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Preincarnation name: Sakazaki Yuuya (family name, then personal name)
Reincarnation name: Julien Sakazaki
Age: 26!
Appearance: He used to look like this. Then, more like this or this. Standing with straight legs, he was around seven feet tall. In detail, his old appearance is here.
Now, he looks like this. Julien is a pigeon the size of a pony. Small human aspects remain - a couple fingers on each wing, blue eyes, some of the jaw structure etc. The picture has him stretched up as tall as he can go, it's more comfortable and natural to hold his body less upright. He's very big around.
Occupation: Until mid July 2013 he was tech support at an office. Before that he worked several different jobs, managing to quit, get fired, or be laid off each time. He volunteered and then worked at Aaron Strider's LSR clinic for at least a year and a half and had to quit after becoming a harpy. For a time he was a model contracted at Askell Studios. Now he works for Liam.
Would your character know him? Julien lived in Locke City when he was 14-16, less than a decade ago, and then he moved. He graduated from a college out of state in 2011. From April 2012 to late November 2013 he lived with his sister in Locke. In 2014 he moved to Vegas, then to Germany.
He is very friendly and gregarious, so he knows many people on the casual friend level and has an amazingly huge Facebook flist, though it's been neglected of late. Julien has a good memory for names and faces and always seems genuinely happy to meet, speak with, hang out with, and reunite with people. Virtually anything - movies, arcade games, party games, drinking, watching sports - looks like fun to him, and he's good company during parties. He can be a little much, but he doesn't pester people who don't like him. He also likes to flirt, but this often doesn't go anywhere, and he's happy with that.
Echoes:
First - Mental|The motivation to get and then stay in shape.
Second - Mental|This memory, "Apostle of the Violet Rose". Gained by touching a snake statue.
Third - Physical|A single white feather, gained in flight.
Fourth - Physical|Pigeon lungs, gained in a conversation with Lyall. They are, ah, smaller than human lungs and don't work as well without air sacs.
Fifth - Physical|Pigeon air sacs attached to lungs, supplying them with fresh unmingled air on both the inhale and the exhale. Gained after getting help about breathing issues.
Sixth - Physical?|The ability to hear, see, and otherwise interact with ghosts, provided they aren't weakened or concealing themselves. Gained at the art gallery.
Seventh - Mental|This memory, "Heaven-Soaring Wings". Gained via haunting.
Eighth - Mental|This memory, "This pain is part of me." Gained via canon recurrence.
Ninth - Physical|An avian voice. Gained via involvement in the Sage plot.
Tenth - Physical|Hato harto, something like twice the mass of a human heart. Gained via Sage plot stuff.
Eleventh - Physical|Hybrid pigeon eyes. Gained after seeing a Vermini swarm.
Twelfth - Mental|A degree of vaguely spiritual regard directed at the starry sky. Gained... after quite a while gazing at the daystars he can now see, trying to figure them out.
Thirteenth - Mental/Physical|Moves like Yuuya. He tends to default to moving gracefully and with little sound, regardless of footwear and flooring. Gained after drinking tainted water.
Fourteenth - Mental|The mindset needed to temporarily take over the patient-care aspect of a small-scale medical facility. Gained as a recurrence after having to cover for Aaron at the clinic.
Fifteenth - Item|Yuuya's iPon/future bird smartphone. Currently unuseable without the password. Gained as a recurrence while on a "mission" which attempted to be stealthy.
Sixteenth - Item|A potted miniature rosebush with small, deep violet, strongly scented blossoms. Not of an existing variety and possibly genetically adjusted, but also not possessed of any special properties. The pot is decorated in ways pleasing to bird eyes and is quite lightweight, as is the hydroponic medium the rosebush is rooted in. Gained upon being given purple roses by Amrita.
Seventeenth - Mental|This memory, "I didn't do it so he'd love me." Gained upon realizing that Aaron forgot about the network and that they were close.
Eighteenth - Mental|This memory, "a brief overview of Sumatera Influenza and its effects on the world." Gained when Bakura theorized about why humans are diminished and there are non-humans who want to protect them in the "Apostle's" world.
Nineteenth - Mental|This memory, "Feel like writing me off as a heartless bastard yet?" Gained from another conversation with Bakura, this time about Aaron.
Twentieth - Mental|This memory, "No one can ever be replaced." Gained from this set of interactions with Aaron.
Twenty-first - Physical|Technical bird status. Gained from watching the lights.
