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motormouths) wrote2014-02-03 12:16 am
motormouths) wrote2014-02-03 12:16 am
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[There's a light crackle as Souda fiddles with his Pokeconnect before he comes in clear.]
...uck!
[It's like an echo of Kuzuryuu's message on the network, only it's weeks late. Thankfully, he didn't have it on for two whole minutes of his freaking out, but he's still a pathetic crying mess. All the cold has apparently sapped the all the hope right out of his body. His boilersuit is zipped straight up, and his teeth are chattering.
Arguing with some lady who acted like a mother really didn't help his morale.]
Sonia-san, [Of course he calls out for her first, the predictable bastard] Hinata, the rest of ya guys! Are ya getting any of this?! [There isn't even a pause as he continues, because the tears on his face are freezing.]
F-First off, why the hell are there Pokémon?!
[The view pans down to show off his Totodile down by his feet chewing on his shoelaces. Souda is nervously laughing outside of view.]
Aha...ahahaaa... I'm dreaming, right? 'cause I played the first one when I was younger, but... There wasn't any ever like this one here!
This shit ain't funny! It's way too cold for it to be a joke! Goin' from an island to frozen hell?! If that Naegi kid is here, I'm throwing this thing [he means his Totodile] right at him! And I wanna go home, so ya guys better come out and get me already!
[...And now he just sounds like one of those children who lost their parents in a gigantic store.]
...uck!
[It's like an echo of Kuzuryuu's message on the network, only it's weeks late. Thankfully, he didn't have it on for two whole minutes of his freaking out, but he's still a pathetic crying mess. All the cold has apparently sapped the all the hope right out of his body. His boilersuit is zipped straight up, and his teeth are chattering.
Arguing with some lady who acted like a mother really didn't help his morale.]
Sonia-san, [Of course he calls out for her first, the predictable bastard] Hinata, the rest of ya guys! Are ya getting any of this?! [There isn't even a pause as he continues, because the tears on his face are freezing.]
F-First off, why the hell are there Pokémon?!
[The view pans down to show off his Totodile down by his feet chewing on his shoelaces. Souda is nervously laughing outside of view.]
Aha...ahahaaa... I'm dreaming, right? 'cause I played the first one when I was younger, but... There wasn't any ever like this one here!
This shit ain't funny! It's way too cold for it to be a joke! Goin' from an island to frozen hell?! If that Naegi kid is here, I'm throwing this thing [he means his Totodile] right at him! And I wanna go home, so ya guys better come out and get me already!
[...And now he just sounds like one of those children who lost their parents in a gigantic store.]
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Not fake Jabberwock Island, the real one! Y'know, like real life and stuff. Our bodies, as banged up as they are, just... It's makin' me antsy.
[And of course Hinata would be stoked at still being, well, Hinata. They did say he'd become Kamukura again, right?] Hinata being happy...that's a pretty obvious deal. It's better for him to stay like that, but the two of us?
[Kamukura sounded kind of creepy, anyway. Second leader after Enoshima type creepy.] Not so much. But, yeah, it's good for everybody but us. I guess it could be like a second chance for us, too, but it's not.
[Sure, Kuzuryuu, but Souda never exactly got close to anybody in their few weeks on the island. His paranoia shoved everybody away. He was kind of friends with Nidai for a while, but yeah. No deep bonds were made like everyone else, only with Hinata, and Hinata has tons of other people.]
So...all of 'em, then? Nobody knows they died?
[And if Komaeda's ass ever shows up, they're tying him up again and throwing him to the sharpedos. Maybe if they actually followed through with Souda's plan, things would've gone smoother. Didn't Nanami untie him the first time they tried it, too?!]
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Mmm...
[It's not really a noise of agreement, but it's not really a noise of dissent either. Because while they both are clearly having some issues with this place, clearly those issues are a little different. Kuzuryuu doesn't really mind the form he's stuck in as much as he minds having all the work done for him. It just doesn't sit well with him.]
Nah, Saionji and Nanami know they're dead. Last thing they remember, apparently. I already told you Tsumiki's got no fucking clue about much of anything. And I dunno about Tanaka but I think Nanami said he's from way early. Only talked to him once and you can probably guess how that went.
