[ man it's super hard to get lost in an ikea, but oh well. anyways, eiden is here robbing a register of it's register paper when shen qingqiu shows up. with one of those tiny pencils in his mouth he waves briefly. ]
[ sometimes you just get overwhelmed by `modern furniture` you just live here now amongst the blahaj. sqq seems to be partially surprised to find a person when he turns a corner but also partially baffled by eiden's... uh.... paper acquiring... but sure okay. he's not gonna judge
[ SQQ looks completely out of place standing outside the selfie shop but then again, given how he dresses right now everywhere looks out of place right now. He's casually fanning himself in seemingly curiosity, but hasn't attempted to walk in yet. What even would he take selfies for, huh??? ]
[ just coming back to the warehouse with a cup of coffee, topper scarfed around his shoulders as he just slides down an unpainted wall and decides he will sit right here, right now. erasure is weird and sucks thanks. he is going to sit here with cinnamon buns he brought just because who doesn't like them and slowly eat one while looking kind of miserable. ]
[ THAT SURE WAS A WHOLE EXPERIENCE HUH. He's still not sure if it was a murder or a porno (... a murder porno? he's pretty sure that's a kink somewhere) but eiden is the most valid. sqq came back to meditate but lbr he's just been staring at the ceiling this whole time. wowee! ]
Damn, the beds are all gone again. Sheesh. [ we are here at the store tiredly withering away in tocpe. eiden is just wearing his ikea clothes from last week while his arrival clothes are drip drying back at the warehouse. ]
I mean... I guess we could grab a couch back at Ikea? I don't mind buying...? It beats sitting on the floor, right?
[ this economy is so rough for sleeping not on the floor. ]
anyways he pokes his head into the warehouse first before slinking in and flops down to join him. he drops a bag of dumb cinnamon buns between them on the couch and closes his eyes. ]
[ flopping down beside him and stretching his arms across the table. there's a very uncharacteristic twitch to his eyebrow, like he's feeling those rank vibes coming off of sqq. ]
[ forces u into another pc with me on our ikea couch. it's probably the first night shen qingqiu hasn't had to sleep on the couch or rug or t-shirt nest so. huzzah! anyways, eiden's just scrolling through his phone when he kind of stops and gazes at something very tiredly.
there's a general vibe here, one of very short, but deep contemplation, like that of an absolute clown before a full on "yolo" feeling—
like a good switch king, eiden just leans over bites whatever is closest to him on shen qingqiu. like a shoulder. he knows he could probably get away with it. maybe. actually, he might get smacked. but he's fine with that, shen qingqiu is hot, he can smack him. ]
[ help me he's probably not even awake yet. sitting in that sitting up but complaining about it internally and bemoaning the idea of getting out of the warm.
but his shoulder is right there, ripe for the biting and I guess he's yelping awake, nearly flipping the mattress over and taking the sheets, the pillows, and probably eiden with him ]
[ whenever shen qingqiu comes back to the warehouse, eiden is going to be there on the bottom-most bunk (the one that pulls out from beneath the first). his hair is wet and he's shirtless and just flopped down. he has decided he is going to be useless and just lay here with a terrible mood of malaise and misery with a towel around his shoulders. ]
[ well first things first, eiden will note that sqq is a black hole of emotion. seems like someone sat on the rooftop, screamed all of his feelings out until there was just a nice void left.
other than that, eiden's head gets a gentle brush of `I'm here` and the soft clack of something left on the floor close to him. looks like sqq has brought back to go cups of a fragrant jasmine tea ]
[ just gonna give sqq a little time to cool down and then will take a little trip around to try and find him. there aren't that many places to look, and thankfully he decided to check the park first, because he is shen qingqiu trying to become one with the trees. ]
Hey... Shen Qingqiu... [ soft as he walks over to just... squat quietly by him in the grass. ]
[ the stank vibes from earlier have cooled down for sure but it's been replaced with incredibly high levels of DON'T THINK ABOUT IT, DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT, FUCK I'M THINKING ABOUT IT levels of failed meditation. apparently, he's used up all his chill yesterday cause he's just incredibly irritated and feeling it today lads ]
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[ can you believe it's only week three?? it feels like year three to even a ye olde like him.
anyway, sqq is hiding out in the vr rooms forever because he's a fucking loser who misses his boy and even this Not Quite Right version of binghe is better than no binghe at all. ..maybe? ...........maybe binghe is better off without him there.
anyway, catch him pouting and staring at this ai version of bingbong peacefully cooking in his bamboo hut. ]
when eiden catches him in the vr room, he stays quiet for a moment longer, taking in the scene before him. it feels weird, no longer being able to feel him, but it's for the best this way. for all of them, right? finally he calls over quietly. ]
[ well. rest in pieces shen qingqiu's robes because they probably really need a good laundry day. for now we're back at the warehouse and are getting the birthday boy settled. birthday cyoa boy. birthday..... sad... i'm so tired ari don't look at me. anyways, eiden is just. tired jittery after all that and sitting very close to wherever shen qingqiu is laid up.
topper is all here, just curled up in sqq's lap being a snoozy boy.
now that he doesn't have to look anyone else in the face he just lets himself go a little unsteady: ]
... Shen Yuan... that was really fucking scary, dude.
