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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

[conjecturecycle]

[Gestures at his albino self.]

My body and the sun aren't friends. All I can do is burn.

[worldbent]

[Oh, so this is his real life appearance, huh...]

I see. You must be quite the night owl, then?

[conjecturecycle]

[Scoffs.]

Oh what, we albinos are all freaks banished to the dark corners of the earth? Is that what you think?

[worldbent]

Oh? Maybe so. [Eyebrow raise] Is that what you think of yourself?

[conjecturecycle]

Course not. If I did I wouldn't have made my avatar look like this, now would I?

[worldbent]

Haha, that's a fair point. Then again, with such a strong reaction, it must be coming from somewhere inside.

After all, I didn't insinuate such a thing.

[conjecturecycle]

Stop trying to make this a self-hatred thing. I'm basing it on shit that's been said to me by multiple people and also like every piece of media ever created.

[worldbent]

....And so you're.... Carrying that with you? The things you've seen and had said to you...

[Eyebrow raised...]

[conjecturecycle]

What're you, a therapist in your day job? It ain't that deep!

[STOP TRYING TO SUGGEST I'M PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGED BY YEARS OF DISCRIMINATION.]

[worldbent]

Haha, not quite that! Simply wondering, is all- it was a conspicuous outburst.

[He's juuuust saaaayingggg....!]

[conjecturecycle]

You hear bullshit often enough you kinda just try to cut it off at the pass ta get it out of the way.

[worldbent]

I see....

If you don't believe it yourself, then why does it affect you? If those who you value don't believe it? If you are confident in who and what you are, the rabble oughtn't matter, don't you think?

[Not a therapist. Just personal opinions!]

[conjecturecycle]

Oh my god. I DON'T care, I'm sayin I just wanna get the conversation outta the way! Whether I care or not I still gotta sit through the same shit every time!

[worldbent]

On a subject you started?

[His eye slides away as he sips at his drink.] I see.

[conjecturecycle]

You made some sorta comment about how I might only go out at night, how'd I start it!?

[worldbent]

I meant from a practicality standpoint, I assure you. It had nothing to do with perception as a 'freak' or otherwise.

[conjecturecycle]

Practically speaking, it'd be obnoxious as hell trying to exist in modern society while only going out at night, paly. It's not like I'm gonna burst into flames like a vampire or something.

[Except the one time he did but that was for the sake of a joke bc he is from a comedy tv show.]

[worldbent]

[HM]

Goodness knows there are enough shut-ins playing games like this that do so for less practical reasons, so it's not like you'd be alone in that.

[conjecturecycle]

Sure, but I had plans to y'know, get a college degree and a job so I had ta improvise. They got these things called umbrellas, dunno if you've heard of them.