Performance

Act 1; Scene 19

Tw; Mentions of strip poker and burglary, mentions of misgendering and deadnaming, accidental deadnaming

The beginning of this is really bad

"POISON BERRY!" Remus jumped on the lying man the readers and Remus know as Janus.

He hissed, "Remus!"

"Okay okay- wanna come play strip poker with me and Remy?"

"No."

"...Wanna play regular poker with me and Remy?"

Janus' thought for a second. Hanging out with Remy and Patton was...fun. "Sure."

"Yes!" Remus cheered, "C'mon!"

"Wait- you meant nOW- !?" Janus said, but got cut off as Remus grabbed his hand and pulled him away.

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"Caffeine slut!" Remus called as he pulled Janus through Remy's window.

Remy came out of the kitchen drinking coffee from a blender, "Yeah?"

Jants had other concerns, "Why did you pull me through a window!?" He shrieked.

Remus shrugged, "Feels like we're burglars."

"Why would you- ? Y'know what? Nevermind."

Remy nodded, "Good choice."

Janus finally got a good look at Remy, "Why are you drinking from a blender?"

"Biggest container I have."

"How has the caffeine not killed you?"

"Honestly? No clue."

"Logan's gonna have a stroke trying to figure this out."

Remy looked excited at that.

"Poker!" Remus shrieked as he got the cards out.

Remy looked over his glasses at Remus, "You invited a politician with the pseudonym "Deceit" to play poker?"

"Yeah?"

 To Remus' surprise, but not to the two with any working brain cells, Janus won every single round. As easy as it was, it was also...fun. (I don't know how to play poker, otherwise I might attempt to make this part interesting)

Later they watched conspiracy videos and Vine completions of people called Joan and Thomas. (After Remus forced Janus to stay, obviously.)

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Lark just got back into town after a long week of photoshoots and being dead named and misgendered. They don't completely blame the employees or their parents; it's not like Lark told them.

But it's hard not to be a little irritated. If their parents just made them feel a little more loved, then maybe they wouldn't be going through this. Their parents never explicitly expressed malice towards the Rainbow CultTM, and it's not that that they're scared of.

They're scared of losing their family. Lark's parents are incredibly hard to read; that being said, Lark will die before they consider that that's not where they get their badassery from- which, yes~

But it also makes it hard to gouge how their parents would genuinely react. They have the tendency to assume they're doing everything for Lark's own good, without actually consulting Lark. This behavior has made Lark distrustful of their parents and often act rebellious- trying to be rid of the feeling that they don't have control.