Keiichi Maebara (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
breaks_destiny) wrote2010-11-07 08:47 pm
breaks_destiny) wrote2010-11-07 08:47 pm
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008th Shattering * Action/Audio (forward dated to Monday)
[He felt something was wrong the moment he woke up and Haruki was nowhere to be seen. The guy had a knack for waking up first and lately had kind of gotten the habit of chilling close to Keiichi until he woke up. It was reassuring, to wake up and always see the other around. It made him less scared of Hanyuu going back in a matter of days, because Haruki would still be there.
Haruki was permanent. Until Keiichi gets up and checks his room, only to find it eerily and familiarly empty.
He doesn't stop to wonder about if Shiki and Neku are still asleep or not, Keiichi ransacks the room completely, as if expecting everything to be hiding somewhere, for Haruki himself to be hiding. He finds some things but none of them bring up hope to him. A Malnosso report... Pictures of all the members of the brigade, some he knew, some he didn't and guesses were former members... And letters to Haruki's father... There is no way Haruki would left those behind if he had a said in the matter.
Still that didn't stop him from trying to find the guy somewhere at the village. A hopeless search that finds him running around, checking empty houses and apartments. It would be far easier if he could teleport around or something.
Eventually though he gives up and finally opens his journal. He pauses for a second and puts up a half-hearted filter, unable to come up with anything better right now.]
[Voice || Filtered from Winry || 30% Unhackable]
Those who knew him. Haruki Suzumiya has gone back home.
[His voice is serious and partially broken, but still firm.]
SOS Brigade, I know I'm not one to say this but I hope all of you attend to today's meeting at least. [At least. What is going to happen with the Brigade? Will Taichi go on with it or will it crumble without Haruki?
Really, how can a person with so much impact on this just go back home like that? Keiichi can't even try to think up of all the people that has been left behind right now. There's a special someone thought, to whom he has to talk in person.]
[Filtered to Winry || 30% Unhackable]
Winry, where are you? I need to talk with you.
[ooc: Question for Brigade members!]
Haruki was permanent. Until Keiichi gets up and checks his room, only to find it eerily and familiarly empty.
He doesn't stop to wonder about if Shiki and Neku are still asleep or not, Keiichi ransacks the room completely, as if expecting everything to be hiding somewhere, for Haruki himself to be hiding. He finds some things but none of them bring up hope to him. A Malnosso report... Pictures of all the members of the brigade, some he knew, some he didn't and guesses were former members... And letters to Haruki's father... There is no way Haruki would left those behind if he had a said in the matter.
Still that didn't stop him from trying to find the guy somewhere at the village. A hopeless search that finds him running around, checking empty houses and apartments. It would be far easier if he could teleport around or something.
Eventually though he gives up and finally opens his journal. He pauses for a second and puts up a half-hearted filter, unable to come up with anything better right now.]
[Voice || Filtered from Winry || 30% Unhackable]
Those who knew him. Haruki Suzumiya has gone back home.
[His voice is serious and partially broken, but still firm.]
SOS Brigade, I know I'm not one to say this but I hope all of you attend to today's meeting at least. [At least. What is going to happen with the Brigade? Will Taichi go on with it or will it crumble without Haruki?
Really, how can a person with so much impact on this just go back home like that? Keiichi can't even try to think up of all the people that has been left behind right now. There's a special someone thought, to whom he has to talk in person.]
[Filtered to Winry || 30% Unhackable]
Winry, where are you? I need to talk with you.
[ooc: Question for Brigade members!]
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What?! You said that girl wasn't out to kill him!!!
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What? How would you put me in a freezer? You would have to find a big one or cut me in pieces or something. That's just crazy.
[What crazy ideas do you get in your head, Minato?]
[Voice, filtered]
I want to talk to you after your meeting.
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[What, he's not being paranoid. Not at all.]
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[Action]
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How are you doing?
[he's not going to take whatever Keiichi says at face value, though. brb checking for syndrome symptoms]
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Not as bad as it could be. Seems most of the Brigade will remain, we will manage it somehow.
[But that's not what you were asking about, right? Keiichi eyes you seriously.]
I never thought this could happen, I just... Assumed he had become permanent here or something. One of the few things that would never change.
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[Haruki could be annoying, and difficult, but he'd never even thought about him leaving. He was too stubborn for that.]
