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[Gundam crosses his arms over his chest, with a laugh.]
Kekeke...
I was simply at a loss for words. It has been a while since I have been confronted by such a combination of stupidity and arrogance. To think that trash like yourself has any place demanding explanations from one as grand as the Supreme Overlord of Ice?
If you wish to challenge me, then I accept. I have not yet begun to show you how serious I can be.
Kekeke...
I was simply at a loss for words. It has been a while since I have been confronted by such a combination of stupidity and arrogance. To think that trash like yourself has any place demanding explanations from one as grand as the Supreme Overlord of Ice?
If you wish to challenge me, then I accept. I have not yet begun to show you how serious I can be.
Tanaka!!
[Even Hajime looks surprised at how sharp his voice comes out as he lowers his hand from his tie, using it as a physical barrier to preemptively block Ryuji from just trying to lunge at him.]
You said we're classmates, right? Tell me what's going on. Ryuji wouldn't come charging in here like this for no reason, just-- tell me.
[Even Hajime looks surprised at how sharp his voice comes out as he lowers his hand from his tie, using it as a physical barrier to preemptively block Ryuji from just trying to lunge at him.]
You said we're classmates, right? Tell me what's going on. Ryuji wouldn't come charging in here like this for no reason, just-- tell me.
[Which, honestly, is a pretty smart move from Hajime, considering that was exactly what Ryuji was just ready to do a second ago. He's probably too easy to read, and yeah, he's pretty surprised by the sternness in his voice.
Actually? It sounds nice on him.]
Seriously!?
[Trash.
That word is one that really stings, even if Gundam doesn't know how deeply he hates it. He's heard it enough times that he should be immune to it, but some old wounds never really heal the right way.
Everyone and their mother (and his own mother) had tried to get him to stop acting fist-first through, and he wants to, so badly, just push Hajime aside and throw himself right at Gundam, but why would he be hiding something? Something that's so important to him that he wouldn't...
Oh.]
Are you two from the same time?
Actually? It sounds nice on him.]
Seriously!?
[Trash.
That word is one that really stings, even if Gundam doesn't know how deeply he hates it. He's heard it enough times that he should be immune to it, but some old wounds never really heal the right way.
Everyone and their mother (and his own mother) had tried to get him to stop acting fist-first through, and he wants to, so badly, just push Hajime aside and throw himself right at Gundam, but why would he be hiding something? Something that's so important to him that he wouldn't...
Oh.]
Are you two from the same time?
[Gundam digs his nails into his arm, a clenching sensation squeezing in his chest at the sternness in Hajime's voice.
It's true. Someone as seemingly carefree and friendly as Ryuji wouldn't have marched in here for no reason wanting to fight with him. He saw the contents of that handbook and assumed the worst of him.
The feeling tightens around his heart again.]
...
[It's a characterization befitting of a cursed being.]
It's true. Someone as seemingly carefree and friendly as Ryuji wouldn't have marched in here for no reason wanting to fight with him. He saw the contents of that handbook and assumed the worst of him.
The feeling tightens around his heart again.]
...
[It's a characterization befitting of a cursed being.]
Kekeke...
FUAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA!
Such inane questions!
You've finally come to understand my unavoidable malicious aura Ryuji Sakamoto! You've seen it clearly... and you are right to be terrified for all who approach me.
I am the forbiden ruler who makes even the god of darkness flee in terror! Perhaps it would be wise for you to escape now with your beloved compatriot.
As a reward for your amusing show of bravado earlier... I'll even give you a ten second head start.
FUAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA!
Such inane questions!
You've finally come to understand my unavoidable malicious aura Ryuji Sakamoto! You've seen it clearly... and you are right to be terrified for all who approach me.
I am the forbiden ruler who makes even the god of darkness flee in terror! Perhaps it would be wise for you to escape now with your beloved compatriot.
As a reward for your amusing show of bravado earlier... I'll even give you a ten second head start.
We're not.
