week 1, friday

[vigilantics]

[ sometime after all of the commotion with dead people, steph will make her way over to belph's room. she figures that wanting to check in on someone after they had to deal with a corpse is perfectly normal and isn't suspicious at all.

although she does genuinely want to check in on him. she knocks. ]

I swear if you're not in here...

[ don't make her wobble back please. ]

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[axilium]

[...ha...]

Of course. Besties, right?

[it's so much easier to pretend it's all right.]

[vigilantics]

Besties.

The offer is always there, you know. Even when all of... this [ she shrugs. the murders. the weekend. ] isn't happening. You don't really seem like the type to talk about that kind of stuff. But sometimes it's good to.

[axilium]

[internally, belph vows never, ever to talk about that kind of stuff. nope, nope, nope.]

A hero and a therapist? You really do have so many talents.

[vigilantics]

[ why is every man in her life like this i s2g ]

I'm very impressive, I know. But one of my favorite talents is aggressively wanting to be there for my friends. And like it or not, nerd, you're one of them now.

[axilium]

[rip steph.

for a moment, belph freezes. he knows they have their "besties" joke. but... she really sees him as a friend, doesn't she?

without his uncle here, he's free to be himself. and yet, he's terrified.]

... Heh. They should've put that on your profile, then.

[vigilantics]

They must feel ridiculous for forgetting it.

[ her smile softens. steph knows that she can't actually force him to confide in her, so there's a limit to how much she can insist here. ]