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Who: Naoki Kashima (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
masakados) & OPEN
When: During event
Where: Various but, notably: the gardens + the sanctuary
What: It's event time! And water element nightmare time! And memory sharing time! What a good June.
Rating/Warning: None... for now. The memories that can be shared will have violence and death, however.
a. closed to his apartment (this demon's too big to fit in a glass)
[When Naoki makes his way to the fridge in the apartment, he’s not thinking about much. Something cold to drink, perhaps, to chase down the remaining vestiges of nightmares that have left him feeling shaky. He opens up the freezer, expecting to see ice and--]
Hee-ho! Demi-fiend, it’s you, ho!
[--shuts the freezer door, his eyes narrowing.
The freezer begins to rattle. Apparently the demon inside decided to start hammering on it with its snowy (looking) hands, indignant at being ignored by what constitutes its master. There’s a muffled ruckus and Inugami weaves his way into the kitchen, pricking up his ears curiously. To Inugami, Naoki says:]
...I don’t feel like letting him out yet. I’m making breakfast first.
[GOOD MORNING, YANG, RUBY, there are strange noises coming from the kitchen.]
b. gardens (you yourself and you-i)
[It doesn’t take Naoki long to notice it.
Even if the little goat disappears and reappears, it still follows him. Unsure what to make of it but more pitying than unnerved, he heads to the gardens. There he can be found, his chin in his hand as he stares down at the ground-- at the goat, who’s reappeared again.
Don’t mind him just talking to ‘himself’.] You’re really not looking too good. I can’t do anything, either... Sorry, little guy.
[Of course, if you get close enough, it’s entirely possible to bump right into that goat and crash into one of Naoki’s memories… Or you can keep a distance from the guy mumbling to himself.]
c. the sanctuary (mmmmm whatcha saaaaayyyy)
[It’s taken him too long to notice. Naoki blames it on the events of the last little bit that he wasn’t paying attention, only realising when a thought of that’s odd crossed his mind. When investigating, it’s true, he-- his friend isn’t-- Quatre isn't--
Feeling heavy, he heads to the sanctuary. There’s no reason to go there in particular, but it feels about the most secure place right now.
Either way, if you happen to wind up there there... maybe because that kerfuffle a little while ago… or maybe because you want a little time to yourself, Naoki’s plopped in one of the chairs with a dark face, darker than anyone should be wearing as he writes in a notebook spread on his knees. Next to him on the arm of the chair, swinging its feet, is a strange snowman-lookin thing.]
Demi-fiend, how long are we going to be here, hee-ho? There’s not much to do!
[When Naoki only answers with a grunt, Jack Frost kicks its feet and just sets to wandering around… Maybe leaving little frosty footprints on the floor as it goes. This is fine.
That little goat appears again while Naoki’s here, too. A perfect chance to bump into it accidentally...]
d. wildcard
[Anything else that strikes your fancy! Want to catch him training alone (or with various other demons) about as far away from the city center/buildings as he can get? Want to catch this scrub just glooming about the marketplace looking not particularly interested in shopping (then why are you here, Naoki)? Either way, go for it.
Barring that, hit me up for a random scenario/anything else.]
masakados) & OPENWhen: During event
Where: Various but, notably: the gardens + the sanctuary
What: It's event time! And water element nightmare time! And memory sharing time! What a good June.
Rating/Warning: None... for now. The memories that can be shared will have violence and death, however.
a. closed to his apartment (this demon's too big to fit in a glass)
[When Naoki makes his way to the fridge in the apartment, he’s not thinking about much. Something cold to drink, perhaps, to chase down the remaining vestiges of nightmares that have left him feeling shaky. He opens up the freezer, expecting to see ice and--]
Hee-ho! Demi-fiend, it’s you, ho!
[--shuts the freezer door, his eyes narrowing.
The freezer begins to rattle. Apparently the demon inside decided to start hammering on it with its snowy (looking) hands, indignant at being ignored by what constitutes its master. There’s a muffled ruckus and Inugami weaves his way into the kitchen, pricking up his ears curiously. To Inugami, Naoki says:]
...I don’t feel like letting him out yet. I’m making breakfast first.
[GOOD MORNING, YANG, RUBY, there are strange noises coming from the kitchen.]
b. gardens (you yourself and you-i)
[It doesn’t take Naoki long to notice it.
Even if the little goat disappears and reappears, it still follows him. Unsure what to make of it but more pitying than unnerved, he heads to the gardens. There he can be found, his chin in his hand as he stares down at the ground-- at the goat, who’s reappeared again.
Don’t mind him just talking to ‘himself’.] You’re really not looking too good. I can’t do anything, either... Sorry, little guy.
[Of course, if you get close enough, it’s entirely possible to bump right into that goat and crash into one of Naoki’s memories… Or you can keep a distance from the guy mumbling to himself.]
c. the sanctuary (mmmmm whatcha saaaaayyyy)
[It’s taken him too long to notice. Naoki blames it on the events of the last little bit that he wasn’t paying attention, only realising when a thought of that’s odd crossed his mind. When investigating, it’s true, he-- his friend isn’t-- Quatre isn't--
Feeling heavy, he heads to the sanctuary. There’s no reason to go there in particular, but it feels about the most secure place right now.
Either way, if you happen to wind up there there... maybe because that kerfuffle a little while ago… or maybe because you want a little time to yourself, Naoki’s plopped in one of the chairs with a dark face, darker than anyone should be wearing as he writes in a notebook spread on his knees. Next to him on the arm of the chair, swinging its feet, is a strange snowman-lookin thing.]
