Yuzuru Otonashi (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
coffeejunkie) wrote2013-03-19 10:45 pm
coffeejunkie) wrote2013-03-19 10:45 pm
Entry tags:
02nd beat; written > voice
[Some of you might remember a certain set of house rules going up prior to Yuri's disappearance. Otonashi isn't exactly second-in-command, but Hinata is emotionally out of commission, Naoi had already taken the burden of announcing her departure, and Noda is MIA.
Oh, and Yotsuba is too young to be making rules.. even though the potential for comedy is there.]
1. No loud music, shouting, or being loud after 11pm. There’s a little girl trying to sleep! It doesn’t matter if you stay up late, but keep the noise down.
2. Keep your eroge and other 18+ fare safely put away! If it’s left out in the living room, I’ll confiscate it. Yotsuba shouldn’t have to see that and neither should any visitors!
3. Everyone follows the rules. Even you, Noda..!
4. Please?
5. Try to keep your rooms clean.
6. Clean up after yourself in the kitchen.
7. Don’t leave your underwear in the bathroom… Keep that clean too.
8. The house is everyone’s responsibility, not just one person’s! Especially not just mine.
9. DON’T KILL EACH OTHER. I don’t care that it “didn’t matter” in the afterlife, it always matters!
10. Don’t make medieval traps! This includes BUT ISN'T LIMITED TO hammer traps, falling ceilings, collapsing floors, and spike pits! If you saw it in a JRPG dungeon, you can't make it in the house! (We can play an RPG instead.)
11. Don’t train in the living room! Keep it to your own room if you insist on doing it in the house…
12. Yotsuba: Make sure you go to school and do well. If you do, I’ll make sure to pick you up a gift at the end of each week. Oh, and find an adult that isn’t Noda if someone is bothering you!
13. Continue respecting Hayate.
14. If you want to set up an in-house visit, mark it either on the white board that Yuri set up or somewhere we can see it. It's better to let everyone know.
15. Don’t measure yourselves in the living room… Why is this even a problem..?! I won’t tell you that you can’t do it privately, because I know that’ll make you just want to do it more.
Noda, this means you… I've heard about your "competitions" and I'm telling now, I don't care..!
16. House meetings are still held on Sunday.
17. RESPECT EVERYONE'S PRIVACY. Knock before entering rooms unless it is an emergency! If I see you barging in, I'll... yell at you!
18. No throwing furniture, halberds, weapons, people, or… goldfish…
19. Why is there a goldfish named after me again..?
20. Okay! Please follow the rules. They aren’t even that hard to follow, you guys…
21. Don't discount me because I'm not Yuri! I don't think I should have to put on a bow and thigh-highs to enforce a rule around here...
-- voice;
[Well, there is a distinct lack of Yuri-specific rules. Like it or not, Yuri Nakamura is no longer in Luceti. He's in no rush to replace her, but the acceptance and healing process has to start somewhere. So, he might as well be the one to take initiative.]
I think that should do for now, unless I missed something... Any, uh... suggestions? [No punishment games though! Otonashi isn't much of a disciplinarian.]
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[A few minutes would pass before the heaving if his chest would start to settle, jagged sobs softening into gentle whimpers before fizzling out completely. Slowly, he pulled himself away from the much needed embrace, standing properly. His eyes were predictably red and puffy, his face wet with tears and nose drippings.]
[He wiped his nose on the back of his hand, swallowing audibly and trying to compose himself. As a distraction, he turned to the stove, putting the kettle on to boil.]
Do you think... we'll all go back to the afterlife? Or is this just... the place we go before we're reborn..? [He'd been doing a lot of thinking on the subject, which wasn't exactly helpful, but wasn't it only natural for humans to wonder what lay beyond?]
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Hinata... We'll go back. We have to, don't we? If the way to be reborn is to accept our fates, then... I know you haven't. Yuri hasn't! I... [He hesitates. What did he even have to accept? Could he ever leave if he never remembered? It scares him; as much as he feels like he should remember, none of his memories reappear to him. Is it so bad that he shouldn't remember? Would things change if he did? Though Otonashi hesitates, he says nothing of his fears.
Still, he can't take back that long pause.]
I'm... sure we'll be back. If I... went back before, I'll go again.
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[What?]
[The final word left his mouth dry, busying himself with the neglected glass of water he'd left on the counter, avoiding Otonashi's eyes as he gulped some of it down.]
How can you know if you went back or not? [Without an authority figure to tell him to stuff it, he remained skeptical of Otonashi having been in Luceti before. How could that even be possible?] You don't remember it, and the only people that say you've been here are... [Lavender eyes flick briefly to Naoi's bedroom door on the other side of the house.] ...not really trustworthy.
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But with the inevitable tension rearing its head again, he turns away.]
Other people seem to know me too. Not in a good way! Naoi seems to be the only one that's trusting me in all of this. [It stings a little. Otonashi wants to help, but he's having a particularly hard time helping people like Noda and Hinata when they'll only listen to it from Yuri. Anyone who knew Yuri as an authority figure believes in her far more than him, and the opposition is an added strain (though not one he is unwilling to take). By comparison, Naoi has been easy to check up on, but of course Naoi has a strong bias in Otonashi's favor.]