#texting: romeo

[ficoandleo]

Earlier on the 16th, maybe around noon, a message was sent out to the inspector(s), Haru, and Ritsu, from Romeo.

@investigator-luna @ayamekishiwagi @darkwicks-unpaid-intern @haru-sagara @ritsu-shinjo

This is a little late I know but you know how the Boss is

Today is his birthday and he wanted to go to Mickey's bar for a little celebration tonight. Say 9 or 10pm, depending on when I can get him off the ship and to Obscuary

He asked me to invite you

I would appreciate it if you came and I think he would too

I'll be paying for whatever you order if that's any incentive

Shinjo, leave your legal contracts here. DO NOT ruin this for him!

Any actual alcohol is being provided by me and NOT served by Mickey, so don't hassle him either!

[geryone]

Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun

[ficoandleo]

The invitation had upset him at first--the day before his birthday? Really? And with so little time to prepare? Jin didn't much like parties anyway and 'The Kamurai Family' invitation suggested it wasn't Jin but maybe his father(or fabeled younger sibling(s)?) running the show, but still. Romeo didn't want to go to Frostheim, even masked they would surely know who he--oh, Taiga text.

. . .

What did you have in mind?

Maybe they could drop by for a little bit. Not ruin the whole party but. . .they already think so poorly of him. A little mischief wouldn't kill them. And if Taiga was there. . . .

[You are cordially invited to the annual Frostheim Masquerade Ball.

Hosted by the Kamurai family.

November 15th, 7:00pm ༝ Cocktails, Dinner, and Live Music.

Mask Required ༝ Formal Attire]

Taiga's eyes really only zeroed in on cocktails and dinner and his mind was set. If Jinnie so badly wanted to splurge on food and drinks for him he'd hate to decline. But first things first, he needed to make sure he had the right accessory.

Hey Lulu

Let's go fuck with his royal highness

[kyyuuuy]

Starcrossed lovers, on a treacherous night

Sharpening the blades of murderous delight

[emotinalsupportturtle]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant

[knightforflowers]

revisited an old concept from March I entertained for a while about the Abyssal Auction being more like a fancy masquerade ball (purely bc I love drawing these types of outfits <3)

(maskless alts under cut)

[ficoandleo]

He starts to type something about how Taiga didn't listen to him when he said to rest. He erases it. Taiga doesn't ever listen. He doesn't even remember what bothered him yesterday. Why is he letting this concern affect how he responds?

I'm glad you're okay after your harrowing overnight battle with the table

After your bedtime story of questionable literature

. . .everything he can think to continue with is an insult or order of some kind. Or, worse, it makes him sound like he doubts himself. Okay. New plan. Keep asking questions.

What are you going to do now?

Well, good thing he's looking at his phone because it's buzzing again.

Hey, Boss

Are you feeling any better

That was a weird text for Romeo to send wasn't it. It's not like Taiga had gotten injured. He'd put way too much thought into that text for what it was. . . . / @ficoandleo

Taiga squinted at the newest message then started typing out his response.

yeah I'm good

[gremlins-hotel]

Happy Birthday to this Star-Spangled Idiot!

[xxx] Swingin' to the left and swingin' to the right // Think about baseball, I swing all night, yeah!

[edge-of-the-end]

possibly my favourite thing about the rotpl finale is getting confirmation that lydia already knew she was gay. cynthia was going through such a time, and we finally know that lydia was actively protecting herself and in control of the whole situation. the rehearsal kisses? she instigated that with the knowledge that it wasn’t two straight girls, because she clocked cynthia from the get-go and still offered to kiss her for the play, because it was no commitment. she couldn’t be abandoned because the play already had a strict deadline. when cynthia ran away after the pre-play kiss, and avoided her at the dance, she knew she’d gone too far, and that she’d have to pull away and not talk to cynthia so that she could maintain the boundaries that would protect her from heartbreak again. the whole situation gains a whole extra layer because while cynthia might not have had the words to express who she was, lydia did, and the words were deviant and invert and sick, so of course the poor girl, this seventeen (maybe sixteen?) year old girl knew that the world wasn’t safe for her. despite all this, cynthia pulled it back. everywhere lydia hid behind behind femininity and long hair and theatricality, cynthia stuck out like a sore thumb, short haired and feisty and so butch without even knowing what it was, that overtness represented that hope, that the bit of lydia that was hiding could be a little freer. the glances that we see when the teacher suggests more rehearsals can turn into the active looking for each other that we see in the finale because that’s where the balance is, and it shows lydia that cynthia will never deny her. she will see her in public, around her friends, and will say she loves her to nancy, and that is what lydia needs. she spends so much time acting as these characters that she is virtually never herself, and in the hall of mirrors, surrounded by her own reflection, she gets to see that being who she is, a young lesbian in love, might be worth it. that the girl in the mirror, kissing cynthia, can exist and be happy.

[ficoandleo]

Hey Lulu

Wallet's on your desk in the VIP room

You know my pin

Go have fun today

Don't want you back before evening

It'll be a surprise

(blundering-thoughtless-hooligan)

And go where? We're on probation, remember?

I'm not going to recklessly spend your money like you!!

