R3 Viewing Party!

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It’s another average, but boring morning in the mansion when suddenly voices start coming from Rod’s room again. Thankfully, the room is locked and it appears that he isn’t trapped inside his own body (luckily for everyone it appears that Oswald finished Rod’s new body so that most likely won’t happen again).

However, true to the Hatbox Ghost’s word, it seems like the new round has started and everyone in the Haunted Mansion has a front row seat to watching the torture unfold. This time you are no longer in the comfort of someone who has any idea of how to get them out.

… There sure are a lot of people you might recognize this time around, huh?]

Comments

[tadaishi]

[Elsa won't get an answer right away, and even when she does, Tadashi's addressing the screen more than her as if something might now happen to Hiro if he dares to take his eyes off of him.]

Yeah, he is. I was hoping he wouldn't show up in one of these games...

[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa doesn't blame him for being distracted. Hell, she'd be shocked if he wasn't distracted. If she and Anna had been in different games, rather than the same one, she knows she'd be glued to the screen like he is now.]

... I'm sorry. I... I know how you feel. My sister was with us, when we were first dragged into this sick game.

[She leaves her little group to move over to his side; she doesn't even put a hand on his shoulder, because touching people has still been a problem for her, but she's still there. Where Elsa once did her best to keep her distance from Tadashi after the second group arrived, now... now she's not sure she should leave him alone now.]

[tadaishi]

Anna, right? The redhead with the pigtails?

[They talked once or twice, he recalls that much. Enough for him to remember her name and face. She died fairly soon, but he doesn't recall exactly how.

That's not something to bring up, not right now.]

He's a smart kid and knows how to defend himself if he needs to, but he's still only 14. And I wouldn't put it past him to take a motive to heart, especially if it involves our family.

[defyingfrigidity]

[She just nods at that. Normally if someone were to ask her about Anna, she'd just go off on talking about her little sister and how wonderful she is. But now... now is probably not a good time. She could talk to him about her later; now she's gotta focus on him.]

That's just how it is with younger siblings, isn't it? They can be old enough to take care of themselves, and you know they can, but... they'll always ne your little sibling. You'll always worry.

[Anna was 18 when they were dragged into the mansion, and Elsa still fretted. God, if she'd been younger like Hiro is....]

... Do you think he might attempt something?

[She doesn't sound cautious as she asks that, just worried.]

[tadaishi]

Yep, that's exactly it.

[Hiro's always going to be the little sibling, even when he's an adult. But right now, he's years away from being an adult, despite his academic status and accomplishments.]

Yes...like I said, he's smart, but he doesn't think things through completely and gets overconfident. I'm most worried about him making an enemy out of someone there.