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AND WE WILL NEVER BE ROYALS

[Wednesday evening, as the posters promised, it is time for a group dinner!

Corrin and Asgore appear to have gone all out on this. There's not many materials to decorate the dining hall, but someone has found the candles in the storage closet and set them out on the long tables to try and replace the flickering fluorescent lights with something a little more peaceful. The spread is simple, but fairly varied; there's a few different kinds of soup and sandwiches, and even what appears to be a few simple homemade pies.

For now, the mood is warm and mellow. The hosts and helpers are milling around, making sure that everyone is comfortable and well-fed, but this is just a dinner party for now. Games and entertainment can come later, after everyone has utterly lost their minds from boredom!]

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[ Someone who holds up the walls as well as Makoto does? Better be aggressively friendly at them.] Not having fun?

[...Ah. The one that wasted no time in hitting on the Transmitter.]

I'm fine, actually.

[From the sound of it, though, he is - it's surprisingly not dismissive or indicating that he wants Ryoji out of his space, just an assertion that he is in fact fine and not bored or irritated or...shy or whatever.]

[ The one and only.] Oh, that's good to hear. Are you the type of person who would rather watch festivities than engage in them?

[You know, the easy and immediate answer is to say yes, that is exactly the case, but there's not exactly any harm in stating the actual truth, either.]

More like I don't usually attend in the first place.

That's all the more reason you should join in. Is it because you work a lot?

...Something like that. I don't fraternize with my employees - most of them haven't even met me in person.

Cause you're a CEO, right? But what about with your friends? [ Cause everyone has friends!]

[...You can practically see the UHHHHHHHHHHHH... as it happens here.]

I don't have friends.

[It's blunt, and not really said in a way that's at all self-conscious or self-deprecating. Just...he doesn't have friends, fullstop.]

What do you mean? Why not? Everyone should have friends. [ He does not comprehend this.]

A lack of time, for one thing. A lack of suitable people to consider such, for another.

[...A lack of ability to be a fucking person, for a third, apparently.]

Besides, I've always found myself content enough without.

[...]

Well that settles it, I'll be your friend Wesker! [ Sure Wesker's an adult and kind of intimidating but nothing's ever stopped him before.]

...What.

[SHOW HIM WHERE HE ASKED, RYOJI.]

You heard me, I'll be your friend! I'm sure we have something in common, and we have a lot of free time here so it works out. [ #endlessenthusiam.]

Surely you realize that making friends in a place like this is a terrible idea.

I don't think that's entirely true. [ And he sounds pretty serious about that.]

In what way...?

[please don't tell him you adhere to asgore's line of thought that if we all hold hands and sing no one will kill each other.

please, ryoji.]