PRIVATE CONFLICT: BEAUREGARD

[madburnout]

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week zero: friday, post body announcement

[disreguarded]

[ She's really honestly just been wandering around downstairs trying to find people - so wherever Lio is, she goes right for him. ]

Hey - hey. You good? Can I ask you a favor?

[madburnout]

[He doesn't really know how to answer the "you good" question. He's been better! He's been better. He simply nods, though that's not exactly an affirmative. He had expected something terrible to happen, but that . . . that wasn't exactly it.]

Ah- Yes. What is it?

week zero: post-trial

[disreguarded]

[ she'll just slap a note on lio's door at some point. hopefully he sees it. ]

lio-
hey. come find me in the billiards room when you're not busy. just wanna check in.
- beau

[madburnout]

[imagine if she had actually forgotten to specify who the note was for and asch showed up

Anyway, she lucks out, because Asch is blind right now anyway and couldn't see the note. Lio shows up later, heading for the billiards room without much hesitation. There's people he's trying to avoid at the moment anyway.]

w1 - Friday - Post-Invest

[madburnout]

[Hey Beau. Wherever she is, coming to find her. His expression is permanently stuck in a scowl today.]

Already spiraling out of control this week.

[disreguarded]

Yeah. Shit never stops around here. [ she looks tired, and covered in blood from her hands to her elbows. plus, she's got hay in her hair and is wearing patchwork clothes. ]

w1, post trial

[disreguarded]

[ where is lio she's coming to find him mostly because - she remembers what he'd said about picking the wrong person and she just. is having some feelings and that's all.

WHERE YOU AT, LIO ]

[madburnout]

[In . . . the saddest sight of all time, he's simply sitting outside of his own room door, in the hallway. Key in hand. Apparently, he hasn't been able to go in there. Looking up when she arrives, though he doesn't make any move to stand. He doesn't say anything either.]

WEEK 2 - POST INVEST

[madburnout]

[HI BEAU

Lio is . . . finding you. Probably pretty quickly after body announcement. He knows he only has so much time to connect with people before he ACTUALLY just falls over.]

So. Someone did confront her.

[disreguarded]

[ yeah, she's also about ready to pass out. she stares at him blearily. ]

Yeah. Any leads?

w2, post trial

[disreguarded]

[ catch beau in the gym just beating the SHIT out of a punching bag. she's also crying. don't look at her. ]

[madburnout]

[Valid? He'll just quietly walk into the room then. He doesn't bother her, just sits down somewhere nearby and waits.]

W2 - POST EXECUTION

[madburnout]

[Since . . . Hunter seems safe, maybe Beau is feeling a little better today. Going to find her! Armed with snacks, since. He feels a little guilty about attacking her ankle yesterday.]

[disreguarded]

[ she is doing much better! he can find her hobbling down the hall towards her room, but when she sees him, she can manage a small smile for him. she still looks tired, but her hair is brushed now! ]

Boss. [ she greets him. ]

w3, tuesdayish??

[disreguarded]

[ so she's - kind of still reeling after the whole thing with peach the day before, but she's trying to not let it get to her. she goes looking for lio, making her way through the mansion until she finds him.

mostly to check on him. she knows she wasn't the only one who was struggling. ]

[madburnout]

[YEAH! That sucked. Lio is . . . a little difficult to find. He's been attempting (badly) to avoid people after the first contact with others happened and the whole memory thing started, but. He won't avoid Beau forever. He's in the library, like much of the time, and he'll actually let her in if he sees her.]

. . . You can come in.

w3, friday

[disreguarded]

[ beau is poking around the fourth floor, halfheartedly looking for more clues. she's tired. but she is wearing her canon outfit! or pieces of it, anyway - she's missing the gloves and the boots. she really missed her pirate jacket.

she's also keeping an eye out for people so she can snag them and check up on them after the clusterfuck that was thursday. ]

[madburnout]

[Lio has also returned to most of his . . . comfortable existence in what I believe is at least eight belts. He's missing the cravat though.

First things first though - handing over a crayon written note.]

I borrowed a blacklight.

w3, post trial

[disreguarded]

[ hey what's up lio wanna do some drugs

catch beau heading up the stairs to the fourth floor. someone has found a new favorite room and it's the room of requirement. she looks tired, solemn, but not... like, sad, really. ]

[madburnout]

[Honestly, Beau, you've met Lio. Do you really wanna give him weed. He is the ideal case for being a paranoid mess on the dank herb.

Anyway, he'll come join her in the room, moving to just sit near her.]

Are you alright?

WEEK 4 - MONDAY

[madburnout]

[Hi Beau! Wherever you are, Lio is going on a rampage to find ya'. You know that fun little effect quirk where you fly off the handle at a moment's fucking notice? ]

If he kills him, if he even tries to hurt him, I will burn him alive!

[WHO ARE THE HE'S.]

[disreguarded]

Whoa - whoa, hey.

[ she startles, dropping the drawing in her hand and giving lio a bewildered look. ]

What? What's going on?

WEEK 4 - POST INVEST

[madburnout]

[knock knock bitch its the boss]

Beau.

[disreguarded]

[ she doesn't answer, but the door is unlocked! and there's a bundle of beau-shaped blankets on the bed, back facing the door. ]

WEEK 5 - MONDAY

[madburnout]

[Well, Lio's not a birb, he is, yet a-fucking-gain, a dragon because he's deeply uncreative and also would have sulked all week if he was something other than a dragon. It's fine. But it's similar in some ways, right? A dragon is sort of a bird-lizard also with fire.

Anyway, be a shame if someone came up to the attic and just started . . . messing with your stuff, right? BE A REAL SHAME IF THAT HAPPENED.]

[disreguarded]

[ EXCUSE!!!

he finds: five bottles of wine, two guns, bottle of bleach and like a package of whatever laundry pods, six forks, two butter knives, and eight spoons, the eight ball from the billiards room, a roll of toilet paper, a pack of cards and three random board games, a trumpet, three bottles of hair dye, and like five jackets/coats. plus some sticks, all buried in a corner of the attic.

he also finds beau behind him, all of her feathers fluffed up. ]

Hey.

w5, thursday

[disreguarded]

[ beau comes looking for lio thursday morning, in her usual hideous outfit but with a scarf included to cover her nose and mouth. this is the least amount of skin she's ever shown, it's weird.

she'll try his room first, and then search around for him, something hidden in her hands. ]

[madburnout]

[He'll be in his room! Cleaning up . . . ooze . . . from the walls. By that I mostly mean he's tossing sheets out of the room into the hallway and huffing and puffing about it the entire time.]

WEEK 5 - POST EXECUTION

[madburnout]

[what up beau where you at girl

coming to find you it's been a long ass weekend and you seem, uh, down]

[disreguarded]

[ it HAS been a long weekend. but she's back to normal and is curled up in the library with her notes, reading over them for the millionth time.

when she sees lio, she offers a small smile and a wave. she's... down, yeah. but they're so close. it doesn't make sense to cry and scream anymore. she just needs to keep going. that way she doesn't fail anybody else. ]

Hey, Boss. You good?