Awakening

[notsosou]

Who: Shin Tsukimi and Anyone
When: July 2nd
What: Opening Post!
Warnings: None as yet.

Shin’s arrival to Yogen is heralded by a slam as he sharply closes his locker and dizzily leans against it while two sets of memories jostle each other. He gathers himself enough to glance around, grab his jacket, and lock it, mind furiously racing as he puts it on and tries to process how he is here. The raw relief flooding through him is turning sour at the immediate possibilities that come to mind.

A: School Life (Day, Misc)
Shin… keeps going to classes he half-remembers, eyeing any non-human-looking students he sees. He feels exposed (and also mundanely chilly) without his scarf and beanie, and his hands keep drifting to the empty space of either. When classes end he returns to his locker, puts them on and pockets the items inside, before trying to leave through the front doors and finding he… can’t. Ah. So that’s how it is. You can catch him in such states as staring at the School Rules with an unreadable expression, at one of the vending machines with more of a debating one, or in one of the classrooms sitting with his elbows on a desk and his hands tugging his beanie down over his head.

B: Washing Day (Evening)
So it turns out one of the side effects of dumping a bag of dirt out inside a locker is that everything in that locker... becomes covered in dirt. So if you go into one of the bathrooms after 6PM you may see the strange sight of someone in a dirt-dusted purple jacket not-so-gently washing their clothes in one of the sinks with half his face buried into the similarly adorned scarf around his neck, because as furtive as he’s been about waiting for one to be empty it’s just a bathroom and people can just walk in. Ask him how his day is going.

C: Safety In Numbers (Night)
At this point you may see Shin file quietly into whichever room seems to have the most people in it and sit down in a corner or seat. Somewhere he has a good view of the room; if you catch him looking at you he’ll give you a polite smile and glance away, fiddling with his scarf. He’s exhausted, and his head will occasionally dip and jolt back upright as his body tries to collect the day’s debt.
Believe it or not this is him starting to try out that ‘trust’ thing again… or maybe it’s just there’s no dorm rooms he can lock. Baby steps.

Comments

[commences]

( you know how dementia works, he hears one thing, ignores it, moves onto something else when shin asks him what year he is. there's no reason to talk about komaeda, actually, nothing important behind his efforts, or his reasons, just walking around avoiding people, things like that. )

That means you're closer to graduation...

( he thinks of rokkun who is also... a third year... who also almost didn't make it. despite it being a sad memory, komaeda doesn't let any remorse slip into his voice. instead, he plays natural as he starts setting up what needs to be cooked — he starts cracking the eggs into a bowl as he looks towards the other. )

I wonder if you'll make it.

( he cracks one egg, perfect drop into the bowl. he cracks a second egg, perfect into the bowl. the third one he cracks drops a little harder, but that's because it's a different egg, but that doesn't stop komaeda from whisking it all together... )

[notsosou]

[Well that's ominous... and of course that turned out to be important. Small talk is never small talk with people like this. If he's really doing this he can't afford to just forget basic things like that. There was a net loss of information here.]

Huh? Why wouldn't I, Komaeda-san?

[0% survival chance... the Damocles sword of it still looms at the back of Shin's mind. But he's got no reason to let slip that little secret, his tone having more of a 'are my grades that bad?' lilt.
He's died four times already as it is, three symbolically and one actually. Maybe his fate is clear.

...okay, definitely avoiding the omurice if possible.]

[commences]

( will he make it, everyone knows that graduation is everything, and then again some others see graduation as nothing. him and rika has noticed how rokkun acts about it, he's obsessed with the idea of finally leaving this school, and forgetting everything along with it. no other third year has acted that way, well, none that he really talks to — it's probably only him in the end. )

I wonder...

( yep, he seems to not want to give much himself, but after enough whisking, he'll look at shin. )

I need a strainer so that the texture comes out properly.

( shin has no choice, he's going to eat this, komaeda went out his way. )