theairlock | Week 2

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Week 2

[Other than the reappearance of the Overseer, there's no real change in the routine. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets.

No other floors unlock, but Cece and Kip will still be appearing randomly to chit-chat.

All you know is... something has to change soon.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 1 and submit your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[ Wow this murderer is feeling so attacked right now?? ]

Nari-chan, ain't I told ya already? 's not the killin' I like, it's the fightin'. What's the point in makin' a film if yer just gonna kill somebody?

Edited 2017-05-25 19:45 (UTC)

So you would definitely love Fight Club. At least the fighting parts.

[She wanted to make sure!!!!]

Hey I like knowing details about people.

Fight Club? Shit, that sounds like my fuckin' jam.

[ It's ok he avoids the toxic masculinity by wearing pink and being manly enough to have an earring. ]

Whatcha learned so far? Or issat top secret?

If we ever get a media room, maybe they'll have a copy of it. We can make it a movie night.

[Men with earrings are pretty legit.]

Secrets. What I'm told by others is up to them to bring to light. I guard secrets with my life, even if it would save my life to share them. Secrets are what I'm good at.

I'd be down fer that.

[ He'd wonder why Tyler and the main character don't just kiss until right at the end... ]

Ohhh, I gotcha. [ He nods. ] Hey, that's legit. Snitches ain't exactly popular in my line of business either.

[ Yeah they usually end up dead. ]

Ya got anythin' on me, Nari-chan? I'm an open book.

[Poor Nishitani. Nari will teach you all about fanfiction then.

Secrets are probably the only reason she's kept around at home.]

That you are. But from the conversations we've had, there's been a few things that have made me curious. From what I can tell, you're really into dad type men. Which means there's a man back home you'd probably pick over Roland any day. You also don't seem to mind being with women, but there's even a line you won't cross and it's children. Which helps make me more comfortable around you. Now... This yakuza thing is family tied. Does the great Nishitani have siblings, kids, or is he all alone?

[ Oh god, he'd look up all the fanfiction on himself, I guarantee it. ]

Well, I got a dad. Sorta. Uncle B, he's been there fer me since I was a brat. I ain't gonna fuck 'im though, he's ancient. [ He chuckles. Ah, Billiken. Best cop dad a criminal could ask for. ] But I do got a guy back home that I got my eye on. Hopin' he an' I can get friendly, if ya catch my meanin'.

[ "Friendly," he says. He just wants to fight him. And see where things go from there. And yeah, he's just gonna clear up all her misconceptions because who needs secrets? ]

Even us crime-types won't mess with kids, we all got our honor, after all. I got my own family, the Kijin Clan, but it ain't the kinda family connected by somethin' like blood, see? When ya join up with the yakuza, yer clan becomes yer family. Ya live and die for 'em, 's why we get our tats an' shit. There ain't no turnin' back once yer in.

[You do you, buddy.

She snorts at the last part of the comment, raising an eyebrow. Yes, she knows what you mean.]

I can't imagine a life like that. It's always just been my parents, myself, and my sister until she took off... I don't even know if I have grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins... Having a big family sounds nice.

It beats the hell outta havin' blood relatives if ya ask me. Ya can't fight blood, but ya can fight yer men long as they ain't ranked above ya.

[ He chuckles. That's, uh, that's not the normal way it works in yakuza families actually. But it is in his, and he's the Chairman so what he says goes. ]

Real talk, Nari-chan. If ya don't know 'em, ya prolly don't need 'em. Make yer own family.

Make my own family?

[But...] Unless I get married, that's kinda hard to do. I can't just go up to someone and say they are family now.

I wasn't bein' literal, y'know?

[ Getting married is for losers?? ]

Ya don't gotta say it, unless yer in a gig like the yakuza. Ain't ya ever heard that "friends are yer family" bull they sell in all the dramas? There's more truth to that than ya think. The people who look out for ya, that ya wanna protect: that's who yer family is.

[ Please don't tell anyone he's being this profound, he isn't like this with anyone else. ]

Don't even gotta be more than one person. Hell, I only got my Uncle B back home an' he's the fuckin' best.

[.......... Nishitani. You. You have no luck with this girl. She's crying. Again.

With a soft hiccup, she looks away and wipes at her eyes.]

Fuck. Got something in'em... I'm fine.

[This really isn't fair that words like that are what she never knew she needed to hear.]

[ Oh, fuck, he made her cry again, shit??? Now he has to reach out and. Put a hand on her shoulder maybe. It's awkward, he has like no experience with this, but he knows enough to call bullshit when he sees it.

You guys gotta get better families, damn. ]

's awright, I won't tell nobody.

Edited 2017-05-31 23:42 (UTC)

[There's a cough that follows a bark of a laugh.]

Thanks... Nobody here will know... but the entire universe does now with these fucking cameras...

[She hates being so vulnerable in front of an audience. Strike her down, please.]

[ Nishitani chuckles. She's got a good point. ]

Well, there's 18 other people in this thing, I'll keep yer secret safe from those assholes, how's that?

[ He's not counting Larimer and Cece because fuck them atm. ]

Definitely won't tell 'em I made ya cry, they'll fuckin' roast me!

[ It's funny because he's a criminal and he expects everyone to dislike him on the basis of this fact. But that is ok. ]

Edited 2017-06-02 06:43 (UTC)

[You're not the first one to make her cry. Nor will you be the last. This girl is a bag of barely concealed emotions looking for an excuse to leak and fray.]

Thank you... I would rather they respect me than treat me like a kid because I don't know things about personal relationships.

[ Aw, Nari, he'll punch the next person to make you cry, ok? Just say the word. ]

'course! Ya ain't a kid fer havin' fuckin' feelins, that's bullshit. Yer a smark girl, you'll get the hang of it.

Edited (contradicting oops) 2017-06-05 02:07 (UTC)

[Too bad you can't punch a dead person. Guess who makes her cry in the future?]

You might be putting a little too much faith in me.

[ PUNCHES INTO THE AFTERLIFE @ LEE, GODDAMN ]

Eh, don't worry about it. Long as ya don't die, ya ain't gonna disappoint me, Nari-chan. My family back home takes whoever's got the balls ta join, it don't mean they're smart. Just gotta get the job done.

But you, ya got way more guts than half o' those shits, I can tell.

[FINN, TOO]

Really? I think I'm too much of a coward sometimes.

[ ET TU, FINN??? ]

's about pickin' yer battles. When the time comes, ya do what ya gotta, don'tcha?

[IT'S THE LETTER TO HER THAT DOES IT]

Of course. Which...... has gotten people very hurt. But hey. I... try?

[ Oh no ;o; ]

Long as it ain't you gettin' hurt, it's a win!

[Damn Finn and being her friend.]

........ [She starts laughing at that, having to cover her mouth to cut down on the noise.]

[ Wow!!! He's not 100% sure which part of that was so funny but okay he's laughing now too. ]

What, it's true, ya know?

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