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三村信史 Shinji Mimura ([info]bakuhatsushinji) wrote in [info]chaosunraveled,
@ 2008-05-13 22:59:00

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Entry tags:finished thread, light, rating: pg, setting: niflheim, setting: niflheim's kitchen, shinji

Who: Shinji, Light and {OPEN}
Where: Niflheim
When: A short while after his arrival
Rating: PG (will be changed if necessary)
Warnings: None
Summary: Shinji figures he should take a look around

He'd felt like he'd needed to get out of 'his' room. He wasn't entirely sure whether he'd ever be able to refer to it as 'his' room, not in the way his room back home had been his; his parents had more or less left him alone, and he'd always looked after it well enough. His mother had never been interested enough to pay that much attention to how it was kept, and his father was never there. The maid they had to keep the house tidy had never complained and he was perfectly aware that he was possibly slightly anal when it came to how things were kept. His room here? He couldn't say he currently liked it. It was dark - darker than his room back home, and it made it feel small, but that wasn't the issue, nor was the rather unusual style in which the room had been built. The issue he'd had, was with the blood stains he'd quickly discovered. He'd attempted to clean them, but the simple fact they were there was more than enough to make him want to not be there. If he were to be quite honest, he wasn't sure whether it was the blood itself (after all, he knew he wasn't squeamish), or the fact that it reminded him too much of where he'd come from; the sight of Yutaka and Keita led on the ground, the sight of his own blood.

He couldn't say, though, that from the brief time he'd been wandering (rather aimlessly, he had to admit), he was all that fond with the building. Sure, they were on hell's side, but did that seriously mean that everything had to appear so drab? You could be evil and still have a nice, airy, well-decorated HQ, surely?

Peering curiously at some particularly interesting choices of decoration, Shinji frowned, before continuing on his way. He had to admit, he wasn't entirely sure why he had been deemed suitable for hell's side. Sure, he'd made mistakes, he wasn't perfect, he'd killed (admittedly by accident, but he supposed that wasn't the point), and he'd planned on killing (and was incredibly miffed he hadn't succeeded), but, but, compared to the others he'd met over the network (he supposed that's what it was), he definitely did seem to be out of place. That wasn't to say he wouldn't defend himself, wouldn't do what he was asked if he could find a reason in it, but...

Posture relaxing slightly as he turned a corner and found what appeared to be a kitchen (before eating, he planned on inspecting everything carefully. He had the distinct feeling one couldn't be too careful), he figured there was a chance he was better suited here than on heaven's side, but he couldn't help but idly wonder if there was somewhere for people of a more neutral disposition.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-13 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Light had to admit that he hated the fact he still had to eat after dying. Why couldn't Lucifer make some tweaks to him? He found this to be a nuisance. He was in the middle of a reply to L when his stomach rumbled like crazy. He growled in annoyance as he finished the comment, closed out of everything, and made his way tot he kitchen.

He almost didn't notice the boy in the room, immediately walking to a cupboard and grabbing some crackers and smelling of them to see if they were okay. He just wanted to get this over with. Hell, Misa should would be useful now, wouldn't she? His poison-tester. 'Okay, Light-kun! I'll do anything for you!' She would squeal in delight as she'd eat the food..and if she fell over after a while and died, Light would only shrug and decide not to eat that. He'd also have to find a good taste-tester..but...well..he'd think about that later. The thought of Misa in that state actually brought a bit of a smile to his face. Which was rare at the moment.

She had always been such an annoyance.

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-13 11:18 pm UTC (link)
As he was opening one of the cupboards, the thought occurred to him that he could be eating someone else's food. It hadn't been mentioned - that was, buying food, who it belonged to - and regardless, Shinji wouldn't know where to go to buy food in the first place. Hand resting on a cupboard, handle, a slight frown appeared on his features as he contemplated the pros and cons of eating food that may well not be his for the taking. However, at the sound of footsteps and subsequent opening and closing of a cupboard, Shinji turned around, attention falling on a man who appeared to be of East Asian descent like himself.

