- Pretending to be Ayano while she investigates Dad - Ayano's friends are okay but this is still weird no matter how many times I do this - I recognize that neechan has romantic tension with this socially stunted nerd Shintarou and I hate it - At least neechan isn't a stellar student so when I don't know something it's fine
The apartment isn't a particularly nice one, clearly shabby and not entirely clean. But in it a small five year old B has a chair pulled up to the kitchen counter where he's buttering toast clumsily. He's a bit of a battered looking child with his bruised face but he's still cute as he concentrates very!! hard!! on buttering. Then he jolts as he hears a banging sound. Little B carries the plate of toast with him as he steps out from behind the kitchen counter to peer properly into the small living room. A very pretty young woman with wavy blonde hair is banging a remote control against the coffee table as she sits on the couch, looking tired and annoyed.
"Mom...?"
And she huffs as she jams on the remote's power switch several more times before she gets up, stalks past her son into the kitchen, and tosses the remote into the trash can. "Doesn't work anymore! Useless thing....!"
B just stares at the trash can, processing it while his mother opens up the fridge amid more grumbles. Then the fridge SLAMS shut, causing the boy to jolt again where he stands, breaking him from his staring.
poor mom is so tired after working all night i was very glad mom is home because being home alone all night is scary mom's so cranky though work must have been hard make mom breakfast while she watches tv!!!1 oh but dont we need the remote??? oh we dont need broken useless things dat me im the remote its me yep forgot the milk its me im the useless thing
i can logically and rationally see in hindsight all my thoughts are stupid but also dat me is this a message from the producers fucking rude IM TRYING MY BEST ASSHOLES
Kido's ability is concealment Momo is an idol he's seen before and has kept an eye on because she's unusual The riot he watched on tv confirmed for him his suspicion about her being One of Us Red Eyes mean you're using your power Lol Kido is so cute It's fun to have someone new aboard after all this time Mary is cute and shy and clumsy Mary spilling stuff all over Momo is FUCKING HILARIOUS lol kido still hits me a lot oops i aint mad We're the Mekakushi dan Special Facilities meant they were sneaking into movies and low level shit like that lol
- THIS IS WHAT DAD WAS WORKING ON COOL - lol kido - Kido why you cheating how rude - Even if I tell the truth it sounds like a lie so it's fine ha ha! - lolololol this girl is funny tho
"I guess I better tidy up and get going. It'll be tough to do it once it's dark, but first things first..."
And he takes out his phone.
"It's rude to eavesdrop on other people when they're talking to themselves, Ene-chan."
And a lil big girl appears on the screen.
"Uhm, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."
"I don't mind. So what's up? I'm flattered that you decided to wait for me."
"W-well I'm curious about what you said earlier. It sounded like you knew something about my body."
"Oh, that. I wouldn't say that we know something, that just it sounds familiar. Besides, you don't need to be in such a rush. We can tell you all about it once we're all together."
"I don't want Master to hear. To tell you the truth, Master...er, Shintarou, use to be close to Ayano. But in spite of that he wasn't able to save her. He regrets it so much that it gives him nightmares every day. I'm worried that if I leave him alone he'll fall to pieces."
"And? That doesn't sound like it has much to do with you body, Ene-chan."
"He shut himself up in his room after Ayano died, so he doesn't know that I died or that I use to be Takane. So if he finds out that I'm Takane, I'm sure that'll dredge up other memories. Just when he's finally making friends and moving on."
"Ah, I see. How dedicated of you, even though you say you don't worry about such things anymore."
"It's the opposite. It's something Ayano said before she died."
Its a little B and he's. Actually fucked up in a bad way. Covered with bruises, limping as he walks into the apartment complex and. And the door is open. The door shouldn't be open?
And mother is tied up on the floor and a man is taking her precious things that she loves.
So B tries to stop him. Those are her precious things!! How dare!!
He gets knocked down hard for his troubles. And then as the man comes closer with a kitchen knife to finish him off--
No. Mother, tied up as she is, dives into the way. And in the scuffle, the knife finds its way into B's belly
She tries to tell him something as they lay there curled up together. Something important? But little B can't understand what it is.
Although in hindsight, it's obvious she's saying she loves him as the life drains away from them both.
You find the note. "I definitely won't let you all die. Big Sis will do whatever can be done. I love you all so much."
"Sis..."
