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foxhounds ([personal profile] foxhounds) wrote2015-08-02 07:46 pm

graveyard.



You remember dying. In fact, you remember the exact feeling and fear of how you died, and yet in the next moment, you're suddenly standing in a cold room. You're not sure how you got here at all, but it's as if you were suddenly put here the moment after you died. As you look around, the first thing you'll notice is that you're standing in front of an open casket.

And you're inside.

The corpse inside the casket is definitely you, and it's also definitely dead, which certainly makes this confusing. Luckily, here's someone here to explain. When you wake up, there's footsteps walking closer, and then a familiar face appears. Iván is here, or someone that looks very much like her is. All she starts off with is two simple words—

"You're dead."

Which would seem obvious, but she explains that you have been before you ever arrived to the island. The shipwreck and the island are't real, after all. This is purgatory, and the Hunt is a way to judge the souls of the living. People show their true nature when they're put in a stressful situation, so it was deemed that this was the way that these judgements would be passed. She explains that you'll know your fate when the game ends, but if you really can't wait that long, you could always ask, but hope isn't lost. After all, the "killers" are on your side. If they can win the game, then everyone can come back to life. They know this, and it's why they're fighting so hard to win. It's a shame that the odds don't seem to be in their favor, but that's also part of the Hunt.


Exploring your new surroundings, you'll realize that you're likely at the bottom of that giant sinkhole, at least if that light far above you is any indication. You no longer feel the need to eat or sleep anymore (technically, you never did, but the habits of being alive are hard to break), so it's a good thing there's enough to do while the game continues.

You can watch the proceedings of the Hunt in one room where there's plenty of comfortable couches to sit in and lounge, as well as a fully stocked bar, if you feel like indulging. Another room offers a game room with cards, billiards, and any other games you'd like to play in a group. If you ask your host nicely, she might provide more, but for now, there's not much to do other than to watch and wait for the Hunt to end.

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[personal profile] yasusada 2015-08-24 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ SLAPS LONG NOTE HERE ]

It's me, Yamatonokami Yasusada, I have a lot to say. Sorry for such a long note!

To Iván.

I didn't get to apologize to you at all, I feel very sorry for that in which I couldn't stay the night with you. It was just my time but I am not sad! I hope that you're staying hydrated and that you're eating well, getting rest and keeping yourself in good spirits. I hope that everyone is treating you right and that your pillows are fluffed at night and I hope when you're in the mansion alone that little items jiggle because that is me trying to come into contact with you but I highly doubt it. For now, I wish you the best of luck and I hope you're able to save everyone. I know that you don't have a bad heart but I am upset that I couldn't speak to you that much.
 
To Pearl P. Pearlson.

I hope my haori is keeping you warm and that things are a little better than before, I put so much of my hope into it that it has to be warm! It has to be. If it isn't, do you mind warming it with your kindness. I'm really happy you accepted it, Pearl, and even then you stood by me and was able to speak with me as an equal. I know humans are really finicky about a being like me, which I understand but I hope in the end — even though I am a sword to protect people and my capability has ran out — I hope there's nothing to stop your own. Like I've said before, you seem like a capable sword yourself so I know everything will be okay. So I hope that you can watch after everyone, you don't have to say anything to them or even do anything. As long as you are there, it's enough so please make it through this. You are brave and strong so I know that the best things will happen for you.
 
To Royce Roycin.

I wanted to apologize to you, for you were the one who said I was to have a gun. I'm sorry that I could not play that role for you, and was in fact weaponless, maybe I should say gunless! : ( Sorry everyone finds you suspect xoxoxoxo :) I hear that's a form of good luck. X's and O's.

To Hijikata Toshizou.

Thank you for telling me that I was fit to wear that haori, Vice Commander. Would you be willing to tell Pearl the same, she's strong too and your words have always been encouraging. I hope that I'm able to say it back to you but my time had ran out. I won't say it no because.. maybe if history is rewritten, I'll have the chance. Please take care of Okita-kun.
 
To Matt Murdock (Mattson).

Hello Matt Mattson! I wanted to tell you that I had great experiences with you and I hope that even if things don't seem clear, that your own eyes which seems to be.. keeping an open mind? It'll get you far, it will. So I'm cheering for you, don't let anyone cloud your decision, it's all I ask.
 
To Urashima Kotetsu.

You're still fighting, aren't you? To protect Clarine, right? That's what I'm hoping, I want you to be strong for her, I know that she wasn't so fond of me. In the end, maybe that's for the best? I'm happy that you're able to make her smile. Please protect everyone and her. Give it your all and I'm sure when you go home, Nagasone Kotetsu will give you a haori of your own.

To Kasen Kanesada.

I wanted to say that I was sorry to you too, but in the end I want to thank you for being the adult of us. I guess in my "life" I was childish but you kept us out of trouble. I know things may be hard now and harder for every other sword but I'm sure as long as you're there, keep them with a level head and have high spirits. You're all going to go home.
 
To Tsurumaru Kuninaga.

Don't share your popcorn, someone has to cheer about dying people in my stead.
 
To My Comrades :).

This is for everyone else that I didn't get the chance to speak and grow familiar with. Ah, each and every one of you have the ability to make it through this. I am full of hope. I want to thank all of you for being there, to look out for one another. Please don't let your trust for one another falter.
 
( Flip to the back )

To Okita-kun.

I'm writing with the last faith I have.. It was a foolish mistake to be like you when in the end, I couldn't even tell that you were.. "Okita-kun". I have realized during my stay there that since humans and swords aren't able to get along, if I can't be used to protect than what am I? Again.. I guess being like you didn't help me in any way, shape or form. I'm sorry for trying to be like the person that I admire since in the end, through my death I understand we can only be master and sword. I was a sword to you and even then, I have failed you so I can't be anything. I'm sorry, I've became useless.

To Kashuu Kiyomitsu.

How are you? How are you doing? I wonder how lonely it is and I wonder why it is I, who caused that to you. It was never my intention Kiyomitsu, to leave you alone like that. I've always wondered what our last meeting would be like, and I didn't want it to be like that. I didn't want you to be upset with me, I don't want you to hate me but asking for that seems so selfish. I think about if my last words could have been different, should I have acted different so maybe that I would still be with you. It's because I did not take care of myself that I ended up this way, hurting you. My last note to you shouldn't be of sadness, should it? So I want you to remember that you should smile, not just any smile, the one that you had always shown me without a care in the world. I don't want you to become like me, Kiyomitsu, I don't want you to become as bitter as I have. The humans.. I said hurtful things, hadn't I? I want you to continue to protect them, even though my own heart hurts. In the end, it feels like you won't listen to me, you'll take things into your own hands because that's how you feel.

I want to reminiscence of the days that we were kids or talk about those stupid arguments that we would get into. Pulling at each other's cheeks and hair enough that we'd exert so much energy that not too long after, we'd fall asleep on the floor. Those were such simpler days, weren't they? I like to think that maybe you'll always remember the good days for me? If there's any anger or hatred within you, maybe you can think of me and I'll accept that. There's no reason to hate anyone but me, in the end, I was the liar.. the one who betrayed you. I couldn't even keep my promises to you. Maybe it's better this way, it's what I've realized. I'd say more but I'm running out of space.

I'm always there for you as long as you have my vessel. Thank you for putting up with me all this time.

P.S. Continue to brush your hair, it has to stay as beautiful as you.

From Yamatonokami Yasusada.
Edited 2015-08-24 04:08 (UTC)