But if all you give me is enough to fight it…

[mooninthewater]

Who: Mizuki and... you!
What: Mizuki apologizing and some fluff before event drops-
When: After gardening
Where: Yes
Warnings: none yet


I. It's a mess I won't make anymore (Open; The Inn)

[ There's a note posted up on the wall of the inn in blue pen. It's neatly written at first, with curly handwriting, but it starts to wobble towards the end. ]

I don't know how to get everyone together, as these sorts of things aren't usually my forte. I suppose I could go to each of you individually, and it's what you all deserve, but I'm not an emotionally strong sort of person. For that alone, I'm sorry.

I want to apologize to those of you affected by the hallucinations of the flowers. I should've handed out antidotes to all of you before anything like this happened. I should've been more careful about the toxins. I should've done a lot of things.

I'm sorry.

- M

[ Mizuki will hole himself up in his room for a day or so after this. Apologizing… hard. Talking to people… hard. Hhh. Anxiety— ]

(Update: BB has thrown away this note. If you would have liked to reply before she did so, that's a-okay, of course, but just a heads up~.)

II. Like a thousand times before (Open; Wherever)

[ You may catch him in better spirits later, though. He's happily applying stickers to the doors of people he knows with some sort of association he has with them. He has a variety of them, so it's not hard to match colors or themes or whatever else he sets his little heart to.

His own door is smathered with blue stickers and ocean waves. He's also spelled out "M I Z U K I !" with blue stickers, too. Maybe you'll confront him mid-stickering your door or someone else's door? Maybe you saw the stickers and just sort of knew… ]

III. And in the times that I wish I was younger (Open; Wherever)

[ There's a jellyfish holding your hand! Where did he come from, he wasn't there a second ago— ]

If there are memories so bad that they can send you into miserable states just from being slightly reminded from them, do you think there are memories so good that they can do the opposite…?

[ Hey, what the fuck— ]

IV. With hunger to be somebody (Wildcard)
(hmu via PM or Discord if u wanna plot something out w/ me!!! I might get back on plurk… soon…)

Comments

[mooninthewater]

King of... Huh? What are pharmaceutical companies from Earth like...???

[ He's lost. ]

On Terra, Rhodes' is a company that takes in, treats, and protects the rights of the Infected people of our world. We're trying to get to a world were Infected people aren't just exiled, or worse, executed... Unfortunately, that's the current state of my world now.

And Gnosis is not ugly. I think he's quite handsome for an old guy!

[devilishkouhai]

Dont worry about it - anyway. Oh what happened with the infected people? I am curious - you gotta tell me.

[ She cant believe it though - GNOSIS? ]

Yeah if you find someone who comes off desperate and gay hot, I guess?

[not here]

[succiduous]

[Somewhere his ears are burning... who's talking about him...]

[devilishkouhai]

[ Suddenly she comes out of his shadows a little head pops out and she says out from behind him. Well, say it's nighttime because this is fucking hilarious, and any shadows within the moonlight become a part of her space in some way. Anyway, hopefully, he isn't in the middle of changing or some weird ass shit - ] Yes I am talking about you, bitch.

[ Then the head disappears immediately. ]

[succiduous]

he fucking hates being here

[mooninthewater]

Oh, um. So, on Terra, there's an ore called Originium. It's an extremely potent power source for practically everything on Terra. People can use it for special abilities, too, called "Arts". My coworkers both have Arts units, for example. [ Irene's levitation rapier. Gnosis' freezing cane. God, he has a cane, he really is old- ] However, Originium tries to assimilate with people, and eventually, without treatment, will turn them to solid stone.

That's the short version of it, anyway. There's more, but I'm really no specialist on the matter. Depending on where you're from, people either kill Infected, exile them from the country, or are allowed to live there, but treated as "lesser" than everyone else. It's kind of... awful. It's why I want to help people like that.

...

Does Mister Gnosis come off as desperate to you?

[devilishkouhai]

WAIT HOLD UP - Hold that thought bestie - let me break the fourth wall real quick..

[ This is when she disappears into her shadows - rather suddenly. ]

[mooninthewater]

Oh, okay! [ Not even questioning this. He’s gonna go back to flirting with Abigail in Stardew— ]

1/2

[devilishkouhai]

[ It takes her like - TWO SECONDS. Literally if at all maybe like 10, she comes back but this time under his shadow and bumps into him with a - ]

Oof wrong place.

[ She starts to sink in but then is like - ]

NAH NEVER MIND!!

[ Out her head comes and a bunch of tentacles to pick Mizuki up, and let her gremlin craw her way back to the spot she was in bed. Each tendril gently places him down where he was!! ]

OKAY SO ANYWAY -

[devilishkouhai]

Wow that's really coooool - where can I get some so I can study it?

[ Hand over the drugs kid. ]

I wonder if it is compatible with anything on Gaia, I feel like it probably isn't but all the more power to it!

