[week one - monday]

[hypertoxic]

[ So she like, goes to find him. Monday night-ish, because why not?

Vriska prides herself on noticing small details. Anything and everything that can help her win. Win at games, win at life, win. Whatever the case may be.

So she was watching everyone she possibly could at the longhouse meeting. And it did not escape her notice that Akira wasn't too happy about the situation. Perhaps this fluffy deadpan boy has the heart of a hero. Time to find out.

It's near the campfire that she spots him, and Vriska will hail him with a wave and a faint smile. ]

Akira! Just the guy I was looking for.

[ She'll sidle right up to him and kinda like. Fold her arms and lean slightly against him? Does this girl have any concept of personal space.

That said, her voice is not entirely unkind when she says: ]

How you holding up?

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[jokered]

No. I just... am used to having to do that. It's just the way things are for me, I have to hold it in.

[he sighs.] I'm used to it, so there's no point in changing that now.

[hypertoxic]

[ ... ? ]

"Have to"? Why's that?

[jokered]

Circumstance.

[...]

Back home, I can't cause a stir. [so when he's mad, he just has to bite his tongue.] It's that kind of situation.

[hypertoxic]

[ Both her eyebrows go uuuuup. ]

Keeping your head down? What the hell did you do?

[jokered]

[and simply:]

I'm on probation.


[not what it seems, but still the truth?]

[hypertoxic]

[ blankly ]

I have no idea what that means.

[jokered]

Being watched after getting in a lot of trouble, basically.

[that's the most concise way to explain that, he thinks.]

[hypertoxic]

[ ... ???? ]

What'd you do, kill someone? Humans have laws against that, right?

[jokered]

I didn't really do anything.

[honestly.]

I tried to stop a man from harassing a woman, he fell and got hurt, and told the cops I assaulted him.

[fuck that guy.] He's... a powerful man, so I had no leverage and had to take the fall.

[hypertoxic]

Oh. Politics! Fuck that. [ vriska feels the same way. ] Political bullshit like that certainly existed where I'm from, though in different ways. People in power sure have it great, huh? They can just do whatever the hell they feel like with zero repercussions!

[jokered]

[indeed, vriska.]

That's the problem with adults where I'm from. They abuse it, they take advantage of people... they do anything they want while everyone else has to suffer.

[so that's kind of his deal, sort of, in a nutshell.]