Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

[midgarhorizon]

Characters: Reno and Shion, and any roomies or anyone that wants to witness a destructive mental breakdown or get involved and/or punched
Setting: Starting off in Room 1-04, otherwise see prompts- prompts will be posted as comments
Format: 1 inch margins
Summary: Shion catches Reno up to speed on the Tower about certain reveals- let's just call the rest temporary insanity. There will be wall punching
Warnings: this isn't going to be pretty



He honestly hadn't wanted to do this, but the lack of clothing for both him and Shion had left little choice. It was degrading. It was humiliating. It was something he kinda sucked at.

Reno sat on his bed with legs folded up underneath him, wearing his makeshift black bandanas to cover his face, long ago replacing the sheet he'd been using. Spread out in front of him was some black cloth he was carefully hand stitching together. It'd be a shirt when he was done, expect for the part it was taking forever. He didn't want to hang out too long in the workshop, or really, anywhere else in the Tower right then, and he was worse with the machines.

By this rate, he'd have this shirt done by December, if he was lucky. Shion had said he wanted to stop by and talk with him, too, and while not totally secure, it was easier here than dealing with randomly wandering monsters.

Reno frowned at the cloth just before he misjudged the distance between his finger and the needle.

"Ouch! Shiva's tits..."

Comments

[savedbyasong]

"Here." Shion put a pile of clothes on Reno's bed. He was wearing the white suit he had arrived in and his coat. It didn't really fit but it was better than nothing. He held a sheath of papers under his arms.

He still was unsure around Reno, but he was just glad he was back, and safe. Or as safe as he could be.

"You are worse at that then you were at baking." He pointed out.

[midgarhorizon]

Sparing a glare for the kid, Reno shoved his sewing aside and folded his arms. "You didn't need to bring everything up here, kid." Just, going to ignore that for the moment. The cake baking didn't need to be discussed. That was ancient history... for someone who wasn't even here anymore.

"What are those?" The attention turned toward the sheath of papers, and he raised an eyebrow at his protégé. "Your notes?" It explained why Shion wanted to talk, at least, though he wasn't quite sure he wanted to be briefed just yet- aw hell, might as well get it over with.

[savedbyasong]

The small smile faded at the glare, he blinked sadly and put the clothes on the bed anyways and nodded. "As we said a lot has happened, and you need to know before you move on and do anything."

[midgarhorizon]

Sighing, Reno sat back against the top of the bed and folded his arms. "Yeah, let's hear it. What kind of shocking, world shattering revelations do we got, Shion? Ruana's secretly a blue alien virus that can shape shift? Dax is secretly a stuffed bear? Jason's a form of fungus previously undiscovered that can take human form? Is Zo the real mastermind behind everything and the reason why we got candy flavored hamburgers?"

Though he was making light of it, his tone was resigned and serious, slightly dreading what Shion would say.

Corridors

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno is stomping around the corridors of Dorm Floor 1, occasionally punching the wall in frustration. He's heading toward the staircase, though.]

[savedbyasong]

Reno [Shion is still trying to grab hold of him, not caring how many times he is pushed away] Calm down.

[midgarhorizon]

[He just ignored Shion, pulling away at the last second, avoiding the boy's grip. He only pauses long enough to slam his fist into the wall by the Dorm 1 elevators, doing no damage except to his own hand.]

It's a fucking lie.

[savedbyasong]

[He was starting to see how frustrating it must be for Xion when he was like this] Calm down, what are you going to achieve like this?

is Sephiroth okay?

[pinnaculum]

[The smaller Sephiroth is on his way toward the staircase as well, having perfunctorily slept the necessary amount in order to avoid weakening. Now he can go back to his all-important investigations and monster-slayings. He pauses at the sight of a man punching the wall.

He isn't often given to emotional reactions himself, but he has seen his share of them.]

Are you in need of assistance?

yup!

[midgarhorizon]

[Punching the wall once more, he turns and frowns at the kid, and a tiny part of his mind wondered why the kid looked so familiar.]

Assistance? Do I look like I need it?

[pinnaculum]

[Sephiroth considers this question. If the man's problem stems from the fact that he's upset, Sephiroth likely will be unable to help. He isn't particularly insightful when it comes to others' emotions, and he's often unaware of them, but he's aware of the fact that they tend to confuse him.]

Perhaps. You may injure yourself.

Floor 100

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno stops here for a moment, because when he stepped off the staircase, the hologram showed him what he missed most...

