August Event

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Please let August be better than July I'm begging

✽ Due to 10+ classes raising their ranks last month, ALL characters have access to the courtyard via the door in the locker area and the windows facing the courtyard.
✽ Characters with 1-10 tallies are not able to get any further past the end of the courtyard before they fall unconscious; characters with 10-20 can get halfway to the pool building before the same happens to them; characters with 20+ tallies can reach the pool building but unfortunately, the door is on the other side. There are no windows on the walls, but from the clocktower, characters can see that it has a glass ceiling, though they are unable to see inside.
✽ Outside, there is no breeze, and it occasionally rains ash.
✽ Characters going up to the 4th floor will feel that the door is warm to the touch, and will occasionally open (see: missions)
✽ The student store opens, with the door propped open with a doorstopper. The npc running the store is currently not interested in conversation, but may be available for threading in the future and is available for threading in the toplevel below. Please see the updated bonus activity page for more information.
✽ Posted on the bulletin board and also handed to each club president before break is the notice that proof of club activity is due at the end of break. Please submit these proofs in the toplevel below.
✽ There is another ad on the bulletin board advertising an exchange student program for the month of October. Applications will be taken until the end of August, and there is a 300 merit point fee. Sister cities include Death City, Devildom, Ishigami Village, Lanling, LazyTown, and Maiami City.

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[ Sometimes, not being a batshit insane murderer (publicly) gains you friends and respect. But oh I hate that Rokkun literally looked at Komaeda and told himself Komaeda will never love him back and so loving him is safe. Easy pickings... ]

Pay me.

[ yes ]

And let me hit you. And you have to apologize to me, and mean it. And you have to tell me how you're going to do better next time. And then... tell me you're not angry at me too. And that you still like me.

[ super high maintenance but the moral of the story is, just don't make npc-kun angry ]

[commences]

( maybe that's where komaeda failed because he embraces his freak nature... rokkun was smart. honestly... honestly that was so insane of him, but i respect the hustle because he was right. play smart, not hard. he also has komaeda's dementia on his side. )

...Is that really the way to your heart? Hmm...

( he'll grab his notebook, because he can't write in the one with memories... sighs. he's writing what was told to him out of order on the last sheet, and he looks at npc-kun too. )

I'm used to all of that, the kids I took care of were a wild bunch. So you can hit me as hard as you can, stab me too!

( luckily for you, komaeda's four kids were high maintenance. "five?" no, i rejected one. )

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Okay.

[ Yesssss permission to hit and stab. npc-kun will remember this. ]

Kids...

[ They look down at the notebook. So he's a dad. This Nanami girl he's pining for in his diary is going to be sad. ]

Did you love your kids?

[commences]

( komaeda becomes npc-kun's second tally so he can match amami.

also for the love of god if only komaeda knew, but then again, he loves all his ultimates. just not like thisssss. )

Those children were...

( insufferable, annoying, despair-inducing, hope-fulfilling, childish, sarcastic, greedy, fussy, dramatic, and troublesome. )

Everything to me, they're Li'l Ultimates, and worthy of my time and adoration.

( he loves his kids, even though one calls him "older brother," but he doesn't know that... ) I think you'd be able to get along with them. ( no... )

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[ STOP they don't want to match like that ]

I don't know about getting along. Have you told them all that? You should tell them.

[ Parents should love and praise their children!!! ugh they're so jealous ]

[commences]

( just in case they want to match!!!

also, has he? hm. )

I haven't seen them in... awhile, I made sure they were sent to a better place.

( every time one of them failed their mission, they lost their usefulness... but luckily komaeda had the final say, and removing them for the future foundation to find them sooner or later was part of it. )

They hate me, despise me probably... It's fine, though, I can love them without them knowing.

( but because they're ultimates, they don't need his love at all. ) Ultimates have the brightest hope, so it's fine. What about that mystery person of yours... do you care for them even if they aren't here?

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[ ... They're going to take a gamble and be optimistic about this and pretend Komaeda sent his children off to some prestigious boarding school and didn't just snuff them out in their sleep which was honestly the first thought. ]

...Yes. I love him without him knowing too. And it's fine.

[ Because he's dead. So at least npc-kun would never get their hopes up over this. ]

[commences]

( in a way, yeah. taken by the future foundation so they ended up in a better place, but monaca was stuck with komaeda where he was going to turn her into the next junko...

now she's a teenage girl who hates despair because komaeda was annoying about it, and wants to die in her monokuma van eating snacks. )

...To love someone like that, without knowing how much hope they have is frightening. I don't know how you do it.

( to love someone who lacks hope... komaeda could never, buy he loves hope in general. it's kind of unfair, but hope has never done him wrong. )

But that means you can never give up on that...

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What are you scared of?

