yogen | when the bubblegum pops

Who: Rantarou Amami & you

What: September catch-all

When: September & some backdates

Where: Various locations

Warnings: TBA

01.) the world lights at your smile
•　open — 08/27-31, around the school

( it's true that, the morning after he opens his eyes in the courtyard once more, amami doesn't waste any time on checking up on the people he feels like he needs to speak to. at the same time, it's a pretty short list, and half of them are gone. how much of a difference does it really make if he comes back one week or the next anyway? if he doesn't go out of his way to find someone though, it's still entirely possible to see him around the school — borrowing a sketchbook from the art room, taking some notes in the music room, or moving what seems to be an obscene amount of money into his locker. noticing the presence of anyone he hasn't seen in a while, he'll offer a wave and a warm smile in the midst of whatever he's doing.

on the 27th in particular, he can be found rummaging through a locker that some might recognize is clearly not his. the first twenty minutes or so are spent haphazardly scribbling notes down from a series of stickies pinned up against the locker door. the remainder of the time is spent picking out belongings from the locker one-by-one to take a look at before he decides whether he should drop them into a backpack that's half-slung over his shoulder. to his credit, he doesn't seem to be interested in too much of it, putting the majority back in after a cursory glance, but it's entirely possible that it could stand out to someone familiar with locker 097. )

02.) and shines at the sound of your laugh
•　open — anywhere, any time

( have an idea? feel free to throw anything else my way, or if you're unsure, you can hit me up via pm or at kagehira! )

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[Noah's reaction is to sit there for a solid minute, minute and a half maybe, as if processing... and then he scrunches his face in thought. He's not really the sort of person to show too much outwards happiness, and besides, the news that they might be able to do something when neither of them know how is... well, sure, it gives him hope, but it doesn't exactly make him elated.

Determination flashes in his strange eyes, and, yeah, that's probably the best anyone could really ask for from him.]

My first thought was using the incubator spell on the tree proper, but there's a lot of souls in there, [and he'd need something to Put Clamor In,] and I wouldn't know how to use a spell like that anyway. Maybe... Kazuki might know? Kazuki might know how to sift through the souls...

[Urgh...]

( determination, huh...

that's a good one. honestly, it's not the most exciting situation, but determination — maybe something like that can pull noah through the fog of grief and guilt and towards something better. a slim chance will always be better than none, after all. amami offers up a smile, plastered on but relieved with the answer anyway, as he leans back to point absently. )

Yeah. Yeah, I was thinking that might be one way to go about it. If he doesn't know how, he could still be able to tell us something helpful anyway.

( it's just a matter of knowing where they should start, right? )

Not sure if we wanna use the spell though — sounded to me like they messed up on that one. Either way, if we can find him, we'll figure it out from there; maybe there's even a way he can help us out himself. I mean, he is a spirit mage or something, right?

Yeah, it's a... [Noah scrunches his face up disdainfully,] It's a dangerous spell no matter how you look at it. Even if it's done correctly...

[He saw it. He knows what happened, back in the time illusion of Seven Tower, because he saw it being used back then — it's really not a spell Noah would prefer to fuck with unless he had no other choice.]

...But yeah, Clamor was a spirit mage. That was his whole thing. [That's why the spell was made in the first place — ripping people's souls out was a flaw in the design, simply put.] He's smart, so he probably knows... A...anyway, I appreciate this. I know I probably didn't seem like it, but...

[Probably because he was like, eh, three seconds from defenestrating Amami in revenge, but.]

It's no big deal. This is the least I can do, after all.

( because, yeah, it might not have been clamor technically, but hindsight is 20/20, and amami's heard by now that noah didn't exactly have the best morning when he found the body. no matter what lengths he went to to make sure that the situation wasn't misunderstood in the nurse's room, when it comes to noah, he still feels a little bit bad about that.

anyway, he'll lean back a bit, reaching into his pocket. )

And, right, about Kazuki-san... Not sure if it's the same for people with magic, but I need to use one of these, ( pulling out the adderstone, he lifts it up for noah to see, ) if I want to talk to him. If you end up needing to borrow it, consider it yours any time.

[Yeah, haha, that morning... let's not dwell too hard on the fact that Noah made a literal wall of shadows to keep people out because he knows about those corpse desecrators and he certainly was not having it. It's all said and done now, though; there's a grave set up in the courtyard and everything.]

Oh. Y-yeah, I can't see spirits on my own. [Which is dumb, because Noah thinks he should have cool spirit-seeing powers too, but that's not the point.] ...you'd really let me borrow it?

( hold up where's that grave at... maybe amami sets some gacha rocks out next to it in real clamor's honour. )

Yeah, I don't mind.

( it's an offer he's made before for the group, and it's an offer that he's especially willing to hold to in a situation like this. he's putting it back in his pocket for now, but... )

Any time you need it, just let me know. ( and, because noah seems like an independent type: ) If you want one of your own, the shopkeeper keeps a couple in stock too.

( now may not be the best time to advertise for kamo-kun but, like... listen... )

[Somewhere not too far off from the dorms, probably able to be viewed from Noah's dorm room window... he'd put flowers on it if he ever had any.]

Oh... yeah, that's right. [Duly noted for when he stops buying suncatchers. Whenever that is... Clamor would like them.] I'll... um, I'll keep it in mind.

[Sorry, he's very awkward. But at the very least, as much as his rage hasn't been quelled, it's not directed at anyone other than that long-dead doppelganger now. Success?]

( oh, good. amami'll figure something out then — maybe folding paper flowers will work. some gacha rocks... for now, he'll pull himself to his feet, stretching his legs a bit. )

Anyway, I should let you go, huh? Still have to eat lunch and all.

( that's all he had to say, really; people's spirits live in the tree, maybe they can get clamor back, and if noah wants to talk to kazuki, hit him up. )

If there's any other ways I can help, I'll do what I can.

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