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...no more games, I guess.
Somewhere it's not night all the time.
Somewhere it's not night all the time.
[ mostly just looking at the pictures of cobalt specifically; she knows him well enough to recognize his face, mostly, but she doesn't know most of pep very well otherwise. (she's also not particularly looking for her own face, but she'll look if she notices any.)
that said, while she's looking through them she'll also pause at the bamboo. and, uncertainly, she'll pick up a tag and a pen and write in small letters, trying to fit everything, it's a bit cramped:
keep loving strongly
if i were able 2 lovemaybe yo
i co
maybe 1 d
...
gives up and just ties it on as is, but. heads back up to the upstairs room where the notebook is again. ]
that said, while she's looking through them she'll also pause at the bamboo. and, uncertainly, she'll pick up a tag and a pen and write in small letters, trying to fit everything, it's a bit cramped:
keep loving strongly
if i were able 2 love
i co
maybe 1 d
...
gives up and just ties it on as is, but. heads back up to the upstairs room where the notebook is again. ]
That sounds really nice.
[He wanders over to a couch that currently exists and makes himself comfortable at one end, gesturing a suggestion of an invitation in case Thorn would like to join.]
If you got offered a chance to graduate, what do you think you might choose?
[He wanders over to a couch that currently exists and makes himself comfortable at one end, gesturing a suggestion of an invitation in case Thorn would like to join.]
If you got offered a chance to graduate, what do you think you might choose?
I don't know. I guess I haven't thought about it a whole lot.
Have you?
Have you?
Edited 2021-02-08 21:04 (UTC)
[Well, she's curious about how she happens to figure in these...]
I've been rolling it around in my head a little.
[He reaches his hand out and the notes from the table vanish in a flash of light, reappearing in his hand as if he were recalling his shuriken.
He offers the notes to Thorn]
It's all just a thought exercise, though.
[He reaches his hand out and the notes from the table vanish in a flash of light, reappearing in his hand as if he were recalling his shuriken.
He offers the notes to Thorn]
It's all just a thought exercise, though.
[He takes the notes - searches Cobalt's face, then glances down and starts to read]
[On one piece of paper:
On another piece of paper:
To Do:Tell Lumen I love himMarry Lumen
Tell my unitmates I love them
Tell my friends I love themFind out what happened to Eos
Find my family
Tell my family I love them
Regain my memory
Escape Imeeji with Lumen
Start a new life
On another piece of paper:
Hell option
Pros:
- I can travel anywhere I want, maybe find a new home
- I can look for my family
- I can try to find a way to improve living conditions in Imeeji and other programs; more ability to influence things from the outside?
- Demon powers?
- Better able to work toward overthrowing Hell?
- Can come back to visit friends in Imeeji
- Can visit friends who have been transferred
- I get a wish? What do I wish for?
Cons:
- Work for Asmodeus
- Forever
- Anubis would be disappointed in me
Heaven option
Pros:
- Don’t work for Asmodeus OR Pythia
Cons:
- Can’t return to Eos, so where do I go?
- Possibility of getting pulled back into Imeeji
- Can’t look for my family
- Can’t return to visit friends
Defeat Hell
Pros:
- Liberate everyone
Cons:
- How?
- Are we responsible for this now? gross
[Reading through it, thoughtful]
[(Possibly, his cheeks flushed a little, at the first part,)]
[At length:]
...yeah. That about sums it up.
[(Possibly, his cheeks flushed a little, at the first part,)]
[At length:]
...yeah. That about sums it up.
If you ever have any thoughts or opinions on the matter, let me know?
I know there's no real way to predict the future, but sometimes is fun to imagine anyway. So far, all I know about my future is that I want you in it. So, what you want out of life is important to me, too.
Your desires are my desires.
I know there's no real way to predict the future, but sometimes is fun to imagine anyway. So far, all I know about my future is that I want you in it. So, what you want out of life is important to me, too.
Your desires are my desires.
[It's easy to find pictures of Cobalt because he's in most of them. These are all his photos, after all, and he was there when they were taken.]
