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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 11:27 am
Melvin stood on the training field, jacket resting over a training dummy nearby as he stood in a t-shirt. With spars, it was often too hot to wear a sweater and with the sun out, it was even worse.
Harrison was usually only snarky to those that insulted his boyfriends (or husband now in this case), but the man stuck his nose too far when it came to matters Melvin never asked him to be involved in. Being a moon meant you cared about a person's health, but this had nothing ot do with his health. He was eating…somewhat, and he drank to help him sleep, which meant he was resting. Regardless of that, what did it matter if he wasn't on tip-top form. Anyone could understand he would be a bit distraught to be alone and waiting for his girlfriend to return after several months without her. It shouldn't be Harrison's duty to come and tell him he should get laid by someone else.
Anger, he waited for the moon to show himself.
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 20-sided dice:
18
Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:02 pm
Harrison rested B0nez on one shoulder, cocking his hip as he gave Melvin a look over. He felt sorry for the guy, really. It was a shitty thing to happen to you. And he guessed he wouldn't move on, either, but he sure as hell wouldn't convince himself Rep was on some kind of ******** up vacation. It had been a hard few months.
But if he wanted to fight, fine. Harrison had nothing against it.
"Ready when you are," he told Melvin.
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MoonKitsune rolled 1 20-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:15 pm
He took a battle ready stance, stepping back a few feet in order to give him a bit more range, and looked at the moon. "What, you can only defend?" He asked, bringing Saliva up and waiting for the moon to make his move.
"I didn't take you for a person to butt in on people's lives. Especially love lives." He said, aiming the gun barrel at the moon's head.
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 12-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-12)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:37 pm
"Guess we're gonna find out, huh?" Harrison asked.
He rolled his shoulders, and put B0nez on the ready.
"Usually I ******** don't. But you're a friend. So that just makes you lucky, I guess."
HP: 60
DEF: self
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 7
Total: 14 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:43 pm
"I never once butted into your guys' ******** up relationship, and you never once gave a damn about me and Rin before. You never even said anything to be about any of it. What? Is it because now that she's not around, you think I should ******** other people?" Did he just think Rin was some shitty person that he shouldn't be with?
"Don't like her or something? Just cause she was with Rep before you?" Or he assumed. If not, then Rin was with Rep during or some time during a breakup. Melvin had tried to find more details about it, but Rin had been pretty animate about keeping him from fixating too much on that detail of her past.
He narrowed his eyes and fired, seeing as Harrison was making no move to dodge his attack. If the moon was going to stand there, he'd be used as target practice.
HP: 50/50
Dmg: 8
Charge: 1/3
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 12-sided dice:
10
Total: 10 (1-12)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:53 pm
Harrison knocked off part of the energy blast, but some snuck through. He figured the mid-range practice was good anyhow.
"Me and Rin weren't best pals or anything, sure, mostly because she was so ******** nosy. But I never had a problem with you two being together. Why the ******** would I? It's because she's dead and you keep acting like any minute she's going to walk right back through the doors, and you guys will pick up back where you left off."
HP: 57
DEF: self
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
5, 2
Total: 7 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:11 pm
"And she won't?! You don't know everything there is to know about this world, Harrison. Just because you're a moon doesn't make you an expert on living. You just patch up people until they get to us. I've read more and saw more people researching the impossible than you have, and even still. How can you even say anything with any certainty? After all we've been through. Even you admitted people come back from the impossible. We go through worlds and go through s**t we shouldn't live through. We come back. People come back, Harrison." He said, his voice rising with each declaration. It was said to the moon, it was said to the world all around him, and it came more as a rehearsed speech in his own mind spoken out loud than a on the spot idea. It had been something he cycled in his own mind - people came back.
Any day now, Rin would go through the portal in the lighthouse and either be rushed to the Infirmary to heal from whatever trauma she had been through in the past few months or she would return like they all would, dazed but whole. ...well, whole-ish.
They were Hunters. The very thing they were was impossible. Tell someone they had monsters as weapons and killed Halloween spirits from a Holiday world of Fear and people would think you were crazy. How could Harrison say what he felt wasn't true?
He aimed again, but the small target of someone's head versus their body made it more difficult.
"You don't know what the hell you're talking about."
HP: 50/50
Dmg: 1
Charge: 2/3
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 12-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-12)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:25 pm
"The people that come back aren't right. I've seen Julie, since...she's all ******** up with fog. Can't remember s**t. Isn't all there, sure as hell isn't human. Melvin, I know s**t is weird. But I know how long Killzone's been dead. And Clarice. And them that died on New Years. Fourteen years. It's...better if they don't come back. It means they went to the right place. She's gone. You can go to her, but she can't come to you. Not on this plane, anyhow."
B0nez lit up with a charge.
