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First Vote (OTA!)

who: Joe and you maybe??
what: Catch-all for Oct/Nov? We'll see! But for now, his arrival!
when: End of October (for now)
where: 2nd Floor Right Wing Bathroom, Nurse’s Office, Track Field, Star Room #5, Common Room Bathroom
warnings: Prompts are tagged! List updating as need be: YTTD Spoilers, Blood (the blood paintings specifically), Emetophobia (actual puking), death discussion

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Arrival

2nd Floor Right Wing Bathroom (OTA)
(( CW’s: minor YTTD Spoilers ))

[ Joe Tazuna’s eyes snap open suddenly as if waking from a bad dream. Sweat drips down his face as he takes in ragged breaths. His eyes dart around, trying to take in where he is. Which is… the bathroom? When did he get here exactly? He can’t remember no matter how hard he tries.

Pain shoots up from his fists when he realizes he’s holding them so tightly, and he loosens them to hold his pounding head. He feels terrible like a fever is setting in. Why did he even come into school if he felt so sick? What’s… wrong with him?

Joe looks toward the mirror in front of him, and his eyes go wide when he sees something in it he shouldn’t have. It’s him and his two best friends, Ryko and Sara, at their favorite cafe together. But something seems off… and he realizes it’s the uniforms. They’re wearing a bright teal instead of the one he has on now. He tries to disregard that for the moment, more closely focused on the three of them. How Sara playfully punches Joe’s arm. The way Ryoko laughs. How Joe holds up his phone and motions for them to join him for a picture.

As the three pose together, there’s a flash that fills the whole mirror. And then it’s just Joe in the mirror, staring at himself. He reaches out, laying his hand over the mirror.

And while he doesn’t know why… he starts to cry. ]

Nurse’s Office (OTA / TDM rollover)
(( CW’s: possible YTTD Spoilers ))

[ Joe ends up at the nurse with a migraine not too long after waking up in the bathroom, trying to rest in a cot for awhile. It seems no matter how much he tries, though, he just can’t settle. His head hurts too much, and he feels like he’s swimming through fog whenever he tries to think hard on something.

There’s something wrong… very wrong. But everything seems to be working against him to actually sort it out.

Joe gets up with a sigh and walks over to the sink just a few steps from the bed. He turns on the cold tap, and although he knows he’s going to regret it a lot later, he sticks his head under it. The product starts to wash out the mess that is his hair right away, but it feels too good to stop now. He’ll fix it later…

Even when someone approaches him, he doesn’t look up. But they don’t go unnoticed. ]

Just… give me a minute...

Track Field (OTA / TDM rollover)
(( CW’s: possible YTTD Spoilers ))

[ The school day finishes, and Joe manages to get himself cleaned up and his hair fixed. He tries to find another place to be by himself. He ends up by the track field, taking in the fresh air to help clear his head. It helps with the lingering headache, but it doesn’t do much for the lingering fog.

Joe’s not sure when it happened exactly, but a white cat seems to take interest in him. It approaches him with little worries and makes itself at home in his lap. It gets a laugh out of him, and he gladly pets it’s back while looking toward the sky.

As some time passes, he starts speaking without realizing it. ]

… I had a bad dream, I think. I can’t remember it, though. But I think… something really bad happened to me in it. Even if it was a dream, I can’t shake it. Heh… Maybe I’m just too dumb to remember.

[ The white cat continues to purr quietly in his lap, offering no other response. He just lets out a soft laugh in response and closes his eyes for a moment.

Even just like this, though, he feels unsettled. ]

Star Room #5 (Closed to roommates or visitors)

[ As it gets closer to nightfall, Joe gathers his things from his locker and starts heading toward the dorms as he’s been directed. It’s been a very disorienting day, but he feels a little better having familiar things in his hands and on his body again. He’s already put his usual accessories back on and tucked the dog keychain in his jacket’s pocket once more.

He stands outside his new room nervously, antsy on his feet as he tries to work up his courage. He takes in a breath before knocking and then pokes his head in while opening the door. ]

Yo… anyone home?

[ Doesn’t seem like it at a glance, but if there’s one thing he does notice is that this room is well decorated. There are a lot of cute things hanging around, and he likes how the beds are made up. He’s never had roommates before, but this bodes well, he thinks! ]

Huh… this room is pretty cute actually!

