Opinions without 3.1415 are just Onions (Week1 post trial)

[ghostricked]

After everything, the house seems almost too still and too mundane. At least as long as the doors to that room remain closed. One by one those covered in what was once their teammate are lead to the showers or change in silence. There is no warm meal waiting for them. No words of encouragement.

Life goes on, regardless.

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[dreamshielder]

....

[The faint sound of footsteps outside makes Haku pause and poke his head into the hallway to look.]

Battler.

[His voice isn't forceful enough to come across like he's asking the guy to stop running, but he's curious to see if Battler will continue to leave anyway.]

[tsunderine]

Admittedly, it's a lot of upkeep. But it's home, so I have to take care of it, right?

By the way... I'm admittedly curious about your line of work. Is it difficult?

[cw_suicide]

[so many days ahead]

Mm. It can go like that.

[ghostricked]

[He wants to charge out and defend the sigil... but he knows it's dead, and antagonizing people won't help anyone. He doesn't like Subete as a person, but he doesn't hate him or wants to cause him harm. So instead he watches, eyes gleaming in the dark.

What is he up to?]

[accessorytomurder]

I'm feeling...

[She's quiet for a moment, as she struggles with how to put things into words.]

I feel kind of like a volleyball with a leak that just got spiked into the floor by the other team's Ace.

[accessorytomurder]

...let's keep it up, then. I'll give you things to look forward to for, um, for as long as I can, if you promise me the same...?

[ghostricked]

[He's... not clean, exactly. Not gore-soaked but there's a stiffness to his fur that suggests he groomed himself instead of a shower.

He's not wearing his collar though, and as she pets him he lifts a paw and scratches at the spot, looking up at her- help him put it back on?]

[private]

[deadanimemom]

[She listens, pausing in her washing, her full attention turned to Dazai as he explains.

Yuri doesn't know how to fill in the gaps in his story but she can fill them in well enough, can tell how much it's hurt him, how much he's opening up by telling her this. She wants to reach out to him, but her hands are filthy from the washwater and so she doesn't.]

You've had a horrible time. [She's said that before, to Shiro, a long time ago. Her heart is breaking now as much as it did then (it's only what she does next that's different).]

It must be so hard for you to tell anyone, or to trust anyone.

living room

[ghostricked]

[Once he has his collar back Sissel decides to brave That Room. The smell of gore doesn't bother him as a predator animal, and the parts were taken away. But it's still a lot.

The smell of tea isn't better than the smell of blood to him, but it's more desirable right now]

I wanted to thank you for your help yesterday.

[reanimania]

[ Oh. This guy.

Saphir shrugs and sits up a little straighter. ]

I don't know what you're going to get out of it, but I won't stop you.

[deadanimemom]

Oh, Marona-chan. How are you?

[private]

[cw_suicide]

[... ah?

this is not... the response he was expecting?






he doesn't know what to do with people who say this--why do people keep saying this here?

but she's not wrong. even the person he trusts the most in this place is... well, Ango. and that, well...]

... Yuri-san, I'm the one who's given many people more than just a horrible time. So that's... only to be expected.

[deadanimemom]

[That is exactly what's going to happen right now.]

[deadanimemom]

This one worked well. [She did her own laundry yesterday, so she'll pull a bottle off the shelf to hand it to Yachi.]

[tsunderine]

... That sort of analogy, huh? Well, I think it's normal to feel that way, Yachi-san.

[deadanimemom]

[Yuri nods agreement to that first statement.]

It is, but I've been training to be an exorcist since I was a little girl. The people who took care of me when I was little were former exorcists, and so I idolized them and always wanted to be one.

[dreamshielder]

[Twenty minutes in and Haku's hands and the sleeves of his uniform are drenched in blood and viscera, but likewise he doesn't seem to pay it much mind. The basin is largely filled with mangled stumps of flesh, some of it recognizably human, others decidedly not.]

As if anything could be expected of a nihilist too cowardly to live up to his own convictions.

[accessorytomurder]

Oh, good to know.

[She takes the bottle and estimates how much there is left to it, taking inordinate pleasure in the... the normalness.]

Did you wash multiple times, or soak?

[deadanimemom]

You should probably take a bath, [She says, as she helps to put that collar on him.]

[accessorytomurder]

There's a very distinctive sound it makes, and that's... that's what I'm feeling, right now.

[That sharp, echoing, sad wheeze, on loop.]

[private]

[deadanimemom]

Even if it's something you think you deserve, that doesn't mean it isn't hurting you.

[zweivoltage]

[He straightens up]

It's never pleasant to return knowing there will be an empty bunk.

[Even if the owner was an asshole and a murderer]

[deadanimemom]

I soaked my things first, and then washed them. That worked well for me.

[private]

[cw_suicide]

... what I've done... isn't the part that hurts me.

[it's what he didn't do.]

Even with such a high position, access to all the information I could need to see through the design... I couldn't even save a... very dear... close friend of mine.

[this place is terrible and he's having flashbacks nonstop about it even without the miasma.]

[tsunderine]

...Mm.

And you don't have to stop feeling that way. Your feelings are valid, you know? Even if some of us might not feel the same way, or even relate. But I'm glad that you're not feeling... worse, I suppose.

[it could be much, much worse]