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estoria2015-04-22 08:52 pm
luckybreaks) wrote in estoria2015-04-22 08:52 pm
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Who: Makoto Naegi and OPEN.
When: 12/24 & 12/25 icly.
Where: Various places.
What: Naegi tries to make sense of things. Or at least fumbles around for a few days trying to make the best of things...same difference!!
Rating/Warning: He's fairly mild but will probably think about murder game trauma being that's a thing that just happened. Probably Dangan Ronpa spoilers but just lemme know if you need me to avoid those (though I'd caution you away from any castmate threads if they happen in that case).
a; grocery shopping (12/24)
b; shopping for something else (12/25)
d; wildcard
When: 12/24 & 12/25 icly.
Where: Various places.
What: Naegi tries to make sense of things. Or at least fumbles around for a few days trying to make the best of things...same difference!!
Rating/Warning: He's fairly mild but will probably think about murder game trauma being that's a thing that just happened. Probably Dangan Ronpa spoilers but just lemme know if you need me to avoid those (though I'd caution you away from any castmate threads if they happen in that case).
a; grocery shopping (12/24)
[ This is not Naegi Makoto's lucky day. He's a fairly terrible ViViD player, as he quickly finds out - game over, because he can't bring himself to attack someone really, and it takes him a while to actually get through things. After that is the power point that seems like it honestly could be an extension of the Mutual Killing game, except for the part where no one is insisting he try to kill anyone (except maybe aliens?) so that's...that's an improvement, but it still doesn't feel very lucky at all. Especially given that the powerpoint covers the end of his world - which, well, didn't he just do this...
...But this is even more literal than the last time, so. Okay. That's a thing. Following that, he can't locate anyone he knows. He tries their names on the CereVice, tries to ask around about the classmates he's misplaced, but there's no real luck there (ironic, given his talent) and while Naegi doesn't believe they're dead or lost to him forever, he does have to admit that at least immediately he might have to focus on something else.
Like picking an apartment, mostly at random (though nothing fancy, in the same way he'd picked a job). And acknowledging that he was hungry, and had to eat. Since he'd been supplied with credits enough for that (though he's going to be frugal, not knowing how long he's there), Naegi heads out to pick up some food since it seems to be left to him to do it...which is actually a nice change of pace. He looks more than a little lost and weirded out even as he locates a store, though. It's...strange. Being outside of Hope's Peak. Nice, except for the whole world-ending and missing classmates thing, but really strange. When was the last time he saw the real sky...? Or a sky that looked as real as this one?
A while, for sure. But Naegi's fascination with the sky is not really useful at this juncture, because he apparently is not skilled enough to walk while staring up and not become a catastrophe. Because that would be just his luck. It's not so much that he trips - although he seems to - but that one of the bags he's carrying breaks - why this - and several bottles of cherry-vanilla cola begin rolling free. Along with several more ordinary and healthy-ish groceries. Sorry if something rolls into you. Or if the short boy chasing after his scattering things gets in your way and trips and/or hinders you, he doesn't intend to do that... ]
A-ah, wait! [ Because talking to the groceries that roll away from him will stop them, clearly.
Honestly, he might also just run into people while looking up and/or around, in which case he'll always immediately stop and begin apologizing. ] I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going... [ And who knows, maybe his bags break. AGAIN. Sorry if he drops a can of soup on your foot or something. Or he just looks apologetic and also lost, how the hell does he get back to his apartment again why this. ]
b; shopping for something else (12/25)
[ Having at least succeeded in getting groceries into his apartment (whatever mishaps happened, at leas the was determined to do that) Naegi ventures out again the next day in the morning, clutching a packet. He'll eventually hit up shops, and can be found taking things out of the packet - specifically, he's trying to find photo frames that will fit a variety of dumb pictures from the manilla envelope he'd been carrying around. He's apparently brought them along to double-check for size, so it's possible to catch a glimpse of them as he frowns and tries to find things that work.c; bike shop (12/25)
...Simple black frames should be all right, right...? But single frames, or one of those photoboard...things? ]
Ah...pardon me! Do you think a collage would look nicer in an apartment...? Or single frames...? I've never really been in charge of decorating anything. [ His parents had done that...well, and he'd never really done much out of the ordinary with his own room. Hadn't had many photographs, either. ]
[ Well, he can't count on those credits to last forever. Even if Naegi hasn't bothered to buy anything other than groceries and photo frames (he...bought a few clothes, but nothing major and mostly jeans and tees, he's very simple in terms of fashion), he doesn't want to do nothing and he should probably at least try to get involved in whatever all this is so he'll better be able to help his friends. Whenever he finally finds them again.
So he's sitting behind the counter of the shop, his nametag pinned to his shirt as he flips through the employee manual, looking more than a little nervous. Those nerves won't abate if someone comes in (what if they ask him something hard) but he'll try to smile all the same. Why are you buying a bike on Christmas? Why is Naegi bothering to do something like go in to work on Christmas? Who knows. ]
Er, welcome! Can I help you with anything?
d; wildcard
[ If you have your own scenario in mind, feel free to throw it at me and I'll roll with it. ]
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[Hinata gives him a small smile before he starts explaining again.] The reserve course was a way for Hope's Peak to get funding. They'd charge huge fees but they'd allow regular students who hadn't been scouted to attend the school. Then, when they'd graduate, they'd have the prestigious name of the Academy on their records...
...But, those students were taught by regular teachers like in any high school, and weren't treated the best.
[A pause--] I was one of them, for a while.
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That...actually answers a few questions about the school's funding. Then, you weren't scouted for a talent? [ This doesn't seem to bother him but this kid also just randomly got a letter because of a lottery so...it's not like he can talk. ]
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No, [shaking his head.]