HP: 57
DEF: self
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
4, 10
Total: 14 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:32 pm
"So! Maybe some people come back messed up. If she can't remember, then I'll help her remember. If she's sick, then I'll help with that too. It's what I'm here for. I don't know who these other people are and maybe they are dead, but that doesn't mean some aren't. It doesn't mean some people can't come back just because some other people died. We're still figuring out stuff in the labs. We're...We're still earning stuff. We keep getting artifacts and going on missions - maybe we'll find something that will help her." Help her return more quickly - to help whatever was preventing her from coming home.
"Whatever is wrong with her...will be wrong with her....I'll spend ever moment of my life figuring out how to reverse it so she can be back to her old self again. It's..what I should do." Not as a Lifer. As her boyfriend. As the person she protected.
As the person she was protecting when she went away.
As the person who -
"How do you even know it's the right place? She could be trapped somewhere. She could be in hell right now - lost in some other world like we all were before on missions. In some room or dungeon or whatever. I can't let her be there. I can't let her be lost like that."
DMG: 8
Charge: 3/3
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Toshihiko Two rolled 7 4-sided dice:
1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, 4
Total: 20 (7-28)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:44 pm
"Alright. Let's say, because you're a ******** science guy, that you're smarter than every other science guy on this planet. Smarter than H, and a hundred thousand years of science. And even though nobody ******** else has done it before, you bring her back, not as something ******** awful using some parts of her, but all back. Human. Hunky-dory. And let's say you're right, the afterlife is some awful place we all get trapped in."
Harrison aimed the end of B0nez's largest sword at Melvin's chest. B0nez shrieked in his head excitedly about...whatever.
INFINITE LIVES.
The shot went wide, making a smoking crater in the training field grass.
"Well what the ******** does it matter, Melvin? You know where she'll be a couple of years after that anyhow, after all that hard work. You know where you and me'll be? In the same place. Dead as doornails. That's the deal. We get born, we live, we die. I just don't see how you like, ******** skipped over this. That is the ******** basics."
HP: 57
DEF: self
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 9
Total: 17 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:57 pm
"I'm not saying people don't die! People die all the time. It's not like I haven't been to a funeral before." His grandfather had died when he was young and he had been to that. True, his understanding of death had been basic, but he had cried with the rest of his family nonetheless.
But this was different. His grandfather died after a long, normal life and due to natural causes. The things you expect people to die from. Stroke. Not taking care of yourself. Drinking a bit too much in the evening and putting too much salt on your scrambled eggs in the morning.
It was a list of the typicals everyone died from. The deaths you were prepared for. You died from your body getting this or that cancer, or you got old and hurt yourself. Or maybe someone drove drunk and hit you. These were tragic - but you heard them take the lives of so many others that they became normal.
And yet, it didn't apply right now to him. It was typical for hunters to die against the horsemen. Typical for hunters to die against any Fear creature from this place or that. They came back from missions and were left on the table after surgery, past what even the doctors could do. It's why they even had a morgue. Hunters died. Dying was typical for them.
But this hadn't been typical. Rin's death hadn't been typical. Expected. Normal.
"I don't have to be a genius to know that s**t happens - and even crazier s**t can happen. There are people who think they are dead and they get saved. We go and save them. There are people who make it. There are people who get weird things happening to their bodies. Why can't - Why can't you just admit there is just the small possibility some weird way and magic can have her coming back? Why are you so hellbent on saying this s**t?"
He had to hear Harrison just admit this. The moon had to know Rin was coming back. He had to see that there was hope here for people to return, that there was even a small fraction that the world would turn on it's axis as it always seemed to do for them, and the weirdest possibilities opened up to them again.
"Weird stuff happens all the time. They have ...the horsemen have magic. That tower was magical. The entire thing wasn't even possible. So how can you say this is impossible?"
He looked down at Saliva and brought the weapon back up. "She can die normally like all the other hunters, but that - that wasn't right." She wasn't allowed to die THAT way. Not when she had been fine before. Not when she had been smiling when she knelt over him to see if he was alright. Not when she had been healthy and fine in those few seconds.
She couldn't have died that way - when she was protecting him.
His hands were shaking as he brought the pistol back up, not knowing if Harrison had missed on purpose or not. Was it just a warning.
"She can come back and die the right way if that's what she is meant to do, but not that way." And he fired.
Dmg: 11
HP: 50/50
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 12-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-12)
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:17 pm
Harrison took the hit hard, stumbling back, but his shield was still up.
He drew up his swords again.
"She died, Melvin. Regular. A lot of folks get killed by horsemen, and they don't come back. It's shitty, but it's okay. It's ******** okay that she died. She had a good death. Her weapon was alright. You brought her body back. She didn't get her memories destroyed, or her soul twisted up, or get tortured for months as a ******** fear battery, or used as a p..puppet. This job has risks worse than death, and against the odds, she did her time and made it out okay."
