a welcome;

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Who: Everyone and everyone!
What: Welcoming in the new members to Mallow Hallow
Where: Everywhere!
When: March 2nd.

[ Once everyone’s settled in their particular districts, no doubt thousands of questions running between each individual mind, there’s an announcement. Not over the devices, but rather in speakers all over each and every district. A familiar voice should ring out—you did, after all, hear the voice of your Queen earlier today. ]

Ahem! Can you hear me? Ah, right then.

Hello loveies! You might recall this particular visage which speaks before you—that is, I am your Queen. Call me Queenie, if you must! I’ve met you all on this particular day, and I find it important to bestow some of my boundless knowledge onto you, sweethearts.

Now! Done with formalities, let’s see where we stand… ah, yes! Might I be the first to welcome you all to Mallow Hallow, our wonderful little country. Not too big, not quite too small either! It’s just lovely, isn’t it? Oh, how all my new babies will love it here! Or—perhaps not. [ She clicks her tongue. ] Either way, it doesn't really matter. You're stuck here for the time, so do try to make the most of it, dears.

Of course, there are our sectors within Mallow Hallow. Six… [ There’s silence for a short moment. ] Yes, there are six, aren’t there..? Well, six different communities you might stem off from! Surely you remember the name from our meeting earlier? If not, I’m sure one of the regular inhabitants of each particular district will assist you in naming your new home!

Live where you’d like, eat what you’d like, do what you’d like! Our homes are now your homes, so please, consider us all a big happy family to you! Remember you can reach me or any of the other rulers of any of the districts, over at our voicemails! [ Somehow, that seems sarcastic… ]

Also, don’t cause any trouble, or I’ll personally end you. [ There it is. ]

I suppose that's all. Well then, bye now, dears! And let the word spread—Mallow Hallow is up and rising once again!

[ ooc: Quick links: Lochwell | Mallowhallow | Orlea | Astralfield | Crystalden | Highcrest | Whitewood | Network ]

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[calculating]

[aha...ha...ha...

But okay, Jabberwock Island. Check. He knows that. What he doesn't like is hearing that it's deserted, because wow why would it be. It wasn't a bad resort island, all things considered. He's seen better, but it wasn't horrible.

But the rest? That's the part he's having trouble with. Because well, he'd remember that. There were certainly other possibilities that could explain that, especially as he mentioned their memories being erased, but... well that's just absurd.]

Your story's certainly well fabricated, I'll grant you that, but that's all it is. For one thing, Hope's Peak no longer functions as a school, and I, at least, certainly didn't have the chance to spend two years attending classes there. [AS FAR AS HE'S AWARE. And it functions as a house of murder now, okay]

Second, I'd have remembered if I were trapped in that school with someone as idiotic as yourself. [remembered as in, he would have made a point to avoid or possibly antagonize him. Much like he did with Mondo, sob.]

While it's true there were 16 students there, you were definitely not one of them.

[tantou]

[Wow he went through all the trouble to explain to you things you should KNOW ALREADY and you just go brush them off as made up? Excuse you.]

Why would I bother making all that shit up!? And what the hell are you talking about, being stuck inside the school? The school is the one place we weren't! You're really starting to piss me off, you know that!?

[Well he was pissed off already but.... moreso now.]

[calculating]

[Of course they're made up, what else could they be? If it's his memories against Kuzuryuu's, he's going to trust his own, not anything this angry little gangster boy has to say. After all, if he admitted he had his memories wiped somehow, who's to say everything else isn't fabricated? ~*~no one knows~*~ and certainly Togami doesn't, either.]

Were you not listening? I thought I was being clear enough, but apparently not. I was in the school. Fifteen others that were to be my classmates were in the school. You were not among them. There were sixteen and only sixteen of us there.

[he's not even going to bother talking about why Kuzuryuu would have made shit up, because he doesn't really know. He's not an SHSL Mind Reader or anything. But clearly it is all made up, because what else would it be?]

[tantou]

And I told you we weren't stuck in the school, we were on an island, dumbass.

[He thinks for a moment.]

Maybe whatever the hell you're talking about happened before. That stupid bear didn't tell us what exactly had happened in the two years of memories that were apparently taken from us.

[If people were being dragged here from all over the place, why not from all over time too? It was just as ridiculous as anything else that had happened.]

[calculating]

It's a possibility, certainly, but it's wrong.

[Wrong because he plans on killing the Mastermind, so there's no way he'd wind up stuck in a similar situation again. Even though he kind of is here minus the killing, but that's just a minor detail. But he has evidence why it's wrong, okay, or at least what he's sure counts as evidence.]

Knowing that bear's motive, erasing memories that relate to it is the last thing it would want to do.

[because surely you know what makes Monobear tick, don't you, Kuzuryuu? He's not going to just hand you the answer, that is boring.]

[tantou]

Tch. Arrogant as ever, I see.

[LIKE YOU'RE ONE TO TALK, KUZURYUU.

Wait hold on.]

... What the hell is it's motive? Since when do you know that?

[calculating]

[Aha. See, now that he knows he knows something Kuzuryuu doesn't, he doesn't exactly want to tell him. He'd rather gloat about knowing something he doesn't.]

And therein lies the problem with your story. If it were true, you would have certainly known by now what that bear's most interested in.