[The Wild City section isn't actually very big. There are a lot of pictures of Talon, though — Cobalt and Talon trying in vain to get a plush from a crane game at the arcade; Talon hanging out at the pep dorm when it was covered top to bottom in lanterns, just like this house is now; one where Talon is a mermaid and he's shooting a huge coeurl with a squirt gun. A bunch of miscellaneous ones where they're hanging out and having cookies or shooting the shit or whatever.
There are a couple pictures of Coyote, though not many. There's one of her and Cobalt playing games together in the arcade, and a a handful of pictures of her and Yugi hanging out, looking cute. There's a picture of her at her graduation.
And, of course, there are plenty of pictures of Nychta. There's one of her being a wallflower at prom, wearing a leopard-print dress. There's her in a skirt at the water fight at the lake, and one of her sitting on the ground with a coeurl sitting beside her, his massive head in her lap and making a blissful cat face while she pets and cuddles him. There's a picture of him sitting beside a chimaera, and one of Nychta wearing his pajamas and bundled under some blankets in the pep dorm. There's one where Cobalt and Nychta both look older, chilling in the onsen with some sake. There's another where they're both in the onsen again, but Nychta's straddling his lap and neither of them are wearing anything at all (when was this taken? goodness.)
There's a picture of the day Nychta came back from her transfer, and the image is a little blurry, like he was a little too excited to hold the camera steady.]
[The bamboo looks cheerful with your tag upon it. It looks like a bamboo that will keep loving very strongly indeed.]
[You can head back upstairs whenever you're ready.]
[The Wild City section isn't actually very big. There are a lot of pictures of Talon, though — Cobalt and Talon trying in vain to get a plush from a crane game at the arcade; Talon hanging out at the pep dorm when it was covered top to bottom in lanterns, just like this house is now; one where Talon is a mermaid and he's shooting a huge coeurl with a squirt gun. A bunch of miscellaneous ones where they're hanging out and having cookies or shooting the shit or whatever.
There are a couple pictures of Coyote, though not many. There's one of her and Cobalt playing games together in the arcade, and a a handful of pictures of her and Yugi hanging out, looking cute. There's a picture of her at her graduation.
And, of course, there are plenty of pictures of Nychta. There's one of her being a wallflower at prom, wearing a leopard-print dress. There's her in a skirt at the water fight at the lake, and one of her sitting on the ground with a coeurl sitting beside her, his massive head in her lap and making a blissful cat face while she pets and cuddles him. There's a picture of him sitting beside a chimaera, and one of Nychta wearing his pajamas and bundled under some blankets in the pep dorm. There's one where Cobalt and Nychta both look older, chilling in the onsen with some sake. There's another where they're both in the onsen again, but Nychta's straddling his lap and neither of them are wearing anything at all (when was this taken? goodness.)
There's a picture of the day Nychta came back from her transfer, and the image is a little blurry, like he was a little too excited to hold the camera steady.]
[The bamboo looks cheerful with your tag upon it. It looks like a bamboo that will keep loving very strongly indeed.]
[You can head back upstairs whenever you're ready.]
[There are many, many pictures of Moxie up here!
There's a picture of her fist day in pep!, still wearing pajamas while standing on a chair to menace Cobalt face to face. There's pictures of her and Cobalt making cookies, and her first ride in the van. Pictures where they're feasting on yakiniku at the department store, and having burgers at the Bad End dorm. There's pictures of her racing a very tiny, child-sized version of Cobalt through the street, and another where she's zapping Gladio for having the nerve to wake up in the pep dorm with no memories. There are pictures of her hanging out with the other peps, and playing games, and harassing people in Lives, and having snacks.
In all these pictures she looks really happy, and surrounded by people who love her.]
There's a picture of her fist day in pep!, still wearing pajamas while standing on a chair to menace Cobalt face to face. There's pictures of her and Cobalt making cookies, and her first ride in the van. Pictures where they're feasting on yakiniku at the department store, and having burgers at the Bad End dorm. There's pictures of her racing a very tiny, child-sized version of Cobalt through the street, and another where she's zapping Gladio for having the nerve to wake up in the pep dorm with no memories. There are pictures of her hanging out with the other peps, and playing games, and harassing people in Lives, and having snacks.
