[accidental video - canon update]

[symbolofhappiness]

[The video opens up in a hospital room. There's four girls, three of them in hospital beds. On one side of the room are a girl with blue hair and one with brown hair. On the other side is Setsuna, who's sitting by the bed of a blonde girl. Judging from the tarot cards Setsuna is laying out, she's in the middle of fortune telling. The blonde, Love, is looking at the cards very seriously.]

How is it? Did something change?

[Setsuna looks up from her cards and smiles.] It may be painful now, but you should work hard on both.

Really?

Yes.

Thanks, Setsuna! I feel full of energy now! [The other girls don't look as enthusiastic as Love, though. In fact, they look downright skeptical.]

Hey, Setsuna-san... Didn't you tell us to pick one over the other?

Why did our fortunes change so much?

[Setsuna turns to the other girls, still smiling.] Fortunes are fluid. They change over time. They don't remain the same forever.

Oh? It's like us.

Eh? [Setsuna turns back to Love, surprised.]

Sometimes we have fun, sometimes we feel sad. Sometimes we love each other, sometimes we don't. We're forever changing.

Ah... Right.

Okay! I'll eat a lot, regain my energy and work hard! [Love gives Setsuna a thumbs up.] Come watch the dance contest, Setsuna!

[Setsuna smiles.] Of course.

[With that, Setsuna says goodbye to the girls and leaves the room. Once the door is closed behind her, her smile is gone immediately, replaced by an annoyed frown.]

Hmph. Like I really care about that pointless contest. Honestly... [Setsuna starts walking, still oblivious to the fact that she's being recorded.] Such a foolish, naive girl. [She smirks.] Well, no matter. If she wants to tire herself out, that's fine with me.

[And on that ominous note, the video ends.]

[OOC Note: Red is Setsuna, pink is Love, blue is Miki and yellow is Inori.]

Comments

[hearts_beat]

[And Ellen can't help but stare at what she watched and shivered. It felt WAY too familiar to her. But, she couldn't let Setsuna do this!]

Are you really going to let them push themselves like that? What... What kind of friend are you?

[symbolofhappiness]

What are you talking about, Kurokawa-sa- Ah!

[...oh. Guess who only just now noticed the video and goes kind of pale? Yeah.]

W-why did...?

[hearts_beat]

Setsuna. What's going on? Explain yourself! Please!

[juicy_egotist]

Mmmm...

[What could be going through J's head right now?]

[symbolofhappiness]

[Yeah, this... is awkward. Setsuna is trying to appear calm and casual, but she's kind of nervous too. She's a little pale and keeps looking off to the side.]

...what?

[juicy_egotist]

Your smile. It has yet to reach your eyes.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...Higashi-san.

[symbolofhappiness]

...what? [She's sounding just a little defensive there and the conversation hasn't even really started yet.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

Is there something you'd like to explain?

[That didn't really have the intonation of a question at all.]

[iwontforgivethis]

[ Honoka's... not sure what she should be feeling when she sees this message. Considering that last part was so completely different from everything that Setsuna had said on the community so far.

That last sentence really... really didn't make sense. ]

Higashi.

[ No honorific. Last name. Bit ruder than she would've liked, but well, this isn't a normal situation. ]

I guess you really didn't care about what they thought about you at all, did you?

[symbolofhappiness]

[By this point, Setsuna's calmed down a bit from the initial shock of seeing the video on the community. She's smiling, but it's very fake. Faker than her regular smiles.]

Now what would make you think something like that, Yukishiro? [She can play the no honorifics game too.]

[iwontforgivethis]

Well, as soon as you thought you were alone, it didn't take you any time at all to start badmouthing them. And their dream.

[ There was also that last sentence, but well, she can't exactly use something like that to jump on her without any actual proof, even though it was starting to give her some similar feelings to what happened with her and Kiriya. ]

Video

[material_guy]

Kinda bitchy. Run outtah Advil already?

Re: Video

[symbolofhappiness]

No, I haven't. And that really doesn't have anything to do with this. I'm just speaking my mind.

Video

[material_guy]

Eh? So yer really all better already? I guess it didn't really look like nothing's broke...

[boostup4beetbuster]

[Jin is back in his normal clothing now, and while he's mostly serious, he's pretty non-judgmental. In fact, he seems more interested in the fragments of the Go-Protectors he's working on.]

Rough day?

[symbolofhappiness]

...something like that, sure. And it's not really getting better now that the community's decided to record this.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, you get through it little by little. If you need to talk, well, I'm a better listener than J at any rate.

[trustmybase]

Remeber the advice I gave you about being friends with her friends? Yeah, you might want to start with really wanting to be her friend.

[symbolofhappiness]

[Setsuna's starting to get really tired of this, so she doesn't even bother trying to explain this.] ...you know, this really isn't any of your business.

[trustmybase]

Okay, I'll assume you're stressed because she's in the hospital and let that one pass. What's up?

[handwritten]

[lifeisbrief]

She doesn't sound foolish to me.

[text]

[symbolofhappiness]

She does to me. She landed herself in the hospital because she overworked herself, yet she still wants to go to that dancing contest.

[text]

[lifeisbrief]

Maybe that's true.

The other things she said, though, weren't foolish at all.

[not an actual comment]

[desertification]

[Interesting.
He doesn't choose to comment, preferring to see how she plays this out. But he does make a note of this person.]