Erich: *whistles*
Rosetta: Don’t you all think we need to take better care of that one?
Judy: Maybe fertilizer?
Erich: Could do that...
Judy: So.. uhm... how are things going with you guys and Marshall?
Rosetta: Good...
Erich: It’s going well. How about you?
Judy: I... I’m out. We don’t have a click.
Rosetta: What? You gave up?
Judy: No... Remember the beach? He wanted to talk to me and he told me. I didn’t want you all to know but now with just a week left I thought you should know.
Erich: Wow... just 3 others left to beat.
Rosetta: 3? Don’t you mean 4?
Erich: No. It’s just Lori, Bristol and you left.
Judy: I get you leaving me of the list but what about Riley?
Erich: Oh... right.
Rosetta: You’re acting weird. What is it?
Erich: Okay look... You don’t have to worry about Riley. I can’t say why but just trust me okay.
Judy: Right that’s not vague at all...
Rosetta: But good to know
Erich: Doing something fun today?
Bristol: It says to take it easy today...
Judy: Thank god! I was scared we needed to do something...
Erich: Bad hangover?
Judy: The worse... You don’t?
Bristol: A bit...
Marshall: *sits down* This isn’t like you...
Bristol: I know...
Marshall: Is it because of yesterday? Did I do something?
Bristol: You... ugh... I guess I just got jealous.
Marshall: Oh *holds her* I’m sorry. I never wanted to hurt you.
Bristol: I know. It’s just that at the dinner party, you got mad at me and I thought things went well yesterday and then... you had your hands all over Lori.
Marshall: I wasn’t mad at you... I’m just having a bad time with my mom. And yesterday *sighs* might not have been the best thing to just do that in the open. I’m sorry I hurt you but you acting like this... isn’t helping.
Bristol: I just thought you wanted... more...
Marshall: I don’t need more. I need real. You’ve been trying act like you think people want you to. You are a awesome person. Be yourself. I like her more then the one you tried to be just now.
Bristol: I’m sorry.
Marshall: It’s okay. Please show me the real you more this last week okay. I like to get to know her better *blushes and hugs her*
A day to take it easy was just what I needed. Especially after everything that happened yesterday. It was amazing... I felt really special but now I don’t know if it was. Who knows? Also the talk with the ladies after. I knew we couldn’t be friendly all the way to the end. If only I knew how it would end. I just have to try harder... after today.
Riley: Maren! I’m so glad you came over!
Maren: Me too... How was it yesterday?
Riley: You know about that?
Maren: Of course. Marshall told me.
Riley: Right. Sometimes I forget you two are siblings. But uhmm...
Maren: What is it?
Riley: Next week... the plan is still on right?
Erich: The plan?
Maren: Oh hi Erich!
Erich: You two should be more careful.
Riley: You should not be running your mouth.
Maren: He did?
Erich: I didn’t... I was teasing him but he took it way to serious.
Maren: Well that’s him!
Riley: Hey!
Erich: It’s okay he calmed down quickly after that. But about that plan of yours...
Riley: You’ll just have to wait and see.
Maren: Walk me out please Riles...
Bristol: *hurries him into a small room and kisses him*
Marshall: Hoo wait.. wait...
Bristol: I can’t. There is only so much time left. *kisses him again*
Marshall: Hey hey... *stops her* What’s going on? Talk to me...
Bristol: I...*sighs*
Marshall: Hi Bristol!
Bristol: Marshall? What are you doing here?
Marshall: I came by to check if you all are alright. I mean last night was crazy...
Bristol: It really was. I hope you had fun.
Marshall: *blushes* A lot of fun...
Bristol: Oh...
Marshall: You?
Bristol: If you had fun it was a success right?
Marshall: It’s not all about me...
Bristol: It is. This whole thing is. And I need to be more...So come with me.
Marshall: Oh... okay...
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The Final Day
“I bet you don’t even know what the word ‘nervous’ means.”
“‘Ey, why you gotta call me out like dat, Phones?”
I have missed these two. :’) For the record, I’m fucking terrified.
OKAY THE CITY BEING THIS DARK IS AWFUL I HATE IT. NOPE.
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Beat. Answer your phone. It’s probably Rhyme. BEAT. THE PHONE. NOW.
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Why. *facepalm*
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I may have zoomed right past Kariya and Uzuki with Soundsurf before I even registered they were there. Thankfully the game didn’t let me zoom too far. >.>
I simultaneously have the warm fuzzies cuz ~teamwork~ and a yawning abyss of dread in my stomach cuz this is it.
I’ve always hated those last talks before the final battle. They make you so horrifically aware of exactly how much you stand to lose, even if you win.
I do not like that I have to go to Udagawa to meet Kaie. I am hella paranoid about that place. Aaaah.
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Shout out to Hishima standing there to tell me he’s looking for someone? And then not telling me who? Bruh.
Kaie is waiting for someone who holds incredible power of the non-supernatural variety. So Rhyme or Shiki? Cuz everyone else is currently accounted for or VERY supernatural.
Well that was a weird detour.
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An aside: Beat is all grown up and doesn’t flail at his full name anymore.
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Beat Shiba. There’s no way this is real.
