[ open ] oh love of mine, would you condescend to help me

[chainsawn]

Characters: Urotsuki and OPEN!
Setting: Dormitory hallways, cafeteria, floor 49 (mirror maze).
Format: Action.
Summary: Kidou goes missing. Guess who doesn't take it particularly well after her search for him turns up nothing.
Warnings: Nothing for the first prompt, for the second one gore, use of a chainsaw. Possible harm for characters but not very likely, see the ooc note!

( dormitories or cafeteria )

[ It doesn't matter what you're doing - standing around or sitting and eating in the cafeteria or just passing through either of the locations - but there's still a teenage girl that will try to stop you by tugging on your sleeve, more insistent if you don't slow down or stop. If you do, though, she'll hold up a (pretty poorly drawn) picture of a young boy. She doesn't say any other word, as if that already should be enough to prompt a reaction.. ]

( floor fourty-nine )

[ It's useless. At first she thought he might be staying away after what happened last month, but after a while it became unbearable and she had to seek him out. But it didn't seem like he was anywhere - not in his room, not on any of the floors, not seen by anyone. She's been looking for a day or two or more - it's difficult to even keep count of it by now in the middle of her mental panic. Because Kidou not being in the tower means that he isn't around anymore, that he left, that he isn't with her-- and that thought breaks her more than anything else ever could.

She doesn't even know what to do. Completely mindless she drags herself up the tower until she arrives at the mirror maze, standing still for a moment and staring at her own reflection in the mirror. She isn't sure why, she doesn't even think, but somehow it annoys her, that reflection. Her standin there, all alone-- normally it doesn't bother her, but right now..

Urotsuki gets out her chainsaw.

.. If a character walks onto the floor later they might find a broken mirror near the entrance of the floor. Trails of blood and monster parts are spread out onto the floor if you go in and look through the maze, maybe with another one or two slightly broken mirrors. The sound of a buzzing chainsaw becomes louder and louder the further you get in, and maybe eventually you'll reach Urotsuki - standing in the middle of the maze with monsters around her, lik they're attracted to her. She's covered in scrapes and cuts from the mirror's pieces and with whatever parts came off the monsters too. Almost emotionlessly (but in a different way from her usual blankness, this is much more cold) she cuts cleanly down the middle of a monster with her chainsaw, seemingly the last one. For now, though, they've already been coming for quite a while.

Do you still approach? ]

( ooc: as a note, it's not very likely that Urotsuki will harm people who tag into the second prompt unless they're being an absolute asshole, but if you want to be on the safe side then please tag the first one instead, thanks! )

Comments

[fish_or_die]

[Jungo's always in the cafeteria, it seems, and he's always trying to make a decent meal out of the kid's meal ingredients that he's been given. Even after so many days, it's still not going well, and he's going to feel ill by the end of the month for just how many ruined creations he's had to eat.

But he will persevere. As for Urotsuki, all it takes is one tug for Jungo to stop what he's doing and pay attention to her. He looks at the picture very carefully, and gives his best guess as to what's being said...]

Are you looking for someone?

[Hey, he's not bright, but he can be intuitive sometimes!]

[chainsawn]

[ She gives a small nod. As if she's more quiet today than she usually is - and that's saying something, given how she normally already doesn't stand out to begin with. ]

.. You mean you don't know him? [ Somehow he sees like a smarter type to her, she figured Jungo might know a thing or two about the people coming into the cafeteria here. ]

dorms

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi caught a glimpse of the picture that was being held out before Urotsuki could even approach her, and the pit of her stomach dropped. No, this wasn't happening. Not so soon after Genda had come back.]

...Kidou...he's missing? When's the last time you saw him?

[chainsawn]

... Uh-huh, he is. [ She thinks so, at least, since she can't find him. But she hopes he's just fine, that she just can't find him at the moment-- she'd give anything for it to just be that. Her hands clamp onto the drawing so badly that her knuckles turn white. ]

It's been a while since I saw him though, probably around the beginning of this month.. So.. him still being gone is strange, isn't it..?

cafeteria

[primordial]

[Sam's in the cafeteria with that distasteful bowl of oatmeal to start off his morning- really, why did he need to keep eating this stuff to eat what he actually needed to eat? It's ridiculous. He frowns at his bowl, when suddenly he feels a tug on his sleeve, and he turns to see...some girl he doesn't know.]

Huh?

[He notices the picture in her hand, but...no,, that isn't anyone he recognizes. He glances back at her, eyes narrowing.]

Um...am I supposed to know who that is?

[chainsawn]

.. You mean you don't know..?

[ Her expression is pretty blank, but there's something different than usual about it. There's something almost lifeless about her eyes, her face slightly downcast. ]

I thought he was pretty popular around here..

dormitories

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer stops and looks down at the picture.]

You...looking for this guy?

