Waking the Dead 2.0 || August 19, 2063 || Friday

[icarusalsoflew]

[This one disappears for about thirty minutes, and returns as quietly as he left with two briefcases. He doesn't explain where he went, but from how he ducks into Hikaru's room for about fifteen minutes after that, it can probably be inferred that he fetched a few things from Falner.

Looks like he'll be staying at the Tower while he has taken control of his Brother's body. You're usually going to spot him hovering around, smoking, working through a glass of rum, eyes crimson-ringed and glowing oddly in all lights (or lack thereof) watching... who knows what he's watching? And that suit he's wearing - three-piece, black, pin-striped, with ghostly faces and smoke occasionally moving over the "fabric" - is pretty nice, creepiness aside.

Please excuse him if you find him suddenly popping in on you. It's just what he does.]


OOC Notes:
+ Drop starters as you please! I'll have Death haunt you accordingly. ♥
+ Feel free to do other stuff among yourselves here as well.
+ Do note that Makoto's out and solid for this evening too, so you can bug him or ping me if you want him to come around and bother you.

Comments

[shuryoinai]

Eight.

[He feels nothing about it now, because his death had, in a really fucked up way, released him in order to make him ready to receive better things.

Of course, he's also aware even as he's responding to you that this might be a bit of a trigger.]

[larue]

[ He's taking a moment to take that in then, and you'll see enough, the cues: the curl of his fingers into a loose fist, the way his eyes glance away before he closes them and sighs. ]

I'm sorry, man. [ He knows it's done, but you know him well enough to know that it still matters. He's not as explosive as he could be about this though -- that might be because of today, coupled with the fact that he knows that you had a better life. ] I know this'll sound harsh -- or not -- but, good riddance.

[ A pause though, then: ] So...Kuzunoha is... a name you took for yourself?

[ His Japanese vocab is not that big yet. He's not sure of the meaning when you break the symbols that make up your last name down. ]

[shuryoinai]

[He's giving you a crooked look at that first statement. "Good riddance", indeed.]

Kuzunoha is the last name of the Oyabun of the man who took me in two years later.

["Oyabun". The "big boss" of a yakuza group. You may be familiar with the term, Josh.]

[larue]

[ Blinking at that. ]

You were yakuza?

[ Come to think of it though, he's not really surprised? ]

[shuryoinai]

Yeah.

[Oh, the good old days...]

My father was a Mortician of Zangyaku, but I only found that out from him on his death bed. Didn't really know what that meant either for a bit after that.

[And then Hikaru came to him.]

[larue]

[ Nodding quietly, as he turns that information over in his head. ]

And then Zangyaku recruited you.

[ The tug of the smile on his mouth is a question for confirmation, because he's seen what you can do and there's a part of him that can totally picture you being approached by the Blade King. ]

[shuryoinai]

Pretty much. I did try to play hard to get, but. Well.

[Hikaru.

You probably know the feeling well, Josh.]

[larue]

Yeah, fat lot of good that did you.

[ Chuckling as he's saying that now. Yeah, he knows that feel, man.

Falling quiet now, and rubbing his thumb idly along his wrist. ]

I need to get better -- I want to get better. [ You were in his head while he was watching Todd through the Boneyard. You probably felt it, the way this one noted how efficient Jason worked to disable them all, underneath all that concern for Yulia. ]

[shuryoinai]

Well, wanting's a start. The rest is just a matter of discipline.

[And he's of the opinion that you're plenty disciplined already. As it stands, you have the tendency to border on Control Freak.

He knows the type. That's why you're stuck together.]