[ Loving things, people, maybe it's a little scary because of the whole uncertainty of it, the vulnerability, the bias, but when the other person doesn't even know? There's nothing safer than that. ]

[commences]

Ugly people are so despairing, I can't handle it.

( the way i was going to write something genuine about maybe his claustrophobia, and then i looked at his dislikes, and saw ugly people and started cracking up. this is the hill he's going to die on today, and he even sighs a bit too dramatically about it... )

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Oh.

[ Superficial, but understandable. ]

You can love me as much as you want. I'm cute.

[commences]

I don't love based on looks, I like pretty people... but... ugly people make living tedious.

( his loves has always been hope, and as long as npc-kun has hope... which komaeda's going to reach out and pinch their cheeks because they're close enough. )

You'll be loved anyway, as long as you know you are...

( ignore what everyone says, be loved regardless because how couldn't they love him? )

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[ Oof, the mochi cheek pinching that they sit and take for all of two seconds before pulling away

Ugly people can be rich too, but preferences are preferences. npc-kun doesn't even talk to people half the time to need to look at their faces, I keep imagining this default icon of them speaking out loud to the general space around whoever's in front of them and only making eye contact if they need something. ]

That means you're not scared of me, right?

[commences]

( there's a lot going on here. the other wants to be loved by him, not want komaeda to be scared of them, and he even thinks if rokkun was here right now, and not on break... maybe the other would feel better. well, komaeda doesn't understand the love between family, it's not like he even has one... to call his own. well, he has the "family" here that he vaguely remembers in his yogen life, but he knows better than to rely on something that doesn't really exist. )

Ahaha, don't worry, there's nothing you can do to scare me... I don't even think you're capable.

( he'll withdraw his hand, and then look at the palm of it as if trying to figure something out. )

When you're going to show me your hope, I'm actually excited around you.

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[ "there's nothing you can do to scare me"
npc-kun's death flag gets triggered ]

If you help me around the store, you get to be around my hope all the time! Advertise for me!

[commences]

( looks at yama and enh, looks at you... )

A job? Does that mean you'll let me enter and exit here as much as I want?

( he's going to roll closer to npc-kun, but stops with his back to them. )

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Don't you already do that.

[ me, at any given moment in a nms thread: are they standing or are they on the floor, I can never remember

either way, stopping with his back to them is just an excuse for them to peer over his shoulder, look at them when you talk, bud ]

[commences]

Nope, you're always here. What if you want to take a break...?

( you know, like normal people who want to have day offs, and let someone else cover their shift. do they trust komaeda enough to do that?

ok same, i wish komaeda wasn't all over the place. having to remember the pace of these threads... maybe npc-kun kicks him out, and is finally freed from this 400+ thread. )

...I don't work for free, though. I guess your company would be enough.

( he's not going to look at them!! thought npc-kun didn't want to make eye contact if they didn't have to!! )

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[ They're gonna look if somebody's purposely not looking at them! what are you hiding, show your face ]

I'm not always... [ here, but yes they are ] ...working. Like at night when most people are asleep, I can too. If I needed a break, I'd close the shop for a bit.

[ But they'll still be inside. They can't leave because of fomo or something ]

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That's not the same as a day off, especially if you'll let me work in your spot... it sounds fun, having that responsibility.

( as if komaeda's responsible, but it depends on what he's doing, and how he's going about it. he does what he wants, and not what other people tell him, so he could do a good job manning the store if he's not told to man the store. )

I didn't know you stayed after hours, doesn't it get lonely? You can't talk to anyone... ( can't see him frown if npc-kun can't see his face. ) Well, I guess there's a weird noise outside, but I only heard it once.

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It's not lonely...

[ It's lonely. But it'll be less lonely when they meet Amami and receive Yacchi and the plant! and then Amami is gone and they're lonely again.

Also they're asleep so it doesn't even matter. ]

What sort of noise did you hear? Did it sound like a wolf?

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...

( going to tell the king of lonely it's not lonely when he can feel it, but he's not going to call npc-kun out. it's not his place, so he nods slow in understanding...

if they say so. )

Hm... that's an interesting way to ask me if the wind was howling.

( he'll clap his hands, roll back to his side of the floor so that he's no longer next to npc-kun. ) Having a pet would soften such a negative feeling.

( yacchi really came in handy, komaeda's right. )

Hm... do you hear the howling at night? It was only a one time thing for me, I believe.

( and then he showed his tally, it was the first and last mistake. )

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Sometimes I see the cats during bathroom breaks.

[ And that's good enough for them; like they'd told Amami, they're not good with living things and can't imagine the responsibility of another living thing. ]

I guess I don't pay attention to what's outside, though. I've never heard anything weird.

not here

[futurebullets]

PLEASE!!!!!!!!

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