akihiko catchall

[florescences]

one day i'll play more than 2 hours of persona 3

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weekend 0, saturday

[florescences]

[ let's hang out at the train station. elysia is looking out into the distance. ]

Do you think this could be your ticket out?

[ziosar]

It should be! It should be just a matter of walking alongside the tracks until it gets somewhere else.

No idea where it leads, though. A different afterlife?

[Is that how it works? Is the afterlife a whole bunch of islands where different belief systems get an island of their own? Oh well, leaving this place would be progress no matter what]

[florescences]

The afterlife should be vast.

[ everyone has to die eventually, even immortals aren't immune. ]

Are you going to try?

[ziosar]

I will. I can't just sit around with something like this within reach.

[Akihiko gets off the train platform, ready to begin what he's sure will be a long walk]

Are you coming or will you stick around here to see if I ever return with news?

[florescences]

I don't want to leave the people I just met so soon, so I'll wait to see what happens.

[ she does not think he'll get far, but she doesn't want to discourage his will to try. ]

week 0, sunday

[florescences]

[ trial and execution would take a toll on anyone, much less a teenage boy like akihiko.

she calls out to him when she sees him. ]

Akihiko? Are you doing okay?

[ziosar]

...I'm not sure. Yesterday I was satisfied with that guy getting caught, but right now--it's complicated now.

[It's not that he feels awful about Jing Yuan, but at the same time that execution left such a sour taste in his mouth he's not sure how to deal with. He hadn't expected Jing Yuan to be killed, much less by someone else here, and clearly it wasn't a choice Jiaoqiu consciously made. Felt like some was pulling the strings in all this, and he hates so much]

I thought the whole problem was that it is wrong for us to kill? Why the hell was what happened today needed?

[It just makes no sense to him]

[florescences]

Hmm... in a twisted way, some people could consider it part of justice. Someone committed a crime, and he was punished for it. If you're the one made to carry out the punishment, would that be considered wrong?

[ she smiles a little. ]

For some, it's a duty. Here.... it's something else.

[ziosar]

It felt very personal, too. Making everything take the form of a place familiar to them, bring people they know...

[Although, yeah...guess eye-for-eye is a bit of a biblical command, now that he thinks about it, from what little he has heard about western religion. Maybe this heaven believes in that, for all he knows]

week 1, tuesday

[florescences]

[ they're at the holiday market. she picks up a christmas wreath. ]

Do you have Christmas where you're from?

[ziosar]

I do. It's actually popular enough for decorations to exist, and having cake on Christmas is a tradition.

[On his time, Japan seems to have taken some nice things about Christmas without going all-in into the gifts and the religious celebrations]

It feels like only a few of us know what Christmas is.

[Are yoooooou one of the people who know what this is? Or is he going to enlighten you today? He's getting used to explaining about these holidays -- and really, better this one than, like, Valentine's]

[florescences]

It makes sense it's not constant in every world. It's not like it was always the holiday it is or was...

But you don't have to explain it to me.

[ she knows enough. ]

[ziosar]

I'm sure someone will try to recreate their own holiday at some point -- just to try to show it to everyone else.

[If there's enough space for shenanigans in the incoming week, at least]

week 1, friday

[florescences]

[ akihiko... baby boy... how are you doing, second week in a row...

elysia stops by him when she sees him. ]

Hey. How are you holding up?

[ziosar]

[Worse than before, even though he's keeping it together...]

Waking up and finding out two of the people you were with the night before are dead makes everything feel like a nightmare.

[Yeah, because of that. Charlie dying sucked, but at least he wasn't with her right before her death]

[florescences]

[ that would make things worse. ]

I'm sorry, Akihiko. That must make you feel more helpless.

[ziosar]

I refuse to let myself feel helpless. Helplessness won't be of any use.

[Well, more like he hates feeling helpless, he already had enough of that feeling at very tragic moments while he was aliv. So, instead, he's trying very hard to shove that away and focus on what he can do.

Which isn't much, until the trial, but whatever!]

week 2, tuesday

[florescences]

[ elysia is looking at the croquet mallets in the courtyard, deep in thought. ]

[ziosar]

[Sorry for taking a while to reply -- university has me by the neck.

Akihiko is not too far away, already with a mallet in his hand, turning it over like he's not sure what he even grabbed]

Strangest golf club I have seen.

[Well, not that he has seen a lot of golf clubs in his life, but oh well!]

[florescences]

[ no worries!

she isn't touching the mallets yet. ]

It really is strange. I'm not sure if they can be used... or if they should.

[ziosar]

[He takes several steps back and gives an experimental swing like you'd do with a golf club. This is definitely not the way to use this mallet, but he doesn't realize that at all]

We won't know until we give it a serious try in a game. No better way to find answers than doing it with your own hands!

week 6, saturday

[florescences]

[ elysia waves to akihiko whenever she sees him next. she greets him with a smile despite how trial ended. ]

Hey, Akihiko. How are you doing?

[ziosar]

Relieved. Very glad this won't happen ever again. Knowing this was the last trial made it much more bearable.

[Akihiko definitely was watching, even though Nick was busy]

I don't want to step into anything courtroom-related, ever again.

[florescences]

[ she laughs a little. ]

I don't know if I'd say this is anything like how a real courtroom trial goes, but hopefully, you won't get into any kind trouble with the law after.

[ziosar]

I won't! I'm on the straight and narrow from here on. Besides...

[Akihiko trails off for a moment, but decides to just go ahead with saying it because he really is trying to be more open]

...having to sit there and hope nothing happens to the people I miss might have been the worst part of this.

[He has friends on the alive side he cares about a lot, and several died before Akihiko did, too. This murdergame treated him roughly, although also he brought half of his woes onto himself]