week three ♡ wednesday ♡ vriska serket

[jokered]

[well. it might as well be thursday at this point, because it's well after everyone else has gone to bed. even the other night owls he'd been talking to retired for the night—

but akira's just not up for sleeping, even if he'll regret it for all of thursday when he needs to watch. maybe a daytime nap will be in order? whatever.

either way, he's seated in front of the bonfire. he's not wearing his glasses, having left them behind in his hut while expecting nobody would be out here.

but it's fine, he's only incredibly frustrated, y'know?]

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[hypertoxic]

[ Vriska doesn't sleep at night, anyway, so like, it's fine. She's up and about and still full of a fizzy anger that wouldn't let her rest even if she wanted to.

With no warning she will drop into a seat by his side, almost immediately curling up into a ball made of hatred and too much hair. ]

To be honest with you, if I had known so many of us were going to try so hard to just fucking die, I would not have wasted my effort on doing everything possible to keep these assholes alive!

[ welp. ]

[jokered]

[preach, vriska. akira's at least a little calmer now that he's scolded a bunch of people and gotten some of his aggression out.

but he's still pretty damn salty about really specific aspects of this that sting.]

No kidding. I don't think a single one of them considered the actual consequences here... or what the rest of us have been trying to do here.

[hypertoxic]

I know, right? All our efforts to try and keep each other alive, and they throw it all away like so much useless bullcrap! If they'd so much as even warned the rest of us they were going to pull some kind of addle-panned scheme, we could at least have had medical supplies ready for their inevitable maulings! But no, they lie through their teeth to the rest of us and go gallivanting off into the jungle. Or the ocean. Or whatever the fuck happened there.

[ SIIIIIIIIGH. ]

If any of them had died out there, we could have lost eighteen people in one fell swoop! But do they care, apparently? Nope.

[ presses the heels of her palms into her eyes. ]

I know I shouldn't be letting this get to me, but I can't help but feel incredibly frustrated right now.

[jokered]

You're not the only one.

[if he seems calm now, it's only because he's had time to temper himself and because he went and scolded a bunch of people and. you know. publicly called them all morons.]

None of them showed any damn remorse. None of them wanted to admit how wrong they were, oh what a dangerous burden they placed on everyone else with their choices.

[...that's probably what gets him the most. the fact that nobody seems to realize what they did, even when being told.]

[hypertoxic]

[ Well, for what it's worth, Akira's outward calm seems to have some affect on Vriska's own restless anger. She'll cool down a little, kind of slowly curling in tighter on herself. Though she is trying her best not to let it show, it is pretty clear she's a little upset. ]

And if you point it out to them, you're the bad guy for not, like, taking pity on their condition, I guess? The condition they caused by being reckless, careless idiots! But noooooooo. How dare I be upset that they effectively risked all our lives by being so cavalier with their own! Incredible.

[ ... ]

You must be especially pissed at Raven, [ she says, sort of careful. She's not really sure how to bring this topic up, and unsurprisingly handles it pretty gracelessly, but. She's trying. ]

[jokered]

[he can tell she's upset—and honestly, the fact she is helps keep akira tempered. calming her down and getting her to cool off and be less upset takes priority for him. so he'll let her vent it out.

because she's right.

nobody wanted to hear how stupid they were even if they risked the lives of 18 people by not even being thoughtful to their own teammates or taking necessary precautions. if akira went and did something that reckless without a plan back home, the phantom thieves would have kicked his ass for it—he's wild and reckless, but in a way that is surprisingly controlled.

he nods. he gets it. he's upset too. and even though it's tactless the way vriska points it out... akira gets that too.]

I made sure she knew how stupid I thought it was. [of course he pissed. of course he's upset too, that he couldn't help her or prevent her from getting hurt; he probably would have risked injury to prevent her from what took her voice away and created the mess she's in now; he's not that talkative on his own, after all. it was stupid, though, especially the explanations he got for the thought process he didn't disagree with.]

[hypertoxic]

[ vriska is quiet for a long moment. ]

This sucks, Akira. As if things weren't bad enough! What's going to happen when we run out of medical supplies and the Chiefs inevitably tell us to deal with it ourselves? I wish people would just fucking think for once! It's pointless to be frustrated now, but somehow, that fact just makes everything even more frustrating.

[jokered]

I know. If we use up all the supplies, then the Chiefs will get what they want in a hurry. There's only so much "hospitality" they're going to show here.

[and yet everyone is off doing the stupid thing.]

[hypertoxic]

[ A huff through her nose. There's no humor in it. ]

If you ask me, they're likely to give us just enough of what we need to string us along. They want us to kill, not just pointlessly die, even if we're trying our hardest to make that second thing happen. Which will mean a lot of suffering and pain over the next few weeks on top of all the other dread and angst we'll get to be experiencing.

[ Curls up, somehow, even tighter. ]

... we will figure this out, Akira. One way or another! I am not letting a gaggle of idiots destroy all our hard work.

[jokered]

Maybe we can hope that this will be a lesson to some of these people.

[even though thinking about how ready lucina was to walk straight into her death to go back for her sword, akira's not entirely too sure.]

We'll figure something out. I don't know if it'll be enough to stop everyone, but maybe we can talk some sense in people with this example.

[he's not sure he can really ease vriska's concerns right now, as much as he really wants to.]

[hypertoxic]

Or maybe just get them to fucking slow down a little? I mean, I am all for proactive solutions, but not if those solutions can get you dead as easily as to your goal! Fuck.

[ Again she will sigh and just kind of settle. She's starting to feel just ... tired. ]

Will you be alright?

[jokered]

[that makes two of them, honestly.]

Yeah. Even if I'm pissed about it, she came back alive and doesn't plan on risking it again.

[...] I think she got the message about how hare-brained it was to keep it a secret.

[hypertoxic]

Good. At least this means I don't have to yell at her, too. Not that she could yell back! Ugh. Why is everything always so terrible?

[jokered]

Because this place just exists to screw with us, probably.