[ HELP that's...fair. he looks a little surprised and then he kind of remembers that nobody on hanako's trip got prizes and he's like "oh, duh." ]
Okay. So have you heard about how people tend to disappear on Thursday and they come back and they're usually pretty injured because they went somewhere else and had to find their way back?
Right, exactly. Reigen and Will and I went on one, but the one we went on kind of involved the story of someone with an ability to...kind of act like a Ditto. Change into whatever was necessary, or whatever they wanted. [ granted it was traumatic and bad and full of murder but whatever. ]
When we finished what we were meant to do and saved who we were meant to save, we were given items that matched the vibe of the story. It happened when I went to the casino with Whisper and Hans, too. That's where the king card came from.
[ He's just imagining the three of them traipsing through the city with a pink blobby thing, and can't quite take it seriously. ]
Oh...
[ thinks about his own cyoa ]
... We tried to save Rita. I think. [ ?? ] But then Ryuki blew us up and we became ghosts. At the very end, we got the chance to redo everything. I guess by then it was too late, though.
[ he didn't feel bad back then, but he kind of does now, getting Ryuki and Rita killed over nothing ]
[ that's fair, he'd rather hanako think about that rather than what happened. ]
...you think? [ how does he not know. well, those things do tend to screw up memories so. ] Ryuki sort of explained things to me but not very much. If you could redo it again though then...does that not mean you went back to the start?
I don't think Ryuki is one who handles stress well, so that doesn't surprise me very much. [ he just comes out to say it. ]
...that sounds pretty awful though. Having to be displaced like that while keeping the memories of the before times. [ he does not say he thinks he knows exactly what their adventure was inspired by either even though he has an extremely good idea. ]
...[ he has to really think about this because that's such a weird grey area for him that he doesn't entirely know where to put himself. ]
No, when you phrase it that way I suppose you're right. Knowing that people you care about are safe is more important than yourself. It would almost be harder to still be around knowing they might not have.
It's Fridays for me. On Saturdays and Sundays, at least we're doing something...
[ Saturdays they tackle the mystery, knowing that they're working so hard to proactively send one of their friends to death. Sundays make a mockery of it, forcing them to cheer for one person over another, regardless of their past deeds.
[ he considers this for a moment, reflecting on the varying fridays where he has laid in bed with will to brainstorm all of the ways they're going to catch a murderer on saturday while being sad they've lost people.
maybe hanako has a point. ]
"Doing something" is a very generous way of putting it but I get what you're saying. An attempt being made instead of waiting around helplessly for something else to happen.
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[ what adventure!!! he doesn't know, he never exists on thursdays aside from that time he died ]
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Okay. So have you heard about how people tend to disappear on Thursday and they come back and they're usually pretty injured because they went somewhere else and had to find their way back?
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Yeah. I went on one with Ryuki and Rita. We died.
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When we finished what we were meant to do and saved who we were meant to save, we were given items that matched the vibe of the story. It happened when I went to the casino with Whisper and Hans, too. That's where the king card came from.
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Oh...
[ thinks about his own cyoa ]
... We tried to save Rita. I think. [ ?? ] But then Ryuki blew us up and we became ghosts. At the very end, we got the chance to redo everything. I guess by then it was too late, though.
[ he didn't feel bad back then, but he kind of does now, getting Ryuki and Rita killed over nothing ]
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...you think? [ how does he not know. well, those things do tend to screw up memories so. ] Ryuki sort of explained things to me but not very much. If you could redo it again though then...does that not mean you went back to the start?
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[ Hanako didn't understand it at the time, but now he does. Ryuki probably talked about it as much as Hanako did, which is not very much at all. ]
There's no such thing as starting over. For us, it was simply a continuation... for everybody else, a new beginning.
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...that sounds pretty awful though. Having to be displaced like that while keeping the memories of the before times. [ he does not say he thinks he knows exactly what their adventure was inspired by either even though he has an extremely good idea. ]
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[ like, it could've gone so so much worse? they tpk'd but he still thinks it was a good ending ]
We got to save Yashiro... and my brother. And Hung and Tama, too. Knowing that they'd be safe is more than worth it, even if we were displaced.
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No, when you phrase it that way I suppose you're right. Knowing that people you care about are safe is more important than yourself. It would almost be harder to still be around knowing they might not have.
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[ does he get survivor's guilt every weekend? no. but maybe he should ]
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On what sort of occasions?
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[ the fact that he can wake up, and knowing that one of their number would never wake again. ]
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I've been trying to decide what's worse. Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. So far it's been a three-way tie.
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[ Saturdays they tackle the mystery, knowing that they're working so hard to proactively send one of their friends to death. Sundays make a mockery of it, forcing them to cheer for one person over another, regardless of their past deeds.
Fridays he mopes. ]
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maybe hanako has a point. ]
"Doing something" is a very generous way of putting it but I get what you're saying. An attempt being made instead of waiting around helplessly for something else to happen.
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[ I love Fridays though, either I'm dead or I can catch up on other things bc everybody else is mopey, it's a win-win
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...hey, Nico?
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...what's up?
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...we're running low on time. Is your team okay?
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We have a little time still, don't we? [ this isn't really an answer. ]
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[ Next week would be a waxing gibbous, and the week after that... the full moon ]
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Worried?
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[ His team never had the pressure on them, being tutorial, and it feels like it only gets harder and harder each week ]
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We'll be okay. I don't like waiting either. [ not to mention how unfair all of this is for everyone. ]
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