week 7

[airlockedmods]

[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[everylittlesecret]

Uniqlo? Man, I haven't seen one of those since I was in Seattle. Never went in, though. Too preppy.

[Japan, what is with the weird store names?]

I don't know how my mom did it. She could make clothes for days, still take care of us, and do whatever it was she did for a living. Mothers.... they're terrifying.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh--

[WhaAH ow ow ow. He keeps his arm still, thank God, but it's a near thing. He squeezes his eyes shut for a second, then takes Yuuri's offer and focuses on her, on the color of her eyes.]

Um. Tell me about--about... uh, your friends. [He draws in a hiss of a breath. How the hell is Junpei going to last an hour?] Th-that should work.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Whoa, huh. Kind of like a salvage situation, or maybe more like the colonial era...? You go in and bring resources back to sell... If it's dangerous, though, is it really worth it?

[misanthropicprinciple]

He didn't actually seem surprised, actually? Not by the flying part; for some reason, he expected more swords to be involved. I've sort of given up understanding what he's capable of where he comes from.

[What the hell is Final Fantasy XV.]

Church is the one you gotta look out for. And he was making fun of me for vibrating...

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oha-what?

[Fun fact: Lilo and Stitch came out four years before Junpei was born.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Isn't that up to you? Deciding what traditions apply to your people or not.

[If they were all created by two guys around the turn of the millennium, after all, it's not like there are centuries of culture to buck or cling to.]

As far as I know, memorials can belong to anything with the capacity for memory. Don't you think?

[daughterofthemark]

But if it was not dangerous, would they truly be adventurers?

[serrata]

That's right, I only really talked about the club, didn't I? You don't know a whole lot about them apart from that.

[ She leans in a little and carefully strokes some of his hair back from his forehead with her free hand. See? It's fiiiine. ]

Well... there's Kurumi, first of all. I think you'd like her the most. She's very brave, very headstrong and she's just like you. Always getting herself into trouble but she knows exactly how to get herself out of it. I don't know what we'd do without Kurumi keeping us safe all the time.

Oh-- and she carries a shovel. Did I ever tell you about the shovel?

[buddyoldpal]

It ain't preppy, it's Japanese.

[ Fun fact, it's short for Unique Clothing, which was its original name before they changed the spelling. Thanks, Wikipedia! ]

Damn, that's some real creepy shit. But ya got a point, 's fuckin' scary how much shit ladies can get done in a day!

[buddyoldpal]

Dude's 2,000 fuckin' years old. Ain't nothin' he ain't seen, I bet.

[ Too JRPG for them tbh. ]

Church-chan? I'll hafta see, I-- [ Wait. ] Hold the fuckin' phone, did ya just say ya can vibrate?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Junpei snaps his mouth shut, looking like a man in the process of realizing he just stepped off a ledge.

And then, without a word, he FUCKING DISAPPEARS AND RUNS OFF POPPING BUBBLE WRAP IN HIS INVISIBLE WAKE.

He was never here.]

[everylittlesecret]

[Oh my gosh. No, please, talk more about a girl with a shovel. Nari is all ears despite concentrating on the task at hand.]

[everylittlesecret]

Ohana. Ohana means family. And family means no one is left behind or forgotten.

[Gosh he's so young.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Shovel? Uh, no. I would've remembered about a shovel. Why does she have a shovel?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Ohana, huh? I can get behind that.

[You know, what with calling Ardyn 'Dad' now officially a thing, and so on.]

I don't have siblings, but... if that's how you want to think of me, then I've got plenty of examples to live up to for you all.

[serrata]

For protection. She took it out of the gardening club's shed on the roof the during the first few weeks we were up there. We needed something to keep ourselves safe with when we were taking back the classrooms and the halls.

[ ... this was supposed to be a fun distraction. now it's sad. sorry, you two. HASTY ATTEMPT TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD: ]

But, um-- at this point, I think it's almost like a habit. Sometimes she'll even forget she's carrying it and we'll have to remind her. She goes so red. Yuki-chan even asked her if she was thinking of marrying it at one point and, well. She didn't exactly say no.

[ scandalous. ]

Kurumi says it's something about making it part of her body so she can really master it... but I don't have to tell you that sounds like an excuse.

[everylittlesecret]

Hmm... You're........... more like one of my best friends. And he's family, but not one I've given a family specific label to. Just. Family. Does that make sense?

[everylittlesecret]

[Yuuri. If you hadn't explained you lived in a zombie world, Nari would be questioning Kurumi so hard.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. Yeah, it does.

[After a beat, he gives Nari a hug.]

Love you, nonspecific family member.

[everylittlesecret]

[It's nice to have someone who can understand her strange ideas. She returns the hug with a laugh thrown in.]

Love you too.

[buddyoldpal]

Naw, ya ain't gettin' away that easy, Tenmyouji-kun!

[ Bubble-wrap, remember? THE TRAP IS SET. He can guess where you are based on sound, kiddo. ]