🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂
Who: Everyone!
What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange
Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café
When: "August 1"; but really, what is time
Content Warnings: N/A
Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories.
🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party.
🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal.
🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone:
 "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you."
"It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well."
☕ OOC NOTES ☕
This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around.
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tabularasa_rp2020-08-01 05:06 pm
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I'd wonder if it was a city thing, that greed, but ... mm, no.
[greed and corruption are omnipresent. and sure, maybe that applies to him, too, but like he's told Aiden, time and time again, over the last month or so, as far as monsters go, he's not the biggest one for his ambition. the Club is worse than him. the cops are worse than him. Aiden is worse than him, for all that he pulls that my cause is noble because it's righteous bullshit. and -- ]
[ -- and he's just going to pull back out of his own head, on a breath out, and shake his head] It's a shame. [yes, Akechi, he agrees on all counts]
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He takes Damien's nod as acceptance, the corner of his lip quirking up briefly before he steers the conversation to safer waters.]
I must admit, I've never been out of the city myself, but from what I've heard, it hardly seems isolated to that.
[He knows for absolute certain that Shido's conspiracy and the corruption in the police force reached even to Ren's small town, after all. One doesn't create a nationwide conspiracy by ignoring much of the country.]
Have you always lived in Chicago, Damien-san? Aside from this most recent development, obviously.
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But yes. [again, getting out of his head, here] What can I say, I'm a lifer? [he pauses, spreading his arms wide, briefly, before dropping them back into his lap] I have family, outside of Chicago, though. My ex-wife ... [he hesitates] She's still living in Rockford, as far as I know. [along with his son, who's about Akechi's age, now, maybe a little younger. a teenager, anyway]
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It's funny, how the thought hadn't even crossed his mind that there would be people here who'd left family behind when they were quite rudely taken away from their daily lives. Akechi hasn't had a family for a very, very long time. Ren never talks about his family, either, and selfishly, Akechi had allowed himself to think that maybe his home situation was fucked up like his own. It had to be, right? To send their child to Tokyo on probation for a crime he never committed?
There isn't a single person waiting for Akechi to return. Even if Ren weren't here beside him, Akechi would still argue that there wasn't anyone who would miss him. How foolish, to forget even such a basic thing as the connections other people have with each other.
Still. His sad backstory isn't important, and he forces himself to listen once again. "As far as I know," implying that he doesn't see her very often, so he can hazard a guess that not only are they separated, they don't keep in regular contact. Does Damien have children, or perhaps he's referring to parents when he means other family? Well, it's not important.]
My apologies. It seems once again I've started to pry. A bad habit of mine, I suppose.
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It's an old wound. [though, one Akechi clearly picked up on, if the fact that he's apologizing is any indication] I haven't talked to Christina in -- ten years, maybe?
[the more horrifying thought is that that's the last time he saw his son, too, though not for lack of trying. unfortunately, his ex slapped him with a restraining order for trying, and while it really wouldn't have been hard to delete that from the system, like he eventually did his criminal record, the timing was all wrong. he'd literally just gotten out of prison for computer related crime and people still remembered that. if he'd gotten rid of the restraining order, more than a dozen people would have know it was him. he was too angry at the time, anyway (fine, fuck the bitch and the kid), but now? god, does his son even remember him?]
[maybe the wound's not so old, after all. maybe he's going to change the subject, rather than dwell on that, or the idea that no one will miss him, not even his rival. Aiden will notice him missing, surely, but he's probably eventually just settle on the idea that he fell into Lake Michigan, and never think of him again]
What about you, though? Any brothers or sisters?
tw: suicide mention
None that I know of, but it's not impossible.
[By the time he was old enough to realize that if his father had accidentally sired him, there could be others, he'd stopped caring. So what if there were other unlucky bastards out there? None of them had the power to take his father down like he did. Who gives a shit about siblings he doesn't even know, if they exist at all?