Fear grips your heart and by instinct you're running up the stairs up the stairs up the stairs. You've looked every other sensible place. You slow as you reach the door, pushing it open and pausing as you hear her voice.
"What you're doing is wrong!" That firm determined tone.
And across from her is...father? But.
"Now, now, what a hurtful thing to say. I'm doing everything in my power to make this man's wish come true. If anything, I think a little gratitude is in order." Even without the words coming out his mouth, the tone alone is all wrong. It only looks like your father. For now at least, that's not him.
The snake your sister told you about. This is him.
"You're wrong...! Dad would never want the kids to die! I can't imagine him ever wanting to kill my friends or our family!"
"That's certainly true. He doesn't want that. But humans are complete fools. Of course, that's one thing I love about them.
Grand wishes come at a grand price. You humans say it yourselves all the time. I'm going to fulfill this man's wish. It's because of his wish that I'm able to exist. That's all. The rest of it doesn't matter to me at all.
The human heart, human life, and human ideals...compared to a human wish, they're as good as worthless.
Understand?"
"You're insane."
He chuckles at your sister. "I'm honored you think so. What do you intend to do about it, then? Surely you didn't think you could just go 'Please stop' and that would be that? You might not be the sharpest tool in the shead, but that's a bit much, even for you." He's mocking her.
"Oh, I have a plan." She sounds strangely chipper.
"Ah? And what's that?"
You watch as she starts stepping backwards from father as she speaks. "If all the snakes don't gather in this world, Dad's wish won't come true, right?"
"Hm, I suppose that's true. It's no small feat to bring the dead back to life. The perfect being that rules all the snakes is necessary."
She's smiling as she backs into the rails on the roof. "So, that being the case..." You watch from the doorway as she climbs to perch on the rail. "What would happen if I got one of the snake's powers, but didn't return from the other world?"
With a gasp it comes to you what you're seeing and you charge forward from where you had stood dumbstruck. "No....!"
She looks so sad as she says your name in despair.
"That's crazy talk...!" It's hard to breathe and you're afraid to get closer, afraid of knocking her over. "We'd be together forever, you said! You said you'd stay with us forever!" She had just said it! She had just said that to you recently!!
"Let's not do anything stupid, all right? Do you have any idea what would happen if you--" The snake gets cut off.
"There's no point in going through with a plan you know won't succeed. There'd be no reason to kill my friends and the kids, would there?"
"You little..."
There's a vision of a massive snake behind her and she reaches for it. "So this is what swallows up dead people..."
"Don't...!"
"Sorry. Your big sis isn't so tough after all." Her voice wobbles. "I'm kinda scared..."
Then with tears in her eyes she lets herself fall over the rail.
You scream her name, lunge for her. It's for nothing. She's gone and all you can do is scream.
"I never imagined that this would happen." And the snake sounds as if he couldn't care less. I'm so apalled by these people that I'm speechless."
"Bastard....!" You whirl on him. You start screaming words you never thought you'd say as you grab him by the shirt. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
"Judging from the way you acted, you know, don't you?" He's completely undisturbed. "I'm the one who's keeping your dear dad alive. So you're not going to kill anyone."
Still sobbing you fall to your knees, pounding the ground as you curse.
"Still, my plan is a bust now thanks to her. Now that I can't gather all the snakes together here, I can't bring this guy's wife back. What to do, what to do?"
"Then...then don't do anything! At least give us our dad back."
He stoops down in front of you. "I think not...do you think this is over?" His voice lowers. "Idiot."
"B...but you just said there's no way to bring her back..."
"Indeed I did. Now that things have come to this, I can't bring this man's wife back."
"Then why are you--"
He's smiling. "Then I should just reset everything. Start from scratch." He considers briefly. "Ah, right. You go pretend to be that girl's corpse. That's your thing, isn't it?" You curse him again but he continues. "Hey, don't get me wrong. The person keeping you and your family alive is me."
Then he reaches out to grab you by the throat. You never thought your father's grip could be so strong.
"You don't want to see your family brutally murdered, do you?" He squeezes harder. "You don't, right?"
He leaves you gasping on the ground as he stands. "One more thing. No matter what you do, your fate won't change. Unless you want your entire family to meet an untimely end, I suggest you don't forget that."
He turns his back to you and miserably you pull yourself up to your feet. When you do, you look like your sister.
