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[The feed opens up with a thud, the thud of someone's fist hitting the wall. And that would be what causes the bracelet activating at the same time.]

...you gotta be -- there's no way... [Some more, louder thuds as said someone goes into an unattractive temper tantrum.] I'll never-- I--

[Another thud and the bracelet deactivates without her having ever known it was on. But just a short while later, Yukari does intentionally make a video post. Because for some reason she feels it's chickening out on a text post. Her expression is cautious, neutral.]

...H-Hey. I know there's always a few of these messages, but... [y'all can suck it up] Minato-kun's gone... again, I guess. [She takes a breath, carefully concealing a catch in her throat.]

I... don't need to hear anyone feel sorry for me, okay? [Wait, why did she even say that? She regrets it immediately; nothing good can come of it. She either looks like a defensive idiot or alienates her friends, and either way looks totally self-obsessed, because obviously not everyone knows that they're -- Whatever. She's just rambling now... better get off this quickly.] I mean... Sorry, it's not that I wouldn't--ya know--appreciate that, but... [She waves a hand.] Just--Just don't want to hear that again. That's it.

[Ooookay. Still kind of a disaster. But that's as good as she can probably do right now, right?

She cuts the feed and then leaves Freya House to go wander the district and make her way gradually around, through Sigyn and back, just walking to cool off.]

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Heh, hell of a lot of trouble? Very cute. Let's not talk about the good or bad. You... really don't want to know about necromancy Yukari. You really don't. But yeah, I guess I cared...

[She went scarlet. Wait, she mentioned the kiss? Oh god.]

Ummm, well... she really pissed me off when we first met. She and I were supposed to fight in a match against another tag team, and we started shouting about my powers as a succubus. She was goading me and telling me to use them on the guy we were fighting...

Soooo... when we ended up fighting each other the next round, I kind of tried to knock her unconscious with a succubus' kiss to make a point. Let's just say she took it personally. It was kind of her first.

[She stares for a long, confused second before bursting into giggles.]

Oh, I -- I totally didn't mean that! [More laughter. She barely ends up hearing the warning about necromancy. But she also forgets about the topic, so, it's a wash. She only really recovers in time to notice Sam blushing and talking about a kiss.]

... Why were you fighting in some kind of tournament anyway? Or, you know... You know what I mean. What kind of tournament--why were you there?

...And did it work? Knocking her unconscious, I mean. Sheesh, her first kiss in a fight, that's gotta be pretty weird.

[just barreling right along here.]

Kumite, run by a bitch of a crime kingpin out of Ireland. I was there... because my father intervened and forced me to be. That was all a little horribly complicated, really.

[She looked uncomfortable. She really did not want to explain that she ended up there because her father literally had her body resurrected off the coast of the island the tournament was held in.]

Yeah. It was a spell I knew. The kiss pretty much knocked her flat on her ass after I ... well kind of confused the hell out of her so that she didn't fight back for a second or two. I wasn't exactly proud of it, but she really pissed me off.

It kind of went downhill from there. We argued a hell of a lot.

... Okay, I'll just -- take your word on it? Yeah, I mean-- you were there for whatever reason, I guess. [Not currently putting together the father-half-demon-thingy in the proper way. She'd rather hear more about the kiss anyway. And starts drinking her third flowery drink.]

Well, kissing someone in the middle of a fight would definitely confuse the hell out of anyone. Maybe you guys liked each other in that way after all. Maybe not. I guess it doesn't matter much anymore. But it's a pretty good story anyway. If you're about that kind of thing. Which -- I mean, doesn't make up at all for it being such a shitty thing to go through. Yeah.

But we've all got stuff. Yours is way worse but all of it hurts.

...

[She's staring down into her drink now, and says quietly:]

Thanks so much for taking me here, Samantha. This is why I think you're good, really, not cuz you saved someone's life. People who are into saving people's lives or saving the world or whatever kinda creep me out these days. I think they just have a complex and low self-esteem or something if they care more about the world than about their own world -- ya know. Their friends, their girlfriends, everything they wanted in the future. They better have a reason to do something that isn't just "oh, people in the world need help." People in the world need help everywhere. You can't do anything about that. All you can do is help the people you care about. That's the only important part. That's why I ...

