House meeting

[no_reload]

Who: Reaper (no_reload), Fern (laminae), Luz (imaglyphwitch), Luca (schoolingfish), Varian (droptheious)
What: Disaster House has a meeting
When: Beginning of November
Where: Disaster House in Cassandra

Content Warnings: Will add as they come up.


[Reaper had taken his time with recovery, which left him trapped in his room for a few days. When it seemed that he could get around without having long episodes of shortness of breath, he appeared more downstairs. That's where he happened to be, settled into a chair with the other occupants of the house.

He knew they had questions, knew that most of them would have to do with Lance's outburst on the network. That wasn't the kid's fault; they didn't always control their Omens. And Lance had been circling the drain for years now, barely holding on. Not the kid's fault. For as long as he had known Lance, the kid had been teetering on the edge of a mental crisis.

However, this wasn't about Lance right now. This was about the household where he resided, and many of the youngsters who lived in it. As the eldest, he knew that his position here was the most tenuous.

So Reaper sat quietly, one ankle crossed over his other knee. He remained in comfortable black clothing, and while situations like these usually had him wearing his mask, he had decided against it. Instead, his scarred face was bare, though he kept his hood up to cover most of his white hair. His gloved hands were folded in his lap, thumbs clasping the mask that he would normally wear. Instead, it lightly tapped against his thigh.]

So, I suppose we should call this meeting to order, hmm?

Comments

[imaglyphwitch]

[Well now you're just horrifying Luz on purpose].

T-that's it? Just a bed, pillows and clothes? No paintings, or stuffed animals, or books? Just...a room?

[danserai]

. . . Yes?

[imaglyphwitch]

I don't understand that at all. Were your parents Mormon? Were you not allowed to have anything but clothes and a bed in your room?

[danserai]

[ ah. now ahiru gets it somewhat. she offers luz a reassuring smile. ]

I don't have any parents. And it was fine because I didn't spend a lot of time in my room. I had my friends, my school and my town. So I was happy.

[imaglyphwitch]

What?!

How do you not have any parents? I mean, who cooks for you? Who gives you your clothes? Who pays for the place you live in? Where I'm from, parents do all that stuff!

[danserai]

We all live in the school so it's easier to go to class. It's pretty common! And we do have mess halls and places to eat.

So I guess the school takes care of me?

[ and edel and drosselmeyer for pulling the strings behind the scenes. she's struggling a bit without them handwaving these details for her. ]

[imaglyphwitch]

I guess, but I'd still want to have my own room with it's own effects. I'd need to make it personal.

So it's like a boarding school then?

[danserai]

Mmm, we all have rooms in the school even if we have houses somewhere else.

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh! So you do have a house somewhere else?

[danserai]

[ she hates lying and is not very good at it but what the heck. ]

Yeah! Just on the outskirts of the town . . .

[imaglyphwitch]

[Your story has hoooles...]

So how do you get a house there? Do you have some kind of stipend?

[danserai]

[ she hates it here. ]

Uhm, it's kind of like my grandfather left it for me?

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh? That's nice! And your parents don't manage it for you?

[danserai]

No, my aunt did.

[ edel . . . ]

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh, really? I'm sorry. I didn't know your parents weren't around!

I didn't bring up any painful memories, did I?

[danserai]

No, you didn't. I guess I just don't think about it much.

[ because . . . duck. ]

[imaglyphwitch]

You don't? Did you not know them that well?

[Poor Ahiru. You're talking to a girl who very much loves her parent...and assorted appointed family figures].

[danserai]

Mm, only a little when I was younger, that's all.

But it's okay. I don't feel sad about it.

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh. OK. Well, you have us now anyway! Your very, very quirky housemates!

I hope you like it in our place as much as you do in your world!

[Never mind Trench itself. It could be all nightmarish on its own later].

[danserai]

I'm sure it'll be fine!

[imaglyphwitch]

Well if you're sure, welcome to casa de desastre!

[danserai]

To . . . what?

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh um. That's just Spanish. It just means welcome to the disaster house!

[danserai]

Oh! Can you teach me how to say it properly?

[imaglyphwitch]

You...want to actually now how I say it?

[AW, you made Luz so happy! No one except Reaper would even have asked about pronouncing it like she does]!

Sure! Can you say: CAH SAH?