[ Week 19, Day 3 | Accidental Video ]

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[ There's something wrong about this image, when it turns on -- or rather, is knocked on, knocked over to be a little more specific. Peter's eyes, which are usually brown, have turned a milky white, and his attention is directed at a painting -- it appears he seems to have knocked on his Hitomi while he was reaching for more paint. His arm moves

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Reaction --> Voice, and oh god that artwork is beautiful. ;A;

[future_games]

[ This is exactly why Isaac has been avoiding his canvases and paint. Images like these, like what haunted him so much back in New York. After Peter disappears though the door and the feed continues, Isaac stares silently back at the painting, instantly thrown back into the "what does it mean?" mindset of all the other paintings.

Isaac recognizes her too, almost instantaneously. When most of your archives are given over to paintings of the same cheerleader, you get a lot of questions, but familiar faces are easy to pick out in other peoples' artwork. He stares at the painting until the feed ends, then hesitantly switches to the audio option, voice urgent. ]

Peter. Where are you? We need to talk about this.

[Voice]

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[ It is some time after Isaac responds that Peter finally says anything at all. ]

Hey. I'm home, in Yomisato. I was thinking of getting in touch with you.

[ For obvious reasons. ]

[Voice]

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[ Isaac does take note of the time that passes between his own message to Peter and the response, but he thinks little of it. He wouldn't have answered right away either. ]

Alright--look. [ An awkward pause follows as Isaac struggles with a decision. ] We--we need to talk. In person. I need to see the painting.

[Voice]

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Fine. I'll send you the coordinates to my place.

[ Does just that. ]

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[need_some_shui]

[Um. Woah. Okay, that doesn't look so good. Not the art, that looks amazing, but what is actually in the painting makes Dre feel just a bit uneasy.

It has to be someone else right? He's never even met this guy so there's no way he would be in his painting.

So it has to be...you know...some other kid with cornrows and a white kung fu shirt. Because there are just so many of those running around in Kannagara. Or not.

Okay. But seriously there is just NO WAY he could be in that painting right? So it just has to be some weird scary coincidence but a COINCIDENCE. He is pretty sure he hasn't pissed anyone off enough to paint pictures of him dead. He's just a kid, right?

Nervously he sends a video]

Um, have we met?

[Please tell me you know someone who looks like me back where you came from]

[Video]

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[ Oh shit. That's the kid in the painting. The dead looking kid in the painting. This is not good. This is really not good. The last time Peter painted something like this, it came true. And Isaac painted something not too long ago and that came true too. So this -- this better not come true. He hopes that making Claire stay at home will somehow prevent this from happening. ]

You're--

[ A breath. ]

You're the kid in my painting.

[ Which means, no, we haven't met. Peter's features are awash with conflict and worry. ]

[Video | private]

[whitenighting]

[His head's reeling, it really is. That accidental video, Peter painting Dre looking like that, Dre obviously not knowing him or what's going on...

It's a confusing rush and Allen just looking tense, jaw set firmly, and cleanly jumps in the middle to stop this or bothering the child with images of him like that.

But something is wrong. Something is obviously wrong.]

What do you think you're doing? Why-

[A gritting of teeth, obviously emotional and upset but wanting to understand.]

Why did you paint Dre like that?

[Video | private]

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I don't -- I don't know. It just sort of happened.

[ This is true, Peter didn't ask to paint Dre (was that the kid's name), or Claire being accosted by strange cloaked men and covered in blood. He had only just picked up a paintbrush to make a few sketches (painting really) of ideas he had for their cafe and the next thing he knew he was looking at that. ]

The last time I painted something like this, it... it actually happened. But this can't happen -- I mean, I think I stopped it. I found Claire!

[Video] [After Dark]

[in_starvation]

[Jessica frowns as she sees the white eyes and the painting, recalling how another guy can do the same thing. Weird. Maybe they're brothers? They are pretty hot brothers if that's the case.

But the reaction to the painting? Pretty strange. She thinks it's a perfectly good painting, even though the dead kid is kinda creepy and she doesn't peg Peter as someone who is that morbid enough to go into that kind of . . . theme? Subject matter? Aw, hell, she doesn't know, she's a vampire, not a fucking artist.

But even that aside, the fact that he looks at the painting like he's actually witnessing as a broadcast? Pretty damn strange.]

Are you okay?

[Video]

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Yeah, I'm fine.

[ Knowing Claire is okay for the moment makes that true, but Peter is still worried about that other kid in the painting, still worried that somehow even though he knows Claire is safe in the bedroom next door, this painting is still going to somehow happen. ]

[Video]

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Oh.

Well, I didn't know you could paint. Maybe you should do commissions?

[She's trying a good stab at conversation here, have at it.]

[Video]

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It's not exactly something I can just do at will...

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[mightstealyrcar]

[Not the same guy as before, Matt can tell that much from this broadcast, but the same effect, painting in an apparent trance. This time, Matt's seen two of the people in the painting before. He only realized after the fact, when Kannagara was flooded with people again, what it was the other artist had recreated. Only not, because it hadn't happened yet.

On the assumption this guy might be as close-mouthed about it all as the other was, Matt starts out with the message set to private.]

Did you find her?

[video | private]

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[ When he responds it's a good while after this guy sent him the private video message. ]

Yeah.

[ Peter says, nodding a bit. ]

Thanks.

[ For caring enough to ask. ]

[video | private]

[mightstealyrcar]

Did that.

[He hesitates, because he doesn't want to blab about the other guy's powers, when it was obviously something he didn't want people knowing. Then he decides it was deduce-able from this guy's reaction that the painting hadn't happened yet.]

Did you know in time to stop it?

[video | private]

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I sure hope I did.

[ Claire is safe next door, for the time being. Peter intends on keeping it that way. ]

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[bytheireyes]

[ There's something familiar about this, but more importantly, what stands out are the figures in the painting, particularly the one in the foreground.

Doubting that he's the only one to think that, Doug checks the other responses. But when there doesn't seem to be much yet, as far as he can see, he sends Peter his own. ]

Why did you paint this...?

[Reaction/Video | Private] sorry for how late this is

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I didn't mean to... It just kind of happened.

[ Peter doesn't really have a good explanation for this. ]

[Video | Private] Same here. D:

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Do you think it means something?

[ It doesn't seem like something that could have happened for no reason, and Doug is sure that the shouted name and Peter's alarm confirm that. ]