[She blinks, apparently losing her place.] Friends, ya know? That's what it's about. So just admit it. [She has half of a wry grin on her face at that.]

I don't know... maybe I do have a thing for her. I... don't usually like to think of romance or attraction. That part of me kind of revolts me, because... well, it really doesn't care. It wouldn't matter who they are.

[She nursed at her drink, shaking her head and chuckling a little bit.]

But you're right. I don't see any point in just saving the world to save it. My own could kiss my ass if it weren't for people like Riese. I'd save it for her, even if she and I might end up killing each other one of these days.

For her, I guess... for some of the people I've started caring about here? I could fight. There's a few people I want to protect here, but it's all pretty selfish. Like Eridan. Fuck the giants if they think they're dragging him away before I figure out what's going on in one of these screwed up things I find myself in for once.

Yeah, well... that's your choice. Prolly the right choice, I guess, practically. You're your own person, so, I mean, I can't imagine it, but it's your thing. And, yeah, basically, it's not like anyone should be allowed to think, well, I mean, they shouldn't not be allowed to think--

[She stops short and starts drinking. When she finishes, she has moved completely on from that torrent of incoherence.]

... So who are the other few people?

Arya, You, Conan, Merlin, Painwheel, there's actually a few anymore I don't really want to see seriously hurt. I don't mind the idea of protecting them.

[She took a swig and noticed the bottle emptied faster than expected and gave it an offended, considering look.]

So what shouldn't folks think, mmm?

Haha--right. That's a--that's a... pretty long list after all, Sam.

[She shakes her head.] I don't really remember... I think it was that ... people should stop thinking about what you should do, and even stop thinking about what you'd do if you were actually them. But just think more about whether there's a reason they do do what they do because they are them. You know?

Heh, yeah, I get it. As long as I'm not hurting them right now, and as long as I'm trying to keep myself from hurting them, they shouldn't worry? I don't think most worry too much, except for one bitch, about me. There's a couple others... but they're scared for their friends, and I get that. That... that really doesn't bother me like you might think.

Believe it or not, I kind of appreciate that there's a few people out there like that.

I believe it. Definitely believe it. It sucks, but maybe it is necessary. But ya gotta have the ones like us too.

You say that, but I never ran into too many back home. Of course, that might have had something to do with the sorts of people I was hanging around with while I went into hiding. Hiding in the seedy underbelly of a town doesn't exactly bring the nicer elements around to play, does it?

Nnnnope. Definitely not. I'd try not to do that. Except investigating disappearances, ya do what ya gotta do, but... Yeah. Yeah.

You, you my dear... [slightly inebriated point] are schnookered, just a bit. And I don't think that's a bad thing.

I don't think it is either. I feel waaay better. [She giggles.]

Same here, you wanna do something? I think I've had enough deep talk for one night, honestly. No point in being depressing all night, right?

Do something? Yeah, sure!

...Like what?

[What the hell did people in this place actually do? No, seriously, she was having enough trouble figuring out what 'dating' was with a troll in the first place. Social mingling was just not something she grasped outside of the occasional drinks and chatting.

On a whim...]

We could try dancing! It is a night club after all...

Dancing...?

...What the hell, why not?

[yeah she's not a dance party girl either BUT there's a first time for everything...]

[She got to her feet and steadied herself on the table for a second, handing a rune to the waiter as she grinned over at Yukari.]

Got a feeling I'm going to make a fool out of myself with this idea.

Huh... I got that same feeling, Sam-chan. [She giggles right back.]

[She laughed at that and began trying to mimic some of the other people dancing on the floor. This took on a sort of half mixture of a slightly inebriated girl thinking she was doing well and general self-consciousness. The booze at least helped her be willing to try, though she seemed to constantly grab at her tail to keep it away from people, and more than a little too self conscious not to look a touch silly in the process.]

[Yukari on the other hand is a more inebriated girl, knowing she's doing well, even though she's not, and wanting Sam to do even better. She encourages her, giggling and then outright laughing as she abandons thought to more or less dance with the music.]

[She didn't laugh quite as easily, though there were a few chuckles that came out all the same. She had a kind of sad smile, others already giving them space while the two of them tried to not look too silly. It wasn't very successful, though at least Samantha looked like she was having some fun of it.]

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sorry for slowness...

No worries, figured something had come up

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