1st Lap

[donutsorgtfo]

Characters: Aoi Asahina & YOU
Setting: Room 2-15, Floor 7, Cafeteria
Format: Action, but I'll match!
Summary: Yet another newbie waking up.
Warnings: SPOILERS for the Dangan Ronpa chapter that just wrapped up!

[Room 2-15]

[For a long time, Aoi doesn't get out of bed. There are some times when you just want the world to go away for a while, and now is one of those times. Her best friend was dead, and she had put the lives of her remaining friends at risk thanks to her own stupidity. She just... wanted to check out of reality for a while. Even with the sudden shift in surroundings, the brief paralysis that gripped her after... all she wanted to block it all out for a while.

So she simply curled up on her side and pulled the blanket up over her head. She won't even move if a roommate enters, though they'll certainly notice the lump in the previously unoccupied bed. Do they dare investigate?]

[Floor 7]



[Some time later, whether through prompting of a roommate or of her own free will, Aoi finally drags herself out of bed and makes her way down. Down, down, past many strange floors, several of which send chills straight down Aoi's spine... until she reaches this one. She stops dead in her tracks, and for the first time in what felt like days, a smile crossed her face.]

Whoa...

[She makes her way to the edge of the pool, her smile growing with each step, when she stared down into the water, seeing just how deep the pool went, she couldn't help but laugh.] Wow, talk about intense! This even beats out the pool at Hope's Peak!

[This is good. Very good. She finally found a way to take her mind off things for a while! She runs off to the changing rooms, fully intending to work out a bit before heading the rest of the way downstairs...]

[Cafeteria]



[And here's her last stop for the day. At this point she's remarkably more light-spirited, though her joy at finding the pool floor has dimmed a bit, taking some of the light from her eyes. Any hint of a smile is fully wiped off her face when she obtains her first meal.]

Yuck. Who gives out oatmeal for dinner?

Comments

[donutsorgtfo]

Oh. Yeah. [Right, that letter she read right after waking up...] My mind was somewhere else when I read it, I guess. A lot was going on earlier in the day, back home...

[tsunball]

[ .. well, he should at least ask it. If not just because he's curious.. ]

You don't mean you died too, do you?

[donutsorgtfo]

I didn't. I almost did, though... [tears, both of sadness and frustration, begin to gather in her eyes.] It's all because of that stupid bear! The things he does to drive everyone against each other!

[tsunball]

M-.. man, you don't have to tell me that! [ A slight stammering since oh god, how does one deal with crying girls, he's not equipped for this..?! But at least ranting about this is something he does more often, so he can easily join in with that. ]

Everything was that bear's fault from the start, nothing would've happened with Maizono and me if he didn't make her go psycho! Pretty sure it's the same for Oowada too..!

[donutsorgtfo]

[Wait, what.]

Hold on... how do you know about that?

[tsunball]

.. Huh? [ for a moment the fact he knows doesn't strike him as weird, but.. after a moment (because he's an idiot it takes him a moment, okay) he realises why she's confused. ]

Oh, Oowada's here too. A lot of us are, y'know, Fujisaki too and uh.. Naegi, Kirigiri, Hagakure.. Maizono and Enoshima were here too, but I think they're gone now. [ the last one is more relunctant, but.. fine.. he can say this too, if he could say Maizono despite how awkward all of that was he can say this much, even if he nervously rubs the back of his head. ] ... That retarded bear's here too.

[donutsorgtfo]

What?

[She's not really thinking of how they could have brought him here. It really makes sense, if you stop to think about it - there's more than one Monobear, right? Maybe that's just one model out of who-knows-how-many.

No, no she's.... kind of angry.]

Well he better stay hiding, if he knows what's good for him! I can't let him get away with what he did...!

[tsunball]

[ Hey, at least he doesn't mind this in the slightest-- that bear deserves everything it has coming to him, okay, Leon would like to repay him too for that execution.. ]

We all want to pay him back for the shit he did to us, y'know! It's just that-- [ this is somewhat awkward too, but he has to at least warn her, right? she's cool in his book, mostly since she's a girl and didn't seem batshit but whatever.. ] .. that he's rebuilding some of his fucking machines.. [ his face pales a little as he thinks about it. ]

[donutsorgtfo]

[She shudders a little at that - she'll never be able to get the images of the executions out of her head - but her fierce expression doesn't falter for more than a moment.]