You can only obediently go along with this snake wearing your father's skin.
You're a little thing, maybe six or so. You peek out your room as an adult you've never seen before walks down the hall of your aunt's home. Sensing you there, this stranger whirls on you and practically shoves burning sage way too close to your face. With a yelp you jerk back, stumble on your own feet, and fall on your butt.
Behind the stranger you see your aunt's eyes widen and she leans in, hand up to hide her mouth as she whispers to the stranger. The stranger nods at her.
You only barely manage to fight back the urge to roll your eyes.
Here's another one telling your aunt you're haunted or something. And maybe that's not entirely WRONG but it's not like they know that. Bunch of frauds.
It's that time B and Kido~ and Seto~ and Mary~~ accompanied NEW FRIEND MOMO to the big store to buy a replacement cellphone--and some new glassware cuz that stuff broke too. When Kido scouts ahead she accidentally bumps onto a NEET that Momo identifies as her brother, much to B's amusement as he can't stop laughing. Kido comes back and is surprised to learn the boy was Momo's bro--
oops all the metal shutters have come down and there's a commotion THERES MEN IN CLOWN MASKS WITH GUNS
Momo tries to run to find her brother but B stops her and goes in her place to find him, Seto coming after him shortly.
They super get caught and are placed with the other hostages! But Momo's brother is there its cool! Also B like apparently has fucking magic or some shit because ain't no one noticing him like. Using a cellphone. And his not being thumbcuffed. Why are they thumbcuffing people...
He sends a selfie to the girls while Seto whispers to him what they're talking about--despite them being far away out of earshot. almost like seto can hear them from far away somehow HUH WEIRD
Momo's brother--Shintarou....tells the lil squad that he has a 100% chance of saving the day: if he can get a distraction.
A text and some such later it is time. Shintarou starts shit with one of the gunmen and then suddenly amid that--the merchandise around them, mostly LARGEASS TVS, start tumbling down. The kids, B included, are knocking them over to create the needed distraction.
Shintarou breaks away to run to plug his phone in somewhere??
meanwhile the girl Momo announces to the crowd: I'm Kisaragi Momo and I'm an idol!!
magically all turn to look at her
and then little Mary steps out from behind Momo and her long white hair flares out as....everyone looking at her suddenly is frozen in place
Memory One
- Pretending to be Ayano while she investigates Dad
- Ayano's friends are okay but this is still weird no matter how many times I do this
- I recognize that neechan has romantic tension with this socially stunted nerd Shintarou and I hate it
- At least neechan isn't a stellar student so when I don't know something it's fine
TAKEAWAY:
holy shit im magic
Memory Two
The apartment isn't a particularly nice one, clearly shabby and not entirely clean. But in it a small five year old B has a chair pulled up to the kitchen counter where he's buttering toast clumsily. He's a bit of a battered looking child with his bruised face but he's still cute as he concentrates very!! hard!! on buttering. Then he jolts as he hears a banging sound. Little B carries the plate of toast with him as he steps out from behind the kitchen counter to peer properly into the small living room. A very pretty young woman with wavy blonde hair is banging a remote control against the coffee table as she sits on the couch, looking tired and annoyed.
"Mom...?"
And she huffs as she jams on the remote's power switch several more times before she gets up, stalks past her son into the kitchen, and tosses the remote into the trash can. "Doesn't work anymore! Useless thing....!"
B just stares at the trash can, processing it while his mother opens up the fridge amid more grumbles. Then the fridge SLAMS shut, causing the boy to jolt again where he stands, breaking him from his staring.
"Did you forget the milk AGAIN?"
"I'll buy it today! I'm sorry....!"
Re: Memory Two
poor mom is so tired after working all night
i was very glad mom is home because being home alone all night is scary
mom's so cranky though work must have been hard
make mom breakfast while she watches tv!!!1
oh but dont we need the remote???
oh we dont need broken useless things
dat me im the remote its me
yep forgot the milk its me im the useless thing
i can logically and rationally see in hindsight all my thoughts are stupid
but also dat me
is this a message from the producers fucking rude IM TRYING MY BEST ASSHOLES
Memory 3
LEARNED:
Kido's ability is concealment
Momo is an idol he's seen before and has kept an eye on because she's unusual
The riot he watched on tv confirmed for him his suspicion about her being One of Us
Red Eyes mean you're using your power
Lol Kido is so cute
It's fun to have someone new aboard after all this time
Mary is cute and shy and clumsy
Mary spilling stuff all over Momo is FUCKING HILARIOUS
lol kido still hits me a lot oops i aint mad
We're the Mekakushi dan
Special Facilities meant they were sneaking into movies and low level shit like that lol
Memory 4
LEARNED:
- THIS IS WHAT DAD WAS WORKING ON COOL
- lol kido
- Kido why you cheating how rude
- Even if I tell the truth it sounds like a lie so it's fine ha ha!
