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Kanji Tatsumi (stupidcuteshit) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-02 10:58:00

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aidan reilly, ichiru kiryuu, jack harkness, kanji tatsumi, nathan harris, yuuri shibuya

Day 374 | Action | Open
Backside of the TV

[You're in a maze. It might be a sauna, hot and muggy and thick with steam. Or maybe it's a strip club, dark with violet curtains covering the walls and secret corners with music pounding through the air and whispers you can't quite make out as you wander the corridors. Maybe you're in what looks like a video game with blocky, artificial looking dungeon walls and floors. Or perhaps it's a secret base like you'd see in an action movie, the kind with sliding blast doors and scaffolding to climb around on. Maybe your maze is beautiful, like a fairy tale, or the way a child would imagine heaven, full of clouds and flowers and somehow heartbreakingly sad.

You can wander around whichever maze you find yourself in. Maybe you'll stay there, maybe they all begin to blur together and you find yourself drifting from one to another as you explore the hallways. They all have one thing in common though; they're full of Shadows, dark monsters that you can sneak past or fight. Probably fight, since Kanji is with you every step of the way, folding chair sling easily over his shoulder and looking for some action. He's wearing a pair of glasses, and you may notice you have a pair on, too. Pick whatever style you'd like, but if you take them off your surroundings will be lost in a fog that makes your head hurt. Try not to get lost in it.]

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	foreverjack 2016-05-15 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	"Everyone's different, eh?" he grins, and then blinks a bit as suddenly they're in a different place, all metal girders and gratings and-- "Huh," he says, looking about him with a wry smile. "Reminds me of the Hub." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stupidcuteshit 2016-05-16 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Where's that?" He asked curiously, keeping an eye out but not looking too nervous to talk. He never thought this one was all that scary, especially once they figured out what was going on. Some of these mazes are creepy but Naoto's doesn't freak him out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-05-18 08:15 pm UTC (link)

"My team's secret underground base. I guess there is a certain kind of decor that works for those!"

He keeps his eyes open as they walk, but so far there doesn't seem to be anything threatening here and he feels as at home here as he did in the strip club.

"Naoto's the girl you're into, right? Do you think we switched to her because you were thinking about her?"

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stupidcuteshit
2016-05-19 10:33 pm UTC (link)

He goes predictably bright red and makes an inarticulate noise at hearing it put that way, then clears his throat and tries again. "Uh, yeah, that's her. She wanted people to treat her like an adult. She's a detective but a lot of cops treat her like a little kid. It's why she's all serious all the time, and why she started dressing like a guy. So this was kinda like that, you know? Wanting to be some kinda action hero or whatever."

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foreverjack
2016-05-20 01:30 pm UTC (link)

Jack watches him in amusement, though it fades somewhat as Kanji talks. "Something I hate about your period - the way women feel they have to emulate men just to get people to respect them." He shakes his head, saddened. "I didn't realise that's why started to dress like that. I assumed it was a statement of self-assurance and individuality rather than the opposite."

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stupidcuteshit
2016-05-20 03:10 pm UTC (link)

Those are some big and complicated words to use about a subject Kanji is not that much of an expert on but he thinks he gets what Jack's saying. "Maybe it's kinda everything. She still wears boy uniforms for school and stuff even though everyone knows now. I figure as long as she's okay with it it's good with me."

There's some steam billowing out from behind a metal door and when he opens it the scenery changes again in that way that makes sense in dreams. Now they're in a muggy sauna, hot and full of impenetrable steam. He rubs his head awkwardly. "Ugh. This ones mine."

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foreverjack
2016-05-20 08:22 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, he's still got to learn about using small words when talking to Kanji. It sounds like Kanji's got what he's saying, though, and he grins slightly, shrugging a shoulder in acknowledgement. "Okay, so perhaps that's started but she's made it her own now. Good for her!"

He peers round through the thick steam at the new place they've entered, and then looks round at Kanji, eyebrows going up. "Your place is a sauna?"

