Group intro

[oi_theoi]

Who: Newbies
When: Day 35, late afternoon
Where: Shrine room
What: =Db

[=Dbbb!]

[ Lumi | Fiore | Minami "Ikko" Itsuki | Dekarta ]

Comments

[storming_in]

. . . Are you a secret Noyamano they've been hiding from me?

[leapsandbound]

... no? I'm Akito and Agito's mom ...?

[storming_in]

[storming_in]

[giving her an intent look over]

You look like them . . . but you're too young to be the mom of that crocodile of a brother they've got!

[leapsandbound]

... brother ...? [blinks, then --]

[realization dawns, and she leans in closer, somewhere between actually whispering and only stage-whispering:] Ohhhh. Uhm. It's a long story, he's not actually their brother ...

[storming_in]

Eh—was he a kidnapper?! I wouldn't put it past that guy!

[leapsandbound]

Ah ... this is really awkward to explain ...

That's my boyfriend, and if he shows up here I'm going to kick his ass ...

[storming_in]

I'm really confused.

[leapsandbound]

[looks sheepish]

Ah ... I guess it's a little confusing ... he probably said that to protect them. If they didn't know, then they wouldn't be curious, and they wouldn't go looking, and if they didn't go looking, the Takeuchis would never find them ...

We're all dead here, so it doesn't matter, right? He's not their brother - he's their father.

[storming_in]

Why would—. . . What do you mean we're all dead?

[leapsandbound]

... I mean exactly what I said. We all died and now we're here, Ikko.

[storming_in]

No . . . That was—That was a hallucination. That thunder kid fucking with me one last time.

[leapsandbound]

[i have no idea what you're talking about but]

... not this time. Sorry. Not everyone expects to die when they do.

[storming_in]

[nooooo this is the worst thiiiiing]

[leapsandbound]

[well, i'm just going to pull you into a loose hug, then]

[storming_in]

[Yeeeaah she's too shaken up to resist at this point]

[leapsandbound]

[lets this state of affairs last a bit longer than she'd planned, out of consideration]

[then slips her arms away, putting her hands gently on Ikko's shoulders, reassuringly - and headbutts Ikko in the forehead]

[storming_in]

[sdflhglkhd?!?!]

Wh-What the hell?!

[leapsandbound]

[taking a deep breath, rather comically snorting from the depth of it, before launching into ... well, this:]

So what if you died? You're still alive!

You're still always going to seek that sky, aren't you? Are you gonna let a little thing like dying get in the way of that?

The only place to go if you can't see the sky anymore is to die! You're a Minami, right? Well, I knew a Doctor Minami once! A Minami should be a "god" among "mortals", not someone who gives up so easily! It's just dying a little! You got over it!

Clench your teeth and pick yourself back up! No one ever found the sky by waiting for it to get better!

[storming_in]

. . . It's not just missing that sky. I promised I'd save someone. What's . . . going to happen to them now?

[leapsandbound]

Well, the worst possibility ... they come here someday, too.

But the best possibility is ... someday, when this sky's free, maybe you can go back and finish your plans. They're gods, right? Anything's possible in the right wind.

[storming_in]

You're the second person who's talked about gods today.

[leapsandbound]

Oh? Yeah, their shrines are all around here, along the walls. See?

They're real! And sometimes invisible.

[storming_in]

. . . What proof have you got?

[leapsandbound]

For which part?