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MDV Mods 🌼 ([personal profile] mayorityvote) wrote2024-03-10 05:51 pm

Your New Life

Another New Life


You wake up to the sound of surf, much, much closer than you've ever heard it unless you moseyed down to Puffin Pier back in the old days. What old days...? Why, the days when you had a body, of course. The memories are probably coming back by now, jumbled along with everything else you lost. What a wake-up call.

But at least the ocean is real, unlike your dubiously fragmented remembrances. This little island out in the middle of nowhere sports a crude sign reading DUCK DAMNED ISLAND that seems like it's really railing against whatever fate you've been left to. There are little seashells and sparkling fragments amongst the sand to the left of your face. If you look further, to the left and right, it seems you're not the only one who's woken up here; it's considerably less cushy than your last wakeup, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Here, you're free, albeit... kind of incorporeal, as you'll soon find out. The island is covered in pretty little trees that don't quite form a forest, bowed over the really beautiful sandy beach that is way prettier than the one on the mainland. One, slightly rickety treehouse -- bare of anything, because incorporeal ghosts don't need furniture, of course -- peeks out from between the leaves. This is, apparently, your home away from home now.

Finally, there's a small bay-like area on the island that leads you to a strange-looking storm drain, marked with a symbol that's not-quite-an-apple. Stepping in will wash you alllllll the way back up to Puffin Pier, right where the sewers normally let out.

Oh, and once you step onto the mainland? You're now a duck. What kind of quacking afterlife is this.

((OOC: the tldr; about death is here!))
driftedaway: (are you okay with this)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-16 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's awful...and to leave you there? I'm just glad you're okay.

[ Probably weird coming from him, but well, Keito's not the type to lie about that. They should check how he is in duck form later, but he's not suggesting that until Sora gets more rest. So instead he grabs some of the post-its and starts writing a summary. ]
aurevoirx2: (had meanings)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-16 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I came to at Jojamart though. So, whatever happened I'm missing it.
driftedaway: (soap bubbles)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-16 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...Wait, where did you wake up?

[ He has a bad feeling about this? ]
aurevoirx2: (because the meaning)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-16 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it was on the other side of town...? I was more worried about getting back though...
driftedaway: (what to say)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-16 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you made it back, but the other part's...not so good.

[ He nervously fiddles with his hands. ]

I was trying not to manifest it, but...it happened again, didn't it?
Edited 2024-03-16 23:23 (UTC)
aurevoirx2: (I wonder if)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-16 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't kill anyone this time.

But Adela-san is definitely the one taking our memories. [ He's sure. ]
driftedaway: (soap bubbles)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-16 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...Glad to hear? [ He's too sleepy for this... Little ones shouldn't be stabbing with knives anyway??? ]

It's a good thing I was avoiding her and Miss Makima then... I really wanted to ask them more questions, but I guess it's too late for that.
aurevoirx2: (when nobody sees)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's older than you tho, ty ]

Mmhmm... About that. What did you talk to her about before, then?
driftedaway: (what do those words mean)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Still shorter tho! ]

...I fished for stuff about what happened before us. [ Not that he got much out of it, but hey, he learned more about Adela? ] And I also asked if it was possible to pull specific people here.

[ /closes eyes ]
aurevoirx2: (so that I can think of looking forward)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I asked that too. To Makima-san. Same deal, though, I suppose.
driftedaway: (thoughts weighing on your mind)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it. [ Is it sad that he can't be mad at all? ] ...Of course we'd both ask.
aurevoirx2: (goodbye)

back to cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Of course, they both would. ]

... I asked if it would count if it wasn't murder... and I guess things went downhill from there.
driftedaway: (but we're good at waiting)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ He pauses at that, biting his lip as he thinks. ] ...This place has a way of wringing out something raw and bloody from within and putting it at the forefront.
aurevoirx2: (even if I want to throw in)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes. When I admitted my fears that I'd be able to do it, she just... Encouraged me. She said... Hinata didn't have to know. She said, we could have a new beginning.

[ Well, Hinata's in a coma because of him, and if he remembered... Maybe hearing what he wanted to hear wouldn't have worked so well. ]
driftedaway: (what is a funeral for)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I could have a new beginning, too. [ He reaches out to try to pat him on the head. Part of him wants to say more to that, but...in this case, he should say what he got from Adela. ]

...Adela actually reminds me a lot of MAMIYA. He usually isn't cagey with me, but...that's how he's been lately. So even though she wasn't upfront with me about what happened before we came here, it still...felt a little like coming home and chatting with him about whatever came to mind.

[ Maybe it would've been worse if he did actually remember what he did now, without the experience of crying at the top of a strange treehouse. ]

I heard what I wanted to hear from her. So...that's how they got us.
aurevoirx2: (the road should open up)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
We're definitely the kind of people she could easily manipulate, huh? [ That sucks. ]

... We should ask what they know... When the new ones arrive.
driftedaway: (it'll be all right)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
...Sounds like it. [ Sure does. And so many mixed feelings about that. He fiddles with some of his hair and brushes it back, sighing. ]

Yeah, we should. I'm not sure how much they'll want to talk though.
aurevoirx2: (goodbye)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
If they don't, Sampo can do it. [ He's the "innocent" one of them, after all. ]
driftedaway: (and the world was waking)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Right! They're not worth talking to anyway if they won't. [ He says all that with a smile, but strangely enough, there's zero malice in his words. It's a simple fact of the world, that's all. ]

Looks like we're going to have to play things by ear, but I'm sure we'll manage.
aurevoirx2: (I'm certain that)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods in agreement, even though that anxious feeling is bubbling up inside. ]
driftedaway: (dream talk)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...But if they're bothering you, you can poke me anytime to step in.
aurevoirx2: (And like that)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-17 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs at that. Keito-kun is really a kind child. ] Shouldn't you be saving them from me, instead?
driftedaway: (the world around me)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-17 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs, his tone almost sing-song. ]

Well, we do need to hear what they have to say first, so wait until after!

[ the answer is no lol ]
aurevoirx2: (say goodbye)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-18 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, sure then. I guess we should go back soon.
driftedaway: (to the beginning)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-18 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Let's head over there before something else happens.