[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[seekthelight]

Well it's..me meeting my Nobody shouldn't have been possible, especially not back home. But we existed at the same time because my heart was protecting someone else's heart as well. Someone named Ventus. Roxas kind of looks more like him than he does me, if I'm going to be honest.

[Sorry Beckett. This isn't going to get any easier to understand.]

So Roxas was one part me and one part Ventus when I got turned into a Heartless. And then when I was returned to normal, Roxas was able to linger behind because he wasn't just me...if that makes sense.

[bookofnope]

It does, yes. The merging of essences naturally generates a third, independent essence. I've seen similar things. [True for so many things, that. He has a frame of reference, a way to understand almost any strangeness that the other worlds have thrown Y

You're one of those types for whom things that "shouldn't be possible" happen on a regular basis, aren't you.

[ecks]

To be fine just. yes.

[bookofnope]

There you are. Problem solved. If only all our problems were quite so straightforward.

Evening 148 (after lockdown); @zd; text

[swatsflies]

[ After talking to Brian, Zell decides to try Beckett. ]

Brian says you're around the fire station
Let me know if you see Zack around there.

[ He's hoping for the best. Really hoping. ]

[ecks]

They no to be forward straight.

[seekthelight]

[Oh. Holy crap. Someone that gets it!

Sora can't help but let out a weak laugh, a sheepish sound.]

You could definitely say that.

ohshit I just realised my tag came out messed up T_T

[bookofnope]

[Rather despite himself, Beckett gives a faint echoing laugh. Humourless - it always is these days. But it might be something.]

I've known my share of the sort. Sometimes it's almost enough to convince you that there is some greater plan at play after all.

Morning 149; text

[bookofnope]

I did see him. I assume you know by now.

[... yeah.]

[swatsflies]

[ There are a lot of things he could say.
See, this is why you should have gotten help in the first frickin place is pretty high on that list.
Seeing things isn't exactly helping with his mood, but he's tired. Way too tired to even start a fight about this.

Mussing up his own hair, before sending a message in response. ]

Yeah, I heard.
Haven't seen the damage yet. We're meeting with him later today.


[ After that is sent, another message quickly follows- ]

What about you? How bad is it?

[ Even after that, he's still worried about him. ]

[bookofnope]

[Oh, Zell. This just leaves Beckett thinking you're bottling this all up and will explode at him eventually. And he, too, is way too tired to deal with the thought in any way other than resenting it. Stick to text...]

Not pleasant, but not serious. And I'd say it's the same for him. I'm probably supposed to be grateful. Though he could at least have left me cuffed a little more comfortably.

[swatsflies]

[ That's his coping mechanism. Bottle it up and just work it off physically by punching flies air. ]

Sorry, I think I have all the pillows.
Mochi likes sitting on them when we travel.

Do you have anyone coming to unlock you?

No worries!

[seekthelight]

[Sora's going to take that as a good sign all the same.]

Yeah...that's how things back home were. It seemed pretty cut and paste but then it turned out that the entire fight we were involved in was actually a war that had been going on for a really long time.

@jwatson; text; Night 150

[jumpthegun]

This is gonna sound like a really weird question, but can you tell someone's blood type from the taste of their blood?

[bookofnope]

Brian already has. My regular rescuer. I'm considering getting him a white horse and a shining armour.

[He hates being rescued. Almost as much as he hates losing control.]

Is that all your worries taken care of? I'd appreciate if we could get to the inevitable yelling. The sooner we begin the sooner we'll be done.

[swatsflies]

Bet we could find a stuffed one for him.

[ And there it is. ]

Going to have to give you a raincheck on the yelling.
Not the best time for either of us.
If you really want I can see if the other two feel up to the task.

[bookofnope]

Jade would like that.

[And there it is indeed. Somehow the prospect of being yelled at by Kunsel is worse than that of Zell, and Jim... he's pretty sure with him it's past even yelling.

It's a good thing he doesn't care. Or doesn't intend to care.]

It'd be pointless yelling, either way. There's nothing either of us could have done differently. Except perhaps allowing him to cuff me to begin with, and you'll excuse me if I don't find that option terrible enticing.

[bookofnope]

And so you've become responsible, in some part, for the fate of all existence - as you know it, at least. You'll pardon me if I still have some trouble taking that part at your word.

[A little sardonic, but not openly hostile. There is the faintest promise of answers in what Sora tells him, and he is - disastrously, he thinks - still drawn to that.]

Why you in particular? Do you have any idea?

[swatsflies]

They don't seem to want to yell anyways.
Kunsel is asking if you still plan on declining the help he offered before.

[ And the part about letting Zack cuff him... He knows Beckett is pretty high on the list of people Zack doesn't like. It's been a bump of contention in the group. ]

Yeah, you aren't exactly his favorite person.
[ He's pretty sure that's putting it lightly from how Zack was before they asked Beckett to help out with the keys. ]

Going to change your tactics?

text;

[bookofnope]

A weird question deserves a weird answer: yes, I can. Of all vampiric talents, that appears to have stayed with me.

Do I want to know why you ask?

text;

[jumpthegun]

I spoke with the Admin about MN scrubbers and she said they can't be redirected. But if I can find the supplies for a safe transfusion, we can maybe have some of the healthy people here who haven't been affected by MN Poisoning donate to those who're most affected. In the worst case, they'll get a little extra endurance and lung capacity for the donation. Best case, it'll help regulate the effects of the MN.

I'm O+, but I know a lot of people don't know their blood-type. I have someone who's agreed to help, but I want to know if I can safely donate to him.

[bookofnope]

Ingenious - if it works. Of course, you are only taking into account the obvious physical symptoms of the poisoning. It may be difficult to tell who is actually unaffected, and who is merely not showing it in an obvious way.

But you are the doctor. I'm willing to do this, if we take the appropriate precautions. Who is your volunteer, and how do they feel about being sampled, so to speak?

[bookofnope]

[There's an odd pause. He's relieved.]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Poor Kunsel must be tired onto death of yelling. Tell him I'm considering my options.

[It's the truth, and not a pretty truth, so Kunsel had damn well better believe he's being honest with them.]

I am sorry about the problems I'm no doubt causing you with Jim. Though you are choosing to keep up this association of your own free will, so I could say you have only yourself to blame.

day 155; @guardian; text; being physically right by angel doesn't save u from valentines jsyk;

[phaseshifter]

Fresh blood is red,
Then dark when it clots.
Today you get hugs,
Because I love you lots!
Happy Loverpalooza! ♥

text; he's probably in another room facepalming in a loving fashion

[bookofnope]

Congratulations on hitting just that exquisite balance of sweet and deeply disturbing.