Doki Doki After Party Club

[myliteratureclub]

[Later into the evening, everyone will find familiar handwritten notes on their doors. It's pretty obvious who it's from:]

"Please come to the cafeteria if you don't want to be alone or talk some things out. Emiya (Shirou) will be preparing food. You're also welcome to bring your notebooks if you'd rather just write with company."

---Monika
[Those who decide to come will find nothing has really changed in the cafeteria, but Monika sitting at one of the tables while Shirou cooks in the kitchen. She has a new stack of notebooks and pens with her in case someone needs it. Monika does her best to greet everyone with a smile. The only real comfort though is the smell of good food.]

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[myliteratureclub]

[If you want to talk to Monika, feel free to do so. She staring into her cup of tea silently and tapping her pen against her notebook while she thinks. She'll snap out of it when someone approaches her.]

Oh! H-Hello, I'm glad you came. How...are you doing?

[whatsmytalentagain]

...

[He's not looking too good...]

As well as I can, I guess... How are you holding up?

[reshoot]

I don't know.

Every time something like this happens, I feel like a different person.

[Monika is strong. To do this so soon after...that.]

And...you?

[lovedanime]

I'm... Alive...

[Mitarai has no idea how Monika feels about him, but it's better to greet the hostess than not, right?]

I wanted to thank you for the notebook. It kind of adds to the team feel when you give all of us the same kind.

[yourfuture]

I'm... you know.

[ irritated shrug ]

I'm Tess, I guess, since we haven't actually met yet.

[throwabookatit]

[ It takes longer than Rebecca would've liked for her to show up at Monika's gathering. When she does, she finds the girl right away. ]

I've got some things to...think about, but I should be- a night's rest will be good. [ A small, forced smile. ] What about you, Monika? It's...so wonderful of you, to put this together.

[covertizer]

I'm not sure.

[ He doesn't... like that someone died. Not at all. But someone who had killed so willingly and knowingly, without a care... it leaves him hollowed and confused. Watching Mishima die had been so many other emotions, and this is just on the opposite end of the scale entirely.

And he misses Yoosung a little bit more. ]

It doesn't get any easier to see.

[yourfuture]

[ Tess shows up, and just. Pulls together a plate of food, mumbles a "thanks" in Shirou Emiya's general direction, grabs a notebook, and walks over to a table. Come...... say hi......? ]

[reshoot]

[yeah. this sucks. Max is gonna sit by tess and just kinda keep her head down in her arms. she'll take your "say hi" and raise you "is she okay"]

[curseoclock]

[Henry will just plop down in a seat too. And, no, he didn't bring the head here - he has just barely enough social know-how to realize that might possible be Bad - so it's just him, solo.]

So, that was something, huh?

[itwasfeyt]

[Gotta go check up on her former roomie every now and then!]

Hey........................ That was awful.

[swordsinternally]

[ Shirou is, of course, here and of course he's cooking up a storm. Of course that isn't to say that he isn't here for conversation, but he's a little distracted by cooking that he might not actually say anything to anyone, but... he'll definitely respond to those who talk to him, maybe.

But people might notice that, just like the trial, there's no trace of emotion in his eyes. ]

[myliteratureclub]

[Monika is helping with getting the food out so people can eat, but when it's a little more quiet, she'll stop and stand near him for a moment.]

Emiya... are you okay?

[buriedearth]

[ Today has been abysmal, but he's not about ready to call it a day, as he comes over noticing the red head's state. ]

Hey, you got a minute?

[machrophage]

[Viral isn't at the afterparty long - just long enough to be visible, grab a bit of food, and vanish again, really.

It does seem like he's looking for someone in particular, but if you want to snag him before he vanishes again...]

[buriedearth]

[ ...It does seem like it -- though he assumes it's more a something instead of someone. ]

Need help with anything?

[newhire]

[Well she said she'd drink some coffee. But in truth she's doing more inhaling of the coffee than actually consuming it. The smell is somewhat therapeutic.

...nothing bad has happened to her yet so. She's... she doing. And honestly she'd rather spend this last time with the Apprentices than anywhere else if this is really it.]

[myliteratureclub]

[HELLO FRIEND. Monika is going to join her when she seems a little less crowded.]

Hello Megumi. Do you want some more coffee?

cw: alcohol use

[ososoi]

[ Osomatsu turns up at the cafeteria eventually. He sits at one of the tables and chugs the Bakon Vodka he brought with him before slamming the bottle on the table and burying his head in his arms. ]

[ Judging by how empty the bottle is (and it's a large bottle!), he's clearly been trying to drown his sorrows in booze. So yeah, he's pretty drunk. And the Bud Light he already drank as well didn't help. ]

[ If anyone approaches him, he'll lift his head and say: ]

...What?

[myliteratureclub]

Hey... maybe you should get to bed. And also drink some water...