Going to Hope's Peak was always my aspiration [a nigh-on unhealthy aspiration in some respects], so... I studied a lot, and I paid my way into the school.
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I see...well, it's not like I really was scouted for a talent, either. Rather, I don't think "luck" qualifies. [ Although he and Komaeda are doing very well at being unlucky in the same proximity in another thread. ] So she ran a game in that course...?
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Not exactly, but they're important to what happened. They were the ones who rioted. She exploited their feelings at being treated how they were. But... Hope's Peak was researching talents at the same time they were trying to nurture them in students.
[He frowns, waving one of his hands.] They wanted to see if they could... well, make a genius out of an ordinary person.
[Questionable Policies... and Practices Academy strikes again.]
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...Er...by having other students teach someone else their talents...?
[ He's not thinking questionably enough for this... ]
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Think more... extreme. [...] They took a volunteer for their project from the reserve course students and operated on--
[...well, it's not like he's going to hide it. That's certainly not accepting what's happened in the past. And Naegi deserves to know.]
Me. On my brain.
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I-I see... [ his expression very clearly says NO I DON'T SEE WHAT EVEN. apparently naegi lived in a sci-fi even before cerealia. ]
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[Hinata trails off and looks over at his face oh Naegi. He reaches over to tentatively thump at his shoulder as though in commiseration. Imagine hearing what you yourself had done from Enoshima tho Naegi, he's had a long time to mull over it--]
They suppressed about everything that made me me to make room for talents, and I was taught off somewhere secluded from the rest of the school... but Enoshima knew about it.
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Naegi never knew how insane until...well, everything. ]
...And she used you somehow?
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...Yeah. As part of her first mutual killing. It was me, and the student council... and by the end of it, it was only me and the president left alive.
[...] She showed the reserve course students what had happened, even though Hope's Peak tried to cover the incident up. She played off of all their feelings of inferiority and frustration with the school, making it worse and worse until they started rioting... and from that, it gradually spread out as the students from the school who were already in despair, part of "Super High School Level Despair" helped...
It started off as inequality, but soon enough, people forgot what it was. It turned into war without meaning.
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He's also not sure how to take the news about the first mutual killing. But he'd...never blamed the victims or the culprits entirely. Or much at all. The blame had always laid at Enoshima's feet, for Naegi. ]
When it comes to manipulating people, she's very good at it. After all, for two years, we... [ Hadn't noticed a thing, apparently. ]
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[His skin crawls to recall it now, and there's a colder feeling of muted disapproval in his head, still vaguely separate from himself. That title. Helping Enoshima. Giving up so much of himself--]
Even after she died, she had things prepared... [A click of his tongue against his teeth.]
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I see, so...that's your past. [ Clearly, Hinata will have a brighter future...!!! He'll just believe in that. Somewhere, Kirigiri and Togami are probably shaking their heads. But they went along with his rehabilitation plan, too...
Groundless Faith, a novel by Naegi Makoto. ]
By "things" you mean that AI you mentioned...?
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Yeah... [He's frowning as he nods] That AI. I think it was... [From what future!Naegi had said (now he has to make the distinction in his head).] ...that she took the technology to develop it from Fujisaki.
[A beat--] He was... actually involved in the development of the New World Program.
[Unflinchingly he says 'he' too... because he'd known Chihiro, in Haven, after he'd already started wearing boy's clothes instead.]
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I see...since Fujisaki already would have made that technology before our game...
[ Since it hadn't taken him that long to create an AI in-game. He probably had already created it outside of the game. ]
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[Hinata glances over at him with a faint frown.]
He made two AIs for the program... one of them is a close friend of mine, who did a lot for us. Though she isn't here. [Nanami. At once, that familiar pang, that want to talk with her again.]
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[ He'd be happy. There's a small smile. ]
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I'm really grateful to him, too. [Along with Naegi. But before he starts to think too long about it, he shakes his head.] Are there other things you've got questions about?
[Probably nothing but, but--]
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[ He's not 100% sure how to take it other than being relieved that they are (?) looking to their futures (?) and also honestly he's...got a lot of thinking to do about Hope's Peak in general. And Enoshima. He only today finished the final trial, and now all this...
...it'd be nice if he could discuss it with the others. ]
They'll also recognize me...?
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[But he won't say too much about it besides the nod of confirmation.]
I don't think all of them will... but Kuzuryuu and Souda, definitely. And Komaeda. [Since they did encounter Naegi in Haven once before, and besides that, Komaeda had a good look at the information on the other class.
Tanaka knows of it as well, but Hinata's not certain if he'll remember right away. Hmm.]
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Thank you for chatting with me about it, anyway. I know it's...probably not easy.
[ Honestly, he can't really imagine explaining the mutual killing game to anyone...especially not straight away. He imagines Kirigiri and Togami would have more questions, but he doesn't really want to force it.
And also his head already hurts enough for the day. ]
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It's... not, but I can't expect to be able to move forward unless I accept what's happened in the past.
Part of that's telling you and your class about it. It might be as hard to hear too, but I want you to know about these things.
[It's something he keeps in mind a lot-- while he doesn't go advertising his past over the network, when it comes to telling someone who was involved... like Naegi, well, he'll speak about it readily, because he deserves to know.]
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[ Somehow, he doesn't think Togami would take that explanation well...though Asahina, say, might do about the same as Naegi. And yes, he says when instead of if...clearly they will come here too, okay. ]
Or, er, I'll do my best.
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[Hinata looks at him in surprise. Can you believe he doesn't get this offer very often, well, Hinata may be the best equipped to explain it out of everyone and some don't know it all but--]
...Are you sure?
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