PCs with Mandricardo

[silentscout]

MANDI SHITPOST LATER

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w4 post execution

[duranduel]

hey lalli

is it true you have a cat?

[silentscout]

Yeah, Kissa. She's mostly white with a little bit of orange and black on her.

[He sends Mandi a picture of her too, since she's napping on the couch next to Lalli.]

[duranduel]

oh she's really cute!

i know this is a weird thing to ask out of the blue but

can i pet her? (does she like pets?)

i think i just need to distract myself with something

[silentscout]

Sure. She likes being pet. She is still young and likes playing too.

Where are you? I can bring her to where you are.

[duranduel]

otome just bandaged me up so i'm in the infirmary

[silentscout]

[He will head on over to the infirmary! He's got Kissa in his arms, so when he peeks in Kissa is also peeking in. Two sets of eyes, peering at Mandricardo.]

...hi.

[That's Lalli not Kissa. Kissa can't talk.]

[duranduel]

...Hey.

[Mandricardo is not crispy, but...he's definitely not back to what he usually was. His face is still somewhat burned, with visible bandages going underneath his loose shirt, wrapped around his arm and palms of his hand.]

[He smiles a little when he sees Lalli.]

Wow. Even cuter in person.

[silentscout]

She is, yes. She's very soft too.

[Those burns look painful, wow.

Lalli does step in and goes to set Kissa down on Mandricardo's bed though. Mandi deserves all the comfort he can get.]

...are you in pain right now?

[duranduel]

[Aww, Kissa. His smile widens when he reaches out to gently pat her on the head.]

...Yeah. [He says, like an admission.] Yeah, I am.

[silentscout]

[He pulls out his phone.]

If you want, when you're done petting Kissa, I can use my sensory deprivation coupon on you. Then you won't feel anything for a day.

[But petting Kissa comes first, because Mandi deserves to feel the rumbling purrs that come from her when she sprawls over his lap for pets.]

[duranduel]

...No, it's fine.

[He seems reluctant, and...a bit guilty, with that?]

[He's wincing a little at the pressure, but warm cat is good.]

I never did ask. How have you been, Lalli...? I mean. Besides. All of that the last two days.

[silentscout]

[Mandi your guilt? Lalli is a touch confused, but he won't ask.]

I think everyone has had a bad last couple of days. But before Friday it was...nice, I suppose. Sometimes during the week it's easy to forget how horrible the weekends are.

[duranduel]

Ha.

[A short laugh, without feeling.]

Feels like forever ago that we had that date auction.

[silentscout]

Mmm.

[It's the closest Lalli had to a laugh without feeling. A 'mmm' without feeling.]

Thinking about something from then?

[duranduel]

Eh.

[He shrugs at that.]

I just...remember Wang Lu taking me to the buffet. [And now sadness comes again.] He shows me a picture that told me that...ha. His "handholding rights" were for me, and me alone.

[silentscout]

[Oh no not the sadness.]

Probably because you're special to him. Sometimes people are like that, they only like touching specific people.

[So says someone who is like that too.]

[duranduel]

...

I've never felt like anyone ever saw me as...special, in that way.

[silentscout]

Well, he did.

[Implying that nobody else does. Or maybe not, Lalli isn't THAT mean.]

And if he saw something special, then there's something special there.

[duranduel]

[A huff. He shifts his head to snuggle against Kissa, a little.]

I think everyone...deserves to have someone think they're special, honestly.

[Best feeling in the world! If that person ISN'T DEAD.]

[silentscout]

...why are you saying this?

[Like if Mandi is missing Wang Lu and needs support that's one thing, but Lalli is suspicious of Mandi's motives here.

Partially because of Things and him hoping that he's not being obvious, he's very self-conscious about it.]

[duranduel]

...Huh? What do you mean, "why"?

[he is]

[genuinely confused]

[he has literally no ic idea about lalli and kon i am crying]

I-I'm sorry. I'm just...thinking about him. I shouldn't have brought it up.

[silentscout]

[Lalli being too self-conscious is so funny.]

No, it's fine. You miss him, right? So you should talk about him. People don't really 'die' until the living stop talking about them anyway.

[duranduel]

Yeah.

[There's a long pause.]

In my life, I messed up when it came to how I grieved. My father died, and I...lost myself. [A shake of the head.] Unlike that time, there's no battles to lose myself in. And I...want to grieve properly. I'm afraid I'll go insane if I don't.

[silentscout]

Just bury it deep in your heart and ignore it. It gets easier as time passes.

[Lalli no that's not healthy at all.

Though the way he's speaking with such authority on the subject of "loved ones dying" might be concerning.]

[duranduel]

[He's furrowing his eyebrows at that. Yeah, that is NOT healthy.]

I actually...think that might be worse, Lalli. It may seem like its easier, I think, but...it hurts worse when you dig it up.