[once kashuu goes looking for the jade archway, it will appear before him. stepping through feels like stepping into a soothing landscape painting. the atmosphere goes grey, but rather than the monochrome of other areas, it's the mist of morning fog, still hanging low in the air. his feet touch down onto dirt and grass. he is standing in a quaint country garden. there are tall, dark green trees all around and rolling hills far away, but in the immediate vicinity is a flat, empty area with a few fenced in garden patches. the fenced in area in front of you looks to be a tidy herb and vegetable garden patch. there's a small shed towards the back of the garden, and gardening tools are scattered about.
in the distance he can see a pond and across the pond, far away, a small cottage with smoke billowing from the chimney. there are a few stone statues scattered about the garden, but after a moment, you notice that one of them in particular is waving.]
[Oh... This is so quaint??? This is so cute!! Kashuu, despite his general fussiness, is still a person who loves nature (just not fieldwork), so he's busy looking around and enjoying the scenery by the time he notices the one statue that is not like the others.]
Oh—! Heya. [Raising a hand in greeting!! And then picking up his frilly skirts so he can make his way over.]
I didn't really find it, it just kinda showed up? And it looked new! So I was like, oh, hey, I'll go check out whatever's over there.
[Hopefully his tendency to amble into the unknown will someday get him killed.]
oh no yours are cute too! i love that sticker ☆*:.。.o(≧▽≦)o.。.:*☆!!! but yeah! ghost marriage i think she's super stressed but the flower arrangements are cute especially the ones by yours truly ☆ ~('▽^人)
as he steps through the quartz arch, hhe will find himself standing in a traditional Japanese-style room - tatami mats on the floor, and sliding paper doors on every side. there are no windows, or even decorations on the walls. it's dim in here, lit only by low candles and shadows crawling out of every corner. it's very, very silent.
[Oh! Wow, this is certainly a very sparse space, but it's more familiar than almost anything except the temple...
So of course his dumb ass waltzes right in, curiously peering around as he goes. He's nice enough to keep his hands to himself, even though there's not really much to touch except the candles and he's not in the business of burning Both hands... But, after a second:]
im ok! ✧ it was a stressful watch near the end there but you guys act real fast i thought you demanifested at first but i guess that's not what happened?
[AND OVER HE BOUNDS... TO THE ARCHWAAAY. Eventually he sticks his head through, and then the rest of him, which is wearing a truly theatrical get-up. Second image, far left. He's a mourning widowed conquistador.]
Ya-ho! You home?
[He's also looking around like the curious nosy person he is because of course.]
[ Kashuu has been here before so I'll spare the description. It's much the same as before - creepy candles, tatami floors, but the middle of the room he enters this time there is ... a single chair?
Steel's form is shadowed - tall and humanoid, but faceless and dark. This time, two sharp, tall horns sit on their head. ]
im trying not to dROWN YOU ALL SO I'M DOING IT THIS WAY HELP!!! but later tuesday like hours after the percy fiasco, kashuu is just leaving little bundles on the inside of their archways with notes that all say some variation of sorry we as a collective are kind of all idiots and raccoons even if SOME OF US have way more stupid raccoon energy than others -kiyo.
They'll find: steel: a pink origami flower and also a very goofy-lookin' origami crane, so very very goofy shale: a savory snack made with some of the onion from their garden! he made an attempt to arrange the onions in a flower shape with questionable success riff: choco-chip pancakes with extra choco; they're made into cute animal shapes like this but lumpier and not as evenly cooked bass: a lil canvas painting of a sunflower! it is also not very good. he tries... oh my god does he try.........
[He doesn't even bother to text back after that, he's just zooming through the archway into Steel's good home. Is the pink chair still there, all on its lonesome... Not that he's going to sit in it.]
[hello welcome to shale's cozy little garden, where they're currently sitting on the steps of the cottage, braiding some vines growing out of a crack in their head.]
[A COZY LITTLE GARDEN that he quite enjoys... He's immediately trotting over as soon as he's called, waving a hand!! And plopping down right next to them on the steps.]
Huh... That's kinda cute! [SHALE your VINE HAIR.] Can I help?
[re: wanna come meet me in the cemetery? ( ´ ▿ ` )]
haha ya ill be right there
[and by be right there i mean that if kashuu looks around the cemetery whenever he shows up (or even if he's already there) he'll find two lamp eyes peering out from behind a tombstone where riff was sitting in the dirt.]
[and they'll come running! they're a little more solidly shaped, this time. where before they had trouble sticking to a form, and would often look like others, they're now just one. medium height, a little gangly. still yellow and staticky, though.]
[A gangly static yellow friend... Kashuu's hanging out in the Halloween section, as he'd said! He's got what looks like part of some weird gothic vampire costume in one hand, but with the other, he's immediately holding it out toward Bass. It might numb him but LOOK it's fine, this week is the week for hand holdy.]
Hiya, Himawari! You're lookin' real people-shaped today!
well okay, the place is different so here's your description as kashuu slip and slides his way through the archway:
when he walks in, it's to a hallway. immediately on his right is a tiny, tiny kitchen, mostly just pressed into an indent against the wall. there's a fridge, some cabinets, a microwave on top of the fridge, and a sink. to the left is what looks like a bathroom. and just past that is an open sliding door that leads into... a bedroom! there's a bed pushed up against the wall, and the same TV cabinet from before, with a bunch of game consoles jammed into it. a bookcase with a bunch of books and manga hangs out near the bed, a comfy chair sits next to that, and those same blurry, colorful posters litter any free space there is. there's a full wall, ceiling to floor window next to the bed that is mostly covered by a curtain. the sun peeks out from behind it.
bass is sitting on the bed with their phone in their hand and they look, like. as startled as someone can be with no face.]
[Oho A CHANGING PLACE that isn't at all like an unfinished sims house unlike SOME PEOPLE--
Unfortunately Kashuu doesn't have a chance to look around and admire the changes just yet, because he's very much focused on the gumball secret club and figuring out what the heck this means. He's just holding his phone and looking at Bass with this expression.]
[He will make his way on over! He's favoring his leg perhaps a little bit, but it's barely noticeable since the doctors caught him and patched him up, and his pain tolerance is gnarly.]
Hi. [A quiet greeting, first - and then a little sloping shrug as an answer. He's not fine, but he's not broken.] --I just wanted to thank you for the other day. I'm not used to having to be so careful with this body, so...
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