may catchall

[nmc0204]

⭐ Who: Ryoko and y'all
⭐ When: All through May, with prompts specifically during Golden Week and her first day of school at Promised Morning
⭐ Where: Primarily Yumemigaoka tho I might add a Dream Sphere prompt or two down the line
⭐ What: Ryoko's life has flip turned upside down and now she's getting used to it. Between starting as a new student at Promised Morning and suddenly having another Dreamer to feel responsible for, she's got a busy month ahead. I'll also put closed starters here if requested!
⭐ Warnings: Keepin this to edit them in if it comes up

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[unlivinglegend]

Mm.

[He nods, staring at the map with a glassiness that isn't exactly normal]

Well, if you're going to that school I'm guessing you're a Dreamer too. I was... in the Sphere for... a while. By myself. Scrambled my head a bit.

[mnemon]

Ah.

[ The noise comes out involuntarily – the kind of sound you make when you've seen a ghost. She finds herself staring at Neku maybe for a second longer than is really proper and she makes herself look away, returning her gaze to the map as well. ]

... It happened to me, too. I didn't get stuck, but...

[ She pauses and swallows. ]

Nobody found me in time.

[unlivinglegend]

[ "Say you're sorry. Say something comforting. Something."

But that's not what comes out. Instead, in a rush comes... anger. Not at her. For her. For himself]

You got screwed. Someone should have... someone should have been there..

[He glares at the map with an iciness that could kill a Torment. He knows it's not fair. Crimson herself could have reappeared and tried to save them and it might not have mattered.

It was just... bad luck.]

[mnemon]

... yeah.

[ She's had a lot of time to think that to herself since she'd woken up that first day with nothing at all behind her. When she'd realized what had happened, she'd been so angry she felt sick – it'd been why she'd avoided the DU for so long. Why should she give the people who failed her the time of day?

But as the months had gone by and the not ever knowing ground down on her, the answer had presented itself. ]

But. That's why I'm going to be there.

[ So it didn't have to happen to anybody else. ]

[unlivinglegend]

[That makes him pauses, something about her words hitting him very directly.]

...yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[mnemon]

[ She huffs a little noise that sounds suspiciously like a laugh. ]

Somebody has to be. And if I can work my way up to being right about the train route to school, I should have it all worked out.

[ If it sounds like she's trying to diffuse the weird sincere moment they just had... you'd be correct!!! ]