[preconstruction]

[ connor comes to the party, actually with the notebook monika gave him so he can write. he doesn't talk much, but he's there if anyone wants to speak with him - or just spy on what an android writes by hand when he could just write to the memory banks in his brain. ]

[reshoot]

[Connor's Notebook - [▲] EXAMINE.]

[curseoclock]

[Henry's here! No, he didn't bring... anything weird... with him. Even he can see how bringing along the head of a dude who was just executed - which apparently some people were actually upset about? - might be... not a great idea? Too Soon and all.

No, he's just sitting at a table, with a notebook open. He's not writing. Just drawing. Doodles of little ravens and wolves, mostly. Sometimes some other animal or a skull. And, now and then, some little stars.

It's rare seeing him working on something quietly rather than getting in everyone's faces. But you can always approach him.]

[reshoot]

[Max sits next to Henry. That's weird, right?]

You're a good artist. [she says it without much tone.]

[sendintheclown]

[Gogol is here, briefly, with a very special gift!

It’s a (shoddily) handmade piñata, shaped just like your esteemed Todd! Just the thing to lift everyone’s spirits!

What’s inside, though? That’s for you to find out!]

[itwasfeyt]

Do you have something to hit that with?

[There's no hesitation in her voice, but why would there be?]

cw disordered eating themes

[lovedanime]

Thank you... for the food...

[Mitarai is staring down at this food and gets a good few bites of a light part like rice before his utensils still. He really doesn't want to eat anything else. In fact he would much rather be right back in his soundproof room. But that's the place where he failed to prevent a murder. And he still doesn't have any good plans to remove despair from the human heart, so that means his only idea is to do what he thinks Yoosung would have wanted. Which is eating a meal in the cafeteria. It's totally fun and what he wanted to do!!!!

Just... any second now, get the piece of meat into your mouth...

His tablet is flat on top of the notebook and pen he got from Monika, as if to anchor the items in place and mark them in place. If you didn't get to see his shitty little anime at the trial, now is as good a time as any.]

[reshoot]

[Step. Step. Step. Just talk to him, Max. Just get it over with. Apologize. Apologize, please.

It'll definitely be fine.

Definitely...


No, she can't do it. She walks back to the other corner of the room, never actually laying eyes on him.]

[itwasfeyt]

[Maya comes to the cafeteria looking to be not in her usual high spirits at all. She grabs a seat at one of the tables, along with some of Shirou's delicious food. Even with how sad she felt at the unfortunate events earlier, her spirits couldn't be kept down forever... or keep her down, rather.

But how was she to channel the new energy she felt? She didn't feel like being all smiles per se, but just looking around the cafeteria got her thinking.

Soon enough, Maya's slowly making her way around the edges of the room, inspecting the corners, sections of the walls, mumbling to herself. She's even got one of those notebooks and is jotting things down in it, all professional-like.]

[buriedearth]

[ Huh, what's she doing...? ]

Are you looking for something?

[destroythefuture]

[The hat guy doesn't go to the afterparty. It's not that he cared about Graintaire or Yoosung, it's that seeing another person die in such a brutal manner right in front of him kind of made it clear he's in danger. He doesn't want to die, so he locks himself in his room.

Doris, on the other hand, sees no use on staying in that room. She decides to go spy on everyone. If someone sees her, she has a strategy: make it look like she's an unintelligent machine under that guy's control.

So yeah! Maybe at some point during the afterparty you'll look aside and see a hat with a lens, the center of the lens glowing with a green light. The moment someone sees her she hides behind a table, behind a chair, or behind food.

Want to investigate?]

[preconstruction]

[ >follow hat. like he's crawling under the table to find her right now. i don't make the rules. ]

Doris?

[donotlick]

[ yeah, I guess A Dad is here...... He isn't even drinking this time, but he's got his notebook and he's scribbling in it. You are free to look at it, but Hank's writing is far from happy.

It's fine. At least he's got coffee. Feel free to come say hi. He didn't want to be here, but it beats not-sleeping in his room. ]

Yeah, what is it?

[lovedanime]

Lieutenant Anderson, I...

Um, I...

[This might literally be the first time in Mitarai's entire precious little life that he has overcome his anxiety to directly approach someone with whom awkward things happened, which means he has exactly one role model. With both his hands at his sides he bows ninety degrees at the waist. At least his eyes are shut with determination, so it's not a true faux pas of only making eye contact with the floor.]

I sincerely apologize for all the inconvenience I've caused you!

[throwabookatit]

[ After the invitations go out, Rebecca doesn't turn up to Monika and Shirou's gathering. It's not that she doesn't appreciate what they're doing. No, she just needs to have some space. Some time to think, and--

Well, honestly, she's not very hungry. The sound of the blood, even when she didn't see it, brought back some unpleasant memories.

But, eventually, she...wanders in, looking tired, not touching the food, and just...grabbing a notebook to stare at and not-quite write in. ]

[preconstruction]

[ connor wanders over to sit next to her. he'd been worried about her during the trial, and he was still worried now. ]

How are you doing?