Fortitude Round 7

[mamarosa]

It should be a familiar scene by now, Dolorosa standing on the platform with her ever peaceful expression, flanked by her ever growing number of Prefects. There are five others with her now, Nanami, Lelouch, Yuri, Sonic, and Jade. It's hardly noticeable but Dolorosa is purposefully keeping her distance from Lelouch after some recent revelations. But nothing else has changed, everything else is normal and in order to keep the peace she begins her speech as if everything is normal. Although you may be feeling a bit sick

"Good morning, my students. I know you have had an eventful round, the first dungeon is always exciting and it is something you will always remember. I still remember my first dungeon," she smiles fondly but doesn't tell the story of her first dungeon, "This is usually the point where I announce battles, but because it was a dungeon round there was no battling even if there could have been. I am very proud of all of you."

That would be another difference, the battle records do not appear behind her, nor does she announce who won the round. Instead she explains that because the results of the dungeon have been publicized before she will save time and go straight on to the Players for this round.

"This is Round 7, everything goes back to normal this round. You are expected to to vow with Weapons and battle Conquest. Now that we have been here for some time and I know the abilities that all of you have, I know you have both the ability to win graciously and lose graciously. I am proud of all of you."

"Without further ado, the Players for Round 7 are:

Dave
Kanaya
Equius
Zoey
Anya
Dirk"

Her smile falters for a split second as she glances at the board behind her, almost expecting something like what happened during Round 5 assembly to occur again. After seeing that, no, the board was not going to light up and show Fortitude the Conquest assembly, she concludes her speech.

"Have a wonderful round everyone."

Comments

wow this turned into tl;dr I am sorry

[savedbyasong]

[He was more thinking he was going to have words with this Snowman, people have to stop beating Dave up.

He shrugged, he managed to make Nezumi mad at him often enough.

But he supposed that he was like a puppy in a lot of ways. Like Mop his mistakes were seen as normal for he still knew so little. Was still so inexperienced with the world. Like a puppy people made excuses for him, hoping that he would come to realise them as he grew.

How was it that Dave who was three years younger than him could tell this, was more aware of the world around him than Shion was. He looked down.]

I wont let her hurt you again...

Awww Shion

[knightime]

[Because Shion didn't cause the world to end? And end up in what ended up to be the most fucked up video game that they could have ever played?

Have you met other, feathery asshole him? Or maybe whatever Doomed version of him that can end up here?

Too bad Dave is pretty privvy to that stuff. He doesn't even like thinking about it.]

good luck with that
btw
have you looked in the mirror???
you are seriously freaking me out
either i cant see eyeballs
or i cant specifically see your eyeballs
or this place decided that thou shalt not see eyes
or something

[savedbyasong]

[He has met Davesprite actually, and it had been strange. He blinked at the question though... his eyes again... He looked down.] Sorry... I don't know what's wrong, Becca showed me them in the mirror but... [He frowned] It seems my eyes are one of my lost memories or something because it just gave me a headache... [Like he got every time he looked in the mirror...]

She told me they were freaky though, so it's not just you...

[knightime]

theyre basically not there
or something
invisible or whatever
which makes no sense
but thats assuming this place ever makes sense in the first place

[He just won't make eye contact with you anytime soon.]

[savedbyasong]

[Well that was creepy, Shion kept his eyes fixed on the ground.] Why would they make my eyes invisible? [No sense at all...]

[knightime]

probably a glitch
i doubt they did it just because they wanted too
than again
whatever
itll probably be fine by the end of the round

[Because he doesn't want to stare at Shion without eyes for the rest of his time here...]

[savedbyasong]

I hope so... I keep scaring people by accident. [A rueful grin] I'm sure they will go back to normal soon.

[knightime]

not your fault
maybe you should cover your eyes though
just so people dont accidentally try giving you eye contact
then suddenly
welp
no eyes to make contact with

[Haha, Shion with eyewear sounds funny though.]

[savedbyasong]

Yes Becca said that too, I might go and buy some sunglasses or something if they don't go back to normal soon.

[knightime]

hahah
man
i cant even picture you with shades
youd probably look like a dork
kind of like when john tries to be cool

[savedbyasong]

Probably [He grins] I'd just look stupid.

[knightime]

not everyone can pull off the sweet shades look
many have tried
only few have succeeded

[Dave is the most smug child.]

[savedbyasong]

[The most smug, Shion grins] I probably shouldn't try then!

[knightime]

maybe you can scare the opponents with your eyes
wouldnt that be a convenient way to get wins

[He's teasing of course.]

[savedbyasong]

[He grins] We should see if that works. [Since his weapon probably isn't much use, if he's been honest with himself.]

[knightime]

idk
seems kind of mean
i mean
to do that to you
no one really likes having their eyes being tools to scare people

[Sob. Because...Dave knows what that's like. It isn't fun.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion's freaky eyes flickered worriedly.] I guess it might be a little mean. [Not that he minded, since he couldn't even remember what was wrong with his eyes in the first place. But he looked at Dave worriedly, he had never seen Dave's eyes before - he wore sunglasses even indoors, and wondered if there was a reason for that.]

[knightime]

what???

[You're staring at him and it's freaking him out a bit and it's so obvious you're worried about something now.]

[savedbyasong]

[Oops, he dropped his eyes again, he keeps forgetting that they are weird. Because they shouldn't be weird, and this is giving him a headache.]

Why do you wear sunglasses all the time?

[knightime]

because im just that cool
why do you want to know?

[Nope. Not being cagey about it at all.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion unfortunately is nosy, and now he wants to know.] I've never seen you take them off ever. Not even inside or when it is dark.

[knightime]

why take them off when i put them on in the first place?
seems like wasted effort
cant look indecisive
people will be like
that kid cant decide if he wants to wear those badass shades or not
ill lose cool points

[He's still warming up to the idea of taking them off in general. For now, only his closest friends have really seen them off.]

[savedbyasong]

[Now Shion was very curious, but he wont push, much.] I don't think cool points exist. [Unless they did, after all Dave's world was weird.]

[knightime]

of course they do
no one really keeps track of them
you just kind of either exude cool or you dont

[This conversation is ridiculous.]

[savedbyasong]

[All their conversations are ridiculous, why should this one be any different.]

So exuding cool means wearing sunglasses where there is no sun?