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girlboss meets girlfailure

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w0 monday

[applebough]

[ Yuri has been walking around the ship and finally makes her way to the lounge. She seems pretty frazzled, which is probably something Throne can unfortunately feel through their nanite connections.

She's trying very hard not to be noticed, but what did she come here for again...? Oh, right. She's looking for a checkerboard. ]

[naeddre]

[throné is here, reading - the frazzled emotion catches her attention though, and there's an immediate sense of being on guard from her side of the tether. it's instinctive! and it eases after a second as she watches yuri looking around.]

... Are you looking for something? [her curiosity gets the better of her]

[applebough]

Oh! Um, yes. A checkerboard...

[ She becomes less jittery when Throne talks to her, which is definitely a good thing. ]

I'm sorry if I interrupted anything.

w1 monday

[applebough]

[ Yuri is at the strip mall, trying to decide what to get. So far, she's eyeing this, this, and this. She's used to wearing some sort of black all the time... ]

[naeddre]

[she can't say anything because she's a jrpg character who wears the same outfit constantly, but throné does laugh a little quietly when she makes her way over.]

Well... black does match well with black, I suppose.

[applebough]

Ah, Throne.

[ She turns to look at her. ]

I'm not really fashionable, so black is the most fitting color I can think of when it comes to wearing clothes.

w2, MONDAY

[naeddre]

[brings a preorder... ahhh, the music store.

throné is in here, swaying back and forth to this. she's got her sleeves pulled down really far over her hands, like she's trying to cover up as much of her skin as possible. she is also running her fingers over some of the music instruments in here, curiously.]

[applebough]

[ Oh, very nice music... Yuri is here, watching Throne for a bit. She just thinks it's just a part of Throne's wardrobe... nothing unusual. What is unusual is how Yuri now seems to have two working eyes. The gauze is absent today. ]

Throne? Did you want to play one?

[naeddre]

[eyes! waow! she looks up at yuri - a shimmer of black scales are dotted across throné's face. kind of reminiscent of snake scales.]

Oh - hello, Yuri. [...] I've always wondered how hard it would be to learn. A friend of mine from home knows someone with a piano, and I've always liked the sound of it.

w2 thursday

[applebough]

[ Yuri has been in the medbay for a long, long time to wait for Throne to be relatively healed enough so that she can walk out of the pod. Kind of. She's missing a leg now.

But she waits... and waits... ]

[naeddre]

[she eventually wakes up again.

she's just sort of laying there in the pod after a while, like she can't force herself to get up. she's still covered in crazy amounts of gore and she smells like rotten apples? she just doesn't get up, even after she's healed enough to not be dead.]

w3 monday

[applebough]

[ Lobotomy Corporation, specifically Branch D-02, is currently undergoing lockdown. The halls are cold. The underground building is set for mass burial along with the employees and Abnormalities alike. It's to prevent Abnormalities from reaching the surface, they said.

In the midst of the sirens, the announcements blare throughout the underground building.

INITIATING SITE BURIAL.

People are screaming. They're frantic. Everything is dyed in a red light. With two eyes, you can see so much more.

Throne has three minutes. She will know that if she wants to escape, she will need to allocate all three minutes towards that or else she's toast. The elevators are not working. She is right next to the stairs. The heavy metal doors will close in to trap her forever.

ENERGY TRANSFER IS 85% COMPLETE.

But in the distance, in the other end of the far hall, having tripped and with her hand reaching out to Throne, she will hear:

"Don't leave me behind! Throne!"

She is your friend. She is your coworker. She is...

... weighing you down. ]

[naeddre]

[oh boy.

well, first things first - when she's here, she immediately and distantly terrified. again? she's here again, she's in this place again. it's so familiar, the name, the metal hallways, the abnormalities. she grips at her arm, trying to focus, staring down the hallway. no time to panic. no time. three minutes.

but... don't leave me behind - don't leave me behind. that twists something up in her chest. and even though she knows that something is telling her she's deadweight...

throné turns and tries to run down the hall to save whoever it is.]

w3, THURSDAY

[naeddre]

[comes to hang out in the medbay...

she's letting others filter in and out first, but eventually she'll come settle near her. kind of a quiet... are you okay? in vibes assessment, here.]

