- You know, itâs kinda funny. You married me for this sort of stuff; Dressing up all nice, going out to fancy parties, and getting our pictures taken for the front of magazines, but really I could go without it. â Heh, but leave it to me to do the opposite of what you wanted, right?
â medical: // fit / moderate / sickly / disadvantaged / disabled / not applicable
â criminal record: // yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but has not been caught yet
FAMILY â
â children: // has one or more children / has no children / wants children / verse dependent / doesnât want to have children / canât have children
â relationship with family: // close with sibling / not close with sibling(s) / has no sibling / sibling(s) are deceased
â affiliation: // orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent / not applicable / kidnapped
> drinking alcohol: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
> smoking: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
âż other narcotics: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess / tried some
> medicinal drugs: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess / when needed
â» indulgent in food: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
$ splurge spending: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
⣠gambling: // never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
Whatever the last thing Hiroko has seen in his life was didnât matter. It could have been the bags from the IV drip that sunk into his dying body. He could have seen the fish that floated by, as water filled his lungs and stole away his oxygen. Or it couldâve been the shattered glass from his window that sparkled under the streetlight around - and under - him.
What mattered was that Hiroko Masaru was dead, and the afterlife he was to be faced with had just enough pieces to become either his rebirth, or his damnation.
After the major cities had collapsed under its own illnesses, the rest of humanity scattered into rural areas for a chance to thrive. Most of the unorganized succumbed to the wild; and that was why Hiroko joined the Salvagers of his settlement.
Rarely - but as often as he could - he would travel hours just to spend time at the beach, and reminisce about old times. On the way back home, heâd often think of the future he and his friends could create.