A Night in West Egg

[professorlionface]

WHO: EVERYBODY OF ALL AGES
WHERE: The Xavier Institute
WHEN: The night of June 16th, all night!
WARNINGS: Who can really tell anymore? Probable language. Possible violence. Copious dancing.
SUMMARY: PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM
FORMAT: OPEN

The guests into an auditorium transformed. Through the magic of papier mache, the room has been decked out like a speakeasy, the refreshments laid out on a very makeshift bar that will not stock alcohol as long as they can prevent it. The whole room is cast with a cool blue light, and a jazz band's been hired to take the stage for an hour before leaving the rest of the evening to the DJ.

It was time to get this party started.

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Comments

[glowsferatu]

[ oh vriska don't encourage her ]

They were intended as a private aside to myself, the exclusion of their outside extension to be absolute, most especially from you.

[fabricates]

Then you shouldn't have said it out loud. It still meant something, but the more I think about what the answer could be, the more I really just don't give a shit!

[She is aiming the most passive aggressive smile at her.]

[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya just brightly glowers ] I hadn't said it loudly, it was under my breath.

If you were truly so apathetic to the truth of the statement, why would you so enthusiastically press the topic?

[fabricates]

If you didn't want me to hear it, then you shouldn't have said it at all. It's as simple as that.

As for why, I don't know, you tell me. You're the expert on me, right?

[glowsferatu]

[ it's such an obvious bait, but she's so easily baited ]

Because you can't bear the thought of being spoken about without full knowledge of what's being said.

[fabricates]

[It's what makes them such a beautiful trainwreck.]

Nah, I think I'm fine with not knowing. And anyway, I'm sure I could figure out what you meant on my own. So wasting time asking you is really just that - wasting my time.

[glowsferatu]

I could use some amusement tonight. So go right ahead, I'd love to hear what form your supposition would take!

[ because as much as she's bitterly formed her unchanging view of vriska, she's pretty well convinced that the other girl never cared enough or paid enough attention to form any kind of accurate perspective of herself. ]

[fabricates]

If it's not about me wearing them, then it's obviously about the fact that I actually like them. And, correct me if I'm wrong which I already know I'm not, you don't want me to like something you made because it makes detaching yourself from me thaaaaaaaat much harder.

I mean, you're already having a problem doing it without me even doing anything from what I can see, so me doing anything makes it especially hard on poor Kanaya. Am I right?

[glowsferatu]

Not especially.

[ to vriska's credit, there are glimmers of truth in her assumption, but the overall reasoning why she'd rather inspire a negative reaction instead of a positive, or worse, neutral one...is a bit more complicated. ]

[fabricates]

[If Vriska knew that reason, she'd likely never quit bugging the hell out of Kanaya to piss her off.]

Yeah right! Face it, I'm not an idiot when it comes to you.

[glowsferatu]

[ well that's at least part of the idea ]

There's little to face, and should I attempt it I'd find myself gazing into the boundless void of traits within myself you've actually bothered to recognize.

There's a small, insignificant speck, not unlike the dust particle a planet would resemble in a fully galactic context, entitled "Fussy". [ she waves her wand upward ] And over here is a stray molecule which might have been mistaken for being misplaced, until one notes its representation of "Oh and meddlesome also."

[fabricates]

[She bristles.]

Is that seriously all you think I know about you? Wow, you're actually an idiot. Who knew.

[glowsferatu]

I won't pretend it's the entirety which falls under your awareness, but it is all you've more recently been inclined to acknowledge.

Surface interests don't qualify.

[fabricates]

Because it's all you've been showing me. The hell do you want me to do? Talk about all the qualities you aren't showing me? What's the point?

[glowsferatu]

Perhaps if you had thought to acknowledge them while they were still on display, the current expression wouldn't aspire to the current exclusions.

[fabricates]

Seriously? These expectations of yours are ridiculous. I didn't know I needed to acknowledge them. Are you really so pathetic that you need recognition for all of your qualities?

Do I really strike you as the type that goes around doing that? I mean, you know me so well after all. Just because I didn't mention it doesn't mean I didn't notice anything.

[glowsferatu]

[ never underestimate how emotionally needy kanaya maryam can be ]

No, you strike me as the type who's so overly preoccupied with reorienting matters to focus on herself that anything outside of her personal gratification simply doesn't occur to her to give any consideration.

[fabricates]

[Sorry she can only deal with one emotionally needy person in her life and that's herself.]

Wrong again! If I really only thought of myself, do you really think I would have taken care of my lusus for sweeps and risked the hatred of my friends to keep her alive? What could I have possibly gained from that that would actually benefit me? You really don't know me as well as you claim.

[glowsferatu]

Because that's the wrong question. It isn't regarding how you might benefit from the fulfillment of that duty, but what you might suffer if you neglected it.

Don't think to presume my lack of knowledge regarding the matter of obligation, Vriska. That's precisely what regard you had for her. Or did you think I wasn't listening on every occasion you expressed such a sentiment? We aren't all as self-involved as you.

[fabricates]

So you think I willingly wanted to piss everyone I knew off to feed my lusus? For what? Shits and giggles?

What would you have had me done, Kanaya? Let myself get eaten? Ignore the lusus that took care of me before I had to take over caring for her? Yeah, sure, let me get right on neglecting the duties that society set for me just because you said so. Do you even hear what you're saying?

[glowsferatu]

I think I may be the only one, as the extrapolations you've decided on have little to do with anything I just now stated!

I never implied that you should have avoided feeding her altogether, I only called into question the manner in which you presented your motivations of doing so.

[fabricates]

You're the one insinuating I did it only for my own good!

I'm not going to stand here and take your verbal assault on my character without defending myself. Which is apparently what you want me to do!

[glowsferatu]

You asked what possible benefit you could have gained from it! But if the detriments of avoiding it had outweighed these, would you honestly have continued with it?

There is a difference between the attack you expect and the simple honest disclosure I have offered. It is only an attack because you are uncomfortable with the traits being denoted.

[fabricates]

It was my job, Kanaya. Not all of us could have nice lusii to coddle us. You wouldn't have lasted a day in my shoes. So quit acting like you're better than me, because you're not.

This is definitely an attack on me, cut the crap.

[glowsferatu]

I seem to recall a certain individual expressing a desire to have been so "coddled" as opposed to the position she was instead assigned.

I somehow doubt you would have gracefully met the duties prescribed therein.