- lolololol this girl is funny tho
Memory 5
Memory 6
Memory 7
Memory 8
"I guess I better tidy up and get going. It'll be tough to do it once it's dark, but first things first..."
And he takes out his phone.
"It's rude to eavesdrop on other people when they're talking to themselves, Ene-chan."
And a lil big girl appears on the screen.
"Uhm, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."
"I don't mind. So what's up? I'm flattered that you decided to wait for me."
"W-well I'm curious about what you said earlier. It sounded like you knew something about my body."
"Oh, that. I wouldn't say that we know something, that just it sounds familiar. Besides, you don't need to be in such a rush. We can tell you all about it once we're all together."
"I don't want Master to hear. To tell you the truth, Master...er, Shintarou, use to be close to Ayano. But in spite of that he wasn't able to save her. He regrets it so much that it gives him nightmares every day. I'm worried that if I leave him alone he'll fall to pieces."
"And? That doesn't sound like it has much to do with you body, Ene-chan."
"He shut himself up in his room after Ayano died, so he doesn't know that I died or that I use to be Takane. So if he finds out that I'm Takane, I'm sure that'll dredge up other memories. Just when he's finally making friends and moving on."
"Ah, I see. How dedicated of you, even though you say you don't worry about such things anymore."
"It's the opposite. It's something Ayano said before she died."
then it goes on to this]
Memory 9
Memory 10
And mother is tied up on the floor and a man is taking her precious things that she loves.
So B tries to stop him. Those are her precious things!! How dare!!
He gets knocked down hard for his troubles. And then as the man comes closer with a kitchen knife to finish him off--
No. Mother, tied up as she is, dives into the way. And in the scuffle, the knife finds its way into B's belly
She tries to tell him something as they lay there curled up together. Something important? But little B can't understand what it is.
Although in hindsight, it's obvious she's saying she loves him as the life drains away from them both.
Memory 11
Memory 12 im not rewriting it out of first person sorry
"Sis..."
Fear grips your heart and by instinct you're running up the stairs up the stairs up the stairs. You've looked every other sensible place. You slow as you reach the door, pushing it open and pausing as you hear her voice.
"What you're doing is wrong!" That firm determined tone.
And across from her is...father? But.
"Now, now, what a hurtful thing to say. I'm doing everything in my power to make this man's wish come true. If anything, I think a little gratitude is in order." Even without the words coming out his mouth, the tone alone is all wrong. It only looks like your father. For now at least, that's not him.
The snake your sister told you about. This is him.
"You're wrong...! Dad would never want the kids to die! I can't imagine him ever wanting to kill my friends or our family!"
"That's certainly true. He doesn't want that. But humans are complete fools. Of course, that's one thing I love about them.
Grand wishes come at a grand price. You humans say it yourselves all the time. I'm going to fulfill this man's wish. It's because of his wish that I'm able to exist. That's all. The rest of it doesn't matter to me at all.
The human heart, human life, and human ideals...compared to a human wish, they're as good as worthless.
Understand?"
"You're insane."
He chuckles at your sister. "I'm honored you think so. What do you intend to do about it, then? Surely you didn't think you could just go 'Please stop' and that would be that? You might not be the sharpest tool in the shead, but that's a bit much, even for you." He's mocking her.
"Oh, I have a plan." She sounds strangely chipper.
"Ah? And what's that?"
You watch as she starts stepping backwards from father as she speaks. "If all the snakes don't gather in this world, Dad's wish won't come true, right?"
"Hm, I suppose that's true. It's no small feat to bring the dead back to life. The perfect being that rules all the snakes is necessary."
She's smiling as she backs into the rails on the roof. "So, that being the case..." You watch from the doorway as she climbs to perch on the rail. "What would happen if I got one of the snake's powers, but didn't return from the other world?"