[He squints to make out the details. It looks a little like...Kido?]

Re: dormitories

[chainsawn]

.. "This guy"..? You know him, don't you?

[ She's sure he does, she's talked with him about Kidou before! Not like Urotsuki gets it's since her picture is just horribly drawn, so her expression drops a little bit. ]

It's Yuuto Kidou, I'm looking for him..

[Mirror Maze] WOW THIS GOT TLDR FAST

[forgetbeam]

[As hopeless and directionless as Ishimaru's been feeling since the whole despair fog and Big Reveal at the end of February, he's been determined not to let himself just waste away. That includes keeping his appearance looking presentable - even though he's not sure if he should even be wearing a school uniform anymore. But it's not like he has anything else besides that ridiculous catsuit he woke up in... As long as he's going to wear it, he's going to wear it right.

Where better for a quick check of the state of his clothing during his exploration of the tower than a floor full of mirrors? He doesn't even have to go far from the stairs. A quick step off and... he finds himself faced with a broken mirror and a whole lot of severed limbs. Oh.

Good thing he's been smart about bringing his shinai around with him lately. It's far from being deadly but at least he can smack something around with it and run if he needs to. Which he just might, judging by the noises coming from deeper in the maze. What is that noise, a chainsaw or something? And a squelch as it cuts through... well, he's going to hope a monster and not one of the Tower residents. Someone who just might need help.

He follows the trail of blood and broken glass, thankful that at least getting out of the maze will be easy. He pauses when he catches sight of the bloodied girl. Hey, he knows her... kind of.]

Are you alright?!

[How much of that blood is hers?]

TLDR TRAUMA MY FAVOURITE KIND

[chainsawn]

[ She doesn't even hear him approach until he speaks up, she's too preoccupied with the monsters, slashing them almost systematically, one by one. Even if that's not enough to fill the empty feeling. It really isn't, nothing is enough, nothing will be enough when Kidou's gone--

-- .. But then there's someone. Someone calling out to her. Her chainsaw (also bloodied) still in her hands, she turns her head to look in Ishimaru's direction. Her eyes seem completely lifeless and so does her expression by now, as if there isn't any sort of spirit in her anymore. Just the desire to kill, to try and make it feel better that way.

There isn't even much recognition in her eyes. ]

... I'm fine. [ The answer almost sounds mechanized. And yes, she's saying that despite all the blood all over her. ]

dormitories

[tempus_scorpius]

[Rolo looks over at the tug on his sleeve and is a little confused at first...]

... Urotsuki...?

[Then he looks at the picture. It takes him a moment to figure out who it is. He remembers from when they were aged up.]

Kidou? Why are you...? Are you looking for him?

[chainsawn]

[ She gives him a small nod. There's something lifeless about her eyes, even though her expression is the usual blank one she has. ]

I can't find him. I.. haven't even seen him for a while, so.. I wanted to ask if anyone else had. [ ... ] I want to talk to him.. [ her voice grows a little softer. ] I even just want to see him.

floor 49;

[swordedpast]

[ He was just going to pass by on his way down the stairs. This floor is really not his sort of place: the last thing he wants to do is look at endless images of himself reflected back upon him.

But for some reason, the broken mirror lying nearby catches his eye. Broken mirrors are something he feels sympathetic to these days.

So it is that a few minutes later, he turns a corner of the maze and sees monsters surrounding someone. Without thinking about it, he calls up his swords and approaches, ready to attack--

Wait. Is that a chainsaw he hears? ]

...Urotsuki?

[chainsawn]

[ .. A familiar voice. It vaguely registers in the back of her mind, but she still doesn't react to it as the first thing. Instead, she moves to the corpse of the monster she just slayed, holding up her chainsaw and lowering it into the monster again and again until it's little more than a piece of pulp lying around.

It's only then that she turns to look. Her eyes are lifeless, but it's more in a sad way than anything else (even if it might seem scary to some) and it has replaced her blankness with something more somber and serious that way.

She blinks. Blood drips down from her cheek and her chainsaw, but she doesn't say a word, as if she's merely taking in his presence by staring. ]

[Dorm Hallways]

[doesnotgetit]

[Hakuno, too, seems pretty blank-faced today, what with still feeling the hurt from the disappearance of someone important to her as well. But a look of curiosity does manage to cross her face when she feels a tug on her sleeve, and spots a vaguely familiar face?

Urotsuki? [She looks down, at the drawing.] Who's that?

[chainsawn]

.. It's Yuuto Kidou.

[ Maybe not as many people knew him as she thought, huh? A lot of people don't recognize the picture, either way, so it's almost like she looks slightly dejected. Although that might just be her general mood today either way. ]

He's missing. I'm.. looking for him.