[Hajime's open palm presses back more firmly into Ryuji's chest as he answers, his arm stretched out straight between the two boys. He knows full well that Ryuji won't back down, and Hajime isn't leaving without answers.
Li peeks out from beneath Gundam's rumpled covers, letting out a questioning, purring mrrrrow? and then a bark. Hey friends, she's here too!!
Hajime keeps his hand between Ryuji and Gundam, without breaking eye contact with the animal breeder. His heart is pounding obtrusively loudly in his chest as he shakes his head.]
Tanaka, show me the handbook. This has to do with... with Jabberwock Island, doesn't it?
[Hajime's open palm presses back more firmly into Ryuji's chest as he answers, his arm stretched out straight between the two boys. He knows full well that Ryuji won't back down, and Hajime isn't leaving without answers.
Li peeks out from beneath Gundam's rumpled covers, letting out a questioning, purring mrrrrow? and then a bark. Hey friends, she's here too!!
Hajime keeps his hand between Ryuji and Gundam, without breaking eye contact with the animal breeder. His heart is pounding obtrusively loudly in his chest as he shakes his head.]
Tanaka, show me the handbook. This has to do with... with Jabberwock Island, doesn't it?
[If there ever was a look that could capture "please let me kick his ass, Hajime," that's the one Ryuji is sporting on his features right now, because he absolutely believes Gundam deserves it at the moment. But Hajime is the one speaking, and Ryuji keeps the ball in his court, leashed up and caged behind the smallest nod for approval to go ahead and do it.
This is a fucking mess, that's for sure- and a huge misunderstanding, probably, but there's no sign that he's gotten the inkling he's wrong here, and Gundam keeps provoking him more--- Ryuji just doesn't know if he's more pissed off about that, than the obvious... whatever it is he's trying to keep under wraps.
But, also, if the time difference in their home world is actually a thing, he's conflicted here. He's close enough to someone who can control time itself to know not to fuck with major spoilers in the sequence of events, since it has the potential to alter them... is that a thing? Which is more important, though? Confirming Gundam's not a killer and keeping Hajime safe right now, or potentially messing something up down the road otherwise?
Fuck it, the only thing that matters is right now.]
Why are there pictures of DEAD STUDENTS in there!?
This is a fucking mess, that's for sure- and a huge misunderstanding, probably, but there's no sign that he's gotten the inkling he's wrong here, and Gundam keeps provoking him more--- Ryuji just doesn't know if he's more pissed off about that, than the obvious... whatever it is he's trying to keep under wraps.
But, also, if the time difference in their home world is actually a thing, he's conflicted here. He's close enough to someone who can control time itself to know not to fuck with major spoilers in the sequence of events, since it has the potential to alter them... is that a thing? Which is more important, though? Confirming Gundam's not a killer and keeping Hajime safe right now, or potentially messing something up down the road otherwise?
Fuck it, the only thing that matters is right now.]
Why are there pictures of DEAD STUDENTS in there!?
Edited 2018-08-18 21:09 (UTC)
[Gundam wishes that Hajime would just let Ryuji attempt to punch him. A battle might make Ryuji shut up for once-- although that's a stretch. If he wants to play a hapless hero, Gundam will assume his birth rite and be his villain!
It's only when Li mewls and barks behind him, that he realizes that this might not be an ideal scenario to unleash his forbidden powers on everyone present in this room.]
...
It's only when Li mewls and barks behind him, that he realizes that this might not be an ideal scenario to unleash his forbidden powers on everyone present in this room.]
...
[Gundam's mind reels trying to figure out a way around this, before Ryuji can mindlessly shout out anything else to complicate the situation.
He could just give Hajime the handbook as requested. However, he knows that Hajime has met some of their classmates in his timeline. Showing him a dead portrait of someone he can or might recall is not a viable option. Plus it would do nothing to tilt the situation in his favor.
Although the pixel renderings of the students did not denote deaths. If he merely flipped to a living student's profile, it would allow Hajime to see the original number of students that were trapped on the island to start.
