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Oscar ([personal profile] sacrificialpawn) wrote in [community profile] shardbond2025-02-23 05:20 pm

Party Rock Anthem only it's played on kazoos

[Oscar is a practiced master at Coping (tm) in the face of things he would prefer not to address in any sort of healthy or rational manner. After the events of yesterday, he's somehow getting the feeling that he isn't the only one, which means that in his mind there is only one thing to do: this translates to yet another Walmart booze heist (even larger than the original), a few side trips to amass snacks because RIP his kitchen, and some haphazardly erected decorations in one of the spare rooms to try to at least give off something of a celebratory atmosphere... but let's be real here, this is just Misery x CPR x Reese's Puffs + alcohol.

Sunday morning will find handwritten notes tucked under everyone's doors inviting them to a party that evening, snacks and drinks (that particular word underlined a couple of times, just in case people didn't pick up on the meaning of "party") provided gratis.

There's alcohol, there's soda for the minors, there's plenty of junk food to eat, and there are a whole bunch of other people who are also Going Through It. What better recipe for a party could you ask for?

... don't answer that.]
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[personal profile] crosswired 2025-02-24 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll be patient as she tries to feel that question out.]

That last portion is closest, yes. At least, in how family has been described to me. We... do not have that in theory, either. [But Wolfwood already gave a very good explanation of family as a concept outside of biological relation, so he doesn't feel he needs to really dig that up too much.] But a sense of belonging and togetherness... it is a virtue of ours for a reason.

We have our people as a whole, of course, but... those who live with us in affinity, those who we work with, friends that we make, teammates -- despite any doubts I have of deserving a place with them, I would still do anything in the world, anything, to keep those that I love safe from things that would harm them.

I have been told that there is a different sort of love. One that... is similar, but more eclipsing, sharper, involving only one other. [His eyes flick back down to his glass.] That is where I do not know if I can relate entirely. It is... foreign, to me.
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[personal profile] ungratefuloz 2025-02-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, it's...]

...So in a way, the way you all treat one another--it's sort of the way that the Goddess Squad and I treated one another, perhaps?

[Dorothy thinks she properly gets it now, and her smile is...well. It's quite warm.]

I think that's a beautiful thing regardless, Vakama. And please, don't worry about not understanding our own love or anything of the sort--I think that sort of care and camaraderie in it's own right, it is a beautiful thing to be strived for. And if that's where you get your fulfillment, I don't think there's a single thing wrong with that.

Rest assured that we appreciate that care immensely, if nothing else.
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[personal profile] crosswired 2025-02-24 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mm... From what I remember of your comrades? Yes, I would say it is fitting.

[His smile is slight. The more alcohol he gets into him, the more somber he starts to slip, but it's fine it's whatever.]

I didn't mean to question your intention, Dorothy. I just, ah... I didn't want you to feel your well wishes were being misunderstood, or to feel pity or any such thing.

I am here to do what I can to see this through, and will go home to do the same for my own, and that is enough.