[ well. she is beelining towards Jonas, but once she catches sight of him, she kind of just stops. awkwardly. and stands there for a while, trying to figure out what exactly she wants to do or say. ]
So...you remember us again yet?
[ she tries to sound nonchalant but it it is. not working. ]
[ he's outside in the park, amazingly. on a bench. vibin. here's your meta.
he. still doesn't quite look normal? it's like halfway between his normal teen appearance and a man in his mid-20s, maybe someone 21-22 age range. some of the scars on his face have reopened, but appear to have been attended to and are slightly more fresh than they were. he's in the green seeds coat so it's hard to see anything else that might have occurred, but there's fresh blood on the back at least. so something happened there. ]
...it comes and goes. It's not really like we didn't remember. More like everything was a memory that was way far behind us. [ ... ] Are you okay? Are you healed up?
...Mizuki said it was like a century. Was it really?
Also, yes, I'm all healed up now, aside from feeling like a giant bruise. But you-- are you bleeding right now? Did you get yourself hurt after we got back?!
About a century and a half, maybe? I think all of us stopped counting after a point when it stopped making a difference.
[ but he shrugs. ]
Good. I'm glad. You...got pretty banged up in the end. [ as for the rest. ] Kazuki and Vash helped patch up everything that reopened. I think...going backwards and settling back into this time meant that some of the old wounds rewound, too.
Seriously? [ well that's not fair. but also maybe that makes more sense than fuck 150 years. ]
We had heals, too. Nahri was pulling a lot of weight covering for us when we needed her to. Those guys got some good shots in at the end. [ and he's still kind of mad about it. ]
We've had some practice. [ but he thinks about this question carefully. ] ...No Man's Land is a place where it's every man for himself, Valerie. You should know that. We trust our own and that's about it. For a while we were just not sure if you were considered our own.
My memories of the Reaper's Game are more clear again, yeah. Or, at least, I remember more of them now that we're back and we're seeing everyone who's here.
No. It was just the three of us when we got to New Arkansas, and we saw your guys' wanted posters and their missing person posters. We went to look for...well, any of you, but then we all got caught and dragged to their leader.
We'd already been there for like eighty years by the time we even saw our own posters. [ point-blank. ] We...never even knew about the cult or whatever you want to call it. We were just trying to survive for a while.
We were born? [ dryly. ] We did everything we needed to do to survive. Some people took that less kindly than others, even though they might've been initially nice to us in the first place. We moved around a lot. Stayed in different towns, left when we were told our stay wasn't welcomed, got chased out of other places...stuff like that.
After we ran into Knives, Vash found us and saved us. Took us to a ship and we lived there for another sixty years...didn't see him for a long time either. I think he finally stuck around for our 150th birthday.
We probably thought about it once or twice, but none of us are that great at giving up on stuff at any given moment. We kept going because there wasn't another option.
Even then. [ he hates that, still. ] I'd love to pretend we could get lucky for once and people would decide to take a week off, but this game's never been that kind.
[ and then, more seriously: ]
Stay safe tonight. We've all been through...an experience. It's probably going to change a lot of things for us going forward.
It's not just you. It's all of us. We're all a little more vulnerable and not in peak condition, so...yeah, maybe I'm a little more worried. Is that such a bad thing?
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So...you remember us again yet?
[ she tries to sound nonchalant but it it is. not working. ]
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he. still doesn't quite look normal? it's like halfway between his normal teen appearance and a man in his mid-20s, maybe someone 21-22 age range. some of the scars on his face have reopened, but appear to have been attended to and are slightly more fresh than they were. he's in the green seeds coat so it's hard to see anything else that might have occurred, but there's fresh blood on the back at least. so something happened there. ]
...it comes and goes. It's not really like we didn't remember. More like everything was a memory that was way far behind us. [ ... ] Are you okay? Are you healed up?
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Also, yes, I'm all healed up now, aside from feeling like a giant bruise. But you-- are you bleeding right now? Did you get yourself hurt after we got back?!
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[ but he shrugs. ]
Good. I'm glad. You...got pretty banged up in the end. [ as for the rest. ] Kazuki and Vash helped patch up everything that reopened. I think...going backwards and settling back into this time meant that some of the old wounds rewound, too.
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Yeah, well, we had heals even while we were back there. You guys were worse off by the time we got back here.
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We had heals, too. Nahri was pulling a lot of weight covering for us when we needed her to. Those guys got some good shots in at the end. [ and he's still kind of mad about it. ]
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...what was up with you guys there, anyway? It's like you were ready to throw us to--to the gunfire.
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We've had some practice. [ but he thinks about this question carefully. ] ...No Man's Land is a place where it's every man for himself, Valerie. You should know that. We trust our own and that's about it. For a while we were just not sure if you were considered our own.
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What actually happened on your side of things? Who was that dude?
[ he means danny. which, sorry again. ]
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[ he was only worth 2.99, why did we curbstomp him so bad!!!! ]
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Were they...like. With you guys at the beginning before you lost them?
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We'd already been there for like eighty years by the time we even saw our own posters. [ point-blank. ] We...never even knew about the cult or whatever you want to call it. We were just trying to survive for a while.
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God...what did you guys even do to warrant getting them in the first place?
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We were born? [ dryly. ] We did everything we needed to do to survive. Some people took that less kindly than others, even though they might've been initially nice to us in the first place. We moved around a lot. Stayed in different towns, left when we were told our stay wasn't welcomed, got chased out of other places...stuff like that.
After we ran into Knives, Vash found us and saved us. Took us to a ship and we lived there for another sixty years...didn't see him for a long time either. I think he finally stuck around for our 150th birthday.
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I don't know what I would've done if I'd been there for 150 years. Probably just lay down in the sand and hope it suffocated me.
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Even then. [ he hates that, still. ] I'd love to pretend we could get lucky for once and people would decide to take a week off, but this game's never been that kind.
[ and then, more seriously: ]
Stay safe tonight. We've all been through...an experience. It's probably going to change a lot of things for us going forward.
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What, you mean disappearing to go to Desert Planet means I'm more likely to get killed tonight?
[ LOWE YOUR CYOA CURSE-- ]
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It's not just you. It's all of us. We're all a little more vulnerable and not in peak condition, so...yeah, maybe I'm a little more worried. Is that such a bad thing?