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text; un: mob

[centile]

[have just a picture of a cat that looks like this, lying on the top of someone's roof. mob's thumb is vaguely in the shot.]

text; un: fromfaraway

[good_mourning]

where
👀
also what kind of cat is this

[centile]

roof

they're called batcats i think. i really want to pet one but they stay up high.
they drink blood like bats.

[good_mourning]

our roof?
we should feed it some blood

un: kickflips, text

[strongroots]

[ Surprise, Sunny, it's a text!! Because sometimes you should check in on people. ]

hey sunny. how are you getting used to trench?

un: fromfaraway, text

[good_mourning]

i'm doing okay i think
there are people i miss but this isn't so bad
i thought moving would be worse

[As though this were a normal move.]

[strongroots]

the zombies and everything arent worse??
you like having mob as a roommate that much?

[ What a conclusion...it's kind of funny. ]

[good_mourning]

okay the zombies are pretty bad
not a fan
i guess it's just nice to have people around the house
i was alone most of the time back home

i meant to do this earlier so im gonna say he forgot... orz

[centi]

[ at the very end of february ritsu's warmblood gift fever had him picking out some things for Sunny, but he forgot to give them until now. so Sunny can just find some things left in his room: there's some colourful bento dividers and flag toothpicks and plastic rings meant to cook an egg in a cute shape, and some marbles he found that look like they have little galaxies inside them. he hasn't wrapped them but he left a note: ]

For You! :) Ritsu

haha no worries! if you ever want to backdate we can do that too! text; un: fromfaraway

[good_mourning]

[The gifts are a surprise, but he's touched. He takes a careful look at everything, making a mental promise that he'd be using these whenever he cooked. The marbles were pretty. He just liked looking at them, turning them back and forth between his fingers.

Eventually he carefully puts them away and pulls out his omni to shoot Ritsu a text.]

thank you for the gifts
they're going to get put to good use
and the marbles are beautiful
it's like they have a whole different world in them

un: k★RITSU

[centi]

they make good sounds in the bag too.
if there's more i'll get some and we can play! start a trend! 😎

[good_mourning]

they do
asmr

i'd like that
i've never played with marbles before

( after mob explosion, during sensei visit )

[strongroots]

[ Robby isn't doing as bad as a sensei with a broken back, but he's still been on the down low. Still--he isn't that far from the house.

But it's not Robby who finds Sunny when he leaves Mister LaRusso's room after their talk. Standing in the corridor is Robby's omen, only half-shrouded in some shadows, compared to its usual display. He seems smaller, if just a tad, but his eyes are visible on Sunny, looking up. Watching.......

Probably waiting, to see what Sunny will say or do first. This is not an omen who speaks first, apparently... ]

[good_mourning]

[Robby's omen isn't exactly unexpected, since Daniel had said he was around. Unusual in that it wasn't completely shrouded in shadow like it typically was, however.

Sunny regards it for a few seconds, before approaching it.]

Hello. How is Robby doing?

[strongroots]

[ The omen doesn't immediately move away from Sunny, but when he asks that question, it does turn its head back. Looks at Sunny again, and then moves its body to face the way it just looked...

True dog (omen) whisperers will understand he's asking if Sunny wants to follow him!! Do you, Sunny. ]

[good_mourning]

[While Sunny's a more accomplished cat whisperer, he understands that the omen is asking him to follow.

So he does, assuming that he will be led to Robby by the good boy.]

action| post robby and mob totally having a normal one and making sunny's life really boring

[centile]

[when mob gets back from visiting robby it's blanker than he's been since first waking up.

it's been about two weeks now, since everything. he hasn't been good, exactly, but he's clearly recovering, ready to try again. he spends a lot of time at home but he goes out if asked. he spends time with jun, to visit yoichi. he doesn't cut out the people in his life, more grateful than ever for them. if there's karate he goes, though probably not given daniel's condition. he visits daniel though.

something he's not sure he'll get to do again. robby didn't want him to. robby didn't think it was smart. don't be stupid about this. get a clue.

he'll be in the kitchen, doing dishes. occasionally he'll stare at one blankly before remembering to get back to it. worse still he no doubt told sunny he was going to go talk to robby today. obviously that went just. so well.]

