w3 afterparty

[selfconcept]

Everyone passed! That's great! But Wei Wuxian is gone and you keep getting a weird feeling. Maybe it's the adrenaline that's dying down. Maybe you saw something strange because you're tired? It'll all be uncovered on Sunday. Why not take a breather for now? If you're injured, ask Florence for some medical aid. (can be handwaved) It's around 10 PM when you're released.

Comments

[cheerfuldays]

Ah- no, that's more... "You were born to be an idol". ( there's a certain something in her tone, but she smiles again quickly enough. ) I've always been a bit... bad, at taking compliments. But that was sweet. It really made me feel special.

[selfconcept]

[ Well, Hien would also say Shizuku is the poster child of the bright and hardworking teenage idol, so... they're not wrong. ]

Yeah? I'm glad. I'm not good at taking compliments either, so I get it.

[ Only because if they insist that he's nice, he's not nice for the sake of being nice... ]

[cheerfuldays]

( they're not. but when it becomes less of a compliment and more of a charged attack, a dismissal of all that she does and more... then it becomes a little harder to hear. and that's what leaves her here, unable to accept compliments for more than a couple hours before her mind starts turning and twisting-

but she thinks nothing could bring this one down. )

I suppose that despite everything, I've always been a little on the shyer side in this aspect. ... What kind of things do you not like hearing?

( so she can avoid them. )

[selfconcept]

They they hate themselves.

[ Without a doubt, no hesitation—it's something that Hien says immediately. ]

... I'm not a being who's nice to say that people should love and accept each other without respect to anything else. It's a hard thing to do. I can acknowledge that. However, for someone who is forced to embody the concept of self, it makes me unreasonably irritated, because it's the feeling of rejection that I suffer over and over.