[ catchall for minty neo ]

[messybench]

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[messybench]

[ she has a bottle of wine and is immediately sipping at it. she's not drunk... yet. just barely tipsy. ]

See, this is why trying is stupid. We just tried our ashes off for nine hours and got nowhere.

[ that's probably a no ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . yeah. if she's at the bar he's just going to order up a glass of water and set it by her just in case]

.... you really think so?

Or is it just 'cause... we tried and didn't make it this time?

[messybench]

[ seems like she's taking it slow this time, at least. ]

Yeah, that. So much effort, and all we got was toberlonemaggedon and voting off sassy terminator.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

... it's not what we wanted.

But - it's something, right?

[a beat]

... I think you were right, to suggest what you did - as 'right' as anybody can be in a place like this.

[ . . . ]

But that doesn't mean that it wasn't hard on you.

[messybench]

Like... Jack the Misogynist Ripper and Murderbot 9000? I mean, probably better for everyone that they can't go cutting up and/or shooting people. I mean, I really do think whoever killed Grell did it in self-defense. But it's pretty bullshirt that we have to vote each other off the island for what's guaranteed to be a truly hellish public execution.

And... well, ethically wrong, to vote him off for a crime he didn't admit. [ ... ] Gah! Look at me, I've been infected by nerdism.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

Yeah.

[just. softly. because he agrees.]

... but - if you didn't suggest it, then that means we would've split the vote worse. Maybe Vlad-san would've actually gotten voted for, even though he didn't do anything wrong.

So.... in a way, you still saved people. Even if it might be hard to tell yourself that.

I just don't want you to think that you're alone in carrying all that.

[messybench]

Well, I wouldn't say nothing. He's got such a redditor mansplainy vibe going on, bordering on incel....

[ but she's clearly deflecting. she kind of, glances away. ]

I'm fine being alone. That's the way I've lived my whole life.

[1/2]

[sengokus]

Whoa, you had those insults prepared.

[just. briefly]

[sengokus]

... okay, well. Today's... uh, I don't know what day, but I guess it's a Saturday. And it's a new day.

I'm Enomoto Mineo. I think people in the West do handshakes? [so he holds his hand out to her!] And as of today you don't have to keep being alone - not so long as you don't want to be.

I'll have your back when things get tough.

[messybench]

Nope, I'm just that good at insulting people.

[ there's a beat where she just looks at his hand, listens to what he's saying. she's spent all of her life and even some of her afterlife alone, and preferred it -- or at least, that's what she told herself. the old eleanor would have scoffed and walked away, but for some reason, she finds herself hesitating to do just that. it's just a little, but mineo reminds her---- ]

[ .... ]

[ she takes the hand, and shakes it. ]

Okay, nerd. [ she's still rude af ] But you better not go and die on me after saying all that.

[sengokus]

[there's just a laugh]

Nope, I've got a promise on the line already that I won't - but I can make a second one to you if you're worried. Then I'm double-protected, right?

You can't go anywhere either though.

[messybench]

Worried? Psh, don't flatter yourself. I just think it'd be super lame if you made such a dramatic promise to a hot girl like me and then immediately screwed it up.

[ .... ]

Oh, don't you worry about me. I'm scrappy.