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Honestly, if I had ever even considered this possibility I would have bet my soul to that I would go instant berserk or something, without turning back. But now that it has actually happened... I haven't felt my mind this clear in months.
It's not that I don't care, it hurts and all, and I feel confused and lost and scared... But I also know what to do and where to go, I don't know how to explain it. When Rena left the last time I... Just couldn't see anything but now I see at least a path under my feet if you know what I mean.
[Action]
[His smile is a little empty too, but for different reasons. He's not lost or scared. This is just one more disappearance in a long string of people leaving his life. Even if it was sudden it's just another incident to put behind him and now it's time to focus on taking care of the friends he can still see.]
But it's good to hear.
[Action]
However, any annoyance he has goes through the drain in the next second. hasn't he seen this before? Someone who should show some reaction remaining mostly cold and distant at first sight? Where had it been? Where-... Ah, that's right. Rika. It takes him a moment to be sure, her expression reminded him of Bernkastel but the witch's eyes were too empty, different from the expression he had in his mind now. When had it been? When had he seen it?
Many times actually, hadn't he? Many worlds, at different times. An expression he never paid attention to, that was in the background of the whole scene. Like when they found Rena cutting two corpses in pieces and she told them her story... Rika had had a distant expression, as if unaffected, it had been for a second, for a moment but... It had been there. And at other times... He could almost see her, standing by the window, looking at them from the distance as he tells them his plan to get the government to help Satoko who was in the claws of her uncle... Satoko's uncle, huh? He hadn't seen him directly, not in this life at least.
Excuse Keiichi for apparently losing himself in thought for a while, Minato. he'll talk eventually thought, his tone rather cryptic.]
How many times has it happened to you? People leaving you behind? You seem almost unaffected by this, after all.
[Is it an accusation? Or just a statement? There's a difference betwen Minato's attitude that reminds him of Rika's and Rika's attitude back then.]
But what I'm hearing doesn't match the way you seem to be now.
[Action]
It always happens eventually.
[but that's a depressing line to leave on Keiichi, so he adds] But that's okay. Memories don't change.
[Action]
[Keiichi replies sharply, before he smiles confidently and proudly.]
Or until you smash destiny with your own hands. If it 'always happens eventually', then just stop it from happening. Miracles don't come to those who don't work for them, you know.
[He won't leave, destiny or whatever force is working against them. He won't leave, he has decided that right now and he will prove that he can change anything close to destiny once again.]
You'll see. You'll leave and return several times before I set foot out of here for even a second! It's a man's promise!
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I know that. That's why I said that. After all, the way this place is supposed to work we could get to live a long life here together with friends we would have never met otherwise and, once we're old and satisfied, return to our worlds to... Dunno, continue with whatever we were doing?
Like keep on living to a future with a wife and a child who would get a name I wouldn't remember where I picked it up from but that I had to give him no matter what... Or like traveling through places endlessly... Or like existing in a plane where no one would see or notice you, being trapped there forever... Or like to be dead...
[A depressed sigh assaults him here.]
Not all of us have a world to return to, actually, or rather a life to return to... But if we got to be able to have a long life in this place, even if it's a prison, then it would compensate it all? In some universal karmic way or something, because if we get to break destiny by remaining here for so long, maybe we could also break it and remember everything upon returning anyway.
[A pause and then he scratches his head.]
Ah, I bet you think I'm just being an idiot. Whatever, let's change the subject! You wanted to talk with me for something?
[If not he'll be the one to start.]
[Action]
I wondered what you're planning now. Are you staying with Shiki and Neku?
[Action]
Shiki and Neku are good people, but we both know I stayed there mostly because Haruki. Without him here... I may not have flipped but I don't trust myself to not do it later or something.
[An embarrassed pause.]
I was kind of going to ask if you had a couch where I could crash for today.
And to ask you if you knew of any free houses close to yours so that I could move there with Hanyuu. With her with me and having you close enough to help us if anything happens, it doesn't sound like a bad plan to me.
[Action]
I can do better. We have a futon.
[as for the second question] ...I think next door is free, actually.
[Action]
A futon? Yeah, that does sound better.
[A smile, okay so he didn't think Minato would say no but still, he isn't really comfortable having to be so dependent.]
How is it? It's just Hanyuu and me but extra room wouldn't hurt in case some miracle happens and someone else comes.
[Someone who's not Takano.]
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