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[secondnature]

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@jughead.jones

[drivein]

Hey man.
That whole thing was pretty harsh. You wanna- I don't know- get out or something?

[secondnature]

Uh, sure.

Yeah. Let's do something.

[drivein]

So, what do you do outside of the whole saving people thing?

[ not at all knocking it, because saving people is kinda what he does in his free time while he solves mysteries with his girlfriend. ]

@noctis.sky

[fessus]

Hey what's up?

[secondnature]

I don't know. It's hot. I got a knife from my weird chest thing.

Mostly it's hot.

Why?

[fessus]

[ ......... ]





What?

@ciri.lla

[persists]

I need your help, but I've already readied for bed. Are you home yet?

[ "Home" — it's a casual second nature to her, but she knows that's a lie for now. That word. Instead, she doesn't dwell too much on that. ]

It's about that... MMO what-have-you.

[secondnature]

If it's about usernames, just use your name. It's fine. They'll get over it.

[There is a brief second where he debates trying to fill out the rest of the MMO-whatevers, but he can't remember them either.]

[persists]

No, no. It's not just that. I don't understand it. It seems like it's something whimsical like an author writing a character for their book.

Or.

Or a character in a playwright's latest feature.

Am I overthinking it? I'd like to not look as some... fool.

@kara.lang

[crisised]

remember that conversation we had about flying?

is that icon mark bagley

[secondnature]

I remember.

What happened? You're opening with that for a reason. Right?

no but it sure looks like it

[crisised]

right!
something from home showed up that i want to show you

surprise action.

[igf]

[ after four days in the safehouse, shiro's getting a little stir crazy. and he's run out of things to distract himself with. this could very easily lead him down some nasty mental paths, so instead he thinks about keith. he wonders how keith's doing, if he likes his job, if he's adjusting well to this crazy mess, if being experimented on has left any lasting effects on him, and so on and so forth ad nauseum.

no, really.

a little into his wondering, shiro feels a weird kind of tug or twist in his stomach. not exactly like nausea but sudden and disconcerting enough that for a minute, he thinks he might puke.

he doesn't. instead, he blinks and suddenly he's not on his cot in the safehouse. nope, he's about a foot or so off the ground next to wherever keith currently is, about to land flat on his ass. surprise!! ]

[secondnature]

[Keith's heading around the block from the grocery store near his apartment when Shiro shows up right in his path. His eyes widen, fingers tightening around the tote bags that he carries for these occasions, and he moves forward, crouching down to the now-landed Shiro.]

What—how did you get here? ... Is it even safe to be out yet?

["Do you exist yet, Shiro?" So to speak.]

Wait. Back to the first question.

[igf]

I have no idea. [ no, really. this is not something done deliberately or something he was prepared for. he's in his bare feetsies, for crying out loud.

shiro carefully pushes himself up and looks around. ] I was just--thinking. About you. And now I'm here.

@noctis.sky, post-event shh I'm not late

[fessus]

Hey Keith

[secondnature]

[One week later.]

Noctis.

I vanished. Like a lot of other people have. I wrote about it on the network.

I said I'd talk to you after everything. I couldn't.

[fessus]

You don't have to explain, okay? I just saw it

Idk what I understand about it but if you'd remembered to message me after that I would've been amazed. That's

listen, Keith, you wanna talk about it?

[rehandle]

@stephen.strange has mentioned you.

@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

hey

...i know you were friends with him and all so i thought you should know
noct's gone

[secondnature]

[Two of his closest friends here now gone. First Ciri, now Noctis. Though Keith has grown past a lot of his early-life abandonment issues, it still hits hard. And in nearly the same way.

What does he even say? His interaction with Prompto is largely neutral, and at least partly because he was friends with Noctis.]

I'll keep that in mind.

[Flat and unemotional. See, Noctis would know that's not how he's acting or thinking, but he doesn't know what else to say.]

[mercurio]

[it feels a little empty to leave it at this, all things considered.]

[but it's hard to try and be convincing about how it's not all bad or negative, considering he's having a hard time convincing himself that it's okay.]

i know you mentioned someone you knew leaving several weeks back

i know there's no one that could replace noct and i'm not trying to do that
but if you need anything... well, i'm around

[batricide]

Kogane.
There's something I want to talk to you about.

[secondnature]

What is it?

[batricide]

What is your read of the displaced as a group?