— survival can be summed up in three words

[arrancar]

WHO: grimmjow, vincent valentine & others
WHERE: around stygia and the shadowlands
WHEN: month of october
WHAT: catchall for event / other prompts
WARNINGS: language, violence etc.

( ooc | planned logs for both grimm and vv only. plotting comment here. feel free to hit me up if you're interested in doing something with one of the boys. if we've already discussed a log beforehand, feel free to drop it below or i'll get a starter tossed up. )

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[zangetsu]

Weird like how?

（ he feels good? it's nice, actually, not being weighted down by the crushing burden of all his failure. he's more relaxed than he's been in weeks, and he's actually got an appetite. but now he's eyeing all the things on his plate with a wary eye. ）

Spit it out.

[arrancar]

( he doesn't even know how to describe it. give him a moment to think on it!! )

Like... ( SHRUGS. ) you wanna be close to someone or somethin'.

[zangetsu]

'Close to someone'...

（ why did you have to say it like that, you weird cat. ）

No? I mean... I guess I'm... （ a blink down at his hands. ） I'm feeling relaxed. But that's about it.

（ he's... so repressed. needs more than a few nuts to really do the work, oop. ）

[arrancar]

( huh.

maybe he was mistaken then...? but no. that wouldn't explain his own behavior. )

Eat more. ( where are those pesky garblenuts? he's gonna find the plate and shove it towards him. )

[zangetsu]

（ que.

ichigo stares at the plate, and then back up at grimmjow.

something is not quite Tracking here. ）

You first.

（ he is DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS... ）

[arrancar]

( ........bitch gonna full on glower at him. )

No way. I ain't eating this. ( he shoves it back over to him. ) I don't eat human food. You got this, so stop being a fuckin' wimp and eat it!

[zangetsu]

All the more reason for me not to eat it, since if you don't eat human food what possible reason is there for you to be recommending it?

（ look, people forget he was sixth in his year.

boy may be dumb sometimes, but he's not stupid. ）

[arrancar]

I want to see if it'll make you feel weird.

( he can admit his sketchy motives!!! )

[zangetsu]

You think I want to feel weird?

（ why are you like this. ）

[arrancar]

No, but I want to see if you will.

( for science )

[zangetsu]

（ at least he admits it??? ichigo eyes the nuts as if they are now going to gain sentient form and murder him in his sleep. and gently scoots them to one edge of his plate. ）

Now I'm definitely not having any. Is any of the other food like that?

[arrancar]

( BIG SHRUG. )

I didn't eat any of the other ones.

[zangetsu]

But you tried these.

（ left that part out, did you, jackass? ）

And they made you want to feel 'close to someone'. Were you?

（ the idea of grimmjow cuddling up to anyone is... weird. it's weird, and he doesn't want to dwell on it too deeply, thanks! ）

[arrancar]

( it wasn't relevant at the time. )

I was. ( not too happy about it. )

[zangetsu]

Who?

（ and why is he instantly so jealous about it. that's a dumb emotion, time to throw it in the trash. ）

[arrancar]

Some human boy who talks too much.

( does it matter? )

[zangetsu]

（ wait — ）

Jonas?

（ only person he knows who... fits all those descriptions... ）

[arrancar]

You know him?

( what a small world. )

[zangetsu]

Yeah, he's...

（ a friend? sort of? ichigo doesn't tend to make those easily, but... it feels right, so: ）

I guess we're friends. Kinda.

[arrancar]

Oh. ( what a coincidence. ) Well, it was him.

[zangetsu]

（ he is trying to wrap his head around this scenario and it might actually give him hives. ）

For the record, don't try and get people to take shit that alters their mind or mood without their consent. Asshole move.

（ like at least he admitted to it, but still. ）

I don't know why they thought drugging us all was the way to go for a festival anyway.

[arrancar]

How else am I supposed to confirm it then?

( it's a fair question — at least in his opinion. )

You should be more careful of what you eat.

[zangetsu]

I can think of like ten other ways off the top of my head.

（ irritation pulses along their bond, salient as a smack to the head. ）

Okay, where I come from festivals and shit don't usually have weird food like this!

[arrancar]

( oh yea? well, he's sending his own annoyance right back! take that!!! )

They obviously do here, so what're you gonna do about it?

[zangetsu]

（ ugh. he stares down at his plate of food, and then just. shakes his head. ）

I'm done with this place.

（ he's going to scramble back to his feet, and then dump the plate on the first person he comes across with empty hands. whether grimmjow follows him or not, he doesn't currently care. maybe it's the paranoia about the food, but he feels — hot. itchy.

if he's allergic to some weird afterworld shit he's going to absolutely lose his goddamn mind, that's what. ）