Twenty-second - Physical|Carneades Virus, gained from visiting the tower.
Twenty-third - Mental, tier two|This memory, "Graffiti about the End Times", and certain flight-related thought patterns. Gained from being in a terribly run down house in the Dead District.
Twenty-fourth - Physical|Birdlike bones and a bursa of fabricius. Gained from encountering an animated snake statue with Lyall.
Twenty-fifth - Ability|More stealth! A kind of "I'm-not-interesting". He can kind of fade into the background and be difficult to notice as he watches someone, even if he starts following. Can still be sniffed out, though. Gained as a recurrence from investigating the tower security.
Twenty-sixth - Item|Yuuya's agent harness thing. It looks a little different from that. Two backpack-ish straps, one horizontal strap high and visible, one lower. On the back the backpack-ish ones come together and form a Y that connects to the horizontal straps. It more or less fits Julien. Loops and attachment sites for more straps can hold weapons and other things. There's a kind of pouch for his iPon. Gained surveying some blown up Dead District things.
Twenty-seventh - Mental| Three words, "It's called Carneades". Gained when Danny gets close to the truth.
Twenty-eighth - Physical/power, Tier 2| Pigeon hearing and perceived time dilation. Gained with participation in the Exploration Plot.
Twenty-ninth - Mental| Some knowledge of Leone J.B., Yuuya's handler. Gained sneaking around in Aaron's company.
Thirtieth - Mental| The sense that somehow it's personally important to him, to press on despite previous mistakes, to keep trying to improve. Gained advising Ravi.
Thirty-first - Physical, Tier Two| Avian skin and muscle tissue. Gained encountering Blood Keys.
Thirty-second - Memory| This memory, First Mission. Gained being shot by one of the Blood Keys.
Thirty-third - Mental| A certain familiarity with firearms. Gained grasping a gun in a combat situation.
Thirty-fifth - Item|Yuuya's school locker, loaded with Legumentines presents and nothing else. Gained as the seasonal echo.
Thirty-sixth - Mental| A greater degree of, mm, emotional independence. Gained when Aaron, his last... quasiparental figure, went and forgot everything again.
Thirty-seventh - Mental| A tendency to say greetings and farewells in some different language, gained teasingly greeting Akito in Elvish.
Thirty-eighth - Mental| Nigh-unshakeable calm in dangerous situations. Gained on a rescue mission.
Thirty-ninth - Physical | Heavily altered avian-style anatomy of mouth and throat. Gained because snakes in a meeting.
Fortieth - Tier Two, Physical/Ability | A harpy-like body and the rudiments of flight. Gained when he fell/leaped off a building.
Forty-first - Item/Ability | A recoiless rifle and the basics of using it. Gained from being around for Wise Snake.
Forty-second - Mental| This memory, Ungainly Dance. Gained facing snakes.
Forty-third - Mental| Recalling that his brother kept his tail up and Yuuya did not. Gained raising his tailfeathers for the first time.
Forty-fourth - Ability| Feather dexterity. Gained using his prehensile feathers.
Forty-fifth - Ability| Familiarity with HB!verse night vision glasses. Gained from seeing footage of the Vegas lights.
Forty-sixth - Ability| Advanced typing/texting skills. Gained... typing with his feathers.
Forty-seventh - Item| An issue of Absolute Zero, an artbook Anghel drew with a focus on the fantasy au version of Yuuya. Gained in a monster attack.
Forty-eighth - Mental| Some familiarity with the artbook's author/artist.
Forty-ninth - Ability| Pigeon sleeping patterns. Gained after the alien broadcast.
Fiftieth - Mental| Willingness to bathe in unheated water. Gained... bathing in unheated water during the molt.
Fifty-first - Mental| Hazy memory of Yuuya's first home and that it was before his father was murdered, also a nostalgic response to the smell of leather. Gained talking to Geoff.
Fifty-second - Mental| The password to Yuuya's smartphone! Gained encountering a ghost
Fifty-third - Mental| Yuuya's weird attitude towards threats - they're not really alarming anymore. Gained thanks to Isabela.
Fifty-fourth - Mental| Anger and disgust about kill-first-ask-questions-later mentalities. Gained seeing someone knife a ghost.
Fifty-fifth - Mental| Some expertise on escaping pursuit. Gained being pursued by Mafia types.
Fifty-sixth - Ability| Greater pain tolerance. Gained enduring a tattoo.