[ see, he's fine! look at him trying to joke. his good arm is giving topper gentle pets because, wowee he sure went on a journey today. he deserves soft pats ]
I certainly didn't expect to get dragged into something like that.
[ now he's gonna be paranoid about spiders forever, rip ]
[ NOT HIS A-SHEN. sqq's half drunk coffee got yeeted across the street in pure frustration and he's vibing so angrily but he hasn't punched a wall at least.
[ help me i couldn't find the excerpt in the novel I was thinking of so instead, upon exit from the warehouse this fine Monday morning, they get smacked by a pig and a short and sweet video memory happens. it ends when he gasps, xo.
[ WAITS FOR LIKE A WHOLE HOUR LIKE A PUPPY IN THE RAIN!!!!! but without rain, he's just flopped up against a tree holding onto his pin. is this forever? it feels like forever. time traveling is hard. ]
[ they are both just tipsy. eiden looks particularly happy as he just piles them both somewhere that isn't blown up either in the big outer park under a nice tree or in the warehouse because those are the easiest locations to find a soft place to flop on now.
he will hold him though, shifting to make sure he has him securely in his arms. thanks. ]
We are. It's no joke now... no more going back in time... no more bullshit. Nightmare's really over... at least this one is.
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[ says eiden smugly from behind sqq's shoulder. how did he get there? who knows! ]
And I mean, hey, better than wandering the Ikea like a bunch of shambling ghosts, right? I've been dying for something fun.
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Well that sure could have gone better.
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I mean... I guess we could grab a couch back at Ikea? I don't mind buying...? It beats sitting on the floor, right?
[ this economy is so rough for sleeping not on the floor. ]
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Anything is better than this. Unless they want us to do some shit like build a goddamn bed out of scraps....?
[ homeless era....2! still going strong ]
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catch him sitting on their new couch staring at the ceiling in exhaustion. (sqq, you didn't even do anything) ]
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anyways he pokes his head into the warehouse first before slinking in and flops down to join him. he drops a bag of dumb cinnamon buns between them on the couch and closes his eyes. ]
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there's a general vibe here, one of very short, but deep contemplation, like that of an absolute clown before a full on "yolo" feeling—
like a good switch king, eiden just leans over bites whatever is closest to him on shen qingqiu. like a shoulder. he knows he could probably get away with it. maybe. actually, he might get smacked. but he's fine with that, shen qingqiu is hot, he can smack him. ]
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w2, sunday post-execution
Hey... Shen Qingqiu... [ soft as he walks over to just... squat quietly by him in the grass. ]
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anyway, sqq is hiding out in the vr rooms forever because he's a fucking loser who misses his boy and even this Not Quite Right version of binghe is better than no binghe at all. ..maybe? ...........maybe binghe is better off without him there.
anyway, catch him pouting and staring at this ai version of bingbong peacefully cooking in his bamboo hut. ]
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when eiden catches him in the vr room, he stays quiet for a moment longer, taking in the scene before him. it feels weird, no longer being able to feel him, but it's for the best this way. for all of them, right? finally he calls over quietly. ]
Missing someone?
[ it looks like a peaceful scene? ]
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topper is all here, just curled up in sqq's lap being a snoozy boy.
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... Shen Yuan... that was really fucking scary, dude.
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[ see, he's fine! look at him trying to joke. his good arm is giving topper gentle pets because, wowee he sure went on a journey today. he deserves soft pats ]
I certainly didn't expect to get dragged into something like that.
[ now he's gonna be paranoid about spiders forever, rip ]
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Shen Yuan... hey...
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[ grips arm as they're just vibing. where the fuck did this pig come from!? eiden is shooing it out as the memory hits suddenly and just—
That is... fucked up, dude, what the fuck? How did you end up like that!?
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This a little better...?
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I hope so. All quiet on your end?
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If you're offering.
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[ ah. there he is. that asshole (fond) ]
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I almost can't believe it. We're done.
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We are. It's no joke now... no more going back in time... no more bullshit. Nightmare's really over... at least this one is.
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