Un: Zodiac | Happy Pride!

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WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: June 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[The Spirit Vein in the sky shifts from dark and purple hues to the entire rainbow spectrum as the element dominance shift into the Light element. The colors will shift regularly, showing off every color in the visible spectrum, making it quite the light show. Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their message and comment to it.]


Fukuda, Venti, and Persephone have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Morgan, Mona, Hansa, Eijiro, Shouto, Yagi, and Yoosung has left the app.

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello! Thank you for using the Libra App.

First of all, we'd like to thank everyone who helped the Companions in the Walled City. Based on our reports before the gate closed, the Companions are doing well and are enjoying the sunlight you brought to them. As a token of goodwill, we also donated a number of cats to their city, supplies to care for them, and manuals so they can learn about proper cat ownership.

Next, we've been made aware of the unusual plant growth around the city. We're still looking into the matter, but we believe it may be related to an increasing level of Spirit Energy within the city. We will keep investigating and let you know of anything we learn.

Finally, we come to Pride Month. We're aware this is an important time of year for many of our app users, so we at Zodiac wish for you to have a wonderful celebration. For those unaware or new to this world, Pride Month is when identities that fall underneath the LGBTAQ+ umbrella (such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, etc) get celebrated. This is done through parades and different festivities. Pride month and the history of LGBTAQ+ has a long history in this world, which there's resources available at the library and online if you wish to learn more.

Now we're leave you with the icebreaker because we still haven't figured out how to remove it.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈



This post sponsored by Rainbow Road Go Karts. What happens in the go kart course stays in the go kart course.

[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Morgan will have been transferred back to the Black Order's HQ. Meanwhile Mona, Hansa, Eijiro, Shouto, Yagi, and Yoosung will be around the city with no memories of the app.

Like always, there'll be no responses from Zodiac.

OOC note: post is going up a little earlier to make it easier timezone wise for players. If you haven't responded to AC yet, you still have until 11:59pm EST to do so and you'll be removed from the post list! ]

Comments

[throwmoreswords]

[ fun fact, he did drop his phone again and left it inside because he needed to be outside very, very quickly
second fun fact, gil uses his full birth name on his voicemail inbox, so enjoy that rare treat of a name that's probably like seven names in a trench coat

he's just leaning on the railing of the balcony outside his suite, head almost on his arms, feeling and looking absolutely exhausted
his headache is quickly approaching motherfucker supreme status
he hates everything about this ]

[kowase]

[ your name is long, huge, garish, and he's going to do his best to remember it but never fucking use it, his mouth doesn't make those sounds

gil will have a lovely voicemail of a demonic voice giving an exasperated, reverb-laden sigh, like multiple voices layered over themselves.

he's going to... make his way up
the building

in the only way he can right now
he can't go in through the front door
looking like a fucking nightmare
but he does distinctly remember that gilgamesh has a
window... balcony

if he can make it up there
...if he can make it up there...

he's not used these wings before
and its safe to say he's SHIT at flying
but slowly but surely, a bitch can fucking hover
until he manages to reach the man's balcony.

...just might look EXTRA nightmarish as hes gonna grab the bottom of the balcony to aid himself getting up there... ]

[throwmoreswords]

[ one minute, gil is sitting there feeling the most hollow he's ever felt, guts churning, chest so tight it could burst

and the next he's screaming as he trips over the expensive chair on the balcony in his haste to get away from the goddamn mini godzilla currently having a peekaboo over his railing. ]

[kowase]

Calm down, it's me, you fool.

[ yes because mini mecha-godzilla demon-crawling its way up onto your balcony and perching there like some fucking unhinged bat of some kind isn't concerning. What with how he flares out those wings, tail long and thrashing a little back and forth behind him.

...and this is as far as Zulius' lesson gets him. He has no idea what to say next, or how to be a comfort because gil is screaming and looks terrified, for one, and for two...

he still doesn't have the fortitude to comfort someone.

coming here was a mistake. ]

[throwmoreswords]

[ look gil always knew that karma would come to collect a debt someday but he didn't anticipate it looking like a flaming nightmare monster straight out of the midnight gore movies on the cable channels

wait

flaming monster

who else would call him a fool and was currently in the business of having an ass that sets things on fire right now

he breathes hard, hand on his chest as he stares at the man-lizard-lizard-man that's just toasting the night away on his balcony, staring at him with wide red eyes as he drags himself into sitting up properly ]

Vergil Vittore?

