Hush Little Baby

The earth is coming back to life, and so am I. (( Roleplay blog for Daisy Ueno, an NPC for Cinema Despair ))

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Oh Hell No | Takumi | Re: Motive ATTN: Daisy

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No, that wasn’t. Sorry Daisy. He glared at her, and knelt to grab her neck. This wasn’t tight, but enough to be menacing.

“Yuzuki did no such thing. How dare you accuse her of such atrocities. She is the kindest woman I know.”

Besides his mother. But let’s not get into that.

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Daisy cringed upon being grabbed, but her expression quickly smoothed out into a blank, uncaring stare.

“Hm... I guess you didn’t see, then. It happened, though. If you want to kill me, go ahead. I don’t care anymore. My whole purpose is gone because of her, so it doesn’t matter if I die. I failed.”

Closing her eyes, Daisy seemed to be welcoming the possibility of death right now. In fact, she even cracked open one eye to stare questioningly at Takumi- ‘come on, hurry it up’.

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Oh Hell No | Takumi | Re: Motive ATTN: Daisy

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The first thing Takumi probably notices about the box office is the smell. Inside smells absolutely revolting, just like vomit. Daisy doesn’t look affected, but she also looks terrible. Her face is washed out, making her look older, and she looks thinner. Her eyes, sporting heavy bags, glance casually up to Takumi.

“… If you want to hit me, just say so. I’ll come out so you can.”

This was quite the change from the hysterical young woman that was seen back in the projection room.

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Takumi doesn’t really care about the smell. He’s smelled worse, since cancer treatment could do that to his mother, but he didn’t move.

“I didn’t come here to hit you. I came here to figure out what the hell you did to my girlfriend. You’ve already punched her, did you try to kill her? Why the hell did you try to kill her?”

He grabs Daisy’s arm, and throws her on the ground. Yikes. Daisy really struck a nerve there, didn’t she?

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Daisy groans upon hitting the ground, and another crack can be heard- this time from around her pelvis. She grimaces, but her eyes soften as they look up at Takumi from the floor.

“Ow... She endangered two innocent lives because she had to be the hero. Two people may very well be dying alone and with nobody they know around them because of her. Is that... Ow... What you wanted?”

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Oh Hell No | Takumi | Re: Motive ATTN: Daisy

Takumi cringed at this motive. Illness? Not…. not Yuzuki or Ryou. Please not Yuzuki or Ryou.

He didn’t want to take care of another sick person he cared about, because he didn’t want to watch them suffer like that.

If they were at risk of forgetting themselves… and dying… he would stick with them until the end. Even at the cost of himself.

He didn’t say anything though. He had a reputation to uphold. So he went back to Room 3, and saw Saki’s bruises early in the morning. He knew she had argued with Daisy, but…

Oh no she did not.

He got out of bed and dressed himself before storming to the front desk. He let himself in the behind the desk and got way up into Daisy’s personal space. No ragrets.

“What the fuck did you do to my girlfriend, you disgusting piece of shit?!”

Is Takumi shouting? Takumi is shouting. Yikes. He is not happy. And no, this wasn’t because he was feverish. This was simple hotheaded temper.

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The first thing Takumi probably notices about the box office is the smell. Inside smells absolutely revolting, just like vomit. Daisy doesn’t look affected, but she also looks terrible. Her face is washed out, making her look older, and she looks thinner. Her eyes, sporting heavy bags, glance casually up to Takumi.

“... If you want to hit me, just say so. I’ll come out so you can.”

This was quite the change from the hysterical young woman that was seen back in the projection room.

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She's Too Desperate Fuck My Titles For This | Saki | Motive Reaction | Closed for Daisy

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Saki was struggling to breathe at all by the time she was freed by Renee’s intervention. She dropped straight to the ground, her legs too shaky to actually support her own weight at that moment. She stared at the floor for a moment.

She heard the crack.

