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Chuuya "wine mom" Nakahara ([personal profile] darkdisgrace) wrote2023-03-13 03:11 am
orphne: (Kotone 27)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-06 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Listen, she's nosy and Dazai likes to talk, it was inevitable. Even with the bracing, though, she lets out a startled squeak and grips his hand more tightly. It's not dissimilar to teleporting through Tartarus, but the weightlessness is more sustained than the brief second of the teleporter, and it feels like she'd left her stomach behind on the ground.

It's a little scary, knowing that he could drop her at any time, but she just keeps her grip tight on his hand and presses her lips tightly together so as not to let out another noise until her feet are safely on the roof. It would almost be kind of fun, under different circumstances!]


Okay, that wasn't so bad!

[Her heart is pounding, though, and she's still gripping his hand, even as she takes a step forward to look around from the roof.]
orphne: (Kotone 52)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-06 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be okay!

[Is what she says, but she means, "I won't slow you down." She's lost friends before, and she doesn't intend to lose any again. As much as she Understands how Dazai feels... it doesn't mean she intends to just give up on him. Even still-]

The forest might be too exposed? [Dazai hey bud what the fuck. She follows his gaze to the mountain and just nods.]

Yeah, there are whole tunnels underground there, not just caves. I explored some of them a few weeks ago, not long after I arrived. It's a good place to hide from someone who can float, anyway. Wanna check it out?
orphne: (Kotone 1)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Can't y'all just sleep for several days when you're sad like-]

Just your hand is fine. I mean it, I'll be okay. Let's go.

[She squeezes his hand as if in reassurance before taking a deep breath and lifting her chin in some kind of defiance. Oh, wait, right-]

I was told there's maybe a dragon in the tunnels, too, so...

[That's good to know.]
orphne: (Kotone 32)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-06 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[If she had a nickel for every time someone she talked to said they'd fought a dragon, she'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice. The weight of her Evoker is reassuring just in case, but- yeah. She'd prefer not to go up against something like that without even knowing for sure if she can summon her Personas.

She's opening her mouth to agree when they're suddenly in the air again, and her words are lost behind a quiet shriek of startled excitement. It is fun, really! Just scary at the first leap. Give her a little bit to catch her breath before she can speak up again.]


Does he do this kind of thing a lot? Disappearing?
orphne: (Kotone 1)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[She glances sideways at him, catching that twist to his expression and frowning a little herself with a thoughtful hum. She still doesn't fully understand everything, but some of it makes sense.]

I get it. Sometimes you need time to yourself when things are tough, but Dazai-san...

I don't really like the idea of him being alone for too long. You don't either, right?

[That's why they're doing this, after all.]
orphne: (Kotone 250)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Right! Whatever they are, they clearly aren't friends. That would be silly.

She squeezes his hand briefly again. Even with the ground rushing past beneath them, she can't miss the tension in his shoulders, so she won't push too far for now. It's only their first Social Link real meeting, after all, so it's not her place to pry too much.]


Then let's make sure he's not alone too long. He's good enough at being a pain without all of that.

[Even she thinks he's a pain sometimes... but like, affectionately.]
orphne: (Kotone 267)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-07 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[No matter what his reputation, she'll give him at least two or three more meet-ups before she starts asking more personal questions. It's part of her job as protagonist leader, even if she's not exactly leading this specific group of weirdos.

Besides, she kind of owes him at the moment. He didn't have to bring her along with him. The least she can do is spare some of his weird pride.

Kotone holds her breath as they touch down, legs a little wobbly after spending that much time in the air, but holding her own. She keeps her grip on his hand for just a few more seconds until she's certain she's stable, then finally lets go, taking a few steps forward.]


If we yell for him, do you think he'll answer? Or just hide further away?
nullificates: (z13)

cw alcoholism, depression, self-harm, dazai, etc from now on

[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-07 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
(deep within a chasm, the opening too narrow, the interior too dark, is dazai. a blanket, oda's jacket, some food packaging albeit not nearly enough for someone his size, and empty bottles that at times click and clack when he moves in his sleep. the bandages need some repairing for what currently lies beneath, nothing big, nothing fatal, just a crisis that he didn't know how to deal with.

at least the jacket is calming in a way. it smells of whiskey, spicy curry, cigarette smoke, and odasaku's cologne... and blood. what a terrible twist of fate, give him the jacket with a reminder.

drunk, drunk, drunk sleep. enjoy moving through rock!)
orphne: (Kotone 248)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-07 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
[It's been almost two months since they'd had to climb up more than two hundred floors of Tartarus and a month since she felt such a bone-deep exhaustion that she could barely make it out of bed for school every day, but she's not afraid of a little walk. If she didn't know that Chuuya can't use his powers while touching Dazai, she'd even recommend that he take Dazai back and leave her to make her own way back. No, they're all walking back if they find him; or at least, she'll be walking back. She hopes Dazai isn't in a state where he can't walk on his own, whatever that might be.

She wrinkles her nose at the idea that he might be drunk. It's not that she's unfamiliar with spending time with drunks -- Mutatsu had been drunk enough to mistake her for his son once, which she still isn't sure if that's insulting or not -- but it's the idea that he can be annoying enough sober that the prospect of dealing with him drunk does sound like, well, as Chuuya put it -- a pain in the ass.