[he's not going to answer why he knows that because it's very obvious and not difficult to figure out at all, what with how often it goes on about despair.]

[tantou]

[Wow he's going to punch you right in that smug face of yours if you don't watch out.]

I told you, it only just showed up! None of us have any idea what the fuck it's problem is, just that whatever it is, the stupid rabbit doesn't agree.

Last I remember before this place was him making some bullshit announcement about a body being discovered.

[calculating]

[it's okay, that's nothing new for him.

But hmm. Body discovery announcements. That sounds like him, but at the same time, there's no way it could be true. Nope. But okay, fine, he'll answer, but he looks incredibly bored and more than a bit patronizing as he does. Because wow Kuzuryuu this isn't interesting anymore at all.]

...Despair. Despair is what that bear's after.

[tantou]

[Wow, that's a stupid motive!!]

Guess that explains why the rabbit was so against him, if she was really serious about that "cultivating hope" bullshit.

But whatever, it's not like I care. even if he is an asshole, that bear's conditions for leaving are easier than the rabbits. I just needed to wait for the right time to make my move.

[calculating]

[Hey, he never said it was a good one!!! and cultivating hope sounds just as dumb. But he kind of likes your mindset there, Kuzuryuu. MAYBE IF YOU HAD BEEN STUCK IN THE SCHOOL WITH HIM, THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTING. No one seriously seemed to put their heart into killing others and it was just boring, okay.]

While I still doubt your story, at least you understand the nature of the game you've found yourself in. That's far more than I can say for others.

[tantou]

... What? Since when do you agree with me? What happened to all of your "I won't let a single one of you die" bullshit?

[Something ain't right here.]

[calculating]

[Man, if Kuzuryuu is skeptical, Togami's even moreso. Because wow, he would never say something like that. Why does he think he would?]

Why would I say something like that? [because there are so many things wrong there okay. Even if that was something he wanted, there's no way to enforce that in a setting like that school, or whatever island shit he was on about. Sure, he's "withdrawn" from the game because it got boring, but if the others died, that still didn't concern him too much. Because he was the one that was going to win and all that jazz, not them. They were just there and had better not get in his way.]

At its very core, it's only a game, and I intend to best its mastermind.

[tantou]

How the hell should I know?

[Man what if this somehow was some other Byakuya Togami. That'd be crazy.]

Tch, shit like this isn't a game though. It's a matter of survival. People with your kind of mindset get eaten alive where I come from.

[calculating]

[As crazy as Junko Enoshima...

And wow he doesn't appreciate that attitude there. He wouldn't get eaten alive, he's Byakuya Togami.]

A game, a matter of survival, whatever you call it, it doesn't matter, the rules are the same no matter what. It's a kill-or-be-killed game designed to pit us against and deceive others so that only one can come out on top. That was how it was intended to be, and it's no surprise that I planned to be the one on top. However, it seems most people have a problem with that sort of thing.

[tantou]

[Kuzuryuu can't decide whether he finds this Togami better or worse than the one he was acquainted with.]

Of course they have a problem with it. Most people aren't meant for this kind of world. But that's not my problem, so tough shit for them.

[calculating]

[of course this one's better. What's to like about a nicer togami? nothing, that's what.]

It's an embarrassment, really. The kind of things they think can deceive others wind up doing little more than fingering them as the true culprit.

[tantou]

[Yeah but the other one was around less time to be annoying.]

I wouldn't think a fancy business magnate like you'd be any better at it than them.

[Sure there were businesses that would resort to things like murder, but usually they'd turn to people like Kuzuryuu's family to actually do the killing.]

[calculating]

[tbh this one barricades himself in the library enough to not be a bother most of the time, too. Except there's no library right out here, so he's free to be as big of a douche and in people's way as he wants.]

I'm different from the rest of them. Even someone from your background should know that much about the Togami family.

[tantou]

[Clearly someone should just lock him up in the school here, then.]

Tch, being someone who orders for people to be killed and someone who actually does it are two different things.

[calculating]

[There's nothing interesting in that if there's no murder cases to solve, though!]

And I take it you know that from experience, don't you? [yes, that? That would be one very sarcastic sounding question. Because you don't look the type to have killed at all, Kuzuryuu]

[tantou]

[WOW TOGAMI, WOW! Antagonizing a yakuza heir is probably not a smart thing to do, even if he has an adorable babyface.]

Of course I have! I wouldn't be fit to inherit the family if I didn't have any blood on my hands. Don't fucking underestimate me because of how I look, shithead!

[calculating]

[HEY IT COULD BE INTERESTING since tbh this place is bound to hit the wall in terms of how interesting it is by Togami's standards soon enough.]

Killing people's pet poodles or the insects in your bathroom don't count as having blood on your hands.

[tantou]

[I suppose having a knife in your face could be considered interesting... In some ways...

Anyway yeah Kuzuryuu is Not Having This. Out comes his knife.]

You think you're real clever, huh asshole!? You don't think I've killed people, do you want a fucking demonstration??

[calculating]

[And Togami is... not too concerned! He probably should be, but he's not. Because well, he's a Togami. As far as he's concerned, he can't be killed. And with all the posturing and yelling Kuzuryuu is doing, it's apparent to him that it's more of an attempt to scare him off than anything.]

I'd say try it, but I doubt you'd go through with it. [togami needs to learn that little rule that goes talk shit, get hit. Clearly.]