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[daggering]

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weekend 0, sat

[daggering]

[ well

sometime during the day after the clowning, you can find vax with his back turned and at one of the puddles in the mansion, splashing water on his face and grumbling something unintelligible. ]

[dms]

[ well here comes your favorite easy target ]

Whoa! Dude, isn't that water too nasty for your face?

[ is now really the time to be thinking about skincare routines ]

[daggering]

No less nasty than what I just got sprayed with.

[ did you have to say it like that

anyway he's just grumbling. ] Watch out for clowns.

[dms]

Eh? What's that mean?

You mean the guys in the carnival, right? But they were so friendly!

[ yea ]

[daggering]

Friendly, sure. Last time I thought something like that, almost got cursed into dancing to my death. Literally.

[ can't believe we're in the feywild ]

Don't just trust anything you see, mate. Either way, try to stay clear of them. Can't get this shit off.

w2, saturday

[dms]

[ man, what a day! but at least we could finally shower and change after digging up a literal grave today, yikes. it's not until later, after kumon's fallen asleep, that kazunari makes it up to the rooftop for a breather, pausing when he sees vax. ]

Hey. Sorry we didn't find the one who hurt Nines... You guys were roomies, right?

[daggering]

[ vax is here!! he's sitting up on the roof, actually, and glances back when he's addressed, brows briefly raising before he gives kazu a little sup nod and gestures him over. ]

Yeah. 's a good guy.

[ poor 9s. ] You holding up alright?

[dms]

[ he gives a little half-shrug. ]

No reason I shouldn't be. I'm alive, and so is Kumopi. That's about all I can ask for right now.

[daggering]

...I mean, you saw a couple corpses. Dug one up yourself with me - and the end of that was a lot.

[ kazunari please ]

...'s a lot, isn't it? [ for a normie!! ] It's okay not to be.

[dms]

It's a lot, but I'm more worried about Kumopi than me. He's been super freaked out ever since that weird stuff they went through, and now more people dying, and being told either of us might have been responsible...

[ he takes a deep breath, leans against the railing to look out. ]

It kind of feels like we're stuck in some crazy horror movie.

w3, tuesday! backdates sweats

[daggering]

[ on this backdated tuesday, kazunari will find himself in a bubble with vax!

... he just sort of looks at him, for a long moment, and then closes his eyes. ]

's get this over with, yeah?

[ and then reaches out to gently flood the bubble with marine. ]

[ you are standing on an island, where the ground is made of broken glass, on the edge of a crater, and feeling a sense of complete, utter, despair.

the rest of vox machina is moving with the same numb feeling that you must be. beyond your exhaustion and pain, beyond the blood seeping from your injuries, from your mouth, the emotional toll is worse. your sister is a wreck, sitting on the ground, and percival's head is in her lap. he's dead.

he's dead, and pike isn't here to revive him, and vex'ahlia's sobs ring in your ears.

still, you all are making the quickest work of this place that you can. grog gets up to deal with anna ripley, the woman who took percy from you all - she's dead, now, too, thanks to the efforts of the remaining members of vox machina, who took no mercy and destroyed her with everything they had.

but as you stand there, you lift your head, and you lock eyes across the battlefield with a young man.

kynan. you've already spoken to him during this battle. once, twice, three times - you begged him, with desperation in your voice, to drop his arms and to rejoin your side. you haven't seen kynan since you were in emon, since before the chroma conclave, despite how much you searched for him, because this young man is one of your greatest, deepest regrets.

(you tried to teach him a lesson, that adventuring was hard, too hard for someone so wideeyed - but it was clumsy, and awkward, and harsh. and he took that lesson to heart and vanished from emon no matter how many times you tried to find him.

