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Sam Winchester (tallerthanthou) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-16 17:49:00

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[Day 237] Relationship Issues Group Therapy mingle
[The relationships group therapy attendees will all get a message telling them to report to The Winery in Sector 2. Sadly for them the alcohol is locked away, but there is an assortment of food and non-alcoholic beverages along the bar for consumption. Many of the tables have been cleared out and the chairs rearranged into a circle with booths along the edges for more intimate therapeutic discussions.

And don't forget the party favors! The wardens have left some helpful games and activity ideas to get them started. There's a bowl full of folded slips of papers with various questions.]

How many people have you slept with? Do you regret any of them? Why?

How many relationships have you been in? Why do you think that is?

What was your longest relationship? Most serious? Shortest? Most casual?

Why did your last relationship end?

What do you look for in another person?

Are you happy?

Who is your ideal mate?

What was the biggest problem/complication in your previous or current relationship?

What do you need out of a relationship? Sexual experience?

How long have you been single between relationships? Why do you think it was so long/short?

What is the best way to break up with someone?

Do you believe in soul mates? Do you think you have or will meet yours?

Would you rather spend your life with one important person or several acquaintances? Why?

Are there any similarities between the people you've been with? If so, what are they?

Do you have trouble making choices? Give examples.

Do you think with your heart, your head, or your genitalia? Are you satisfied with this behavior?

Do you have trouble relating to people? If so, in what way?

[In addition to the questions there are cards with various prompts. One explains the game, I Never. Another suggests people pair off and roleplay they are in a relationship and then deal with various scenarios like what do to if one partner flirts with someone else or comes home late without calling.]

Who should do the dishes?

When is it appropriate to discuss getting blue bands/having sex?

When should you move in together if ever?

What do you do if you suspect the other is keeping secrets?

What do you say if your partner comes home with a haircut you don't like?

How do you respond if you find your partner crying?

How do you decide how to spend your time together?

Your partner's family doesn't like you. What do you do?

One of you is critically hurt. How does the other respond?

Your friends don't like the person you're with. What do you say to them? What do you say to your partner?

One of you wants sexual relations and the other does not. How do you balance your needs?

How do you communicate your desire for a particular sexual desire to your partner?

It is your partner's birthday. How do you prepare?

At a party your partner leaves you to socialize with others. How does this make you feel and how do you respond?

How do you show your affection?

(OOC: Mingle style. You are not limited to the questions, scenarios, or games listed above. Assume there are more! I recycled a lot of this from last time so if someone was in this group twice they can feel free to notice, but assume there are lots of questions and prompts, so they probably didn't see them all.)

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	trappedinresin 2013-09-19 01:21 am UTC (link)
	None. [Yuuki, on the other hand, is all too happy to respond to this one. Because she is still none too happy with what the warden happened to announce the other day.] I've never slept with anyone. [Her having fooled around a little that once, well-- it still wasn't having actually slept with!] Just to be clear. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-09-25 12:28 am UTC (link)
	[ his thoughts are immediately distracted from his experience or lack there of. ] Truly? [ he's practically hanging off her answer. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

trappedinresin
2013-09-25 10:02 am UTC (link)

E-Eh... why do you seem so surprised?

[Don't tell her you believed the warden's announcement, too, Bak...!]

I-I mean, I've only ever been in two relationships before, and I'm kind of young, right? That kind of thing isn't at the foremost part of my mind. [Until recently she barely thought about it at all.]

It's not like blood. I think about that a lot more.

[ . . . DEM SNACKS.]

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	punching_bag 2013-09-25 11:29 am UTC (link)
	[ Blood? WHAT?! ] That's... a strange hobby you have, um, Miss Yuuki. Are you in training to be a nurse? [ that's... that's an acceptable reason to be thinking about blood, right? And she would make a pretty cute one... AND IT'S A MUCH SAFER TOPIC THEN YUUKI'S SEX LIFE, RIGHT? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 trappedinresin 2013-09-25 11:32 am UTC (link)
	A nurse...? [There's a moment of surprise. Where has that come from?] No. I-- [Oh. Her eyes widen. He doesn't know. She had just assumed he already did, since so many people already do. But then again, why would he if she hadn't mentioned it before?] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	2/2 trappedinresin 2013-09-25 11:34 am UTC (link)
	[She smiles, a little embarrassed. If he looks for it, this time, he might even be able to notice her fangs.] I'm a vampire. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 punching_bag 2013-09-25 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	[ fjdkl he does a double take ] A V-vampire?! [ No wonder she looked so young and fresh—no, no. He's getting ahead of himself. Calm down Bak. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	punching_bag 2013-09-25 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	[ he coughed. ] I'm... sorry. I shouldn't have presumed. How... long have you one? [ A W K W A R D ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2013-09-25 01:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well... [Actually she's not sure how to answer that question. Since she stopped being one for a while. But she thinks she knows what he's getting at.] I was born a vampire. It's not like the myths and stories. [A pause] Ah, well... it's not like most of the vampires here. I was born. Both mother and father were vampires, too. We're living. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

punching_bag
2013-09-25 02:31 pm UTC (link)

[ He's still feeling unsure! ]

I... see.

