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Who: Kitty Pryde + everyone
Broadcast: Network
Action: Iskaulit: Dance studio
When: New Year’s Eve (slightly backdated)

[Not long ago she’d been considering the best way to handle Winn’s birthday now that he’s gone and all. She considered enlisting a close friend or two to be on duty for support or distractions or just barricading herself in her room and feeling it and dealing with that. In the end she went with booze. Lots and lots of booze.

When she turns the feed on she’s lying down on a series of three chairs, holding the communicator above her head.]

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in Marina—the underwater prison place—and this tiny alien or robot or possibly dog man thing took over and made it rain fruit punch and then made us dance in a dance marathon and if we didn’t he was going to put us in a room with a moose. And I’m not drunk! [She laughs like she just said something very funny.]

No, no, I mean I am drunk but it’s also true. It was a very strange place. Did you know you had to get a wristband if you wanted to have sex with someone? Yeah. It was like being at a bar and wanting drink. [Speaking of wanting to drink. She looks around for her bottle and then lifts herself up enough to achieve drinking.] Oh! And then it was like enforced monogamy where you could only be with your band partner.

Wristband. Not like music band. You didn’t have to have sex with the person you played the flute with. [More laughing.]

What was I…? Oh, yeah, do you know I haven’t kissed anyone in moooonths? Yeah. Like May. May 10th. [Winn disappeared May 11.] In the prison you couldn’t do that because every two months—if they were months—they would send out these mistletoe robots that would make you kiss someone or lots of someones. Usually lots of someones. They had shrinking forcefields and confetti. I had to kiss a guy without lips once. Did I mention it was a weird place?

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[servantnotserving]

[Let him play the world's smallest violin for you. ]

Months? Try a decade.

[Still, this is a curiosity and he has to admit it sounds WEIRD. ]

So...they essentially made you marry someone if you wanted to bed them? But then they made sure you were kissing someone every few months anyway? Seems like they wanted you to stray.

[Enforced monogamy sounds like hell to him, to be honest. ]

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I never liked calling it that. [Points at him, the video, the ceiling, something.] Some people called it getting prison married. And it kind of was, but it wasn't too you know? [Of course he must know. She's making so much sense.]

And that's sad. A decade is a long time. I can't even imagine a decade. It's a lot of time to imagine all at once.

[servantnotserving]

It seems like a very strange way of allowing for a little fun. Were you stuck with that same person, or could you change to another and get a different...band?

[He's not 100% on how divorce works okay. ]

It's tragic. A very, very long time indeed. Heartbreaking, even.

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[mucked]

I miss him too.

[ oh, hello. she doesn't talk with you much, kitty, but tonight seems like a worthwhile conversation. careful and cautious and heartfelt. ]

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[Now, why did you have to go and do a thing like that? She closes her eyes because emotions are all way too close to the surface right now. Hell, they are the surface.]

It's not supposed to be a sad broadcast. If it was a sad broadcast I would have talked about how I got him a present for Christmas and one for his birthday. About how they're just going to sit in my room with all his other things like me.

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[goldenglasses]

[Okay. So first before he deals with any of that other insanity Vash looks at the camera with an amused smile.]

Kitty, what ship are you on? [Trying to gauge if there are other people there with her or not.]

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Hiiiii Vash. Your hair looks even sillier like this. [Holding the communicator upside down.]

The Lollipop of course. It's a good ship.

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[axi]

[Kaname can read between the lines well enough, especially when they're as wide open as the ones here.]

Much weirder than what's been already mentioned?

[Sometimes, a distraction is good.]

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What? I mean, hi. Was I supposed to tell you another weird story or were you going to tell one? [Her thoughts are not the most linear right now, but she's trying.]

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[supertardiness]

[And here, have a concerned Barry face, because drunk dialing the network probably isn't a good thing.]

Kitty? You okay?

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Baaaaarry! Hi. Sure I'm okay. Why would I be unkay? [She laughs.] Unkay. I just came up with that. Write that down.

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[scanninggaydis]

[.....Hm....

Felix looks...well, maybe a little concerned. A little. But then he's raising an eyebrow because wow, that prison does sound about as weird as Camp was. Except one thing:]

Every two months seems really excessive.

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Well, here's the thing about time. [Lifting a commanding arm up over her head and waving it a bit.] It was weird there too. It felt like two to three months when I was there, but when I got here I realized it was all longer than I thought. Probably. So maybe it was more months or a year or twelve years. I don't know how long I was really there. Maybe I'm secretly really old now.

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[candothat]

You almost sound as though you miss the mistletoe robots.

...But mostly you sound very drunk.

[Wasn't getting embarrassingly drunk his party trick? Geez, take everything from him.]

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I think miss is a strong term. But "very drunk" is just a very accurate term. Well termed. You're words good. You're good words. No... What?

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[astrobleme]

[Shinji knows all about voids, and trying and failing to fill them. That's got to why he's wandering aimlessly around the Iskaulit on New Year's Eve--why he's procrastinating, in a sense. There are people he could spend this time with, but it's just a mess, really. There are people he can't spend this time with. It's making him feel like a real mess.

But then he looks up from his shuffling feet when he wanders into the dance studio, and he notices the woman lying there on the chairs. At first, he wonders if she's passed out or something, if she needs help--he's already halfway to her before he realizes otherwise. In the mirrors, he looks as strained and startled as he feels, a little too pale, made even paler by all the black he's wearing.]

Ma'am? [The sound of his own voice makes him cringe.] Uhm, I'm sorry to interrupt, but are you... [He stops to consider if he's trespassing right now, but then he shakes his head.] Are you doing okay over there?

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[She lifts a hand to wave at him.] Did you come to dance? [It is a dance studio after all. Not that he sounds anything but concerned, but that's easily filtered out, isn't it? She pushes herself up and manages to sit on just one of the chairs with only mild clumsiness.]

Kitty. Is me. I am. Yes. Hi. [Good first impression is go.]

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[cajunspice]

[Remy wasn't sure what state he would find her in, heading back from work at the Space Bar and having heard her announcement there, it really depended on how much she had gotten through drink wise. Either way, he wanted to check up on her, amused by her talk over the com but a touch concern she was in the condition she was.]

So, am I havin' to pour ya back 'nto the ship? [He asked as he spotted her.]

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Reeeeemy! Remy, did you come to drink with me? [He did say "pour" so close enough, right?]

[tallasaking]

[....Oh dear.]

Kitty, where are you, darling?

[Yes. He is pulling his boots on.]

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Hiiii, Tyrion!

I'm on these chairs. They don't look comfortable. And they also aren't. See what I did there. Subverting expectations. [Laughing.]

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[expellerhead]

Don't forget your water and aspirin. And to eat something.

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[Laughing softly.] Thanks, dad. But won't that get in the way of the hangover I'm growing?

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[ecclesiophobic]

[Kurt's eyebrows climb halfway to his hairline, but he manages a light tone in his answer.]

You know, I'm not certain I want to know where you kiss a man with no lips.

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[With pride? His eyebrows climb halfway to his hairline with pride?]

On his mandibles of course. Now you have to live with that knowledge too.