Week 4

[airlockedmods]

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

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(( Don't forget to check in, and check your memory regains! You can also stop by the gacha machine and Xander's office hours. ))

Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

Most of them were. Some not so much. Twiright-san was just evil, and McBurn-san... I don't really know what his deal was, but he didn't want to make friends. Even if he and Margulis-san were obviously falling in love!

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, no, uh.

I mean. Maybe? Kinda?

But I'm pretty sure I bit the big one and I'm not coming back this time.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[He's too startled to move now that his LIPS ARE GETTING A MASSAGE. Hold on. Hold the fucking phone.]

O-o-o-h m-m-y-y-y g-o-o-o-d-d-d-!

[He pulls his dumb face away.] Why is your arm doing that!

[ratherdoweddings]

It's cute! One moment, let me go get it.

[Yurika bounds up and hops out, only to come back dragging something. Sorry, Clarith, it's not that kind of bunny suit.]

We used it to make a cute little science show to teach the crew about the things we were dealing with on Mars!

[daughterofthemark]

[...wow actually yeah that is exactly what she's doing isn't it.]

I--well, I suppose...

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. Yeah, they do. C'mere.

[No pulling anything back, Max, we feel our feelings here like men. Junpei reaches over and then pulls her into a hug, as strong and steady as any he ever offered Akane or Clover or--or a girl, a woman he can't quite remember, smiling like the devil with hands full of dirt and weeds.]

Things suck. Things are bullshit.

[ratherdoweddings]

I'm not sure. Maybe he'll show up if we have a party at some point? After all, he's a detective, so he'll want to gather information.

[ratherdoweddings]

Right! See, there are different measurements and guidelines... Let's take this one. It's the powder kind. You pour it into the measuring cup like this. Don't worry if the measurement's a little off.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Junpei stares at his own arm in horror.]

I--I don't know!

[What if he--what if he sticks it in the fountain? Will that make it stop?

It does not stop. Now the water in the basin is rippling. Junpei wants to die.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm sure it's to scale, if that's what you're wondering.

[jUNPEI]

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's just--it's just vibrating!

...

[That is a dawning look of hysterics.]

It's vibrating, Junpei. I bet--you could u--[nope he's losing it now]--could use--on--

[misanthropicprinciple]

No!

[Splashes Church frantically with both arms to SHUT HIM UP!!!!!]

[motherfucking_ghost]

You don't need to get one outta the gumball!!! [He's wet and he's fallen over laughing.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Shut UP!!!

[He hasn't fallen ENOUGH, because here's Junpei trying to just bodily haul him into the fountain.]

[helladoptera]

[ The hug is... unexpected somehow, but it's nice. She can't help but cling a little when she hugs back, just trying to stay grounded. ]

They sure as fuck are.

[motherfucking_ghost]

If this is how I die it's WORTH IT!!!

[misanthropicprinciple]

[And then they both fall in the fountain and die and Week 5 Monday never needs to happen.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

You didn't deserve that. And I don't know your Chloe, but I'm sure she didn't, either. Maybe...

[No. No, alternate histories don't work the same for everyone, and even if they did, it wouldn't help this Max. Not the Max who has to live here and now in a reality where the girl she loves is gone.]

Maybe, all of us left, we find a way to make them less damn fucked. But if we can't... I'm here, all right? And I get it. I get a lot of it.

[helladoptera]

Thanks. Thanks a bunch, Junpei. For cereal.

[ Somewhere out there there's probably a Max who didn't save Arcadia Bay. She's probably a lot happier. ]

You know, it's funny. In the movies, people usually come out of the whole "sacrifice one person to save a bunch more" deal happy? Who the fuck do they think they're kidding?

[helladoptera]

Yeah, that sounds... that sounds really great, actually. Thanks.

[misanthropicprinciple]

People who've never known what it is to love someone so much the whole damn world doesn't matter. Probably.

[Junpei's actually pretty good at hugs. He must hug sad girls a lot.]

[helladoptera]

[ i mean realtalk if you throw a stone in his canon alone it's gonna hit like three sad people from what i remember ]

Probably. It's kind of a hard feeling to imagine if you've never had it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Yeeeaaahhh that's accurate.]

Yeah. But it's not a feeling you ever forget, either.

[He rubs her back. He gets you, girl. He's got you.]

[cyan_maid]

...Then...

[She looks down at Lil' Seb, and her heart knows. It knows that they need him.]

...Yeah.

[cyan_maid]

Even so, my point still stands. He's not scary.