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Week 13.
WEEK 13 The trip to Celestic Town is an unconventional one, though it's infinitely faster than walking and doesn't leave everyone feeling woozy in the same way that teleportation does. The town itself is a small one, though it's scenic, and there's a sort of beauty to it that's very rustic in nature; it's surrounded on both sides by mountainous routes that you're welcome to go on to both the west and the east, though it wouldn't be recommended that you venture too far out, seeing as they can be on the dangerous side for those who are unfamiliar with them. It seems Cynthia was right about one thing - there was certainly an incident at Lake Verity that went off almost as soon as you left, another of those deep pulses echoing through the surrounding area; it seems that whatever Mesprit did can be felt by the region as a whole, given that Celestic Town and the surrounding areas seem to have been affected as well despite being so far east of the lake. Cynthia herself can be found throughout the town for the duration, should anyone want to speak to her. Sometimes when left to her own devices, she can be seen in the company of a little girl who looks very similar to herself; sometimes she's with a pair of people much older. Either way, the family resemblance is strong. Lucas is here as well; he's still willing to speak to anyone that wants to, though he seems a bit subdued. Either way, it's been a long, harrowing trip so far; hopefully spending some time here will help to rejuvenate you. POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SURROUNDING ROUTES: MOUNTAINS/ELEVATED AREAS SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week thirteen of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend.] |
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Sometimes? She'd be better at this shit than me. On the other hand, she's a lot more important than me back where we're from, so it's probably not great for her to get dragged off for months.
But I'd like having her here if it was an option, I guess.
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[But like, he gets that it's significant for other people. When he thinks about it at all.]
If my human friends were here, they'd finally be safe. It'd be a nightmare in the long run, but I just...would like to talk to them sometimes.
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I know Camilla and Kiryu have talked about that sort of thing before. Bringing people here, staying here.
Would that be something you'd want, too?
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If my friends came here, they'd be alive again. Which means sooner or later, they'd die. And then they would just be gone. Reincarnated as a Pokemon, or something, I don't know. [He spreads his hands helplessly; shaking his head and not really looking at Jake.] They wouldn't be at risk of eternal torture anymore, but I wouldn't...
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I dunno if I'd say it's wrong. They're your friends, and yeah, wanting what would be good for them is part of that - but it's not like it's not going to fuck with you, having that shit happen.
Mortal shit sucks like that. We all kind of take it for granted that we're gonna die someday. Doesn't mean it doesn't fuck up the people we leave behind, at least for some of us.
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[He lapses into a moody sort of silence.]
When I started going to Chidi's ethics class, he began by telling me to really think about how possible retirement was for me. Oh - retirement's the closest I can come to dying. Sort of like an extreme public torture that lasts forever. I'd still be technically alive, but the ones I've seen happen...they don't seem cognizant of anything besides their own eternal agony anymore. [That story went a little off the rails immediately.] Anyway, I'd never really realized how much being mortal has to suck before that.
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Like I said to you before, I'm kind of fucked in the head. I've never really thought being mortal sucks, but that's because I've never cared if I died. I lost the last person I could possibly leave behind when I was a kid, and after that it was pretty obvious that no one was gonna give a fuck about me but me. And after a while I stopped giving a fuck, too.
So death was never really something I cared about, I guess. If it happened, then fuck it.
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[There's a little bit of a lilt at the end of that, but it also doesn't totally seem to be a question.]
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...Yeah, I guess.
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So you shouldn't do anything stupid, either. I mean, if I'm not supposed to...
[You definitely shouldn't.]
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[...]
Hey, Michael. Can I tell you something?
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[...]
You kinda make me want to try to be a better person. So, you know. Thanks for that.
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[.....]
Well. Thank you. For saying that, and for...being my friend.
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Yeah. Yeah, you too. For being my friend and all.
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[.......]
I'm gonna be honest with you, I normally have talks like this mid-near-death experience. I don't really know where to go from here.
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[He sounds amused, though.]
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Boy, it really is! I've done this maybe three times? No mutants or lava - well. Lava monsters, but they were just party attendees.
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[...jesus christ, guys.]
Sounds like you guys throw some wild parties, though.
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[Maybe...it was built by demons???]
Oh, yeah. Well - the first one was a banger, I put that together. It was a distraction so the humans could escape custody, but you can't half-ass these things. [.....] Actually, I hated every minute of that, that was very stressful.