In all these pictures she looks really happy, and surrounded by people who love her.]
Awwww, Colby!
[Well, who else features, besides her?]
[Well, who else features, besides her?]
Yeah, well.
...same. If you ever narrow it down, I want to hear.
...same. If you ever narrow it down, I want to hear.
[Here at this end of the photo wall, there will be a lot of familiar faces! It has all the same photos of the collage back in the real pep dorm, but more, as if someone was able to capture a bunch of moments even when a camera wasn't present.
Here in the pep section, you see Yugi, Wednesday Ren, Glacies, Gladio, Pink, Senpai, as well as Dawn, Sunrise, Sunshine, Sunset, Sunlit Prism Geodude, and Lyra. Some of these pictures look really old, way before Cobalt acquired antlers, where he looks skinny and sick just like the guy you saw in the plaza. In those pictures, you can recognize Pink and Senpai, but everyone else in the picture is from before Moxie's time.
As you look over the rest of the wall, you can see the rest of the pictures are grouped by unit. You find photos the following people (many of whom have graduated or transferred by now):
Lilis - Amaranth, John, Noctis
sensitIV - Anubis, Persphone, Lavender, Leviathan, Sekhmet, Izanagi
Taisho Roman Revolution - Sol, Fox, Kaguya
BAD END=DEAD END - Tatsuya, Nine-Nine, Joker, Phoenix, Silk, Thorn, Hardcore, Hellfire, Jack. (There are also a lot of pictures of Senpai mixed in with these, where he's wearing Bad End clothes and clearly living in their dorm.)
future is now - Intensity, Angel, Shogun, Duality, Kharg, Jason
WILD CITY - Talon, Nychta, Coyote
☆ZRAEL - Sabre, Requiem, Aradia
Heart Soldier Senshi - Hiryuu, Hurricane, King, DVa
AlcheME! - Eclipse, L, K, C
avante en garde - Cardinal, Gold, Nemesis, Mike, Shrike, Griffin
BARiTONES - Manhattan, Paloma, Alexander
And finally, in a place of honor at one end of the photo wall, you can see pictures of Cobalt as a fit, healthy, athletic-looking teenager, spending time with his parents (who you may recognize as the dark-haired woman and bespectacled man from the living room.) There's one with him and his mom both wearing suits at what looks like a fancy gallery opening, with food, flowers, live music, and enormous, vividly-colored impressionistic paintings on the walls behind them. There's a picture of the three of them sitting at a wrought-iron patio table, drinking tea in the garden of this very house. There's are a whole bunch of pictures of Cobalt and Thorn, both healthy young adults whose faces are yet untouched by scars, sharing a holiday feast with both of Cobalt's parents. The house in the pictures is covered in lanterns and bellflowers, just like the house you're in right now.
Everyone looks really, really happy.]
Here in the pep section, you see Yugi, Wednesday Ren, Glacies, Gladio, Pink, Senpai, as well as Dawn, Sunrise, Sunshine, Sunset, Sunlit Prism Geodude, and Lyra. Some of these pictures look really old, way before Cobalt acquired antlers, where he looks skinny and sick just like the guy you saw in the plaza. In those pictures, you can recognize Pink and Senpai, but everyone else in the picture is from before Moxie's time.
As you look over the rest of the wall, you can see the rest of the pictures are grouped by unit. You find photos the following people (many of whom have graduated or transferred by now):
Lilis - Amaranth, John, Noctis
sensitIV - Anubis, Persphone, Lavender, Leviathan, Sekhmet, Izanagi
Taisho Roman Revolution - Sol, Fox, Kaguya
BAD END=DEAD END - Tatsuya, Nine-Nine, Joker, Phoenix, Silk, Thorn, Hardcore, Hellfire, Jack. (There are also a lot of pictures of Senpai mixed in with these, where he's wearing Bad End clothes and clearly living in their dorm.)
