so i heard people wanted a jabberwock party

[hopedout]

Who: Everybody's invited! (Although the Cat might get dunked on.)
What: Party before more Puzzles, since everyone needs a fucking break, you guys are all idiots.
Where: Hinata's heart, Jabberwock Island. More specifically, the beach.
Warnings: None yet besides obligatory SDR2 spoilers?

[ This is a good plan. He's decided to have a go at coming back to Jabberwock. People need food and they need to relax, too. It's perfect and not Despair worthy at all. Besides, if it's only going to get worse from here, they might as well do some planning, get to know each other a little better instead of having the Heart tell them everything they need to know and other such things.

It seems like Hinata's worked pretty hard to set this up, having grabbed some tables and chairs from the supermarket. There's various food such as pizza, chicken, what have you.

And Hinata every now and again cutting his hair to get it out of his eyes because WHY THIS LIFE.

Look, you guys need to have some fun?? This is how he dealt with Murders, so why not use this to deal with Hearts, too? ]

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[miseris_socios]

[Ken grabs some pizza and huddles in a chair, looking rather irritated at everything. Why this? Why are people dumb? He knows he has to pull everyone together, but this is just a pain in the ass.]

[hopedout]

[ Hinata has a pizza on a plate himself, and honestly? He can't help but ask... ]

What exactly happened back in there?

[miseris_socios]

Lalli and Harley decided to start fighting for some reason or another. I tried to break it up and they were being stupid about it.

[Why were they fighting? Hell if he knows.]

[hopedout]

...

[ Seriously? He can't help but give a skeptical look, because this sounds pretty stupid. ]

Well, the fighting that happened to them kind of affected Sasuke, back when we were in his heart. [ Like seriously who the hell was the dumbass who broke a mirror?? And that wasn't... him... ]

[miseris_socios]

Any damage inside of a Heart probably hurts the person whose Heart it is. It'd make sense, wouldn't it? But I didn't get there in time to stop that...

[hopedout]

I don't know about that. That guy-- [ what was his name again? he'll just gesture towards Lalli ] kind of did some things to the corpses in here and I turned out fine.

I think it only dealt with the mirrors, for some reason.

[miseris_socios]

Lalli. And... oh. I dunno, then.

[Nom nom pizza.]

[hopedout]

... I honestly don't think we should be fighting at all and instead should be working together in order to get out of here.

[miseris_socios]

I agree. It's... it's stupid.

[hopedout]

It is. That's why-- I thought it would be nice to get together and something fun for a change of pace while the next door's getting opened.

[miseris_socios]

Yeah. I... it's probably just going to get worse. I mean... it was that way at home. It was that way in the Tower, too. Things start off bad, then get worse, then you push through them. It turns out okay, but... it's pretty bad while it's happening.

[hopedout]

You're right about that... but we'll definitely make it through all of this.

[miseris_socios]

Of course we will. There's no other acceptable option.

[soloactor]

[Look, as much as Lalli hates everyone right now, he's never going to turn down an opportunity to sprawl out in the sun. That's exactly what he's doing now. He stole a blanket and laid that out because of course he did (can't come too close to the rest of them), and is now lying on it, apparently trying to have a staring contest with his pizza.]

[What... is this food? He took it, but should he eat it? SO MANY QUESTIONS.]

[miseris_socios]

... Are you going to eat that or just stare at it?

[soloactor]

[Lalli slowly looks up at Ken, staring at him as if he's not really sure what Ken is talking about, but is kinda judging him nonetheless. It's basically your default cat/Lalli expression.]

...What... is it?

[Hinata said it was food but...]

[miseris_socios]

... It's pizza. Basically dough, tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings. It's pretty good.

[soloactor]

[The way he squints at Ken implies that he's trying to decide whether to trust him or not, and is weighing that against his natural disinclination to try new things. But eventually he picks up the pizza and takes an experimental bite. It's not hot enough to burn his mouth anymore, so that's a plus, at least.]

