closed | holiday company

[elevelvetor]

WHO: Elda & her dates (Mariko Kawaguchi and Albert Wesker)
WHERE: Some lovely little restaurants in Tisse, and maybe other places later on; I'm not in charge of your threads here
WHEN: Evening time; Tuesday, December 5th for Mariko, and Thursday, December 7th for Wesker
WHAT: Blind dates! Despite Elizabeth setting this all up, she's actually nowhere to be found.
WARNINGS: None, probably

[ top levels will have the dates! have fun c: ]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

I wonder if there's something I'm missing about her life... it's almost odd how charmed it was after that rough beginning.

[ As compared to... Wesker's thing... at least... ]

[manufactured]

[...THAT ISN'T...A VERY HIGH BAR TO CLEAR, ELDA...]

Odd or not, I do hope it's more or less as it seems.

[matchbreaker]

I do too, of course! [ Just... something is niggling in the back of her mind. Why did she send Calera away to the Armash family? Why were they a hidden family? There's a lot of things that don't add up here and there, like a conspiracy at the margins she doesn't have any of the pieces of. ]

... Mmm. I suppose I won't know it until I see it.

[manufactured]

Let me know how things turn out...?

[matchbreaker]

Naturally! That's only fair if I keep asking the same of you.

[ . . . ]

And Albert. I... likely will eventually need to feed on blood. I'm still not really sure what to think about that.

[manufactured]

[...That's. Okay, that's something that did not have nearly enough of a segue leading into it, give him a second.]

I expected as much, given everything else.

[Nailed it- ]

...I can't allow you to do that to me at any point, while you're still trying to transition into it or otherwise. Not because I don't trust you, because I do, but because I have reason to be concerned about my health going forward - I don't know what Retrospec can do to me in that regard, but I do know things stop looking promising after a while.

I would allow it, normally, were it not for that.

[...

there was an attempt.]

[matchbreaker]

Honestly, I didn't want you to volunteer. The whole thought of it still seems disgusting to me - it was strange enough when Jirou volunteered, but that man's too kind by half.

[ . . . But that's- ]

Was the past life ill or something?

[manufactured]

...I don't know. I believe so - part of what was done to him involved experimental viruses, and both his health and vision seem to have both declined sharply in the later memories that I have, so it stands to reason that he wasn't particularly well.

[matchbreaker]

[ Experimental viruses. What was done to him?

... And it's interesting, Wesker's switch from first to third person when its something he's less certain of. ]

... I see. I - no, I appreciate both the warning and the sentiment you would offer, even if I didn't... I still don't think I want it. [ . . . ] I don't know if if people die from it or not, if I'm honest.

[manufactured]

[Kind Of A Lot was done to him, Elda, and none of it the sort of thing that one discusses in nice restaurants.

...NOT LIKE MUCH OF THIS DISCUSSION HAS BEEN, in hindsight, but you know what, still.]

I understand. It's... Well, I can see where the change would unsettle you.

[matchbreaker]

Even if there's a lot I know, there's a lot I don't know too, and the missing gaps are... things I'm not comfortable with not knowing.

[manufactured]

...Likewise, at this point.

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . How perverse. ]

I wonder, if I had a daughter, would she have ended up looking like that woman's granddaughter?

[manufactured]

[...Elda...]

That's...

[...Something he honestly has no idea what to say to, give him a moment, um.]

[matchbreaker]

I know, I know. I'm being foolish on at least two levels and selfish on at least three others.

[ Going on about this in front of Albert of all people (she knows there's no way this is something that keeps him up. Hell, it's probably not something he even cares about. What's more, to be jealous of herself? Herself in some other life? And what's more, how cruel is that to Silver? To Toushiro?

... She loves all of them.

She can at least laugh at herself in this instance, seeming to be genuinely amused in a dark way. ]

[manufactured]

[...It's awkward on at least two levels, given that he was

1. adopted by a single parent himself
and
2. apparently in one good relationship in his past life, which ended over some sort of fight regarding whether they should have children or not

so um.]

It's fine, Elda. It happens.

[matchbreaker]

[ She was beautiful though, that girl Karin... She'd love to... meet her someday. But she's dead, isn't she? She's... dead. Like that whole world.

... It's.

Mmm.

She downs the rest of her glass, mostly to resist muttering something about that. ]

[manufactured]

[...Alcohol sounds like a great idea right about now, honestly. Holy shit. Okay. Yes. That is what we are doing.]

[matchbreaker]

[ O o p s .

Yeah let's down some more wine where's their meal they need more in their stomach, will it be here soon? God? ]

[manufactured]

[elda he loves you but he literally just told you

like

at the start of this conversation

that he was taken away from his parents and adopted

talking about how adopted kids are basically the goldfish you got because you couldn't get a hamster might have been a not-great life decision

...that said food would be nice because god he does not have any idea what to say at this point so he's just?? awkward? awkward is a good albeit very loose word for it, food is where.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Look she.

Has hang ups and she loves her kids a lot she's not.

Belittling that at all.

... Or maybe she was.

This is a thing she feels guilty about a lot, not knowing which way to express these feelings or if they even ought to be.

As she goes into silent contemplation about waiting for the food, she thinks again about that drawing. Should she apologize to Albert? Maybe? ... Mmm.

... Siiip. ]

[manufactured]

[...we are doing so goddamn well tonight - ]

It seems we've managed to speak more on this date than we ever did back before August.

[...

look he's capable of remaining silent for a very, very long time but let's not just spend the next several minutes just slowly dying in silence when we don't need to

now we can just...slowly die while using words]

[matchbreaker]

It's silly, when you think about it.

[ Sure, words. She wouldn't count this as going that badly, but. Yeah it's. Yeah. ]

[manufactured]

I don't know if I'd consider it to be or not.

[...I mean, we were kind of a shitshow before then.]

[matchbreaker]

No. maybe not.

[ There was probably no helping how ... it was. Or how it changed.

Mmm. ]