future is now - Intensity, Angel, Shogun, Duality, Kharg, Jason
WILD CITY - Talon, Nychta, Coyote
☆ZRAEL - Sabre, Requiem, Aradia
Heart Soldier Senshi - Hiryuu, Hurricane, King, DVa
AlcheME! - Eclipse, L, K, C
avante en garde - Cardinal, Gold, Nemesis, Mike, Shrike, Griffin
BARiTONES - Manhattan, Paloma, Alexander
And finally, in a place of honor at one end of the photo wall, you can see pictures of Cobalt as a fit, healthy, athletic-looking teenager, spending time with his parents (who you may recognize as the dark-haired woman and bespectacled man from the living room.) There's one with him and his mom both wearing suits at what looks like a fancy gallery opening, with food, flowers, live music, and enormous, vividly-colored impressionistic paintings on the walls behind them. There's a picture of the three of them sitting at a wrought-iron patio table, drinking tea in the garden of this very house. There's are a whole bunch of pictures of Cobalt and Thorn, both healthy young adults whose faces are yet untouched by scars, sharing a holiday feast with both of Cobalt's parents. The house in the pictures is covered in lanterns and bellflowers, just like the house you're in right now.
Everyone looks really, really happy.]
[She goes over them all, pleased to see all the good moments that are captured.]
Ya got so many friends, Colby. . .
[Then she pauses and kind of squints at the one with Thorn. Then points at it.]
Wait. I know this guy. I swear I seen 'im somewhere afore.
Ya got so many friends, Colby. . .
[Then she pauses and kind of squints at the one with Thorn. Then points at it.]
Wait. I know this guy. I swear I seen 'im somewhere afore.
[Idk who she's talking to, but conveniently, Cobalt happens to be nearby as he floats around the party. He sees her pointing.]
That's Lumen. He's on Bad End now. See?
[He points him out in the Bad End section. There are soooooooooooo many pictures of him actually.]
That's Lumen. He's on Bad End now. See?
[He points him out in the Bad End section. There are soooooooooooo many pictures of him actually.]
Alright. Promise.
In the meantime, come here?
[He reaches out his arms, inviting Thorn to come sit with him on the couch]
In the meantime, come here?
[He reaches out his arms, inviting Thorn to come sit with him on the couch]
[Honestly, she's talking to herself. So she jumps when someone actually answers her.]
Whuh--Colby. . .? Weren't ya just outside defending the city?
Whuh--Colby. . .? Weren't ya just outside defending the city?
[ she. does pause-- she didn't expect that many pictures at all. Or the ones of Coyote, which she sort of... frowns lightly at, rueful, before going back to the rest.
... but also squinting at the onsen pictures, because she remembers the FEELING, secondhand, from his feelings, but she genuinely has no idea who this woman is. she can barely recognize herself in the mirror-- it's only the crocodile tail that makes her suspicious and confused. when did this happen...?
...
she goes upstairs, after a bit. ]
... but also squinting at the onsen pictures, because she remembers the FEELING, secondhand, from his feelings, but she genuinely has no idea who this woman is. she can barely recognize herself in the mirror-- it's only the crocodile tail that makes her suspicious and confused. when did this happen...?
...
she goes upstairs, after a bit. ]
[This version of Cobalt looks much closer to how he appears in Imeeji. Which is to say, healthy, buff, and friendly, as opposed to the one in the plaza who was none of those things.]
Well, some part of me was. But I've been here this whole time.
How ya doin?
Well, some part of me was. But I've been here this whole time.
How ya doin?
So ya sayin' there's more'n one of ya runnin' about?
More like, everything here is all part of the same person. Me, the guy in the plaza, all the people here, the house, the city... all of it is different parts of a dream, but all belong to the same dreamer.
So which part are you? 'Cause ya got a different look than the last Colby.
I guess you could say that I'm like the core personality.
That guy in the plaza, Ascensuri — his job is to protect the city and keep everything running. And my mom over there looks after this house and all the people in it, including me.
My job is just to hang out and have a good time I guess, haha.
That guy in the plaza, Ascensuri — his job is to protect the city and keep everything running. And my mom over there looks after this house and all the people in it, including me.
My job is just to hang out and have a good time I guess, haha.
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