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]

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.]

[goei]

[He's from there now but society was annihilated so they don't have like the most current memes. Sad.]

... I don't believe you.

[cirquedesang]

[Truly trajique.]

Then I suppose you'll never know.

[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.

[cleansewithfire]

Oh. Is that so?

[ ...There's this long pause, as Sunrise considers if she'll ever get to be "old enough" to understand this. She gets the feeling that if she did, it would probably be a sign she's overstayed her welcome. ]

[cirquedesang]

I think so.

[Maybe she'll never reach it here - but someday, surely.]

[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.

[cleansewithfire]

[ Looks at Yi Sang, looks at Izou, then looks at Celeste... ]

...Well, if it is fun for him...

[idealitas]

It is generally better not to question what others find joy in, unless it causes genuine conflict.