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[OPEN] Infinite in distance and unbound by death
Who: Jaune Arc & You
When: IC: 7/18 - 19
Where: Various
What: Jaune can't even die properly and now he's out and about - strangely better than ever.
Rating/Warning: None!
ʜᴏsᴘɪᴛᴀʟ.
ᴠɪᴠɪᴅ.
ᴀᴄᴀᴅᴇᴍʏ.
sᴀɴᴄᴛᴜᴀʀʏ.
ᴄʜᴜʀᴄʜ.
When: IC: 7/18 - 19
Where: Various
What: Jaune can't even die properly and now he's out and about - strangely better than ever.
Rating/Warning: None!
ʜᴏsᴘɪᴛᴀʟ.
[ The last thing Jaune remembers is coughing up blood, his insides slowly rotting away while his weird immune system (read: Aura) tried fighting against it. Whatever Clarke gave him to drink also seemed to change him slightly, but that effect seems to have worn off by now.
Now, three days after apparently dying in one of the most painful ways, Jaune can be seen walking around the hospital. A strange sense of deja vu hits him as he recalls being bound to a hospital after his previous interlude experience, too. That time, he didn't die, though, and recovery was a little slower, which... makes this all the more strange. How does recovering from death make him feel better than ever?
In fact, should anyone decide to visit him, expecting to find him bedridden or hooked up on some IV, then they're in for a surprise. Jaune is walking around in his hospital garbs, greeting some of the staff members he recognizes and helping patients who are worse off than him.
You may find him doing various things as he waits to be discharged, from doing wheelies in a wheelchair that wasn't meant for him, cursing at the vending machine because it doesn't serve patients for free, or telling jokes to a group of patients who are probably high on painkillers. ]
...I looked at his burger, and then I said-- I said, man, you're gonna need a bigger mouth!
[ The audience laughs. ] I love these guys...
[ Alternatively, if your character is also hospital-bound, they could be sharing a room! ]
ᴠɪᴠɪᴅ.
[ Hospital shenanigans outside, Jaune isn't left unaffected as he appears on the surface. He's always been okay with the concept of dying-- or rather, he always knew what he signed up for. If there ever comes a day in which he needs to give up his life for the people he wants to protect, then that's just what a Huntsman is supposed to do. Which is why it bothers him so much that he got killed the way he did. It felt pointless. Why did his Aura, which is supposed to be a manifestation of his own soul, not fight back hard enough?
Could it be that he just didn't train hard enough? He's aware that he skipped more Aura lessons with Pyrrha than he should have, focusing on improving his swordplay instead. Now that she's gone, he needs to practice every department more than ever. Skill, Aura, leadership, teamwork... and what better place to do all that than in a game of ViViD?
So if your character is up for some gaming, they'll find themselves randomly paired with Jaune, who seems more focused and determined than usual. ]
Hey.
[ (If you choose this prompt, I'll try and write a unique scenario for every thread!) ]
ᴀᴄᴀᴅᴇᴍʏ.
[ Look, training isn't just about getting stronger physically! Education is important, too, which is why Jaune is quick to return to school so soon after his recovery. LEARNING IS IMPORTANT.
Haha, just kidding. It's only half a day later and he's involved in a food fight inside the cafeteria. Even though he normally doesn't do well in these, it's nice to be reminded of home a little.
Jaune flips one of the tables and jumps behind it like a barricade. There's a slushy dripping across the side of his face as he counts his "ammo" (just random food particles). Your character can either be hiding with him or firing from the other side. ]
Alright! I got seven nuggets!! [ He... eats one of them mid-sentence. ] --Six nuggets. And a carton of chocolate milk. Augh, where's the mashed potato?! I need it, I need it now!
sᴀɴᴄᴛᴜᴀʀʏ.
[ Normally Jaune doesn't spend too much time in the sanctuary, the place can get a little too tinfoil-hatty for a guy who naively takes everything at face value. More than that, he sometimes starts feeling strangely ill if he hangs out in it longer than necessary. It's probably just him, though.