Fifty-seventh - Ability| Ability to swim well with wings. Gained... swimming.
Fifty-eigth - Ability| Expertise at manipulating computerized security systems. Gained messing with the Stark house.
Fifty-ninth - Mental| Crossdressing is fun! Gained when Isabela coaxed him into trying.
Sixtieth - Ability| Lockpicking! Gained breaking into Liam's.
Seventieth - Tier 2| the dreamcracker and training. Gained because of Refined Shell.
Seventy-First - Item| A basket of food. Gained thanks to using the teleporter and reaching Germany.
Seventy-Second - Mental| Knowledge of how birds age. Gained talking to Kilian about how dwarves age.
Seventy-Third - Mental| "The mummy hunter becomes a mummy", gained considering titans.
Seventy-Fourth - Physical| The other tissues and organs become birdy, notably his digestion, gained from wolpertinger exposure.
Seventy-Fifth - Tier 2| Full bird form and improved flying ability, gained from the pink lights at Christmas.
Seventy-Sixth - Mental| Finding the blinded quail on the Holiday Star, also gained from pink lights at Christmas.
Seventy-Seventh - Mental| Knowledge of Shuu Iwamine. Gained because lolmedia about Aaron.
Seventy-Eighth - Skill| Avian martial arts. Gained meeting Arnold's doppleganger.
Seventy-Ninth - Memory| Manipulating his brother. Gained because lights.
Eightieth - Skill| Hacking! Gained trying his metaphorical hand at it.
Eighty-first - Memory| World bird history, gained because lights.
Eighty-second - Knowledge| Understanding the Japanese language. Gained thanks to immersion.
Eighty-third - Skill| Bird lifeguarding. Gained... doing that.
Eighty-fourth - Skill| Technological improvisation skills. Gained from the last lights
Eighty-fifth - Item| Walkie-talkies. Gained going on a mission
Eighty-sixth - Memory| Golden Weekly mission, gained because explosions
Eighty-seventh - Memory| The Christmas Thieves mission, gained getting his tail burnt
Eighty-eighth - Item| Bird sniper rifle, gained dive-bombing Aaron's attacker
Eighty-ninth - Memory| The Holiday Star experience, gained meeting the Boy
Full application: Here!
Reincarnation name: Julien Sakazaki
Age: 26!
Appearance: He used to look like this. Then, more like this or this. Standing with straight legs, he was around seven feet tall. In detail, his old appearance is here.
Now, he looks like this. Julien is a pigeon the size of a pony. Small human aspects remain - a couple fingers on each wing, blue eyes, some of the jaw structure etc. The picture has him stretched up as tall as he can go, it's more comfortable and natural to hold his body less upright. He's very big around.
Occupation: Until mid July 2013 he was tech support at an office. Before that he worked several different jobs, managing to quit, get fired, or be laid off each time. He volunteered and then worked at Aaron Strider's LSR clinic for at least a year and a half and had to quit after becoming a harpy. For a time he was a model contracted at Askell Studios. Now he works for Liam.
Would your character know him? Julien lived in Locke City when he was 14-16, less than a decade ago, and then he moved. He graduated from a college out of state in 2011. From April 2012 to late November 2013 he lived with his sister in Locke. In 2014 he moved to Vegas, then to Germany.
He is very friendly and gregarious, so he knows many people on the casual friend level and has an amazingly huge Facebook flist, though it's been neglected of late. Julien has a good memory for names and faces and always seems genuinely happy to meet, speak with, hang out with, and reunite with people. Virtually anything - movies, arcade games, party games, drinking, watching sports - looks like fun to him, and he's good company during parties. He can be a little much, but he doesn't pester people who don't like him. He also likes to flirt, but this often doesn't go anywhere, and he's happy with that.
Echoes:
First - Mental|The motivation to get and then stay in shape.
Second - Mental|This memory, "Apostle of the Violet Rose". Gained by touching a snake statue.
Third - Physical|A single white feather, gained in flight.
Fourth - Physical|Pigeon lungs, gained in a conversation with Lyall. They are, ah, smaller than human lungs and don't work as well without air sacs.
Fifth - Physical|Pigeon air sacs attached to lungs, supplying them with fresh unmingled air on both the inhale and the exhale. Gained after getting help about breathing issues.
Sixth - Physical?|The ability to hear, see, and otherwise interact with ghosts, provided they aren't weakened or concealing themselves. Gained at the art gallery.
