date 2 - cabin group b

[snackcakeordeath]

☕ You're free to do whatever you like in your ☃️winter wonderland☃️, there's everything you might like--but only two blankets. Remember, sharing is caring!🤝 Additionally, to learn more about your 💑datemates💑, go around the group and answer these questions. You can pass twice, but you do not want to learn what happens to liars.☠️

☕ Topics:
　😕 A moment you aren't proud of
　😓 Your greatest fear
　😰 Something that leaves you cold
　😊 Your greatest unimportant triumph
　😋 Someone or someplace you admire
　😀 Something that gets you hot

☕ At the end of the day, vote here.

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[blueeyeswaifudragon]

You do that. He'll probably get a kick out of it.

[no one's getting lost this time! NO MAN LEFT BEHIND let's just dump this and be warm for once]

[wantsnudes]

As would I. I am always looking for ways to expand my creative horizons.

[Not that he knows a lot about either horror movies or rap, but??? Once they finally arrive back at the cabin, Yusuke helps carry the second batch of logs inside. After topping up the fire a little and making sure it's still burning brightly, he flops down to sit on the couch, exhausted.]

Ahh... I have never been so appreciative of heat until this moment.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

And here after yesterday I thought I'd be happy never to deal with heat again. Now I'm wishing we could go back to the beach.

[despite having dropped the logs and stuff, Kaiba doesn't remove his coat or even move to the couch, just kind of awkwardly crouches in front of the fire, as if attempting to warm his hands under the pretense of further messing with the logs despite Yusuke having done a fine job of fire management]

[wantsnudes]

The grass is always greener, or however the saying goes...?

[Or sand and snow, not grass, in this case. Yusuke's managed to shed his coat, but is glued to the couch enough that he's just left it folded over the back of the chair for now. Although there is one thing that will make him move--]

Hmm... I believe the call of hot chocolate is beckoning to me. Would you like one, too, Kaiba-san?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

There's quite a bit to be said for temperature-controlled environments.

[He actually turns to look at Yusuke's offer, confused...though eventually he shrugs and goes back into glaring the fire into somehow becoming hotter]

...Fine, so long as it's hot.

[it IS right there in the name]

[wantsnudes]

I didn't offer a cold chocolate, did I?

[Yusuke gets up to make them both the drinks. He adds a generous amount of cream and marshmallows to his; having unlimited access to food and snacks is still a novelty, when he's used to going hungry all the time, so he still wants to take full advantage of it. He doesn't add any toppings to Kaiba's to be on the safe side, though.]

Here you are. [He returns, handing him the drink.] Would you like to join me?

[He gestures to the couch. Squatting like that all evening would probably be uncomfortable...]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...

[...Then, quietly goes and sits like a normal person, legs crossed. He gives the hot chocolate a tentative sniff before just wrapping his hands around his cup.]

How can you drink it with all that stuff in it?

[wantsnudes]

[Yusuke moves to sit beside him.] You eat the toppings first, or wait for them to melt. If it's too messy, it's best to use a spoon, as though eating a sundae.

A friend introduced me to drinking them this way. Ann loves sweet things, so--

[...Oh, right, Ann. Yusuke's expression falls, and he goes silent.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[Kaiba lets the silence sit for a while, slowly rolling his mug between his palms. At length, and with no small reluctance:]

...Did you want to want to talk about it?

[wantsnudes]

[Yusuke takes a sip of his drink, although it's become kind of hard to enjoy it, now.]

...I'll be all right. I'm going to do everything in my power to save her.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Oh? What's your theory, what've you got planned?

[wantsnudes]

One of the prizes is the ability to revive another contestant, yes? I have evidence to prove our hosts are capable of such a thing. If I survive this to the end, I can help her.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...There's actual evidence they can do anything other than drop us off at various locations?

[wantsnudes]

That's right. I won't say who it is, but I know of someone brought back by them once already. There's no reason to assume they're lying about their capacity to do so again.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Hm...

So your aim is to wait it out, hope the hosts can be taken at their word.

[wantsnudes]

It's all I can do. I don't want to even consider the alternatives.

[Not if those alternatives mean giving up on his friend.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...

It's difficult with all of our contact with them happening remotely. Though I can't blame them for not wanting to take us on face-to-face. Tends to give negotiations a different balance, as it were.

[wantsnudes]

Yes. They've made too many enemies already for it to be wise to place themselves amongst us.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Seizing people from their livelihoods generally isn't the best way to make friends, no.

[wantsnudes]

You have your own reasons for wishing to survive to the end too, don't you? Your brother...

[Kaiba hadn't mentioned him much yet, but he assumes they're close.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...Regardless of his ability to run the company on his own, I'm sure he prefers me being around to handle the long hours and the heavy lifting.

[flippant response notwithstanding, his jaw tightens, body language tense]

You don't have family?

[wantsnudes]

[Yusuke's sure there other reasons he'd prefer him around, but tsundere gonna tsun. He sips his drink, shaking his head.]

No, I don't. My mother died when I was very young, and the man I once considered as a father is rightfully behind bars. He was the mentor I mentioned before.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Funny how so many men who take pride in being a "mentor" are the least fit for it. Did you get to have a hand in putting him away?

[wantsnudes]

Did you hear about the recent craze in Japan, surrounding a group called the Phantom Thieves of Hearts? It was they who claimed responsibility for exposing his crimes to the public.

When they stole his heart, he confessed everything on national television. My testimony to the authorities was not even necessary for securing a conviction.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Huh... I hadn't heard about it, but I like it. National television, huh... They must have had some impressive dirt to prompt a confession. People like that don't just repent for nothing.