[ his brow is furrowed ]

So you grow and age and die like any other human -- er, vampire?

[ he can understand, on one level. It's not like Krory is any less human just because his innocence turned him into an blood sucking akuma killing machine.

... Even if he was a little weird. But from all accounts, that's just Krory. ]

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trappedinresin
2013-09-25 02:42 pm UTC (link)

It... doesn't work exactly like that either, no.

[For most vampires it would, over time. She tries to figure out how to explain it.]

Vampires age much more slowly than humans. But how slow, if at all, depends on how much pure vampire blood they have. The pureblood... are immortal. It means there is no human blood within their ancestry. For the nobles and beneath, the more intermingled their bloodline has become, the shorter their lifespan. In addition, their abilities are weaker, too.

[She glances at him to make sure he's understanding.]

As for the pureblood, at some point the body stops aging. The oldest looking pureblood I've ever seen, and he's well over three thousand years old, looked like maybe he could have been in his late twenties? [But that's not the same for everyone.] Another, who is much older than myself, looked like he was about my age... maybe a year or two younger.

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	1/2 punching_bag 2013-09-26 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	[ there is much dot, dot, dotting, going on. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	punching_bag 2013-09-26 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	[ and Bak blinked and he's looking Yuuki up and down, trying to match her words to reality and... ] You don't look a day over 16. [ y e p, he's rejecting it. ~~although what does this say about him as a man?~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2013-09-26 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, well... [At least sixteen is closer than what she's been told in the past.] I'm genuinely only seventeen years old. [She rubs the back of her neck] I keep getting told I'm still nothing but a baby by our own standards. I'm the youngest at the moment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-09-26 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	[ he snorted ] Seventeen is young by any standard. [ unless you're an exorcist ] You should cherish your youth. [ and not waste it away else what did Bak fight for all those years? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2013-09-26 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe. [A light sigh, but she smiles while she speaks.] By now it's a little late to say that it will be a conventional one, huh... [They're in prison after all. And back home, things are hardly easy.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 punching_bag 2013-10-03 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	[ urk ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	punching_bag 2013-10-03 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	S-sorry... [ he blushed because honestly, what was a normal childhood? Certainly not what he had grown up with, and certainly not this! ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2013-10-03 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	It's fine. What's one prison for another? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-10-03 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	[ he blinked ] You were in prison? [ what kind of life has this young girl lived! ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

trappedinresin
2013-10-03 11:54 pm UTC (link)

Well, I ran away...

[So it's not really like she was locked up before arriving back here.]

I-- [A breath] My fiance committed a terrible crime. I was... a witness to that crime. Because of my relationship to him my adoptive father arrested me as a person of interest. I was arrested by the Hunter's Association.

[A shrug] After the first day I didn't have to remain in a cell. I just wasn't able to leave the premises. After that I managed to get permission to leave, but was under heavy surveillance until I decided to leave on my own.

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	punching_bag 2013-10-25 12:09 am UTC (link)
	[ there are real, true tears in his eyes as he steps in, grasping Yuuki's hands without thinking. ] You poor girl. That's no reason to lock up a girl like yourself! You should have demanded your rights! [ ... let's just disregard that whole fiasco with lenalee shall we? If Bak could do something about it, he would! ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2013-10-26 12:43 pm UTC (link)
	[B-Bak...? She smiles weakly.] I-It's all right. I ran away, and all, so... it's fine. [A tired sigh] Though honestly, there are no laws that protect the rights of vampires. It isn't illegal to kill one, or detain them for no reason indefinitely. [She's recently learned how lopsided it is] There are a number of things at home that need fixed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

punching_bag
2013-10-29 11:28 pm UTC (link)

[ he sniffled, and then whipped out a handkerchief and blew his nose, throwing his pride away like a real man might! ]

It's good you stood up for yourself, and you're every inch as much a human as the rest of us!

[ he groused ]

What are those people thinking?

[ little does Bak know, Yuuki is more human than most after spending most of her life being one. ]

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	trappedinresin 2013-10-30 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	[Reaching out, she tries to pat his back comfortingly] Don't worry. I'm not too bothered by what they think. All that I care is what Headmaster and Zero think, honestly, out of the Association. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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