[He snorts, but follows him and Niah to the kitchen. He is being spoiled.
Also, under normal circumstances, he can put back a decent amount of food. Not Aikawa levels, but close. And now he is a ravenous black hole, sorry to Joonghyuk.]
Messed with our heads, as usual. Made me believe I had a different history. A spirit in a clock convinced me and Bradley to break it out of a museum it was stolen to fill. So we did. Took it back home with us. His name was Ben.
About half a year passes. We’re in the snow nearby and run into… a talking snowman. Might’ve been pieces of the dead formed together. He thought a cat was attacking him but it ran off when we tried to intervene. He convinced us to throw him in the hot spring nearby because he said he was cold and empty and didn’t know why. We told him he’d melt, but he didn’t care.
Well, he started melting so we took him out. He remembers being alone. Cat comes back. He remembers the cat being his friend while he was alone. Marshmallow. So we took them back home with us. We named him Albamanny because we’re shit at names.
Several months pass, and it’s Christmas. Burglars break into our house with the cat as a hostage to steal whatever. I got pissed they thought they could waltz into my house and… do that to everyone. So I zapped the one holding the cat with my stun gun. He throws the cat to the other one and that one flees outside with the rest. They run nearby to a frozen lake and cross, leaving the cat on it.
Ice broken when I tried to help it. Sucked me under. I woke up… in a void. [A pause.] With my mom.
I could hear Ben’s voice, so I followed it. Woke up in a cave with Ben in a real body, the cat, and Bradley. We got attacked by fiends. It infected us, I guess. We started turning into fiends ourselves when Cloud and Sebastian showed up. Don’t remember anything except being hungry, wanting to destroy, and attacking Cloud.
Apparently, Sebastian had to convince Ben to kill himself to save us because they came from a future where he destroyed the world.
He was eating, too, as Jason tells his story, but towards some part he had his mouth open and noodles in his chopsticks, just... Mouth agape wanting to eat, but so fucking concerned about this acid trip of a cyoa that he can't find it in himself to eat more.
[NOT THE BUNNY. GET OUT OF HERE. Also, yeah, Joonghyuk is the mood. It doesn't seem to bother Jason, but maybe it's because he went through it without any other option. It's fine.]
[He waits on Joonghyuk, quickly looking away when he's sniffed out. He kind of pushes whatever remaining juice or sauce is left of his food for a second.]
Yeah. [He doesn't look up.] It wasn't real. My mom is dead.
[ Yeah, Jason!! All the time. No matter what canon you’re from. ]
No. Nothing about them. I had been living on my own since I was seventeen, scouted for an esports job out of nowhere. My sister was also left on my doorstep as a baby.
Never heard anything from them.
[ Jason is so easy. He doesn’t finish it because he knows Jason will want to chew on information, so he lets him form theories. ]
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He is getting snacks, it seems. Well, he has them, he is getting drink from vending. He pauses and glances up.]
Hey.
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… You’re fine enough to be walking around?
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[A small shrug. He attempts to pet Niah in greeting without dropping all his shit.]
Been starving since yesterday. Keep feeling like I’m gonna be arrested any second.
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The wording has him raise an eyebrow? Explain. Shit is mostly free here. ]
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Just—nevermind. It’s… the place we went, I think. I keep feeling hungry. Keep watching my back.
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Are you still hungry?
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Yeah.
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I’ll cook for you today if you tell me what happened.
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[He’s warning.]
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[ But they can move to the kitchen with Jason’s snack trove. Joonghyuk basically makes a feast of Korean and Chinese dishes for him. ]
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Also, under normal circumstances, he can put back a decent amount of food. Not Aikawa levels, but close. And now he is a ravenous black hole, sorry to Joonghyuk.]
Messed with our heads, as usual. Made me believe I had a different history. A spirit in a clock convinced me and Bradley to break it out of a museum it was stolen to fill. So we did. Took it back home with us. His name was Ben.
About half a year passes. We’re in the snow nearby and run into… a talking snowman. Might’ve been pieces of the dead formed together. He thought a cat was attacking him but it ran off when we tried to intervene. He convinced us to throw him in the hot spring nearby because he said he was cold and empty and didn’t know why. We told him he’d melt, but he didn’t care.
Well, he started melting so we took him out. He remembers being alone. Cat comes back. He remembers the cat being his friend while he was alone. Marshmallow. So we took them back home with us. We named him Albamanny because we’re shit at names.
Several months pass, and it’s Christmas. Burglars break into our house with the cat as a hostage to steal whatever. I got pissed they thought they could waltz into my house and… do that to everyone. So I zapped the one holding the cat with my stun gun. He throws the cat to the other one and that one flees outside with the rest. They run nearby to a frozen lake and cross, leaving the cat on it.
Ice broken when I tried to help it. Sucked me under. I woke up… in a void. [A pause.] With my mom.
I could hear Ben’s voice, so I followed it. Woke up in a cave with Ben in a real body, the cat, and Bradley. We got attacked by fiends. It infected us, I guess. We started turning into fiends ourselves when Cloud and Sebastian showed up. Don’t remember anything except being hungry, wanting to destroy, and attacking Cloud.
Apparently, Sebastian had to convince Ben to kill himself to save us because they came from a future where he destroyed the world.
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He was eating, too, as Jason tells his story, but towards some part he had his mouth open and noodles in his chopsticks, just... Mouth agape wanting to eat, but so fucking concerned about this acid trip of a cyoa that he can't find it in himself to eat more.
When Jason is done, he takes his bite. ]
It all sounds stupid.
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Yeah. It was.
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He takes a moment to go get the soup dumplings out before they can continue. ]
... Your mother was there.
[ But Jason didn't mention what happens to her? ]
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Yeah. [He doesn't look up.] It wasn't real. My mom is dead.
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[ Puts the dumplings on Jason’s plate. ]
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[He is currently starving to death for some STUPID reason, so he eats these dumplings so quickly. They are so fucking good.]
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Were you able to save her?
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He waits until he isn’t eating, but still refuses to meet Joonghyuk’s eyes.]
She’s dead, I said. There’s no saving her anywhere. She isn’t supposed to be saved.
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[ Not in a lecturing or even demanding way, just calm… And hoping that it calms him down some, maybe ease him back out. ]
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[It’s only partially snapped, but then he sighs and seems to mostly be chill.]
That’s not wrong. She’s gone. You don’t bring people back when they’re gone.
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This is a funny thing to say to him, since he has seen his loved ones die and live over and over again. ]
I once hired a private investigator to find out more about my parents. Before the apocalypse happened.
[ Tangent story to get Jason’s mind off of things. ]
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Do you get survivor’s guilt when you are resurrected?]
You didn’t know your parents?
[Damn Joonghyuk to hell. He’s a Bat. Of course he will be curious and distracted.]
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No. Nothing about them. I had been living on my own since I was seventeen, scouted for an esports job out of nowhere. My sister was also left on my doorstep as a baby.
Never heard anything from them.
[ Jason is so easy. He doesn’t finish it because he knows Jason will want to chew on information, so he lets him form theories. ]
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Just, like, a handshake of familiarity.]
Did they find anything?
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