[Week 15] [Day 2] [Accidental Video] [Backdated again!]

[guerrilla_morph]

[When the Hitomi turns on, it revels a young teenager, wearing shabby robes and a even shabbier expression: his hair has grown to where it goes past his ears, unkempt and filled tangles that can pass for rats nest. There are hints of circles developing underneath his eyes, and the light in his eyes look flat. If it wasn't for the fact that all of

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[revengeisalie]

[At first, Rin is just so relieved to be seeing this. Finally, a sign of life from Marco. She's been worried, so worried, when he didn't contact her for days (weeks) on end.

But then, she finds cause to worry some more: Marco's appearance and demeanor aren't exactly very reassuring. Certainly, he doesn't seem in the mood for talking, but she'll just have to needle him until he tells her how he's doing, what he's been up to.]

Marco!

[A hesitation as she looks for words, chewing her lip. Finally, she laughs a little, about that display.]

They seem to have finally decided to hate us openly.

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[guerrilla_morph]

[By the time Marco got this message, he gotten himself far away from the bar, trying to give him some peace. And well, he did try, didn't he? But he just got murdered by one of their own crazies, gone to a place where he's pretty sure was hell (or at least dreamed of it), and came back to a place where everything is back to normal and the natives - the new natives - hate his guts.

But he's not sure if he's really ready to talk about it. It's one thing to die and come back - it's a completely another thing if you die, get eaten alive, and then come back with not even a scratch.

So much for third time is the charm.]

Rin.

[A weak smile. She doesn't know what happened to him, does she?]

What made them change their minds?

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[revengeisalie]

[Rin doesn't know what happened to him, no. But what she does know is that he is not well. She's found out enough about him by now that she knows he tends to hide his pain -- and when he can't manage to do that, he isn't doing well.

She won't pressure him, but she does want to know what happened. Her fingers play with a stray strand of hair as she returns his smile.]

It's the past week. They're blaming it on us.

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[guerrilla_morph]

[Marco sighs.]

I'm not surprised. Everybody needs a scapegoat.

How are you holding up?

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[mightstealyrcar]

[Matt does not feel equipped to deal with this right now. He's torn between relief that Marco really is basically okay--alive, able to walk, mentally with-it enough to be snarky--and worry over how rough he looks and the likelihood that he's about to get himself in trouble.]

Dude. Don't push 'em. They haven't just decided we're the devil or whatever, there's propaganda going around.

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[guerrilla_morph]

[So Matt's back, and he looks marginally better than what Marco looks right now. But even so, he doubts Matt feels just as good.]

Yeah, well, pretty soon we might have to follow our own little version of Jim Crow.

How is Yomisato working out?

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[mightstealyrcar]

I doubt it'll come to that.

[Though really? Matt doesn't actually care. He plans to be well out of the way before the locals start trying to translate a convenient scapegoat into an actual target. And if any of his friends get in trouble, he'll... No. No more dragon-y shit.]

Yomisato's kinda wrecked, man. But J's here, and Elfangor.

[He won't say that they, along with Mello, are the last threads holding him to this place. Now that he knows Marco's actually alive, it helps a little.]

What happened to you? Are you-- You're gonna be okay, right?

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[guerrilla_morph]

I've been out of sorts in the past day or so, but I'm fine. [A strained smile.] Let's just say that the second time wasn't as smooth as it was the first go around. 'Course, I need to head over to Hisato see if me and Rin's place survived the incursion.

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[mistyredhead]

Wonderful, isn't it?

[The sarcasm is obvious, but he's grinning despite that. Got to love humanity.]

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[guerrilla_morph]

Oh yeah, it's so awesome that I could hug 'em.

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[mistyredhead]

Ya can just feel all the love rollin' off of 'em~

[heartofjustice]

Mister Marco!

[she had seriously lost track of people, but... well, he looked horrible.]

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[guerrilla_morph]

[Marco quite literally flinched when he hears Amelia's cry. He coughed, but he couldn't quite shake out the hoarseness that's lodged in his throat.]

Hey. You surviving?

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[heartofjustice]

Yeah. I'm doing all right, mostly.

[Which was a stretch, but she was handling it. Anyway, it didn't compare to what others were suffering.]

But I'm more worried about you. You look horrible. Are you hurt? Do you have somewhere to stay or something?

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[guerrilla_morph]

[Marco barks out a laugh.]

Trust me, this is my normal face back home. Go to school during daytime, save the world at night.

[Totally avoiding the question, can't you tell?]

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[gonnabe1st]

[It's to be expected. He'd already heard about what happened, about how the natives blamed them for what had happened, so comments such as this one come as no surprise to him. On the other hand...]

...You look like hell, Marco.

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[guerrilla_morph]

Thanks. [He says this dryly.] I'll be sure to wash up . . . if they even let me in the bathhouses anymore.