[Reaction] 3/4whitenightingDecember 18 2010, 23:38:43 UTC
[But he had been reasonable to a degree, unlike some other asses Allen knows. And regardless... he'd died?
Another one. Another one and...
...He's forgetting how to react to death. How can you react to it when people don't really die, but it still hurts when they do? Because it matters - a death defined Allen. A death that's now been utterly undone by having Mana walking with the living again. But that's a good thing. It can't not be a good thing. But...
... why does he still feel so conflicted about people dying and yet not dying then?]
[Video] 4/4whitenightingDecember 18 2010, 23:39:14 UTC
And maybe if he's generally the sort to gloss over the majority of posts Renji would make, this one he answers. With a smile, a strained one, but one of someone trying to ease back into thinking for the best despite some pretty horrible things.]
Welcome back.
I suppose it hasn't changed that much from what it was before. What do you last remember?
[If this had been sometime before Nightmare Week, Allen might have gotten something like an "oh, it's you" reaction. But in the wake of dying, the annoyance with Allen seemed so utterly trivial, and Renji couldn't even recall at the moment what their argument had been about. It wasn't important enough to try to figure out, either. As far as Renji was concerned now, it was water under the bridge.]
Thanks.
Last I remember was a hollow makin' a hole in my chest an' bleeding out.
[It was in his dream anyway, no point in hiding it.]
[Video] 1/2whitenightingJanuary 3 2011, 03:33:09 UTC
[ Ah, but that would imply he watched the dream, and he's still far too polite to do that without extenuating circumstances. It's better when someone makes the separate video message afterwards; those of course are different. ]
Well, it's hard to say what you've missed if I don't know what you last remember.
[ Said with such a very polite, pleasant expression except... somehow a little tongue-in-cheek as well. ]
[Video] 2/2whitenightingJanuary 3 2011, 03:33:48 UTC
[ But the edge that might have been snark softens a moment later; sober. It's still a serious thing. It's just also a bit of... needing to remember himself and not get sucked under by what happened. ]
But it's quiet now. For the most part... Some of the natives... they aren't very happy with us.
I think we were uh...four days into that week? Five? [One loses track of time, from something like that.]
[...Hm, Gau was just telling him about that.]
Because of the monsters, right? Shit, this is why humans not bein' able to see us or the hollows is a good thing. The damn gods have to fuck with everything, don't they?
Figures they'd get pissed at the people who saved their asses from getting wiped out completely, though.
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Another one. Another one and...
...He's forgetting how to react to death. How can you react to it when people don't really die, but it still hurts when they do? Because it matters - a death defined Allen. A death that's now been utterly undone by having Mana walking with the living again. But that's a good thing. It can't not be a good thing. But...
... why does he still feel so conflicted about people dying and yet not dying then?]
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Welcome back.
I suppose it hasn't changed that much from what it was before. What do you last remember?
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Thanks.
Last I remember was a hollow makin' a hole in my chest an' bleeding out.
[It was in his dream anyway, no point in hiding it.]
Why d'you ask?
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Well, it's hard to say what you've missed if I don't know what you last remember.
[ Said with such a very polite, pleasant expression except... somehow a little tongue-in-cheek as well. ]
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But it's quiet now. For the most part... Some of the natives... they aren't very happy with us.
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I think we were uh...four days into that week? Five? [One loses track of time, from something like that.]
[...Hm, Gau was just telling him about that.]
Because of the monsters, right? Shit, this is why humans not bein' able to see us or the hollows is a good thing. The damn gods have to fuck with everything, don't they?
Figures they'd get pissed at the people who saved their asses from getting wiped out completely, though.
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