![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
week 5; bounty bonding
[everything is awful.
there's no doubt that everything is hitting critical point of the worst now that they've gotten a body count. it's not even each passing week that's awful, it's each passing day. but with how the day started and where it went so quickly? it's bad.
noct spent the morning helping shinnosuke out—in part because he knows they have to get along and work together... and in part because of that inherent need to do better looking out for someone who unfairly lost their vision. really, he knows that it isn't really something he should be doing—it's a bit of guilt projection that he can't really help; he did a bad job of looking out for ignis while mourning his own losses and left it to his other friends—now he needs to do better. for his sake, for shinnosuke's, and for everyone else's. but he'll keep it to himself, that part at least.
instead, what shinnosuke will get is something a little more reined in; he's got his hands full with his offering—a cup noodles in each hand, lid sealed with the water already inside to soften the noodles on his way upstairs. but with no hands free, noct taps at the door with his foot.]
Hey, Shinnosuke. Open up.
there's no doubt that everything is hitting critical point of the worst now that they've gotten a body count. it's not even each passing week that's awful, it's each passing day. but with how the day started and where it went so quickly? it's bad.
noct spent the morning helping shinnosuke out—in part because he knows they have to get along and work together... and in part because of that inherent need to do better looking out for someone who unfairly lost their vision. really, he knows that it isn't really something he should be doing—it's a bit of guilt projection that he can't really help; he did a bad job of looking out for ignis while mourning his own losses and left it to his other friends—now he needs to do better. for his sake, for shinnosuke's, and for everyone else's. but he'll keep it to himself, that part at least.
instead, what shinnosuke will get is something a little more reined in; he's got his hands full with his offering—a cup noodles in each hand, lid sealed with the water already inside to soften the noodles on his way upstairs. but with no hands free, noct taps at the door with his foot.]
Hey, Shinnosuke. Open up.
no subject
Haha. Looks like that's what happened, isn't it? Just... instead of Yuna losing her spirit, she died—but even that, he predicted from the very beginning, didn't he? If anything, she lasted longer than he thought she would. Still, he knew: that people like Yuna leave behind a void when they're gone. Everyone's reactions today prove that rather effectively.
At the moment, he's lying on his bed, trying to empty his head of thoughts. It's not working as well as he would've liked. (Not when the silence in his room reminds him of the other idiot he lost this week.)
Noct's voice breaks that silence. If it were someone else (Xion, namely; he can't think of who else could possibly care about him by this point), he would've ignored them, but if it's Noct... he's probably here on Bounty business, huh? As much as Shinnosuke doesn't want to have to deal with people now—or ever—he knows he can't ignore something like that.
Slowly, he gets up from his bed, grabs his walking stick (having since fetched it from the clinic), and walks over to the door, before opening it.]
What do you want?
no subject
[maybe there's something a little half-hearted, but it's not like he doesn't know it's the better approach. some people, you just have to be that way with. he can't pretend he knows how shinnosuke feels right now, after all. he doesn't know exactly how close he was with any of their victims, but the way he sauntered off after following jason and milla out—
well, it was telling enough.
he's experienced his fair share of loss before this shitty place, he knows how just walking away and trying to pretend it's all fine works.
(and he knows also, that it doesn't really work, hard as they try.)
but he doesn't pretend to know how deep that runs. and he's not going to ask, either. it's not his business, and he knows that even if he wanted to really know, shinnosuke wouldn't give him an answer. so it's a healthy dose of sass to accompany his helpfulness that noct will offer instead.]
Got a bit of time to kill before we gotta meet up with everyone. Figured it's a good time to eat something.
[so let him in the room properly because these cups are hot and he wants to not be holding them.]
no subject
Well, thank you kindly, but I'm not hungry, so you'll have to find someone else to have your meal with.
[Which is a complete lie, seeing as how he hasn't eaten anything all day, but.]
no subject
Tough. Noodles are already in the water and they'll get soggy if I try to take them anywhere else.
[flawless argument.]
Besides, nobody needs you tripping and falling on your face on the way to the meet-up.
no subject
As long as Jason isn't dripping blood everywhere, it'll be fine. I won't trip.
no subject
[why are you so difficult literally all the time, shinnosuke?]
no subject
[Okay, he gets the feeling that Noct is not going away, and maybe if he gives Noct small victories, he'll leave him alone in the future???
So while he doesn't look happy, he steps back to let Noct in.]
no subject
[joy!
not really joy, but whatever. either way, he'll set the cups down at the table and shake out his hands a bit.]
Yours is on the table. Don't waste it—they're a precious commodity.
no subject
[...]
Seriously, what are you here for?
[He does not believe that Noct is just here to feed him (which is already weird, mind you).]
no subject
[not that he really expects much less from shinnosuke, mind you.]
We're on the same side here.[though he says with a bit of an exasperated sigh.] Think whatever you want about it, what's done is done.
[he's not going to get sappy about it with shinnosuke of all people. he's worried? HE'S WORRIED, OKAY.]
where did my notif for this go
[HE DOES NOT COMPREHEND THIS.]
lost in the void of space ig
[lowkey FRIENDSHIP, the protag life.]
Deal with it.
no subject
no subject
[but.]
Doesn't mean today's any less crappy.
no subject
no subject
[it means that even if he's a pain in the ass, noct is concerned about him? but noct is just going to sigh about it.]
What's done is done, just accept it.