towerofanimus | Love and Pieces

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Love and Pieces

Characters: Corrupted !Hippy Ryuho, and YOU
Setting: Anytime until the 31st, and pretty much anywhere in the tower
Format: Action or prose
Summary: Ryuho is back and a bit disturbed
Warnings: Hallucinations, and probably violence

He woke up entirely unsure of what had happened, and in the long moments of the sleep paralysis, Ryuho came to the conclusion that he must have died. At least, this was how revival was described by the other residents. He hadn't found the candy he needed, but that was likely a result of his giving away some of what he found to others.

The crushing pain was gone now, although when he finally could move, his shirt crinkled and flaked a little. Looking down, the garish tye-dye pattern was now a more drab red, brown, and black, and the colors were thick, as if they were old stains. It reminded him uncomfortably of old bloodied bandages, but maybe that had been the result of dying? He couldn't see the bandanna, although it felt more like soft leather, as opposed to the cloth it had been. He had a bad feeling that the costume meant that he would have to go back to looking for candy or die again.

Somehow though, he felt good. He wanted to share the feeling more than anything. The only thing that stopped him was that he knew the sudden urge to be social was unlike him. He remained where he was, but then, in another few minutes he got to his feet. Talking to people couldn't be bad, and he just felt so good.

[OOC: Ryuho is going to want to interact with just about anyone he meets to spread the word of peace; however, anyone who gets close to him will start to get dizzy, hallucinate, and end up increasingly unaware of their surroundings, making it very easy for them to end up getting killed.]

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If Tohko could have spoken, then she would have told the boy that she was throwing up and that was what was wrong. However, she couldn't, as she was still vomiting. What was happening to her? She hadn't felt this bad until..

Tohko quickly moved a few feet from the guy, and while her stomach, face, and dizziness still felt terrible, the vomiting stopped. In that moment, she understood who was causing the problem. "Sir, did you die while wearing a costume?"

"Huh? Yeah, but it's cool now. I'm all good." He tilted his head and smiled again, which would be a warning sign to anyone who knew him, Ryuho was never this expressive.

"And, my name is Ryuho."

"Nice to meet you, Ryuho. I'm Tohko Amano, the book girl." Tohko quickly got introductions out of the way before moving on to the more important issue at hand. "And that explains it. If you die, you get saddled with a bunch of side effects." To demonstrate, Tohko wiggled her fingers.

"You must make everyone horribly sick and dizzy when they get too close."

"Hey, Book girl." He nodded vaguely.

"That sounds pretty harsh, I just want to spread the word and all. Why would I be making you sick?"

That sort of made sense, the costume was off, and certainly it fit the descriptions. But he was having a hard time thinking.

"Sorry. It's not you specifically..it's a byproduct of that costume. Hang on a moment. I have an idea." Tohko pulled the ribbons out of her braids, carefully tied them together, which was a miracle with her fingers, and then tied one on the end of her wrist and quickly tied the other end to Ryuho's. She then moved away so that she wouldn't throw up.

"There we are! This way, we can still search together, and I won't throw up!" Tohko said happily. It was a miracle that she'd been able to tie that ribbon together, but it had helped. Thank god for that fluffy story she had read years ago.

Ryuho looked at the ribbon with the same, washed-out and vague expression.

"Woah." He breathed, as through entranced by the appearance of the bow. "That's like..."

He still wanted to be close, but common sense warred with the costume's requirements and he was able to ignore the impulse, at least for now.

"Like what?"

"Umm, super cool? It's peaceful. I like that. People should be more peaceful."

Tohko smiled at that. "Thanks. And I agree..peace is a good thing. War and violence are usually pretty bad."

Not that Tohko had any right to talk about that, seeing as she had killed a person and tried to kill two others. However, she was planning on apologizing later, so maybe..maybe it would work out.

Ryuho was normally a soldier, although he's lost the memories of it. Right now, he was completely lost in the personality the costume was sending to him. It didn't seem threatening, and that had led it to sneak up on him.

"Yes, very harsh. But really, the world is all about love."