Combined with the rules Ryuji had read about the "killing games" and the "class trials" one could figure out that the conclusion Ryuji implied was not possible.
Hypothetically Gundam couldn't have single-handedly murdered more than two students on his own. If he'd been caught his name would be listed with the dead. If he'd gotten away with it he would be the only one not dead.
...Of course this doesn't clear him entirely because they could simply assume he was pulled from a timeline before the conclusion of a trial--!!]
He could just give Hajime the handbook as requested. However, he knows that Hajime has met some of their classmates in his timeline. Showing him a dead portrait of someone he can or might recall is not a viable option. Plus it would do nothing to tilt the situation in his favor.
Although the pixel renderings of the students did not denote deaths. If he merely flipped to a living student's profile, it would allow Hajime to see the original number of students that were trapped on the island to start.
Combined with the rules Ryuji had read about the "killing games" and the "class trials" one could figure out that the conclusion Ryuji implied was not possible.
Hypothetically Gundam couldn't have single-handedly murdered more than two students on his own. If he'd been caught his name would be listed with the dead. If he'd gotten away with it he would be the only one not dead.
...Of course this doesn't clear him entirely because they could simply assume he was pulled from a timeline before the conclusion of a trial--!!]
The answers to human's questions are always so simple...
[Gundam pulls up the Rules, keeping the handbook in his grip as he shows it to Hajime. There's twelve all together and they outline the life Gundam and his classmates have been living while trapped on Jabberwock Island.]
They are dead.
[Gundam pulls up the Rules, keeping the handbook in his grip as he shows it to Hajime. There's twelve all together and they outline the life Gundam and his classmates have been living while trapped on Jabberwock Island.]
They are dead.
Edited 2018-08-19 00:25 (UTC)
You're a human, too, dumbass!
[Well, no shit, Gundam- that's a very obvious thing, so Ryuji will counter that with an equally obvious thing that places the suspicion right onto him.]
And you're still alive according to this thing. People die if they're killed! What the hell is this, some sorta killing game!?
[He clenches his fist.]
[Well, no shit, Gundam- that's a very obvious thing, so Ryuji will counter that with an equally obvious thing that places the suspicion right onto him.]
And you're still alive according to this thing. People die if they're killed! What the hell is this, some sorta killing game!?
[He clenches his fist.]
What...?
[Ryuji's voice is kind of just ringing in his ears as he reaches out, though it seems Gundam won't just give him the handbook. It's... not going to stop him from scrolling down, brow furrowing as he reads through the rules. "Extreme violence is prohibited on this island," right, okay, it must be referring to the Jabberwock Island Gundam had mentioned before. "Hope Fragments"...? He has no idea what that means.
It's the following rules, the ones next to the little bouncing bear sprite, that make it hard to hear anything going on around him. His hand lowers from Ryuji's chest, less out of conscious effort and more just from not really being aware of what's going on around him.]
A class trial... execute the blackened?
[He sounds like he's talking to himself, not the other two boys.]
If the blackened gets away, the others... will be executed?!
[Hajime looks up then, eyes wide as he looks to Ryuji first for some kind of reassurance, then to Gundam just as quickly for some kind of refutation. This... this can't be real, right?]
[Ryuji's voice is kind of just ringing in his ears as he reaches out, though it seems Gundam won't just give him the handbook. It's... not going to stop him from scrolling down, brow furrowing as he reads through the rules. "Extreme violence is prohibited on this island," right, okay, it must be referring to the Jabberwock Island Gundam had mentioned before. "Hope Fragments"...? He has no idea what that means.
It's the following rules, the ones next to the little bouncing bear sprite, that make it hard to hear anything going on around him. His hand lowers from Ryuji's chest, less out of conscious effort and more just from not really being aware of what's going on around him.]
A class trial... execute the blackened?
[He sounds like he's talking to himself, not the other two boys.]
If the blackened gets away, the others... will be executed?!