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	stupidcuteshit 2016-05-20 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	"You don't gotta say it like that," Mumbled, while he turns bright red. Man, he hates this place. He can accept it and his Shadow and what it's all about and be okay with it being a part of him and everything but that doesn't mean he really enjoys coming here or anything. Mostly it's just embarrassing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-05-20 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Like what?" he asks, honestly surprised by Kanji's reaction, even if it is rather cute. "Less to be embarrassed about than a strip club, I'd have thought! Just surprising, really. I'm curious as to the reasoning behind it, if there is any?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stupidcuteshit
2016-05-20 09:03 pm UTC (link)

"It's more embarrassin' when it's your own personal stuff." He tries to think about how to explain it. "Back home with my friends it ain't so bad, 'cause everyone's done it, you know? Everybody knows what that's like and it ain't nice but you get how it makes other people feel. It's harder though 'cause I know you ain't don't that."

As to why it's a sauna, that just gets A Look. "Seriously? You don't think this is a little gay?"

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foreverjack
2016-05-20 09:10 pm UTC (link)

It's very true. He's completely without context here (he doesn't even really play video games so he doesn't even have that context) and that does mean he's coming at it from a very different direction than Kanji and his friends, since everything is new to him.

Well, except the fighting monsters part. Obviously that's extremely familiar.

He returns Kanji's look with an amused smile. "To think that, in the way you mean it, I'd have to think of 'gay' as some sort of derogatory term, which I don't. Anyway, lots of guys like saunas! Lots of hot girls - or guys, whichever's your preference! - in scanty clothing... what's not to enjoy?"

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stupidcuteshit
2016-05-20 09:27 pm UTC (link)

The mention of girls in a sauna gets a pained look. There was a predictable anime mixup with hot springs times that one time they all went to Yukiko's inn, and he's still not over that disaster.

"Well yeah most of the time they're fine. But that's what I mean about Shadows and this world and stuff. They turn it way up and out of control. Okay, so what you said, all that stuff you like about this place? That's exactly why my Shadow liked this place."

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	foreverjack 2016-05-21 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Right..." He nods, more or less getting it. At least in as much as he knows Kanji is as insecure about his sexuality as most people from his era - he guesses he can understand why it might be embarrassing. "So perhaps your Shadow was telling you to just relax and enjoy?" he suggests, seriously thinking about taking off his coat because it's hot in here! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stupidcuteshit
2016-05-21 04:03 pm UTC (link)

He sighs, feeling like he's doing a bad job at explaining all this. "It ain't fun or simple like that. Your Shadow is a monster with your face on. They don't talk, they're outta control. Mine was screaming at everybody about wanting to be accepted, Naoto's tried to cut her open and change her, Rise's was like the idol everyone wants to see but way more. And if you don't wanna hear what they're talkin' about they really do change into a real monster, something that looks nothin' like you at all and they'll kill you. That's all the murders we've been finding; we don't know who's throwing people into the TV but they know the Shadows are gonna do the dirty work for 'em. They freak out and kill you for not acceptin' 'em. If my friends hadn't been able to fight mine it woulda done that to me. They're not trying to help you or tell you anything, they're just feeling that are out of control."

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	foreverjack 2016-05-24 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Jack's eyes widen as he listens to this. "That all sounds rather nightmarish." He's not new to the idea of the monster within - not at all - but this seems like a particularly gruesome manifestation of it. "So, is your Shadow still connected to you even after it's manifested? What happens if you kill it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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stupidcuteshit
2016-06-11 12:42 pm UTC (link)

"I dunno if you can kill it. This place kinda messes with you. Like the fog makes you all weak and tired if you don't have glasses to see through it. I got lucky and my friends showed up and fought my Shadow with their Personas. After they kicked it's ass it just went back to looking like me and I taked to it and it turned into my Persona once I accepted it. I dunno if they die."

He looks thoughtful for a minute, thinking as hard as Kanji can. "Hang on though, 'cause Mitsuo didn't accept his. It just kinda vanished in the end. I dunno what happened to it."

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	foreverjack 2016-06-14 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	((OOC: I'd forgotten all about this thread too! Do you mind if we drop it? My brain's having trouble with coming with anything on a lot of older threads - think it wants to move on!)) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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