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randangonpa2018-02-04 04:35 am
pandatreasure) wrote in randangonpa2018-02-04 04:35 am
ENDGAME/EPILOG
[In the control room, the raccoons float quietly in their pods; none of the wild cackling from before, no raucous mocking—Where did those pesky animatronics go, anyway? Maybe not every question has been answered, but...how much does it matter? The lost souls are back, tangible and whole, though marked still by whatever's done them in. Maybe those scars and aches won't fade, either.
A metric fuckton of experimenting has gotten us to the answer of how to get back to where we belong: the first control room console makes it easy to find the thumbnail of your world, and, when selected, it automatically brings you to twenty two days from moment you were kidnapped from. It's easy to see an image where you should be there and aren't, and simply select it. The program confirms that you'd like to initiate the transport process, and directs you to stand on the glowing platform; have someone hit the button to shut the process down, or it will time itself out in five minutes.
Is the moment you were brought from not good enough? What about the rewards you were promised? It seems as though specifying those offers or threads isn't quite possible, but the console has two options, each manipulable independently of each other: you can control the date and time, allowing yourself to return as though you hadn't been kidnapped at all. You can also use a slider at the bottom to control the quality of the universe you're brought back to, sliding from the carrot to the stick side: A world where everything that possibly could have gone right for you and those you'd want it for does, where every choice and chance resolves in your favor...or one where there isn't a single moment that isn't conspiring to work against you.
It should be that simple, but...none of those are your universes. Trying to go to any universe but the one marked for you, and/or at any point but that three-week span you've been gone, prompts a warning message about a duplicate version of anyone belonging to that world. It asks if you'd like to proceed, and warns you once more by giving names of potential "doppelgangers"—but will not stop you from stepping onto the platform as it twinkles blue light, regardless. Is improvement worth interfering, maybe destroying, the life of another you?
That choice is up to you. For the first time in a long time, these choices are yours.
It's over. Happy graduation day.]
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Because you don't???
Not without saying goodbye to your last son!!!]
Dazai...
[Ichigo's got on a smile that's bittersweet, but he presses forward to give the man a hug anyway. Sorry dude, you're getting a hug and you're not getting out of it.]
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...
and he was nervous about getting hugs from Akira but officially distraught to be getting hugs from Ichigo.
tmw u kind of awkwardly don't know what to do with ur hands when ur on the receiving end of a physical affection thing and just kind of put ur hands on their back um]
So sentimental, Ichigo-kun.
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You think I wouldn't be? Come on - you've known me long enough, right?
[...]
...I'm going to miss you, you know.
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it's been barely a month. and he died earlier in it.
it took two years and a murder-suicide for Dazai to realize Odasaku was someone he'd call "friend".
but maybe Akira's just not wrong about his standards.
either way, he laughs a bit.]
What? Miss someone critiquing your every move? You evidently need to get more people to do that for you.
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[That's said sarcastically, but he laughs.]
Seriously, though - you'd better take care of yourself when you get back. Even if we can't visit you, me, Akira, Rin...we'll all still care about you. So...
[He rifles around in his sash - having worn his shinigami outfit, the last thing he was in when he was brought here - and takes out the notebook he'd written in this entire time, handing it out to Dazai.]
It's not much, but...I figured I might as well give you something to remember me by.
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at least until that notebook gets offered over
then the smile kind of
goes lopsided? or somehow weird
FORTUNATELY, DAZAI OSAMU ONLY CRIES ON THE INSIDE!
doesn't take the notebook immediately, kind of looking at it like its gonna bite him tbqh? before looking confusedly up to Ichigo?]
... doesn't that have important memories for you?
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[He sees that smile, and - honestly? he's doing some crying on the inside as it is, here.]
...If you're anything like me, then...you'll want something to remind you of everyone. Even if a lot of them are bad, I -
...I just wanted to give you something. Because...we're friends.