CICONIA: WHEN THEY CRY

[insinning]

It's a holy night. Silent night.

All is calm.

Everything is b r i g h t.

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[insinning]

I'll get you something later.

[ Leather gloves are the best for this apparently. Also if they were dating he'd offer to kiss them better but he'd die now before doing that]

Three minutes left.

[dissimulative]

How long is this song?! It's a crime for rhythm games to be longer than five minutes!

[ He says, fully aware there are modes that allow longer than five minute songs.

Still, he persists. He seems to be getting better... ]

[insinning]

Mmm...six minutes I think?

[ They're not even on expert mode. Sinclair misses a beat but regains it. Maracca lessons to move to the beat are coming in handy here]

[dissimulative]

[ He will never make fun of maracas ever again.

Oria manages to stabilize his score in the last thirty seconds of the song. When it finishes, he dramatically throws his arms up in the air and lets them flop to his sides. ]

We're done!

[ For a first time player, Oria's 71% isn't all too bad... ]

[insinning]

Ahaha. Give me a second...

[how is Oria this good already? Sinclair is sitting at 90% but he's not a first time player so it doesn't count.

Sinclair pops away to grab a cold canned popsi drink and puts it in Oria's hands]

There.

[dissimulative]

[ He holds the cold can with both hands. The nice chill soothes the hands, but he feels like they will go numb eventually if he keeps holding it like this. ]

Thanks.

[ Oria is good at taking experience and applying them to where they matter, making him highly adaptable to many situations (discovery channel voice). ]

Ahh, that feels better.

[insinning]

[ It must be an Oria thing. Sinclair is suitably impressed regardless]

Better than an icepack?

[dissimulative]

It's not like we have an ice pack right now, so this is good enough.

[ He smiles at Sinclair. ]

You always take care of me sooo well.

[insinning]

[ ??? Well it's a small thing so]

You're my friend. Of course I have to try.

[dissimulative]

You're so sweet.

[ Hehe. ]

Is there anything else you want to play? If not, I wanna play Tekken 1.

[insinning]

[Sweet...Sinclair will take that in stride because Oria is just Like That.]

Tekken? Yeah, lets play.

[dissimulative]

Time to play!

[ He pulls Sinclair along to the Tekken arcade machine. ]

I'm gonna get my revenge for that maimai!

[insinning]

Wha--why? You won at the bubble game.

[ Sinclair gets dragged along. And when they set up the game Oria has a chance to troll with character choices because Sinclair is confused and defenseless.]

[dissimulative]

My veteran hand still stings from its time from the war.

[ Absolutely. Oria laughs anyway and chooses King, some leopard man. ]

[insinning]

[There's only one choice for Sinclair: Kuma. Leopard man meet bear]

But I got you something nice to help with that.

[dissimulative]

[ Oria just grins while putting his really cold hand on the back of Sinclair's neck. ]

[insinning]

[SHRIEKS ]

Oria!!

[Defenseless (1) help]

[dissimulative]

Yeah. I definitely got something nice.

[ lmao

Anyway, when the round begins, he begins the ruthless barrage of attacks against Sinclair's character. ]

[insinning]

You're mean.

[ And help his poor Kuma.... he's trying to valiantly put up a good fight but with the distraction...aaaaaaa]

[dissimulative]

I'm being friendly!

[ It's really nice to have spare time to do mundane things like this that it almost makes Oria think that everything in the past has been worth for these moments.

Even Aria's death?

...

The thing about being great at P3 is how he can angst all he wants without being noticed.

He keeps up the barrage of attacks against Kuma by inputting combos one after another. Despite his sore and slightly numb yet somehow stinging palms, he taps away at the correct buttons for input. ]

Come on, you can do better than that!

[insinning]

[ It's nice distraction, isn't it? Pretending everything is normal... pretending they can have something normal together. Maybe it's not even pretending.

Sinclair scowls and tries to recover but he can't quite the first round]

...you wont get it that easy this time.

[Round two has Sinclair smashing those buttons immediately. Die leopard man!!!]

[dissimulative]

Bring it.

[ He welcomes this challenge, but Sinclair is faster with those buttons and gets to King first. Oria tries his hardest to be free himself from this combo. Free him.......... ]

[insinning]

I will.

[ Up up down down left right. The onslaught will not stop as he tries to stunlock Oria]

[dissimulative]

[ He's being so walled right now... Oria continues trying, but in the end, he's practically stun locked to death. ]

When did you learn that?

[ He laughs, looking pretty impressed. ]

[insinning]

Ummmm. Practice?

[ Sinclair is very happy with his win. Ehehehe. But the tie means round 3]