Tohko gave the guy a puzzled look. Sure, the world was filled with love, but it was made up of a lot of other horrible stuff too. However, his philosophy could be interesting. "How so?"

Ryuho frowns, not really sure where that line came from. Honestly, he'd seen too much suffering, just from the 8 months he could actually remember. The words just came to his mind and he spoke them before he could think about it.

"It just is how humans should behave."

"I agree..it would be nice if people were a little kinder, but that's not how we are. So..how is the world all about love?" He still hadn't answered that question, and Tohko could be stubborn when she wanted to be.

"It's just more groovy when people are like that. People are happier when it's peacful and mellow like that." He forgets about the ribbon for a moment and takes a step closer.

Tohko smiled and fought the urge to chuckle. While the guy did sound like a cheesy hippy of sorts, she probably sounded just as silly when she was on a book ramble.

"That's true. When people are getting along, everything else tends to get better." Tohko, who hadn't forgotten about the ribbon, took a step back.

Ryuho will probably be embarassed by how he sounds as soon as he's out of the cursed costume, for now though, it all makes perfect sense.

He nodded, "Mmm-hmm, peace and love is all."

"Although..how do you think we should get people to act a bit nicer?" It was one thing to say it, but it was quite another to actually get someone go go along with whatever you were saying.

"Hey, I just figure they do their own things, y'know?" He rubbed his forehead, feeling a little confused from the disconnect from the costume's ideas and what he actually knew about the world.

"But what if their own things involve killing and torturing people?" Tohko asked. For a person who believed the world was made of love and peace, he really didn't know how to make the world a little bit better.

"Hey, we can talk it out or something."

For some reason, he could still recall beating the crap out of people like that, like the time that he removed the slavers in control of Kanami's village, but the logic wasn't currently working.

"But what if they're not interested? What if they just don't care, or even like killing people? What if they try to kill you?"

"That sounds like a total buzzkill." Ryuho rubbed his forehead, developing a headache from the conflicting emotions.

"I would have to stop them." This is said in his normal deadpan voice as his personality reasserts itself for a moment.

"Sorry..but these are possibilities you have to think about." Tohko sighed and scratched her head. "How would you stop them?" She asked. After all, the guy seemed like a pacifist, so how was he going to stop murder-loving people?

"Yes, I know." Ryuho answered in his normal voice, "I'm not sure what's come over me..."

Maybe he shouldn't have listened to the urges to be close to everyone. Something was definately wrong.

"If you're not feeling well, then you have to head to the medical room!" Tohko ran a few steps forwards, hoping that the ribbon would be enough to drag Ryuho along.

Ryuho takes a few steps following her, confused. He overtakes her with his longer stride, and for a moment, he forgets what he was worried about.

When Ryuho got close to Tohko again, she barfed on the grass again. It was in that moment that she understood. She got a few steps away from Ryuho so that she could explain.

"Ryuho, when you get away from people, you feel sick, but when other people get too close, they get sick and dizzy!"

Ryuho rubbed his head. "I was feeling cool before I ran into you."

"Maybe I should just leave then. I don't want you feeling sick because of me." Tohko wasn't sure how her presence could make this guy feel sick, but if leaving would make the guy feel better, then so be it.

"That's pretty harsh... " He suddenly, really did not want to be away from anyone. He wanted to interact and spread the word.

Why was that so important? Maybe she was right and it was the costume. It just felt so important right now.

"I'm sorry..but I don't want either of us dying or getting sick because of your costume. Hopefully we can become friends later, after this stupid event." Sadly, Tohko quickly untied the ribbon from their hands, re-did her braids, and went to bury the vomit under some dirt. The sooner she got this done, the sooner she could leave. She hated to do this, but..he didn't seem to be feeling well, and that costume wasn't helping anything. Maybe later.

Ryuho hesitated. He knew what she said was good sense, but he couldn't get over the feeling that he sinmply had to be around people.

He had to force himself to turn around and walk away.

Tohko watched him go and sigh. She hated doing this, but it seemed to be the only way that they could both feel alright. She quietly whispered "I'm sorry..I'm so sorry." and while he probably couldn't hear that, it at least made her feel better.

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