[applebough]

[ By now, she used enough of the pod to seal her wound at the very least and she doesn't want to be in the pod for 12 hours straight, so... break time. She's lying down on one of the cots, being responsible about her injuries.

When she sees Throne, she smiles a little and moves her hand a little to reach out to her. ]

w4, SUNDAY

[naeddre]

[hello yuri throné is just kind of sitting somewhere with her leg off. she's rubbing at the port, looking vaguely uncomfortable. but she glances up and gives yuri like. the tiniest smile when she sees her. she's trying! hello.]

[applebough]

[ Throne sure is trying and Yuri can't blame her. When she sees her, the first thing she does is rush over to give her a tight hug. ]

W5 Friday

[applebough]

[ When Throne comes across Yuri some time in the afternoon, she'll see her... punching one of the cushions and promptly burying her face into it. ]

[naeddre]

[aaaaaaa

she pauses, for a moment - and then makes her way over and very gently rests her hand on yuri's back. over clothing so she doesn't trigger the injury effect, but.]

Yuri...

w5, SUNDAY

[naeddre]

[oof.

puts us on the tram - she's on her way somewhere, but she pauses when she sees yuri, frowning. she doesn't get in her space - if there's anything throné knows, it's sometimes you really don't want to be crowded - but she approaches.]

... He's not far. I know that doesn't help. [but.]

[applebough]

[ Yuri looks up when she hears Throne's voice on the tram. Yuri has been riding this tram car for a while, no matter how many times it's circled by now. ]

...

[ Yuri holds out her gloved hand towards Throne. Come sit next to her. ]

w6, FRIDAY

[naeddre]

[standing in the church today, staring at the stained glass.

the glass shifts and moves, glitters with the reflection. holy light shines down on the pews, burning a neat hole through one of them, and - catching fire, crawling across the wood, staining the metal black with soot. there's the sound of a knife clanging off of a surface, a thud. and a man in a white cassock stands with his staff pointed out, staring down a woman in purple. holding out his hand, it's alright, it's okay, he says, and then, without warning, there's the sound of metal through flesh, and the white cassock drips red, gathers crimson where his heart should be.

and for a moment, it almost feels true. for a moment, she reaches up to hold her collar, pulling it away from her neck so far it looks like it might snap.]

[applebough]

[ This is just another vision, Yuri thinks desperately to herself as she watches Throne drive that knife into Temenos. There's no way she could, or would, for that matter. It doesn't matter what she thinks though, since the scene before her isn't going away. ]

... Throne...?

w7 monday

[applebough]

[ They are in the Machine in the concourse.

There is a large, thrumming device that greets you when you go through the doors. Surrounding it, is a vat of indiscernible hot liquid that steams up with the scent of rust and rot. Sometimes, in the liquid, you can see it, visions of your loved ones, frozen in time, though sometimes if you gaze too long they will begin to move, doing whatever it is you recall them doing with their days. If you try and reach for them, they seem too far away for you to grasp, but if you fall into the liquid, well, you should probably get out quick. It's hot. And red. And unpleasant.

This is after the eclipse and everything, so Yuri is carefully exploring her surroundings with the invisible respirator over her mouth and nose. ]

... Is someone here?

[naeddre]

[the respirator is such a good idea, actually. unfortunately throné is bad at using technology, so she's in here with a scarf tied around her face, staring down into the liquid.

she's at the edge of it, crouched, expression distant. but when she hears yuri's voice, she glances up.]

... Oh, Yuri. [hello! what's up, are we enjoying the horrible blool on this eclipse monday.]