Pausing for a moment, Shinji remembered that he had, over the network, spoken to (albeit briefly), a 'Yagami Light' (the unusual name had stuck out, and he the thought had entered his head that there were probably a very large number of people who, even upon learning the correct reading of the man's name, were incapable of pronouncing it right). Shinji wondered if this man was him, but knew that it never served anyone well to jump to conclusions and decided the leave out the mentioning of names, at least for the time being.

"Uh, can anyone eat the food?" He asked, shoving a hand into one of his trouser pockets, raising his eyebrows somewhat expectantly. It was odd, he noted, how much more one edge he felt to be, despite the fact that he was (technically) 'safe' here.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-13 11:28 pm UTC (link)
Light glanced up, seeing the other Asian for the first time since he'd entered. He licked a cracker experimentally and waited for a moment, as if expecting something bad. "..Well...so far it hasn't killed me. I've been eating from here for a while, but I still can't shake the feeling they'll try to poison me someday. Considering what I'm here for, I wouldn't be surprised." He offered him some crackers. "Here. These seem to be safe."

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-13 11:38 pm UTC (link)
Shinji watched the man's actions curiously, unsure as to whether or not he appreciated the frankness with which he spoke about his apparent misdemeanour's. Regardless, he supposed that didn't entirely bother him; past, technically, was past, and he imagined it would have little bearing on the future from here onwards (other than the fact it had landed him where ever he was currently). Taking the offered crackers, Shinji bit into the corner of one, regarding it for a moment. After a pause, he glanced back up, shrugging, a small, lazy and self-assured smile making it's way onto his lips. "Taste's better than government rations", he commented. "Thanks".

He wondered idly whether the other's comment with regards to poison and what he was 'here for' was an open invitation for Shinji to start questioning him about it. Despite the fact that he happened to like knowing what was important to a situation, what would help and hinder him, personal details were rarely at the top of his list unless they mattered. Currently, he wasn't sure the cause of the other's appearance here, much like his own, mattered a great deal, unless one or the other were that curious about it, or they had absolutely nothing else to talk about.

"Shinji Mimura, it's nice to meet you", he commented conversationally. Whether he had, in fact, already spoken to this guy over the network, he figured that introductions in person meant more anyway, and besides, a bit of politeness never went amiss, surely?

((ooc: I'll get to the next tag in the morning; I really ought to be going to bed now, since I have an exam tomorrow [today, technically D:]))

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-13 11:47 pm UTC (link)
((OOC: Okee))

"I would hope they taste better. We may be in a war, but good food is always welcome." He nodded. "Yes, you're the new person. Yagami Light. You may pronounce it as 'Raito' if it's more comfortable for you." He walked over to a nearby table and sat the crackers down, going in search for something a bit more filling.

"If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to know just what happened to cause you to be here. If it bothers you, you don't have to answer, I just prefer to know the people on my team as best I can. That can be hard sometimes, as no one seems to trust anyone here." He found various candies and canned foods and finally decided he really just didn't want to eat anything sugary or have to cook anything, so he sat down at the table.

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 05:23 pm UTC (link)
((ooc: ...Long comment is long :x))

Shinji nodded, both in response to the 'new person' comment, and with regards to pronouncing his name as 'Raito' if need be. He hoped his pronunciation of English, although accented, wasn't that bad. Whatever the case, Shinji saw little need to comment on either of the matters; stating the obvious wasn't something he was ever very fond of doing. Munching on a cracker, he wondered whether there was any rice around; he was fairly certain he'd be able to cook that at least (his Uncle had taught him a number of things, but when it came to cooking, he'd imparted only the most basic 'this is what you need to survive' knowledge. Shinji couldn't help but think that perhaps he'd been a bit complacent when it came to learning to cook).

Attention brought back to the present by Light's words, Shinji glanced up across at him for a moment, before redirecting his attention vaguely towards the floor. Well, apparently he'd read the situation entirely wrong (a fact that irritated him slightly), and it was to be a topic of conversation. Raising his eyebrows slightly, he glanced up at the ceiling for a moment (the decor in this room sucked as much as the rest of the building, he decided). Not bothering to question the 'my team' comment (who's team it was, he figured, didn't matter as long as no one felt it was fit to treat him like he was slow, or stupid, simply because he was a teenager).

