yuri deserves the world

[egodist]

shitpost when i'm not at work

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week zero, thursday

[egodist]

[so maybe he had too much to drink.

scien is walking around the ship, nursing this constant feeling of nausea, though he'll stop when he sees yuri. his eyes narrow, as if trying to remember something in a cloudy haze]

... did I offer you a job yesterday...?

[applebough]

[ When she sees Scien and hear him ask her that question, there's a strange feeling that sits in her stomach for a moment, before it quickly clears. ]

Hello, Scien. Yes, you offered me a job yesterday. Will you be taking it back...?

[egodist]

[strange feeling.... a wisp of slightly off-kilter curiosity runs through him, but that's all]

No. I'm only confirming. The memories are cloudy, but that doesn't make then unremarkable.

I'll give you until the end of this voyage to decide your answer.

[applebough]

[ Oh. Yuri seems surprised that he's still stocking to it. It's nothing to reflect on Scien, but she's used to disappointment after disappointment... ]

Could you tell me what the work entails?

w0 post-trial

[applebough]

[ Hello, Scien. Yuri is here to visit him in the brig. She's not mad about the whole thing, and she thinks she should have figured it was Scien from how much of the sim room had his things in it. No matter how much Dahut said he was close to Scien, she never thought it was in a romantic way to the point it would be all his stuff everywhere, but she wanted to believe...

...

No, that wouldn't be quite right.

And mods declared that nothing can be given to the prisoners in the brig, so Yuri just has a wrapped handwich in her hands. She still has it after being through all that mess that was Scien's simulated office. ]

... Scien.

[egodist]

[scien is

horizontal again i'm sorry this man is really splayed out on the ground looking at the ceiling. his emotions are still in that tight little box bundle, but the strongest one that leaks through is this sense of being lost.

he'll glance over at yuri though]

... you can still request to go to Arpéchéle. If you survive to the end of all this.

There will be a Scien Brofiise there that can still benefit from your assistance—or if you go to an orphanage run by a woman named Sister Salome, she'll look after you.

Just don't work for this hellhole.

[applebough]

... There are multiple versions of you? And that version will know me?

[ It doesn't surprise her too much, but you know what... that makes sense. ]

Um... how are you feeling?

[ Apart from lost. ]

[egodist]

That version won't know you. My memories won't transfer over. But if you prove yourself, I'm sure he'll come to the same conclusion.

[GIVE HER A JOBBBBB SAVE SWEET YURI

but at the question, he just hums]

Contemplative.

[egodist]

[does the embed one singular time and never again just trust me. it's pixel shu unless i say it's not pixel shu

anyway, sometime after paint, pixel shu will be approaching yuri. though this time, the voice that comes through is far more amused.]

Don't run this time, New Hire. I don't know how much time I have to waste.

[applebough]

[ ok thats fair

Yuri is so surprised though. Hello???? ]

Scien?!

[ Okay, she won't run. ]

[egodist]

[pixel shu's mannerisms more closely resemble scien's now, his right hand coming up to his chin as he tilts his head]

Have you accepted someone else's offer of employment to the point they'd call you New Hire? I suppose I did give you until the end of the tour to decide, though at this point I might even be disappointed...

[scien: i don't know how much time i have
also scien: but surely it's enough time to tease]

[applebough]

I, well... no...

[ :( ]

But I did miss you.

[ And everyone else. ]

What did you need to talk to me about?

w6 saturday

[applebough]

[ the way i screamed about how shu and scien share the same VA i can't believe that joke went way over my head when scien was pixelated. help.

Anyway, Yuri is at the food court, because she offers him avocado toast with an egg on top along with a handwich. No, this is not the same handwich since w0. There's lemonade and some strangely shaped shortbread cookies too. It's time to feast, Scien. ]

[egodist]

[AAAAAAAAAA YURI JUST DEALING WITH THESE HOSOYANS IS SOOOOOO FUNNY

but i'm losing it. yuri is so good. scien will just tilt his head at all the food being given to him.

and then he'll lift up one of the cookies and lift it to her mouth to take]

You're going to overfeed me.

[applebough]

[ Well. Okay, fine. She'll eat the cookie. Munch. ]

... Then which one would you like to eat...?

[egodist]

[he will look over them...]

Did you prepare any of these yourself?

week 7, monday

[egodist]

[scien has been back two days and in those days, he first lost an arm and then he regained one. that's right! somehow scien already had both arms back! that much is probably obvious from how he's walking around (somewhere. anywhere. void.) messing with the IRIS with one hand and eating a piece of bread with the other.

but that's not the only thing. nearly two months ago, one might remember that scien's emotions were... not quite right the last time people could share feelings. echoes of what they should be. never that strong. more like small little bumps rather than the highs and lows of true feeling. that's what it meant to be a reliver.

they're getting trapped in a void - ugh memshare! gimme!! - but there is also one very, very immediate feeling in its strongest form: annoyance.

. . . but that's still a real emotion, isn't it? (anyway gimme a memshare or tell me you want one mwah)]

[applebough]

[ Scien is kind of. Amazing. Yuri spots him from a distance with that new arm. Is it organic? Or a prosthetic? She feels like she's been gaslit. But then they're sucked into a void and that familiar annoyance really reminds her of the first week they were here.

Give me anything that will make me scream about Scien (that will personally not take much) and I will give you a mem in return!! Here. ]

[egodist]

[it's a completely organic arm!!! how the fuck did he do that!! well that's a mystery for later because his memory plays instead

"You ruthless, selfish, arrogant god..."

let's do golden apple hell yea]

w7 friday

[applebough]

[ Some time near the end of the party or at the end. Whichever. Yuri is a little tipsy, but she's mostly fine. ]

Scien, did you still want to know about it...? It wasn't anything grand...

[egodist]

[scien is drunk and sleepy

but he raises his head when yuri approaches]

It is about you so I will know about you.

[he's drunk enough for circular thoughts]

[applebough]

[ Drunk and sleepy Scien... cute. Yuri will try to be alert to steady him just in case. She's also not sure how to respond to that, so she'll just give him the answer. ]

... I realized that I liked Eunhyuk at some point, but it was too late by then, so my feelings about that never went anywhere.

endgame

[egodist]

[that was so much. scien is still working, somehow, because there's still more to work on...

but he'll cross paths with yuri eventually]

Ready for your life to begin again?

[applebough]

... Yes.

[ Hi, Scien. Hope you've been eating while working. ]

I still feel exhausted, but... I'm really excited. A little nervous too...

[egodist]

[there are plates of food and waters nearby to suggest that people have been trying to get him to eat yes

but he just huffs a bit at that, a briefly fond noise]

From what I understand, that is a common human experience.

[even if he can't relate]

Enjoy being alive enough to feel it.