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. ))

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A BUNNY AND A FRIEND

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Here's Junpei on his way to the gacha, sucking on a sucker from the candy store, before he stops in his tracks, distracted, to look at whatever it is Jane's staring at so intently.]

What's that?

[It looks like garbage.]

[cyan_maid]

[It does, it really does, but she's holding it like it's priceless.]

It's...my friend made this for me...I-I thought he was lost for good, I don't know...how these people were able to find him, he fell into the ocean...!

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Well, they brought people back from the dead, supposedly, right? Ocean salvage can't be that much harder. Come on, let's have a look at him.

[He sits to do so, twirling his lollipop in his mouth.]

Does he have a name?

[cyan_maid]

[You're getting down on her level makes Jane more inclined to show you the very rusted, busted rabbit.]

Yes. I...ended up naming him Lil' Sebastian.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Like the pony from Parks and Rec?

[Wha?]

[cyan_maid]

That's right. Just like the pony from Parks and Rec.

[misanthropicprinciple]

But he's a rabbit, isn't he?

[Sort of hard to tell, given the damage.]

[cyan_maid]

Yes, he is.

[What is your point]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Okay, fair enough.

[Just making sure he still has his animals straight.]

Cute little guy. You like rabbits?

[cyan_maid]

[Jane...finds herself nodding.]

They sort of ended up in my life. My friends...all sent me presents one year for my birthday. Heirloom bunny rabbits from their families. Roxy's was a wizard, Jake's...he said it was a detective, but it was definitely Indiana Jones. And Dirk's was this. A little...protector rabbit who could keep me from harm.

[She looks so, so sad, thinking back to those innocent times and those sweet rabbits. It feels wrong not to have the full set.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

A protector, huh?

[That seems to strike a chord with Junpei, too. He doesn't speak for a moment.

...A samu-rabbit.

[cyan_maid]

...Oh my God.

[Jane just. Stares at him for a moment before a weak laugh bubbles up from her chest. Then another. And then more.]

He - hoo, he did - he is partial to katana, hoo hoo! Oh my gracious...!

[misanthropicprinciple]

Seriously? That's adorable. He had a little rabbit-sized katana? Shit.

[Carefully, so as not to hurt the poor little guy any further, Junpei has Seb bow to her.]

This humble one's sword is yours, Jane-dono, that it is. Pyon.

[cyan_maid]

No no, no, it was, um, full size-

[ooooh my God that's cute, she can tell he's being careful and keeps laughing.]

Hoo hoo hoo! Gracious, what's a - what's a "pyon"? Is that a rabbit noise?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Haha, yeah. You know, like "nya?"

[Okay, maybe that deserves some context.]

In Japanese, cats say nya, dogs say wan, mice say chuu, and rabbits say pyon. We like our onomatopoeias.

[cyan_maid]

I've never heard that before...!

[pyon]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Trust me. I don't lie about rabbits.

[He hands Seb back to her, because obviously, where he belongs is in her arms.]

We kept a hutch of them at my elementary school. My childhood friend and I, we were the only ones who volunteered to take care of them.

[cyan_maid]

Oh, that's...that sounds nice. Classes were lucky to get to take care of goldfish in my schools.

[But obviously that's a rare case. She takes Seb gently, and...Junpei, this is likely the happiest Jane has looked in all of these weeks. You made her laugh, you respected her rabbit...if anything, she's at ease in this moment.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Goldfish? Man, what were they thinking? You can't pet a goldfish's soft, stinky fur.

[Aw, Li'l J. Junpei reaches across and ruffles her hair just as gently as she's holding Seb.]

We'll make fixing up your buddy a class project, huh?

[cyan_maid]

...If everyone in class is inclined to do so.

[Surely their resources could be spent on something more important?]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Everyone needs a little something to hold onto. To fix. So shit doesn't feel so hopeless.

[What resources? They have nothing but time.]

Also, you're a good kid, Jane. I'm sure anyone'd be happy to help.

[cyan_maid]

...Then...

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

...Yeah.