yes YES the tiger is out

[demonvinegar]

Who: Kin'un and anyone who wants to come across a dead man walking
When: October 5th, afternoon
Where: Kin'un dorm and surrounding area
What: "Gehou" has been dead for 5 days bruh... BUT ALSO HEY WE WON!!
Warnings: TBD


[ This is largely a Kin'un teampost. But before he returns to the dorm, Gehou has to make the walk of shame from the nurse's office. ]

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[suplexer]

Did someone tend to your wounds...?

[ This doesn't look like something you just walk off, from what she can see. And healing magic hasn't been working here. It's hard to take his words at face value. ]

[demonvinegar]

[ ... tttechnically? ]

Yes. I've been completely healed, save for the scarring.

[ he won't show her... but if she chooses to stare hard at the tattered hole in his shirt, or his shredded pants legs, she will see something colored red. like fresh blood, but... it's not wet. and it's a little too bright to be blood. ]

[suplexer]

[ Tifa does catch a glimpse of it just from looking him over, a bright shock of red among the rest that's closer to the usual brown of dried blood. She frowns, but also realizes it might be a tattoo or something unrelated... ]

... I see. Well, you should get cleaned up. If anyone else sees you like this they might also assume you're a ghost and attack without asking questions.

[demonvinegar]

Ah, yes... I wouldn't want that. I was just heading to Kin'un's dormitory. I apologize for disturbing you, Lily-guniang.

[suplexer]

Please, don't apologize. [ She looks torn. Should she go with him, or is she being a bother? ] Can I walk you there, at least? This place is still dangerous...

[demonvinegar]

[ ah... ]

I don't mind. Though it is a little ... [ embarrassing? ]

I'm not used to being chaperoned.

[suplexer]

[ She sends him a reassuring smile, but then falls into step at his side. That wasn't a "no," after all. ]

First time for everything, right?

[ So! Back in the direction of the dorms they go. ]

[demonvinegar]

[ he is really ill-equiped for responding to peoples' genuine concern with genuine appreciation. so he's going to just keep giving her nice platitudes. ]

Ah, this is true. Thank you, Lily-guniang.

[ and he's going to hope she doesn't get any more curious as they head towards Kin'un ]

[suplexer]

[ And yet...

Of course she's going to ask. ]

... The thing that attacked you, what did it look like?

[ She's heard about the wolves, but is there something else out there? ]

[demonvinegar]

[ inside of him there are two wolves. one of them wants to tell the truth, to smear his shizun's face beyond recognition. the other desperately wants to protect him, to believe that there must be some reason this all happened, that he can fix it somehow.

he just laughs. ]

It looked like something so hauntingly terrible and beautiful, it will forever haunt me in my nightmares.


[ both the wolves are fucking simps. ]