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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!))

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But ..... [ The murders??? Hello?? ]

...Umm, do you want to cover things up more before you talk to him again? [ Help??? He's not happy about this, but if it already happened??? Also??? /gestures towards Ryou's existence ]

That'd be ideal. Sensei took care of... Well, things shouldn't be found out for awhile. [ He sighs. ] But I need to lie low.

[ farm bestie, why are you like this. ] Do whatever you need to do before he wakes up, then do all of the above?

[ and then stop going all stabbity on people??? ]

Hmmn. I can try then. [ He fidgets, Keito's making it seem easier it really is. ]

Yeah, that's something we can do at least. Keep trying in the face of everything. [ Even though there's no easy way through it all. ]

Hmnhm thanks. [ For pulling him out of his spiral by confusing the hell out of him? ]

I didn't do anything to be thanked? But if you got something out of it, that's good. [ He's pretty sure he just encouraged him to do something illegal, which is, well, probably terrible? But it's not like he can blame him. ]

No, it was helpful. Thank you. [ ~~Though unsure how this future is going to end up like this~~ ]

[ Something about this is just so offbeat that he can't help but smile a little. Maybe something's massively wrong with him for that, but it's keeping him going right now. ]

I can't believe I just got thanked for being weird.

You're the one who said it, not me.

And I'll also say that you're up there on the weird scale, too!

[ He's about to protest that, but shuts his mouth. Yeah, well. A lot of things about him aren't normal. The talented, kind Sora that Hinata always called him, he doesn't even know what part of it is real. Or was any of it?

So he just accepts it. ]

Yeah, that's right.

...Yeah. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like if we weren't like this. [ He twirls the pen in his fingers. That could apply to a lot of things about themselves and their lives. What kind of people they were and wanted to be. ]

Then we would have lead very different lives, most likely? [ And maybe they wouldn't be here right now, in this... duck purgatory. ]

Probably. But ever since this whole duck situation, it's become...scary to think of what could've been.

Or it could've been much better.

[ This isn't him being an optimist though. ]

It could be. But it wouldn't be me. And that's sad in its own way.

[ It's not that he's trying to be pessimistic, but something about being a duck has spurred him into thinking more about their identities. ]

I don't know... I guess it's different if you're fine with yourself.

Well, I suppose I don't want to be a mindless animal either though.

I can't say I have an answer yet for all that either.

[ Who's sincerely fine with themselves though? ]

But for now, I think it's great we're all weird. And that Monopoly without money is still fun.