She understood the English being said, and some of the French - though she didn’t catch all the French, it was too rushed. She slowly looked up.

Daisy was injured.

“Ueno-san, stop. You need to go lie down, you’re injured.”

Her voice came out hoarse, and she almost struggled to speak, and it was clear she was forcing it. The strangulation had left some nasty looking bruises already that you could particularly see forming.

“I don’t understand… What did I say that would endanger them?”

Saki spoke rather blankly. She was honestly confused.

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Honestly it was a good thing that Daisy had switched– Renée barely understood any of the frantic Japanese being spewed. 

<< I’m not going to let you just kill her! You– >>

Renée felt like she was trembling all over. She wasn’t very good at being angry. It made her feel ugly and like she might faint. Breathe in, breathe out. Less rage.

<< I…I’m not moving. Madame Ueno, you need to calm down. You’re…you’re hurt, and you’re hysterical. >>

She had heard that nasty crack, same as Saki. She hadn’t thought she had pushed Daisy so hard.

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Daisy lifted her hands, and for a moment, it looked like she was ready to strike Renée. Then there was a change in her expression. A little twist, another break. 

And she smiled.

“Ahah... Ahahahahaha! I get it! I get it now! Little holier than thou bitches have to stick together, don’t you? That makes sense! Ahahaha, silly me, you just said something you weren’t supposed to say, Yuzuki Saki. But it’s too late, you just dug their graves because you wanted to play the hero! They’re probably already going to die because of your words. Well, you know what?”

“Fuck you. You have no idea what you just did. You can both go die for all I care. I hope you both get gutted like the worms you are this motive! Ahahaha, you’re disgusting. Have fun licking each others wounds clean and pretending you’re both squeaky clean of guilt. What about your precious mommy, Renee? What about yours, Yuzuki? Clean of guilt... Hah, revolting.”

Twitching and moving with a notable limp, Daisy turned away, walking to the other side of the room to collect her clipboard from where she’d left it atop the projector.

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She's Too Desperate Fuck My Titles For This | Saki | Motive Reaction | Closed for Daisy

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Renée’s grip on her backpack tightened to white-knuckled status. Right off the bat Daisy and her mysterious “boss” had shown that they would go to extreme lengths to force murder, but this was even more reckless than depriving everyone of food. Biological warfare? Changing people’s personalities? That wasn’t even possible for an actual virus to do, at least, not on its own. She herself felt fine for now, but what if– no, when– she got sick? What would she do? Renée had demons in her closet that could be disastrous if let come to bear. The stress and the implications was starting to make her feel a bit lightheaded.

Shouting from across the crowd snapped her out of it though. Renée hadn’t quite caught what it was about, but it was clear what was happening– Daisy was trying to kill Saki. As meek as she was, Renée still had the instinct to help someone being so obviously hurt, even if that meant acting more aggressively than she might usually if she thought about it. Within a moment her relatively long legs had propelled her over to the pair and she was wiggling her small frame between the two, shoving Daisy back with all the force she could muster. Which, while far from being herculean, was more than most would expect the less than 100 pound scientist to possess.

“Stop it!”

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Daisy didn’t even seem to notice Renée up until she was pushed. It was likely the adrenaline pumping through her that kept her so focused on strangling Saki. However, adrenaline couldn’t save her from the push, and so she released as she fell backwards- not before getting enough of a grip on Saki’s neck to bruise, though.

As she hit the ground, an audible crack could be heard from her ribcage. Daisy didn’t even wince, and struggled back up to her feet, still with a terrible look in her eyes- though, this time, they were filled with tears.

