homophonic ❆ gerard

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gerard

It's hard to accept a gentler story.

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w0, FRIDAY (continued)

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[from here!

she just stares at him.]

What? [she has some measure of patience for this because gestures at cloud retainer but also, say the thing, frogboy.]

[frogzoned]

Nothing, nothing ...

[ well now he's just avoiding it. ]

I was in the middle of a trade.

W0 MONDAY

[frogzoned]

[ hey gerard is sitting at mcdonalds and he do be On That Damn Phone.

he looks sweaty, but maybe he always looks a little sweaty, on account of being a frog. ]

Two truths ...

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[she peers over his shoulder.

she's technically not welcome in the mcdonald's but listen, she isn't going to let that stop her.]

Are you having difficulty coming up with prompts as well? [surprise, she's here now]

w0, FRIDAY 2

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[shenhe is out standing in front of her warehouse! she's just... standing. that's all, staring out over the streets with a slight frown on her face. this is not a fascinating starter but she really is just standing here thinking. she probably should be more sad but she isn't!

she shift a little to face gerard if he comes close, though, like a very terrible hi.]

[frogzoned]

[ he gets it fam, sometimes people just die horribly and there's nothing you can do about it! ]

Did you-- Did you see all that? Apparently there was quite a commotion.

W0 - SATURDAY

[frogzoned]

That was. Certainly something. I never thought I'd hear the word Pipa so much in my life.

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[gazes]

It's not even a word I'd heard before today. I don't want to do another one of these.

w1, FRIDAY

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Gerard
May I see you
?

[frogzoned]

Yes. I'm not hiding myself away anywhere.

In the park.

W1 - SATURDAY - text

[frogzoned]

Are you alright?

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[the reply takes a while, but eventually:]

I will be.

W1 - SUNDAY

[frogzoned]

Has anyone healed you yet?

[ since. yesterday was so chaotic. ]

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Oh
Yes, though I don't know who

You remembered to ask even after all of that
?

w2, MONDAY

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[i feel like all of your pcs are going to be in the pet store so we're in the library today instead

shenhe is sitting in the middle of the library, looking through a book. the title seems to be The Boar Princess, and she's very engrossed in whatever tale it's telling.

there's a muted sense of interest.]

[frogzoned]

[ gerard is actually being like. extremely sus in this library. he's been going between shelves, looking them up and down, slightly sweatily - if that's possible to tell. he's always a little bit sweaty. his emotion right is ... slight desperation. some guilt. but once he sees shenhe - most importantly with a book called The Boar Princess the emotion is more ! ]

Ah-- Shenhe? Where did you get that?

[ a librarian shushes him. ]

What!

w2, THURSDAY

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[she will just wander her way over to wherever he is post-cyoa... she's calm now but there's a thin, muffled undercurrent of Stress that is following her around.]

Gerard. [how's it going buddy...]

[frogzoned]

[ he's gone somewhere quiet for now, the library maybe, to sit for a while and think things over, but. he's still in that kind of weird state of not quite being in touch with his emotions. not sure what to consider of all of it. ]

Ah. Hello.

w2, SATURDAY

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[catch her setting this tree on fire hey what's up]

[frogzoned]

[ i mean thats fair

he'll just come over to watch. ]

That is one way to work through it.

W2000 - SUNDAY

[frogzoned]

[ hi is shenhe somewhere burning something. he'll just be sort of wandering around Suburbia and clearly Thinking too hard. oh dear. ]

We tried. We really-- We should have left it be.

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[nah this time she's just sitting and staring at the sky. she's broken, emotions machine broke.]

There was nothing we could've done. [she says, glancing at him as he wanders by.]

W3 - MONDAY

[frogzoned]

[ gerard is standing outside the hooters, but we don't have to stay here. i just think it's funny to stand outside the hooters. ]

Do you think it has anything to do with owls?

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... If it does, you should not go inside.

[looks... at him...]

w3, THURSDAY NIGHT

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[idk where we're starting off at for curfew yet on either side but

she's still awake. she's still awake, and she knows that this is bad. so... so, she stands. and she makes her way out, into the city. she walks, and she walks, until she sees gerard, and - looks slightly startled.]

-- Gerard. You are also awake. [but she doesn't assume anything, not yet. she just thinks he's another victim.]

[frogzoned]

[ APPARENTLY THE THEATER LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

funnily enough, gerard was just simply standing there too. staring off into space, hand on the sword at his belt - he does a bit of a jump when she speaks, like he somehow wasn't expecting her. ]

Hello, Shenhe.

W4, SUNDAY

[frogzoned]

[ sorry to keep human icon jumpscaring but it captures a Frog Emotion previously locked, which is sometimes being a little bit of a Human Guy. ]

We should talk.

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[new frog emotion unlocked]

Yes. We should. [...] I am not sorry for killing you. But we are even, now.

[just getting that out of the way]

W5 - THURS

[frogzoned]

[ following the trail of blood out to the park, I guess. she can't be that hard to track. miss shenhe ... ]

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[yea! she's not hard to find, she's sitting on a bench staring into the middle distance absolutely soaked in blood. it's terrible.

she's also holding this little plastic toy axe like it's a part of her, which uh, up until a while ago, it was! she doesn't seem to notice him approaching.]

w5, SATURDAY

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[idk where we are... let's say bookstore.

she's stopped crying the blood tears, at least, so that's good. she's just sitting here looking down at a book and not really reading it. gerard showing up does get her attention, at least, and she just. starts out with:]

I don't know how to feel about this. [like, she feels a lot. she just doesn't know how to express it. which. gerard probably isn't equipped for it, but.]

[frogzoned]

[ THAT’S ... GOOD. Maybe. Bookstore is fine, he needs to come look up a book on gun forms anyway. that’s probably a reasonable thing to do right now right. ]

I don’t really either.

[ he is not equipped for this but he can at least be emphathetic. hopefully that helps. ]

She wanted to do this for a long time, I think. Take some agency over it, maybe.

w6, THURSDAY

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[goes back in time 4 days to beat you up

where's gerard she's looking for him!!! i have no idea what's happening i just got out of barbie and my thoughts are pink]

[frogzoned]

[ BARBIE

i think it’d funniesr if for right now he’s just stayed sitting catatonic in the bad dragon shop because no one made him move and he’s like to have his little mental breakdown in the solitude amongst the anatomically accurate wyvern cocks for now ]

W6 - SUNDAY

[frogzoned]

[ where she

it doesn’t super matter all the graveyard is 10 feet apart at all times so he’ll just turn a corner somewhere to come find her at some point later in the day after all the new deadzos arrive ]

Hello, Shenhe.

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[yeah that's fair it's not like she's hard to find, though she is at the very end of the 10 feet because this is so many people and she's suffering feeling crowded.

she looks up at him when he says her name, and gives him a little nod.]

... Hello, Gerard. Are you alright? [it's. been a weekend!]

w7, FINAL SATURDAY

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... I wish that I could come to help you and Ylfa destroy what you're up against.

[this is a little later after the party, and she's a little buzzed, but hey.]

[frogzoned]

I know. I appreciate that.

[ very sincerely. ]

But I think we'll be alright. We have a plan.