Never have I ever made a fool of myself [video, nebula 17]

[monkeyinthewrench]

What's up, party people?

[ And here's a cheerful wave from a man in orange, seated in his room with a mug of...something. ]

If we haven't met yet, my name's Jake. Jake Peralta, your clues guy. I'm down to poke things with sticks and solve mysteries! Sooner we figure out what the train's entire deal is, where we're going and all that, the better, right? But in the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to get to know my new squad!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be down to play a little Earth game called Never Have I Ever. How it works is you say something totally cool, or weird, or boring that you haven't done. And anybody who has done it has to take a drink. Unfortunately, I'm as broke here as I was back home, so I can't supply the booze. And we should probably be setting a good example, right?

So just drink whatever you have! Be that water, juice, milk, coffee...or if you happen to have a proper adult beverage on you, go ahead and drink responsibly. You ready? Great, I'll start: never have I ever gone skydiving!

((ooc: it's a big mingle format! Go ahead and add new 'never have I ever' statements as new toplevels, and threadhop all you want.))

Comments

[weifinder]

( here he's greeted with two raised eyebrows, and Wei Wuxian leans in toward the ICP, holding up his brown unlabelled bottle. )

Two drinks for that one, Lan Zhan. Since I'll be taking yours for you.

( a smile, and then a very... long... draw from the bottle.

liar liar, lan zhan. lying by omission is a lie, still, and sizhui, if nothing else, a-yuan being alive had been the lie. forgiven, but a lie. )

You don't lie directly, but you, you I know have lied with what you don't say.

[weisexual]

[there is a soft huff as he is called a liar for saying he isn't a liar.]

If it was not voiced, how is it a lie? No falsehood was given.

[weifinder]

You knew I mourned him.

[weisexual]

[Just as they mourned you...]

He didn't remember. He needed time, just as you did.

[Lan Wangji is not the best when it comes to timing...]

[weifinder]

( his voice is soft, truly. )

You made those decisions for both of us. You didn't trust I'd know patience, or discretion. You knew I mourned, and you held silent.

Lies, Lan Zhan. Those are lies and presumptions, and I've been guilty of them before, too.

[weisexual]

[He is silent, looking just as guilty as he has felt about a lot of things over the past sixteen years. And he drinks because he would rather accept defeat.]

I trust you more then anyone.

[It was perhaps himself that he didn't trust enough to reveal the truth.]

[weifinder]

I feel the trust we once had in each other was a different thing to what we've been learning now, Lan Zhan. But I do still trust you more than anyone. I always will.

[weisexual]

Despite everything that trust is not broken?

[Because lies hurt and if he hurt Wei Ying again, made yet another wrong choice, then the shame in himself he feels will only deepen.]

[weifinder]

... I have faith, where trust fails.

[weisexual]

I have made many poor choices.

[He is aware of this, when his heart was not strong enough to break from that which he had always believed in. And even after he had. This is as much a confession of that as he has ever made or thought himself capable of doing.]

[weifinder]

You and every person who has lived, Lan Zhan. Don't hold it against yourself. I don't... but to lie to ourselves, I've seen the cost of it. I don't want you to have to feel that again, too.

[weisexual]

Then I will give up any more lies that are left unsaid. I do not want to disappoint Wei Ying.

[weifinder]

( because disappointment is always worse than anger, ah? they both probably know that, too well. )

You had more?

( he sounds like he's laughing a little at the idea: he doesn't think Lan Zhan sits there on a pile of secrets, in all honesty, just that he's a more private person who doesn't know how to crack open near anything to share. )

[weisexual]

No...

[This whole experience has already been way too much revealing of himself.]