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[shinrci]

@kakuseii said: ❛ You were chasing a hallucination, imagining things. It happens. ❜ - Miyoko to Ciara

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON ONE SENTENCE STARTERS

SEVERAL MOMENTS PASS WHILE CIARA STARES OFF INTO SPACE, trying her best to focus both her vision and her mind back on reality. The rest of her body sits limply, her legs tucked underneath her-- the only real movement to come from her, other than the small rises and falls of her chest and shoulders with each breath, is her right hand fiddling with the rings on her ring and index fingers of the same hand. Toying with those memoirs of her parents has always helped her self-soothe before, and she can only distantly hope it has the same effect now.

《 ...How long was I out? 》 She eventually signs to ask, slowly turning her gaze to meet Miyoko's. Her vision remains a tad unclear, but she's doing much better than she was earlier. However, there's a sense of dread in her gut. She's never been like this when she enters a trance meant to find a target of her quirk...

Has she regressed again, then? Is she really imagining things again? She's beginning to recall trying to track down the call of her mother... Maybe she should lay off the alcohol again.

It was just such a stressful night last night. She couldn't help reaching for a bottle.

《 Well... I guess it doesn't matter too much. I'm glad you caught me, though. 》 Miyoko truly continues to be a savior, don't they? Ciara can't help but feel even more grateful than before to have them in her life. What would have happened if she kept chasing that hallucination?

[rxsolvx]

They had been keeping an eye on Keisuke Baji for a while. He'd never quite fallen into line and neither Mucho nor Sanzu liked that. Since he'd left Toman, Sanzu had been trailing him. He wasn't supposed to act but he could watch.

He'd seen Baji take Chifuyu into the abandoned arcade. He'd seen Kazutora taking Mikey's new favourite in. He'd watched a lot - all? - of Valhalla leave but... Not the vice captain. So he followed.

Even Sanzu was surprised by the brutality he found. He hadn't been close to him but he'd known Baji since childhood and that he had become capable of this... Sanzu scooped up the faux blond and managed to get him back to the Toman hideout. He began to clean off the blood and patch him up. Mucho had made him learn first aid for situations like this, and it was useful it seemed.

@kakuseii | Sanzu for Chifuyu

[rxsolvx]

The Haitanis didn't control Roppongi with sheer force alone; though they probably could if they wanted to. But they didn't have a gang and they didn't want one. So they gathered other delinquents when they needed the extra manpower. Like today.

They'd needed to crush some worthless upstart gang that were getting a little too confident in themselves. The fight wasn't satisfying, though, and Ran was still quite riled up.

"You." He curled his fingers around his braid as he rounded on a nearby stranger. "You were pretty good out there; you wanna keep going?"

@kakuseii | Ran for Swan

[rxsolvx]

"It's been a while, most people call me Sanzu now." He liked it that way - the rejection of his family name (and his family's rejection of him) was what he was known by. "But of course, call me whatever you like."

He hadn't seen Shinichiro for a few years - it would have been before the attack... He wondered briefly if he should have visited him in the hospital, like Shinichiro had done for him all those years ago.

"Are you doing well?"

@kakuseii | x

[rxsolvx]

Shinichiro leans his head against his cane and stares out into the void in front of him. He knows Kazutora is there, can hear him breathing. "You know I wanted to hate you," he says matter-of-fact, letting the words hang in the air. "For quite a bit I struggled with that hate, you know? I lost a lot of myself that day because of you."

The man sighs and a smile stretches gently across his lips. "But I can't blame you. You were just protecting your best friend. What more could I expect from Mikey's friends?" Not after the things he had done to protect his brother or his own friends.

(from survival!shini, either during bloody halloween or post baji death in juvie, your call)

After Draken had come to see him, Kazutora hadn't really expected any other visitors. Maybe Mitsuya - he was the only one Tora was unsure of. Baji was gone, Draken had come with a message from Mikey so he wasn't visiting, Pah was incarcerated as well... And beyond Toman, Hanma wouldn't walk himself into a detention center, not that Tora thought he would try to visit either way.

So when he was brought to the visitation room, to say he was shocked was an understatement when he saw Shinichiro sitting behind the glass. He was hesitant to sit down but he did, lowering his head. He sat and listened and focused on breathing so the guilt didn't eat at his newly regained grips on himself.

"I... Know what it's like to hate." He said softly, digging his nails into his palm.

That hatred he'd had for Mikey had grown and twisted those two years, it became its own beast that devoured every rational part of him. The only way he could kill that beast was to kill Mikey, or at least that was what he'd managed to convince himself of.

"I never got to say sorry for what I did. I... Wasn't sorry then. But I am now. I'm sorry. For every part of it. We shouldn't have been there in the first place, I..." He shook his head.

You were just protecting your best friend.

And now Baji was dead. All of this resulted in his death and... Kazutora bit back tears.

"... What about now? I tried to kill Mikey. Do you hate me now?"

[truexman]

@kakuseii miyoko vc: and this is why i dont trust the commission.

"I'm not their biggest fan either but unfortunately we have to work with them more often than not."