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]

No, he's alive. I just haven't seen him since my college graduation. I've... I'm not a very good daughter.

[misanthropicprinciple]

You... uh, you don't want to see him, or...?

[everylittlesecret]

They still live in the town where I got hurt.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ah.

I haven't seen my parents in a long time, either. I guess... over a year now. I used to call, but... not so much anymore.

[everylittlesecret]

You just drifted apart?

[misanthropicprinciple]

It's not like I could tell them why I dropped out of school. Or why I wasn't coming home.

I'd call to let them know I was alive, but it got... it got hard, listening to their questions. So I stopped.

[everylittlesecret]

.... Your life really sucks if you can't even go home. You think things will ever settle enough for you to go back?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He thinks about his last memory. About finding his way back to the surface, to the sunlight--with Akane at his side, this time.]

I don't know. ...I don't know... that I want to.

[He couldn't even think of going back when eight billion lives are on the line. ...He can't think of going back with eleven. If Nari, Yuuri, Church, Ardyn--as long as the rest of them need help...]

You know, family's supposed to be the ideal, but I--I don't know. At least for now, there's a lot of fighting I still want to do.

[everylittlesecret]

.... Nishitani told me that family is whoever you want it to be. You can have family and still fight. We're all an ohana here. Get used to it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oha-what?

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

[everylittlesecret]

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

[Gosh he's so young.]

[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.

[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?

[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.