GRAVEYARD

[retellers]

GRAVEYARD Well, that sucked. But no matter what your death was like—whether it was something peaceful or traumatic, you'll find yourself waking in a completely white room on the floor. Small and empty, there isn't anything else there besides an open door to walk through. But before you do that, you'll probably notice that whatever injuries you may have had, including whatever may have been the death blow, are now gone. That's exciting. Stepping out of the room, it seems that you're in a large... house? with three different floors. Everything from floor, ceiling to furniture is completely white, except for the drawings that are plastered to the walls in each room. These are all colorful, drawn in colored pencils and crayon, and resemble a child's drawing. The other notable thing are the windows. While they're present all around the building, looking out of them only shows TV static. Besides that, everything is furnished with the absolute bare minimum of each room. The first floor is all typical common areas one would find in a house. There's a kitchen, living room area, laundry room, dining room, and a main hallway where the stairs are. There are also helpful drawings in these rooms that show the rooms much more lavishly decorated than they actually are. There's a door that appears to be the way to exit the building, but it leads you to somewhere that's not the front lawn. The second floor consists of nothing but twenty bedrooms. Each room has one queen sized bed, an empty dresser, and an attached bathroom with only a sink, toilet, and shower. Like the first floor, each bedroom has drawn pictures that show it looking much more lavish than it actually does. Thanks for nothing, artist! The third floor only has two rooms. One appears to be a home office with nothing but a desk and two chairs, one behind it and one in front of it. On the desk are some blank pieces of paper along with crayons, as well as a written note next to them that says PLEASE DRAW THE PREFERRED ANIMAL :). It looks like this is how you ask for a meeting with a Leader. The other room is much larger, and it's completely empty save for the many drawings lining its walls— in fact, the walls are covered in them, much more than in any other room. On closer inspection, though, it seems like these aren't actually drawings? The papers seem to be showing scenes from the living area. Everything from inside the hotel to the areas beyond the bridge are visible here. However, when curfew hits on Thursday nights, they revert to being normal drawings! Except for the fact that they're all drawings of stick figures being murdered in various ways. Well. At least there's plenty of things to draw with, if you get bored. As of Week 3, each person has the ability to send messages on their PHS unlocked.

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[heartablaze]

[She watches him just slowly sour the longer she goes, but is it truly a surprise at this point?]

Then don't. Fight for them.

...

I know that's easier said than done right now, and I'm just telling you a lot and none of it is, um... tangible. But...

If you could do anything right now... what would you want to do?

Would you wanna burn this place down? Slam down the walls of the house to try to find what's beyond the borders, try to find the leaders or the realm or the monster and let yourself face it all without bothering to know why?

Or would you want to make sure you had some sort of plan... if not for yourself, then for everybody you care about?

[Because as much as she calls him a dummy, as much as he calls himself useless... he hides a clever and desperate mind behind everything else.]

[suddenlybees]

[ He does want to burn the entire place down, yeah. But only as a statement; in practicality, it's a waste of his efforts, and he is not the sort of person to pour energy towards something without reason.

It takes him a bit to come up with his answer, but in the end, it's

"I'll think of one"

He's already thinking of one- nothing concrete, lots of backup plans, mostly he wants to find the monster and punch it on the nose and tell it to stop? Can't make a plan without information, though, and their source is still their leaders.

"We'll see what tomorrow brings."

No other choice but that. ]

[heartablaze]

Mmn. The more we know, the more confidence we can have in whatever choice we make.

[She plucks the rest of the sausage from the stick, scooting over in her seat to flop down next to him on the sand on her side, forehead half-pressed against his shoulder - contact for the sake of it, giving him a minute of privacy.]

It's okay to not feel okay about it right now, though. To feel at least a little useless...

I... I think we're all scared of that.

[suddenlybees]

[ Maybe it's okay, but it still feels bad. Everybody here feeling useless and scared...

Things were better when he was busy setting Vezda's pants on fire. At least being mean to Vezda made him feel productive, and it gave everybody something different to focus on too- a tangible villain, and a concrete solution that's putting Kano in a headlock or whatever.