The sound whips her head around, her hand going back to her naginata in a half-reflexive gesture before she catches herself and forces herself to relax and leave the weapon where it is on her back. Maybe it's just the residual wariness that they'd be going into the forest that has her on-edge, but she doesn't like it.]


Yeah. C'mon, let's check it out.

[Could be nothing related to Dazai, but! They'll never know unless they look.]
nullificates: (z39)

[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(fun dazai trivia. with sleep as light as a feather, the man can only sleep in absolute darkness. it's no surprise that the place he's chosen is one that no ray of sun can come in, there's a lantern somewhere -- it's not so different from when he was a teenager, in that shipping container, in the middle of a place that not even bacteria would like to live in.

it felt homely, to say the least. the drunkness does help the lack of awareness on his surroundings, a way to keep him asleep, and in the stretch he does in his slumber, he kicks a few bottles, a blessing he doesn't awake from it. click, clack, shatter, whatever.)
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[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-08 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
(yeah, ok. that voice means he's in trouble. deep trouble, and the echoing is not helping. it wakes him up faster than any shattering glass could, and he wakes up with a little drunken hiccup, almost cute, really, if it wasn't the everything of it.

yet, no action towards really moving, he's just turning to the other side, fixing oda's jacket on top of him and mumbling as his face hides into the blankets.)


You're too early. Your Double Black senses should start tingling later. Shoo... Shoozzzzz... I can't believe I'll have to find another chasm...zzZzzzz... I want my container... Chuuya, get me my container? The chemicals too... Zzzzz...

(HE DEFINITELY HASN'T NOTICED KOTONE YET. when he does, he'll be very sad she'll see him in his shirt and shorts pj. damn, his street cred.

the blood from his arms and legs is fine, though. kind of expected?)
Edited 2023-04-08 05:59 (UTC)
orphne: (Kotone 102-1)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-08 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[She falls in quickly behind Chuuya, content to let him take the lead. He's the one who knows Dazai best, after all, even if they're definitely not-friends. Really, she's just there out of her own selfish desire to see for herself if someone is okay.

In spite of herself, she breathes a sigh of relief at the sound of his voice. He's alive enough to talk and he doesn't sound like he's dying. Drunk, yeah, but not dying. She peeks over Chuuya's shoulder and sighs again at the sight, this time more exasperated. Isn't this the guy who was so adamant about not wearing jeans, and yet, this is what he's wearing out here? What a guy.]


This is a really bad place to sleep, Dazai-san. You made-- me worry.

[She almost says "us" but stops herself at the last second. Once again, she looks to Chuuya to take the lead, frowning at the blood. She brought her own medical supplies, and in a pinch she could try summoning her Persona, but... well, she knows how important it is for friends to help each other. If Chuuya has his own method, maybe she should leave it to him.]
nullificates: (z21)

[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-09 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
(listen, listen, sometimes you hate someone so much that if they die, you'll be even madder, let them lie and deny that they're like, not that disgusted by each other... but fuck-- that's a kotone. the way he high-pitched yelps, sitting up immediately, with the jacket in attempts to cover up the pj's. she'll see, however, that the only part of him that isn't covered in bandages is half his feet.

ah, well. there's a reason. the reason is why he's bleeding here and there, of course. ah, well, fuck, shit, fuck, crap, shit, fuck.)


... Eh-- Koto-chan... How was the trip...? Floating must have been fun. Ah, not with Chuuya, though. This is not fun at all.

(because chuuya doesn't let him breathe when it's like this. he's positively screwed. his hands leave the jacket on his lap, before they clasp under his chin.)

Of course I do! In that book I have, they say it only hurts a little bit! I was looking forward to it! You're early, Chuuya, too early!! Also, why are you being mean to my house. I really liked it...! It was very, very, very nice.

(no bitch it was a shipping container in the middle of a chemical wasteland that not even bacteria wanted to live in, you had basically nothing in there, it was a shit place to live please get over it)

Mhmmm... I ate... Whatever. Something--
Edited 2023-04-09 00:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-09 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, he's been really nice to me. It might have been fun if we weren't looking for you. Nice pajamas.

[She's so annoyed at Dazai, actually. She'd been worried that something was wrong, that he was seriously hurt or had made good on his thoughts about dying, but finding him like this in a hole? It's a relief, but she's still kind of mad at him. It's inconsiderate, first of all.

But she watches Chuuya digging in his bag, guessing that he has what he needs. She keeps her own on her shoulder, just in case, but ready to step in if he needs anything from her.]
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[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
You can't expect me to sleep with all that on, it's only comfortable at work-- also, ew, Koto-chan, he's gotten to you...

(look at how he's treating dazai, is that how a nice man acts!!!!!! -- ah, yeah, in this situation, it might be. kotone being mad at him, though, well. doesn't bother him so much. not when he's drunk, and not when he's a piece of shit.)

Only at first, see, only at first! I've tried to compress myself in a drum, that hurt way more than this. Eh-- but I don't wanna go, and I don't wanna eat.

(but even so, he offers his arm for chuuya to deal with the bandages. he knows he won't remove them and traumatize kotone with what's underneath it, he trusts the other ew ew ew.)

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