Yotsuba!&...

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!
Setting: The meadow, the mailroom, and most of anywhere else.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: A catch-all post for the Individuation event.
Warnings: Other than a crying Yotsuba, I can't think of anything right now.

At first, the shadows following her had been a little scary, mostly because Yotsuba didn't know where they came from or why they were following her. But it was kind of fun to have them follow her around, like they were all playing one huge game of follow the leader! So, she didn't mind them following her into the mailroom and laughed a little as she looked inside her mailbox..and pulled out a photo of her Daddy hugging her, Jumbo next to them, and the family next door-Ena, Fuka, Asagi, and their Mommy-surrounding them in the background. Surprised and happy, Yotsuba's eyes shined as she looked at the photograph before showing it to the shadows.

"Look! They're all here! Daddy and Jumbo and Fuka and-"

"Those aren't them. That's a lie, Yotsuba." That voiced surprised her, not because it came from one of the shadows, but because it sounded like Jumbo! "It's not! And why do you sound like Jumbo?! It's a good photo-oh.." As she spoke, Yotsuba kept looking at the photograph, just to make sure that it wasn't a lie..but slowly, it changed so that it showed her in a dying wasteland with her family and friends dead all around her.

"No..everything's gonna be fixed..and I'm not alone.."

Here, Yotsuba could be found sitting here with her sketchbook, crayons and Little Yoba, trying to draw what she thought was going to be the actual future. However, she didn't look very happy, and while she did make an honest attempt at it, it was very hard to draw when the souls of the people you loved kept belittling you. Eventually, while they were still there, Yotsuba mostly just hugged Little Yoba and weakly spoke to Daddy and Jumbo, who kept telling her that they didn't love her, that if Daddy hadn't adopted her, he might have been saved, and that Enoch, Diarmuid, and everyone else was going to break their promise and leave her too, all alone in the horrible place she saw.

This..was way too much for her to handle. Eventually, despite a few optimistic comments to the shadows and asking them why they hated her now, Yotsuba just started crying on Little Yoba and talking to her dolly. "Yotsuba doesn't even know what adopted is..do you know, Little Yoba?"

Yotsuba had a tendency to run around and explore, and this wouldn't change that..but she would be looking for Enoch, answers..and silence. She's pretty much free to bump into your characters, even though she'll be more tired than usual, and even though her collar will slowly become lighter, though Yotsuba herself won't notice until someone else points it out.

Comments

"I found this girl without a Daddy and decided to be her new Daddy." xD; Yotsuba might not mind so-

[sunflowerfairy]

[ooc: much if someone explained to her that they really couldn't save her Daddy.]

"Yotsuba can do that..but you have a lot of tricks Luci! And you're an Angel! If I'm a support like you, how can Yotsuba get those?"

"You can't. He's just messing with you, Yotsuba. After all, you killed me and your Daddy by just existing with us, so you'd be a terrible support."

"She picked me to be her new daddy."

[brbtalkingtogod]

He smiled down at Yotsuba, but it was a tired smile.

"Yotsuba just needs to be herself. Supporting others doesn't mean being able to do tricks only."

"He reads me lots of stories, even if he does't cook curry!" I can't tell whether this is cute or-

[sunflowerfairy]

[ooc: really sad. ><;]

Yostuba looked pretty puzzled at that comment. When she had mentioned tricks, it had been because she thought that someone who supported someone else would be able to do a lot more with them.

"Oh..I know. But you can do a lot more with them, right?"

Neither can I. ;_;

[brbtalkingtogod]

"Sure, knowing a few can be useful, but sometimes you need other things to support someone."

That's something he had been learning step by step. Faster than he would have wanted to but what could he say... he learned from it.

"You're one to speak."

*pats* Bittersweet then? ><;;

[sunflowerfairy]

"Like what?"

For better or worse, Yotsuba had taken the ability to comfortably hug people and look at the best of things for granted. She didn't think that what she had was something that Lucifel had trouble with sometimes.

Let's agree on cute, theres too much sad and bittersweet here.

[brbtalkingtogod]

"Like..." Okay, she is a child and it would be better to say that. Even if it hurt his pride. Not a lot but admitting something like that stung a little.

"Hugs. Yotsuba gives better hugs than I can. Giving good hugs is an art that has to be mastered and Yotsuba has done so already."

There. He said it. The archangel admitted not being able to do something well. Yet. He knows that eventually he would have to, given all the times he got hugged now. But that might be enough to keep her from doing too reckless things.

"Are done with pulling that poor child's leg, brother?"

Alright then! Cute this shall be.

[sunflowerfairy]

"Just hugging people isn't going to save people, Yotsuba. If that helped, Jumbo and I would have been saved a long time ago."

Yotsuba looked a little surprised and sad at both Lucifel's words and the sentences her Daddy threw at her. "Really? But you're good at hugging, Luci! And..can just hugging people help them?"

For better or worse, Yotsuba probably wouldn't be doing anything too crazy, since she didn't want to die, but she did want to help good people, and she knew that she wasn't as strong as the grown-ups when it came to monsters sometimes. Lucifel needn't have worried about his pride though..Yotsuba had never heard of it, and, thus, didn't worry about it.