"Long version or short version?" He quipped, brown eyes flickering over to Light briefly. It was more of a statement out of politeness than anything; the question and it's phrasing indicated to Shinji that Light was probably someone who liked to know precise details to form an evaluated judgement. Or something. He could, of course, be wrong on that matter; arriving here alone had shown him that there were far more unknowns than he liked to admit.

"I could go into more detail than this, but we'd both be here for a while. I'm working on the basis that you're not from the same... Whatever as I am, since comments on the network thing and me being here at all have kinda established that things here are pretty messed up on the whole 'what goes' scale of things", he started, leaning back against the nearest surface. "Basically, the Japan I come from - well, I say Japan, Japan's sorta the 'mother' country of a republic; the Republic of Greater East Asia", he shrugged. "Anyway, some years ago - I can't remember the year offhand, but it's not as many as they propagandise it to be - Japan was a country operating on a feudal system of government. Someone, a group of people, whatever, decided this wasn't particularly good, and they managed to get themselves in power. I don't know the specifics, it's kinda hard to find out things about the Party..." He paused, frowning for a moment, hoping that Light would be able to see the relevance of the background as he continued.

"The Party that came to power set up, of course, a one-party system with the 'Great Dictator' as leader. 'Course, there have been a series of 'Great Dictators', but the party, in terms of beliefs, stays the same. Strict fascism. Something like, probably, eighty percent of people's rights and freedoms are repealed, and so on. Whatever, this government at some point set up something that's commonly referred to as the 'Battle Royale Programme'. Most people don't like to talk about it, but it's not something the government makes any effort to hide".

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 05:24 pm UTC (link)
Shinji paused again, shifting his weight and glancing back across at Light to see if the guy was paying attention. He really didn't want to be wasting his breath. "Battle Royale, or BR, takes place every year, and fifty high school classes of third years are picked in an 'impatial lottery'. When you're picked, your class gets taken to a secluded area, like an island or something - we were told we were going on a field trip. Load of bull. Gassed, when you wake up, your teacher informs you that 'hey, guys, you've been picked, aren't you lucky. One of you is gonna live, the rest of you are gonna die'. We're all given a random weapon, a map, y'know, basic things that will help you 'try and survive' against your classmates and friends as you-" Shinji hesitated for a moment, pressing his lip into a tight line. "Y'know, fight to the death and the like. Oh, there's a collar that explodes if after the time limit, there's more than one kid alive".

Scuffing his trainer against the floor for a moment, Shinji seemed to inspect it for a moment before glancing up, a vaguely bitter smile on his face. "Guess who was unlucky, huh?" That, as they would say, was that. The impersonal version, of course.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-14 07:49 pm UTC (link)
"...I see." Light was quiet for a moment, as if thinking. "..This seems very illogical to me. They're getting rid of so many people they could use during war or the like....What exactly is the point of this 'Battle Royale'?" he asked calmly.

It seriously seemed to be a stupid idea..unless it was simply for amusement. he could understand if it were all people who deserved to die..but these were just normal high school students. Not every high school student did wrong things. Sure, several did, but normally not anything bad enough for the death penalty.

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 08:01 pm UTC (link)
Shinji let out a short, dry laugh. He wasn't sure they had been thinking when it had originally been thought up; an insane idea by a power hungry and corrupt government who simply wanted to prove what they were prepared to do, and could do, simply to show who was in charge, to scare the population into subservience. "The official line is to do with the military. The true reason is simply that they want to make the people afraid of standing up to the government. It works, but unfortunately I don't think they'd even need to do it for the majority of the population to blindly follow the government, anyway".

Taking another bite on a cracker, he studied it for a moment. "Just an exercise in power. 'Look what we can do, and you're too afraid of change to do anything about it'. Of course, I think it's also tradition, by now, or something", he added. He found it disgusting, in a way, how so many people were afraid of change, afraid that if they were to rise up and go against the government, that it wouldn't work, or that Japan would falter and become a 'nothing' nation. It might have had technology, economical power, but it had nothing to be proud of.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-14 09:15 pm UTC (link)
Light glared at his current cracker. "...People like that...I would have killed them without a blink of an eye back when I was in my world....I despised people who killed for no reason." He bit off it, almost as if it was the head of someone he was imagining. "..The government can be a very sick and twisted thing...That was one of the reasons I was going to take over as a god...Have a clean and righteous world everyone could be safe in...and not have to worry about going through the shit you did."