He reels himself back in. Fine. If Damien could tell him about his family, perhaps it's okay to let on a little about his own. A little. It wouldn't do to alienate him with the truth.]
Unfortunately, my mother passed years ago, [suicide, he doesn't say, because who wants to hear the sob story of a child losing his only family member? What adult cares? Not a single one, in his experience.] And my father... well.
[I'll do anything for the captain. I'll die for him, too. Isn't that how Shido thought of Akechi? As his puppet, a tool, a child to manipulate from the very beginning. Hatred isn't strong enough of a word for what Akechi thinks of him.
So maybe he can be forgiven if the smile that rises to his lips is less than pleasant.]
I've nothing to say about him.
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[he makes a face, that in mind, and then lowers his eyes briefly, submissively, apologetically. he wasn't trying to pick at Akechi's wounds; it was just a natural progression of their conversation, asking about family]
Seems like we've got that bad habit in common.
[the prying, he means]
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It was a natural progression. Besides... he's out of my reach, now.
[This strange world they've found themselves in aside, there's no satisfaction to killing a man who's heart has already been changed and feels he deserves it. Akechi had planned to take him out at the height of his power; it means nothing to kill an already-broken man. There's a part of him that will never forgive Ren and his friends for taking that from him.
His lips quirk in a half-smile, almost wry.]
You don't seem the type to be satisfied with the answer that's been polished for television, after all. It's the kind of question an interviewer only ever asks once, and giving them vague half-answers has only added to the "mystery." The more people wonder about you, the more they're willing to talk about you. It's just branding.
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[right now, he just shrugs, flashing him a brief, wry smile] You're not wrong about that. [a beat] Though, if you'd told me it was none of my business ... [he'd still known he'd hit a nerve, but he might have accepted that as a courtesy. and courtesy would have made him less likely to pick at it later, as it does now, than forcing him to swallow a half-answer]
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[There's a hint of a smirk curving his lips as he waves a hand dismissively. He's said what he's comfortable saying around someone who won't use that scant information in a way that matters. Plenty of children hate their fathers, after all, some for better reasons than others.]
In any case, none of that matters now. It isn't like the television is playing reruns of the shows I've been on, after all, and I fail to see how carefully marketing myself as a teenage prodigy will be of any use here.
[Little light, no electricity. He's sure Ren would have something to say about the remark about his talk shows, but honestly? Akechi's just fine letting those tapes rot in the dust of some forgotten backroom at the TV studio.
He will, however, carefully market himself to most people as a very nice boy. Some parts of the brand are more useful than others.]
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[he's silent for a moment, that said, thumbing absently at his goatee. when he drops his hand, returns his attentions to Akechi, he starts:] I wonder how many people get a fresh start on this scale. [not that he plans on doing anything different, on being anyone different, but well. it's nice to have been able to ditch Aiden, if nothing else]
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[He shakes his head, gaze drifting up to the ceiling for a moment as he turns the thought over in his mind before looking back to Damien with another smile, this one edging closer to rueful.]
The internet has made it very difficult to truly erase anything from public memory. People's perceptions can be overwritten, of course, reinforced with new information and made to question if what they knew was true. One could even leave the country and find a fresh start, for a time. But this...?
[He shakes his head again before looking to Damien with a hint of curiosity, hidden behind politeness.]
Are you looking for a fresh start?
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[beyond not being able to stab his father, or whatever fate he had in mind for him, but you don't need a fresh start for that]
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No one cared when he was hurting. Why should he care about the people he hurt?]
Perhaps not. I've heard that the pain of regret fades with time, as well, so I suppose there is that to look forward to. It seems as though right now, time is the only resource we have in abundance.
Still, I'll admit it is refreshing not to be burdened with the expectations that I'd grown accustomed to.
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[he nods, that in mind] I imagine it gets tedious, being in the spotlight, all the time. [he's sure it's fun, to a point, that prestige, the masses fawning, but dodging the paparazzi would get old when it started getting invasive.]