He also figures there's going to be another mass gathering here in the coming days, assuming there were other people who got kidnapped as well. If not, then he needs to at least tell some of his friends about what happened. What if he randomly dies again without sharing everything he knows?!
This all sounds well and urgent, but if you happen to see Jaune in the sanctuary, he'll just be... mopping the floor and cleaning the walls. What? It's therapeutic! ]
More pizza leftovers... I wonder if we can order McCeres for the next group meeting... n-not that I, y'know, dislike pizza or anything. ... Also, why am I talking to myself.
ᴄʜᴜʀᴄʜ.
[ Jaune isn't religious by any means, and the building itself isn't dedicated to any particular god. What he does like about this place is the sense of community, as well as the idea of keeping faith and hope strong.
Jaune wonders if he started a trend here or if it's just normal thing that happens, but ever since he put up a small photo of a missing Pyrrha on the walls, others have been doing the same. Eventually it became a memorial wall for those who have fallen or gone missing from Cerealia, with Jaune even updating Pyrrha's status from Missing to... well, resting in peace. Around her picture are the names of his other friends carved: Sousei, Tenka, Peko, Zack, and many more. Rapunzel is the latest addition, and there was also Weiss' name, but it's been crossed out. Twice. ]
It looks like this place still isn't done with me yet, huh. Man, this is gonna get confusing...
[ Quietly, he wonders if anyone would even add him to this little shrine if he doesn't come back someday. It's not like he talks about this special place with anyone. ]
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... Sounds like another crazy CERES thing, huh... what happened next? Robo...dogs?
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There was this... wall, I guess? We kinda smashed through it and found a building of sorts.
Naturally, we smashed through that, too. [ Naturally??? ]
Well! More like, I... opened the door, with... my foot, and... okay, I kicked it open, it was awesome but that's not the point.
...Isn't that weird, though? Why do you think it was walled in?
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[Clearly this is what she should fixate on at this point in time.
And then a whisper--]
And it really worked. Just like in the movies...!
[Focus, Ruby Rose.]
... Oh. But yeah, that sounds pretty weird. Sorta like it's not supposed to be found by anyone... not just us. Right?
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--y-yeah, that's... I'd say that's pretty much the case, considering what was waiting for inside. A bunch of robots warned us to stop, and then these... guard dogs came out. They were like... half-robot and half...not? Their insides were gross!
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... Okay, so you were somewhere you weren't supposed to be...and you kicked open a door and there were guards... and you beat them, right? Is that why there were guts.
Then what?
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...
Well. No, that... that doesn't really explain how I'm here, heh. I kinda shouldn't be.
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[...]
Oh.
Jaune, did you... [Die?] I mean-- ... I don't really know, honestly. [How it works, or why Jaune is here.] But you are. You're still breathing, right? Heart beating, everything in order?
Because I think...that's what really matters.
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I'm still breathing, Ruby. But just... can that really be all that matters? Jaune Arc - the first huntsman to cheat death. It doesn't seem fair.
[ Also, not a huntsman yet, kid. ]
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But... that doesn't matter either, right?
[Whether he's the first or-- or not, or something else entirely...]
You're not supposed to die here, you know? I'm sure of it. I know that. Everyone still needs you back home too, and this place is... I mean, it's not the real story! It's just a side story.
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So meeting Naoki and Hiro is just a side story, is it?
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[Don't fluster her like that! She fumbles for a moment before she huffs, crossing her arms and figuring out what she wants to say properly.]
... I think they're just here to come along with us to the real story too, somehow. Even if they have to go home too for a bit until we can figure it out--or because they have things to do, or all of that.
The people we met here are important too, and I'm sure we'll figure it out. When we win.
[Which they will. The good guys always win.]
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[ Sadly, not everyone will be back home when they win. There are some things people can't come back from, even if Jaune just proved the opposite. Still, Ruby's words leave a positive effect on him, which is not the first time she's done that, so he simply smiles gratefully. ]
Thanks, Ruby. I won't let you down.
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When would he ever let her down?]
I know you won't. You'd never let me down, Jaune.
And I won't let you down either. It's a promise.