Common Room Bathroom (OTA)
(( CW’s: YTTD Spoilers that could turn into big spoilers, Blood (the blood paintings specifically), Emetophobia (actual puking) ))

[ Close to bedtime, Joe wanders back to the dorm’s common room in an effort to explore a little more. He wants to know where the people he knows are staying, but also where he’s going to be living. Throughout the day, his memories have slowly been coming back, and he knows for sure this is not his school or his home. But he’s trying not to freak out too much over it. He wants to be strong for his friends.

But as he observes around the common room, he notices something disturbing. All the walls’ art seem to be covered for some reason, and his eyes land on one that stands out from the rest. A red dot is forming very, very slowly on the cloth that’s over it, and his heart starts to race when he realizes it.

Every ounce of his body tells him not, but Joe’s curiosity gets the better of him as always. He reaches out and slowly pulls off the cloth. The sight of a bleeding painting sends bile up into his throat suddenly, and Joe clasps his hands over his mouth while he takes off running.

He bursts into one of the nearby bathrooms, not paying attention to which gender is listed on the door, and while a loud slam of the stall door, he collapses onto the bathroom floor over a toilet. Joe vomits until his stomach is empty, coughing loudly and sniffling when he finishes. Hot tears run down his face, and he reaches out to flush the toilet with a loud sigh. He doesn’t think he’s going to puke again, but it doesn’t make him feel any less unsettled. And he isn’t sure if the paintings were too much or if it was his migraine or… something else…

Something else… yeah… that was not a normal reaction, was it? Especially not when he can feel strange phantom pains over his body. The back of his neck, his leg, straight through his chest….

When he hears someone else enter the bathroom, he glances toward the stall door and realizes he hadn’t locked it. So he calls out miserably as a warning. ]

O-Occupied…

Wildcard

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[ Joe hears what Ranger is saying, but it's not processing properly. And not even because of his pounding head. No... it's... because that's just totally unbelievable right? A sick joke.

He glares at the doll from the corners of his eyes. ]

Don't... even joke about that, man! Th-that's not funny! Not even a little!

[ Because if they're in purgatory... that would mean... he can't even stand the thought of it. ]

Edited 2021-10-27 02:53 (UTC)

(( Continued from here! ))

[ That gets a laugh out a Joe as he tries very hard not to take it personally. After what they went through in the death game, he doesn't blame Shin that much for being wary. ]

Mostly's as good as you're gonna get while the nurse is out, Sou!

[ Despite his joking, though, Joe's pretty gentle as he dabs the wet cloth on Shin's forehead. He's definitely not an expert, and he feels strongly that the nurse should have a look at it too. But at a glance, it doesn't seem too serious. ]

Man one time, while I was playing dodgeball with my dumbass friends, this dude got nailed super hard in the head! And he started bleeding like crazy! We totally thought he was dying! I carried him all the way to the nearby police booth!

[ He leans back, grinning despite how bad his head hearts. It's a good memory to look back on actually. ]

Anyway, turns out heads just bleed a lot. He didn't even need stitches, hehe!

Edited 2021-10-27 03:00 (UTC)

(( Continued from here! ))

[ Joe's smile fades the second hers does. Something's really wrong with Sara; he can tell. But if his memory's messed up, maybe hers is as well? He's unsure.

But at her question, he jumps a bit as he snaps back out of it. ]

What I remember? Um...

[ He pauses, taking a serious moment to think about it. ]

I remember... going on my date with Ryoko. Then I went back to school so I could walk you home. We ran into your stalker and then ran all the way to your house. Then... w-we...

[ His head begins to pound again, sweat running down his face. His hand moves up to grip it, but he pushes through it by continuing to speak. Continuing to remember. ]

Someone... broke into your house, a-and we... we were kidnapped and taken to a weird place. The collars... the traps...

[ His breath comes out heavy, a new painful memory slipping in. ]

M...Mishima... was killed...

