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Week 14.
WEEK 14 Sunday is a rough day all around; it's for the best that you remain where you are for the day, for the sake of regrouping and recovering, and perhaps getting some sleep - assuming that any will come. However, as difficult though it may be (and as futile though it may seem) Monday is likely best seen as a day to depart - a day to start to take whatever actions can still be taken, and to assess where to go from here. A good place to start is Canalave City; it's where you were going to meet with Cynthia, and where you were planning on looking into the legends of Sinnoh. The city itself is beautiful, a massive port town split down the center by a large canal system filled with boats and clear water leading out to sea; however, the recent changes to the world have affected this place as well, perhaps making it a bit difficult to enjoy the city in its entirety. However, the library is here, as are several other points of interest; as difficult though it may be to see the world like this, the trip here will hopefully be worth your while in the end... POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SURROUNDING ROUTES: PLAINS/FOREST / NEAR WATER MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week fourteen 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. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!] |
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[He'll cling as long as the Jake Hugging Process takes, but at the question he pulls back - still holding onto Jake's shoulders, but enough to look him over.]
I was in that creepy abandoned building near the harbor, but that was...yesterday? It must have been yesterday, we got here yesterday, right?
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Yeah, it was yesterday. ...I'm pretty sure it was yesterday, my sense of time still feels pretty fucked. Did someone jump you?
[Like. Who does he have to kill, Michael.]
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[There's a tone of mingled fascination and distaste to that. Like, if that's blacking out, it is bullshit and he wants no part of it.]
I woke up somewhere I didn't recognize, some city. It felt very real, but I'm all - [He presses a hand against his head.] - together again, and you're all here. It doesn't seem like anything actually happened. I'm starting to think it may have been some sort of torture simulation.
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Some sort of...I don't know, hallucination, maybe? Or if you passed out it might have been a really shit dream or something.
[He's still on edge, he's not settling too well, but at least it doesn't seem like anything...completely catastrophic happened?]
But yeah, we're all here. I've been up almost all night again, stuff was pretty normal all things considered.
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[Is that hallucinations? Thanks, he hates them! Michael folds his arms and starts to pace, for once not even really noting that comment about Jake not sleeping.]
It got into my head, I was...actually forgetting things. I never forget things...
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But everything's there now, yeah? You said nothing actually happened...
[...Mnngh, he doesn't like it.]
What kind of things were you blanking out on...?
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[He rattles off a list of the entire party - just the people, at least, not including all the Pokemon. He hasn't answered what he was blanking out on, but his focus on this topic is sort of an answer in itself?]
And...shit, I don't think I've even told you the names of everyone back home.
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[God, just...let him reach out and kind of awkwardly put a hand on Michael's shoulder for a moment, try to get him to stop pacing.]
Michael. It's okay, we're all here and everybody's safe, including you. If anyone tries to fuck with you, I'm gonna kill anyone I have to until they knock it off. I'm not just going to let anyone torture you, okay?
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[The hand on his shoulder seems to anchor him; he's certainly not willing to pull away from the contact.]
Jake, you know I've -
[But he hesitates, and stops himself.]
Thank you.
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[He's not moving, okay.]
What were you gonna say just now?
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[Sigh. When he speaks again, it's a little slow, like he's still working through this thought himself. It wasn't what had upset him before; that had just been about him and his fears. But having to describe it out loud makes you realize.]
I've done that exact thing to my friends, literally almost a thousand times. I've looked Eleanor in the eye and just - [He snaps his fingers.] - made her forget everybody she cared about. I never thought about what that must have been like. Never really thought about it at all, once I quit doing it.
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That's... He doesn't draw away at that or anything, it's just something that kind of makes him pause. Because what do you say to that, really.]
But you did stop, yeah? It's not something you're still doing to them. Which doesn't make it any less fucked up, but at least it's not still a thing.
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I just never really thought about it, you know? I'm literally older than dirt, there's a lot of stuff I don't think about anymore. But every time we meet with Cyrus, or Saturn, or...Uxie, even, I tell them they're wrong, and I know that I've pulled half the same shit. I'm sort of a monster. I just don't know why that keeps feeling like new information.
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[That's immediate, and it's adamant, and he kind of looks away once it's out there but he'll correct that as soon as he realizes.]
It feels like new information because that shit isn't on your mind anymore. Because you're trying to do better, and you're doing stuff that isn't just designed to fuck people up, and when you see people doing shit like that you actually recognize that it's wrong and you get why it's wrong, even if you don't always think about the fact that you've done it before.
You'd be a fucking monster if you were torturing us, or working against us on some sort of Cyrus-was-right campaign, or...I don't know, making Aya cry on purpose? But you're not, okay?
[...Okay. Okay. Just. Let him exhale a bit. Breathe.]
Sorry. I know you don't like it when people do this sort of shit. Stupid...human thing, sorry.
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No, no, don't apologize. I did the thing you don't like first, with the name-calling. I wasn't thinking about that, so I'm sorry. Besides, you're helping - you do help me a lot.
[He unfolds and folds his arms again, drumming his fingers against his sleeve.]
You know I don't really think all human things are stupid, right? I say shit sometimes, but I don't really mean all of it. You...just get a lot of things that I don't.
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...No, I know. I figure you wouldn't like us so much if you actually meant all of it.
[...]
Doesn't change the fact that we're all stupid as shit, just as a species. But I get what you mean.
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Last time I went to a demon party, they played Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer literally nonstop, for fourteen hours. It's like a meme that's been going way too far for way too long.
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