[good_mourning]

[There was no possible way that Sunny had thought Mob's talk with Robby was going to go bad. They'd had a talk themselves not that long ago, and it was clear that the guy deeply cared about Mob. They had even been discussing ways to try to help him in the future.

So Mob not saying anything about was unusual. Even worse was how Mob was looking once Sunny got close enough to see him. He looked like he was... not doing well. What could have happened?

He gets a little closer, frowning.]

Mob? Did things... not go well? [But why wouldn't they have?]

[centile]

[mob puts a plate down. he's leaving the spoons for now, probably better not to make a mess of those. he owed it to miss makima not to make a mess. she didn't like messes, he thinks.

a blink.] Sunny. [hello, this is a normal day, huh] Oh, it went fine. Robby was honest with me. That's what matters.

[haha] I won't be going to karate anymore though. I'm sorry.

[good_mourning]

[Weirdly enough this does not seem like a normal day!! Things seem bad!

Sunny stares at Mob, blinking once.]

What did he say? [What did he say, Mob!?]

[ during mob and sunny's body swap ; familial bond ]

[strongroots]

[ Something's wrong the moment Robby feels anger.

Through their bond, Robby isn't privy to a wonderland of emotions from Mob. He tries to keep them as muted as he does on the outside, momentary rises of feeling then suppressed out of habit, no matter what they are. Pleasure, sadness; it all gets tucked down the same, and if Robby allowed himself much thought over the matter, he experienced those glimpses of emotion even less, these days.

But even when he did see them, anger was rarely present--Robby isn't sure if he has ever experienced Mob's anger in any form.

So when he feels it so intensely, pointed at something, someone, Robby stops what he's doing to pay attention. Confusion, and then a trickling alarm when a pressure grows. Mob's power, but why--?

(Robby tries reaching out once out of instinct around, a small feeling of concern that's easy to miss with the overwhelming sensations going on for Sunny.)

And then it blinks out, something muted before the anger is allowed to exist without the pressure. But then fear accompanies it, and Robby remembers another time when he felt Mob's fear. That-- that he knows well.

(The confusion, the fear, and then the loss of everything. Mob's body on the ground in a pool of its own blood.)

His reach this time isn't so quiet. A name, Mob, not spoken verbally but expressed emotionally by the concern that makes itself known over a link. A figureless form trying to let itself be known, worried, panicked. Are you okay? Do you need help? Mob.

It lingers, and will only become distracted after a while, when Robby focuses on his omni. ]

early may | text | un: toguchi

[toguchi]

[ Chozen's search for answers continues. The picture has begun to assemble itself, but a crucial element remains to be added. The boy who gave the first warning, another quiet, unassuming student of the type that tends to gravitate more to Daniel than to Chozen.

It's a categorization that now feels like an excuse, a leaden weight over Chozen's shoulders. All of the students are a shared responsibility, or they are meant to be. Chozen has not been the sensei he should have been; he allowed too much to fall on Daniel's overburdened back. If he had not, would things be different? He can't know. All he can do is make sure they are different in the future.

Part of that begins here, with the message that Sunny will receive one early May afternoon, when drizzling rain has briefly tapered to barely more than a constant mist. ]

Hello, Sunny-san. It is Sensei Toguchi. I would like to meet with you soon.

(You are not in trouble.)

text; un: fromfaraway

[good_mourning]

[Oh, Sensei Toguchi. Sunny hadn't been expecting a text from him, but it was far from unwelcome. He liked the man. He'd been very kind and patient with him when they had the lesson about keeping omens away from wolves.

He liked him.

(Also part of him was relieved to see he wasn't in trouble. There was quite a bit that he could have been in trouble for as of late.)]

sure
i can stop by the dojo if you're there now

[toguchi]

[ Well, that wasn't so hard. ]

I am. 👍

And we have snacks. 🍙

[ Now who is approachable for students, Daniel?

Chozen situates himself inside the dojo to watch the front gate from one of the windows, having retrieved a plate of promised snacks from the kitchen - not the emoji depicted rice balls, but a plate of simple homestyle chocolate chip cookies. ]

[good_mourning]

[Snacks sounded nice. Sunny would have went anyway but snacks were a bonus.]

i'll be there soon

[And true to his word he does show up not that much later, going through the front gate and over to the inside dojo to look for Chozen.

Sunny sees him pretty quickly once inside. He raises a hand in greeting.]

Hello, sensei.