Edited 2021-10-28 02:41 (UTC)

( passing through that hall is an every day thing for komaeda as he leaves in and out from the dorm, but before he can this time, he hears the hurried footsteps of someone dashing off. it isn't down the hall to leave from the living quarters, no, when he takes a few steps back, he catches the tail-end of someone dashing down the opposite side of the hall and to the bathroom. he stands there, staring as he glances around to try and find what it is that made them... leave.

he doesn't see anything, even as he glances up at the eerier paintings that's trapped in the same motions as before — they all look grotesque, but he's never too much cared for what they look like. obviously he's seen worse, so he crosses that out as a reason of why the person must have left — perhaps they really had to use the bathroom, perhaps someone has to tell them there's no tissue paper in those bathrooms.

they've already been used for arts and crafts...

so that's what brings komaeda over, trotting down the hall as he finds himself inside of the bathroom of where that mysterious stranger had went — maybe mysterious isn't the word, komaeda has saw them before, but he's never got a name to their face. at the sound of their voice, he hums in thought on how to proceed, in a way he doesn't respond to them nor does it stop him from leaning forward so that he can peek under the stall doors to see which one the other has so call "occupied". )

Oh, is it? ( he leans back up straight, walking to the stall where the other happens to be, his footsteps echoing inside as he stops right in front of the male's hiding spot. ) If we're in a race and there's five people, and I was in second place and you passed me; what place are you?

[The second floor was honestly a place that Inaba frequented for many reasons - first it being her classroom and second was that the workshop with all the electronic crap was also here, so when she's on her way there and hears something, there's a part of her that says that she shouldn't get involved--

And then there's curiosity.

You know, the kind of curiosity that screams that it's a bad idea, but is also the nagging voice in the back of her head (speaking in an oddly familiar voice, to boot) that says something else.

And maybe she shouldn't for another, well, completely different reason - it's the guy's bathroom, after all - Inaba doesn't exactly have the same qualms or hesitation when it comes to approaching the bathroom. One of the only pros of having been in a guy's body before, she supposes...]

Ooooi, are you doing alright in there? Do I have to grab a cute little nurse over~?

[While there's a playful lilt to her voice, there's definitely concern there.]

[Ishimaru thought he would just be making a quick pit stop to the bathroom, but his attention is quickly seized when he enters and finds another boy crying. He immediately looks concerned.]

Ah... What is wrong? Has something happened? Who hurt you?!

[He takes some quick glances around, as if expecting to spot some obvious cause for the boy's sorrow, but he finds none. He does blink as he looks towards him, however, because he's sure he's seen him before. They... share the same homeroom, don't they...]

[Noah actually doesn't... technically live in this room, okay, but. BUT! He and Nene have been glued to each other for a little over a month now, which means sometimes Noah is just inexplicably (kind of explicably actually) here, lazing around the room.

He pokes his head out of a blanket nest of Nene's creation when he hears the door open, thinking it might be Jason coming back...

whomst.]

U-uh... h-hi.

[Noah is, unfortunately, horribly shy.]

...who are you? I'm Noah.

If it's amnesia, would you want a bonk on the head? That'll get your memory back!

[ Happening onto the field, she can't help but overhear him talking to the lil' white cat and kneels down once she's made herself known. Looks like most of her focus is on the purring cat. ]

Hi there, kitty!

( one of the curtains- the bottom bunk bed- is half open. and at that point, nene pokes her head out, blinking. she doesn't think she's seen this guy before- and she'd like to think she'd remember his hair. but if he's visiting... maybe he needs something? so nene slips out of the bed fully, smoothing out her red jacket. )

Hello. I'm Nene Yashiro- did you need something?

[Hinata doesn't come out to the track often, but every once in a while he needs some air, too. Today, on the day Joe's quiet words hang in the air, happens near enough to him that he overhears it.

Sadness flickers across his face, but greater than that is sympathy.]

This place messes with your head, your memories. Even I... [He trails off, the shakes his head.] Anyway, there's no reason to call yourself dumb over that.

[There's a beat, which Hinata takes to think, and then he gestures at where Joe's sitting.]

Mind if I join you? You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, though.

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Arrival

2nd Floor Right Wing Bathroom (OTA)

Nurse’s Office (OTA / TDM rollover)

Track Field (OTA / TDM rollover)

Star Room #5 (Closed to roommates or visitors)

Common Room Bathroom (OTA)

Wildcard

Closed to Ranger (cw: YTTD spoilers, death discussions)

Closed to Shin (CW: YTTD spoilers, blood)

Closed to Sara (YTTD Spoilers, Death discussion)

common room bathroom

second floor bathrooms; let me know if this is okay!

pov: Kiyotaka Ishimaru finds you crying in a bathroom

Star 5 because I promised noah would be weird

track field

star room #5

track field!!!