First Breath, gotta catch your breath.

[entertainheir]

Who: SS First Breath, anyone else?
Broadcast: None
Action: First Breath
When: Starting from the IC shuffle, up to the end of the month

[There's been a bit of coming and going on the ship lately, but this time the First Breath is graced with no less than three (3) new passengers! Welcome all, and how are you guys faring? And while we're at it, what are the older residents up to? Inquiring minds want to know.]

Comments

[entertainheir]

[UNSURE. But the laugh is a good sign, right?]

Um...thank you?

[gitanes]

[Probably! Maybe.]

You're welcome. You made a really shitty first impression, but you can probably rebound from it.

[Cursing in front of children is fine.]

[entertainheir]

What? I think I did fine!

[It was everything before and after that was the mess, if you ask him.]

[gitanes]

You're too wholesome. People don't like wholesome. People like grit.

[At least she does, and obviously she's the arbiter of the entire viewing audience.]

[entertainheir]

No, they don't! People like--

[Yuya cuts himself off, because she is is an audience member and she clearly knows what she likes. Still, gritty duels sit wrong with him. Too much like war, and pretending like that would make a mockery of Yuto and his comrades.]

I've never seen a duel like that make people happy.

[gitanes]

[A hesitation, here. Then, very generously, because he seems pretty dedicated to this and she doesn't want him to cry or anything:]

Fine. Maybe you're right.

But it's supposed to be a reality show, and reality isn't all fun and light. Reality's ugly.

[entertainheir]

[Yuya's prepared for a fight, and surprised when he doesn't get one. But okay, he'll take that.]

Yeah, it is. People fight when they don't have to, and they get hurt. But with my Entertainment Duel, I can help bring smiles to people anyway.

[gitanes]

[Scrubbing her hand over her face, she shakes her head.]

I don't understand you at all.

[Totally defeated.]

[entertainheir]

[???]

I think it's pretty simple.

[gitanes]

I just don't understand why you're not fighting more.

[entertainheir]

If there's a way to get us out of here, then I'll fight for that as hard as I can. Until then I want to make people smile. Who knows, maybe that could even be the way out!

[gitanes]

You think this is all just a trick? That if we dance around for them hard enough that they'll let us go?

[entertainheir]

It doesn't have to be like that. But if there's a way out, maybe there's a way to achieve it without a fight.

[gitanes]

[Her lip twists.]

So you want to cooperate with our kidnappers?

[entertainheir]

I'm saying it doesn't have to be like that! It--

[He shakes his head, not sure of how to explain it any further.]

It can be done.

[gitanes]

I don't trust you.

[She says this bluntly, honestly.]

But if this is what you want to do, I won't try to stop you. I just think you'll fail.

[entertainheir]

[That...sounds like a challenge. In this case it only makes him more determined.]

I won't fail!