Not that there weren't places on campus to go and spend his--well, Taiga's--money. He didn't know the last time he'd had a day to just spend on campus. . .as much as he resented being stuck on campus the place was huge and plenty of students had businesses and things. Few to his standard, of course--Hotarubi had its artisans(and Mortkranken had a few who studied anomalous applications for dermatology and esthetics, although he wasn't a big fan of being part of experiments or going to Mortkranken more than was strictly necessary) so maybe he could walk around there. . .frankly most of what he did lately was within Sinostra, even when he had time to himself.

. . .I'll try and spend some time away. But this little surprise had better be worth it!!

Maybe he could see what Leo was doing? Or go to the museum? Rui wouldn't be opening his bar for hours.

. . .more importantly he needed to spend time somewhere he would be able to sit down every once in a while. He supposed he could order some things offline if Taiga's truly insistent on him using his card. . .

@blundering-thoughtless-hooligan

[wowwforever]

gonna do my own adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that's entirely the same except the poison scene goes on for a bit longer. Juliet drinks the poison that makes her go to sleep but Romeo drinks poison that supposedly kills him but it's actually a mislabeled vial of the first poison so Juliet wakes up and drinks some of that poison and then Romeo wakes up and is like "oh shit this poison doesn't work, here Juliet has some poison!" and he drinks that which is of course the go to sleep poison and then Juliet wakes up again and is like "What the fuck" and then Benvolio comes in and is like "My boy Romeo is poisoned! I'll join you bro." and now he's asleep, and then Juliet is like "I need some wine to process this" - Drinks out of the poisoned cup Romeo poured sleeping in and then Romeo wakes up again and is like "JULIET AND BENVOLIO?!" and he's so pissed but also confused and is like mentally 'well if drinking this poison twice brought my friends here i guess i'll drink it again and see what happens' and then Juliet wakes up again and she's like "Okay hold on. Let's see how this plays out" but she can't because then Fortinbras shows up and is like "I'm invading Verona! Fuck you!!!" but then Juliet splashes some sleeping poison in his face and he's out now and then Romeo wakes up and Benvolio dies because he was allergic to sleep poison and also the lion from Pyramus and Thisbe comes and kills them both The End

[geryone]

The Gathering of Bastards, Romeo Oriogun

[ash-arts-but-sinful]

Whoa sudden thought, Pinocchio being jealous because of Carlo.

No wait think about it, Carlo is confident, outgoing, but above all he’s human. Human like you. Why would you bother staying with a puppet if you could have somebody who is not only human, but looks almost exactly like Pinocchio himself.

Carlo would be well aware of the jealousy too and he’d take full advantage of it to get under his counterparts metaphorical skin. Despite the strong emotions Pinocchio may feel and how far he’s come with his adventures through Krat he still isn’t fully human, but OH can he feel those emotions and he didn’t know how strong jealousy could be.

So taking every chance he could, Carlo would throw flirtations your way. Every pick up line, any chance to touch you, every wink, every smirk, but only when Pinocchio was within sight. The annoyance on his face would be clear instantly, his eye would twitch. He’d scrunch up his face, the furrow of his brow and scrunch of nose clear along with the slightest hint of his lip curling. The worst tell would be the twitch in his legion arm would return full force.

Of course, Carlo would tell Romeo all about it, delighting in how HILARIOUS he found it and, of course again, Romeo would advise him against it. He’s seen first hand what Pinocchio is capable of and maybe pushing his buttons would get him sent through a wall at worst, getting him punched in the face at best. He’d reassure his concerned… ‘friend’, that whenever you’d reject his advances Pinocchio would calm down almost instantly.

Romeo was right though because one day he pushes it a bit too far, hand on the wall beside your head, his other hand on your chin as he gazes down at you, smirk plastered on his face. Your annoyance would be clear, but that doesn’t stop a metal hand firmly landing on Carlo’s shoulder before it’s jerking him around.

At least Pinocchio was nice enough not to use his legion arm to give him a bloody nose.

Romeo got to say ‘I told you so’ (yet again) that day.

[cryptidjeepers]

I havent participated in daily dracula this year, but that and re: dracula really shows how important it is that schools reevaluate how they teach classics. Especially when literacy is at such a low point and an interest in books is so uh not great. I guarantee students that engaged in classics in fun and unique ways remember the books so much better than those that were forced to just read it.

[reedeemable]

Markus and Connor hooking up behind Jericho’s back while Connor is still a machine isn’t something that I knew that I needed but now that I’ve seen it, I need More

[ficoandleo]

It wasn't like the VIP room wasn't currently full of boxes being sorted and run around the ship and campus. Romeo eyed the shipping label, trying to figure out what Taiga had ordered.

Expert communication as always. I have it here so unless it's extremely perishable there's no rush

. . .unless, of course, he ran out of patience waiting for Taiga to arrive. Considering Romeo would start yelling if any summons to longer than five minutes that was a real possibility.

Romeo sends Taiga a picture of what he wrote himself a reminder to pick up among the mail that was being held in the VIP room.

Come get this

Or should I open it myself? You did that for my package after all

It was tempting, really. Maybe it would give him some kind of insight into what was going on in Taiga's head.

((obvs ignore this if you were planning on handling that yourself/in the background haha @ficoandleo ))

He forgot. He fucking forgot. Now he has to get his ass to the VIP room.

Don’t you dare

I’m on my way