if I can't find one from our CR it'll be one at random but there's a few
hehe
The rest of him, the calculating, unkinder part, has come to a guess - she's new, isn't she. Finally, someone who knows less than him. That's something he can use, he's done it before... The thought sits there like a pebble in a shoe
He hears the music faintly and follows it... this is the first time he's actually been up the fourth floor stairs even after they became unlocked. He blinks and squints against the sun as it turns out they stay nice and well behaved and lead only to the roof as would make sense in a sane world.
Resentment, huh... [He taps his fingers against the mug again. This is hard. He feels like he's feeling his way around without a map.]
a lot of these you can see where bits got recycled into later posts
[Nooo not his posture let him ruin his back. It makes his skin crawl, underneath the heartbeat of he knows he knows he knows kicking up. It's like a counterweight; the fear presses down, and the defense comes up like an old friend. He can still salvage this, somehow. He has to.
He's getting better at it. It's a little easier each time. It was almost starting to get fun, before he tugged back on it, in the same way as freefall.]
Ahaha, I'm surprised you think that highly of me
[That's blunt... did he hit a nerve or is it just moving on?
He flicks the lighter, and still held down, tilts it enough for the hot flint-metal and flame to press into flesh despite the part of him yelling this will both start and end something, that time will not stop here. A dog can at least nip, once it reaches it's limit.]
Sorry, slipped.
[There's a question coming up, sooner than Shin expected it would, which is... Does he actually want Komaeda to die, outside of the pressure of a death game where someone has to and he should pick the person he hates most? Can he make that decision? Honestly though, it's probably a moot point...
Komaeda already knows about the crawlspaces, and probably other things. He survived Sara, so a wolf wouldn't be any big deal, right? Nothing to do with him... he can just not think about it and the black tar still in him, threaded through vein.]
i wasn't kidding about him being this close to burning komaeda, it was actually written up
i love it i hate it didnt go thru bc komaeda would have loved that sighs... shin avoided that which is prob a good thing
yeah, i decided against it in the end bc like. i do think shin would pick up that it's the kind of reaction he wants and also... i'm gonna keep mentioning it bc i love it so much but annie really is right that physical violence isn't in his hate language
also accidentally making it a fun parallel to the cut content of him stabbing ranger in canon
[She has a point.]
No evidence per se… but it's not like this place makes a secret of rewarding murder, and only one student graduated last year. There’s something motivating about it.
Even if it's not true, if you were convinced of it...
[Well... Sara can't lift a fed twelve year old! So it works out.]
something something surprise at threat not working 404 error.
IM CRYING HES SOOO CUTE he can have some wannabe mental violence as a treat
[Shin had been in the room when an argument had started that had turned into a physical fight. He hadn't said, or done anything, just held his breath and kept his head down. Getting involved? Wouldn't have ended well for him, who isn't six foot and made of metal.
He could practically feel his own mysteriously healed wounds again at the thought, and the sensation of slick blood.
Still...]
Need some help?
[Shin's a software guy; his experience with hardware runs to saving up his meagre earnings for a GPU and slotting the right parts into his rig. He can hold a coolant pipe in place though.]
[There's a... warmth here. He got her to laugh, unintentionally, not even sure how he actually did it, but it's happening.
No matter how many times he mentally stabbed him, Shin Tsukimi never really died, and it feels a bit like blood is going back into a limb. A strange, unsettling, and vulnerable sensation to let lie there without strangling it immediately.]
2C bc i found out he likes hiding in dark corners recently and i'm playing it to the hilt
[He noticed everyone having their beach episode, and might have been
Hey, Sidney... get down for a minute, will you? Ahaha, don't expect me to catch you if you fall off, though.
[Translation: take it slowly, please. Even with the loss of an arm, Sidney and the ladder combined probably weigh too much for him attempting to push at it to be anything but embarrassing, Hajun aside.
But, on the flip side, Shin at a somewhat medically concerning 49kg might be a bit easier to move. He's gotten his breath back a bit and has the side-leaning, balls-of-feet body language of someone who intends to climb the moment Sidney becomes safely on the ground.]
Right! [Addressed to Haruka with a smile that's a bit 'indulging a little kid' but he's trying. She is right; only one of them needs to go... something in the back of his mind is grinning and he's pointedly ignoring it. He holds the book out to her.] Ah, here. You should hold onto this just in case…
dsffsd from when i got mixed up about who was doing what in a thread
i unfortunately don't have any off cuts from when we rped but:
[He was kind of surprised that after this whole ordeal, Helena asked him to continue their swimming sessions but... maybe she needs some kind of distraction. He... could really use one as well, so he's only going to complain a little... it was cold enough last month. At least the pool showers are warm at the end.]
Of course, a blizzard starting up wasn't something he was expecting. It's going beyond just snowing a little on the way here, and now he's standing there by the side of the pool, changed with his towel folded over his arms, yet to actually get in.
Instead he's looking up at the ceiling, shivering a little, where the wind is starting to pick up and howl and rattle.]</small>
T-that doesn't sound good... Maybe we should call it. It'd suck if we got trapped in the pool building overnight, right?
[It's not stalling if there's a genuine concern.]
Ominousness isn't a colour but it might as well have been the way it was.
[Shin is on record in supplementary material as saying 'one month without food's fine right?' This is somehow an improvement.]