all beat up, or...
He leans against a wall and listens to Rin having an incredibly bad time.]
You can't blame people for gettin' possessed. [Bradley punched Diluc not that long ago.] And the Thursdays are apparently the Nightguy's doing. Least nobody died on those, thanks to the programmin' or what ever.
[About Hua Cheng. Well, he wasn't that close with Sylvain or anything but Rin sure seems to be taking this one hard.] People make decisions. You can hate them as much as you want, but it ain't gonna undo whatever damage they caused. Who's dead is dead. What happened happened.
When all ya can do is move forward, that's what you do.
[ man... he feels bad for rin, but... god he really thinks his friends suck. and he's especially mad about this one because that jerk apparently had the gall to lecture him at that meeting on sunday after killing the only person he'd shared a previous game with (of his own volition!). and he'd tried to frame shinobu for it on top of everything!!
...he holds himself back from saying anything about it though, since he can tell rin's already aware of how messed up it is and is upset about it. ]
[Sometimes all the adults around you are stinky and have murder hands and you keep trying to stop their murder hands but apparently it doesn't work :<]
The worst part is, he might've done it to protect me and Diluc. But he's so stubborn and won't ever say anything, so I'll never know. At least if he'd admit to it then I could yell at him for being stubborn.
After Kaeya died, we sat down as a group. The five of us from the same game. Hua Cheng asked all of us if we would defend ourselves if we got attacked on a Thursday night. Diluc and I both said no. I dunno Diluc's reasons, but I've always been saying mine: unless a shadow forces me to, I won't kill anyone. Never again.
So...I guess if he thought Sylvain would attack either of us, that'd explain why he would attack Sylvain.
I dunno. Sylvain was never mean to me or anything, I don't think he would've tried to kill me. But I'm trying to think of all the reasons why Hua Cheng might kill someone. He's a lot of things, but he's not someone who just kills for no reason.
I suppose we won't know for sure until we can hear him explain himself... I still can't believe he'd do that without having his hand forced in some way...
So they're not just urging us to do dangerous things, but anything adequately distracting...
[She thinks on that for a few moments, but can't ignore how miserable Rin looks. So while she's near enough to see that letter, she places a hand on his back, if he'll let her.]
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You all know I love a good party, right? Maybe you should entertain a dead man's wish, yes? I took great joy in seeing you all at the meeting this week, but I do wonder if we could spice it up perhaps? Some people find plain old information being delivered at a simple group meeting so boring, so perhaps you could allow them to go about distributing it in a far more entertaining way?
Maybe some rousing games to take us away from the dreariness of this place? A party? Those, of course, who would prefer to stay away from all the liveliness (I speak to perhaps one or two people in this letter alone) could perhaps find a much quieter spot to chat business properly as the partying can be very distracting.
I miss you all terribly. I am of the firm belief that even if one █████ ██ █ ██████ █████ ██ █████ █████████, ████ █████'█ ██████ ███████, ████ ████ ███████ █████ ██ ██ ██. Wishing you all the best ███ ██████ ███ █ ██████ ████ █████ ███ ██████ on here ████████ ████. Perhaps same time ████ ████?
Yours,
Kaeya Alberich
[Rin is not his usual cheerful self though. That note that got put up right before curfew was very oof to him, and he's sitting around looking troubled. Occasionally he pulls out some trading cards to look at them, but otherwise he'll be quiet unless someone approaches him.]
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[You're really not looking great, kiddo.]
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I've been trying really hard the entire time, you know? Ever since day one! I've been telling them again and again, 'don't do anything stupid', 'no killing people', 'it's not worth it, we just have to keep living'. But every time I think I finally got through to 'em, something else happens. Someone gets possessed by a shadow, or someone dies, or someone disappears on a Thursday and comes back all beat up, or...
[Well. Everyone saw the letter.]
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He leans against a wall and listens to Rin having an incredibly bad time.]
You can't blame people for gettin' possessed. [Bradley punched Diluc not that long ago.] And the Thursdays are apparently the Nightguy's doing. Least nobody died on those, thanks to the programmin' or what ever.
[About Hua Cheng. Well, he wasn't that close with Sylvain or anything but Rin sure seems to be taking this one hard.] People make decisions. You can hate them as much as you want, but it ain't gonna undo whatever damage they caused. Who's dead is dead. What happened happened.
When all ya can do is move forward, that's what you do.
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[But there is a giant eyepatched-elephant in the room, and Rin hates it.]
...I told him not to. I told him to promise that he wouldn't, so long as he wasn't possessed and wasn't protecting someone else. But...
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[There's nothing held over their head.]
Any idea who his hostage is? Likely he's thinking he was protectin' somebody anyway.
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[ Thinks about jail for .5 seconds and immediately pulls his thoughts away from that. ]
He thought it was worth it.
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...he holds himself back from saying anything about it though, since he can tell rin's already aware of how messed up it is and is upset about it. ]
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The worst part is, he might've done it to protect me and Diluc. But he's so stubborn and won't ever say anything, so I'll never know. At least if he'd admit to it then I could yell at him for being stubborn.
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So...I guess if he thought Sylvain would attack either of us, that'd explain why he would attack Sylvain.
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I suppose we won't know for sure until we can hear him explain himself... I still can't believe he'd do that without having his hand forced in some way...
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I think... you've probably got enough you can yell at him about already.
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[It's just. Hard. To yell at someone you have come to respect and admire.]
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[She thinks on that for a few moments, but can't ignore how miserable Rin looks. So while she's near enough to see that letter, she places a hand on his back, if he'll let her.]
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[Acting's not really Rin's strong suit though. He wears his heart on his sleeve, it's obvious when he tries to lie.
He doesn't pull away from her, though. Come sit with him Estelle.]
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[She'll sit with him!
... and after a few moments, she'll hand him the flower she's holding.]
Here. You can have this.
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What's this for?
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Think of it like a good luck charm for getting through difficult times.
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You know, it'd be nice to not have to endure for once. One of these days I want a REAL vacation, without murder or world-ending disasters.
...but thank you.