w5 | our house in the middle of our house

[engineers]

this house is full of gay people

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[engineers]

[ welcome to the home biome on this fine evening.... by which i mean, welcome to the home of engineer 001 and commander lin! cheesy name, but hey, that's what the sign outside of the front door said on your way in! it was being held by two very cute robots. that did a little dance im not describing this it was very off mood.

anyway!!!! the house itself is very homey and cozy. there are two exceedingly comfortable couches in the living room that, if someone is horizontal on them - ie, thancred, who is being godmodded into behaving himself - automatically soften up like sleeping on the most comfortable mattress you can possibly imagine. there are pillows and blankets set up in the living room, and bixing and jingheng have moved the coffee table in the center of the room out of the way to make space. there's a comfortable, slightly worn rug on the floor, a cute family picture of the four students of the starry sea academy and lu bixing sitting on one of the tables, and... well, the most obvious feature of this cute house is the very fussy person who owns it, who is coming in from the kitchen holding a cobbled together mix of mugs in his arms as he brings them over to the table. ]

Okay, the hot water with lemon is for Harrowhark. The rest - I made coffee and I brought over the tea box, so just let me know what you want...

[ i should also note there's a sleeping chameleon in on the table, but he's kind of hard to see, because he is blending in with his camouflage. popcorn is also here, winding gently around his living room and between a group of worried people. ] And, as time gets closer - we can all stay here, if you want, but there's bedrooms, too.. Whatever is the most comfortable.

[ fussy. he has not sat down once since they got in here. it's fine. ]

[refate]

[ yoru waddles up to lu bixing and presents him with a plate that has a bunch of omurice laid out on it, since he can't reach the table himself. ] Mister!

[ kon has more of them, two plates balanced on his forearm and palm. he apparently ran off once they were all certain that people were taken care of and there wasn't another gotdam group to come out. ] Something simple, but figure we could all use the energy before things really go down.

[engineers]

[ weh. ]

Oh... thank you, Yoru. [ he will reach down to take the plate from the most perfect boy in the world and then give kon a grateful smile. ] This smells really good, Kon - thank you. I think we probably have a few sets of chopsticks, if it's that good of a recreation.

[ yoru gets a pat on the head also. ]

[voidshift]

...I'll just stay here.

[he doesn't want to make thancred move; he's squeezed onto this couch with him, staying close.]

[engineers]

[ it's a bigass comfy couch and there is absolutely room for two people so no worries. lu bixing flashes himself a little smile. ]

Of course. Just let me know if you all need any blankets or anything extra, okay...?

[cavaliered]

[gideon is here!

she's awake, barely. she's got bandages over her eye, around her torso - just, the whole thing, she's a fucking mess - and around her left hand. two of her fingers are gone on that hand, and she keeps staring down at it every so often, like she's not sure she's seeing it right. there's also a bandage around her upper left arm. she is thankfully not in the magical girl outfit anymore, and she doesn't seem to be able to move that well because it hurts.

hex the bone hand is sitting on her shoulder and refuses to move. there's also a tiny orange fairy that is sleeping on hex's... back, or whatever, the back of his hand.

she's not saying anything.]

[refate]

[ quietly, carefully, yoru climbs up into the spot next to gideon that - presumably - harrow is not occupying. he doesn't say anything, but he does plop down close to her with fretful little eyes.

and then he bonks very gently into a part of her that's not injured. emotional support robot. ]

[engineers]

[ there's a soft voice that comes from somewhere over her shoulder that's familiar - bixing reaches over to very gently touch an uninjured spot in greeting out of her blind spot. ]

I brought you an extra pillow for your back, Gideon. [ hex gets a little tap gently in greeting. fingertip to fingertip. ] Lift up a little for me?

[outsidebones]

[she's sitting by gideon, just leaning against her, head on her shoulder.]

[awol]

[ i'm here late with starbucks (no)

but lin jingheng has been here, and he's mostly just been sitting facing the entryway to the home biome, his harpoon gun resting to his side. zhanlu plays a very soft lullaby from where he sits, unattached in his arm form off to the side while lin just. stares at the door quietly, frowning. ]

[engineers]

[ he's coming over here to join lin jingheng once he's done fussing, holding a mug of black coffee in his hands - and he offers it to him with a little smile, coming to settle next to him. popcorn gets underfoot, and he has to dodge out of the way a little, but... he plops down afterwards and just sits, and takes his hand. ]

I really - these Thursdays are always rough. [ especially this one, as he keeps looking between their two injured fools, but ] ...At least for now, we get to spend it at home?

[awol]

Mm.

