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pandatreasure ([personal profile] pandatreasure) wrote2017-12-24 12:44 am

GRAVEYARD

[You know you must have died—nothing is ever easy around here, certainly not quick, so you must remember burning, bleeding, falling, dying?

And yet. You're waking up.

Do you recognize it here, once you pick yourself up off of the hard floor, maybe half-strewn across a couch or beanbag chair? This room died, too: you're in the library, good as new and maybe better than that, only barely smelling of burnt paper and you only sometimes kick up ash, just like those old wounds that finished you off only ache every now and again, dully.

The book selection isn't quite the same as you remember it—all the bad erotica that didn't die is missing here, sorry to say, but so are the books on everyone's home worlds. Snoop around enough and behind the librarian's desk, you'll find tablets: one for each participant of the game, and with enough experimentation, you'll find the one that reacts when you press the button. You're already logged into your Recyclr account and can read the feed, but the same rules apply: 140 characters, one tweet a day. The voting app is gone, replaced by a sort of security monitoring kind of app. Characters can view different rooms of the school, or even place a few side by side so they can view a few at a time, and they'll be able to see the living go about their day to day lives. There's even an archive of recordings, but only the important ones: murders, executions, investigations, trial highlight reels, and major events like libraries being burned down. Was watching yourself die once not enough? Boy have I got good news for you!!!

It's kind of exciting that you can go around touching stuff, probably, despite being super dead and vaguely transparent in a way you notice like your own breathing; you don't and then you do and it's all you can think about, but your tangibility only extends to the inanimate: try to touch any of your fellow deceased and you'll find that you just pass right on through like touching cold air.

The windows aren't bolted up with those big metal plates on this side of things, but look out of them anytime and it's just pitch-black and still outside, so that's demoralizing. There is, of course, the door out of the library—but for now it's locked up tight. Whatever is a ghost to do?]

((Recyclr

Offerings/Letters
Day 11
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suppressthedark: (☾ 66)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-25 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Even if they can't touch, he brings his hand up as well, ignoring the feeling of cold air as their ghostly fingers thread against each other, slightly clipping.]

I won't let you down.

[His expression turns serious, and a certain light gets into his eye - a look of vowing something to himself.]

Next time...I promise I'll protect you, Akira.

[There was only one other person he'd ever said that to, and he'd also loved her. While he's confessed his love before, this?

This feels so much more personal, somehow.]
purrtagonist: I’m his girlfriend (I’m not a servant of Demogorgon)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-25 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[he moves his hand, as though grasping for Ichigo's fingers, shivering slightly when they pass right through and an icy chill shoots through his arm. he drops his hand back into his lap, expression tender and pretty enamored, funnily enough]

I promise I'll let you.

[partners, next time. none of this Akira making executive decisions as a leader business. not again]
suppressthedark: (☾ 29)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-25 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He shivers a little, wishing that they could touch - if this was the afterlife he knew, their hands would have met, warm and comforting - but the gesture is enough.

It has to be.]


...Thank you.

[His gaze turns just as soft, just as in love - softly smiling at the person who makes everything always feel okay again with such regularity.

Then something in his mind connects, and he slaps his head.]


-Shit, that's Right! My real body is back in my world! I never lost my actual one at all!

Edited 2018-01-25 06:37 (UTC)
purrtagonist: into a sliiiiiightly hotter version of myself (I use Mask of Many Faces to turn myself)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-25 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[-- whoa hold on, talk about a non-sequitur]

Your real body is. . . what?

[CONFUSED]
suppressthedark: (☾ 44)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-25 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
My living body. Remember? I told you before - I can only be a shinigami in spirit form, so I have to leave it behind when I'm doing shinigami stuff.

[So-]

My last memory was killing Yhwach as a shinigami before waking up here. If that's the case, then they would have to have put me in a fake body to be able to move around and interact in the living world.
purrtagonist: (Good thing he has demon insurance)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[. . . ah!]

So even if your shinigami body died here, your human body still exists. So if you're revived, it doesn't matter what state you're in, because you can just return to your real body.
suppressthedark: (☾ 71)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-25 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. So long as my soul still survives, I can go back.

[And now he has a point to make.]

And if we can get back to my world, even if the raccoons bring us back wrong - I can just get everyone a new body. Urahara owes me, anyway, and I know for a fact that they're indistinguishable from normal human bodies - because if they weren't, I wouldn't be here.
purrtagonist: and a great personality (I just have a short sword)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-25 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
That's. . . a really good backup plan.

[he sounds impressed!!]

So long as we can escape from this library, then we can at least find some way to return to life.
suppressthedark: (☾ 71)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-26 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins.]

Of course. Even if we couldn't, I'd take you all to soul society anyway. Soul Society owes me a lot for taking down Yhwach, even if it was a combined effort. So if anyone doesn't want to come back to life, then that's an option.

[Because it's hard NOT to hear conversations in here???]
purrtagonist: and go take a bath (stop trying to kill the prisoner)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-26 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ah. . . well. Akira's expression is sobering]

Sometimes it isn't a matter of not wanting to. It's a matter of feeling like they have no choice.

[which is why he's trying to talk to Niles about this!!]
suppressthedark: (☾ 37)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-27 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
...Mm.

[He can't say he doesn't understand that kind of feeling, honestly. But at the same time, he'd want everyone to live - because none of them deserved to die like this, in this hell-hole of a school.]

...I just hope they realize they do have a choice. Everyone does.
purrtagonist: (can we rent your dog)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-27 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[they're on the same page as far as that's concerned]

Right.

[and Akira killed someone for that choice!!]