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Vanilla ([personal profile] chinhotta) wrote in [community profile] randangonpa2018-03-25 10:09 am

Trash Squad Day 11 - SECRETS

Are you ready for it?! It's the long awaited final event! This is your last chance to get close before your final dates and the final bonus event!

And, back by popular demand, it's the motive vi—wait, no, not that. Well, I guess you're motivated to build your relationships? That's better anyway.

...Anyway! Check your tablets! You will find you have a few interesting video files! They should be familiar to you! The catch is... if you don't share each one with a different person by nighttime today, they will all be shown to everyone here! We'll have a fun midnight viewing party!

This may seem a bit cruel, but... love is cruel sometimes. Take it as an opportunity to get a bit closer to the people you care about, or everyone will learn a bit more about you! It's win-win when you think about it that way!

[ On your tablets are a minimum of 3 video files! There is no maximum; it's however many you OOCly want to deal with. Each video contains some sort of secret your character has—'secret' loosely defined as anything they would be uncomfortable being thrown up on a big screen in the auditorium in front of everyone. The presentation can be as simple as lines of text with embarrassing facts (Alice wet the bed until she was in junior high!) or as involved as a dramatically edited montage of the murders they committed through their whole life. Your choice!

Each file should be shown to a different person to count as 'shared'. If there is anything they do not manage to, or choose not to, share with someone in particular, comment with a brief description of it over here. These will all be shared publicly in a post which goes up on Thursday before the date announcement post. ]



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SUBMIT YOUR UNSHARED SECRETS ALSO by 6PM PST THURSDAY.
flamingprick: (standing up to his old man)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-27 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
I still want to see it, even if it's unpleasant.

[He owes it to Yusuke to see it. Not only because Yusuke saw his, but because they're friends. And that's what friends do for each other.]
artisticliberty: (mona lisa)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-27 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

[The scene: a somewhat run-down Japanese-style house, not in shambles, but clearly something of a shack. It's evening, sometime in late autumn, so there's a chill in the air. Yusuke is about 11 or 12, huddled in a corner of a room dedicated to making art: there's supplies on multiple tables, several easels with half-finished canvases, and paint splatters on the floor and walls. There's also a small bookshelf off to the side, mostly filled with art books, but hidden behind it are a few volumes of manga. Yusuke is currently reading one of the manga volumes, shivering from the cold, but determined to ignore it. He reads for a few more minutes, until there's a SLAM of the front door of the house being open and shut. He jumps, and fumbles to hide the manga before the door to the room opens. He's on his feet by the time it does, and the person who opens it is an older man dressed in a formal kimono. He eyes the room critically without saying a word, and then turns to Yusuke, and sighs deeply.

Not finished yet? The exhibition is this weekend, and it would be a poor showing with the number of works I have so far.

"My apologies, sensei. I promise I will have it done for you before then."

Hmmm... I seem to recall hearing promises of the sort last time, and I was still short one painting then, wasn't I?

"I... I swear I will work even harder to make up for that. I know how much the exhibition means to you, sensei--"

The older man interrupts with a laugh and a smile, but there is nothing warm or kind in his gaze.

You worry too much, Yusuke. I have complete faith that you'll deliver on time.

"... of course, sensei."

But let's not leave any room for doubt, shall we?

Yusuke goes still, and then he reaches out a hand towards the older man, calling out "Wait, sensei, please--!" but it's too late. He has closed the door, and Yusuke can hear the sound of it being locked from the outside, a click echoing in the room with a terrible finality. Yusuke lowers his head and presses his face to his palms, shivering. He's only lucky he was able to eat dinner beforehand, because he knows already that the door will not open until the morning. Glancing around, there isn't anything that he can use for a blanket... he takes the manga volumes out from behind the bookshelf and bends them a little, judging how soft they are. He can use these for a pillow, at least. He sets them down in a pile by the corner for later.

For now, he has work to do. He stands in front of the unfinished canvas, already painted in shades of deep blues and blacks. Yusuke clenches his fists hard, and swallows back the tightening in his throat, and he starts to paint. He paints in a frenzy, like he's possessed by something, but it's obvious that it's just him lashing out in anger and frustration. The painting comes to life as a boat at sea, caught in a storm, a crack of lighting hitting the bow of the ship and splitting it in twain. It's beautiful, and Yusuke is in tears by the time he's finished--and by the time the sun rises.]
flamingprick: (obscured eyes)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-27 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[...oh.

Rin had some perceptions of Yusuke previously. Perceptions that definitely colored his first encounter with him, and that made becoming friends a bit more difficult. Even after they were friends, Rin had been assuming that they were true, and that he would just be friends with Yusuke despite them.

But now he sees that he was wrong, and that Yusuke has suffered just as much as anyone else here. He's not a spoiled rich kid with no worries whatsoever who sticks his nose in places where it doesn't belong, he's just...Yusuke. With his own past and his own problems.