With a gasp it comes to you what you're seeing and you charge forward from where you had stood dumbstruck. "No....!"
She looks so sad as she says your name in despair.
"That's crazy talk...!" It's hard to breathe and you're afraid to get closer, afraid of knocking her over. "We'd be together forever, you said! You said you'd stay with us forever!" She had just said it! She had just said that to you recently!!
"Let's not do anything stupid, all right? Do you have any idea what would happen if you--" The snake gets cut off.
"There's no point in going through with a plan you know won't succeed. There'd be no reason to kill my friends and the kids, would there?"
"You little..."
There's a vision of a massive snake behind her and she reaches for it. "So this is what swallows up dead people..."
"Don't...!"
"Sorry. Your big sis isn't so tough after all." Her voice wobbles. "I'm kinda scared..."
Then with tears in her eyes she lets herself fall over the rail.
You scream her name, lunge for her. It's for nothing. She's gone and all you can do is scream.
"I never imagined that this would happen." And the snake sounds as if he couldn't care less. I'm so apalled by these people that I'm speechless."
"Bastard....!" You whirl on him. You start screaming words you never thought you'd say as you grab him by the shirt. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
"Judging from the way you acted, you know, don't you?" He's completely undisturbed. "I'm the one who's keeping your dear dad alive. So you're not going to kill anyone."
Still sobbing you fall to your knees, pounding the ground as you curse.
"Still, my plan is a bust now thanks to her. Now that I can't gather all the snakes together here, I can't bring this guy's wife back. What to do, what to do?"
"Then...then don't do anything! At least give us our dad back."
He stoops down in front of you. "I think not...do you think this is over?" His voice lowers. "Idiot."
"B...but you just said there's no way to bring her back..."
"Indeed I did. Now that things have come to this, I can't bring this man's wife back."
"Then why are you--"
He's smiling. "Then I should just reset everything. Start from scratch." He considers briefly. "Ah, right. You go pretend to be that girl's corpse. That's your thing, isn't it?" You curse him again but he continues. "Hey, don't get me wrong. The person keeping you and your family alive is me."
Then he reaches out to grab you by the throat. You never thought your father's grip could be so strong.
"You don't want to see your family brutally murdered, do you?" He squeezes harder. "You don't, right?"
He leaves you gasping on the ground as he stands. "One more thing. No matter what you do, your fate won't change. Unless you want your entire family to meet an untimely end, I suggest you don't forget that."
He turns his back to you and miserably you pull yourself up to your feet. When you do, you look like your sister.
You can only obediently go along with this snake wearing your father's skin.
Memory 13 NOT REWRITING OUT OF 1ST PERSON im lazy
Behind the stranger you see your aunt's eyes widen and she leans in, hand up to hide her mouth as she whispers to the stranger. The stranger nods at her.
You only barely manage to fight back the urge to roll your eyes.
Here's another one telling your aunt you're haunted or something. And maybe that's not entirely WRONG but it's not like they know that. Bunch of frauds.
Memory 14
Re: Memory 14
oops all the metal shutters have come down and there's a commotion THERES MEN IN CLOWN MASKS WITH GUNS
WHAT HAS C'S GANG DONE!!!
Momo tries to run to find her brother but B stops her and goes in her place to find him, Seto coming after him shortly.
They super get caught and are placed with the other hostages! But Momo's brother is there its cool! Also B like apparently has fucking magic or some shit because ain't no one noticing him like. Using a cellphone. And his not being thumbcuffed. Why are they thumbcuffing people...
He sends a selfie to the girls while Seto whispers to him what they're talking about--despite them being far away out of earshot. almost like seto can hear them from far away somehow HUH WEIRD
Momo's brother--Shintarou....tells the lil squad that he has a 100% chance of saving the day: if he can get a distraction.
A text and some such later it is time. Shintarou starts shit with one of the gunmen and then suddenly amid that--the merchandise around them, mostly LARGEASS TVS, start tumbling down. The kids, B included, are knocking them over to create the needed distraction.
Shintarou breaks away to run to plug his phone in somewhere??
meanwhile the girl Momo announces to the crowd: I'm Kisaragi Momo and I'm an idol!!
magically all turn to look at her
and then little Mary steps out from behind Momo and her long white hair flares out as....everyone looking at her suddenly is frozen in place
huh weird
Memory 15
ADOPTED~