Taking the long road home

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Anyone. Everyone.
Setting: The few days after the event, throughout the Tower as you will.
Format: Mingle! Assign your own dates/locations/etc, tag yourself, do as you do.
Summary: Jason's dead. So are a lot of other people. Fallout and picking up the pieces.
Warnings: Discussion of death and cannibalism inevitable.

[Catch-all for events following the Event. Discuss Jason's death and its consequences, come back from the dead, party?, quiver in fear?, take a long, hot bath. Whatever it is you do, do it here.]

Comments

[fionnuisce]

All things considered, now I can't help thinking we may have all gotten off light.

...For now, that is. Fuck if I know where things are going to go from here.

[slightlyoblivious]

If that's getting off light, I don't even want to know what a heavier consequence would be like.

...you're probably right, if you're thinking that we're going to find out, though. One way or the other, we're on the way to the end. There's no way it'll be sunshine and rainbows.

[fionnuisce]

It's difficult to imagine, isn't it? It's one thing to be aware our time is limited...having the fact waved about in the most disturbing way possible is quite another.

[Waver crossed his arms, visibly too exhausted to even be irritated properly.]

...How are you holding up in all this?

[slightlyoblivious]

You can say that again.

[Yukiko looks over, just as exhausted.]

I'm holding up? I'm physically all right, emotionally, hanging in there as best I can. How about you, Waver-san?

[fionnuisce]

I'm fine--fortunately for me I wasn't directly involved in all that utter lunacy. I doubt I'd have done very well if I had been.

sorry for the weird crap, was testing something

[slightlyoblivious]

I thought I'd seen some fights here in this place, but that was nothing like I've ever seen before. There was so much chaos...

[She goes a little pale. Thinking about all those deaths is pretty obviously difficult.]

...and so much death. I'm actually surprised I made it out of there.

s'all good

[fionnuisce]

...Sorry. I wasn't trying to walk headlong into a difficult subject, but at this point avoiding it is practically impossible.

[slightlyoblivious]

There's no need to apologize, and no sense glossing over it. What happened is in the past, and we just need to deal with it.

...it's less about the amount of blood and gore and more a case of what I think they call 'survivors' guilt'. It's not that I wish I'd died on the battlefield, more that I'm sorry I couldn't keep other people from dying.

[fionnuisce]

...I should think that normal if not commonplace around here by now. While I'm sure it's little comfort at this point, you're hardly alone in that much.

[Pausing, he took a second or two to contemplate something.]

Hopefully, death itself will remain mostly an inconvenience here even after all this.

[slightlyoblivious]

It helps a little. I'm sure I'm not the only one, and there's a bit of comfort in that.

I'm hoping for the same. I haven't seen anyone revive just yet, though. I think Ruana would have said something if death had changed that much, but who knows with her?

[fionnuisce]

I'd believe she's running things now--god forbid she lose her favored toys, right? And if she really does gain abilities after that, it stands to reason that she could.

[slightlyoblivious]

Point, especially given how she reacted when we broke the Tower last year. She wouldn't want to break her toys permanently.

...let's just hope that she didn't absorb his thing for painful physical experiments if she did gain his powers. I shudder to think what she'd come up with.