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.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( 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

[helladoptera]

What was I supposed to...? I... I literally watched reality start breaking, I ran into myself, I...

[ Oh good she's on the edge of tears. So much for only crying in the Cinnabunny! ]

I saved everyone in Arcadia Bay, except for the one person there who I cared about most! And no one... no one's ever going to know it happened, or what Chloe did, or... I had to look her mom in the eyes while she said it was too bad the girl I love and I didn't get any time together since I got back into town. I...

[ She tries to... pull some of it back, at least, to collect herself a little. ]

... Sorry. Things just suck.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.]