PC: Todomatsu

[sexyasmieu]

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Weekend 0, Sunday

[sexyasmieu]

[ Over at the Lounge, Anise will wander over to visit with Todomatsu! ]

So your name is "Todomatsu"? It's nice to meet you! It's pretty rare to meet a boy who's also skilled at "being cute"...

[ She's been reading profiles. Hi. ]

[drymonster]

[ hi! ]

Haha, yep, that's me! And you're... Anise-chan, right? Like the plant? My name's actually a kind of tree, so I guess we've got a couple of things in common!

w0, friday

[drymonster]

[ hahaha. well. things are great.

he's still in a bit of a daze when he comes over to the lounge, plopping down on one of the couches and anxiously straightening up some board game boxes.

noticing anise, he winces a little remembering how she got namedropped in luke's... final thoughts, or whatever that was. right. she lost a roommate too, huh? ]

Hey. Are you doing okay...?

[sexyasmieu]

[ Well, Anise was just quietly sitting on this couch, a little out of it herself, so he probably can't be blamed for not noticing her right away. She's dressed in her Nuts & Bolt sweats and has Tokunaga gripped tightly against her chest. ]

Y, yeah! I'm fine.

[ She manages a smile, but unfortunately, it's emotionshare and it is painfully obvious that she's full of grief, sadness, frustration... and even if he couldn't feel that, there's the bit of lingering redness in her eyes. ]

... It's kind of a shock, though, huh?

w1, thursday

[drymonster]

[ it feels like a chilly autumn night in this simulation room at the moment, dark save for a food stand in the middle of the room with warm lights and red curtains. the music is relaxing and a little melancholy, and the food looks and smells delicious — the kind of comfort food that just feels like home.

and seated at the bench are todomatsu and five other young men who look exactly like him, each wearing the exact same hoodie in a different color. they're all in various states of drunkenness, most passed out or close to it.

except for him. he's at the end of the bench with a half-full can of beer, arms crossed on the bar in front of him and resting his head on them. the worst of his injuries have been healed by this point, but there are still shallow cuts on all of the skin you can see, and his hair is messed up a little in front.

hearing someone else walk in, he raises his head and looks over tiredly. ]

[sexyasmieu]

So this is where you...

...

Huh? Why are there six of you??

Week 1, Sunday

[sexyasmieu]

[ cool! that was really depressing!

but as everyone's going their separate ways, anise wanders over to walk alongside todomatsu. how's he looking? ]

Hey... are your injuries okay? Do you need to go to the medbay?

[ "say something about the horrible death we just witnessed" no ]

[drymonster]

[ haha yeah it sure was!!

he pretty obviously has not done a second round in the pods since thursday like he kept saying he would, so it's a gradual improvement, but he's getting there. ]

I'll probably go there a little later... but they're getting better!

[ honestly he is a-ok with ignoring the horrible death ]

w3, tuesday

[drymonster]

[ anyway, it's tuesday so the memory voids are old hat by now, though he does look a little Unsure about being here with anise because he's just thinking about how often at least one person with his exact genetic makeup ends up ass-naked in these memories.

thankfully, this is not one of those. ]

...This kind of feels like doxxception or something.

[sexyasmieu]

Whoa...


... So did you end up getting rich off that cat or...?

Week 3, Friday

[sexyasmieu]

[ On Friday, Anise can be found at the food court, poking at a plate of stir-fried vegetables with a pair of chopsticks, seemingly spending more time pushing food around the plate than actually eating any of it.

The good news is, her hair is cute today (as it was last night in the spa)! The bad news is, everything sucks! She seems a little out of it, and doesn't notice right away when someone comes near. ]

[drymonster]

[ that really is the cutest hair in the world, he loves it.

anyway, he'll just sit down on the opposite side of the table with a soda. ]

Hey, Anise-chan... sorry this happened.

w3, saturday

[drymonster]

[ hi again anise. he's just leaning back against a wall somewhere far away from the spa and the tittytatatram. ]

God, that was a mess.

[sexyasmieu]

[ eric i fucking died at tittytatatram

anyway, after the trial she has changed clothes and now she's finally dry. but she also looks a mixture of tired and angry. ]

Seriously! What the hell was Nodd thinking...

w4, wednesday night post-event

[drymonster]

[ wow that event sure happened. well.

sometime afterward, todomatsu will be at the cute fairy light bridge in the park, leaning against the railing, and for once not taking selfies. ]

Really too bad those clothes were just virtual, huh?

[sexyasmieu]

Yeah...

[ coming over to lean with him! ]

I've found some really cute stuff at the mall here, but some of those outfits were like they came straight out of a dream...

Week 4, Sunday

[sexyasmieu]

[ well, it's sunday now and anise has moved on from sad pizza to sad boba. she's at the tea shop. ]

It kinda feels like... nobody really got a choice, in the end.

[drymonster]

[ todomatsu seems a little distracted at first, pausing to gaze at an empty table as he comes back from picking up his own sad boba at the counter... but once he's spoken to, he'll turn his back on that table and take a seat across from anise at hers instead. ]

...Yeah.