<3and yes, I had to throw this sentence in. If a little different from the game.

[brbtalkingtogod]

"Let me tell you something Yotsuba. But you have to listen to me only for that." The archangel wanted to make her listen to him and not the shadows if just for a moment.

She might not have heard of his pride, but if she were to tell others what he just told her it would be awkward.

"There are times where actions are much, much stronger than words and can help someone much more than just talking to them."

"So you speak, but you never did such a small thing like put a hand on my shoulder when I was desperate."

<33 That's alright! It still works well here. :3

[sunflowerfairy]

At that, Yotsuba nodded and tried to focus on just him. She missed her Daddy and Jumbo and didn't want to not hear them speak, even if they were insulting her a lot, but..she also wanted to hear what Lucifel had to say, so she did her best to not focus on them.

And it might be awkward to other people..but to Yotsuba, it would just be pretty normal and nice.

"Really? So hugging someone might help more than tricks or words or strength?"

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[brbtalkingtogod]

"Hugs, holding hands, patting heads... all of that can help. Even more if someone is feeling very, very sad." He had noticed that the color of her collar became lighter, slowly, but certainly, so he tried to distract her from her shadows if he could. He wouldn't point it out to her that the fluid in her collar was changing. He wouldn't even want to know what his own looked like at the moment.

"Giving small gifts to show that you are thankful for what a person does can help as well. Yotsuba might be small, but she can do more than she thinks."

Because she is human. And humans always did things that amazed him even if they were simple.

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[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba, for better or worse, sometimes didn't notice small details like what her collar looked like, or, if she did, they were sometimes forgotten. Not that she would have been able to tell Lucifel what his collar looked like, since she was hugging him and resting her head on his shoulder. She really could have fallen asleep like this if she wanted to.

"Oh! Yotsuba didn't know that..I'll give out a whole bunch of gifts then! And I'll hug a lot of people and pat them on the head and hold their hands..oh. Luci, have you seen any milk here? Or curry?"

"Don't bother, Yotsuba. After all, hugging and playing with us didn't save us, in the end. We might have had a lot of fun, but we just turned into husks like this in the end! And all because I took you in. It would be better if you had just never existed."

Those words really stung, and Yotsuba bit her lip to keep herself from crying. She did, however, tighten her hold around Lucifel. Hopefully he wouldn't mind that.

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[brbtalkingtogod]

The archangel wouldn't want her to tell him what his collar looked like at the moment. As things were he didn't even have the time to worry about the color of his collar, with Yotsuba holding so tightly onto him. One of his hands went up to pat her hand, while the other still held her.

"I'm sure Yotsuba will do a great job."

... Milk and curry? "I haven't seen any this month... but I'm sure there will be some in the next one."

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[sunflowerfairy]

Even if he didn't want to know, Yotsuba would have still pointed it out is she saw it. Yotsuba smiled at the patting a little and at the promise of milk and curry next month.

"I will. Yotsuba will be great" Yotsuba, sadly, was exhausted at this point and couldn't help but yawn a little as she spoke..and as her Daddy spoke.

"So you both say. However, if you couldn't save us, I don't think you'll have much luck in helping out anyone else here."

Even though her Daddy was just enchanted right now, those words still stung, but she forced herself to not cry as she spoke, even if she stopped smiling.

"Okay..let's give lots of it to people then..and to Daddy and Jumbo."

With that, Yotsuba would fall asleep on Lucifel. It would look cute, and she would be rather warm for awhile, but she wasn't asleep. She was dead.

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[brbtalkingtogod]

It wasn't a promise, considering that it would depend on the administrator in charge... and if he remembered correctly then it would be Ruana.

"Yotsuba will be the best..." The archangel would continue to hold her. Even with her body still warm, the lack of breathing had told him that she passed on.

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[sunflowerfairy]

Sadly, Yotsuba interpreted it as a promise of sorts, and since she didn't keep up with the Administrator rotation, she would be rather disappointed if there wasn't any next month.

While it was nice that Lucifel would continue to hold her and speak to her dead body, Yotsuba's shadows didn't vanish immediately, and one of them reached out to tug at one of Yotsuba's hair-ties. If they could get those away from her, after all, she would be really sad when she woke up.

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[brbtalkingtogod]

He would tell her that Ruana likes to do her own thing. Like most administrators did. Maybe if she suggested it to Zo, there maybe curry and milk.

It was a good thing that Yotsuba couldn't see him right now. He rose to his feet the moment before the shadow child could even dare to snatch her hair-ties away.

"You should treat someone who passed away more nicely." Lucifel shifted his arms so he just held her with his right and lifted his left hand. His powers have been growing weaker, but he could still get her away from her shadows.

"That's new of you to respect the dead and think of life as something precious, Luci. I remember you treating Armaros and Sin differently than this child."

The words of Him stung, but he had to focus. With a flick of his fingers he left this floor with Yotsuba's dead body.