[kowase]

Who the hell else would climb up specifically onto your damn balcony because you would not answer your damnable phone.

I had already told you I have been having an... issue.

[ there's a... heavy reverb to his voice, like there are two people talking. One is rough, demonic, and deep--gravely rumbling, but the other is... well, listen close, and its absolutely Vittore. ]

[throwmoreswords]

I've frequently been informed that divine wrath would come to sort me out someday in this life. You could've playing for one of those sides, for all I knew.

[ he doesn't stay sitting without support for long, letting himself slump back against the building proper now that the fight or (hah) flight reflex has been suppressed, taking a long moment to look Vergil over from top to tail and back again. ]

What in the world motivated you to make it all the way up here, Mr. Vittore?

[kowase]

[ there's an agitated whip to his tail as Gilgamesh has the GALL to ask him why he made it up here. Because how dare you, HE DOESn'T KNOW. He only planned up to the point of GETTING up here, he can only hover at best so it was an EFFORT and now that he's here he's not

sure what to do

except mean mug gil and
well
try to think of something that doesnt sound too stupid ]

I asked you a question.
You did not answer me.
And you ignored my call.
I said something to you that I assume meant something.
I wanted ... to make sure you were alright.

[throwmoreswords]

[ and as Gil is a normal ass man, he flinches when the tail goes snapping from one side to the next, breath stuttering in his chest as he is all too aware that he can do absolutely nothing in the face of whatever Vergil Vittore's become, and feeling so strange about it because it doesn't feel right.

so much of him feels like it's missing all of a sudden, like gaining an answer has broken his chest open and all the sand's coming pouring out, leaving nothing but hollow space and questions with no answers.

Vergil reminds him of what they had been speaking of before--and Gil looks queasy again at the thought, rubbing his hand against the side of his head in slow circles. ]

Yes. Well.
Likely not.
But I'll survive, as I always do.

[ honesty, usually an easy quality for him, sticks on his tongue and he swallows, feeling so wrung out and dry all of a sudden. ]

[kowase]

'As I always do' applies in situations where your favorite car has a scratch in it, or you broke your favorite rolex being too heavy-handed with the clasps.
It does not apply to these memories of our past selves.

I think I know that all too well, fool.

[ you know
given the fact that he's hanging onto the side of your balcony railing like some sort of
fucked up
bat
insect
monster
talking calmly and evenly as Vittore always does, except
you know
looking like a walking nightmare ]

I have Dante and Nero to work through my memories.
Nero told me he had his ... friends from this world.

When noone was here from his past for him.

[ he's trying to suggest... ]

[throwmoreswords]

[ it's strange to be scolded by the blue-toned, craggy face of one's nightmares as it clutches onto the stone and metal that makes up your hotel balcony, and Gil wishes he had enough fire in him to be annoyed at being called a fool and told he was wrong in his assessments. as it is, his eyes narrow and he gives Vergil as much of a slit-eyed, slit-pupil glower as he can through the throbbing in the back of his skull, one arm resting up on his bent knee. ]

As I always do applies to me in whatever I'm doing, Mr. Vittore. [ his voice sharp and as full of as much vinegar as he can muster. ] Blessed are you to have kin and kind that understand you and want to reach for you when you're shuddering through the particulars of a life that was once yours.

I'm not your mess to clean up simply because you triggered the memory in me. I'll get up on my own as I always do.

[ because no one is ever there for Gil, and that has to suit him fine. relying on Vergil now would make the next time he fell hurt worse. getting used to the luxury of having people at his side... he's not cruel enough to do that to himself. ]

[kowase]

[ gil can be annoyed over being called a fool all he wants--he's being a fool. even vergil can understand that. maybe it's because he's experiencing the exact sort of thing gil is going through, he's actually SYMPATHIZING with the man for once, so he's trying his best here. where normally he wouldn't. ]

I did not say it was my mess to clean up.
Nor do I feel it is a pithy obligation just because I may have triggered it with some quick words I said.

Leaving you alone to wallow in these memories that were once yours and now coming back is not... healthy.
I know that for certain.
I have met others than just you who are going through this.

[ he's not... quite the type to say it
but he's trying to get the idea across
kin can help
but so can friends ]