HP: 46
DEF: self
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 5
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 3:07 am
"What is wrong with you? How can you even call yourself a moon when you don't even have any sort...any sort of hope for people surviving?!" How could Harrison come to him and deny him any sort of possibilities when he had been a hunter longer than Melvin had and no doubt seen more of the type of s**t they all went through? How could he say NO flat out as if it was fact when even realities themselves were put into question almost on a daily basis?
"You're wrong and you KNOW you're wrong. You're just being an a*****e and I don't get why? I never did anything to you. I never ******** did anything to anyone." And he was being hurt by this hunter. Harrison was only doing this for some reason to hurt him, and out of all the times he rarely spoke to the hunter yet was nice to the friends around him, he didn't get why Harrison would come and start saying these things.
For only a moment, he considered the possibility that Harrison was bringing up as a hypothetical. Anything more caused his heart to start beating fast in a panic at what he would dawn on feeling. That Rin had an end, that her power, her life, and her love, had an end. A mortal end despite Hunter powers and an end he helped bring on to her.
"And...And if she's - then what? What if she comes back to me then if I am with some a*****e p***k on this island. Some replacement. Then how can I look her in the eyes then? How could you look Rep in the eyes if he left and came back?" He couldn't hurt her more if that happened. He wanted to be there for her just as she had been there for him, thinking about him, like she had during that mission.
Because he could feel the guilt eat at every single possibility like rising tides waiting to see which side to hit. Each hand, living or dead, held it's own poison, but the one where he was faithful and she would come back was smaller and gave him a sense of being a good person.
And not the monster who took away a amazing person from this world.
He continued to raise his gun, but it became harder and harder to even see his target through the stinging in his eyes and his own shaking arms. "You're an a*****e and a s**t moon. If she's, then you weren't there for you. You should have been there protecting her and rep. You should have stopped it." And he thought about that. Where had been the Suns and the Moons? Where had been the people there to protect Rin when he himself had been such a s**t person and so weak? When everyone seemed to know he couldn't protect anyone, why had Rin felt she had to take that role? She wasn't a moon. She wasn't a Sun. And yet she had been there to watch over him, and she had taken that damage.
He fired once more and despite his quick breathing and misting eyes, he hit.
Dmg: 7
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Toshihiko Two rolled 0-sided dice:
Total: 0 (-0)
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:03 am
Harrison took part of another hit, energy arching off B0nez's blade and onto his arm.
"There's lines. You want to be faithful with her forever and meet up after, okay. You want to pretend like she's just gone on vacation, you're just gonna get hurt in the end. How long are you going to wait? And if you want to do s**t about it, like bring her back, you're going to ******** things up for everybody. The whole of the natural order. And it sounds romantic but it's just shitty. Listen, Melvin. There's a Christmas. There's a Santa Clause. There's Halloween, and vampires, and an Easter bunny. Everything we ever dreamed up is true. Our fears and hopes. I been an Ancient. A thousand years, I saw people get born and die, I fed off of a section of the power that we got. With everything I seen, I know there's an after. There's a heaven and a hell, too. If I had to guess, I'd say there's thousands of them. And I sound like some kind of religious nutjob, but it's the truth- you can't get too focused on this part of the long stretch of eternity that we got. She's somewhere. She's okay. You'll see her again. And if you hooked up in the mean time, she'd probably just ask if they had bigger tits than her or not."
Harrison lowered B0nez.
"I don't want to ******** up your s**t, man. I just want you to be happy. If it makes you happy or able to deal with s**t, dwelling on it, I won't say anything else to you about it."
Rin being alive again was a lie, but at the end of the day, it was Melvin's life. People had lived with bigger lies, there wasn't anything inherently good about being right about all the s**t. In the end, Harrison didn't think Melvin was as smart as Clarice or H. He doubted Melvin was going to ******** up the universe for more than anybody but himself. And who was Harrison to say that he was definitely ******** it up?
"You're a good guy. I know you care about folks, and miss your family, and how personal you take s**t. And I also know-" and Melvin had said it on Twitter, why he'd left his family in the first place, "you think people are better off without you, like you're a hassle. And that's not the ******** case, man. You're worthwhile. You care about s**t. You got a lot to offer. Rin saw it, I see it. You're gonna be okay too."
HP: 43
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 7
Total: 17 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:52 pm
"You can't be sure about that. You can't be sure about anything, Harrison. You weren't sure when you told me about the morgue thing, so don't try and then tell me she's in a better place. She could be in a worse place. She could be somewhere like the fog." He didn't want to think about her – without her body.
"I don't even get why you are trying to make me feel better about this. You say I'm a good person but you don't know me. We barely even talk to each other. No one barely talks to me. The only people who really got to know me is Rep and Rin. So you can't say I'm a good person. A good person wouldn't let people protect him and be worthless in battle. A good person wouldn't let people take that sort of fall. A good person wouldn't just date someone else like it's nothing."
He aimed again.
"The only good people don't even last on this shithole of a island."
Dmg: 11
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