[Hajime looks up then, eyes wide as he looks to Ryuji first for some kind of reassurance, then to Gundam just as quickly for some kind of refutation. This... this can't be real, right?]
[Gundam is so bitter someone this dumb has bumbled his way into spoiling the elaborately crafted illusion he told Hajime.]
...Did you even read anything on this page you fiend or did you solely focus on the tab with pictures?
[Gundam eyes Hajime wearily, motioning for his Devas to work together to grab his pillow from his bed.
...He doesn't want Hajime cracking his head open.]
...Did you even read anything on this page you fiend or did you solely focus on the tab with pictures?
[Gundam eyes Hajime wearily, motioning for his Devas to work together to grab his pillow from his bed.
...He doesn't want Hajime cracking his head open.]
Edited 2018-08-19 01:09 (UTC)
[Gundam probably should have expected another barrage of text from Ryuji after he choked him for trying to make a theatrical and timely exit once before-- but he finds himself glaring at the screen of his communicator once again.
He's annoying. He's obscenely crass. He has no appreciation of personal space. The very basis of his characterization has been to be an irritant since his inception!]
He's annoying. He's obscenely crass. He has no appreciation of personal space. The very basis of his characterization has been to be an irritant since his inception!]
Spherical-- of course I took into consideration such an act of cowardice from an assailant.
My overwhelming power could drive even the bravest beings into a fit of pitiful desperation to dispense of me!
[It's odd to be pursued so diligently. There was of course Hajime-- but he was 'the singularity' and that was when he was on the island. Their sacred bond has not truly been re-affirmed here. That would take time.
...and then there was perhaps the Dark Queen, allured by a desire within to awaken her hidden power! ...But she isn't here.
Despite some attempts with varying levels of failure and limited success with others trapped on this craft--!!
It has been ...lonely.]
You insult me!
My overwhelming power could drive even the bravest beings into a fit of pitiful desperation to dispense of me!
[It's odd to be pursued so diligently. There was of course Hajime-- but he was 'the singularity' and that was when he was on the island. Their sacred bond has not truly been re-affirmed here. That would take time.
...and then there was perhaps the Dark Queen, allured by a desire within to awaken her hidden power! ...But she isn't here.
Despite some attempts with varying levels of failure and limited success with others trapped on this craft--!!
It has been ...lonely.]
You insult me!
[There's a bit of smirk on Ryuji's end when he received these replies, and he finds himself shaking his head a little bit at what's going on. If anything, Gundam truly sticks to the whole persona he's built for himself, and it's... amusing? Endearing? It's hard to really pin it as anything, honestly, but Ryuji doesn't buy into it entirely; he figures there's gotta be a normal dude behind all the gusto and edginess he uses to keep people at arm's length.]
Huh? How the hell did I insult you?
I thought we were blood brothers now
Like, that runs deep, man
Huh? How the hell did I insult you?
I thought we were blood brothers now
Like, that runs deep, man
[Yeah, he's pretty dumb, all petty and destructive thoughts accounted for in this giant fuckass of a mess that he's charged right into. Hajime lowers his hand, and Ryuji still has it in him to haul off and start a chargin', but he's concerned with how touched Hajime seems to be about this entire thing.]
Uh, no, I mean.
[You're asking Ryuji Sakamoto if, given the opportunity between completely misreading a room and getting hot-headed versus taking the time to sort stuff out... that he won't go for guns blazing route?
Well, Gundam... Don't know what to tell you here.]
Look, somethin' is goin' on here, for real, can you at least... I dunno, promise me or just say something to the effect that you're not a killer? This shit is fishy as all hell, s'what I'm sayin'.
Uh, no, I mean.
[You're asking Ryuji Sakamoto if, given the opportunity between completely misreading a room and getting hot-headed versus taking the time to sort stuff out... that he won't go for guns blazing route?
Well, Gundam... Don't know what to tell you here.]
Look, somethin' is goin' on here, for real, can you at least... I dunno, promise me or just say something to the effect that you're not a killer? This shit is fishy as all hell, s'what I'm sayin'.
