3rd Rainy Day [Action/Voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[Well, now that the whole Kin'coran debacle is over, Souji finally has time to sit himself down and contemplate what's happened...and there's quite a bit to go over.

Rather, one specific detail that really made him cross...

...There were starving children out there, and they were liable to have been victimized by some of the experiments. Children, being used as part of the Malnosso's tests. Young boys and girls that were most likely scarred from the abuse they'd been put through at the hands of mad scientists. Frustration wasn't normally an emotion he would let himself feel, but this was one occasion where he'd let himself burn with it.

It hit too close to home, thanks to a certain bastard who callously had someone else drag his cousin into the TV. He didn't want to remember that fateful November evening, but this whole mess drove it into his face in the worst way possible.

He wished they would just mercifully send those poor souls home, instead of bringing them back to that damned enclosure.

It took him little time to decide what to do today; he was going to head out and get himself some fresh air. Maybe a walk will do him some good...and if he comes across anyone of interest, spending time getting to know them.

Not long after he returns, though, he sends out a message on the journal network.]

...Do you have any relatives back home?

Comments

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

[This is an important topic to him. No matter what, it's partially why he decided on his path.]

Yes, I do. My parents and my [brother cousin brother cousin] brother.

[Voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[Hmm.] Are you close to them, Wakahisa-san?

action;

[happyends]

[ Hey, guess who is also out today, Souji. Three guesses, first two don't count. Either way, it's Madoka - she's just wandering around a little, as if she's not going anywhere in particular but instead just having a walk, but at the same time she almost looks a little spaced out, like she's daydreaming or thinking really deeply about something..

(Don't let her accidentally walk into a tree.) ]

action;

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[...His memory's foggy, but he's sure he's met someone that looks like her before...

...If not in person, then at least heard her voice. He'll wave a little at her.] Hello.

[voice]

[positivelycharged]

...I don't think so. [Unless there's other replicas out there?....Do replicas even count as relatives?]

[voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

Not even one? [...He already pities you, you poor kid. 8[]

[voice]

[fowlplots]

I do. My parents and my younger brothers, Myles and Beckett.

[voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[Oh, hello, you've pinged him.] Do they come to you if they need anything?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

I have relatives both at home and here. Why do you ask?

[voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

I'm just curious. [Oh...here's someone whose name he hadn't gotten at all from what he remembers. He'd only helped with that squirrel predicament...]

...I don't think I got your name, though.

[emp3thy]

[If Souji's walk takes him over to the cherry tree hill, there's possibly someone of interest stretched out on the grass under the tree. He at least brought a blanket today, but that just makes it more obvious that he intended to come out here just to nap...

> Bother him...?]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[It eventually does. He needed a little serenity after all that, and this was the best place he could find. ...Of course, it doesn't take him long to notice a certain stowaway lying under it. He smiles a little, before sitting down next to the sleeping boy.

In fact, seeing Minato was one of the reasons he decided to take a walk; it's just that he doesn't know where the kid lives yet.]

What a coincidence.

voice;

[oftheyin]

In a way. My grandfather is back home. [But he's dying the second she gets back.]

voice;

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

...Do you get along? [Something about the way she says that bothers him a little.]

[burningdownfate]

Yeah. Sure. Lots of people do. Why ask?

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

Curiosity. That and I've been gone for at least a year...so things might've changed.

[selphie_t]

[This question is just a bit too heavy for Selphie to answer and anyone who knows her well enough will understand why. She hardly remembers her parents to begin with.]

Not that I'm aware of.

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[Unfortunately, he's not one of those people...yet. :S He can at least sense there's something wrong.] ...I see. Friends, then? [Quick topic change get...he hopes. orz]

[airhead_overlord]

Nope, none at all. Or if I do, I never got to meet them, and I don't know anything about them.

[And he sounds perfectly okay with this.]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[He feels the need to point this out.] You don't sound too disturbed.

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

Yep. Uh... well, I'm gonna.

[Voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

..."Going to"?

[happierdays]

[ Relatives... while none of the people she calls family are actually related to her, they're still family. ]

Mm... well, kind of.

...lmfao this post is getting stuffy. XD

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

'Kind of'? [That isn't very firm evidence of it...he could use a little specifying.]

[Written]

[thebellthatbinds]

[Perhaps it was the accumulated bittersweetness of these last couple of weeks but Souji's question leaves a hollow feeling in her chest. Instead of a vocal response she writes in a carefully calm and elegant hand.]

My family consisted of only my Father and I. Now it's just me.

[Written]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

...If it's not too much to ask...why? [...This is going to hit home, isn't it?]

[voice] +1 for overcrowding

[bloodybishie]

Yeah. My parents and a twin brother. Couple good friends too.

[voice] Crowding is always good. It means bowlcut here has chances to form S-Links. 8|

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

A twin, huh? Is he fun to be with?

[Voice]

[shieldsup]

[Susan is hit hard but the question, like a sledgehammer to the gut. She'd been so busy, with everything, that she hadn't thought much about her family. Reed, Ben, Johnny. Val and Frank. Ouch]

Yes.

[Voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[Ouch, indeed.] ...Can you tell me what they're like?

[everyonesconfidant]

[Hiro... kept not thinking about his family. Why? Because doing so broke his heart every single time. Maybe the full impact of what he'd lost hadn't fully hit him, but it was there, alright.]

I had my mom and my dad back home... but it's likely that they died when the demons invaded.

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

[...Demon invasion. ...Oh, dear god.] ...Sorry to hear of your loss.

[voice]

[failguardian]

[She takes a bit to glance over the other comments before replying.]

It looks like a lot of people left someone behind, huh?

[voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

Mm. It's a little hard to look over.

[And by little, he actually means a lot.]

[voice]

[seleniahymn]

... One relative. [Her brother was the only one related to her by blood, and in time he would be gone. That would leave her only with the man she considered to be 'grandfather.'

In many ways, only one.]

[voice]

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

...I take it you're not in the best of situations?

[Why is this attracting all of the longing-for-family types?]