Shadow Event Log

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▼ A Feast of Shadows

 

Who: Anyone
Where: All over the city
When: December 16-20
Summary: The Shadow Event has begun! Follow the link for the event summary and post your threads here if you want. You're still free to make network posts of your own if you'd rather do that, though!
Warnings: Characters' darkest and most shameful secrets within, along with plenty of combat. Please mark any threads that will contain triggering content appropriately, since some characters have darker secrets than others.
Music: IT'S JUST AS BILLY JOEL WARNED

Comments

Sure!

[otakuro]

"...Oh! Nothing."

And for Yuzu, the person whose relationship Atsuro was most afraid of losing, this person has nothing but smiles. ...Rather desperate and strangely painful smiles.

"I just... want to be with you right now. That's OK... right?"

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

Umm... sure.

[Oookay.... Something is way weird here. She just has no idea what.]

Seriously.... is something wrong? Because creepy alley lurking is not usually your thing...

[otakuro]

"...I thought I'd change it up a little."

The boy draws nearer and though the only obvious physical difference is the color of his eyes, his motions, too, are as unnaturally restrained as his stance and posture.

"I've been doing some thinking..."

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

Thinking about what...?

[And why is this starting to feel like a scene in a bad horror movie? The creepy scale is rising by the second. She takes an involuntary step back.]

[otakuro]

About... us, I guess. ...All of us.

[Very clear. He turns away again now and allows his gaze to settle on some skyscraper off in the distance.]

Being here like this... Being here in this world and thinking that we can just.... sort of pretend everything's OK.

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

Oh....

[Okay, that did hit a little close to home. She's been treating Hinoto-Ri as a sort of vacation. But really, does she even want to go back and face what was happening back home?]

Well.... what's wrong with that?

[otakuro]

He is quiet for a moment.

We're not even from the same place. ...Can we really feel the same way about each other...? Is this really... true?

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

.....

[She's silent for a long moment, then shrugs.]

Are we really that different? Can't we just be friends and not worry about it so much?

[She's trying hard to evade this line of conversation. It hovers too close to some uncomfortable thoughts she's been having.]

[otakuro]

Is hiding from it really the right thing to do?

[He sighs, and the distorted smile on his face fades away.]

Can you really be friends knowing something like this? The Atsuro you know... has left you, hasn't he?

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

[She flinches. That was like a physical stab and her response is tight and slightly bitter.]

The Atsuro I know left me way before I came here.

[He walked away with Kazuya to become demon lords or beat up God or something. Way to go, guys.]

[otakuro]

[A pause now.]

...Right? And so... every time you see my face -- you're reminded of that, aren't you?

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

Well...

[She sighs.]

Well, maybe. A little. But... it's not like that's the only thing that ever happened to us. I remember a lot of good things too.

And... and I know that you're from a world where none of that happened anyway. So it's okay.

[She says with as much conviction as she can muster, trying to convince herself as much as him.]