The top of the Shinra Building was one of the best views in Midgar. You could see the entire city from the balcony. Midgar was stretched out below them, shining in the sunlight being occasionally obscured by clouds.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion is just off the staircase, enough that he can see what Reno sees.] Reno... [He has seen the poster, and read Reno's descriptions, he knows what he is looking at.

[midgarhorizon]

Heh... [He seemed calmer for the moment, before he turned away to face Shion.] It's not real, either.

Staircase

[midgarhorizon]

[After Floor 100, Reno is running down the staircase headlong to the bottom, like there's something after him- which there kinda was. He isn't paying particular attention to the people, so it would be quite easy to bump into him.]

Oh screw it, 'cause this mun likes drama.

[woodpeckermaruta]

[Ganta hates the elevator, more than anything. So, as usual he is taking the stairs back to his dorm room. It is there that he is slammed into, as he is looking down. After nearly falling backwards, down the stairs, Ganta gives a startled expression. He is gripping either side of the rails, looking up with a startled expression.]

That was close. [He realizes who it is.] ...Oh, it's you, Roen. Are you okay?

[midgarhorizon]

[Recoiling backward, Reno sat down on the upper stair with a flop. He stares at the kid for a brief moment before remembering where he'd seen that face.

The bandana was getting stifling. He yanks the lower one down, stands up, and scowls at the kid.]

...You're in my way.

[justabignobody]

[It might be easy to bump into him, but Riku is quite good at dodging. He raises an eyebrow though - and frowns deeply when he realizes just who has almost run into him just now. Well... that's definitely a face he has very mixed feelings about.]

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno didn't even seem to be aware of what happened at first, but the near miss does make him stop for a moment, hesitating just slightly before slamming his fist into the rail. It was hard enough to make a crack sound, and it hadn't been the rail.]

Re: Staircase

[doc_brown]

[ Well it's no surprise Doc would bump into Reno, especially since Doc is pretty absentminded on his own. He frowns before realizing who he bumped into-- A familiar figure, yet not too familiar. But still someone he had met during his first stay in the tower. ]

Lad! It's been a while.

[ Sorry, he's not detecting any of the troubles Reno may have on his mind. ]

Re: Staircase

[midgarhorizon]

[Reeling, Reno grabs on to the rail this time. Another familiar face. This was... Doc. But it was getting hard to remember people. The rage and anger and everything was making it hard to actually process.]

...Not long enough. I'm going down. [He sounded deceptively calm.]

Floor 44

[savedbyasong]

Between floor a hundred and now Shion had gotten reinforcements. Alright he had gotten Xion and after babbling out the whole situation in between panicked tears they had come here, to wait.

He couldn't have gotten further yet, not even running.

[attheclocktower]

Xion knew more about how long it took to go up and down the Tower's stairs than she ever cared to know. Up more than down, but regardless... She'd set the corridor up here. She'd never lingered on this floor for too long - she'd gotten a bad feeling the last time she had. But it's one major asset for the moment was that she knew - from the punishment the hacking group had gotten - that this was a floor monsters avoided. And monsters were the last thing they needed to deal with right now.

Now, there was nothing to do but wait, standing firmly with her eyes on the stairs, her mouth pulled together in a tight grimace.

[midgarhorizon]

The footsteps was the first sign he'd reached Floor 45, faint thump-thumps. Going almost 60 floors had started to wear even him down. It'd been a while since he had gone this far down a staircase- and he really didn't remember this many floors being in the Tower...

Instead, he paced himself, one floor at a time until he came into view, winding down 44 steadily. There was a lot for them to answer for.

[justabignobody]

[Riku had followed Reno for a while, has seen some of that exchange between him, Shion and Xion at least and pulled away the moment it had become clear that the kids had the situation under control, which is really all the better.

He himself couldn't care less about Reno, but he's important to Xion, to Shion and Riku will be damn if he lets either of them get hurt. When Reno comes back to his room he'll find that someone has slipped a note with his name on it beneath the slit beneath his door. It's folded neatly twice, and has his name written right in the center and if he opens it, it will read:]

There are a lot of people here that care about you. Keep in mind that if you screw up, the consequences won't be just on your head.

Take care of them.

[The wording ought to be familiar enough that Riku doesn't need to sign. And well, if Reno doesn't recognizes it, it's his bad. He isn't sure if it's the right thing to do and he will definitely keep an extra eye on the kids for now maybe, to make sure they are alright, but well. Xion trusts him and for now that will have to be enough.

In any case, he's made his point and he just hopes that Reno remembers this before he does something utterly stupid.]