[servessithis]

[Vicente browses the cafeteria, looking at the various food to choose from. He had his dose of blood recently, and regular food is simply for enjoyment. Such is the life of a creature of the night.]

[chainsawn]

[ .. It takes her a while, since she's just staring at people passing by, but it's then that she just decides to pick a random person from the crowd to bother about this. So she's walking up to Vicente, tugging on his sleeve a little without saying a word yet. ]

dormitories;

[angramaintsu]

You're asking me to waste my time with critique? [ Rin doesn't get it--to her this is just a drawn picture. ] It looks terrible.

[chainsawn]

[ .. Rin, why.. ]

You think so..? [ Of course Urotsuki, as.. strange as she is, immediately gets distracted by it, thinking about the way she drew him instead now. She looks to the picture again, but then shakes her head lightly, showing it to her again. ]

.. No. Wait, that's not important.. the person I drew is important. I'm looking for him..

Mirror maze. Sorry for the tl;dr for setup...

[warriorscribe]

*His job always leaves him somewhere not particularly safe, either overwhelmed with emotion, or momentarily numb. It's why he almost never shows up for it, why he was buried alive last week.

This is one such state. His numbed wanderings had taken him into the surreal mirror maze some time before Urotsuki. When he came to his senses again, he was lost. Disoriented by the reflections, he began to make his way along the wall slowly, exhausted from the emotional effort it took to see him through a day of forcing himself near the memorial of those who had slipped away, to preserved bodies on ruined worlds.

And when he hears noise, something strange in the echoes of the mirrors, and shattering glass, he moves. If there's someone else, it sounds like they need help.

What he finds is a young woman wielding the strange weapon he only knew from the woman he knew as Juliet (but who was actually called Grell), and in no danger from anyone perhaps save her own cold demeanor.*

Are...are you all right?

it's okay, i don't mind it at all! <3

[chainsawn]

[ It takes her a moment to answer with how she's finishing off the last (for now, either way) monster either way. She's too preoccupied with it, too preoccupied with taking out her extreme feelings of loss and sadness on these things. Just since there's no better alternative in her broken mind.

But after staring at the bloody corpse for a good minute, she finally glances off to the person standing there. ]

... Me..? [ She doesn't even answer fully, but both the look in her eyes and her tone is a little lifeless, somehow. ]

floor fourty nine

[hegantha]

[ The sight of blood automatically sets Amberley off. She grabs her heavy bolter from it's hiding space and enters the floor, only wearing a dress and her black cloak to obscure her identity, at least a little bit.

She carefully steps around the glass, careful to avoid the glass as to not set off whatever monsters may be around. Following the noise of what sounds like a chainsword to her, she finally sees the hoard of monsters. What she sees first is the monsters, not Urotsuki, so without hesitation she fires off some shots. Three monsters drop dead, enough for Amberley to spot her hair and her clothing and identify her as a friend. That's enough to make her pause with her gun aimed at another monster, though she had lost her hood in the fight, revealing her secret as well.

Frak. ]

Are you hurt? [ After all, some of this blood very well may be hers. ]

[chainsawn]

[ The sounds of gunshots is actually one of the few things that manages to snap Urotsuki out of whatever state she's in. Well, it doesn't change much about the general one she has right now, but at least she isn't only completely focused on getting rid of the monsters anymore. But despite there being some vague sense of recognition in the way she glances towards Amberley, her expression is.. sort of weird compared to usually. More lifeless than the usual blank one. ]

.. Hurt..? [ She speaks the word as if it's foreign, glancing from her to the monster remains. ] Yeah.. I guess.. I'm hurt.

[ Her tone already says it, either way, she speaks like part of her is already dead. ]

Dorm Area

[yougotthatwrong]

...uh.

[Well, that's pretty sudden, so he's going to just stare blankly at the... picture, right!]

I don't think I've seen him around...?

[chainsawn]

[ At least he seems to get it! Good job, Naegi, you're ahead of most other people here so far. ]

You haven't..? Not even around here to go to his room? [ Her expression drops a little at it. ]

dorms; super late tag because of computer issues, hope you don't mind ^^;

[ghostytrainer]

[John is just closing the door to his dorm, followed by his Litwick with hammer in hand when he feels a tug on his sleeve. He turns to face the girl, quirking a brow and not even managing to get a word out before catching sight of the picture. He leans in a little, squinting and pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. It's a person...he thinks. Actually with eyes like those maybe it's-- no wait. He's seen those before. They're goggles, right?]

Is that Kidou?

it's okay! i'm always slow so i don't mind at all AHAHAHA

[chainsawn]

[ She gives a small nod in return, almost a little more eager at seeing this person recognize him. Maybe he's really seen him..! ]

Yes. That's.. Yuuto. Yuuto Kidou, my.. boyfriend.. [ .. a pause, the girl speaks slowly and somewhat blankly. ] I'm looking for him.