“I c-c-can’t...! Running her mouth, s-she’s going to get them killed, I have to kill her first, [ I have to protect them! ]”

The last part was spoken in frantic English. However, it looked like Daisy was having a hard time deciding what to do with the girl currently in between her and Saki. Her hands were twitching, obviously ready to go back to strangling. Daisy started speaking in French to Renée, anxiety apparent even in another language

“[ Get out of the way, get out of the way! It’s not you I want, it’s her.” ]

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She's Too Desperate Fuck My Titles For This | Saki | Motive Reaction | Closed for Daisy

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“I wish I could feel sorry for you. I really do. Give or take a few days or a couple of weeks and more kids will be dead. I hate to say it but that blood isn’t on our hands. It’s on the culprit’s, your boss’s and yours. You might be saving your own kids, but you’re killing off other people’s. I hope you’re satisfied.”

She spat out the last sentence. She was angry once more. But fear was seeping through the sentence and it was clear anger was not her first emotion… fear was.

“You’re taking away people’s children! I still have a father out there who I was getting to know. I hope you’re happy that you’re taking all these chances away from so many of us! I hope you’re happy with yourself!”

She was crying a flood by now. She was already scared, and she wanted to help the other, but what could she do?

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Daisy’s expression changes from a placid smile to... Something else... In a heartbeat.

“Y-You... You just said that out loud...”

The snap in Daisy’s brain was so sudden that it was almost audiable.

“You’re killing them... YOU’RE KILLING THEM! SHUT UP, SHUT UP!”

Her long legs propelled her forwards, and in two running strides she had Saki slammed up against the nearest wall, holding the tiny girl off the ground by her neck. The muscles in Daisy’s thin arms were visibly clenched as her hands tightened around Saki’s throat.

“YOU’RE KILLING THEM! STOP, STOP! YOU CAN’T SAY THAT, YOU’RE KILLING THEM! STOP, PLEASE!”

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She's Too Desperate Fuck My Titles For This | Saki | Motive Reaction | Closed for Daisy

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“Call it pointless, but at the very least it will ease the symptoms. If it won’t effect the Despair Fever then you’ll have no problem handing over medication. Give it. I won’t back down, because unlike you I don’t want to see a group of teenagers suffering and sick, while I stand by doing nothing except smile.”

Saki this is not how you get medicine, I understand you’re angry and concerned but Saki have better control.

“You have your reasons, I get it, but if medicine won’t effect the Despair Fever then your boss should have no issue with letting me have it right? It’ll at least help some of the effects.”

Except the personality change and dying part. Kind of crucial there.

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“Goodness, what’s got a bee in your bonnet? You could have some, but they’d be pointless. But... Oh, now that I think about it, there might be a placebo effect. We can’t have that, can we?”

“Because of that, you certainly can’t have any!”

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She's Too Desperate Fuck My Titles For This | Saki | Motive Reaction | Closed for Daisy

Saki was silent as she stood at the side of the room. She was close to Ryou and Takumi - having not spent the night with them and instead elsewhere - and listened quietly.

Her first thought was the antidote but Daisy beat that down straight away. At the start medicine had been taken… She would fight for it if she had to. Perhaps medicine would help lessen the symptoms and she could help people.

Thankfully she didn’t feel sick at all herself.

“Ueno-san. I do not care for what you have to say but give me some medicine for fevers and pain-killers right now. I will not stand by and do nothing.”

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Daisy was just about to leave before being stopped by the violinist. She blinked once before giggling, holding a hand to her mouth.

“Ahah, are you playing hospital? How cute! Regular painkillers and medications do nothing to ease Despair Fever, though, so it’s a bit pointless. Sorry, hon!”

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Hey lil' mama, why's your weight a 'Secret'?

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The Bass's Place - Chapter 2 - Minoru (Closed for Daisy)

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“…I heard we could get our uh, medical stuff  here. Like pick it up? I didn’t pack enough for a ‘forever’ duration, but I had some estrogen pills. Fuck I’ll take anything. Patches. Pills. Powder, if they make that.”

Her eyes shifted from side to side.

“And my shades. I left them back in the trial room on my podium.”

“And don’t look at me like that about the pills. The women in my family have…estrogen deficiencies. It’s a medical condition.”

