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[personal profile] daggering 2022-02-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ …. vax is not a dancer but he will hold out the cake on a platter? ]

Happy birthday, ‘Maru. Gotta make a wish, yeah?
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[personal profile] highrisk 2022-02-22 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, happy birthday. Can we go?

[ our did it ]
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[personal profile] aitou 2022-02-23 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Yams only knows how to do sword birthdays I'm sorry

But he looks curious about these proceedings?? He's also probably still feeling a little sad, but he's used to that feeling, so he's doing his best to ignore it. TAKE YOUR CAKE, KAGEMARU he is here to learn what a modern human(?) birthday looks like]
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[personal profile] moonlightbeast 2022-02-23 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[It has one candle.]

Yes! Make a wish for your birthday!
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-02-23 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh....

soft. for a moment, it feels familiar, and vax holds that wish a little closer to his heart than he should. i wish i could stay here forever.

...you can't, though.

the happiness bleeds into his chest (happiness is vex'ahlia's smile, is vox machina crowded together in grayskull, is flying with gilmore, is the way sunlight makes the freckles on keyleth's cheeks look like brown sugar) and he nods, taking the knife and glancing to the others.

... and to yams, especially. ]
Nice work. [ because he was really ready to stab this monster. ] Onto the next, yeah?
Edited (how did i tag all mobile with no typos and then ) 2022-02-23 00:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] highrisk 2022-02-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ the feeling of wanting to stay somewhere is almost entirely unfamiliar to damien. almost.

but it's an old feeling - and a fleeting one that slots into brief windows between not having anywhere to stay.

he is generally the kind of person who does whatever he wants at any given moment, but this is a specific want that he'll turn away from and head back out the door without waiting for the others. ]
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[personal profile] aitou 2022-02-23 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[THEY DID IT...

Whatever "it" is?? Yasusada isn't entirely sure he understands all that just transpired, but he knows what happiness feels like. That's a good sign.

Was that good, Okita-kun?

It looks like they're leaving--Yasusada crouches down to pick up his scarf, winding it back around his neck. He picks up the earring, too, and tucks it into his clothes; pompom now has one (1) earring and one (1) sketchbook. I forgot he had the sketchbook so it's just been on the counter somewhere I guess ANYWAY HE'S BRINGING THAT ALONG let's go]
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[personal profile] moonlightbeast 2022-02-23 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Happy vibes are good vibes! And even if Kagemaru has disappeared, Atsushi still feels like they've done something significant here. They helped, and that's what's important.

Atsushi will reach up to give Charles scritches as they leave. ...and if there's any fruit left he will eat some of it before he goes.

Two more doors to go!
]
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-02-23 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ KAGEMARUUUU

aw. fondness flickers across vax's face at the chalk drawings, and he reaches up to gently brush his fingertips underneath the closest one, careful not to destroy the artwork.

damien's already taken off so he can be first this time, though vax is pretty much immediately behind him, hand at his belt. he's like slightly less tense than earlier, but also, sometimes you're just used to fighting all the time!! so here we go.

pick door mr "i walk away" he's aware of these habits ]
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[personal profile] highrisk 2022-02-23 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ damien is just heading into whichever door is closest that they haven't been through yet.

he swings the door wide open and heads in. last time was just a fucking kitchen with an eldritch birthday baby, so, no fear? the closest thing he knows to happy is no fear. ]
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[personal profile] aitou 2022-02-23 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god Damien

Anyway yams is here following I'm buying tortilla chips]
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[personal profile] moonlightbeast 2022-02-23 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[At least stop to appreciate our child's drawings, Damien!

But sure, after stopping to smile at the chalk drawings (and trying to figure out which one is which person), he'll follow into the door Damien went into.
]
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-02-23 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ aaand we're back on alert again.

that didn't take long. immediately, vax is moving to stick to the shadows, protectively putting an arm out to keep the others (that he can, anyway, damien might be out of reach and also protect the genkis) to being stealthy just in case something immediately tries to leap out at them.

...and then nothing does.

well! vax has always said that he doesn't trust anyone that hates the theater (?) even if the uncanny feywild vibes here are terrible, and that shivery don't you want to stay here forever hasn't left, and there seems to not be much to do but move carefully towards the seats, i guess. ]
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[personal profile] highrisk 2022-02-23 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ ........ you know what, damien is fine with this. as long as he's an AUDIENCE member - sure. fine. he likes movies, plays aren't that different.

he is going to just go find an empty seat.

like, fuck this, but also: could be worse? ]
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[personal profile] aitou 2022-02-23 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Well this is familiar!!! Except creepier... this is a nikkari solo live......

Yasusada looks like he's ready to head up onstage--but then the others are going towards the seats?? Okay. He will follow them instead]
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[personal profile] moonlightbeast 2022-02-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Wait until Damien gets called up- I mean.

