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A Mark of Madness; Chika, at the sinkhole. [Open - Ask First]
Topic Started: Jan 26 2013, 08:48 PM (767 Views)
The One True Nobody
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
He seems to desire a piece of our pain...

Chika gritted her teeth, turned full-on to look Shu Mikami in the eye, and ground out an answer that she hoped would satisfy his curiosity enough the he would leave her the hell alone:

"My mom's dead. My bro's dead. My dad's dead. And if it's all the same to you, I've spent more'n enough time at the psychiatrist's office this week... so just go away. I don't want help. I just want to be alone."

Then, she closed her eyes. And continued in a softer tone:

"Look. I know you're just tryin' to be nice. Do the right thing, maybe. But my problems are my problems. Just... leave it be. Please."
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"If the girl wantsta deal with her problems herself, let her."

A girl with green hair stepped out from behind Chika and walked forward. Nana had been watching the situation from afar for some time now. It wasn't like she'd wanted to get involved in these things, especially since her crew was supposed to start work on the sinkhole today. On the other hand, they could handle themselves pretty well, and there was some guy bullying this poor girl over there.

"It's pretty damn rude to jump in and start tryin' to direct her life, y'know? And it's actually pretty exhaustin' to have someone jump in and be like 'do this, do that', especially when you're just tryin' to do things the way that helps you best," Nana continued. She swung a thumb over her shoulder and pointed it at the sinkhole. "And besides, didn't I just see ya throw some pills offa the side of the hospital into that sinkhole? Litterin's bad, y'know!"
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Shu seemed... to cower in fear the exact moment Chika turned her gaze to him... so much for that burst of courage that he managed to summon forth a moment ago... So, Mikami simply replied...

"F-f-f-f-funny... but.... m-m-my mother.... well, she's alive but she's a bitch, more or less tried to get me to kill myself.... my father's always working so there's nothing I can d-d-d-do to contact him...

A-and I have no friends... It's like that one song says, 'ain't got no cash, ain't got no smile, ain't got no one to make me smile but do I worry? No, I'm happy.' Well, at least happy 50 percent of the time."

Aren't I your friend, Mikami? Y'know you gotta be more confident. Maybe killing your-

SHUT YOUR MOUTH RYUK.


Suddenly it had turned into something akin to a therapy session between the two. Oh joy, how Mikami loved those. He couldn't help but sympathize with the girl on the count that she had no one, and then... the other girl joined in, told him what he was doing was wrong etc.e etc.

Shu sighed softly and slumped over a bit,

"I di- M-Maybe you're ri-right..."

His passive side came out in the fact that he was about to disagree, but didn't bother... then she said she saw him chuck some pills off the roof and into the sinkhole, to which Shu responded with a short smile,

"Look, if I want to get better I'll do so myself, not through medication. 'Sides, it's not like anyone's going to go down into that sinkhole anyway."

He tried to convey innocence, and deep down he was hoping that it worked...

God you're pathetic. You make me sad to call you my master. Humans used to be so interesting... what happened to you man?

And then Shinigami decided to step in and ruin what little bit of a "high" Shu had going for him.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Chika's expression became marginally less irritated as Shu continued to speak. She let his voice wash over her, noting the rampant stuttering, the inflection, the words themselves. Yes, she thought, this man had problems as well. Not her problems, not the same pain, but life had dealt him a hand and it hadn't been a particularly fun one. Chika felt something quite apart from her own anger calm at that realization... it took her a moment to comprehend what it was: Tisiphone, her Persona. Feeling annoyance and hostility on her behalf. She hadn't noticed it because her emotions had been identical until a few moments before it had calmed its own.

Then, another voice. Kansai dialect. Unfamiliar. Chika opened her eyes, turned toward it.

For the briefest instant, Chika's eyes sharpened with hostile recognition; then, they slackened.

No, it was just Samurakami again. Chika had spotted her from afar in school one day--they were in the same year, the same floor, after all... it had been inevitable. The way Nana wore her hair was similar to the way Kyo always had, but Nana's was longer, her clothing not so blatantly boyish. Chika sighed, only half-listening to Shu as he answered the other girl's accusation.

She knew for a certainty that Nana Samurakami was a Persona-user. There was evidently some big stink about her uniting gangs in the back streets under the guise of a Road and Building company. Chika had only read the thread because--because she had nothing better to do. It certainly didn't have anything to do with any specific individuals who'd been posting in that thread...

