My robot brain needs beer

[kinaesthete]

It's a party! Cathy and Liz had their first real honest live-fire people-are-trying-to-kill-us-but-we're-alive deployment at Nora, and not only did they successfully not die, they even helped save the day! Setsuko likewise had her own professional debut in the field of not-dying during the hostage rescue! Good Idea Bear Cathy of course decided this calls for a night on the town. The Star Rose! Tourists, socialites, and Nora refugees looking to celebrate their own not-dying! Dinner! Drinks! Dancing! Young adults in high-risk professions bonding!

1. [semi-locked to invitees]
Setsuko seems the skittish sort, so Cathy's easing in to this with a simple meal in a nice restaurant - there are plenty of those in a location like the Star Rose! She's found a moderately classy Indonesian place, but not so classy as to throw off the mood for the rest of the evening she has planned. Of course, the more's the merrier, so she's sounded out a few other of the soldier types of drinking age in the Unity Group to come along!

[Please ping me if you want to be one of the people invited! Of course, you might still run in to the group regardless, here or in the second prompt.]

2. [free for all]
Food's good and all, but its real function is to give soakage for drinks and energy for dancing! Do you stick with the group as they hit the bars and clubs, or run in to them there?

3. [point and laugh]
The morning after the night before! Well, morning by the clock, anyway, even if they kind of blended together. Whoever've lasted through the night are making their way home, some with some practice, others stumblingly. Are you among them, or up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to mock their debauchery?

[Let's say this takes place after the Symphormers mission but before Macross. Continuity is flexible, so you can still be hungover for the latter, or not.]

Comments

[smileys]

I don't know if that's worse than not being able to drink at all.

[May stops next to you, Willis. And not drunk because she hasn't taken a single shot.]

...What's gotten you thinking?

[She has some idea, but there's a lot that should be bothering someone like him, after all.]

[a_linear_mind]

Memories, ones that I would rather forget. But...

[He holds up the empty glass and shakes it.]

Things are a bit harder for me than most people.

[smileys]

It's her, isn't it?

[She leans her back against the wall and folds her arms across her chest.]

I thought it was strange that she's not here.

[a_linear_mind]

...Yeah.

[He doesn't need to say much else, May's guess was pretty much spot on.]

[smileys]

[That's a surprise. Somehow, May has a feeling she'll regret what she's about to ask, but...]

...What happened?

You two were so close, I didn't think it'd be possible to separate you.

[a_linear_mind]

[There's just silence from Willis. He had nearly a decade to prepare an answer for this exact question, but nothing was coming up.]

...it's complicated. I'll just leave it at that.

[smileys]

...It was my fault for asking.

[She puts a hand on Willis' shoulder for a while.]

You can't dwell on it forever though.

[a_linear_mind]

I know, that's the reason why I joined the Unity Group.

I must seem pretty pathetic, even after all of this time I still can't get over it.

[smileys]

Those kinds of wounds take time to heal. A long time, even for you.

You are still human, after all.