Wouldn't you like to play and party forever?

[pleasureislanders]

[It's been one week since your arrival to this godforsaken place, and little seems to have changed since then. The doors and windows remain locked, your reluctant host mingles between guests, and nobody has killed each other...yet. It's only a matter of time before someone gives out, though.

What little solace, if any, is that you wake up with several coins on the nightstand next to your bed. Perhaps you should try putting them in that mask in the salon? You might receive some interesting gifts....]

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[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 doesn't really want to bother with the coins, but... curiosity and the potential to get something useful outweigh that before long.

Spoilers to anyone who finds her in front of the mask, the selection she ends up with doesn't exactly... she's very visibly not wild about it, let's put it that way. There's a pile of stuff on the floor, and she is holding two plates of insects just kind of... visibly distraught at what to do with them! ]

Uh... hey, do you know what I should... where should I put a bunch of bugs?

[ Much later, though, like... During The Night late, X-23 makes her way out from her room to the profiles, and just starts... listening to them, one after another. It's almost like she's never really just hung out and listened to music before! Because god forbid I not offer a sad prompt I guess.

She listens to all of them, but there are a few she seems to kind of get stuck on. Tadashi's and her own, for a start, she seems to really like, just in terms of the music itself! Sugarplum's and Rapunzel's she like... looks uncharacteristically happy during? And then there's Cass's, which she listens to and just sort of. Stiffens immediately as soon as the words start. And doesn't relax! She's feeling some kind of way about this!!

Look, I'm going to level with you, if you pick the Cass's song flavor of this second prompt you're going to want to at least take a quick look at her opt-out post before too long. But you can have your character show up at any of the songs in particular, so it can be just "let's talk about rock music" if you want! Or if you want her reaction to any of the other songs, we can do that too. ]

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[diebartdie]

Don’t worry. Most of the selections are gutter trash. I’ve checked.

[Bob is restless, obviously. He’s fetched himself some tea from the kitchen and very specifically walks in on BILL BILL BILL BILL being blasted.]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 has her hands over her ears because woof. ]

I know I don't like this one.

[diebartdie]

In that regard, I would call it truly befitting of the little imp man it’s been attributed to.

[Bob is slightly more attuned to loud and awful noises, meaning he’s a bit more casually able to speak over this garbage.]

I’m surprised he didn’t pop out of the wall to sing it himself.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

I guess so.

[ She's getting used to it, but also getting used to it sucks. ]

He could have found a way to fit in there last week.

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[kuzcospoison]

[Kronk pauses his inspection of his newly-gotten Atlantian crystal for a moment once he hears X-23's question, craning his neck over to survey the bug plates she's holding.]

Chitter chittering chirp chirp?

[He pauses for a response from them, but his brow only furrows, his face twisting into an expression of pained sympathy.]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ Blinks. Hello, large man? ]

Are you... talking to them?

[kuzcospoison]

Yeah- thought it'd be best to ask them about what they'd want.

...it's hard to make out through all the cross-talk... picking up a lotta shaky cries of "hakuna matata"- some are screaming about a meerkat? [He sighs, shaking his head sadly.] ...poor little guys.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

That... makes sense.

[ She looks down at the bugs. ]

You can talk to bugs?

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[prodigalhairess]

[Rapunzel isn't an insomniac or anything, really. Sometimes she just likes to take late-night strolls; they help clear her head, and seeing the night sky dotted with stars and the pale, bright moon always calms her nerves. With everything going on. There's a lot to think about these days, so this isn't the first night she's started wandering the halls of their prison.

It doesn't take long to notice the sound of music drifting out from the lobby, and it doesn't take long for her to notice which song it is. What's surprising to her is that when she enters the lobby, it's not Cass playing them; it's the girl. The one Rapunzel wanted to help rename.

Something is... she's not sure if she should say very wrong yet. But something is off. Carefully, she approaches.]

Hey... are you okay?

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ The reaction is... not immediate, but it takes a second for X-23 to kind of. Shift gears from the song to the person talking. Rapunzel, right. The one who knows Cassandra. ]

I-

[ She takes a second to - it's not a sniff, but it's somewhere in the neighborhood of being one, the intake of breath through her nose, and continues. Her tone is very... no amount of fucked-up upbringing can take away the "gruff teen who doesn't want to admit Feelings" voice. ]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[prodigalhairess]

[Good thing Rapunzel's best friend is "gruff adult who doesn't want to admit Feelings". She knows something's up, and she wants to help, but she also knows she has to go around it carefully. She's learned that she can't be too overbearing, that she has to offer her help in a way that it doesn't feel like she's forcing it.

Now that she knows x-23 isn't totally lost to whatever thrall the music is gripping her in, Rapunzel steps closer, until she's just an arm's length away from the girl.]

You know... you agreed the other day that we're friends. And I'm always here to listen to my friends, if you want to talk. [The way she was standing so still, like some kind of magic froze her in place... Rapunzel's felt that a few times, in her adventures with the black rocks.] I know how even just... seeing or hearing things can hurt.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 kind of... purses her lips, not saying much of anything for a bit. Should she say anything? What should she say? Anything she could is just barely making sense to her. Externally, though, she has never been able to hold her body language together when it comes to negative emotions, and now isn't really any different, she just seems. Frustrated? ]

I don't... I don't know. It just feels...

[ She opens and closes her hands, clenches them into fists.

A frustrated noise, and the fists loosen. ]

I'm not good at this.

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[bornforit]

[Leia hasn't received any of these mysterious coins as of yet, but she is curious as to what they'll produce. She should know better than to be curious; the sight of those plates of insects has her recoiling in disgust.]

In the toilet would be my suggestion. Or the garbage disposal...

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ she sort of. looks down at them blankly, then looks up. ]

Well... they didn't ask to be here either.

[bornforit]

[...Huh. Fair point.]

Maybe you could...find a box.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

Maybe.

[ She looks around the immediate area. ]

Have you seen any?

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[feudalladyshandmaid]

You're listening to my music?

[How long has Cass been over here? How long had she been watching X-23? Who knows, besides Cass of course. She'd heard the familiar tinkling of her favorite music box, but not from the cylinder itself.

Imagine her surprise to find X-23 here, of all people.]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ Well, that gets her attention away from the song. ]

Uh... sorry.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

No, n-no. You don't have to apologize.

[Honestly, she looks kind of... stiff herself? A nightly stroll to give their prison one last once-over before she retired to bed had seemed so simple at first. Now... why did she have to investigate the music wafting out from the lobby? Why did it have to be this girl who pressed the button?

Something's off about it, that much she can say for certain; her conversations with this girl - who was apparently created to be a weapon - were already strange enough. Now, she has to figure out what to say here. Besides a blank apology.]

...That's me, actually. Singing, I mean. Both of the voices.

[She still has much to learn.]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 sort of. Blinks. Oh neither of them are going to be very good at this, are they? ]

Oh. I...

[ She can tell there are a lot of things she want to ask, but... how is she supposed to? What even are they? ]

... What... happened?

[ It's... soft, or as soft as X-23 can manage. Unsure if it's even the question she wants to be asking. ]

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[dannydorito]

Well, if you're not gonna finish them all at once, there's a fridge in the kitchen.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ Oh I hope you're ready for a whopper of a response. ]

I mean... there's food in the kitchen, I don't really need to be foraging right now.

[dannydorito]

Yeah, but there's so much chemical processed crap, this is good old natural protein.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

... Ham tastes better.

[ At the end of the day, she is a simple creature. Also these are destined to become pets, apparently. ]