[Chewing. Chewing. Chewing.]

[ ... ]

Weird. [He talks with his mouth full. But apparently it's not bad-weird, because he keeps eating it.]

This is a thing you have a lot?

[miseris_socios]

Not a lot, since it can get pretty expensive... but every so often, yeah.

[See? It's totally fine.]

[soloactor]

[Lalli eats a bit more, taking very small bites. Contemplatively. Then he rolls on his side, elbow propping himself up against the sand, and looks at Ken like he can't believe what's even happening.]

...It's not bad.

[miseris_socios]

Yeah. You can put lots of different toppings on it. They don't have this where you're from then, I'm guessing.

[He might be teasing. Just a little bit.]

[soloactor]

...No. [The recipe is probably lost to time, and also to some cookbooks that are so deep in infected territory that no one could even dream of going near them.]

What other stuff do you have?

[He assumes that Ken knows all about what is available to people in Lalli's time, because he's Lalli.]

[miseris_socios]

Other stuff... we have sandwiches and soda and chips and all kinds of mochi. .. I like daifuku a lot.

not actually here

[hopedout]

[ > all kinds of mochi


don't mind the fact that there is an utter lack of sakuramochi on these tables and an abundant amount of... kusamochi out of all the mochis..... ]

[soloactor]

[These are all things that he doesn't know anything about, and it shows on his face. He just picks the word that sounds kind of normal.]

Mochi?

[miseris_socios]

Let's see...

[He picks through the table and picks up some... sure. Kusamochi.]

Here. Try some.

[soloactor]

[Lalli squints at the confection distrustfully. But Ken has never lied to him before (to his knowledge), and is also one of the few people in this godsforsaken place that Lalli will tolerate, so he takes the mochi and squeezes it experimentally.]

[His face scrunches up in disgust. ...After a bit of deliberation, he takes a bite into it anyway.]

[It's like nothing he's ever had before, to be certain. Whether he likes it or not... he's not sure.]

What's this made of?

[miseris_socios]

It's... rice flour, I think? I've never actually made it. ... I've... um. Stolen a few from bakeries before, though.

[soloactor]

...

[Lalli nods, apparently in acceptance. Ken's not the only one who's stolen extra baked goods in his lifetime. Even though he was yelled at for it afterwards, by... someone...]

[Either way, he continues to eat the mochi. When it's all gone, he gets up without a word and goes to seek more.]

Parrrrrrrrrty Tiiiiiiiime~

[hesmypuddin]

[Harley had slipped off from the group at some point, making her way around the market as he looked for some much needed essentials. When she makes her way back to the beach, her arms are loaded and it looks as though she's changed out of her bodysuit.

She's wearing a rather minuscule two piece, not paying any mind as she spreads out a towel on the sand. Her blond hair, now free of the cowl, is pulled up in pigtails, and she's washed the makeup off. She looks like any other beach bunny might... save that she'd been hellbent on killing Lalli just a short time ago. She puts on a pair of sunglasses and lays down, stretching out on the towel before rolling over and untying her top. She pulls the bikini top out and sets it aside, pillowing her head on her arms.

Who gives no fucks? Harley gives no fucks. She's just going to chill until the next Heart is open to them, mind rolling over the possibility that one or more of them might be competing for their freedom.]

What, you didn't think he'd show up?

[apatheticguide]

[ ... He's staring at the strange food. He's working on the Door, but... ]

... What is this?

[ GUESS WHO HAS SEEN LOTS OF HEARTS BUT NEVER UNDERSTOOD ANY OF THE FOOD IN THEM. Especially the modern ones. ]

Did u think u'd be rid of him

[patchworkcat]

[ There is a cat who is currently partaking of the pizza. He doesn't care if everyone hates him, he needs a vacation, too! But this means he won't answer any questions. Instead, he's just shoving pizza into his mouth. ...It's probably disturbing to watch him eat with his too-many too-sharp teeth and wide mouth. Kind of scary to imagine what else he might fit in there. ]