To even consider that I the Supreme Overlord of Ice would eternally succumb to such an affliction while there are still beings here I must protect?
...feh!
I am perhaps... vaguely impressed, however. You did not succumb either.
["Blood Brother" -- it is more impressive sounding than the term "soul friend" at least. It's always important to one up Souda when he can...]
Maybe there is a kernel of truth to what you say.
...feh!
I am perhaps... vaguely impressed, however. You did not succumb either.
["Blood Brother" -- it is more impressive sounding than the term "soul friend" at least. It's always important to one up Souda when he can...]
Maybe there is a kernel of truth to what you say.
Edited 2018-08-19 17:51 (UTC)
[at some point during that fascinating conversation about the icy depths of cocks and blood brothering, another text buzzes on Gundam's watch. it's the dude from room 4.13! you know. the one directly above Gundam's?]
hey
what the fuck are you doing down there
like i can deal with the muffled supervillain cackling
but it sounds like youre doing some sort of olympic training in there
are you practicing your soccer tackles or what
hey
what the fuck are you doing down there
like i can deal with the muffled supervillain cackling
but it sounds like youre doing some sort of olympic training in there
are you practicing your soccer tackles or what
Yeah... I kinda feel the same way. Too much shit left to do, you know?
Anyway, it must be tough bein' a single parent with 4 kids. I can only kinda guess, 'cause my mom's one too, and I know I was always puttin' her through hell just bein' myself.
I dunno
I'm really bad at lying
You figure that out about me yet?
Anyway, it must be tough bein' a single parent with 4 kids. I can only kinda guess, 'cause my mom's one too, and I know I was always puttin' her through hell just bein' myself.
I dunno
I'm really bad at lying
You figure that out about me yet?
He can't be.
[Hajime's not even looking at either of them, he's just staring down at the handbook. He can be incredibly dumb like... 80% of the time. But when it's important, when he can focus, he's observant. It takes him a bit to try to put pieces together, it's true, but he's from the kind of game where those kinds of time limits are okay.
He shifts his grip, trying to actually take the handbook. There must be evidence in it that proves that Gundam's not a killer, right? There has to be.]
I won't believe... someone like Tanaka can be a murderer.
[Hajime's not even looking at either of them, he's just staring down at the handbook. He can be incredibly dumb like... 80% of the time. But when it's important, when he can focus, he's observant. It takes him a bit to try to put pieces together, it's true, but he's from the kind of game where those kinds of time limits are okay.
He shifts his grip, trying to actually take the handbook. There must be evidence in it that proves that Gundam's not a killer, right? There has to be.]
I won't believe... someone like Tanaka can be a murderer.
I am not a parent to the Four Dark Devas of Destruction, I am their friend and their master.
I would never be capable of devouring them.
[Horrifying hamster facts aside-- Gundam and Ryuji have more in common than he'd thought. He's not as open about bearing his soul, but he can sympathize with a non-existent father and an over burdened mother.]
Of course. For a mere human you seem to have rather low deception when it comes to your skill set.
I would never be capable of devouring them.
[Horrifying hamster facts aside-- Gundam and Ryuji have more in common than he'd thought. He's not as open about bearing his soul, but he can sympathize with a non-existent father and an over burdened mother.]
Of course. For a mere human you seem to have rather low deception when it comes to your skill set.
Edited 2018-08-20 01:10 (UTC)
Dude, I literally didn't say a damn thing about eating them, why the hell did that just come up like it was just the most natural thing to say in the world
[He's calling the hamster police on you, what the heckie.]
But yeah. I guess lying just doesn't really suit me, y'know? There's a point to it, and I get it, but like. Usually people find out anyway, so it's just easier to tell them the brutal truth, no matter what the consequences are
[He's calling the hamster police on you, what the heckie.]
But yeah. I guess lying just doesn't really suit me, y'know? There's a point to it, and I get it, but like. Usually people find out anyway, so it's just easier to tell them the brutal truth, no matter what the consequences are
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