Oh now time has stopped. Good. THE PEOPLE ARE TURNING INTO NOISE WHAT. (This is about to descend into an unreadable mess I suspect. Sorry.)
How did I get a B I almost died. I think that meteor thing almost managed to hit eesh. Alright. Here comes the shit storm.
Oooh Rindo. Straight savage. I love his habit of throwing people’s words back that them. It’s the best kind of fuck you. It’s way too early to celebrate my dudes. There’s still no way we’re done.
“Executor”? Oh I do not like that.
Damn he died without going Noise.
I had really hoped Kubo wasn’t coming back. This was very naive.
4:44:44. Of course.
Also, OH FUCK. RINDO’S PIN JUST ERUPTED KUBO IS THE SOURCE OF THE DISSONANCE I CAN’T THINK WHAT DO.
NO DON’T YOU HU- NEKUUUUUUUUUUU!! He. He. He killed… he erased Neku. No. no no nononononononoooooo. And the Inversion-!
What IS he?! (I think I’ve gone non-verbal oh dear)
Another Angel. It’s official. I hate the higher plane. I didn’t like them before, the whole business with how cut off the Composer is has always struck me as designed to fail and massively fuck up but this. This is so much worse.
Why?! Why would… Why would they decide to destroy Shinjuku and Shibuya..?
Shit, Rindo has been Kubo’s proxy. Shit shit. This is so much worse than the reveal that Neku was Joshua’s proxy. Joshua hadn’t actually DONE IT yet. This fucker has actively done it once and is in the middle of succeeding again. Oh god.
Minamimoto. He was looking for a way to consume and control the Noise Rindo was generating. That’s why he needed a sample. His first attempt didn’t work and it fucked him up, like the Plague Noise have been doing all week. Shit I really hope he’s had time to figure it out. I vote we go back, un-erase Neku before I throw up, find Sho, get him fucking cooperate for once in his existences, no that’s not a typo he’s died like 4 times, then destroy the pin before Fuckwad here can call the Noise out of it.
We’ll only get one shot though.
I’m gonna unpause now.
Okay watching Shoka get got like that. That was. Extremely unnecessary.
I do not envy Rindo having to explain all this oh boy.
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It just registered that we’re about to try to kill AN ANGEL. Fuck me. I remember Panthera Cantus. Oh boy.
I don’t know how well talking to Shiba is going to work, when he’s probably the way he is because Fuckwad did something to him on a Soul level.
Lmao that went poorly. Shocker. And now, a scavenger hunt across time~
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The scavenger hunt has yielded
Hishima and Shiba used to be good friends but Hishima refuses to be overtly helpful
Rhyme has mad hacking skills and Beat still hasn’t looked at his damn phone
“Must be from a higher plane. Everyone from up there is some kind of weirdo, let me tell you.” KARIYA. WHAT. HOW MANY HAVE YOU MET!? Also like, most of the Reapers aren’t supposed to know about this shit. I remember the secret reports very well thanks. Only the Composer knows they exist.
Coco called Fuckwad a must, dusty, crusty old cretin and this gives me LIFE. Otherwise was very unhelpful.
Uzuki just had an ‘oh my god they were partners’ moment re: Hishima and Shiba and I’m half giggling cuz my brain made it a meme and half having Feels cuz “things go south with your partner and then that’s it?” halp my emotions.
SHE JUST CALLED HIM HELLO!? XD UZUKI I LOVE YOU. SHE STILL HAS NO CHILL SHE’S JUST MORE PRODUCTIVE ABOUT IT.
“Can you imagine? Being played like that… and then having everyone just abandon you like you’re nothing?” It wasn’t until Fuckwad said what he is that I stopped being out for blood. I was assuming that whatever had happened to change Shiba, he had played a part in it himself. But if someone that much more powerful came and started messing with his head and his soul then yeah, he deserves to be snapped out of that and to be himself again. If what he became isn’t his own fault, if it wasn’t because he messed with something he shouldn’t have, then yeah. Make this stop. Then we’ll see.
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Damn Hishima going straight for the jugular. Respect.
We got our cease-fire for now though. Shoutout to Neku casually reassuring him we’ll fight him to the death if shit doesn’t kick off. Like that’s totally normal. Aiya.
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A thought, as Fuckwad is gloating over how screwed we are: Minamimoto want’s to “approach infinity”. Which in this case might not mean ‘I want to be Composer’, it might mean ‘I’m trying to make the jump to Angel’. In which case… That would be very good for us, I think. Certainly couldn’t be worse, at any rate.
(Exact line I’m on: If you thought that Noise gave you a good beating last time around, just wait till you see it now. You kids are in for a world of hurt. (No, I am not typing out his weird lisp thing.))
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Oh gooooooooood damn it not again.
OH MY GOD SHOKA IS- SHOKA IS SWALLOW!?!?! HELLO!?!?!? I had completely forgotten Swallow even existed with all the madness.
THat. THaT JUST HAPPENED
AND FUCKING HE BROKE OUR PIN NO NONONONO OKAY OKAY HOW ARE WE GETTING OUT OF THIS THERES A WAY WHAT IS IT
Hello giant beam of light what??? I am massively confused. How. What. I do not understand what is happening. What is. GOING ON.
This post is long as fuck I’mma just make a new one.