build me up, buttercup

[mermaidcursed]

WHO? Nene Yashiro and You!
WHAT? Open log!
WHEN? The first half of August! Prompts for the second half to open later!
WHERE? Various locations such as the home ec rooms and the courtyard
WARNINGS? Grief and coping mechanisms, tba?

 

i. home economics 

( most days these days you may find the smell of something cooking wafting through the second floor- though with summer vacation starting soon- or perhaps it already has- it might be more rare. but for once, lucifer or one of the others hasn't beaten nene to the punch. she does not touch any meat that isn't fish or beef, she is careful with the vegetables she takes, and she does not make single portions. if you poke your head in, if you've been here from the start, it might feel familiar, the way she looks up and tries to smile. )

Are you hungry? Come have a seat. 

ii. crafts

( there's new 'transfers' again. people who can't leave, who are stuck with two sets of memories. and nene hasn't met a lot of them personally, but she's seen them around or on the network... even if she really, really, really wishes she hadn't. but... 

...

one may find nene in the second portion of the home ec rooms, sitting down and diligently working needle, thread and cloth together. if she isn't too focused, she might stop to smile and ask, )

Hi! Did you need something? 

( or she might not notice you entirely. )

iii. after club meetings 

( for all that she's never been in the role before, nene seems to be managing well enough as the gardening club president- even if one of her vice presidents withdrew from everyone. ... not that she'd made it especially official, she relied on natsume and lucifer both. ... she'll need to stand on her own someday, won't she? so... 

... she stays behind later than most other members a lot. sometimes it's to tend to the plants belonging to those who- who vanished. sometimes its to keep an eye on the flowers that had been given to her by the gardener. sometimes she just needs to be with something living and kind, away from the stress of everything. maybe you catch her closing the door behind her as she finally leaves for the day, or maybe you see her half-slumped against a desk, watching the clouds in the window. such is the way it goes.

maybe you'll even notice she's tying her hair back in pigtails more often. )

iv. wildcard!

( closed posts or other ideas! let's goooo )

Comments

iii. let's pretend i did this in july like i said i would

[insecution]

[ Shinobu’s starting to see parts of herself in Nene. Not the good ones, either. She sees a girl devoted to her work, devoted to her friends. She sees a girl devoted to everyone but herself. If there’s anything Shinobu’s learned, it’s that one of those things will eventually give way and break—and if Nene’s work and friends are okay, then…

That’s not something she wants to think about. She breathes out hard, like she’s getting the thought out of her system, then puts on her best smile. ]

You’ve worked very hard today, Nene-san.

[ If words won’t bring her back inside and away from the skies above, maybe a gentle hand on her shoulder will. ]

Is there anything I can help with?

july was the devil and we were it's playthings

[mermaidcursed]

( just wait until shinobu learns she's dragging a repentant murderer to work towards something as atonement for murder too, though this was not quite from shinobu's own example. nene doesn't know about that, after all.

but shinobu is right- nene will very rarely truly consider herself before others. when she approaches, nene gives a soft but warm smile. )

I want to be a good club president. ... But, um... Turing... they haven't shown up lately. ( even if nene doesn't say it, they both know what this likely means. ) They were caring for a jade plant. I don't mind watching over it, but I'm already tending to a lot...

Which kind of. Ties into another thing.

[insecution]

Shall I take care of Turing-san’s plant in your stead, then?

[ Nene has a lot on her plate, even without all these plants to look after. If there’s anything—anything at all—Shinobu can help with, she wants to be there. She has to, lest she risk losing Nene too. ]

I can take care of any other plants that are giving you trouble as well. You only need to ask.

[ Unless it’s not just a plant problem. ]

[mermaidcursed]

Ah- we can take turns. I... ... I was gonna make them a dress, for the summer. And then they...

( she trails off because they both know, in the end. even if she has a lot on her plate, one last memento... they can work together to raise the jade plant for turing. it's fine. but instead, nene pulls her planter with the seeds the gardener gave her close. bleeding hearts, foxglove and pheasant's eye. )

I wanted to tell you about these. A couple months ago, Kazuki-san- the gardener- gave them to me. I didn't know what they were, but... well, I was really excited to have something to grow. But then Sakasaki-senpai told me one was dangerous, and the other could be used in medicine... and I still don't quite recognize the first one? But... if we can use these...

iii!

[notsosou]

[Shin has started demonstrating a tendency to show up in overlap; arriving at the tail end of meetings just as everyone's starting to filter out. Most people are probably just looking after their plants and not being especially rowdy about it, but baby steps.]

......

[Speaking of baby steps, Shin's not the greatest on picking up why people are upset, let alone knowing what to do about it, but it's hard not to notice that she's being everywhere at once right now, and just... existing, in the same space, has been relatively easy.]

Hey, Nene... You've been working hard lately, huh. Aren't you a little tired? [How the energetic people (Senku, Sara) manage to do Everything, All The Time is a mystery to him.] You're just gonna end up wrecking the plants if you collapse on them.

[Shin is an expert in standing up too fast and blacking out, he knows the dangers.]

<3

[mermaidcursed]

Oh- Hiyori-san.

