STEPH

[concasse]

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W0 || Saturday

[concasse]

[Crowded buses suck when you want to have a private conversation, but if there's a silver lining, it's that most of them all have the same idea in mind -- find the people you recognize and try to figure out what the fuck is going on.

Which means Sanji is eventually gonna hunt down Steph, looking far less energetic than he had been yesterday. Y'know -- "I just got done killing a bunch of my comrades to get us a happy ending and now have to square up for a potential round 2" levels of tired.

It's fine. This is all fine.]

Hey, Steph-chan... how you managing?

[vigilantics]

I'm wishing that the toilet really is our biggest problem.

[ sometimes, you are so shocked and frustrated that joking around is the immediate coping medicine until you have to actually sit and realize that everything happens so much. ]

We are... still stuck here, huh.

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Some of us.

[Business!Sanji has been invoked, and he counts off a couple of names with his fingers]

You, me, Belph, Hikage, Yasusada, and Evan so far... haven't seen any of the others.

[From the castle, he means, though given how relieved his tone is, he sees that as a good thing.]

[vigilantics]

I hope that means the others managed to go home.

[ there's the possibility that they may be stuck in a similar situation to this one, but until they get proof of that...

well. she shakes her head. ]

There's actually a few people I know from home? Damian... he's the bitey child who needs a leash. There's Jason and Dick, but technically neither of them know me yet? They're like, a lot younger than they should be.

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Huh...

[That's an interesting wrinkle to all of this. He rubs at his chin, thoughtful]

I haven't seen anyone I recognize, but it seems like all of us here have been apart of similar... "games", so to speak.

[So you bat kids got cucked super hard.]

Are they trustworthy?

week 0, friday

[vigilantics]

[ welp

it's a little after the announcement went up, and stephanie is looking for certain people to check on. when she spots one of them, she hurriedly walks over to him. ]

Sanji.

[ her expression just says "what the fuck" ]

[concasse]

[hey steph!

Sanji's looking stressed... and holding himself oddly, like moving is causing him a little pain. Weird.

But the moment he sees her, he shrugs while his expression smooths over]

Same shit, different day, eh?

[vigilantics]

[ me, who planned the murder: sanji did you murder tsuru

but she blinks, but doesn't comment on it. ]

I guess. [ ... ] But at least we knew what was happening right away in the castle.

[concasse]

[yes so please vote him out of camp tomorrow, FREE ME--]

Yeah, can't say I appreciate how this shit was drawn out.

[Mouth drawn into a thin line of disapproval.]

Oi... Steph-chan. Did you get hit with any, uh... weird side-effects?

W1 || FRIDAY

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[Yeah he saw her last night but given Sanji was too busy yelling at Anaido and Phoenix, he's going to hunt her down later when she has a spare minute]

Oi, you find anything at the lake?

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[ she waves. ]

There's something in the lake. No idea what though.

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... Something alive, or...?

[vigilantics]

No idea. When I tried to get a closer look, the shark kept moving in the way.

[ very shitty of you, shark. ]

week 1, saturday

[vigilantics]

[ to say that this was a terrible day is kind of an understatement.

a little after trial, steph drags herself to the kitchen. it's the kind of feeling where you really don't have an appetite, but you are aware that you should in theory eat something. when she walks in, she's not that surprised to see sanji already there. ]

We screwed up.

[concasse]

[Because it's Steph, and she's seen Sanji deal with the nonsense that was Grimm--

He thunks his head against the table]

How the hell did we screw up that badly.

[vigilantics]

I don't even know where we went wrong. Was there actually fake evidence? Was it one of the other of the four? Is there something we never found?

[ she could keep listing possibilities, but nothing feels more right than the other. ]

[concasse]

This is why I told that dumbass to watch it. When everyone's stressed out, they're gonna pick the person who looks the most guilty, regardless of evidence, or the person they don't like.

W2 || DEATH DAY

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[... Well. The grimms are doing great, huh?

Sanji will give Steph a few hours before trying to find her, wherever she might be]

... You--

[A pause, and restart]

You want some time alone?

[vigilantics]

[ she is sitting behind some cabins. she's definitely hiding? but she doesn't seem bothered when sanji approaches. ]

No, it's... fine. I'm just thinking.

[concasse]

Ha... I assume not what to have for dinner.

[Sanji would offer to cook, but. Y'know. Probably not the time for it]

[vigilantics]

... I might end up skipping that today.

[ probably not the best thing to admit to a chef. but it's the truth. ]

W3 || Monday

[concasse]

[Sanji already knows what's going to happen when he and Steph catch eyes. It ain't his first rodeo anymore, and despite having tried to sneak back to his cabin without being spotted, well --

This is what he gets for being optimistic.

There's a brief moment where his expression bleeds into a silent apology, sorry about whatever nonsense you're gonna see, Steph-chan, and then the scenery shifts into...

into this.

At which point Sanji yells in delight once the memory is over? Because--]

Oh shit, right! The floating islands! Damn, it's really been over two years.

[vigilantics]

[ SHE OPENS HER MOUTH

AND THEN CLOSES IT

AND OPENS HER MOUTH AGAIN.

CLOSES IT. HM. ]

What?

[concasse]

[~~ONE PIECE~~]

There was this asshole with a devil fruit power that made shit float, even whole islands -- and then the bastard had the nerve to kidnap my crew's navigator.

So, naturally, we had to go looking for her.

[obviously that is what was going on]

[vigilantics]

[ there are a lot of different parts of the explanation that he skipped ]

I. See.

You guys were busy.