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Shinji's expression flickered for a moment, and he glanced up at Light, studying him carefully. He didn't know what to make of the other's words. Perhaps, he mused, that was the reason the other had been placed on the side of hell; killing people, even those that reason dictated didn't deserve to live, surely required even the slightest bit of second thought? That said, Shinji wasn't sure if he was entirely qualified to comment on the matter. As for 'taking over as a god'. Shinji frowned, running a tongue along his lips.

"Was that possible? Where you come from? To become a god, I mean", he asked, genuinely curious but choosing his words carefully. If it was, it would simply be yet another thing Shinji would mark up as being 'incredibly messed up' and simply try and not think about it too much. There were other, more important things to be pre-occupied with; the physics and manners of another world - one he wasn't in - wasn't something he should be wondering about.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-14 09:41 pm UTC (link)
"..I had a notebook of a death god named Ryuk. A shinigami. They existed in our world..unsure of yours. I used it to punish criminals. Most would use it to get rid of people they don't like..or other such things...but I was using it for the greater good of humankind.

"Some people didn't see it that way..and tried to catch me and give me the death sentence. I was going to become a god, and those who defy god should expect bad things. Several died int he process. I suppose that's just what happens when you go against rightful divine judgement." He breathed in deeply. "..I lasted over six years without being caught...But when I was...I was shot by one of my own followers and then killed by the death god I got the notebook from."

He went quiet, rolling a piece of a cracker between his thumb and forefinger.

"...Pardon my language..but life can be a fucking bitch if it decides to."

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 09:57 pm UTC (link)
Shinji remained silent as Light finished speaking, thinking over what the other had told him. He had trouble trusting people by nature to any great degree, and the Programme hadn't helped him with that matter at all, nor, he imagined, did the circumstances he now found himself in. Regardless, he couldn't help the almost instinctual feeling of cautiousness over Light's choice to phrase some of his comments the way he had - 'without being caught' - surely the idea of being caught for something implied that what one was doing wasn't approved of, or necessarily good.

Of course, it was obvious that no-one on this team was going to be perfect, but if everyone he met was going to set him on edge to a certain degree, he was going to have a very long time of it here.

Whatever. The things that had happened in the past, had happened in the past, right? And regardless of whether Light's turns of phrase at times were enough to make him do a double take, he struck Shinji as someone who was relatively reasonable (and technically, by Light's own admission, he was fair until you opposed him. Shinji guessed it was something to keep in mind).

"We don't have shinigami in my world", he commented eventually, before smiling wryly and nodding. "Yeah, can be. Just does whatever it can to go against you, huh".

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-14 10:35 pm UTC (link)
"Be glad you don't...especially the ones that get bored easily." Light sighed.

"..Please don't let me scare you with my talk of what I've done. I just felt that, with all you told me, I should tell you about my life as well...or at least the reason I'm here...It seems that mass-murder, no matter what the cause, is not approved of by God." He scoffed.

((OOC: Sorry for so many short replies, I'm doing HW as well))

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-14 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Shinji nodded; Light made fair points after all, and if nothing else, a coherent mass-murderer who didn't seem entirely adverse to reason was far preferable to the opposite. "Mm, I think to be approved by God you have to be sorry for your actions and want to repent and if you believe that strongly in your actions, then you're not going to", Shinji responded, frowning as he attempted to think of his incredibly limited knowledge of Christian beliefs (at least, he presumed that it related more to Christian beliefs than others).

And then, of course, there was just how much a god would appreciate it if someone came along and saw themselves fit to take their place. "I never believed in god - any kind", he murmured, glancing at his hands for a moment. "Funny how things change, huh?"

((ooc: No problem!))

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-15 12:46 am UTC (link)
"I wouldn't even think of repenting. During the time I was doing my work, crime rates dropped over 70%." He got up to try and find something to drink. "And before I discovered the Death Note, I didn't believe in gods either....and even after I found out about shinigami being real, they were the only gods I thought existed. I was able to kill one, so I don't feel it'd be too hard to kill other gods...You just have to find out how to kill them..and exploit that weakness."

