Comments | insorrow: Dream 01 → First Principles

insorrow

Dream 01 → First Principles

Feb 25, 2010 07:23

Warnings: Angst. Lots of it. Based on a canon event that is never canonically described. Head canon in effect throughout.
Dream Effects: Confusion from the start, only intensifying as the dream progresses. A growing sense of helplessness, frustrated anger and sadness, and finally a near-overwhelming feeling of hopelessly misaimed guilt.

( at five years of age most children realize that the dead are different from the living )

in which ken has mommy issues, :aya fujimiya, you're fucked up hidaka, :youji kudou, !event: lost in translation, !dream, :nakago, !moon cycle 08, :dominic sorel, :ran fujimiya, i hate my dreamberry, aaaaangst

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slantedcross February 25 2010, 08:34:34 UTC

[Well. It was one thing for Ken to see something that would happen in the future; it was another entirely for Youji to see something that happened so far back into the past.

[His initial instinct was to ignore it, pretend he'd just missed this broadcast, but. He's thinking of how many mornings he's seen Ken and wondering how often he has this dream.]

Do you want a beer?

insorrow February 25 2010, 09:35:30 UTC

[Ken isn't surprised that it's Youji; he's thankful it isn't anybody else. Even so, he hesitates for a while before answering, wiping his eyes roughly and taking three deep, shuddering breaths. Composing himself. It won't do for Youji to see him like this, no matter what he might have just inadvertently revealed to him.]

Everyone saw that, too, didn't they?

[And yes. Yes, he does.]

slantedcross February 25 2010, 09:43:36 UTC

On the bright side, they aren't laughing this time.

It's in the refrigerator, if you want it.

insorrow February 25 2010, 10:04:58 UTC

I'd prefer it if they were. Shit. I don't--

I just didn't want you to know. Or anyone. After everything else... this shouldn't be a big deal any more, right?

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seiryuu_warrior February 25 2010, 19:34:01 UTC

[Since he's sure no one else will be speaking his language already, he sits there observing the scene without saying a word.]

[Japanese] insorrow February 26 2010, 00:51:36 UTC

Um... hello?

seiryuu_warrior February 26 2010, 01:08:22 UTC

[Slowly shakes his head. He can't understand this boy.]

[Japanese] insorrow February 26 2010, 01:12:12 UTC

[Ken blinks at him.]

Hi? Are you all right?

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redabyssinian February 25 2010, 20:20:32 UTC

[Seeing something from Ken's past makes him pause and he sighs.]

Are you alright?

1/2 insorrow February 26 2010, 00:48:50 UTC

Aya?

[Ken can't say he's exactly surprised by this either; he may not exactly be Aya's number one fan, but he's not going to pretend that means Aya - even the one from his time, still less this one - genuinely doesn't give a shit about anything to do with the rest of them.

[What he wasn't expecting was Aya to actually say anything, still less to ask if he was okay.]

2/2 insorrow February 26 2010, 00:50:48 UTC

Uh... yeah. I'm all right.

[He attempts a small smile. It probably doesn't work right but hey, it's a smile, right?]

redabyssinian February 26 2010, 01:05:21 UTC

[Oh he knows that smile isn't real and he pauses a moment. Ken's trying at least.]

It seems we all must face these flashbacks...

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[English] unfearful February 25 2010, 23:11:50 UTC

Ah... Ken?

[He remembers meeting him once, back when people were hallucinating.]

[Japanese] insorrow February 26 2010, 01:06:48 UTC

[Ken doesn't think he knows this guy, but it occurs to him after a moment that maybe the him that was here before did

[This is probably kind of an awkward way to get reacquainted.]

Um. Hi? Have we met?

[English] unfearful February 26 2010, 01:13:29 UTC

[He can recognize Ken's language as the same as Naoto's but... the problem is that he doesn't understand it.]

I'm afraid I don't speak your language.

[Heavily-Accented Engrish] insorrow February 26 2010, 01:33:51 UTC

[Oh yeah OF COURSE. Clearly translation still isn't happening. Okay.

[For a moment Ken simply sits there frowning at the Dreamberry. He... really isn't very good at English. Still, at least this guy actually speaks English properly. Does that make him more or less likely to understand Ken's faltering attempts to speak it?]

Hello. My name is Ken. I... not speak England language good. You not speak Japan language?

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