backdated to mid-morning yesterday, oops!

[fading]

[if anyone has attempted to contact Nami to wish him a Merry Christmas, they'll have been informed that the number is currently not in service. this might have something to do with the fact that, inside Nami's trashed apartment, his phone is sitting in a puddle of paintwater, sparking. Nami's nowhere to be found!


there's a frantic Kai calling for Nami as he makes his way through the park. he can feel that Nami's still in the dressing room, but there's a wall between their connection so solid he can't sense anything other than that.]



(ooc: Nami got a heart for Christmas. unfortunately, he's had a lot of negativity 'bottled up' so to speak, and the sudden onslaught of proper emotion wasn't taken well. he's in hiding, having taken a portal straight from his apartment! responses will be from Kai, at least at first, despite the fact that the post is from Nami.)

Comments

[dawnrise]

What do you think I do? Walk my dog, explore, turn into a wolf once a month... Pretty much anything I want. Hard to find limits in this place. You should hang out in the apartments more. There are still crazy rooms like there was before.

[f1re0nthesun]

Yeah? I should go over there sometime, then. There're a lot of rooms that I only ever heard about from people.

[HE'S TRYING TO MAKE SMALL TALK, RIKU you should pick a new discussion topic now, because he's out of ideas.]

[dawnrise]

There's a tentacle cafe.

[How's that?]

[f1re0nthesun]

I... what. How does that even work.

[are you served by tentacles? are you served tentacles themselves? is the cafe MADE of tentacles?]

[dawnrise]

Basically you're surrounded by this huge... creature, I don't know. It's like there are tentacles just coming out of the walls, but it's alive. They have these little chocolate bread things. They're not bad.

[Yes. This is really happening.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[he's quiet for a long moment while he considers this. the exact moment when he realizes that tentacles could double as bondage + penetrative sex is perfectly visible on his face. he looks pretty psyched about it, like he's just discovered that everything is made of ham. technically he shouldn't be so interested, because of the similarities to what's happened with Kai in the past, mostly involving Marluxia, but.]

So is there anywhere else with tentacles like that?

[dawnrise]

[...............this would the most deadpan expression Riku has ever given him, except for the horror lingering behind it.]

Not anywhere I'm telling you.

[f1re0nthesun]

Aw. Whatever, I'll find them on my own.

[hey, she mentioned it in the first place. he's just going to calmly finish his coffee.]

[dawnrise]

Suit yourself. I'm not having any part of it.

[The closest she's ever come to anything like that was a shared dream with Roxas. Though she has chopped off several stray arms from the tentacle room.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[and then some day in the future Riku was exploring and came across Axel's clothes and a towel outside an unmarked door, and could never look him in the eye again.]

I know there's a room full of pillows, too, and other rooms like that. Kai's told me about a few of them that he's found. I think that one a couple of years ago at Halloween was the most interesting, though.

[dawnrise]

Which one was that?

[If he's talking about one they're both familiar with, she's not sure which.]

[f1re0nthesun]

The one where all our injuries from things that happened in the DR got recreated without any actual blood loss or pain or anything. It was pretty creepy, but kind of neat, too.

[dawnrise]

Oh. That one was... different.

[Creepy. Horrifying. Disturbing. But pretty cool, yes.]

[f1re0nthesun]

Yeah. I've found some other weird ones, but that was the weirdest.

[help we should talk about something else, like blowjobs or what a dick Red is. /um]

[dawnrise]

I don't know about weirdest. Messiest.

[She was bleeding SO much, from the hole in her head and her cuts and scars, and the bullet in her heart... Hm. Maybe she should show him the scar she got from Hachibi, I don't think she ever did. Also. If he wants to talk about either of those, Axel will have to bring them up himself. >:|]

[f1re0nthesun]

[ooh, she should. and he'll bring them up later on at some point, when she's least expecting it.]

You were messier than me, with part of your head missing and everything. You've gotten pretty banged up here.

[dawnrise]

It'd help if I'd stop turning into monsters.

[Since Red headshotting her as a zombie was the only reason she was missing part of her head! She leans back into the couch a little, then looks up.]

Hey. I'm not trying to bring up bad things or rub it in anyone's face, but... do you want to see the scar?

[f1re0nthesun]

From... oh. Sure.

[don't take the lack of exclamation points as a bad thing; he looks pretty interested!]

[dawnrise]

[She sits up and switches her coffee to one hand, then raises her sweater up to expose her left side. It's a pretty impressive scar, and probably her longest next to the burn on her lower back.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[he leans closer to look at it, and reaches out with one hand but draws it back before he can touch her, because he's not sure if he should. he doesn't even have anything to say about it, nothing that's at all adequate at seeing what Hachibi did to her.]

[dawnrise]

[She's not going to tell him he can touch it, but she wasn't going to jerk away or anything. She doesn't leave her sweater up for very long, just enough that he can get a clear picture of it.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[there's still not really anything to say about it, so he pulls his arm back and leans back to his side of the couch. Hachibi's unsettlingly quiet too, not that she can tell that. she could ask what Hachibi thinks of it, though.]

[dawnrise]

[She's thinking about it. She settles back down in her seat and looks at him, frowning faintly.]

I'm not going to hit you if you say something, you know.

[f1re0nthesun]

I don't have anything to say. I think Hachibi's feeling bad about it, though. I can't really tell.

[he wasn't worried about her hitting him, don't worry. P: ]

[dawnrise]

[She looks... Not much like she believes him, but she's not going to say that. She shrugs instead, looking to the Christmas tree.]

I wasn't trying to make anyone feel bad.