( she's been happy to see him sneak his way in towards the end of things, and though she'll always greet him- be it with a hello or just a small wave- she's been content to let him vibe for the most part if it seems like trying to draw him in too much would be a bad move. baby steps. )

Have I...? ( if she stops moving then everything catches up to her. can't be having that. ) I-I won't collapse, I promise. But... keeping busy helps me feel better, I think. ... Maybe I am a little tired.

But I think that's more from having to sleep on the floor or desks.

( definitely not because of the emotional exhaustion, nope! )

[notsosou]

Ahaha, at least it's not falling asleep at the keyboard. Still... it'll get harder to keep that promise if you don't get any, right?.

[He pulls his scarf up further over his mouth with a hand.]

...but it's hard to rest knowing someone might come after you. So I know how you feel.

[I'm so sorry Nene, he came so close in realizing that was a cover and then whisked off and away like a slingshotting planet. :' )]

[mermaidcursed]

I like mechanical keyboards- ( clicka-clacka-click go brrrrrrrr ) -so I think that'd be even more uncomfortable.

( nene chuckles lightly at her own... well, it's not even a joke, really, so suggestion? before it fades off into an unfortunately familiar somberness. )

It's... not even that I think someone will come after me. I'm not special. ( also, hanako-kun, her designated pillow, has a knife and loves her a lot? s. so. ) But... it's. It's hard, trying to keep going, when you know that someone you've come to love could vanish at any moment. But that's why you have to keep trying, right? So...

That's what I'll do.

[notsosou]

Oh?

[Shout out to the mechanical keyboard community, you all seem to be having a great time. There's a spark of genuine delighted interest in the question here but don't give him the opportunity to get elitist about which kind is best Nene. He will go on about it.]

......

[If anything, not being special makes you an even likelier target in Shin's mind.]

If they're gone, they're gone, Nene. There's no point stressing out about it.

[It hit a tad close to home in a way he wasn't expecting. There's a kernel of gently meant advice here getting filtered through the google translate of his self seven times and coming into the station as 'insensitive at best'.]

ii

[starrypoint]

[subaru's taken to peeking into different places to see if any more coins will turn up (hint: they have not, and he's starting to think they don't have a "respawn" counter), and it seems like

nene

is a little too into whatever she's doing to realize someone's looking in.

subaru is not normally a quiet person, but he can be quiet; he grins widely and steps with an abnormal softness for someone who's so loud, sneaking up behind nene and putting his hands over her eyes.]

Guess who~!

i love them so much. i . lays on the ground i love them

[mermaidcursed]

( the moment hands cover her eyes, nene jolts with a soft 'wha?!', blinking rapidly like that will make the darkness go away. but then, given how long her eyelashes are, maybe it might. maybe the person responsible will feel them against his hand and get ticklish or something. ... probably not. )

Ah... ( that's subaru's voice, isn't it? hmm... ) ... Mmm... could it be... Shuichi-kun?

( hah. funny. )

me, tagging u everywhere: for amiami

[starrypoint]

[definitely not, though he wiggles his fingers because of it!!! and at the guess, he hums playfully, leaning closer to tease her]

Nooope~! Sai-chan and I don't sound that much alike, right~? Guess again! ☆

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[mermaidcursed]

( nene giggles, leaning back just a bit- )

Oh gosh, maybe I'm hearing things? Hmmm... Sakasaki-Senpai?

( definitely not, but the mere suggestion makes her giggle even more. )

[starrypoint]

[oh boy he can pull out his special talent...!!!!


that is, he can mimic natsume's voice well enough, but his specialty is natsume's quirk.]

MY, you've caught on quICK, Little Lamb. I was only pretending to be Akehoshi-kun, you SEE? What a good girl you ARE...♪

OPEN | The week of 08/09 - 08/14 and then 08/23 - 08/28 (cw: description of panic attacks)

[mermaidcursed]

( it's an quietly unsettling day, when she realizes she hasn't seen hajun- who's in her home room, so she's bound to have interacted with him at some point every day- or sou- who's been quietly hanging around more and more- in a couple days now. and the moment the realization settles in, a pit weighs heavily in her stomach and one might see nene racing around the building, checking almost every classroom with the same question- )

Have you seen Hajun-nii or Hiyori-san?!

( and when the answer is inevitably no, she eventually runs off to continue her desperate, futile search until she's back in class 1-b, hands in her hair as her breathing increases to a more rapid pace- one might hear her muttering something about 'not again, not again, not hajun-nii--'... she's. kind of going through it.

throughout the week, dark circles under red eyes- both in color and otherwise- grow darker. it's a bad time for nene yashiro... especially when, after the twenty third, she realizes hinata and natsume are gone now, and curling up somewhere quiet and hard to find is more and more and more appealing. that way no one can see how she's shaking, how she's struggling to breathe or how her voice hitches with tears. )

sometime between the 9th and the 14th lol

[samuraiwomen]

[Sara looks up from her desk where she's been studying English when Nene runs into 1-C. The younger girl looks frankly, awful, but before Sara can worry about that, she stiffen at a familiar name. ]