Seventh - Mental|This memory, "Heaven-Soaring Wings". Gained via haunting.
Eighth - Mental|This memory, "This pain is part of me." Gained via canon recurrence.
Ninth - Physical|An avian voice. Gained via involvement in the Sage plot.
Tenth - Physical|Hato harto, something like twice the mass of a human heart. Gained via Sage plot stuff.
Eleventh - Physical|Hybrid pigeon eyes. Gained after seeing a Vermini swarm.
Twelfth - Mental|A degree of vaguely spiritual regard directed at the starry sky. Gained... after quite a while gazing at the daystars he can now see, trying to figure them out.
Thirteenth - Mental/Physical|Moves like Yuuya. He tends to default to moving gracefully and with little sound, regardless of footwear and flooring. Gained after drinking tainted water.
Fourteenth - Mental|The mindset needed to temporarily take over the patient-care aspect of a small-scale medical facility. Gained as a recurrence after having to cover for Aaron at the clinic.
Fifteenth - Item|Yuuya's iPon/future bird smartphone. Currently unuseable without the password. Gained as a recurrence while on a "mission" which attempted to be stealthy.
Sixteenth - Item|A potted miniature rosebush with small, deep violet, strongly scented blossoms. Not of an existing variety and possibly genetically adjusted, but also not possessed of any special properties. The pot is decorated in ways pleasing to bird eyes and is quite lightweight, as is the hydroponic medium the rosebush is rooted in. Gained upon being given purple roses by Amrita.
Seventeenth - Mental|This memory, "I didn't do it so he'd love me." Gained upon realizing that Aaron forgot about the network and that they were close.
Eighteenth - Mental|This memory, "a brief overview of Sumatera Influenza and its effects on the world." Gained when Bakura theorized about why humans are diminished and there are non-humans who want to protect them in the "Apostle's" world.
Nineteenth - Mental|This memory, "Feel like writing me off as a heartless bastard yet?" Gained from another conversation with Bakura, this time about Aaron.
Twentieth - Mental|This memory, "No one can ever be replaced." Gained from this set of interactions with Aaron.
Twenty-first - Physical|Technical bird status. Gained from watching the lights.
Twenty-second - Physical|Carneades Virus, gained from visiting the tower.
Twenty-third - Mental, tier two|This memory, "Graffiti about the End Times", and certain flight-related thought patterns. Gained from being in a terribly run down house in the Dead District.
Twenty-fourth - Physical|Birdlike bones and a bursa of fabricius. Gained from encountering an animated snake statue with Lyall.
Twenty-fifth - Ability|More stealth! A kind of "I'm-not-interesting". He can kind of fade into the background and be difficult to notice as he watches someone, even if he starts following. Can still be sniffed out, though. Gained as a recurrence from investigating the tower security.
Twenty-sixth - Item|Yuuya's agent harness thing. It looks a little different from that. Two backpack-ish straps, one horizontal strap high and visible, one lower. On the back the backpack-ish ones come together and form a Y that connects to the horizontal straps. It more or less fits Julien. Loops and attachment sites for more straps can hold weapons and other things. There's a kind of pouch for his iPon. Gained surveying some blown up Dead District things.
Twenty-seventh - Mental| Three words, "It's called Carneades". Gained when Danny gets close to the truth.
Twenty-eighth - Physical/power, Tier 2| Pigeon hearing and perceived time dilation. Gained with participation in the Exploration Plot.
Twenty-ninth - Mental| Some knowledge of Leone J.B., Yuuya's handler. Gained sneaking around in Aaron's company.
Thirtieth - Mental| The sense that somehow it's personally important to him, to press on despite previous mistakes, to keep trying to improve. Gained advising Ravi.
Thirty-first - Physical, Tier Two| Avian skin and muscle tissue. Gained encountering Blood Keys.
Thirty-second - Memory| This memory, First Mission. Gained being shot by one of the Blood Keys.
Thirty-third - Mental| A certain familiarity with firearms. Gained grasping a gun in a combat situation.
Thirty-fifth - Item|Yuuya's school locker, loaded with Legumentines presents and nothing else. Gained as the seasonal echo.
Thirty-sixth - Mental| A greater degree of, mm, emotional independence. Gained when Aaron, his last... quasiparental figure, went and forgot everything again.
Thirty-seventh - Mental| A tendency to say greetings and farewells in some different language, gained teasingly greeting Akito in Elvish.
Thirty-eighth - Mental| Nigh-unshakeable calm in dangerous situations. Gained on a rescue mission.
