18th Dream//Video Post

[always_forgot]

Warnings: Spoilers for the uh. Well for stuff with Gin in Devil Survivor. Also some graphic imagery. /vague
Effects: Comfort, a feeling of ease... followed quickly by fear, disgust, and guilt.

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[un_forgetting]

...[Hanging. A nasty way to go. And so that plot hadn't come to fruition...of all things, Naoya almost feels a bit...not sad, but perhaps disappointed.]

Kiyoshi.

[always_forgot]

... Yeah?

[un_forgetting]

[He's no good at this.]

If you had not told him, there was a high chance he would have ended up with the Shomonkai. [He ran and wrote the LaPlace Mail. He's seen what it's said. And if he felt this bad by proxy, Naoya can't imagine he'd feel any better about having had to do it himself.]

[always_forgot]

Gin wouldn't do that.

[He'd never work for them.... would he?]

[MASSIVE PLACEHOLDER-ING I AM SORRY D=]

[47_l0w]

[Even without the dream effects, the end of the dream hit him hard with nausea, twisting like a serrated knife, rising to the hollow in the chest that nothing but emptiness occupied.

Eventually, he forced the feeling down - it'd just hit him with surprise because as horrible as it was there'd been a degree of acceptance during the Lockdown, but not here.]

Yuuto...

That...

[[OOC: WAIT GIN CAN DIE? DDDDDD=]]

['SOKAY. :D]

[always_forgot]

... Atsuro...

[He'd been there. Of course it would hit him badly too.]

[[ooc; Yup.]]

[47_l0w]

[No, actually, he hadn't. Which is why his next words are, instead,]

...We saved him. [It was a possibility.] So...somewhere, Gin's still alive, y'know?

[Still, the feeling of being sick to his stomach lingers. But that's not the major concern here.]

You never know, he might show up here someday! [This is Atsuro trying to be positive, smile, cheer Kiyoshi up after that dream...and only doing a half-way there job.]

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... Hopefully. I'd... like to see him again.

[He smiles a little, but - it hurts.]

There's a guy here who reminds me of him a lot, in some ways.

[takatori_heir]

[Omi has his Dreamberry set to track everything that gets posted by his friends, so he's alerted when this goes up. Death is nothing new to the assassin, but Kiyoshi's reaction hit him hard]

Kiyoshi-kun?

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... Hey Omi.

[He smiles weakly.]

[takatori_heir]

[Smiles weakly back. Of course, part of that is the painkillers...]

Are you okay?

[always_forgot]

Yeah. I'm okay.

[He takes a deep breath.]

That week was just kind of hell for me.

[hides_thedagger]

[It's Dastan's first time watching the dream of someone else and the dreams hit home so much that it's difficult not to say anything. The feelings in the dreams.....they are the same he felt after his father had been killed by Nizam. He shifts uncomfortably, searching for the right words to say, but even the Persian Prince knows that there's nothing that can be said that can undo the guilt. Dastan wishes he is more like Tus, his older brother, better with words, used to comforting people. But the third son shares more with Garsiv on that aspect, and so he bites his lower lip before speaking]

...There was nothing you could have done to save him. It was his choice...

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I was the one who gave him information that led to his death. And I'm the one who had to decide what the outcome of the Lockdown would be.

So in a way, it's my fault.

... But he won't have died in vain.

[He looks up at the screen, staring at the strangely-dressed man for a moment. Huh.]

[hides_thedagger]

He was the one that put the rope around his neck, not you. No matter what you did that could have let him to that decision, he still had the choice not to kill himself and face whatever made him fear life that much.

[Says the man that still feels guilty about not being able to keep his grip on the Princess. But the young man doesn't need to know that. The teenager's next words make Dastan nods slightly. That he can relate.]

If you say so.

[He looks back squarely. You're the one strangely dressed.]

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He didn't kill himself.

[Kiyoshi shakes his head.]

They're the ones who hung him.

/is fashionably late

[carpo_vita]

[...]

Kiyoshi-kun. Are you awake? [He did wonder if the other boy needed more time, maybe, but- no. They're cut from the same cloth, so... it should be alright.]

/pats

[always_forgot]

... Yeah, I'm awake.

[He's not offering any more information about that right now, but... yeah.]

[carpo_vita]

[As good as your protag poker face is, he can see through it. Birds of a feather, after all - you could probably do the same.]

Have you tried walking around, or get something to eat and drink? That might clear your head, if you still don't feel too well.

[always_forgot]

[Dammit, you can read my poooooker faaaaace.]

Yeah. I got something to drink. I'm okay. It's just not a dream I really wanted to have.