... and now, here he was. fighting at hte side of anna ripley, one of the most foul, dangerous human beings you've ever had the displeasure of knowing, and fucking terrified the entire time. fighting against you, when all you'd wanted - you'd tried - )

...

you stare at each other for a moment. in the last second of the battle, kynan had his chance to murder any of you with the dagger whisper, a black blade with the power of the gods, but he didn't. he listened to you, and with trembling hands, he came not to your aid, but at least not to your harm.

and now this.

you can still feel, after all - you tear yourself free from your daze and you hurry to him, as grog says, "i forgot, are we killing this guy?" over your shoulder. you can't even imagine - tunnel vision, hurrying, you make it to his side.

to say he's shellshocked would be putting it lightly. (to 15:16)

you are so, so fucking worried. you are so fucking worried, and you care so much, and when kynan whispers, how can i help?, your empathetic heart shatters into pieces. you say just do whatever we say, desperately trying to get across the ache that you feel, trying to make him understand.

how guilty you feel, how miserable, how afraid you are for this young man, and how desperately, desperately, you want to do things right. how badly you want him to be safe, how badly you want to pull him out of the spiral of darkness and depression that you know he's leapt into because of the things he's now seen. (because you screwed up. no matter how. many times you wanted to fix it, it was too late. always too late.

and now - now, maybe, maybe you can take this trembling, terrified young man and try to help him heal like he never should have had to. maybe now, you can be the mentor he wanted you to be.

you put your arm around his shoulder when you leave glintshore, broken and defeated, grog carrying percy's body, and all of you left with the heavy weight of your own sorrows to carry, too.) ]

[dms]

[ i can't believe percy dies? damb. ]

Oohhhh, the drama. That's one way to tug at the audience's heartstrings! I bet they loved it, right?

[ i'm sorry i really want to react properly rattles the bars ]

[daggering]

[ ...well.

it's an old memory, at least. vax steps back from it, as it finishes, frowning, and shakes his head, then turns to kazunari.

... ]

... Sure, yeah. 's real life, kid.

[dms]

Right, right. Just like everything in the prism is.

Buuuuuut Percy's still here.

[ in case you didn't know ]

[daggering]

Yeah. Resurrected him. Long story.

[ ... he tilts his head. ] What do you mean about the Prism?

w3, friday

[dms]

[ so kazunari is doing his best to avoid everyone today, and by his best, i mean he's absolutely fucking terrible at it. he's predictable, and there are things he wants to do, so...

vax can find him as he's trying to leave the crystalline floor. no matter how quick he is to recover his smile, it's not enough to hide that initial deer in the headlights look. ]

H-Hey! You came to see Percy, right? I'm pretty sure he's still in there, so I'll just... get out of your way!

[daggering]

[ honey

i mean hi. vax tilts his head, a little surprised? ]

- I...no, actually. Just thought I'd drop by... [ .... well, whoever he was here to see doesn't really matter because now he's worried. ] You alright?

[dms]

[ kazunari as a person is usually full of energy, bright and excitable as he is, but now it's a notably different kind of vibe. he's tense like a bowstring about to release, but the smile usually dissuades people from asking - but it's pretty lackluster right now. ]

Me? Yeah. [ ... ] I mean. I wouldn't say I'm fine, because we lost two good people, but - you know.

[daggering]

[ bud. that tenseness is obvious - vax, maybe surprisingly based on his everything, tends to be empathetic enough to notice. his brows knit together, mouth pulling into a little frown. ]

...yeah. Course. [ there's a beat. ] ... You've had one hell of a week, huh?

[dms]

I... think I had a fine week, until this morning? [ rubs the back of his neck awkwardly. ] I just... could have been a lot better to everyone else.

w4, monday

[dms]

[ i cannot express how fast kazunari nyoomed for the salon to fix his hair so he's probably already finished that up by the time vax makes it here LMAO. ]

Didn't take you for the salon type! Are you looking to add a little pop of color to the ol' ensemble this week?

[daggering]

[ kazu is so valid

vax is not much of a salon guy, but! he looks down at his hands, and then at kazunari, and then offers him a little grin. ]

Iunno about that, but, maybe you can help me. Kinda wanna paint these. [ wiggles fingies ] What do you say?

[dms]

[ kazunari laughs and takes vax's hand to check out the canvas. ]

Oh, I'm totes down! Kiyopi might do even better, but I'm still an artist, and I love a challenge. [ winks! ] Any sort of designs you wanted?

[daggering]

Surprise me. Just keep it dark, yeah?

[ his goth aesthetic. he's sure kashuu would probably paint his nails like a champ but this is cute so this works. ] Usually'd just do em black.

[dms]

I wouldn't dream of ruining your aesthetic. It's part of the charm!

[ vax is gonna have to deal with purple, but kazunari gets a dark one, at least! and a few other colors for detailing - mostly silver and black. ]

But it's good to change it up now and then, right? I was thinking of doing mine, too, but I haven't figured out how.