Thirty-ninth - Physical | Heavily altered avian-style anatomy of mouth and throat. Gained because snakes in a meeting.
Fortieth - Tier Two, Physical/Ability | A harpy-like body and the rudiments of flight. Gained when he fell/leaped off a building.
Forty-first - Item/Ability | A recoiless rifle and the basics of using it. Gained from being around for Wise Snake.
Forty-second - Mental| This memory, Ungainly Dance. Gained facing snakes.
Forty-third - Mental| Recalling that his brother kept his tail up and Yuuya did not. Gained raising his tailfeathers for the first time.
Forty-fourth - Ability| Feather dexterity. Gained using his prehensile feathers.
Forty-fifth - Ability| Familiarity with HB!verse night vision glasses. Gained from seeing footage of the Vegas lights.
Forty-sixth - Ability| Advanced typing/texting skills. Gained... typing with his feathers.
Forty-seventh - Item| An issue of Absolute Zero, an artbook Anghel drew with a focus on the fantasy au version of Yuuya. Gained in a monster attack.
Forty-eighth - Mental| Some familiarity with the artbook's author/artist.
Forty-ninth - Ability| Pigeon sleeping patterns. Gained after the alien broadcast.
Fiftieth - Mental| Willingness to bathe in unheated water. Gained... bathing in unheated water during the molt.
Fifty-first - Mental| Hazy memory of Yuuya's first home and that it was before his father was murdered, also a nostalgic response to the smell of leather. Gained talking to Geoff.
Fifty-second - Mental| The password to Yuuya's smartphone! Gained encountering a ghost
Fifty-third - Mental| Yuuya's weird attitude towards threats - they're not really alarming anymore. Gained thanks to Isabela.
Fifty-fourth - Mental| Anger and disgust about kill-first-ask-questions-later mentalities. Gained seeing someone knife a ghost.
Fifty-fifth - Mental| Some expertise on escaping pursuit. Gained being pursued by Mafia types.
Fifty-sixth - Ability| Greater pain tolerance. Gained enduring a tattoo.
Fifty-seventh - Ability| Ability to swim well with wings. Gained... swimming.
Fifty-eigth - Ability| Expertise at manipulating computerized security systems. Gained messing with the Stark house.
Fifty-ninth - Mental| Crossdressing is fun! Gained when Isabela coaxed him into trying.
Sixtieth - Ability| Lockpicking! Gained breaking into Liam's.
Seventieth - Tier 2| the dreamcracker and training. Gained because of Refined Shell.
Seventy-First - Item| A basket of food. Gained thanks to using the teleporter and reaching Germany.
Seventy-Second - Mental| Knowledge of how birds age. Gained talking to Kilian about how dwarves age.
Seventy-Third - Mental| "The mummy hunter becomes a mummy", gained considering titans.
Seventy-Fourth - Physical| The other tissues and organs become birdy, notably his digestion, gained from wolpertinger exposure.
Seventy-Fifth - Tier 2| Full bird form and improved flying ability, gained from the pink lights at Christmas.
Seventy-Sixth - Mental| Finding the blinded quail on the Holiday Star, also gained from pink lights at Christmas.
Seventy-Seventh - Mental| Knowledge of Shuu Iwamine. Gained because lolmedia about Aaron.
Seventy-Eighth - Skill| Avian martial arts. Gained meeting Arnold's doppleganger.
Seventy-Ninth - Memory| Manipulating his brother. Gained because lights.
Eightieth - Skill| Hacking! Gained trying his metaphorical hand at it.
Eighty-first - Memory| World bird history, gained because lights.
Eighty-second - Knowledge| Understanding the Japanese language. Gained thanks to immersion.
Eighty-third - Skill| Bird lifeguarding. Gained... doing that.
Eighty-fourth - Skill| Technological improvisation skills. Gained from the last lights
Eighty-fifth - Item| Walkie-talkies. Gained going on a mission
Eighty-sixth - Memory| Golden Weekly mission, gained because explosions
Eighty-seventh - Memory| The Christmas Thieves mission, gained getting his tail burnt
Eighty-eighth - Item| Bird sniper rifle, gained dive-bombing Aaron's attacker
Eighty-ninth - Memory| The Holiday Star experience, gained meeting the Boy
Full application: Here!