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“We have some backup medications around here. We know of everyone’s medical conditions, and acquired extra dosages!”

Daisy dips down, pulling up a small bottle of pills and a pair of shades from under her desk.

“I’m assuming you can’t overdose or poison someone with these, so you can have the bottle. Here are your glasses. Be more careful, okay, honey?”

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The Bass's Place - Chapter 2 - Minoru (Closed for Daisy)

After her riveting talk with Saki, Minoru realized, just short of her door, that she still had to talk to Daisy.

“Ohhhh my god.”

There were way too many things to focus on lately. She knew she was going to forget about a ton of shit, just like back home. Urghhhh.

She walked back to the concession stand, knocking on the counter and grumbling, stamping her foot impatiently for a response.

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Was Daisy being productive, maybe working hard on the next motive to hit the kids with?

Nah. She was sitting in the box office filing her nails.

But she did hear a weird noise from the concession stand, and lifted the glass of her box office, peeking out her head to see the grumpy girl by the concession stand.

“You looking for something, sugar? Yoon-Ji isn’t there right now.”

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Operation Fuchsia Leopard || Chapter 1 (Motive Reaction) || Iwao + Daisy || Closed

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This is not good, but she’s alive. She’s alive and this is not good. Not good. “Oh, wow, well. That doesn’t look okay. I wonder what happened here. Who knows, really? Hahah…”

“Do you, uh, think I could help you up? I don’t want to hurtcha on accident.” After he already did on purpose. Semi on purpose.

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Daisy gets her first solid look at Iwao’s face, and she doesn’t look happy.

“... Iwao Wakahisai. Super High School Level Marksman. You... Wouldn’t happened to have shot me with some sort of projectile, would you? Because that would make me very upset.”

Shit, Iwao, she’s onto you. Looks like you’’re getting the passive aggressive mom treatment. 

“No, I’ll get up myself. It’s fine. Don’t worry.”

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Operation Fuchsia Leopard || Chapter 1 (Motive Reaction) || Iwao + Daisy || Closed

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Iwao sits quietly behind the trash can. Maybe he could go for the other blond lady next… But what’s with this one? Shouldn’t she be making noise or something? There was some kind of crack, did she drop something? After a little more sitting, Iwao peeks out.

Why’s she on the ground? Did she fall or something? Maybe he’s underestimated his own prowess- that was a pretty amazing shot. She’s not moving. She’s still not moving. Still not moving. Still not…

Oh god. Did he just kill someone? Uh, shit. What did people do on those cop shows? Hide the body and burn the evidence! Wait, was it burn the body and hide the evidence? No no! Those are both awful things to do.

Should he help her? He did just shoot her, so she might be pretty mad. But it’s the right thing to do. But she trapped everyone here! But he can’t just leave her there. She’s the bad guy! But she’s still a person. A mean person! A mean person laying on the ground all alone and… Damn you conscience!

He crawled out from behind the trash a little while away and stood up, walking back towards her trying to make it look like he just happened to wander by. He made sure the gun was completely out of her view, hidden safely behind the trash can. “Are you, uh… Are you okay?”

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Daisy, unfortunately, wasn’t dead. After about ten seconds, she stirred, groaning and shifting a bit.

“Guh...”

Wow, everything hurt. Pushing up her head, Daisy’s cheek looked as though it might start swelling soon. She wheezed, a hacking noise straight from the bottom of her throat. One hand went to her rib, and... Oh my god, was she crying?

“I-I’m fine, Daisy’s fine, don’t worry, s-sweetheart.”

Daisy tries to push herself up, but only makes it to half a pushup before cringing and going back to lying down. Her hand presses tightly to where her ribs are, and she’s notably shivering. At least the pink paint matches her outfit, though.

“Oh, boss is going to be angry, boss is going to be angry...”

