nine wild roars ✪ video; after news of the debrecen bombing breaks

[earnedmystripes]

[Eyyyy, network. How're you all feeling today? Disgusted? Pissed off? Frustrated? Yeah, Kotetsu too. Hence--yep, that sure is a whole bunch of cases of beer in Kotetsu's living room.]

Sssssoooo. If anyone wants to be less than sober for dealing with this latest bullshit, come by my place, Heropa 14. You can bring your own alcohol if you don't like beer, and there's gonna be pizza and ice cream too, if you're a minor. Or if you just don't drink, I guess.

[The grumpiest, unhappiest sigh]

God bless the USA, am I right?

[ooc: Open log to follow soon!]

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not quite here

[pushtheboundaries]

[guess whose boss is bringing the scotch]

equally not here

[earnedmystripes]

audio;

[mathemagier]

[Hermann's very obviously disgusted and kind of livid- too impatient for text for once. Sorry Kotetsu]

Because it wasn't enough that we were killing their soldiers. [We. ouch.]

Civilians. What a waste.

audio;

[earnedmystripes]

It's disgusting. They had no right. And then they had the gall to call this shit retaliation. Yeah, you sure showed those kids and families not to mess with America.

[He makes a noise of utter contempt.]

You coming?

text;

[matadorable]

it is something
i would have expected
from the soviets

thousands of civilians

the number is so large that
i cant even understand
just how hideous it must be
for the people who lived through it

text;

[earnedmystripes]

right???
its messed up
the soviets were cruel to us
but they kept the civilians out of it
thats something i can respect, even if what they did to us was horrible
theres just no excuse for what the us did to all those people

video;

[rassera]

[ooc: these icons kind of match and that's adorable]

...

[This is the face of someone completely unsurprised by the events taking place.]

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[Unsurprised face, meet mostly angry and frustrated face. And distressed, too, he keeps thinking about all those families that never had anything to do with creating that tech for the Soviets. It makes him feel sick.]

...So. Pizza?

voice;

[112ounces]

What did you expect would happen?

[ Carl...doesn't feel anything about the bombing. If he's being honest: he doesn't care. It's us or them. And the Soviets hold Dad hostage for two weeks.

Carl is not feeling very charitable to a group of people that helped cause suffering to his family. In fact, it'll be hard for Carl to forgive them. ]

voice;

[earnedmystripes]

[Except how many of those thousands of civilians had anything to do with producing technology for the Soviets? How many of them were just trying to live their lives, raise their children as peacefully as they could despite the tension between their country and the U.S.? It haunts him. It'll keep haunting him, for a very long time.]

That they'd keep the civilians out of this? That they'd show a shred of honor or some kind of decency? That after two weeks of leaving us to deal with their mess because their goddamn nanites that we never had a choice about getting shoved into us were too hackable, they wouldn't go ruin thousands of unrelated lives just to show how big and mighty they are?

video | id reads "karen starr"

[boobwindow]

[ She looks on, visibly disconcerted by something. ]

This isn't right.

[earnedmystripes]

It's shit, is what it is.

[He usually tries to watch his language better when he's talking where kids can hear, but he's just so angry.]

But it's happened and there's nothing we can do to undo it, so that's what the booze is for, yeah?

[AUDIO]

[abittertruth]

[Well, look who it is! Your favourite bitter, now-significantly-less-brainwashed doppelganger.

This is the first outside communication he's had since his de-brainwashing, in fact. Feel special, Kotetsu.

Anyway. He can't believe he's saying this, but:]

...you know what, I'm just about mad enough to say yes.

[Define 'mad,' please? No? Okay, fine.]

Count me in.

[This whole circus was bad enough before. Now?

He's pretty much run out of ways to laugh about this.]

[AUDIO]

[earnedmystripes]

[It's okay, Godot, we're all mad here. Across definitions.]

Sounds good. And feel free to crash here 'til you're sober again, for the record.

[Though...ah. Maybe he should ask. He switches the feed to private first.]

You're okay to drink, right? It won't mess with anything?

[resipiscent]

They sure are classy.

[earnedmystripes]

The classiest.

[ignitethestars]

What's ice cream?

[And beer? And Pizza? And the USA?]

[earnedmystripes]

Uh...it's a dessert. Frozen milk and cream and stuff with sugar added? It's basically your standard 'shit sucks' comfort food.

[driftsintobuffetline]

You know, at least the Russians really went after us, the imPorts, and not the US civilians.

[earnedmystripes]

Yeah, exactly. And it's pretty sad when you can give 'em credit there over the U.S. when they were, y'know, electrocuting children in that seminar.

[And then the U.S. had to go up the 'who's the biggest douchebag in this war of douchebags' ante.]

text

[rathercommon]

This is how it goes, though, isn't it? Throughout history, cycles of violence escalating until it truly can get no worse--and then everything crumbles. Unless something is done to break those cycles. And it's rare that people look far enough ahead to do that...

VIDEO!

[earnedmystripes]

[Sorry, Kitty, did you text him a thing. It was probably an eloquent and poignantly written thing, too, but he kind of stopped reading the moment he saw the ID attached.]

--You're back!!

[akito]

There had better be a shitload of ice cream.

[ someone will drown their anger in pints and pints of it. and also record everyone else being stupid drunks. ]

[earnedmystripes]

There will. Anything you wanted in particular?

[rood, bro]

[desequilibre]

I might have to take you up on that.

[ Athos sounds exhausted, but very unfortunately sober. ]

[earnedmystripes]

[Yes come join, Athos, the best way to be drunk and miserable is when you're drunk and miserable for free y/n]

Drop by whenever. And if you wanna crash the night so you don't have to drive anywhere afterward, I'm totally cool with that.

[video]

[medalsome]

I'm all for not being sober during all of this.

God, what is the government thinking, targeting such a huge area like that without mercy?

[video]

[earnedmystripes]

Probably about revenge or something stupid like that, as if most of the families they just wrecked had anything to do with what happened to us.

video;

[historiology]

Ice cream?!

[Okay, so maybe ice cream is the one and only comfort food for Sorey given Mikleo makes it for him all the time back home, usually when and because he's so distracted with reading. Yes, he is. Actually seventeen and not four.....]

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[....Child you sound. Way too excited about this. Which, normally--he'd mirror your excitement, being as he is a huge manchild at heart himself. But not today.]

...Yeah, there'll be ice cream.

text;

[pillz]

hey uncle titsu

[but if kotetsu couldn't tolerate some verbal stupidity, he'd probably have more compunctions about peeling stupid children off the floor.]

how do u feel abou drinkin wit minors

text; omfg

[earnedmystripes]

[child....child pls.]

im not gonna do it is how i feel about it