[ he shoves the straw into the film of his cup. ]

I don't want to like, belittle what she did at all, but. That wasn't her own ending. It was the one whatever was influencing her wanted her to choose.

w5, tuesday

[drymonster]

[ i somehow missed the fact that the arcade has purikura booths so i'm rectifying that now. also i'm making it tuesday because a) it is now tuesday and b) that's the cold day and it will be easier to look cute when they're wearing more layers than when they're sweaty and rusty. ]

Hey, Anise-chan!! Want to take some pictures with me?

[sexyasmieu]

Yeah, that sounds like fun!

[ i'm at work and can't grab a cute cold weather outfit so please believe that she has one and it's cute. she also has a friend with her today! it's just floating around, vibing. ]

w5, friday

[drymonster]

[ can we please go back to the good old days of only one person dying? ...well. good old day, he guesses that only happened once. anyway. he'll be tracking anise down sometime today since he's been meaning to check in on her.

he's got two fresh strawberry milkshakes with whipped cream piled high on top, and will offer her one when he finds her. ]

Hey... how are you doing? After yesterday, I mean.

[ ... ]

Well, and today too, I guess.

[sexyasmieu]

[ oh! she takes the offered milkshake with a smile. ]

For me? Thank you!

I'm okay... I mean, everything kind of sucks, but... I'm managing!

[ also, she's in a cozy recovering-from-cyoa friday fit today. there are bandages over her right thigh, but that's the only injury that can be seen at a glance. at least she has all her limbs. ]

w5, sunday

[drymonster]

[ at the lounge or something sometime after execution... this still sucked, but his feelings about it are a lot less messy than they were last week, so there's that.

he waves. ]

I guess we're starting to get pretty close to the end now.

[sexyasmieu]

Yeah...

[ she comes in to see him! and then kind of whips her head around to look over her shoulder?

... hm. there's nothing there, and she just continues over to join todomatsu! ]

I really hope we won't have to watch anything like that again...

Week 6, Monday

[sexyasmieu]

[ On the third floor of the biome area, Anise is trying to wave and beckon over some strange-looking field-dwelling creature so she can pet it. ]

Hey, look! They even have horses here!

[ She's looking at this. Yeah you know what this prompt is, Eric. Anyway, I love and appreciate you. ]

[drymonster]

[ my life has been leading up to this moment

anyway he briefly glances at whatever the fuck she seems to be interacting with and then looks around the rest of the area to see what horse she's talking about since CLEARLY it is not that thing. ]

They do? [ ... ] Where?

Week 6, Thursday

[sexyasmieu]

Beauty

Hi Totty!
Have you thought more about when we should use these items of ours?
I saw you tried to ask on Her-mes but then everything got really crazy

[drymonster]

totty

it REALLY did...

i'm glad everyone's not just suffering in hell nonstop buuuut i kind of wish they'd stop crowding the thing with stupid shit now that we're actively trying to figure out plan implementation and on a time crunch

[ not that he didn't also kind of contribute one message to that effect but in his defense he didn't START it ]

totty

but oh well
we've only got through sunday to use them, right?
so maybe one of us use it tonight, one use it during execution, and we can both use it during trial on saturday?
or would that actually make things worse if we're seeing irrelevant flesh cracks at crime scenes...

w6, friday

[drymonster]

[ well i assume everyone already had the initial WAIT??? REALLY??? reaction in the ballroom together this morning so. a little later, looking off toward the mess hall... ]

...Wanna get some pizza from the food court instead?

[sexyasmieu]

[ loool. ]

I was thinking I might just make something, myself...

Week 7, Monday

[sexyasmieu]

[ We've landed on the planet, and Anise is taking a look at this pink beach... ]

This would actually be really pretty if it wasn't for all the... you know.

[ Creepy shit!

But before Todomatsu can say anything in response, there's a void that opens up, throwing them into a memory (14:54 - 18:46)! (English captions can be toggled on Youtube. If the timing gets messed up, refresh and it should fix it!) ]

[drymonster]

[ yeah, this would have totally been my aesthetic two months ago! is what that response would have been if he'd been able to finish formulating it, but alas.

for the millionth time this game the fact that all these kids are out there saving the world or even just living on their own while he's a piece of shit who lives with his parents and doesn't do anything is really getting rubbed in his face, wow. but obviously that's not the important thing here. ]

Ah...

[ replicas... that's why she and guy had both reacted the way they did to seeing all of his identical brothers the first time, huh? he'd been too preoccupied at the time to think much of it. ]

That must have been even harder to watch in person.

w7, saturday

[drymonster]

[ whew... he's flopping down on a sofa or something when everything seems to be done. this will still be playing on repeat in the background for a few more hours. ]

Can't believe it's finally over... We did pretty well, huh?

[sexyasmieu]

[ ??? at the music but she's riding this post-victory high so whatever! ]

Yeah, we totally kicked ass! We've defended the honor of all that is cute and pink in the universe!