[Dual Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Journal Post



... Do you ever feel like you've lost the plot? Like of. Your own life.

I was on a vacation for like. A year. Maybe? Lost track of time.

And just. Everything feels like soup.

Apparently I'm more qualified to be a model than a scientist...?

Event Post



::At a cafe under Kaikori's twinkling crystal forest lights or at a cafe in Domino, you can find Vidya with just a folder of paperwork and doom scrolling on a red-black smartphone.::

Comments

[Journal]

[bestbeaterbabe]

Wow, you have not taken that divorce well, at like. All.

Re: [Journal]

[bibeakerbabe]

yeah...

Re: [Journal]

[bestbeaterbabe]

Is this where we do world domination?

Re: [Journal]

[bibeakerbabe]

no. this is the part where I just give up, i think, priti.

Journal

[pompadourparagon]

I think that's called a....well, a whatever-life crisis.

Re: Journal

[bibeakerbabe]

do those happen when you get divorced by someone who then disappeared off the face of the earth

and you go on a trip, feel nothing except your bank account empty out

and you come back try to pick up your life and your boss decides you're better off as an underwear model than a research scientist?

[Event Post]

[ogrewarrior]

A big bastard is walking into the cafe in Domino, carrying his own backpack and as he passes by you, he stops. And looks you up and down, mostly confused looking.

"Uh... I feel like I should know ya?"

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

... Eh?

::Looks at you. She seems in a bad daze.::

Re: [Event Post]

[ogrewarrior]

"You, uh... alright?"

He seems torn for a second, glancing at an empty table where he was going, then sighs.

"Mind if I sit with ya, miss? I'm Kaz Briar."

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Not tremendously. But you can sit, noone stopping you.

Vidya Everheart.

::Rubbing her head.::

Re: [Event Post]

[ogrewarrior]

"Oh, yeah. I think... I kinda recognize that name. Mad scientist? Ya or another Everheart were responsible for cracking the veil open in the first place, way back when, yeah?"

He sits, falling into a contemplation of you. It's not ogling, surprisingly. More like he's just been handed something exceedingly interesting. This, in fact, may be worse.

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Yeah that was me. Feels like a lifetime ago, though.

::Sighs.::

Re: [Event Post]

[ogrewarrior]

"Things change. Not always for the better, mind you."

He sets his bag to the side.

"If ya don't mind me pointing out, ya look like you're in the middle of some kinda crisis. And I can walk away if ya don't want me prying, go to the table I'd spotted and do work of my own.

But I'm a professional meddler and trouble shooter, and ya seem, uh. Real distressed."

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[bibeakerbabe]

... eh. i guess. i'm not like. suicidal or anything but.

i feel like there's just nothing there. nothing to my life.

no point to my existence, and i feel like the butt of a joke.

[Event Post]

[keepersouha]

*at Kaikori.

Souha's actually gone outside for once and is stopping by the cafe, and sees... you, Vidya.

... ... ponders choices for a moment, before approaching*

Hello.

Re: Journal

[pompadourparagon]

...That sounds sort of like one, yes.

Re: Journal

[bibeakerbabe]

so what do i do?

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

::Looks up from her cold coffee.::

Hello...

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[keepersouha]

Do you mind if I join you?

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

I guess. Better than my own head.

::Shrugs.::

Re: [Event Post]

[keepersouha]

*sitting down*

What are you up to, then? If your head is giving you so much trouble.

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Sulking, I guess. I think someone called it having a life crisis...?

::Sighing.::

Re: [Event Post]

[keepersouha]

A lif-- oh, like a midlife crisis?

Do you feel like you're, ah... having a crisis?

Re: [Event Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Wife divorced me and has dropped off the face of the Earth.

I went on an overly long trip and feel dead inside.

Tried to get my job as a researcher back, got hired as a model instead.

... So. It feels like I am? Having a crisis?

::Sighs again.::

Re: [Event Post]

[keepersouha]

... Let's start in reverse. *gesturing a finger a little, as though mentally trying to write something down*

Why would you get hired on as a model instead of a scientist? If the latter is what you'd rather do more.