AUDIENCE FOR: vax

[saturations]

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[saturations]

[they listen. the statue's profile says they're a good listener, and it's clear why. they don't have much of a face and it's hard to see expressions, but they sit with their chin in their hand, still, radiating a little understanding.]

It's a lot of change all at once. That doesn't have to be a bad thing, but it's a thing. [they will take a sip of tea. odd for a statue to drink it, but they seem able to.] Controlling blue isn't a bad thing, either. Blue's a nice color.

[daggering]

[ i love statue therapy ]

[ this is weird - it feels a little uncomfortable to just talk about it like that, to come to the realization that he's right back where he started. vax reaches up, absently, to mess with the feather braided into his hair. ] ....it is, yeah.

[ blue is a nice color. blue is vexahlia, after all.

or maybe it is just a lot of change?

...after a long moment, he shakes his head and resumes eating, reaching for the distraction. ] 's your color? Green?

[saturations]

[it's a little weird, but statue therapy is valid. they seem to take the change of subject as easily as they took the heavy stuff.]

Well, there's other colors I like. Might even prefer. But the one here in the prism I'm most in tune with, that's green. Which makes sense to me.

[daggering]

[ thank you statue friend

he nods, glancing past them. ]

Cause of the growing? I've got a little - I tried it, I can do the green one a little.

[ ... ]

...What would you prefer?

[saturations]

I can see that about you. Not just the growing, though. Or maybe it is, but growing in more of a metaphorical sense. ... I'm peaceful here. I have things to do that I feel are valuable. It isn't perfect, but I accept it for what it is, and tend to it a little where I feel I can make a difference.

And that's also a part of you.

[as for the question, they stop and seem to think about this for an unreasonably long amount of time without answering.]

[daggering]

[ this is a good answer. feeling valuable, accepting it, making a difference. he kind of gets it, maybe.

however then they just go still and like, ]

...Don't turn to a normal statue, now...

[saturations]

[after a long silence.]

... Yeah. I like pink best.

[daggering]

[ mii music.mp3 ]

...huh.

[ well

patience rewarded. he learned something new today! shale glad you're good ] Maybe some of the flowers grow pink? Bit of both, yeah?

[saturations]

It's a nice color. A good color for flowers.

[a few flowers growing are pink, but the predominate color is green.]

'course, what pink means to the prism isn't really my cup of tea.

[daggering]

[ uwa. a birdlike headtilt from where he's scooping up tofu scramble to eat. ]

Pink's... that's what Percival has, isn't it? Crystalline? What's it mean to the prism?

[saturations]

Good at doing puzzles, bad at making constructive life decisions.

[wow.]

I met one of them the other day. They said that it should be possible to control everything in life. Wild, right?

[daggering]

[ HELP THIS PERCY ROAST he snorts into his tofu scramble ]

Makes perfect sense, yeah. The one I know's in the right place. [ percy your decisions

controlling everything in life though... that gets him to shake his head. ] Can't imagine needing to be in charge of everything that fucking badly. What's the point?

[saturations]

The illusion of control. That's what pink means to the prism. But it's only an illusion. Sometimes bad things happen.

And sometimes even things we didn't want to happen aren't all bad in the long run. Don't you think so?

[daggering]

[ there are those raven queen feelings again!

...

he pauses for a moment, glancing up at where their face would be. ]

... I do, yeah. Sometimes it just takes a bit to get there. Think I learned that one the hard way.

[saturations]

[their face is worn away, but there's something very calming about that. no judgment on a face that doesn't exist.]

Think that's what blue is, to the prism. Finding what's good in the bad and using it. Sometimes that's a lesson learned the hard way. Still learned it.

[daggering]

[ yeah! yeah that's it. ]

...nn. [ he can jive with that, though he doesn't say it. finding the good in the bad. making it through.

... ] What about red? That's the other one I've got, I think.

[saturations]

There's what'll trip you up. A bit of a temper, reckless. But sometimes you need that type of passion to get things done.

[daggering]

[ lol ]

...yeah, there's a code word for that one and everything.

[saturations]

Code word?

[daggering]

Yeah. "Jenga." Or "Superjenga."

[ shale may get the sense that he is poking a little bit at himself here ]

Means "Vax is about to do something stupid", according to my sister.

[saturations]

[oh. they chuckle at this. it's a low rumble, but definitely a chuckle.]

Sounds like a sister thing to say. Is she right?

[daggering]

[ hey ]

Not all the time.

[ just like 99.9% of it ]

[saturations]

So, what is a jenga, anyway?

[daggering]

No fucking clue. Just a made up word, I guess.

[ who will reveal this great secret of modernity ]

[saturations]

[not shale, apparently.]

Can I use it?