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Jun Kurosu ([personal profile] onlythankyou) wrote in [community profile] applenet2017-07-03 10:03 pm

backdated to 6/29- Losing more than a bet


Jun Kurosu shax@applenet.net
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We've all noticed names that vanish from the app, right? Those who don't make it to the end of the countdown. That can happen to those of us who have, too. It's more extensive than simply leaving the chatroom, though.

I can confirm that Marchosias 29, also known as Okuyasu Nijimura, is, for lack of more descriptive words, gone. Completely gone.
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: gravity)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
9: What do you mean by completely gone?
9: People don't just vanish.


[They'd barely spoken, but 29 was a Marchosias the same as him. That meant something...or it was supposed to have.]
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: regelation)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[That remark cuts deep and Kouyuki is filled with dread. Could the same happen to Michi and him if he wasn't careful? Was there anything he could really do to stop it from happening if it was going to?]

9: Don't you have proof? Photos or e-mails or phone records? Stuff in his room?

[Vehemently, he tries to reject the idea that family could be...well, erased. Especially if memories of them remained.]
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: tailwind)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[How...?

Is it actually possible to write someone out of existence? To remove their image from photographs, to track down every electronic trace of them and delete it, and to even remove evidence from peoples' homes right from under their noses?

The thought is beyond terrifying...but not near as much as the answer. It has to be possible because it's happening. No one would lie about something this severe, right? And Marchosias 29 hasn't been around. If nothing else, that is real. And scary.

And then there's that business with the dreams. Or...memories. Whatever they were. Maybe they were proof that something like this was possible, too.]


9: I'm sorry.

[It feels somehow wrong leaving it at that, and so Kouyuki adds...]

9: Is there anything I can do to help?
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: twilight)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
9: I wouldn't be. If I were in your position, I mean. And that's okay.

[Would he say he was, though? Probably. But he might also want someone to tell him that it was alright to not be fine, too. Because it is, isn't it? It's alright to accept how you feel when you lose someone, especially someone so close. More than that, it's important to acknowledge those feelings. So they don't overwhelm you unexpectedly and...because that's probably what a brother would want. At least, Kouyuki knows he wouldn't want Michi denying anything he felt if...

...no, he can't afford to think like that. Because that won't happen to them. It can't.

He needs to focus on something else. That other thing that was said.]


9: What happened before?
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: fjord)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
9: If they're not here, that's good, right?
9: I mean, that rules out one possibility, at least.


[But what it doesn't do is provide any answers.]

9: What did you do about it before?
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: regelation)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
9: I see.
9: Then that means it's even more important to find out who *is* behind it and stop them. That way no one else is lost.


[The terms of service had referred to them as a team, and since they were in this together regardless of how much or how little each of them knew, they might as well have each other's backs. Only they could protect each other.]

9: You're not alone. Whoever is responsible, we'll figure it out.
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: warm front)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-04 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
9: Yeah.
9: There's a lot of us. As long as we stick together, one person or whatever else doesn't stand a chance.
touketsu: (π—¦π—΅π—Άπ—Ώπ—Όπ˜‚: sun pillar)

Shirou Fubuki βš” Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-07-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't. He shouldn't. He...]

9: Mm. It's a promise.

[...he did.

And now he'll have his work cut out for him trying to keep that promise, too.]