If that's the case, then we have to stop him! We can't let him play his sick games with anyone else!

[tsunball]

And how do you want to stop him if he's already building those things?! [ It's not.. as much anger as it's actually fear disguised as sort-of anger, really - since Leon is a coward, of course. ]

[donutsorgtfo]

I don't know, but we have to think of a way! If we just let him do what he wants, he'll be able to finish and use those things! [The batting cage, the motorcycle cage, the stake... they were all personalized executions. Who's to say he's not planning one for the each of them? Or for others in the tower...]

We can ask some other people for help, if you're really that scared. But we can't just let him go ahead with those plans!

[tsunball]

[ .. Well, right now he's almost getting more scared of her.. god, she's so fired up, and as far as he's concerned? Girls getting super emotional is bad news. Bad news. It means they'll start swinging knives at you sooner or later, usually.. ]

Like I want to let that bear do what he wants! If you have a plan that's more or less safe, then sure, I'll join in, but I'm not going to go on some suicide mission!

[donutsorgtfo]

[Wow rude she's not going to go on a stabbing spree!!]

I'm not planning to charge in on him blindly, y'know. [Not like what poor Junko did...] I don't have a plan yet. All I meant was that we can't really wait around!

[tsunball]

[ Well, that makes this situation already a little better (the lack of charging and the lack of stabbing sprres both, okay).. ]

Then if we're going to think up something, we should at least do it with all of us, right? It's about time Oowada started using that strength of his' for something good, after all!

[ he means 'something good' as opposed to 'constantly threatening to beat up leon'.. ]

[donutsorgtfo]

Yeah! We should all get together right away, then. If Naegi-kun and Kirigiri-chan are here, I'm sure we can figure something out in no time.

1 / 2

[tsunball]

.. Fine then. You can count me in for all this. As long as those two think up a plan, it can't be too stupid. [ even though they're technically the ones that got him figured out and executed, but.. he doesn't blame naegi for it, since he was all too eager to pin the blame on that guy, after all. ]

[tsunball]

Besides.. if we're going to teach that retarded bear a lesson, we better do it good!

[donutsorgtfo]

Yeah! Take all the pain and despair he made us feel, and send it right back at him! Times ten, even!

[tsunball]

Yeah, none of us deserved any of that shi--

[ .. ah, this makes him wonder though.. she hasn't said anything about the fact that he killed anyone, huh? So does that mean she doesn't hate him or anything? She's talking to him normally, but.. the thought hits him so suddenly that he gets quiet at his own surprise.

Part of him is too scared to ask, but.. he should at least know, right? ]

... Wait, Asahina.. you don't think I deserved that shit either, do you?

[donutsorgtfo]

... I'm not really sure how I should be feeling about what you did. It was horrible, not something someone should ever do. [It was complicated. They were all friends, right...? It's hard to truly hate a friend.]

But... nobody deserves to die the way you did, Kuwata-kun. All of the executions... no matter matter what they did, it's all too cruel.

[tsunball]

[ .. Part of him does realise that he did was wrong, honestly, it's just really deeply buried and he's too afraid of what he'll unleash it he tries to dig it up that he doesn't and instead blames it all on Maizono. But her words gnaw at it just briefly all the same, enough to not make him explode over it and deny everything - instead he neither accepts nor rejects it, he just awkwardly rubs his hand through his hair before he starts mumbling. ]

Hurt like hell, I can tell you that much.

[donutsorgtfo]

... I bet. All of the executions we've seen... those must have all been so painful.

[The awkwardness isn't only coming from him, now. Aoi feels horrible... would the punishments she tried to force on her friends be as bad? They all united to support her, but the guilt for nearly causing their deaths is nearly overwhelming at times, and likely not something that will be pulled off her shoulders anytime soon.]

[tsunball]

[ For a moment his curiosity aaalmost gets the better of him, but not nearly enough to actually ask out loud whose she saw. He knows he was executed and then Mondo, but after that it's anyone's guess. ]

Yeah, no way anyone deserves that shit, especially not m-- [ .. ugh. :| Stupid.. issues.. with this.. he shuts up awkwardly, then quickly shaking his head to change the subject. ]

Either way, the bottom line is that that bear's just retarded for forcing all of that on us for no reason!