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💀 skull ([personal profile] ryuji) wrote2018-02-01 01:24 pm

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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-09-17 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji's poker face could use some work. poker laugh? poker try to avoid snorting when you're called out. see Dave's face? do that.]

[of course, even the best poker players have their tells. like how Dave folds his arms across his chest, pursing his lips, perhaps hinting that he's got his own dunking scheme currently whirring away in his head.]


Some jazz music, actually. Like, some jazz music that started playing out of no where in my room the other day.

You wouldn't know anything about that, huh?
hopefragment: (hinata_id1815204-13)

*hajime hinata voice* if only........ i had TALENT......

[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-09-17 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
lol it's nothing like that

but it's something only i can do. i'm sure it's the reason why tanaka thought i was part of his class, there's no other explanation for that

when i first got to this station, i thought this was part of that project, somehow. tbh sometimes i still think that maybe it is part of it, and it's some elaborate scenario to test me, but there's no way that's possible. there's way too much evidence against it at this point.

as fucked up as this station is, though... as important as the project is, idk if i want to go back if it means saying goodbye to you and all the others.

crap, i'm going to be the one standing in maple syrup if i keep that up, so don't think about it too much
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-09-17 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[lol. Dave's got Ryuji right where he wants him now.]

[but yeah, it's true, it was a great prank, he'll admit it. and you can bet he'll also be using the space station AI responsibly to return the pranking favor.]


Really? I was gonna tell whoever was responsible thanks.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-09-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji ... you might be making this too easy.]

[it's Dave's turn to close the gap between them, then.]


Well, someone had to tell Kristoff which room to drop off some smooth jazz.
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[personal profile] bu773rfly 2018-09-17 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[It would be obvious, except that Erika's forcing herself not to watch him. She wants to. She wants to be sure of whatever she can be, have something to wave off the clench of worry when she hears him start to talk, before it even happens. But would that be what happened? Or would she just take it as an excuse to stop the story short of what she wants him to understand?

Sometimes you sacrifice the little wants for the big wants.]


It was that car accident. A brain injury. I don't know if you... [...know, how things like that work; even she doesn't, completely. The brain is a complicated organ.] ...Imagine a machine. If you bump some gears loose, that tiny misalignment gets worse and worse over time until the whole thing breaks down. Except it's brain cells instead of gears...sort of.

[She rubs her sleeve between her fingers; back and forth, back and forth.]

I got these - they were sort of like seizures. They'd put me in the hospital, and every time it got a little worse.
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no!!

[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-09-17 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
c'mon, what are the odds of that? the way people get to this station is messed up, but there's no reason to bring me and tanaka from something like that. it makes more sense to think he is from my future... in that case, i'm going to have to be a part of that island-trip, too.

gundam said the hinata he knew had just... forgotten his talent. or said he had, anyway. meaning either i lied to them all, and they believed something stupid like that for some reason, or it's true, and i do have a talent after all. they wouldn't put a normal kid like me with a group of shsls unless there was a reason for it

...hang on, did you say one of your teachers was also a MAID??


[What.... the fuck]

but yeah, it is weird, isn't it? i mean, it sucks here. something or someone is actively trying to kill us.

but if i never came here, i'd never have met you or haru or erika or ezra or anyone else here. idk it's weird to say but

you know what i mean
hopefragment: (notto disu shitto agen)

[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-09-17 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It's true but he shouldn't say it!!]

you're right... idk what to think about it anymore

also you know that's like, really not normal, right

dude don't antagonize them!! they really don't need a target!!



i miss nanami from home, she's a really, really important person to me, but i barely got the chance to know her. i've been with you guys... hell, it's been almost half a year by now, hasn't it?

and... yeah. i know what you mean. it's like... being free from other people's expectations, right?
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-09-17 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
yeah must be, idk why i didn't just assume that was the norm

i can't believe you're going to be 18 either, i'd definitely have thought you'd be rounding your fifth birthday. you look good for your age, old man



but yeah, that makes sense, i guess. if we do end up going back, it's going to be really weird to do it

chiaki nanami is the super high school level gamer. she's one of tanaka's classmates, but she and i were able to become friends since we both liked video games. before i came here, she's the only person who thought that my lack of talent was a good thing.

i really wish you could meet her. she's incredible
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[personal profile] bu773rfly 2018-09-17 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Shakes her head.]

Mm-mm. I could tell right away. I think...it has to be like what keeps happening when people die here. The station rebuilt my body, somehow. Otherwise - I'd feel like I used to, but I also never would have been able to keep it a secret. It was right up at the end of things.

[...yeah. Yeah. Still lying by omission. That'll need undoing at some point.

And that's kind of - wow, how long has it been, months? Four months? Almost half a year. Wow. And here's Ryuji, first person to know, and only because she chose to tell him. It's kind of scary. It kind of underlines what she was thinking about when it occurred to her, the whole process of moving on, becoming someone new. The things that don't survive the passage of time.]
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-09-17 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
it is weird to think you're older than me, though. i mean, i've still got a couple more months until my birthday. it's january 1st do everyone always forgets about it lol

there's no way you'd beat her, but she'd love to play you, i'm sure. she could always tell when i was distracted playing gala omega with her...

i guess, the only good thing is i was able to say goodbye to her before i came here. that's just the way things ended up working out. so even if you're wrong, and we don't end up exactly where (when?) we last were before waking up on this station, i don't have to regret it

you're veering into sap territory again, dude. idk if i can explain how much saying something like that means to me
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-09-17 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope.

[mutually assured destruction it is, then. what's Dave got to lose? Simba already dunked him to the murky depths once already today, may as well go down in a blaze of pseudo vengeful glory.]

I'm just saying, chatbots don't get random wild hairs about sharing their music tastes on their own, right? [Dave, don't ... don't call the station's AI a chatbot??]

I figure someone must have been, I dunno. Texting with Cynthia or something.

[he punctuates that by lifting his hand to his own shoulder, casually wrapping his fingers around the top of Ryuji's wrist.]
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[personal profile] bu773rfly 2018-09-18 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[...Is he sitting down next to her? She finally chances a glance.Her heart skips unpleasantly - he's going to be sorry, he's going to be hurt, and, then, he is. But less than he could be. But still, still.

There's a lump in her chest.]


There's more to the story. Hold on. [That's supposed to be a joke and it comes out hideously flat. She has embraced the wretchedness of looking to Ryuji Sakamoto for something resembling absolution for what she and fate did to Ryuji Mishima. It feels bad as hell, man. A good, addictive, awful kind of bad, like popping a pimple, without even the inexplicable thrill that comes from telling Venus these kinds of things. With Ryuji it's like wiping your muddy hands on a dog. Maybe he doesn't care - but you used him, you monster.]

My parents were in that car, too. My brother was - he's the one who taught me how to code and hack. I passed him when it comes to some things, but, he's good. He could've - he would've gotten a job anywhere he wanted. With the company that runs the VR world. Anything.

And, then, it was just us.

[And she doesn't quite know how to put words around what happened. How to explain this thing she fears, and this thing she wants out of her third whack at life, without incriminating her brother, laying his flaws out in the open like fish for stray cats. That's not an option.]

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