shawarma time

[finalmix]

[ some time after Atem's palace when everyone has had the time to get back from braphine's temple, and more importantly get that sand out of your everything (and enjoy NOT 40 degree Celsius weather)

everyone who was in Atem's palace will find themselves suddenly added to a group chat by joshua and he just sends a singular address

it's the address to a shawarma place that somehow magically has a big enough table to fit 14 people. amazing. we love fluid locations like this.

post palace dinner, y'all know the drill ]

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[beathollow]

( ah yes, victory tradition. she will nibble quietly, and mostly just... vibe with joshua? if he permits she'll lean on him a bit sometimes.

she might be traumatized by his specific penalty game.

sometimes you might catch her humming something, though. )

[strawsandals]

[ Listen, Mafuyu isn't the only one who's quiet today. Yoon is also not having a great time but he will quietly hold out some food towards Mafuyu. If you're hungry, is what he means to say, but the words don't quite come out. ]

[beathollow]

Thank you, Yoon.

...

After a moment, she asks something quietly of the waiter. After another, he brings out a glass of mint lemonade for yoon. it looks almost creamy, but it should be sweet and refreshing for him. )

[cleansewithfire]

[ Oh, right... Mafuyu tried to help her earlier, and she didn't get to thank her. ]

Oh, Ms. Mafuyu.

[beathollow]

Sunrise... I'm glad to see that you're okay.

[finalmix]

[






for once the cat/rabbit (catbit???) is allowing physical contact

so yes, mafuyu is allowed to lean on him for now while he's picking at his fries because that's what teenagers do, right??? go out for food together? this is fine. ]

[beathollow]

...

( she's going to steal a fry. mizuki would be proud. )

[moodwrecker]

[Aubrey probably had to be dragged out because fam, the penalty game was rough on this one.

She's also just going to decline to eat right now, sitting quietly and listening to the others talk.]

[beathollow]

...

( if she places one of her hands over aubrey's, would that be okay? )

[moodwrecker]

[She startles a little! But she allows it.]

[metagame]

Aubrey... I...

[What, exactly, do you say to someone you brainfucked into thinking they were murdering their friends?]

... I'm sorry.

[His voice sounds small, and he hates it.]

[moodwrecker]

[What, indeed, do you say to any of this...?

She opens her mouth. Closes it. Thinks, for yet another moment, of just how to respond to that.]

...

I know it wasn't all just you. [The god of conflict is the one causing the palaces to begin with. She knows that - she was at the center of one, too, even.]

...But I'm not sure if I can accept it yet.

[She still feels - shaky. Sick.

It was so much.]

[metagame]

[The unfortunate man of the hour looks and feels like shit. Dark circles under his eyes, and his hair a wet, wire-y mess in a ponytail. He's apphrensive about being here given all that he's done to everyone in this small-but-also-large restaurant. And, as same everyone else, he's picking at his food: a pita stuffed full of falafel, vegetables, and tahini.

There's no excuse for what he has done. The God of Conflict may have influenced his Shadow and caused it to go berserk, but that was still him. That was how he used to be before he learned a better way to behave.

...

He's surprisingly small in his chair without his usual bravado to make him larger than he is.

Maybe if he keeps to himself he can eat and go back to the dorm... he really shouldn't have come in the first place.]

[beathollow]

...

You feel guilty.

( she's speaking quietly- from one palace ruler to another. )

[metagame]

Yes.

[No point in hiding it.]

You were under his influence, too, weren't you..? Everything that happened feels like a blur to me... But I believe you mentioned it in the palace?

[finalmix]

[ man of the hour that atem is, Joshua's dumping a pile of fries onto his plate because-- ] You look like shit and you also look like you're going to topple over at any moment.

[ wow he does Not mince words huh. also it's definitely more cheerful than it should probably be, weirdly enough. ]

[metagame]

As if you're one to talk.

[that's so many french fries, Joshua. Atem can't eat all of that. he pushes them around his plate.]

And how are you in such a good mood?

[read: what's with the fake cheerfulness, Joshua? or at least Atem thinks he might be faking it. no way Joshua means it after what happened in the palace. but he was the one who invited everyone here...

why can't he ever get a bead on this guy? ugh.]

[strawsandals]

[ Yoon is not mad at Atem. He's really mad about what happened but that, in his mind, is different from being mad at the Palace owner. Or maybe he's just trying not to be mad because Atem is his friend...who knows.

Either way, he's going to use one of his utensils and gesture at Atem's food. ]

Hey. You need to eat.

[emptyself]

[ soujuurou doesn’t know what the fuck a shawarma is. but he is a sheep and he will follow the crowd.

he’s sitting on the table, mindlessly eating his food as if nothing happened and he hadn’t just witnessed the horrors and fainted from them. ]

[metagame]

Was that the first time you summoned your Persona, Soujuurou?

[How can he sit there like that after everything they went through..?

And also as I said in Discord, he applies -kun to Soujuurou's name now. How this translates in Ancient Egyptian is a mystery but Soujuurou hears everything as Japanese anyway so whatever!!!]

[privatedomicile]

[Ok, Jesse doesn't fully know where to even start with some of the insanity that was that Palace, but hell if he doesn't think food will help at least a little bit. And hey, it's good!]

I gotta find the dude who came up with shawarma and I dunno, buy him a cold beer, because this is seriously hittin' the spot right now. Am I right?

[Everybody is clearly still reeling from the horrors, including Jesse, so he feels a bit awkward.]

[metagame]

[The air in this place is delicious and tense simultaneously.]

Hey... Jesse... I wanted to apologize for what I did... I know it doesn't fix anything, but... I am truly, deeply sorry for subjecting you to that.

[emptyself]

It is pretty filling. And it’s got the meat and vegetables together.

[ soujuurou is happily (?) munching on his shawarma, nodding along with jesse’s statement. ]

Where do they get such a large chicken though…?

[ he’s talking about the chicken in the rotisserie. ]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Sunrise likely came here with Richard and is eating her shawarma with a lot of spicy sauce. She too doesn't seem all that affected by The Horrors, though maybe people will pick up that she's sitting pretty close to Richard... ]

[metagame]

... Yo.

[He offers Sunrise an awkward little wave.]

Are you alright?