first investigation

[stagemanagers]

Your second Friday in the gilded cage that is the Opera House feels very much like the one before. The only real exception is that today is the deadline for the Phantom’s offer, to erase a single person from existence in exchange for one of their lives. The morning is quiet as you all filter out of your rooms with no immediate signs that anyone’s taken your house manager up on his offer.

That is, except for the very small, dark stains on the carpet of the dressing room hallway but that’s probably unrelated.

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[holyspit]

[Steven Universe is a Fun Show for Cute Children.]

[But yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. And as the mod tag below indicates, this is definitely not working.]

I can keep trying! It'll work eventually!

[musacal]

Steven...

[ Aw fuck Christine also needs help right now and might possibly have the most trauma here out of everyone and she... can't just ignore that, but also it means leaving Steven.

She gives his shoulder a squeeze. ]

We'll... we'll figure this out all right? And we'll all fix it together.

I'll fix it, if I have to.

[holyspit]

...Thanks, Nana. But you can't bring back the dead.

[And apparently neither can he. Which is just great.]

You don't. Have to worry about me. We'll all do this together, like you said, right?

[haha, he's fine, everything's fine]

this was not the moment i expected the nickname to come up but here we are

[musacal]

[ Stranger things have happened. ]

Yeah, we will.

[ ... ]

...You can call me Banana if you want. Pretty much all my friends do.

[ And she protects her friends. Again and again. ]

here we are in the present and it's AAAAAAA

[holyspit]

Okay, Banana. It's a nice name.

[He looks back down at the body, still vaguely hoping it'll start glowing pink.]

Thank you. ...You should go help Christine, like you said.

[At least one of them can still be useful.]