[OPEN] did you miss me?

[sunshrouded]

Who: Tenka aka "Dad Extraordinaire" (sunshrouded) & ALL OF Y'ALL TBH
When: Sliiiiightly forward-dated to 2/15, so right after the Nexus Code event!
Where: assorted... Kumounji House & entertainment district mostly!
What: Guess who's back (back again), Tenka's back. Tell a friend. -- also he fulfill his dream of becoming a Sidequest Dispenser.
Rating/Warning: just your usual brand of tenka idiocy, maybe some tears, probably some punching

[a. closed to kumounji house residents ; farts back into existence]

[Tenka doesn't have a calendar in his room.

Why would he?

But what he does have, when he materializes in his futon, wearing the same robe that he went to bed with, is a vague feeling of dread. He went through a weird sequence of dreams, he thinks. Sitting through that powerpoint again and then -- after that there was a weird space where he could walk through entire buildings. Where he started to feel... intangible again. It was remniscent enough of the time that he lost his body that he felt chills.

Yet his preoccupation with himself was short. After all, Shirasu was there.

Shirasu was there and wasn't there all at once -- he was in that space, unresponsive even as Tenka yelled at him and tried to punch him. But there was no returning punch, no weary purple eyes, not even a motion of acknowledgment. He was well and truly there and.... not.

So Tenka is tired as he walks out into the living room then, settling himself at their low table and slumping over it, just as he would've three weeks ago.

His first word upon his return:]

Teeeeaaaaaaaa.

[ . . . . . well?]

[b. semi-open to adoptees & others ; emerges from the void for noogies]

[Most people just knock or ring a doorbell. Maybe knock three times in small bursts if they're feeling antsy. But here's Tenka, banging on the door instead, complete with yelling:]

Heeeeyyyyy!! Is anyone in there?! Hellooooo?

[At least it's a voice you probably haven't heard in a while.

Someone clued him in that he's been gone for 3 weeks. So he's got about 3 weeks of visits to make up for, he thinks.

(Punch him.)]

[c. OPEN ; tell me what you see ]

[If nothing else, you might've seen this guy's face around. Yet he appears to no longer be Missing and is instead sitting on a bench somewhere. He seems to be puzzling over something very, very deeply. Feel free to bug him if you know him when he's still in the middle of his work of art (which consists of nothing more than a few brush strokes).

Because otherwise he's going to sit up suddenly and thrust out the page to you. It's definitely the kanji for 'lake'. But here's time for messing with the language mechanism and/or an impromptu Rorschach test:]

What does this look like to you?

[What a quack.]

[d. OPEN ; quest master tenka, disaster in the making]

Hey, you!!

[Doesn't that sound like a promising start to a conversation....

Alas, escape is futile as Tenka completely messes up the rhythm of the closest person's day as he steps in front of them and offers them the sunniest grin. (Don't trust it.)]

You look like you've got some free time. Think you can help a guy out with something?

[Sidequest: start!]

[e. choose your own adventure, hit me with anything, i can take it! ]

Comments

[finatic]

[that makes one of them. is there yet hope for Kagami "if it exists I will fight it" Naoto? no...

he shakes his head and grins, because it clearly doesn't count as taking him down if he gets up right after-- context isn't important here.]

You'll get yours sooner or later. I'll make sure of that!

[sunshrouded]

Doesn't the whole revenge thing ever get tiring for you....?

I mean -- yeah, I'll still take you on whenever you've got some more anger to work through [is this therapy] but you should really find a hobby.

[he's so concerned for Kagami's well-being, can't you see it]

[finatic]

[no it DOESN'T!! but Tenka isn't 12 or sympathetic enough to unlock Kagami's actual real person emotions, so all he gets is a vague scowl. revenge is Life.]

You're missing the point on purpose, aren't you?

[sunshrouded]

[please stop creeping on tenka's 12 year old brother...........]

Well.... I never completely understood your point.

But to start, there's no Emperor here. What have you even been up to?

[finatic]

[okay at least he doesn't keep threatening to kill him.........

you could hear a pin drop in the brief silence that follows. what has he been up to??]

What's it to you? Nothing that'll let your Abe dog throw me in prison.

[sunshrouded]

He's not mine. He'll throw you in prison even if I tell him not to bother.

[oh........]

But you took a while to answer that.

[finatic]

[gdi fuck that Sousei guy, he'd actually prefer it if Tenka bossed him around!!]

My business is my business. [he gestures back and forth between them, for emphasis-] And you and me don't exactly get along.

[sunshrouded]

Have you stopped killing people? That might improve our chances.

[He says it with humor but his voice does have a more serious tone to it. Tenka's heart is open but it does have its limits.]

[finatic]

[who said he wanted to get along with this guy? but that threat of Sousei coming out of nowhere to bludgeon him into prison (he expects it at any minute) is enough to get him to wave his hand again, this time in a mockery of 'on-my-honor'.]

My hands are clean, these days.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . so.

If the guy committing murders on his way to topple the Japanese government by killing the emperor no longer commits murders or has a government to topple or an emperor to kill....]

So have you just been really bored?

[finatic]

[he wanted to commit a murder but the game ended... does that count?

but in sum: BOOORING]

Well I haven't been having the time of my life.

[sunshrouded]

I don't think you know how to.

[Tenka just laughs at that though.]

Have you at least been finding food okay?

[are you ready to be kumou'd]

[finatic]

[uh oh that's a warning sign!! he knows all about you Kumous and your food offering--]

I'm a murderer, not an idiot. [not a word] Are you serious?

[sunshrouded]

I dunno, I think murdering is a stupid life choice.

[listen, no one can ever say that Kumou Tenka isn't honest]

But yeah, I'm serious. If you aren't killing anyone, then you shouldn't die or be in pain either.

[finatic]

[god... mind your own business Tenka

there's another solid pause here though, because Kagami honestly doesn't comprehend this logic.]

That's it? It's not like I became a good person overnight. I'm not sorry for what I've done.

[sunshrouded]

Even I didn't say you were a good person.

But you can be a flawed person and still deserve some food.

[though he'd still prefer that the murdering be at a halt]

[finatic]

I know how to get food. [this conversation just keeps taking a turn for the grumpy... he hasn't hurt anybody, so-!!]

I'm not your business, you know. You ought to stop.

[sunshrouded]

Ought to stop what?

Making sure you don't pass out from starvation?

[this is like the lowest level of kumou-ing right now]

[finatic]

[it's too much for his tiny shark brain]

Sure, you can call it that.

[sunshrouded]

.... you're not used to people caring about you at all, huh?

[What a sad thought for the sad shark....]

[finatic]

[Nobody asked for your pity, Tenka!!]

Nope, I'm not like you. [SHRUGS...] But I'll pass on the charity, anyway.

[sunshrouded]

[ and that just manages to make Tenka snort ]

Trust me, you don't really have the face that begs for charity. That's not why I'm doing this.