[Not bad, but at the same time...it's not like he really got anything useful out of the conversation. Because Gundam is Gundam.]
I meant the rest of the stuff. Like about the virtual reality bullshit and...Enoshima. Or well...obviously Nanami knows about the virtual reality stuff. But everybody else doesn't have a clue. And Hinata and I think it's best if it stays that way.
Keep the truth between just the five of us.
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...Yeah, that'd fuck up a lot of stuff. [How do you slip talking about the entire thing being a simulation, much less SHSL Despair in casual conversation, anyway? Not that Souda's mouth couldn't accidentally find a way there, but that's only if they drill him!
They're different people. Focusing on details like that won't get them anywhere, right? They all had their brief moments of near relapse in one way or another, right?]
But I guess that won't matter because I plan on avoidin' all the dead people but Nanami, right? [Yes. That's going to work well.] Don't gotta worry 'bout me sayin' all that stuff.
...But that's if I ever find a way outta here, y'know!
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[There are, of course, a couple of flaws in this plan. Chief among them: if Enoshima herself ever shows up. That could be...a problem. Just a little one.]
And good. Because if you do slip up and run that motor-mouth [Holy shit was that a joke? From Kuzuryuu??] of yours, it'll be the last thing you ever do.
[Dead. Serious. Swear to god, Souda, you better not fuck up here.]
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...Don't ya have any sense of solidarity?! [Threatening a fellow member from the final five? Come on, man!]
You're really killin' it here! [The joke actually flies over his head, all thanks to his threat.] I'm not gonna talk, damn it! Do ya seriously think I want anybody knowin' all that?! Everybody'd avoid us!
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[Souda, he is yakuza. Why are you surprised that this is how he operates? But hey, at least he said IF you fuck up, not WHEN you fuck up. That has to count for something, right?]
Besides, it's not that I think you'll purposefully talk. Or that you don't know the consequences. [He folds his arms over his chest.] It's just that you're absolute shit at hiding things. You crack under pressure.
[REMEMBER THAT TIME YOU TIED KOMAEDA UP AND TRIED TO HIDE IT? REMEMBER THAT?]
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What the hell is he thinking?]
N-No, I'm no-- [Stuttering too much already.] ...Fine, so I'm a pretty bad liar! I can't even help anybody cheat on a test, y'know! That's just the kinda guy I am! I can't do it without feelin' really, really bad, especially when they ask straight out! I can't do nothin' about that, y'know!
[CAN WE NOT FUCKING TALK ABOUT KOMAEDA, BECAUSE HE'D TIE HIM UP AGAIN.]
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Yeah well this isn't cheating on a test. You just said yourself what's at stake here if you slip up.
[Not just avoid. Lord knows, some of the 78th class might be a-okay with outright killing them. You remember what the Future Foundation's instructions for dealing with them were...]
If someone asks, which I can only think of one person who might, just tell 'em you don't know shit and change the subject.
[...]
...and if they keep giving you trouble, then you give me a call.
[HOW IS THAT FOR SURVIVOR SOLIDARITY? LOOK, HE'LL SAVE YOUR SORRY BUTT YOU WEENIE.]
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Before everybody decided up on it, I was really scared about comin' back. Scared of becomin' that again... Hell, I was still scared period. [This is...his third or fourth shot at acting like someone different and gaining friends, right?]
Ya don't gotta worry, I'll like...
[Are they slowly becoming friends? Is this a thing?]
...use ya as my get outta jail free card or whatever? [Is this what it's like to kind of have a friend like Kuzuryuu?] That's the deal, right?
[Does this count as their first FTE?] If...if things start gettin' scary, I just bring up your name to those guys? 'Kuzuryuu'll bust my head if I talk!' ...Which ya won't really, right?
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[...okay, no, there's more to it than this. They just need a little more time to reach that point.
Say like...FTE 3 or so.]Heh, 'course not, but they don't have to know that. Can't promise I won't smack you upside the head if you really deserve it, though.
[Most useless threat ever, we all know he'd need to get a stool first to accomplish that.]