Eighteenth Spool of Thread-[Action]

[so_shik]

[assuming that Rosalie has told Shiki about the POV gun and that she still has it, Shiki's inside house 10 waiting for Rosalie to show up with any of the victims she had shot. The two girls, well, more like Rosalie herself, decided that the people of Luceti needed a makeover and so here Shiki was, trying to figure out why exactly she agreed to actual makeovers at a time like this. While she waits though, she'll be sitting on the couch and staring at the open front door, watching for anybody to come in while working on the beginnings of Tifa's blouses she promised to make]

[ooc: if you would like to pretend that Rosalie shot your character with the POV gun and they were persuaded into doing a makeover, just have them wander on in and Shiki and Rosalie will threadjack from each other and such. If you're just a friend of Shiki's who happens to wander by (this includes housemates), that's cool too.]

Comments

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

She's got horns under those hats she's always wearing. No lie, I've touched them.

[so_shik]

...does Rena know?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Well, she didn't. But Hanyuu and Rika said they were gunna tell her the other day. Apparently Rika didn't think it went well. Y'know that day I dragged you out to practice walking?

[so_shik]

That's why. You wanted to leave so we weren't there if she cracked.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[Okay now his voice gets hard and determined] No, so you weren't there. I wanted to be there but Rika kicked me out.

[..Ignoring that he just said he got kicked out by a nine year old]

[so_shik]

...you got kicked out by a child?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Whatever. Jeez.

[...And then pause, and a grunt]

So just... be careful or something.

[so_shik]

...are you worried?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[Honestly, totally:] 'Course not. Rena's Rena's Rena. That machette's a weird habit and I saw her go crazy before. If I need to, I'll pin her down myself so she can't hurt anyone. Jeez.

[Because if she did that would cause her to be guilty about it later]

[so_shik]

...and if she hurts you when you're doing that?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[This is an "are you stupid" directed at the wall because he's still not facing here] She's a member of my Brigade. I'm not gunna die and she's not gunna die and I'm not gunna let her screw things up. And that's that.

[so_shik]

...I guess so. [pushes away from where she's ate and dunks her head under the water to wash her hair out]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I'm gunna go on a date with Uriko.

[so_shik]

[jerks her head up, probably splashing the back of his head] What?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[GUH YOU GOT HIS HAIR ALL WET. He shakes it out like a dog]

Well you said to consider these things or something, right? And maybe'll make her shut up or something about all this... stuff. 'Sides, might be fun.

[...And it might distract him form his ungodly loneliness]

[so_shik]

[ow, okay. Since we're not GOOD ENOUGH to fill that slot for you] Yeah but...okay one might turn into two, and then three, and soon you're going steady with a were-cat.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...What.] Are you a moron or something? Do you know how many girlfriends I went through in middle school? Jeez.

[Now Shiki's going to get all jealous isn't she?]

[so_shik]

[You already knew that from the POV gun though :(]

A lot more than anybody else I know probably, I bet you've even gone through more boyfriends than I have.

Face it, Haruki, this isn't middle school. This is a place where stuff really does matter and people aren't your playthings just because you can.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...Guh. You had to word it like that. Damned if you're naked in a tub that pissed him off. He's turning around now to glare her in eyes there, his face contorting into something almost like real anger. It's different than his glares even]

Do you think I don't know that?! Do you think I want to still be in love with some stupid, boring, idiotic, deadpan, flat, ponytail-loving, short, unattractive, untalented, apathetic girl who isn't even here?! Do you think I want chicks confessing to me all over the place right after that girl leaves?!

Do you think that I asked for this crap?!

[so_shik]

No, but you know what? You need to learn how to deal with it, Haruki! You can't just avoid it because you don't want to grow up, and I know it's so sudden but you can't just ignore it.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...GOD DAMMIT. Why is she right? Why is she... God fucking dammit. He's going to look down now, and then in a voice tinted with a melancholy only matched when they discussed him being God]

Why am I the only one that needs to grow up?

[so_shik]

[immediately snaps her mouth closed, giving him a look that says she's been caught in her own bs.] ...I didn't say it was just you, but...

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[This starts off small and steadily builds] I'm the one that needs to have a girl I love so much it hurts all the time...

I need to have two chicks fall for me right after the one I love vanishes and both of them I need to be responsible for their feelings?! Why the hell else would I got on a date with Uriko? Dammit.

[And here he looks up to face her again, glaring]

I need to be responsible for my Vice-Chief having a mental illness which might make her homicidal?! I need to be responsible for your damned boyfriend like I was tonight?! I need to be responsible for apparently being God?!

[And he grunts and looks away now] I'm sixteen years old and with this type of shit on top of being an an alien-created hellhole I might as well be a freakin' adult. This place sucks.

[so_shik]

...Haruki, maybe you're just trying to take on too much at once. I'm not going to lie and say I understand because I don't have any of your problems, but stressing over all of it isn't going to help. Break it down to one thing at a time.

You're sixteen. That doesn't mean anything here.

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[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

This place sucks so much... [..He trails off into melancholy for a bit there... There's a very distinct pause as he thinks for a time about all of this. And she's right, in a way. She's right but at the same time he can't ignore all these problems. He recalled that Shinpachi told him and...]