...but the point was, Chika didn't much care. Back-street gang wars or whatever, it wasn't her problem. She turned to face the sinkhole again and decided to ignore the two of them from that point on. Hopefully the scary banchou chick would scare off the annoying stuttering loon and then go about her scary banchou business.

Chika hoped she would. That hair was annoying.
Edited by The One True Nobody, Jan 27 2013, 06:20 PM.
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"'Get better yerself, without medication?' Are you fuckin' stupid or just dense?" Nana said. "If a doctor gives ya pills for something, it's generally recommended that ya take them because ya can't get over it through pure guts."

She crossed her arms and gave him a stare. "So why dontcha just turn right 'round and walk back into that hospital, 'k? Ain't gonna do no one no good if you aren't keepin' yourself healthy."
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"I-Uhm...Yes... Ma'am."

Shu seemed to visibly shake when the girl spoke to him. It was... well, she was SCARY AS ALL HELL in his opinion, the way she spoke, the way she looked... all of it was generally intimidating... he sighed, and pulled an about face to head back into the hospital and remove himself from the situation. A sigh escaped his lips, why couldn't be more confident?
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Chika let out a small, silent breath as she heard Shu Mikami's meek response and listened to his footsteps as he turned around. That was one pest out of her hair. She'd meant to just ignore Samurakami as well, but...

...Well, it wasn't as if the other girl had been obligated to go out of her way to help. Chika closed her eyes, fighting a brief but surprisingly furious internal battle, before turning her head to look over her shoulder at the green-haired girl.

Nana's words had been: It's pretty damn rude to jump in and start tryin' to direct her life, y'know? Like a certain so-called friend had tried to do, for example. Taking a moment to prevent herself from focusing too much on the way Nana's hair fell over one eye in a curtain, Chika simply said: "Thanks, Samurakami-san. I get that a lot. It's pretty irritatin'..."
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Nana watched Shu as he left, not looking away until Chika spoke up. She turned toward the girl and grinned. "Hey, it's no problem. Just one Osaka girl helpin' another, y'know? Lotta times, people just don't realize that they're hurtin' more than helpin' when they come up and do stuff like that."

She nodded affirmatively. "I ain't gonna bother you any more than I need ta. I'm supposed to be overseein' the work on that sinkhole over there anyways." She jerked a thumb over toward the sinkhole in question, where several young adults were looking down at it and not doing much else. Someone kicked a rock down into the sinkhole and listened for the sound of it hitting the bottom.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Chika looked toward the group of "young adults" that Nana had indicated. Oh, right...

"Yeah, I saw the thread, ya said you'd be workin' on it," she said blandly. "Although ya probably need to invest in some heavy-duty construction equipment, first. I don't see that bunch makin' much difference with their bare hands."

The redhead turned her eyes back toward the sinkhole, but just as she was about to go back to ignoring the rest of the world again, it occurred to her to ask a question.

"Toru Watanabe did this, right? So d'ya have any idea why? I mean, why would someone try to collapse a whole hospital? I read a bit of the stuff he posted, but it seemed like the only reason he did it was 'cause it just wanted a lot of dyin' and screamin' to happen. Does he even have a reason, or what?"
Edited by The One True Nobody, Feb 10 2013, 10:30 PM.
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Nana waved it off. "We ain't really out here to get straight to work on it. Just doin' some surveyin' work at the moment, figurin' out how much material we're gonna need to fill it in, what kinda machines, all that shit. And, uh, don't tell the hospital staff this, but each of us're only gettin' paid 2000 yen an hour to fix this shit, so I figure, hey, might as well drive up the bill a bit if they're gonna skimp out on us that much, y'know?"

She looked back over at the sinkhole.

"I dunno, honestly never met the guy myself. Heard he's kinda an ass, what with his hole makin' a list and checkin' it twice thing and the whole tryin' to murder 'n' fuck over Stutters thing, which don't make him a friend of mine. Maybe he's just some kinda anarchist-nihilist or somethin', or he thinks all of humanity's gotta pay. Either way, he's a dick, and he's goin' down someday."

She put her hand on her hip. "'Til that day, though, we're gonna hang 'round here and fill in his sinkholes and say, 'hey, fuck you, 'cause we've got a cement mixer and you don't'."
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