Pictures in the Dark

[formidable]

General PSL/FUNBOX post for aurajen and formidable. Lots of OC shenanigans. ➢ Cool Mood Music No. 1 ➤ Cool Mood Music No. 2

Comments

[oren]

Not quite.

[Monts isn't acquainted with Michael yet and the way Oren sees it, it's not really a team. Maybe Iona could be called a leader considering how much she accepts people so easily and they tend to follow her whims.]

People working on different days. Don't always meet.

[lyrelyre]

That's too bad. [She actually sounds a little deflated at that. The idea of a group of employees at a nexus-like cafe, dealing with their own problems and dramas and the weird customers that come in here...

It'd make a good indie comic, she thinks. Lyra, your mind jumps to weird stuff sometimes.] You've dashed my imaginative hopes, Oren.

[oren]

Been told I do that.

[Oren is such a downer!]

A lot.

[lyrelyre]

You're pretty direct and to the point. But I like people like that.

[Which is ironic, considering she's terribly good at putting on an act, herself. It's all a part of her repertoire, and perhaps her familiarity with it is what makes it... tiring, in a way.]

...Though I guess it wouldn't hurt to smile more.

[oren]

[Too much effort. Emoting is too much effort these days.]

Don't really need to.

You. Smile because you can or because you want to?

[lyrelyre]

[That gives her pause, not really expecting the question to turn back around on her.]

Both? Besides, smiles are easy, even if you don't really mean them.

[oren]

Which one are you more used to?

[it's an oddly whole sentence coming from Oren]

[lyrelyre]

[A shrug.] Probably the ones where you don't mean it. It's easier to get your way when you're smiling, and people think you like them more than you do -- if you practice it, I'm sure you can get a lot of women to order more drinks just so they can see that smile. A win-win.