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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REFRESHMENTS
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Comments

[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.

[fabricates]

Yeah, so? Maybe I did. But that doesn't mean I wasn't going to fulfill my duty to my lusus. And it wasn't just for my own gain!

[glowsferatu]

I didn't argue that was its sole purpose, only that the benefit's absence was not so absolute as you supposed.

[fabricates]

There wasn't much "benefit" for me in it at all. But whatever, you think you have it all figured out.

[glowsferatu]

Oh, are we returning to that point, despite how it has already been thoroughly debunked?

[fabricates]

You didn't debunk shit. You rambled a bunch of bull that did absolutely nothing.

[glowsferatu]

Largely due to the fact that you decided it would better serve you to disregard every word I said, rather than giving it any kind of consideration.

[fabricates]

That's because every word you said was stupid and wrong.

[glowsferatu]

Let's consider this, then. If the necessity were suddenly less dire, how would you respond to the duty?

[luckout]

That's a stupid question. I would have still fed her because she was my lusus. And the necessity wasn't less dire so that means fuck all anyway.

[glowsferatu]

It's a hypothetical scenario. Do try to practice enough imagination to grasp that much! If, by some chance or magic or whatever may allow the desired result in your mind, even luck if it should please you, you would suffer n consequences from neglecting her, would you have?

How complete was the lack of love lost between you two?

[luckout]

Look, I don't get all up in your business about your relationship with your lusus, so why the hell are you getting into mine?

I wouldn't have neglected my duty to her, even if the circumstances were different.

[It's a lie. She knows she wouldn't have, but the circumstances were never different. She did what she had to do to survive and be a good troll.]

[glowsferatu]

You were the one who so triumphantly broached the topic, I merely recognized it for the empty air which supported it. You know how skillful I tend to be with a needle.

[luckout]

[She lets out a irritated huff before she can stop herself. This conversation isn't going the way she wants it, and it's like every time they talk she has less control than she had before and she hates it. She hates Kanaya for it and a number of other things she's discovered, and maybe that's what has her off her game.

With all the petulance of a child that has been denied the unbelievably cool toy in the bottom of the cereal box, her lips turn down in what would, on any other person, resemble a pout. On Vriska, it's an annoyed tick, the kind she gets when something doesn't fall in her favor and someone winds up hurt.]

This conversation is stupid and you're stupid. None of this has anything to do with anything anymore anyway. You're wasting your breath on what ifs and junk that doesn't matter.