00110011 | And so I cried my pain and sorrow [Action]

[cutestprogrammer]

Characters: Chihiro Fujisaki and YOU!
Setting: On 17th October (the day his boyfriend, Mondo dies); Dorm hallways; Daytime
Format: Both styles are fine~
Summary: Mondo dies because he's been giving his candy away, mostly to Chihiro. Chihiro feels guilty about being alive at the cost of Mondo's life and thinks about giving up on his candy search... Help him find the will to live on?
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts?

Here is Chihiro dressed just like Mondo, pompadour, gang jacket (Though he has his all buttoned up so you still can't really tell his gender.) and all, though he also has floppy, brown bunny ears and a matching fluffy tail.

Chihiro sits on the ground of one of the dormitory hallways, his hands covering his face as he sobs as quietly as he can manage. His small body shakes with grief. Mondo is dead. Mondo is dead because of him... If he hadn't taken Mondo's candy... But his boyfriend had insisted on giving him the candy, saying this was part of protecting him....

Chihiro hates himself so much right now. He hates himself for being so powerless physically. He glances over at his bucket. He doesn't feel like collecting any candy at all today. Maybe he should just give up on collecting them. Dying isn't so bad, is it?

Comments

[terreifying]

Hee~ey!

[Rei's smile is as big as ever.]

What'cha doin'?

[cutestprogrammer]

Mn? [he sniffs and rubs at his eyes a bit] N-n-nothing...

[terreifying]

[Her smile shrinks a bit when she realizes that the child is crying.]

What happened? Aren't you having fun with this game?

[cutestprogrammer]

[shakes head]

This i-isn't fun at-at all... ... my-my boyfriend just died because of it.

[terreifying]

Oh.

[For the first time, she starts seeing how serious the situation actually is.]

Is he...not coming back?

[cutestprogrammer]

Well... I-I've heard that people who die here do come back but... but... [That doesn't make things better...]

[terreifying]

Then why don't you keep a smile on your face and wait for him? And when he finally comes back, you can yell at him and slap him upside the head for dying.

[cutestprogrammer]

Eh? [He's not thought of it that way.] I... [he considers that for a moment] Mn! I should do that!

[terreifying]

That's right!

[She looks over toward his barrel.]

But I guess you'll need some candy to do that.

[cutestprogrammer]

Mn. ... I'll need a lot than just some. I haven't looked for any today at all.

[terreifying]

Hm...

[Rei's smile becomes bigger as she holds her bucket over Chihiro's...and up-ends her own bucket, spilling her candy partly into Chihiro's bucket and partly onto the floor.]

There, now you have some.

[cutestprogrammer]

I... I can't take all your candy, Miss!!

[terreifying]

Then pick up as many pieces as you can! I can always find more candy. It's really easy.

[cutestprogrammer]

I... Mn. [He takes a few pieces and puts the back into Rei's bucket] You find it easy to find these candy?

[terreifying]

All I have to do is beat up monsters. I like beating up monsters, even if they die too easily.

[cutestprogrammer]

Eh? ... you like beating up monsters? You-you think they die too easily?? [What-what are you??]

[terreifying]

[She's Rei, of course]

I guess I'm a bit tougher than most people, and I've been fighting monsters all my life. Dead monster also make the best taxidermy samples.

[cutestprogrammer]

... fight monsters all your life? Are there many monsters in your world? Taxidermy? Is that your job back home?

[terreifying]

Yep! They're called Angels and they're really big.

[She holds out her arms and makes a sweeping arc motion to emphasize how big they are.]

Unless they're fragments, then they're small. And no, my job isn't taxidermy. I'm an EVA pilot. You can say my job is to kill Angels.

[cutestprogrammer]

... Angels...? But aren't Angels supposed to be good...? You... What's an EVA?

[terreifying]

They're not the nice winged angels people talk about. They're huge monsters who want to destroy all humans. That's why I fight them with my EVA. It's a giant robot. I call him Go-kun. He's awesome!

[cutestprogrammer]

... but-but why are they called 'Angels' then?

Eh? There are giant robots in your world? Re-Real ones?

[terreifying]

Oh, because they're messengers of Adam, who's pretty much God.

[She's fairly sure that he's not so much first man Adam as he is Adam Kadmon.]

Yeah, they're real. Go-kun is the very best out of all of them.

[cutestprogrammer]

... Adam? But wasn't he the first man God made?

There are many others like you then, who fight these Angels?

[terreifying]

He calls himself the father of humanity.

[She quickly, eagerly nods.]

Yep. I have lots of friends who also pilot robots to fight Angels. There's Shinji and 'Suka and Uri and Mari and Mana. And then there's Kaworu. He's a stupid kill-stealer, but he also pilots a robot. There's also an EVA we can't pilot because it has Aunt Naoko inside and Aunt Naoko wants to kill me.