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Shima Renzou ([personal profile] worldlyafflictions) wrote in [community profile] imeeji_frontstage2021-06-05 07:16 pm

DISCIPLINE LIVE: BRING OUT YOUR DEAD

Who: Pink
Where: pep!pep!'s landing
When: Day 371 beyond midnight announcement to morning (after at least a handful of murders)

[Here's a tired boy standing on one of the dorm's elevator landings. The camera pans briefly and there are a few cots rolled out into the space, and a stack of towels in the background.]

Haaah--how's it been, Tokyo-F? Tourists 'specially--what a mornin' ta be used as play pieces, right?

Aaanyway, it seems like it's Murder o'clock again, so I thought I'd do a little discipline Live, just ta put a message on the air. But faar be it from me ta lecture anybody for doin' questionable things 'cause they've been promised a way ta skip town after [looks at wrist] two weeks in idol hell--haha, who knows what one'd do until put in that situation themselves, right?

It's a shame there's no way ta arrange things with types who'd be willin' ta get dead briefly just ta help, though! I heard that's not allowed? Is it an option ta challenge those 'let's fight to the death!' types who were poppin' up a week ago? Or is this an inflicting max trauma sorta thing? [Waves hand] But still, we've already got some people goin' missing. [Wags finger] That's no way ta act as a visitor--ta just leave people lying around wherever ya like once you're done usin' our bodies as your ticket out, right? Jeez, unseemly! So if anybody could kindly return our dead ta us ta look after, I'd greatly appreciate it!

I suppose if you're the culprit yourself, ya might benefit from knowin' that Peppep's landing is officially a no violence zone for everybody, magically enforced with a unit ability. I can't really promise anything after ya leave the area, but I'm sure at this point everybody's been blessed with plenty of ways ta escape consequences, so don't even worry about it!

Babies can message though.


Anyway, somebody'll be here ta pick up the body. [Flips the cameras up toward the ceiling.]

((Please put bodies and contact regarding DEAD & REVIVING HERE. Poking Pink or other responses to the Live can be their own top-levels.))
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[He knows this face, because he was there when he attacked sensitIV. He knows nothing else, but he is kind of trying to put things together.

Eventually, he decides that it doesn't really matter how he managed to get his full name, especially now as Hiroto is trying to hold himself together and upright.]

Fancy that. No one introduced you to me. How very rude of them.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Zhongli of Heart Soldier Senshi. Sakura introduced me as his confident for the first spar between the two of you.

As I do not want to assume, might I ask what happened here?
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-07 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
To return to life, or to return life to another, we had to murder someone.

... If I cannot remain here, then I will return to where I came from.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-07 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
And for those who were caught in your blind path of destruction to get what you want?
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-07 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs. He doesn't know.]

The people I've killed never used to come back to life. I figure I'm at least bringing him along to those who can do that.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-07 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
A token of compensation, but that does not equal the life you have taken. Even temporarily.
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
What a useless gesture. A drop in the well. But have it, if you must.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-08 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
To ease the suffering of another is never a useless gesture even if you yourself find no meaning in it.
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-08 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If you insist.

[He very clearly finds no meaning in it. His idea of easing suffering is to grant others a swift death, after all.]
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I do insist.

To be quite honest, I find your actions quite perplexing. First, you ask to spar with him but on the condition that he informed someone of the potential dangers of the duel. I had assumed at the time it was because people had misconstrued your actions, making you particularly defensive about them.

But then considering what you did to SensitIV! and this---

[ He points to Xiao's body. ]

Why him out of everyone else here?
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-11 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
A life for a life.

Because we lost, we were meant to rot, but the Producers gave us a choice, and we could return to the world of the living, if we murdered someone.

They were not allowed to agree to it, or it wouldn't count, and so I chose him because he was the person I could think of who I'd fought fairly before and who had been challenging.

If I am to have to kill to return to my life, then I wanted it to be a fair fight.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-11 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Your words would find more purchase had I not witnessed you attack a group of people whose only crime was being adjacent to someone you fancy as a possession.

But if you are leaving - then you have no use for the currency and items that you have amassed here, correct?
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-11 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Hiroto doesn't like to admit that learning new things has affected him, so he will not! Let the guy think him a monster. It is not untrue.]

Correct. I intend to take nothing back with me.

[Only since he can't take Persephone.]
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-11 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Then I would request 2,000 points paid directly to Sakura.

And your weapon upon your departure.
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-11 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[That gives Hiroto pause, as he pulls his naginata out and unfolds it, regarding it with a look that is a mix of sadness and bitterness.

It's a perfect replica of her weapon, the one that was stolen off of her grave, but it isn't the same one. And now it is stained with blood. The blood of so many people it should not have on it.

The points? He doesn't care. And he has his own weapons at home, but...

He closes his eyes and holds the weapon out.]

Take it.

I'll send your points or whatever.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-11 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Bloodstained as it is (whether or not it is clean now), he still takes the naginata reverently with a bow of his head before tucking it against his side. ]

May you nurture that nobleness in your heart upon your return home and find a new path to walk.

Or may you be struck down if you revert to old habits.
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[personal profile] daios 2021-06-11 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You know not what path I was or am on, nor would you know when I changed those paths.

[He turns his face away, then going to lean against the wall as he begins to make his way towards the stairs.]

And I will be struck down either way.
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[personal profile] leaveofabsence 2021-06-13 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Then may you know peace in whatever ending befalls you, Miura Hiroto.

[ And then he watches him for a moment more before he goes to turn to Xiao and the other members of Heart Soldier Senshi. ]