[ completely and total silence as the voice-mail continues to record. He repeats it again, voice a little more forceful this time. Then-- ]
You were the one who said you’d always answer when I called, you liar! [ in typical Ritsuka fashion, there’s an irritated sigh. most likely he’s debating whether to just hang onto that irritation and hang up the phone, leaving it at that. but he’d made a promise to Yuiko to ask, and he didn't break promises. ]
Fine, don’t pick up.
Yuiko wants you to go with us to the amusement park later. I told her you were busy, but she wouldn’t stop asking. …I’m not going to order to you to come. [ he’s hesitating. Naturally, he covers this up with, you guessed it, more tsuning. ] I want you to go if you want to. That’s an order! I order you to show up only if you want to go! I know if I don’t you’ll show up because you think I said you have to. [ when he finishes, for just a little while, there’s so sound except for him shifting around on his bed. ]
Just show up if you can, or if you want to. If you don’t, then don’t. But don’t cause any trouble or do anything weird!
I’m hanging up now! So don’t call me because I’m going to bed!
[ and the call disconnects without so much as a goodbye. ]
In addition, I figured I’d include the test drive memes thread for a little more variety: Here!
Sample Entry Two: Sample from [Bad username or unknown identity: ”exitvoid”]!
Sometimes, Ritsuka wishes he had his camera with him aboard the Charon. It’s in a place like this, taken to some strange ship at sea, in an ocean he doesn’t recognize (and certainly not his own world, because for all the strange things he’s seen so far, none of them have been like this.) that pictures would be the most helpful.
Sometimes a feeling of unreality sets in, and he wishes he had the camera just so he can prove sometime later that this did happen. That he did end up someone so bizarre with his once-dead brother alive again.
He’d photograph…well, everything, really. The unusual places, and the odd people, and bizarre creatures. And then he’d take them back and put them somewhere where only he can see, because he doesn't think Yuiko and or Yayoi or even Soubi would ever really believe him (and he knows his teachers or his therapist won’t). But even if no one else did, he’d have the pictures and the memories as undeniable proof that it had happened, that for however long he was here this place and these people had existed.
But his camera is long gone, left in his bag where he’d dropped it as soon as his Mother had begun to pull him violently toward the bathroom to try and drown him. He’d awoken aboard the Charon before he even got the chance to think of fishing it out. He wouldn’t have needed it for the night anyway.
So instead he does his best to see as many of these things as he can, (carefully, of course, and never without Seimei nearby) to talk to these people, and take in all these places. He commits them to memory as best he can (though there’s a constant underlying worry about how unreliable memory can be, and he should know most of all) and swears to --at the very least-- get the things he learns written down when he can.
Ritsuka knows better than anyone how faulty memory can be, but if he can’t take his photos to have undeniable proof they it did happen, that he did exist in another world even for a short time, then the least he can do is make every attempt to remember the names and faces around him.
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Soubi, answer your phone.
[ completely and total silence as the voice-mail continues to record. He repeats it again, voice a little more forceful this time. Then-- ]
You were the one who said you’d always answer when I called, you liar! [ in typical Ritsuka fashion, there’s an irritated sigh. most likely he’s debating whether to just hang onto that irritation and hang up the phone, leaving it at that. but he’d made a promise to Yuiko to ask, and he didn't break promises. ]
Fine, don’t pick up.
Yuiko wants you to go with us to the amusement park later. I told her you were busy, but she wouldn’t stop asking. …I’m not going to order to you to come. [ he’s hesitating. Naturally, he covers this up with, you guessed it, more tsuning. ] I want you to go if you want to. That’s an order! I order you to show up only if you want to go! I know if I don’t you’ll show up because you think I said you have to. [ when he finishes, for just a little while, there’s so sound except for him shifting around on his bed. ]
Just show up if you can, or if you want to. If you don’t, then don’t. But don’t cause any trouble or do anything weird!
I’m hanging up now! So don’t call me because I’m going to bed!
[ and the call disconnects without so much as a goodbye. ]
In addition, I figured I’d include the test drive memes thread for a little more variety: Here!
Sample Entry Two: Sample from [Bad username or unknown identity: ”exitvoid”]!
Sometimes, Ritsuka wishes he had his camera with him aboard the Charon. It’s in a place like this, taken to some strange ship at sea, in an ocean he doesn’t recognize (and certainly not his own world, because for all the strange things he’s seen so far, none of them have been like this.) that pictures would be the most helpful.
Sometimes a feeling of unreality sets in, and he wishes he had the camera just so he can prove sometime later that this did happen. That he did end up someone so bizarre with his once-dead brother alive again.
He’d photograph…well, everything, really. The unusual places, and the odd people, and bizarre creatures. And then he’d take them back and put them somewhere where only he can see, because he doesn't think Yuiko and or Yayoi or even Soubi would ever really believe him (and he knows his teachers or his therapist won’t). But even if no one else did, he’d have the pictures and the memories as undeniable proof that it had happened, that for however long he was here this place and these people had existed.
But his camera is long gone, left in his bag where he’d dropped it as soon as his Mother had begun to pull him violently toward the bathroom to try and drown him. He’d awoken aboard the Charon before he even got the chance to think of fishing it out. He wouldn’t have needed it for the night anyway.
So instead he does his best to see as many of these things as he can, (carefully, of course, and never without Seimei nearby) to talk to these people, and take in all these places. He commits them to memory as best he can (though there’s a constant underlying worry about how unreliable memory can be, and he should know most of all) and swears to --at the very least-- get the things he learns written down when he can.
Ritsuka knows better than anyone how faulty memory can be, but if he can’t take his photos to have undeniable proof they it did happen, that he did exist in another world even for a short time, then the least he can do is make every attempt to remember the names and faces around him.