Trash Squad Day 11 - SECRETS

[chinhotta]

Are you ready for it?! It's the long awaited final event! This is your last chance to get close before your final dates and the final bonus event!

And, back by popular demand, it's the motive vi—wait, no, not that. Well, I guess you're motivated to build your relationships? That's better anyway.

...Anyway! Check your tablets! You will find you have a few interesting video files! They should be familiar to you! The catch is... if you don't share each one with a different person by nighttime today, they will all be shown to everyone here! We'll have a fun midnight viewing party!

This may seem a bit cruel, but... love is cruel sometimes. Take it as an opportunity to get a bit closer to the people you care about, or everyone will learn a bit more about you! It's win-win when you think about it that way!

[ On your tablets are a minimum of 3 video files! There is no maximum; it's however many you OOCly want to deal with. Each video contains some sort of secret your character has—'secret' loosely defined as anything they would be uncomfortable being thrown up on a big screen in the auditorium in front of everyone. The presentation can be as simple as lines of text with embarrassing facts (Alice wet the bed until she was in junior high!) or as involved as a dramatically edited montage of the murders they committed through their whole life. Your choice!

Each file should be shown to a different person to count as 'shared'. If there is anything they do not manage to, or choose not to, share with someone in particular, comment with a brief description of it over here. These will all be shared publicly in a post which goes up on Thursday before the date announcement post. ]

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[fightingoverdose]

...Aw, didn't know you cared.

[flamingprick]

Well of course I do! You're special to me.

[fightingoverdose]

--Hahh, you just said it.

[well, that takes the bullshitting wind out of her sails. she looks away, willing her cheeks to go less pink]

A-anyways...

[flamingprick]

[but now Rin is going pink and a little tsun too.]

What, you think I wouldn't tell someone that I care about them? I'm not good at hiding what I think.

[fightingoverdose]

Well, yeah, but--

[she looks away, scratching the back of her head]

People out here're a lot more generous with that type of stuff than back home. Just takes some gettin' used to.

[flamingprick]

That's alright then, you can take time for that.

But go ahead and show me a memory too? That might help you get used to it too.

[fightingoverdose]

[continues to look away, frowning this time; she's got her tablet out but isn't really offering it?]

...None of 'em are very flatterin', to say the least.

[flamingprick]

Well, none of mine are either. So we'll both share something unflattering and be even.

[fightingoverdose]

[nods, setting her jaw]

You want I should go first?

[flamingprick]

Yeah, go ahead.

[It'll be easier to help her if it's a rough memory if he isn't emotionally compromised, which he knows he will be by the time he's done showing his video.]

[fightingoverdose]

[A breath and she clicks the video, looking more at him than at the tablet, then looking fully away from both, shoulder stiff.]

[The scene is some shitty rented room, grimy to begin with and littered with bottles and cans and wrappers and mysterious stains--the remnants of some sort of enthusiastic bender from the looks of the kids groggily rousing themselves and stumbling into and out of frame. Tall and gawky in her middle school uniform and looking like she's nursing a serious hangover, Sara comes to nudge one of the figures that hasn't moved from where it was huddled on the floor. When they don't respond, she tries again, flipping the person onto their back.

Their nose and mouth is bloodied and face ashy grey, and Sara leans in, blocking the camera's view after that. Whatever Sara sees in that pixely shadow is enough for her whole demeanor to change almost instantly. Even without sound in the video, it's obvious she's yelling for help given her expression and the way the other kids start scrambling, scared. Her knuckles are bruise-dark as she starts fumbling at chest compressions, casting around with increasing alarm when the video ends.]

[flamingprick]

[Oh.

Oh no, poor Sara.

She's getting a hug for that one.]

It's not your fault.

[fightingoverdose]

...Not accordin' to the official records, anyway.

[Her tone doesn't quite make it to its usual lightness, body stiff through the hug, just taking a slow breath in and out]

Still got in a ton of trouble. My parents were even more pissed than Yonezawa's. Pulled me outta school, threw me into juvie. ...Didn't see any of those guys much after that.

[flamingprick]

Yeah, no kidding. After that...

[Wow. For all the trouble Rin got in, at least nobody had died. Not before the demon stuff at least.]

But still, it's on your tablet because you feel bad about it, right?

[fightingoverdose]

Y'think? I...

...I don't even remember what we did that night. Though I sure remember not bein' able to do nothin' that morning. ...Guess that's life.

[flamingprick]

Pretty much. Sometimes bad things happen. Even if you did risky stuff like drinking or whatever, that doesn't mean anyone deserved to die for it. And you don't deserve to carry the guilt of it either. It was an accident.

[fightingoverdose]

[shrugs noncommittally; takes another breath]

Either way... Don't matter now, I guess.

...So...that was my excitin' middle school memories, we can move on if you want.

[flamingprick]

Not yet.

[How about they find somewhere to sit down first? Even the floor is fine. He's going to try to maneuver her so that She's sitting/laying in front of him, between his legs, with her back to him.

...probably moreso laying than sitting on her part since she's got quite a height advantage on him.]

[fightingoverdose]

[Who says she is in the mood to cuddle??? J/k she is always in the mood for physical contact especially after digging up old memories and having to show them to people whose opinions she actually cares about... So no, it is not especially difficult for him to maneuver her into place leaned against his chest, knees bent to take up less space]

cw: gore in a couple of the pages

[flamingprick]

[It's fine, cuddles make everything better. And when they're like this, it's easier for Rin to hold the tablet in front of both of them. Because this memory is a doozy.

It starts off with Rin and a red-haired woman almost getting fucking murdered but somehow they survive and there's some important dialogue in there. Mostly about how Rin is Satan's son and how he's supposed to be executed.

Then Rin gets a final goodbye to his friends that doesn't go so well. Rin looks absolutely crushed to have his friends turn on him so quickly too.

But then Rin is in a trial room and is immobilized in a very painful manner.

The trial isn't actually even about Rin. He's just there as evidence. It's about another man entirely, one who has quite a plan involving Rin.

And both men (the obvious demon, and the blonde man) keep talking about Rin as if he isn't even there. As if he's a thing, not a person. At least until Rin speaks up for himself. And that's where the memory ends.

Rin might be hugging onto Sara with his free hand by the time it ends, too.]

[fightingoverdose]

Damn...

[She hadn't exactly expected flowers and roses but...still, it's a lot?

Shaking her head, she abruptly drops the tablet and twists around to give him a proper hug, almost fiercely tight]

[flamingprick]

[It is indeed a lot. And Rin will gladly accept that hug, holding into Sara tightly once she twists to face him and hugs him.

He's not crying like he has for some of the other videos, but he doesn't look particularly happy. Even if he's trying to joke about it to make it a little better.]

Surprise, I can grow limbs back.

[fightingoverdose]

[nudges against him, even through the hug, though from how her hands clench she's more interested in busting some heads]

So you got lizard powers. That don't mean you ain't as human as anybody else. Moreso than most of those assholes.

[flamingprick]

...

[Hugging onto her a little more tightly now.]

It'd be nice if other people thought of that. Or thought about me as a person at all.

[Even if they can't see him as human, he'd like to be seen as a person.]

[fightingoverdose]

[tucks him in closer]

Everybody can't be as shit as those guys, can they?