[ Oh yeah right Gnosis - ]

Yeah back when I was in the forest with him and he was talking to the voices, he said something about not getting along with other people. Mortal kinds are people who are desperate for companionship - one way or another. The lack of others understanding him, or the inability of him to be understood obviously, makes him desperate.

[mooninthewater]

[ Ignoring the Originium comment because there’s more pressing matters. They’re tentacle buddies and she’s really gonna do him like this— ]

BB… you’re describing me there, too, you know…

[devilishkouhai]

EH?!?!?!? [ BB sounds actually SHOCKED!! ] Do you have a bad personality and cold attitude?

I THINK NOT!! Totally different, besides the fact that you are just as powerful as me and chose to be lowly like them. Just means you're dumb, and silly. [ BB sighs, absolutely upset you would compare yourself to such a heathen!!! ] You could just make someone love you or like you for that matter.

[mooninthewater]

BB, if you keep being rude to everyone, they're not gonna treat you very nice, you know? I'd be really upset if anything happened to you. [ #foreshadowing?? ] Mister Gnosis doesn't have a bad personality. I just think people like us don't mesh well with people like him…

[ Mizuki means "really excitable," but BB can take that as she wants to. ]

I can only induce fear in people, anyway. You know that…

[devilishkouhai]

You don't need to be upset on my behalf, if someone doesn't like me that's their problem. I don't care, I don't exist to make myself a certain way for others. [ Afterall!! She exists only for Hakuno and like, everything else is extra. ] Mizuki, [ She looks at him, like he doesn't get it. ] people like us will never get along with others. It's not worth trying to, especially with Mortals who cant even get their shit straight.

Anyway, I don't see the problem with that? [ White man blinking gif. ] Okay? And?

[mooninthewater]

[ BB might pull people into her pocket dimension to enact out an otome for herself, but the visual novel-style prompts are sort of always what are going through Mizuki's head. Not literally, of course, but he never really thinks there's more to say outside of the options he has. He's prone to pick the infamous Telltale option "..." whenever he didn't have a prerendered option he wanted to pick.

It's, perhaps, the biggest reason he always feels like he's on the other side of a window, looking at other people. Disconnected, in a way he that makes him feel incredibly lonely despite being with friends.

> "What do you mean people like us?"
> Laugh it off, change the subject.
> ?̴̢̣̌̈́?̴͉̮̐̅̈́?̴̬̙̔̒?̶̙̥͚̽?̸̗͇̝̚?̸̰̰̥͆̽?̸̛͔̦͋͘

Mizuki's form glitches momentarily, a product of the corruption of his camouflage, but the static and poorly rendered artifacts that fill the air is always a little off-putting for him. He doesn't mean to, it just sort of... happens. ]

I know that. But they have such wonderful, beautiful stories to share with the world, and that's what's worth preserving. Even if I'll never be like them, or even liked by them, protecting those who have so much beauty to share with the world, and so much goodness to sow, then that'll always be worth trying.

They shouldn't fear me.

[devilishkouhai]

[ BB's gag with Otomes is her inert desire to force people into picking prompts to speak with her - because, even she knows, she is complicated and complex to talk to. Preserving humanity's small brains into simple prompts that make it so they can talk to her thusly - is her deranged way of connecting with those she thinks are below her. Or is desperate to want the other to know her.

Not to mention, she came forth from a place where prompts like that were the only way to speak to her - but that is neither here nor there. ]

They will always fear you because you are different, and closer to the unknown - hey, but did you know? Mortals fear the unknown as much as they love it ~ ♡!

[ Just like Mizuki she loves mortal kind for that exact reason, but more specifically because it is humans who despite all odds and what may come for them. They are willing to fight against it.

At the same time, they are their own worst enemies. Disgusting, decrepit, and foul beings that bring about their own ends and often regale at the other's sufferings. Within her she consumed such a thing, the whole of all human depravity. It sits in her stomach and engrossed in her data. All the things that make up the worst of humankind, consumed by her own existence.

As if it were a just meal. ]

Ne, ne? If something ever happens to me Mizuki, I want you to eat my body okay~ ♡ ?

[ Because they were just talking about that after all. ]

I wonder if you will feel the same about humans, once you eat me and taste the things that I have eaten.

[mooninthewater]

[ How right BB is about that. If only he could tell her about We Many, or the Church of the Deep, or anything like that. Alas, instead, he just goes really quiet at her words. She has no idea what he really is and she's saying it, so it must be true, right? Even now, when he's just supposed to be "that weird Aegirian kid who likes video games a lot," she can tell he's not... right. What a gross thought. He doesn't like it.

Despite literally being asked to be eaten, Mizuki shifts himself closer and throws his arms around BB for a hug. ]

Of course. You're not allowed to leave me, BB. So, if anything happens, I'll make sure you'll stay with me.

[devilishkouhai]

[ BB is usually the affectionate one, so when someone else is overly affectionate - it does make things a bit strange but she absolutely leans into it. Throwing her own arms around him! ]

BB is counting on you~~~!