Demi-fiend, how long are we going to be here, hee-ho? There’s not much to do!
[When Naoki only answers with a grunt, Jack Frost kicks its feet and just sets to wandering around… Maybe leaving little frosty footprints on the floor as it goes. This is fine.
That little goat appears again while Naoki’s here, too. A perfect chance to bump into it accidentally...]
d. wildcard
[Anything else that strikes your fancy! Want to catch him training alone (or with various other demons) about as far away from the city center/buildings as he can get? Want to catch this scrub just glooming about the marketplace looking not particularly interested in shopping (then why are you here, Naoki)? Either way, go for it.
Barring that, hit me up for a random scenario/anything else.]
b
Naoki, good d-
[Nope. Not a good day. No good days allowed.
Because Lili's totally bumping into the goat and looking more than a little confused.]
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[Naoki raises his gaze and just in time to see her bumping into the goat, wincing as he goes to say something but then-- vertigo. Nausea, slamming him into him so hard he doesn't know what's going on. He lurches slightly and curls into himself, his hands raising up to his head instinctively, but that's probably not as bad as what Lili's going to have to see.
There's a rooftop. The rooftop of a hospital, to be precise. A woman is standing there, speaking as she looks out over the Tokyo cityscape: The world is about to be engulfed by chaos. It's called the Conception... The rebirth of the world, an event which no human has ever witnessed. Everyone outside of this hospital will perish.
Naoki's feelings, in this moment, are a swirling mix of confusion, indignation, sadness, fear-- The vision of that memory itself swims as though he, in that moment, is having a hard time keeping focus.
This world must first die, to be reborn again... And I alone will carry the burden of its sin... No, I don't have any regrets.
And, the world begins to change.]
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There's no way that she can stay on her feet after that. She's sinking to her knees suddenly, the very breath knocked out of her lungs as the memories replay in her mind. The dread, the fear, the confusion and... she wonders, are these feelings truly hers?
Everything about it is foreign. The woman, the landscape, the very location in space and time, but when everything changes and the realization of the implication of that hits her - when she realizes just how many lives must have been lost, the level of destruction that came with remaking the entire world - there's no helping the tears that well in her eyes and stream down her cheeks. Her chest feels tight and when her breaths escape her, it's shaky.]
What....?
[What was that?]
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But even that feeling doesn't distract him from the ones Lili is giving off. Call it a benefit (detriment) of what he is, of being a demon that are always more sensitive to negative emotions.]
Wh-- at happened? Are you okay?
[He nearly slides or falls off the bench in his haste to kneel in front of her, his gaze swimming from lingering bad feelings.]
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[The end of the world? The end of his world?
There's a moment where she looks sincerely confused, unable to quite comprehend and wrap her mind around what flashed before her eyes, and then she looks up to try to meet his eyes even though there's definitely still shock clouding her vision.]
Was that... from you?
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I'm not sure-- what did you see?
[However, given she and he both reacted that way, something had to have happened, right? She saw something. A cold lump grows in his stomach, creeping up in freezing tendrils.]
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There's a pause as Lili tries to recover the memory - the top of a hospital building, was it? - and then everything just simply appeared to... disappear. To end.]
Was it.... the end of your world?
[Though disbelief colors each and everyone of her words.
That couldn't happen to someone, could it?]
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[Cold. Ice cold. Not just because he knows what she's talking about, but because-- when he tries to cast his mind back to the Conception, when it happened, what it looked like, those memories aren't there.
He knows that it happened. It had to have happened, he walked through the wreckage that the Conception left. However, no matter how hard he tries... The memory doesn't come to him.
Swallowing a bitter taste in his throat, Naoki looks back at her.]
The... Conception? [carefully.] ...I'm sorry, that you had to see it. [Just by deduction, he can imagine it was bad to watch.]
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I'm sorry that you... you had to experience that...!
[She hadn't realized that his life was
truly so difficult]
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...Thanks. [His voice is soft.]
It's okay. I'm okay, now. I'll keep living on however I can with it.
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What are you thanking me for...
[Along with confusion.]
I just... [I admire you for being able to cope with that or I wish you never had to go through it at all?] ... I hope... that life has made up for what it's done to you.
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[He appreciates it. Even if it upset her--especially if it upset her. He gives her shoulder a gentle squeeze, his expression relaxing, gentling, like he's finally dropped some mask or cover. It wasn't a mask, so to speak, but he doesn't usually allow his softness to show so plainly at first. It always takes time.]
...My life's gotten a lot better. I've got things now, people, that I never thought I'd have again. Or even in the first place. [He has a family. A family here. How unbelievable is that?]
I need to go back eventually, to fix everything however I can, but. Until then, I plan on enjoying all the good things this place has given me.
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When she looks up at him, her face is riddled with confusion - but she allows his words to comfort her. And they do. His life has really improved, hasn't it? There's a moment where she hesitates - and then the relief shows in its entirety. She almost feels like she could cry again.]
Good...
[And then as she gets ahold of herself, once again and more firmly:] Good...! That's... that's what you deserve!
[Good things.
All the good things.]
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He peers at her like he's debating something and:]
Mind if I hug you?
[...is this out of the blue? Probably. Naoki keeps it on the down-low, but he's a naturally touchy person, and Lili saying something like that to him makes him want to hug her. He wants to hug her anyway. Things had been rough for her.]