Trash Squad Day 11-12: SECRETS REVEAL

[chincoola]

When midnight comes, you blink, feel a swell of disorientation, and when you open your eyes... it's to complete darkness. As far as your other senses go, though, you appear to be seated somewhere comfortable, and there's a very distinct smell... of popcorn?

Then a screen lights up, and it becomes clear you're in the auditorium, with front-row views of the giant projection screen set up on the stage, currently displaying bright cheerful text: GET-TO-KNOW-YOU MIDNIGHT VIEWING PARTY!!

There's nothing stopping you from getting up, but the doors to get out or into the control room where the projector is set up are locked tight. You have about five minutes before the show starts to figure out that it seems like you'll be trapped here until the full compilation of the secrets people didn't reveal is finished.

At least there is in fact a popcorn stand set up at the edge of the room...? Grab some and settle in!

Comments

[justpure]

[Oh, god who turned out the lights what is this horrible-]

[Oh. Uh. This could be worse? He does get the feeling of deja vu...]

[Guess he'll have to sit here and be horrified at the secrets of people he mostly knows.]

[... Help.]

[counterfaith]

[ just watching him from his seat, a little curious and concerned ] . . . Shinguji-san?

[justpure]

[Akumata Shirou Tokishada.]

[Kiyo had already figured out the man's mortal life. However, the saint graph... The energy thing... Those were a shock.]

... You... You knew something was wrong, didn't you?

[WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ANYONE YOU WERE DYING AGAIN.]

[pecker]

[Niwatori is popcorning this kind of passively. In the end she protected her secrets, and it's not that much different from spying on people with her birds after all. She'll even break the silence with idle comments to anyone who's around her, in a nervous rambling sort of way. It doesn't come off particularly like she's enjoying herself, more like helping the time pass faster.

Although when Reyson punches that guy in his ugly face, she does cover her own and start laughing...]

[assent]

[ Some of this is not actually as much of a surprise to her (she knew half of Ruler's already, Yuri... well, she knew she struggled with people... though there are a few things like Sayori's and Reyson's that are Big Surprises. She didn't know much about Tatsuya either but... given the smaller details Yusuke gave her already she isn't as surprised about that either.

It's. Uncomfortable and she kind of is just waiting to bolt when the videos finish. ]

[counterfaith]

[ 8/

8\

8/

looking pretty unamused by all of the secrets but on the other hand, not ultra-bothered. time to get a sticker that says hi i'm a 300 year old bisexual teenage ghost that needs sex to live AMA ]

[artisticliberty]

Amakusa...

[yusuke's sitting nearby, looking over at him]

This is all true?

[counterfaith]

[ hm. Tilting his head, with a smile ]

And, if it is?

[pecker]

[This is sometime in the middle of them all playing, they just keep on going wow]

W-Why do you have so many...?

[counterfaith]

. . . . Haha, did you not have this number of secrets yourself?

[flamingprick]

[YEAH ABOUT THAT]

You ass! Why didn't you tell me?!

[counterfaith]

[ uh ] . . . Eh? [ wait ] What part. . . ?

haha time to shitpost

[cluelesscavewoman]

I shall do it. I have too much ether from how my spells work.

[Futayo no.]

blessed

[counterfaith]

. . . Eh?

. . . What?

[ oh my god ]

That's - alright, that's unnecessary. . .

[sunbottles]

[Going to bed having officially lost her nerve to show two of her secrets sets her on edge enough that when she wakes up in the viewing room, Sayori immediately gets up and attempts to leave. When she's unsuccessful, Sayori, surprisingly, does not fall into a desperate panic. Instead, with her shoulders slumped and her feet dragging, she takes up that popcorn offer and finds a seat in the very back.

With a truly absurd amount of popcorn surrounding her, Sayori keeps her eyes firmly on the floor, snacking in a steady, continuous rhythm.

She may be disassociating a bit. A Bit.]

[flamingprick]

[How about Rin finds her and just scoops her up in a big hug? Is that alright?]

[sunbottles]

[She makes a soft sound of surprise when she receives the embrace, but she doesn't fight against it. She hesitates on returning the gesture, but Sayori does relax into the hug, hands dropping down and clenching into fists in her lap.]

... Sorry.

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Also hugs, and sort of picks up too. She can have many hugs.]

[sunbottles]

Ah-!

[Getting (kinda) picked up surprises her and turns Sayori from passively accepting the gesture to instinctively holding back onto Futayo.]

... Hi, Futayo. Um... [She already told her about feeling sad, and her response, as always, was kind. Sayori feels just awful she has to burden her with this as well.]

[aria_ardeinae]

[ Quietly. Very quietly. This is something that ended up displayed to all because she felt she couldn't confide in him, so. He feels as if he owes her, in some manner? ]

...I've had similar wishes, in the past.

Do you still...?

[sunbottles]

[She stiffens at the voice, greeting him with silence before timidly raising her eyes. Sayori manages a rueful smiles as she fidgets with the hem of her skirt.]

... You know, it's funny. I think what they showed is from a couple of days before I was brought here. But... when I got here, for some reason, I didn't feel nearly as bad.

[At least, at first. This isn't the worst situation she could be in, true, but the stress of it and lack of her usual coping methods did mean her mental state tanked pretty quickly. Still, without outside interference, her sadness didn't become quite so overwhelming in such a short amount of time.]

... I'm sorry. I didn't want to worry anyone, and now...

[Now everyone is showing concern and it both touches and distresses her. What if Reyson was forced to relive those unsavory memories because of this?]

If I made you think of anything bad... I'm really sorry.

[motorcycle_noises]

[ It's not like the secrets were too extreme to share, but...

....he really should have been better about doing it. Tatsuya watches his videos with a blank expression, though he averts his eyes for everyone else's. ]

[artisticliberty]

[yusuke goes to sit next to him, not saying anything, but he puts his hand on the armrest between them]

[lacrimose]

[here's Akira, hunched in his seat and crying at every single sad secret, to the surprise of no one.]

[counterfaith]

[ oh god I forgot you do this ] . . . Akira-san. . .