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Operation Fuchsia Leopard || Chapter 1 (Motive Reaction) || Iwao + Daisy || Closed

Alright, this is unacceptable. What kind of jerk would take away everyone’s food? That’s just mean! It had been a while since this was actually announced- morning was in fact long gone. But the reality of the situation has just now struck the bandanna wearing blond. Action must be taken!

Iwao was crouched behind a trash can wielding what appeared to be a paintball gun. Since this was a gift from a hero, it only makes sense that heroic action be taken with it. Anyway, it’s almost go time. This self-imposed mission is about to take flight.  He peeked out from behind the garbage can and looked at the ticket booth.

  “Target sighted…”

He lifted up the paintball gun and took aim. Ready… Fire! He pulls the trigger, and the small orb takes flight. It stays right on its course and hits Mrs. Ueno right in the side of her head. The impact wasn’t more than a sturdy thump, but it was enough to send the pink paint everywhere.

  “Ahahaha! Bullseye!” Iwao’s quick to put his hands over his mouth to try and hide his laughter. He ducks back behind the trash can, not keen on getting caught.

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Where had Daisy been going? Good question. She seems to be travelling from one of the locked off regions to her box office. However, this is quickly stopped as something hits the side of her head! The paintball sends Daisy right to the floor, her tall pink heels unable to support her as soon as she got hit with the projectile. 

She didn’t go down in a comical tumble, though; even though it wasn’t a bullet, Daisy was still hit in the head by a projectile from a gun shot by an expert marksman. That’s quite the hit! It knocks Daisy right into the ground with a crunch from some part of her body and a shout.

“G-Gyah!”

Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark. Maybe several, judging by that crunch. She doesn’t get up, just laying motionless on the ground. Iwao, did you kill her? 

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Party Hat Struggles | Shigeo | Closed for Daisy

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Resist it, Daisy. It’s a bad bad idea. What she says is interesting though. Young? Identity?

“Well, could you at least tell me if they’re here?”

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“Oh, of course! They’re here.”

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Panic! At the Theater | Renée | Chapter 1 | CLOSED for Daisy

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Renée honestly didn’t much think about or care that Daisy was being a huge hypocrite right now– she just wanted to feel better. Buried in Daisy’s arms was better than being out in the open open, exposed, and able to feel everyone staring at her. Her symptoms didn’t really abate until about six minutes later, when her breathing started to slow and ease as calm started to steal over her. Renée started crying all over again in relief. Now that it was kicking in, it wouldn’t be long before she got enveloped in a vaguely pleasant, drowsy haze.

“…I want to go to my room…please…”

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By the time the symptoms slowed, Daisy had gotten through the song twice, and was going for a third. This whole ‘comforting teens’ thing hadn’t been covered in any of her parenting books yet, especially not when she’d actually caused what happened.

“Of course, honey, I’ll help you there. Try standing up with me, okay?”

Daisy starts to slowly stand, releasing Renée from her momma bear hug and offering her a hand instead.

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Panic! At the Theater | Renée | Chapter 1 | CLOSED for Daisy

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Renée continued to wheeze alarmingly, but brought her violently shaking hands around to her purse, pulling it close before he had to take a second’s break. Everything took monumental effort. As she reached for the zipper in the bear’s mouth and pulled it, she started sobbing. The tears burred her vision, the mucus clogging her throat and nose made it even harder to breathe, and the chest contractions made her shake that much harder. She hated taking this pill. They scared her, so much, but she if she didn’t take it she’d be like this for hours. She’d be dying for hours. She couldn’t do it. She shoved the pill in her mouth and forced herself to swallow.

“T-Th…The…there…”

Renée coughed as it went down dry, continuing to shake and sob and gasp. She bent over and put her head between her knees, trying to force air down her unwilling throat. She had to suffer through five more minutes at least.

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Daisy didn’t seem to be fully aware that she had technically caused the panic attack, and only held Renée tighter, petting her hair and cooing.

“Shh, shh, it’s okay...  Hush, little baby, don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird...”

Is Daisy singing her a lullaby? Yes, it seems so.