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-15 02:04 pm UTC (link)
Listening to Light's explanations, Shinji turned to one side and wiped the surface of the counter behind him with his hand and placed the remaining crackers onto it. Currently, Shinji couldn't decide what he thought of the existence of gods; prior, he had been a firm atheist, but now... Now, what? He clearly couldn't turn round and say that they didn't exist, but neither could he say that he entirely accepted the idea of them, how they had apparently been allowing life to play out. In short, he couldn't help but think that God had been doing a rather shitty job, and he wasn't sure where that left him. With regards to killing them... Shinji didn't think that was something he would ever have considered.

Vaguely uncomfortable with the conversation (death certainly wasn't sitting all that comfortably with him at this point, and it was proving to be a prime topic of conversation), and unable to think of anything to add to it, he stayed quiet for a few moments before speaking.

"So, like, what are the other people like here?" It would be awkward, being forced to work with people he didn't have the slightest idea of, didn't know how they were likely to react. Unpredictability made him nervous, particularly in a situation like this. Before... Before he'd arrived here, he'd known what he needed to about his classmates and had, to some extent, been able to make reasonable judgements about the actions they were likely to take, and who he'd be happy working with and risking his life with. Here, he had no such thing and he didn't like it.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-15 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Light pondered for a moment before beginning to count off on his fingers. "Lucifer likes to fuck with everyone's minds, Emerald is a sex addict who likes a challenge, Sal has no gender as he has no sexual organs that I know of and he likes to keep to himself. He/she/it is also human. Jazz seems to be very nice, I sometimes wonder why he's on this side. Dante is an alchemist and smells..strange. I believe she is actually, quite possibly, in a dead body and is simply using it..or something of that sort." He began to think some more on the other members here.

((OOC: I'll describe the rest later, chores now))

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-15 09:07 pm UTC (link)
"I haven't learned too much about Dr.Cox, but I'm sure his skills will be useful. Carrion seems serious and has grown old enough that he probably cares not so much about others. Though, I haven't observed him enough to make any true conclusions. Una...Una is bi-polar and I believe she is a banshee. I know little about Balam." He looked back at Shinji. "That is the basic gist of what I know of our teammates."

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-15 09:13 pm UTC (link)
He hadn't been expecting a person-by-person run through, since he currently wouldn't have been able to put names to faces, but he appreciated the effort and detail regardless. Lips twitching at the mention of Emerald being a sex addict (what? He was fifteen, and whilst he might have been mature in some aspects, and sex happened to be something he enjoyed, he could be hideously immature about it, not to mention he'd never met someone who was an addict of it before). Regardless, he continued listening, nodding every so often to show that he was, in fact, paying attention, before the amused smirk was replaced by a small frown. Dead body? That... Was incredibly gross, even if one did ignore the fact that it would start to decompose and then she'd have to find another one and that really was disgusting and not something he wanted to think about at all. As for the others, it seemed there wasn't a huge amount particularly important about them apart from the doctor. Just a group of people shoved together to achieve something they probably weren't all that bothered by.

"Wow, sounds like we've got a real party going", he commented dryly.

((ooc: Talk about timing. Sorry about that!))

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-15 09:22 pm UTC (link)
"Yes, indeed. I wonder a lot of times just how useful we'll be together, especially with our lack of trust in one another." He went quiet again.

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[info]bakuhatsushinji
2008-05-15 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Shinji murmured a vaguely non-committal response, fingers fiddling with the pile of crackers. From his (admittedly limited) browsing, the same thought had occurred to him. "Perhaps the trials or... Whatever they are, will make people re-think just how self-centred they intend to be", he responded, glancing up at Light briefly. Both sides would have their disadvantages and advantages, but not being able to work together would be more of a disadvantage than anything the other side could feasibly have.

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[info]yagami_light
2008-05-15 10:18 pm UTC (link)
"I hope they do." He found some coffee and began to brew it. "But...for now...I suppose we can try to unite them in some way. It will be hard, though."

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