Atsushi will find an empty seat too! He has no idea what is going to happen but surely it's just a fun play right?
]
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-02-23 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's the sound, first - the dogs, the man. vax doesn't know him, but he knows what a noose is, and he jerks up from his seat immediately, on edge, because no one else is moving. no one in this fucking sham of an audience is doing anything. he starts to yell, a - ] What the fuck -

[ and then the woman steps forward next.

and it's.

it's strange. vax'ildan is no stranger to torture or violence or suffering. he's seen it all, experienced it all himself, even, but this feels impossible to watch. this - just seeing this woman sends a bolt of lightning that roots him to the spot, and makes his heart wrench in his chest. for a moment he's just stuck there like he's frozen in time, breath caught, silenced.

and for a brief moment, he doesn't recognize this person. does he?

does he?

he's looking at pointed ears. he's looking at a face that looks just like his own.

the first arrow hits and vax makes a choked off noise before he even realizes it. then the second the third the fourth the fifth and they keep coming and coming and

the name rips out of his throat before he even realizes, the scream of a wounded animal more so than a person, of a name, a person, vax could never forget - ]


VEX'AHLIA!

[ no.

no, no no no no no no no.

by the time the arrows stop, vax has leapt over the seat in front of him and tries to move further, but he can't. he slams his hands up against whatever's in the way, against the people in this fake audience, and it doesn't matter that it might be an illusion because vax'ildan knows her, and that's vex, and every other sight in this room narrows down as he watches his sister, his other half, his heart,

fade powerless and gurgling into dust, into nothing, his eyes locked with hers until she's gone

and vax is just standing here. useless. powerless, shaking with rage and despair and fury and agony all at once.

no raven queen to do anything, now. ]
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[personal profile] highrisk 2022-02-23 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ damien just looks... pained by that first act. he doesn't know them, so he doesn't care. that's the way the world works! why would you care about someone you don't know?

whether it's an act or not is kind of unclear to him. reality can be a hard thing to figure out sometimes. especially in a place like this. but even if it was real he feels too frozen to move. his hands are on his knees, clammy.

and he just watches vax lose it, because. well. what else is he supposed to do? what else does he ever do but watch other people's breakdowns? ]
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[personal profile] aitou 2022-02-23 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Yasusada knows death.

Death is all he's ever known, after all. It's what he's made for, in the most literal sense--and unlike the older swords, or the treasured keepsakes, Yasusada has only ever known war. War, sickness, isolation, and more war.

On occasion, he knows, death can be made performative--assassinations and sacrifice are all things he's familiar with, even if he doesn't particularly like them. It's never been like this, on the sort of stage he's come to associate with peacetime and laughter, but that just leaves him more confused than alarmed or infuriated. Is this--should it be like this? Truly? Something doesn't feel right.

Yasusada doesn't know these people, doesn't know what they've done or who their enemies are; when it's the woman's turn, he jumps to his feet, too, but it's a reflexive response to the sound of arrows, an ingrained reaction to the potential threat of battle. He reaches for his blade, but of course, it isn't there--and he, too, briefly freezes.

It's Vax's voice that spurs him--that raw agony, the sort that Yasusada is painfully familiar with. A tone that's left his own throat more than once, even before he had a voice to scream with.

What does he do? What can they do?

Is there a threat, still? Will Vax get shot, too, if he stays up there?

That thought is enough to get him moving, leaving the aisle to try and run to where Vax is.]


Vax!
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[personal profile] moonlightbeast 2022-02-23 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Atsushi doesn't yell. He doesn't scream. He doesn't do anything at all but stare, wide-eyed and trembling, as that man in a brown coat goes through the motions of stepping up to that noose and positioning it around his neck.

He's seen these kinds of actions dozens of times before. Throwing himself into a river only to be fished out later. Eating questionable foods and throwing them up later. Drinking glass after glass of alcohol while cheerfully talking about the harm it does to his liver. It's morbid, but it just...is. That's how it's always been.

Except this isn't the same as those actions. This isn't flirting with death and singing songs about how lovely it would be to die with a beautiful woman. This is raw, emotionless, and lacking in the usual mirth that shows that Dazai is just playing around, he's not being serious. (Or at least Atsushi assumes it's not serious, because of how much he jokes around.) This is different.
]

Dazai-san...?

[His voice is barely above a whisper, and it comes moments before the floor drops from underneath the man on stage, leaving him to his fate.

In contrast to Vax's efforts, Atsushi doesn't scramble onto the stage. He sits there, eyes wide in horror, hands covering his mouth. He's not screaming anyway, but it's like he's trying to keep everything in and locked away tight.

It's not real. It can't be real. It has to be some ability, an illusion, some kind of trick-

Nothing covers up how badly Atsushi is shaking in his seat though. He's strung up tighter than a piano wire, and looks just about ready to snap.
]

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