[ hello popcorn when did you get so fucking bold? lin jingheng pulls his legs up a little bit like don't crawl on me as popcorn squiggles about before he returns to just kind of draping his arms over his knees. lu bixing takes his hand and he looks over his shoulder at their injured gideon and thancred...

he looks like he wants to say something but doesn't. ]

[selfdestructs]

[ she wanders over, draping a blanket over his shoulders, and taking a seat next to him. bumps their shoulders together. ]

Your face is gonna freeze that way, silly.

[ nudges ]

[awol]

[ bweh...

nudges her back slightly.





and sticks his tongue out at her nyeeeeeh ]

[onlythans]

[Anyway, here's Thancred! Did anybody change him out of his magical girl outfit or is he still just rocking a pair of cat ears and jingle bells on every layer of his clothes. Anyway, he is sleeping on one of the couches and Ryn is apparently glued to him, which makes it extra awkward that occasionally he mumbles something like your lovely tentacles and possibly the sunset as your next landscape. But y'know. Sleepily, so it's tough to make it all entirely out.

Fairyfilia is also hanging around! She can't talk, but she's fussy and worried about him. She will approve of anyone who also seems worried about him too!

If you want him when he's awake, he'll rouse after a while and probably ask for something to eat. He's ravenous, actually; you can probably hear his stomach growling if you listen long enough.]

[cavaliered]

[she also has her dps attached to her so she can't really move, but she looks at him sadly across the room every so often.]

[onlythans]

[hey guess what you made a big mistake tagging me because it means i can do this:

remember how thancred was dreaming a minute ago? SURPRISE HE'S NOT ASLEEP ANYMORE]

NAV!!

[and kind of thrashes like he's trying to lunge forward, white-faced, before slowly seeming to come around enough to realize where he is.]

[refate]

[ if this man fell asleep hungry, kon's pretty sure that he'd wake them all up even when they'd been knocked out by weird curfew knockout powers. listen to that stomach? he doesn't want anything to do with his weird sleeptalk, because it's probably better not to ask.

so he will offer him some omurice from the massive batch that he brought. a plate for the old man. ]

Here, man, before you decide to chew off a tentacle by mistake.

[onlythans]

Mnngh.

[He opens both eyes, which he quickly decides is a mistake because the one on the side of his face that's all fucked up is definitely not focusing well at the moment, so he proceeds to close that one again and just kind of looks at Kon one-eyed, examining the food without actually sitting up from where he's sprawled on the couch. Debates whether he can stay lying down and just sort of shovel it into his mouth without killing himself somehow.]

Considerate of you. Thank you.

[engineers]

[ going to very kindly ignore the sleep talking. playing deaf

but he does bring thancred a cup of water with a straw in it at some point so he doesn't even have to get up. here you go grandpa "hes younger than you bixing" grandpa ]

[onlythans]

[opens one eye at him without actually moving because moving is bullshit right now. He's practically a black mage with how little he wants to move anywhere, at all, at any time, for any reason.]

...'ve seen this place before.

[He sips his water, wetting his throat before trying again.]

'member this. You live here.

[voidshift]

[help. whenever he makes mumbly sleepy commentary about 'lovely tentacles' and all, ryn is just squinting at him. the fuck. also he probably helped him clean off and change but he did leave the cat ears on him, you're welcome.

but anyway. he probably wakes up to rynlan petting his hair, which he stops the second he can tell thancred's awake, ears perking like he just heard a fucking metal gear alert noise. he wasn't doing anything. don't look at him.]

...we'll get you something, just don't go and try to get up.

[he'll sit on him if he must.]

[onlythans]

Mnnnnconvenient. Tired of moving.

[He moved so much, so many times, when he did not want to move. It is a blessing to just lie still and not move and only hurt when he has to breathe or like, thinks too hard.]

M'sorry.

[awol]

[ hi i'm attacking you now that i'm awake but yeah at some point jingheng just ends up close with his harpoon gun pointed AT THE DOOR. he'll let lu bixing bring him water or whatever, but lin jingheng will play guard dog.

if he ends up being lucid for a bit to eat kon's food, then: ]

Playing with tentacles in your sleep?

[onlythans]

Mmmwhat...?

[Still half-asleep as he is, the reference to tentacles doesn't quite connect at first, and so he glances up at where Ryn is still glued to his side (and probably still sleeping, at long last, the poor thing) and squints at his hair because honestly that's the first place his mind would naturally go, on a comment like that.

But then, of course, he has the chance to think about it.]

No, alas. Just fleeting notions of someone I'm certain I'll never see again.

[thancred what the actual fuck does that mean]