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[secondthoughts]

Who ☀ Hector & "everyone"
What ☀ It's Hector's birthday!
When ☀ August 5
Where ☀ Lumina Cloth. Surprise!
Content Warnings ☀ drunk people, will add as needed

[ Arrive at Mac Anu, where the welcome party was held, to find it...empty? A quick look on the forums shows a little edit to Hector's post:

We're popping Lumina Cloth's cherry! See you there :-)

So that's where he is.

In the center of the brightly illuminated nighttime city, Hector's set himself up for his little get together. But since he doesn't have any tables or plates or anything fancy like that, all the alcohol and food he bought from various vendors are just...strewn around the floor. The food is probably still good to eat, though. It's fine. Take what strikes your fancy!

Hector's wearing his outfit again. He lounges on the steps of that funky spinny thing in the center of town, and anyone who gets close enough to hear him will hear music coming from his mic. Give him a break. He's doing his best.

When enough people have gathered, he might actually get up and drag everyone into a drinking game.

So enjoy—eat, drink, mingle, and smack your friends! PvP is enabled here, after all :) ]

Comments

[weaseled]

There's never any going back, kid. You can only go forward.

[Yael clicks his tongue, shakes his head. He doesn't mean to chide Mithrun, but Yael isn't willing to hold his tongue when Mithrun spouts such blatant lies about himself.]

If you want to move forward, you will. If you don't, you won't. Simple as that. No one else is gonna tell you whether you can be happy or not, and at the end of the day, no one wants to be miserable. That means you too.

[tablescraps]

( Oh. The tone of Yael's response surprises him - enough to borrow his attention from whatever lurid thoughts had occupied his head. )

... We'll see.

( This, at least, is not meant to be a firm rejection, but rather a sincere expression of uncertainty. Learning to want to avoid misery is something he'll believe when he feels it again, for the first time in a long time. )

Do you want to be happy?

[weaseled]

[It's not a firm rejection, and so Yael takes it just as it is: neither a yes nor a no, and perhaps it means Mithrun may actually be open to trying. It's not Yael's responsibility nor his job to demand more from Mithrun, but he's proud of him in his own quiet way. As a result, his tone softens just a hair.]

I sure as hell don't want to be miserable. No one can be happy all the time.

If nothing else, I want to feel fine more often than I don't. I think that's reasonable enough.