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Content: Dropped in the middle of a conversation with one of my kouhai, who is weeping and paralyzed with indecision. Somehow sight isn't very important - there are glowing trees? and my kouhai is dark colored to my light, but sight and appearances aren't so important or passed on so clearly.
I'm here to save everyone from the school. Here, that means persuading him to come back to the real world without breaking his heart.
He's saying, "I'm scared that I just won't be with her as much any-"
"Of course not. You can’t stay children forever." This shocks him. I smile, just slightly, (not with lips) and stand.
"Feel like writing me off as a heartless bastard yet? But ignoring me won’t change anything." I'm not unkind. I'm not! But he isn't thinking, and he should be. There's more riding on this than youthful heartbreak. Now I pace back and forth, turning my head all the while to keep him in view.
"Time will pass, and places will change. The first flowers in Spring, a shooting star, the rainbow right after a storm—all beautiful, and none can be captured and held forever. No matter how fair the flower, it will rot and fall to pieces if you never let it go. But memories will never hurt you. The flower withers, the star falls, and the rainbow fades away, but you will always remember their beauty."
He gapes at me for a moment, pupils wide and hurt. How young he is! "Are you telling me to... go on alone, with nothing but my memories...?"
I stop pacing. "That's a little pessimistic! What I'm saying is... don’t let your fears for tomorrow cloud the memories you’re making today." Seems like a good statement.
But he tightens his pupils, closes his inner eyelids. "...that's too abstract for me. I don't think I understand."
How long is he going to keep floundering around? I have to be clearer or I'll lose him. "Maybe you’ll be an unrequited lover, or maybe you’ll live and have a family with Hiyoko, or maybe you’ll go your own separate ways. But whatever happens, all the time you’ve spent with her, all the joy you’ve had, will still be yours."
"That just makes it even worse...!" Rising to his feet, staring at me out of one wide-pupiled molten orange eye, he cries out. "How could I live without the sun, now that I'm so used to its warmth and light? I'm scared,[]! I don't want to see everything I know collapse around me!" He said a name that is not passed on.
And... skip. Something happened here, something was thought or felt, but it is not passed on. Only that after a moment, I continue.
"Everything changes, Ryouta. Time is like that—inconvenient and rude to everyone." I sigh and settle or sit. This is getting into personal territory. So be it. "Even if you stand still, everything else will leave you behind. No matter how hard you try to prevent change, it will still come. The world, and your friends, will still change."
I level a look at him. "If what you really want is undisturbed peace for the rest of your days you’ll have to cut all your ties, leave everyone behind, and become a hermit in the mountains."
He recoils, eyes pinning. It's kind of gratifying. "No... I don't want that!"
Skip. Longer now. More important. He's not in the same spot now, his eyes half veiled, and plaintive. "...right. Aren't you afraid, []? Everything around us is changing, and so are we. We don't know what's ahead. Doesn't that scare you?"
Normally I wouldn't answer this. I would deflect. I hate to tell people things about myself, my motives. But this is more important, and after a moment, I have an answer.
"There are things that scare even me, yes. Even a hero of justice has his weaknesses." Of course I couch it a little, make it seem like it's not a big deal to share this, although my voice is softer. "What’s waiting for me at the other end of this night? The best day of my life? Or the very worst? No one knows. And that’s why—"
Some of the usual strength and surety comes back into my voice as I stand. "That’s why all we, who cannot see tomorrow, can do is put on our bravest smiles and march boldly into the new day."
He sits or settles back. (It's not much like how humans sit.) "Isn't that called bluffing?"
"Hahaha, I suppose it is. All this time I've just been trying to look cool so no one will realize what's going on inside." I know what people say about me. It's nothing I don't want them to believe. "But what's wrong with putting on a little show?"
Well. By now I've said everything I can to convince him, and I sober. "...I have a question for you. There are only two choices. We're running a little low on time, you see. Kawara Ryouta. What do you want to do?"
Slowly unfolding my right wing, I hold it out. A minor gesture, not sweeping and dramatic. "You could accept the king's invitation and stay here. Nageki would be removed. You would spend eternity celebrating the endless holiday with Hiyoko, and tomorrow would never come. Nothing would change, and nothing would hurt you ever again."
Now my left. "Or, you could refuse the king's invitation and return to the real world. Your relationship with Hiyoko will change, sooner or later, for better or worse. And a new day will come." I close my wings again and settle them across my back.
"Now, choose. I won't try to force you either way. You alone can decide what your salvation will be."
Cause: Conversation about friends, loss, the possibility of pain.