post palace takeout! [week 5]

[beathollow]

( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.

this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.




as one does. )

Comments

[goei]

Wh- That- It's just an expression! I mean like, how you and Red are all soft and smooth looking!! As opposed ta someone manly like McGillis!

[cirquedesang]

[Red? Who-- Ah, right Argenti.]

...You realize that armor must be heavy, no? If 'soft and smooth' is your metric, he's likely as surprising as I am.

[goei]

Well it's not like I'm sittin' around oglin' men's bodies. I'm just talkin' about yer faces!

[It's an attempt to sound less gay... not really working.]

[cirquedesang]

Clearly not.

[You know, since the gun show was a surprise. But--]

Though you did slash open my yukata. And McGillis's yukata. Perhaps your darker self was more honest about one thing.

[goei]

[NOOOOOO]

I was aimin' fer yer vitals, idiot!!!

[cirquedesang]

If you insist~

[He knows he was. He's just also easy to tease.]

[goei]

Stop sayin' it like that! It ain't an excuse it's just th' truth!!!

[cirquedesang]

It could, perhaps, be both.

[Sew a seed of doubt here...]

[goei]

What kinda guy d'you think I am!? I ain't gonna try ta ogle people in the middle of a fight!

[cirquedesang]

What was your title again? Manlayer?

[fullmoonmutt]

[ snrrrk laughing into his brinner (breakfast-dinner) ]

[goei]

It's manslayer and you know it!!!

[cirquedesang]

Ah, yes, yes, Manslay-["yass 💅 slay queen" gesture here]-er. My mistake.

[goei]

[Standing up in his seat and pointing, he is disturbing the other patrons]

What was that! What's that gesture mean!!!

[cirquedesang]

[Oh this is a golden opportunity. Izou is not 2020s enough to already know it...]

It puts emphasis on how much you slay. Obviously.

[And the bait is set.]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Sunrise looks at Celeste, then looks at Izou...before tilting her head in the universal expression of confusion, like she's trying to figure out what Izou has to do with "manlayer". ]

..."Layer"? ..."Lay-er"...? What does Mr. Izou have to do with laying men?

[ She is literally just making salad out of this word and somewhere there are at least two people who would be aghast at what she's saying. ]

[goei]

[POINTS AT SUNRISE]

Now look what ya did, ya confused Sunrise!!

[HE'S CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN IT.]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ PFFFFFFFhhh——

Okay, now he does laugh out loud. Oh god, now Sunrise is in on it. ]

[cirquedesang]

[Oh he's this close to losing it, too. What a blessing Sunrise is.]

[cirquedesang]

[She's perfect. A menace without even trying. But alas, he does hit her with the dreaded-]

You will surely understand when you are older.

[She's got that little sister energy...]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Some day someone is going to find out she is also literally 5 years old on a technicality, and suddenly it will make so much sense. ]

Older how?

[ Also literally cannot age... ]

[cirquedesang]

[It will make so, so much sense.]

Hm. Chronologically. [Since he can't age anymore, either.]

With time comes experience.

[idealitas]

[ Flatly, while everyone else is dying. ]

Nothing. Man. Slay. -Er.

[ He punctuates every syllable to help. ]

It's another way to describe a killer, murderer, or assassin. I suppose it sounds more threatening to the general populace by using "man" in the combination, thus adding a literal connection of human mortality for those who cannot realize the threat of someone who kills purposefully.

[cleansewithfire]

Oh. It makes sense.

[ Thinking to Shadow Izou, for some reason.

...Then she points at Celeste. ]

Why is he saying it wrong?

[idealitas]

He is having fun.