WEEK 2

[grimgrinningghosts]

[One week. One week spent in the Haunted Mansion, and nothing seems to have changed. The hinges still creak in doorless chambers, strange and frightening sounds still echo through and you still occasionally catch a flicker of candlelight out of the corner of your eye. You might be slowly becoming familiar with the mundanity of this communal life, and we've recognized that possibility.

Something has to give.]

[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

{ooc: Don't forget to turn in your week 1/intro AC! As per murdergame tradition, this begins our new weekly schedule - Tuesday and onwards are locked for the motive. Everybody's just working for the weekend.

Additionally, a few people this week are going to get tagged by...something. If you'd like to opt out of this, please let us know.}

Comments

[toogoodforhim]

[damn. OH WELL C'EST LA VIE

Her words make him think about Belle, about how she rejected Gaston again and again, because she could see what he was, maybe. But he thinks about the ball that followed her wedding, about orbiting the newlyweds on the dance floor and stealing glances at how utterly adoringly they looked at each other.]

Yeah, don't- don't settle. Take your time, if you're going to find someone I think fate has a way of dropping the right person into your path.

[sentadaughter]

I suppose that is one benefit to being a weird, scrawny guy: not that many people are trying to catch my attention.

[Honestly she is not really thinking of marriage anytime soon, it's more of a 'someday that would be nice' thing. She's fine with waiting.

Plus, pretending to be a guy kind of makes it hard to find someone to be her husband.]

[toogoodforhim]

[He's noticing "people" instead of "women" but...]

That was one good thing about always being in the shadow of the strongest, toughest, most handsome guy in town. The girls were too busy chasing him.

I probably could have picked up his castoffs, but I like to think that I still have some dignity.

[sentadaughter]

[That's her compromise as far as talking about liking people goes. She's...well okay, it's not like she has put much thought into the whole thing, what with being raised with very traditional values and all. But there have definitely been a couple men that she has found attractive, so there's that at least. But she can't exactly say 'men' while pretending to be one, that would get her in trouble too, and at the same time it feels weird to say 'women' when she isn't actually thinking about women in that way, thus 'people' is her go-to word.

Though good luck getting that explanation from her.]

I would like to think that you are kinder than that too. Both for your own sake and for theirs.

I do get what you mean by being in someone's shadow, though. My commanding officer is a lot like that: strong, tough, handsome. Everyone else in our unit is...well, not all of that at once, to put it kindly.

[toogoodforhim]

Like I said, marriage has never really been an option for me.

[Kinder is a strong word. Uninterested is more likely.]

...Captain Gaston was my commanding officer. [The same one he served as ordonnance in the army, the same one he joined the army for.] Since we were boys, he was always the center of attention. I always... counted myself lucky that he saw something worth protecting in someone like me.

[Small. Soft. Weak.]

I was never jealous of the attention that he received, but it was hard to not feel like I wasn't doing enough when he started paying attention to others.

[Lefou that's g- ...never mind]

[sentadaughter]

[See, when Mulan thinks of a commanding officer, she thinks of a man like Shang: honorable, strong, devoted, and an all-around good guy. So she is thinking of what Shang would see in Lefou, not what Gaston would see.]

Maybe he sees someone with a lot of inner-strength who just needs the right situation to prove how good of a person he is. Or maybe he sees someone who has a lot of potential for greatness. Heros are rarely born that way, most are made with years of discipline and training.

[Don't worry she gets that feeling too, impressing Shang is important to her as well. Though it's slightly less gay in her situation whoops]

[toogoodforhim]

[O-oh, honey... that's so sweet honey... He doesn't even want to burst your bubble and point out that he used past tense.......

Instead he manages a half-nervous, half-sad chuckle.]

I guess I'm still waiting for the right situation, then, heh.

It sounds like that's what your commanding officer sees in you, though. I'd believe it.