akira & gideon

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[cavaliered]

[noooooo...

she's quiet, letting him lean. she isn't quite sure what to do, but - carefully, after a minute, she reaches up to rest her hand on his opposite shoulder, kind of like a half-hug. she's doing her best.]

That's crap. [she says, and it's as sincere as she can be.] That's such horseshit that that happened, and that you had to do it the second time. Sorry. Really.

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[Gideon is truly trying her best here. Akira does appreciate it, and he accepts even the awkward, half hug.]

Thanks. It's okay... The places we went... They weren't real. So be careful, okay? I must just be a way for hell to screw with us.

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[she nods a little.]

Always am. [that's a lie, but she's trying for comforting.] ... They're not real, but I bet it felt that way. It's fine to be fucked up over it.

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Mm. I came out better than Ryo and Lin.

[Minus shooting the girl you like.]

The things that happen there still stick, but... ours was some sort of simulation. Miki wasn't actually Miki. It was just... something that looked like her. Something that told me to shut down the program, I had to use the gun.

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I guess a gun would do it.

[she tilts her head back a bit.]

That's much more personalized and fucked up than shitty rooms and Twinkies.

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Twinkies...?

[He nudges her. Like, carefully. Then he juts his chin at her arms. WHY THE BOTH OF THEM ARE LIKE THIS, NO ONE WILL KNOW.]

What happened?

[cavaliered]

[yeah shooting your crush with a gun is way more fucked up that being fed twinkies, akira]

-- Oh. Nothing. Childe, Dawnslight and I got trapped in the mirror house and chased by giant stuffed animals chanting for meat.

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...What?

[HELLO? CHASED BY WHAT DOING WHAT?]

Meat...?