He traces the letters "brb" on Hikaru's palm and he's going to go throw sand in Vezda's face in the another thread before coming back to this one. ]

[heartablaze]

[:(

you know what makes her feelings stop being feelings

More marshmallows in her mouth. :(]

[suddenlybees]

[ Hikaru eating her feelings while Kano bullies people ):

We're coping, fam ]

[heartablaze]

[gonna eat sugar until she gets a stomachache and then what is she gonna do

The answer is not setting Vezda's pants on fire, at least.]

/2

[heartablaze]

[anyway whenever he comes back from making bucky irrationally angry again, she's still laid out on the sand, rolled onto her side to keep her weight off her bad shoulder. if he sits back down, she's just holding out her PHS to him]

[suddenlybees]

[ He takes her PHS and if there's nothing on the screen, he pockets it. ]

[heartablaze]

[there is something on the screen you jerk]

whyd you tell me not to trust him

[suddenlybees]

[ Oh. Fine, he'll just hold it close to his stomach so nobody else can see it, then, reading the words and then backspacing so he can write too. ]

He did something unforgiveable to somebody important to me and doesn't remember.

[ It's a petty grudge. Telling Hikaru's because... well. Raven's original message said "Stay safe." and Kano'd always intended on keeping the message relatively intact. ]

[heartablaze]

[That's fine, there is an obvious reason she is using the PHS. She'll think on that for a second.

has he laid back down or is he just standing there with her PHS like an asshole. if its the latter she's just gonna jerk her head to the side quietly, a request for him to please sit down]

[suddenlybees]

[ He is standing there like an asshole but goes to sit down. What do you want!! ]

[heartablaze]

[to talk, what else

she is grabbing her PHS back, but only long enough to erase what he said and scoot in so their shoulders touch, close enough so she can hold the phs out of snoopy eyeballs range and type where he can watch.]

how do you know he forgot

have you just tried asking him to apologize

[suddenlybees]

We talked!

[ sort of!! ]

He denies doing anything.
I don't want his apology.
Apologies don't fix anything.

[heartablaze]

not to you

to your special person

the person that he hurt deserves more of an apology than you do dont they?

[suddenlybees]

I guess.
I'll still be mad at him though.

[heartablaze]

thats ok

id be really mad too

but if your special person really is that important you should stand up for them directly

if vezda doesnt understand who was hurt and why then of course he wont change

[See: her hitting him in the nuts with a broom handle when he was trying to kill kano. Sometimes you need to be direct about your intentions.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano can't punch people, he probably tucks his thumb when he throws punches ]

I won't spoonfeed him answers.
If I do, he won't think carefully about who he hurt and what he did.

[ Shuuya Kano does not spoonfeed! He makes things needlessly complicated for no good reason /: ]

[heartablaze]

you cant just let him guess wildly either you know

context is important or you can just make the whole thing confusing and worse

why do you think I ask you so much

[suddenlybees]

Because you're nosy.
I'm not interested in forcing Vezda to change.
I'm allowed to be mad about past actions too.

[heartablaze]

you just said you wanted him to think though

wanting someone to reconsider and change how they do something isnt always bad you know especially if its for the sake of somebody else

and its mad people that can make that stuff happen



im not nosy

i just wanna understand you better and i cant do that by guessing

i already hurt you and the people you care about enough by doing that

you say a lot more with your face sometimes then you ever do with your words but i cant read your mind

[suddenlybees]

You're super nosy!
Didn't I tell you to quit it with trying to understand me?

[ Or did he just imply it bc he never says anything outright. This is as direct as it comes, though ]

[heartablaze]

not like that you dummy

knowing what you think and whats important to you just means i can treat you better thats all

i cant keep my promise to you otherwise and you tell me stuff that contradicts a lot so this is just my middle ground

i know theres stuff nobody can know but youll tell me if you cant

so isnt it ok to just be you as best as you can and let people meet you where you are?

[suddenlybees]

Can't be the best me if I don't know who that is!
It's the same with you, isn't it?

[ Hikaru with her zero memories. Kano with his too many memories but also no sense of self. ]