Rin doesn't say anything about the video. Instead, once the video is done, he just reaches out to pull Yusuke into a tight hug.
]
artisticliberty: pixiv id: 1562684 (sunrise over the eastern sea)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-27 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
[yusuke lets out a gasp when rin hugs him, just out of surprise. he's stiff for a moment, but then he wraps his arms around him in return]
flamingprick: (disappointed)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-27 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rin will go ahead and hold onto Yusuke tightly, then. ]

I'm sorry. That was so cruel, I can't believe someone would do that to you.
artisticliberty: (mona lisa)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[yusuke's moved on from his past at this point, accepted a lot of things now that his vengeance was fulfilled, now that madarame was brought to justice--but somehow, hearing that makes his throat tighten up in a way he didn't expect]

... it is alright. You need not pity that child; he is not suffering like that anymore.
flamingprick: (never gonna drag him down)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's not pity, it's empathy.

[He knows all too well what it's like to be mistreated by someone who looks like a kind person.

He pulls away from the hug, but he keeps his hands on Yusuke's shoulders as he says the next part.
]

You're not a tool to be used like that. You're a living, breathing person, and you deserve to be treated like one. Don't ever let someone treat you like that, alright? Because you deserve better.
artisticliberty: (whistler's mother)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[yusuke knows that now, but part of him still feels the pain of being used his whole life for nothing more than fame and money. he smiles a little, wryly]

... I wonder how things would have turned out had someone told me that when I was younger. Perhaps I would have run away. But that was always what kept me there--I had nowhere else to go, no one else to turn to... until I met Ann, Akira, and Ryuji.
flamingprick: (that's a nice story)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Aah, so they're your precious friends then.

[Rin has friends like that too, back home. Friends who helped him open up and become a better person.]
artisticliberty: <user name="byob"> ; pixiv id: 3182498 (elvira resting at a table)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Though they are far from perfect, they have supported me and fought by my side. I treasure their friendship more than anything else, even as much as my own art.

[he gets a really fond look on his face]

We are a wayward group of misfits, delinquents, and troublemakers... yet being with them is paradise compared to what I lived through before.
flamingprick: (cheers!)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
If it makes you talk like that, then I can see why it's better. And if Akira's involved, then it's got to be good. He's a good person.
artisticliberty: (the laughing cavalier)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. I think he touched all of our lives deeply, even deeper than he expected to.
flamingprick: (standing up to his old man)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that sounds about right for him.

...you know, he was the one who convinced me to give you a second chance.
artisticliberty: <user name="byob"> ; pixiv id: 3182498 (red balloon)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
I had wondered about that. He had asked me about the bruises before, and he seemed so surprised to discover you were the source. He realized it had been a misunderstanding right away... as expected of him, really.
flamingprick: (yeah whatever)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
We had our own shouting matches before, but I never hit him. Still, I guess he figured out that I was the one who'd probably punch you. I gotta admit, guys like you usually piss me off, and I think he knows that.
artisticliberty: (chrysanthemums)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[chuckles]

Actually, when we first met, I was disdainful of him and Ryuji. I didn't wish to speak to either of them, only Ann. I must have seemed quite arrogant to them.
flamingprick: (what's that over there?)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Why? Is it because Akira's totally a delinquent too?
artisticliberty: (the arnolfini portrait)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-28 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
I only approached them in the first place because I wanted to ask Ann to model for me. They insisted on accompanying us, out of some ludicrous concern for her safety--to the gallery, and later to sensei's atelier. Neither Akira nor Ryuji caught my attention as she had, though I admit now that had I looked harder, I would have been more impressed than I was.
flamingprick: (woah Bon your eyes)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-28 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it because she was a girl and they were boys?
artisticliberty: <user name="byob"> (the lady with the ermine)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-29 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
No, it was because she looked like a goddess incarnate and they were mere mortals.

[only yusuke could deliver a line like that and sound totally deadpan]
flamingprick: (*raises eyebrow*)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-30 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[...YUSUKE...]

Isn't that like...putting someone on a petrol?

[Pedestal, Rin.]
artisticliberty: (whistler's mother)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-31 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Pedestal. And yes, it was. But I was determined to paint her; she looked exactly like how I imagined the goddess of inspiration--a muse, if you will.

[he chuckles]

Of course, I had no idea what that encounter would eventually lead to.
flamingprick: (that's a nice story)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-31 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's how it usually happens, isn't it? You know, the first time I really talked to Akira, I didn't like him too much either. We'd known each other, but I didn't seriously start talking to him until after he and Ichigo got first. And Ichigo was my friend first, so I thought everything was Akira's fault. But after talking with him a bit, I realized it wasn't that. It was just Ichigo being a dumbass.

[And Akira being a dumbass too tbh]
artisticliberty: <user name="byob"> ; pixiv id: 3182498 (elvira resting at a table)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-03-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
So we both learned not to judge by appearances, it seems.
flamingprick: (cheers!)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-03-31 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems so. Though I guess we had to learn it again, huh?

[Since their first fight sort of involved judging by appearances.]