MEMORIESSSS

[wotanon]

Who: Idols
Where: Wherever
When: Day 449

[ Time to remember. ]

Comments

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

Even without the features, you're mighty bizarre.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

I will not allow you to say such disrespectful things, you know. I ask that you take it back. Just what part about me is supposed to be bizarre??

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

The way you know nothing but think you know what's best for everyone else anyway. The way you always pronounce words in English like this. Your face.

[ he's just being petty now. ]

And who asks someone to take back words that offend them? Either you ignore 'em or teach 'em with your fists. Or is fisticuffs beneath the young master?

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

Why must you keep trying to instigate me!?

Beyond which, how can you talk when you are the one with the difficult and strange dialect?? And of course they are beneath me! I do not duel with my fists. That is a small-minded way of dealing with a disagreement or issue.

[ YOU DESTROY THEM THROUGH YOUR MUSIC AND SHOW THEM JUST HOW MUCH BETTER YOU ARE. ]

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

So's the big-minded way t'bore 'em to death with highfalutin' vocabulary?

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am not boring.

You win, by proving your superiority through your hard work and actions. If you must duel, do it upon the stage- any idol's battlefield. By proving your grades. By being the better negotiator, or businessman. By working on connections, and expanding your presence. There are endless methods of destruction. It needn't come down to fists, and that is not an action that would be allowed from someone in my position back home to begin with.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

And you're sayin' all the "idols" from your world feel the way you do?

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

No, because you stubbornly do not. But neither do you see idols getting into public scuffles. That would be disastrous.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

The tall'n broad fella with the green eyes doesn't share your sentiments.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

The-- you mean the one who handed me the bag? I admit I do not know him very well. This was my first memory of him at the very least... he seems cartoonishly charasmatic? Or rather... he has a presence that makes him difficult to ignore.

I am not sure why you feel he would differ so much from the rest of us though.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

This's why.

[ Natsume is standing on a stage with the big, buff idol man and they're joined by a rather important looking guy who goes by GFK, but the audience seems to know that. In fact, the underground venue is packed with all the people he's wronged. As Natsume and the other idol read off his crimes, they grow more agitated.

Blood thirsty, even.

Neither Natsume nor the taller idol seem bothered by this. Rather, it's all according to plan, the way Natsume's "partner" so helpfully points out that there are no cameras aimed at the audience, and no one would be culpable if some unfortunate accident were to occur. It happens at rock concerts all the time, after all.

Aware that his life is in danger, GFK tries to escape, but the larger idol scoops the man up easily and throws him into the waiting audience. A resounding swell of brass and strings open their song, a number that seems reminiscent to detective show themes. It easily covers up the sounds of the man being tossed about like a rag doll, beaten and trampled repeatedly. Though Natsume finds all of this in bad taste, part of him knows this is necessary, to keep this awful person from victimizing those who are important. Who, exactly, is still unknown. ]

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Well he's stunned silent, for once. This- he didn't expect at all. His cousin... wrapped up in something so violent- so intentionally deadly. ]

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

[ gonna enjoy that silence thanks. ]

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ . . . ]

Why did you show me...?

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

You asked me why I thought he was diff'rent from the others. I showed you.

It's that simple. So either I exist in an alternate dimension where this is acceptable, or there's a whole lot to your world that you don't know about. Either way, I'm right about something.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ . . . . . ]

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

Anyway, don't go clutchin' your pearls over that murder. 'S not a big deal.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

I... cannot imagine it is ever not a big deal.

[ Murdering someone... It isn't something that is gentle upon the soul. ]

Are you really okay?

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

Why're—

[ he bites back his own surprise at Tsukasa's concern. ]

It felt like any other Tuesday. If he were allowed to live, he would've preyed on other idols. You heard what we said. He kept managing to slither just outside the law each time. There is no Justice for victims of snakes like that.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am not prepared to pass any sort of judgement. I do not doubt that his crimes were cruel toward his victims.

[ He did hear them after all. ]

I do not know what to say. Only that... I thought you were able to live happily as an idol. And so I feel surprised to realize you are walking such a bloody path.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

Not everyone gets to live happily, Tsukasa.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . But if there is a way for me to help you reach the ability to. Then I want to.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

[ gently pushing on his forehead to put some distance between them ]

You won't even follow the rules I came up with.

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Protesting...!!! ]

But it's not fair! It's difficult not to talk about things when you bring up half pieces on your own!

Re: Witnessing & Commenting are both fine!

[branchedout]

Life's not fair, Sonny Boy. Deal with it.

Your memories clearly aren't complete either.