They come and they go, and they come and they go

[knightime]

Characters: [OU]Dave Strider and Open to anyone
Setting: Floor 48, Floor 25; Room 2-01(Closed to Jade Strider)
Format: Either
Summary: He's not involved with the Halloween stuff, but he's got some stuff on his plate anyways. It's gotten much quieter with more of his friends disappearing.
Warnings: Language mostly


Floor 48
Dave is doing his routine visit to the Graveyard. He leaves flowers at the graves of those he knew. It's just something he does now, since he can't speak to them anymore. It ensures that he won't forget them. People from his universe that have come and went. Those from other universes that he got attached to.

As he browses through the rows of tombstones, he stops when he sees two familiar names sitting next to each other. He stands in front of those two tombstones for a very long time. They've been around so long that he didn't think they'd leave. He should have considered it happening when Bro left. He finally drops some flowers on John's and Rose's graves before continuing through the rows and maybe just hoping a bit that he doesn't see new, familiar names on the rest of them. When he sees that Feferi has also joined the rows of tombstones, he feels a slight pang. She'd been through so much like him and she's gone now too. She's been here probably around the same amount of time as him. It's honestly kind of painful to see that she's gone now.

He's been here so long that he should have guessed this would have happened. He still kind of hoped it wouldn't happen again. He knew better.

Floor 25
He doesn't really return to his room after the Graveyard. Instead, he heads to the meadow floor to lie in the flowers. He was here earlier to grab the flowers, but he finds himself returning to it. It's peaceful here and he closes his eyes, trying to not think too much.

Dave is getting pretty tired of everyone eventually disappearing from this place.

Floor 14
He's got headphones plugged in. He has music on pretty high that it drowns out everything around him. He isn't too much in a good mood to try and converse with others it seems. He bobs his head a bit to the music, getting lost in it. It's just one of those days where you don't want to really deal with anything right now.

Room 2-01
He's been dragging his feet to check. He didn't see her name on any of the tombstones, but he was still scared. He didn't want to arrive and see that her name was no longer listed. He's relieved when he arrives and her name hasn't been taken off yet. Relieved, because she's not gone.

He finally knocks on the door. "Jade? You there?" He tries to keep his voice steady. Calm. He didn't want to seem like something was wrong.

Comments

[knightime]

Dave stops. "We don't really have to look at any of the videos. I don't know why I bothered to look them up. I mean, most of the labyrinth is just people dying. It's not at all that interesting to be honest. Like, oh boy, Dave sure did get stabbed and died. Not every interesting. Not that fun to watch either." He glances at the other. "I don't really wanna talk about the other part, honestly. Like it's been over a year, but I don't really know if I can bring up what happened."

It hurt. A lot. The feeling of being helpless. Surviving when his friends suffered in front of him.

[turntechtrainer]

It's fucked up to watch himself try to talk out of a decision he made. It's worse he can put the pieces together and guess what happened. He might watch it later just to know what might hit him square in the chest.

Dave runs a hand through his hair. "Only do what you can deal with, ok. I'm here to listen to all of it and be you know, the wiser older dude who really isn't wiser, even if he is older. I mean, we didn't really do much on the meteor just wallowed in all the shit we'd already been dealing with."

He could go on. But, what's the point. "I'm seriously here to listen. No judgements I mean it would be fucked up if I judged you. We are the same guy."

[knightime]

"If I don't do it now, when will I? It's been over a year and I'm still letting it loom over me. It's like that nasty pimple that you want to pop, but you know you shouldn't pop it. You're still pretty sure you're gonna pop it because it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. You're just delaying the inevitable." He isn't even sure pimple was the right word metaphor to use. "I don't think it got much better talking to Bro about it. A lot of the people in this video are gone at this point."

He's stuck. He can't go to the people involved because most of them are gone. Bro is gone, not that it helped much. The Tower didn't do many favors for his relationship with his guardian. "I want to get passed this. I thought after we got attacked by our shadows, it would get better, but I guess it didn't. Because I never actually talked about it to make it okay."