You're friends with Sou - You mean you haven't seen him? [ She thought he'd been avoiding her after the events on the fourth but he wouldn't avoid a girl like Nene. Despite his best efforts Sou was too soft hearted for that. ]

The last time I saw Sou was the meeting last week. [ She says quietly, closing her book. ] Have you seen him since the fourth?

you know who else is missing with shin? Sidney. :)

[mermaidcursed]

It- he comes around when I cook, and visits the gardening club- but it's been a few days- e-even if he's not hanging around me, I'd have seen him somewhere though-

( it comes out more like a question, however. sara and her calmer demeanor is reassuring on some level, but nene still wrings her hands together, bouncing from one leg to another while she tries to calm herself down enough that she doesn't just... run off again. )

NOT MY DAD................and clamor keeps ditching her,,,,, lonely 1-C

[samuraiwomen]

So he's eating. [ Thank you Nene, really. She means it. ]

...Sometime's, he liked to wander off to explore. [ Game breaking...had he found something that was taking up his time. ] Maybe he found something? It'd be like him to go follow up on it without telling anyone...but I thought he was getting better at talking to people.

[ That doesn't explain Hajun, or Sidney, who hasn't come back to the room in a few days. Still, Nene is panicking like she might run off again. Sara doesn't want to let that just happen. If people are vanishing, and something is afoot then nobody should be alone. ]

Lets look for them together, alright? Two pairs of eyes should be better then one.

idk. a time.

[closewithnewintown]

[it's never been this many all at once.]

I haven't seen Shuichi. [or komaeda, but. y'know. she's not sure if she should bring that one up.]

... I haven't seen any bodies? [so maybe it wasn't a slaughter. that really cuts down the options.]

[mermaidcursed]

Shuichi-kun too?!

( it's a little more shrill than she intended- she'd assumed rika was with amami at least, but now she's not sure- )

O-Okay. Okay, no bodies- that... might mean something, maybe- ( barely. not every death was a murder, after all- sometimes people just vanished, and more human flesh turned up in the fridge and she's not thinking about it she's not thinking about it she's not thinking about it- )

[closewithnewintown]

They wouldn't just-- [she was about to say they wouldn't just run off without telling anyone, but, no, there's several suspected missing people who would do that.] Well, some of them would have said something if they were leaving. Somebody would write a note.

I haven't seen any evidence of fighting, either... Do you think they might be stuck in the void anyway? Maybe they ran out of glass to break...

probably like 08/27

[cyancinders]

[The last few days have been a bit... Hectic, to say the least. Rin's spent his time mostly floundering and struggling to acclimate to the schedule of things despite already feeling like he'd been here for ages.

It's weird and he doesn't enjoy feeling like his head is being fucked around with, and shock and anxiety has now faded into a dull, persistent grumpiness.

His day thus far had been mostly spent trying to refamiliarize himself with the layout of the school, despite already somehow knowing exactly where everything was. It wasn't long until he'd gotten bored of just walking around however, and at after laying in the courtyard for what felt like three days (it was roughly ten minutes) Rin had decided to head back up to the clocktower in search of more clues as to what had happened to Yukio and himself up there. Maybe if he pries up more of the floorboards, there will be more hidden keys?

He's got his hands in his pockets, not really paying much attention as he makes his way up the steps to the room at the top. It's only when his foot leaves the last step that he freezes like a deer in headlights, stilling for a long moment before his brain catches up with his instincts enough to realize the tower is already occupied.]

Oh-- Shit, uh-- Sorry I can--

[mermaidcursed]

( from the very start of everything, this entire hellish mess and all that followed, nene has had one place where she could simply... be sad. even if it was blocked off for a while because this group is also a nightmare sometimes. after hajun, shin and sidney returned- and what a mess that wound up being...- it was likely that her other friends' disappearance was similar, but it was no less worrying.

but her chest hurt and her eyes stung from crying, and at this point all she can really bring herself to do is just... sit on the floor, leaning against the glass and watching the wisteria tree and the sky.

and then someone comes in, and for a moment she hopes it's shuichi again, like when they first met-- but it's... not. nene stares for a moment, also like a deer in the headlights, before quietly shaking her head. )

It's okay. It's a big room.

( if her voice is a little hoarse and more quiet than it should be, don't mention it. )

[cyancinders]

N-no it's cool! I can just uh...

[He gives a slight shuffle backwards, lifting his left arm to jerk a thumb over his shoulder to indicate his plans to vacate the premises. Despite making his intentions known, Rin proceeded to stay rooted to the spot directly afterward, looking her over for a few moments letting out a slow breath.]

Hey, uh... You okay?

[Her tone indicates that she's probably not, especially considering she's up here isolating herself like this. But he may as well outright ask for politeness' sake.]

closed: amami and rika, mid-late july

[mermaidcursed]

( it's not often hard to find amami and rika- they have their clubroom, after all, and they sleep there. so... eventually, they'll turn up, won't they? so here's nene, with a... totebag? stuffed full of something.

she's given them both blankets already, though the summer may have rendered them unusable. but after everything the past few months... she needed something to do. and rika needs to know: she still cares. )

Rika-chan, Amami-san? Can I talk to you guys for a sec..? I won't be long, I promise.