Round 3 [closed]

[sunborne]

Characters: Daylight, Castiel, Cao Pi, Rosinante, Kuai Liang, Vanitas, Riku, Maes Hughes, and Bucky Barnes.
Location: Town hall.
Date/time: February 8. In the 'evening'.
Content: Townhall Meeting 3: This Time, It's Personal. (Or how Daylight and Cao Pi bring the others up to date on Dr. Solis.)
Warnings: Pending.

After some time has passed and information has been compiled and notes - so many notes! - have been reviewed and organised, Daylight decides it's time.

With the help of some spirits he's made friends with, he sends out sealed notes to those who are in the know of what's going on. It's a short and simple note, informing the recipient of a date, a place, and only five words:

Ready. We've got to talk.

Comments

[evulsed]

[ Vanitas visibly sharpens at the suggestion. His eyes narrow and a covetous sort of anger rises up in him. Despite the fact the cluster of them with their lanterns creates enough light to throw everyone into relief, the shadows seem to flex around Vanitas in response. ]

Is that what you think? Do you realize how many idiots will be marching right into that church if you do that?

[ But Daylight is right, this is the exactly the sort of thing he'd expected would happen. She'd secreted herself away to stay safe. There is no evidence that they are any better than those what came before them.

Vanitas knows better than anyone what the darkness is, what it does to people. Nobody is immune to it's effects, not even Riku, who would be best equipped out of every person in Beacon, as far as Vanitas can tell. ]

Every person here has Darkness in their hearts, even you.

[ He points at the barrel of Daylight's chest, and the only reason he doesn't touch him is because he's too short to do so. ]

Just because you're naive enough to believe everyone has good intentions doesn't make it true. I don't care if you want to tell everyone what you know, but if you two tell that she's in there, I'll make sure you suffer for it.

[sunborne]

[ being tall has its benefits, it seems, though day does make it a point to scoot back to avoid any touching actually going down. let's keep possible fighting to a zero number during this secret hanging out, please.

daylight huffs and crosses his arms over his chassis, to both project confidence he doesn't feel and to protect himself he certainly feels he needs right now. size difference or not, he doesn't feel confident in taking vanitas on. ever. ]

Of course I'm not going to tell the others where she is. [ he could leave it at that but- ] But I am going to tell them that Dr. Solis is around and she wants to help us out.

They have a right to know that she's here. Some of them could have information that could help us and her, if they can pass it along. Some of them could help her in a way we can't. We can't keep hiding this forever.

[evulsed]

Of course you can't, you're an open book.

[ Vanitas gestures at him as a whole, like he's disgusted by what he sees. Giant robot or not, he's still more honestly expressive than a lot of people Vanitas has spent his time around in his own world.

But he doesn't argue the point. Maridel asked Vanitas, too, to have the others write letters. He just never had the opportunity to figure out how to go about it, before Daylight came to him, before he was saying he would meet her.

It still fills him with vicious envy; because Vanitas wants to see her, be around her. The first person to soothe him through a pain he couldn't handle.

But he's not about to share that with any of these idiots. They'd never understand, and beyond that, why should they care? ]

Nobody here has a right to anything. She's the one in charge.

[ He shoots another cruel look across the room at Cao Pi. ]

People will do anything for information and power.

[ His eyes snap back to Daylight. ]

I know that better than any of you clowns.