We close our eyes and the world has turned around again

[rassera]

WHO: Nonah #005, the people they associate with (YOU!)
WHERE: Nonah 05 and surrounding area
WHEN: All throughout May!
WHAT: General Catch all for the Month of May
WARNINGS: Tetsuo. The Iron Bull. Ken at times. The Air Gears are still there. HAZEL. Mark threads accordingly!

Links to specific starters will be below! If you want to thread anything out with a specific character, feel free to do it there!

TOP LEVELS:
KANEDA - TETSUO - HAZEL - KOMASAN

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Tetsuo

[iamtetsuo]

[Catch all for Tetsuo for the month! Hit me up on crobatman to plot things out with me or throw something here.]

May 3rd, Morning

[rassera]

Tetsuo.

[Kaneda had managed to catch Tetsuo when he meandered into the kitchen, wiping his hands off with a towel. He actually had a reason to speak with him right now--something very important.

It'd been on his mind the past month, and with Tetsuo now back to who he was and with FanPort over with...there was no reason to stall on this anymore.


He just hopes it goes over as well as he hopes. Which is to say, not well. Something like this won't ever go over well. But he can shield the blow with food, hopefully. The rice cooker is out, and he's got seaweed ready to make onigiri.]


We need to talk about something.


[Someone.]

[iamtetsuo]

Hm?

[It's a little too early for Tetsuo, wandering in a little blearily, but sometimes it's hard to keep sleeping without his heater of a brother there. Even so, he doesn't miss the weight to those words, sinking in his stomach.

He racks his brain, hard. What about? They haven't really had anything HAPPEN lately. Pan's out, but painfully enough Tetsuo hasn't gone out after him. Not yet. He's been mostly keeping to his own lack of devices in general. They already had the talk about Maya, so... hm. He can't guess ahead to what it is, so he jumps to clearly the correct and mature answer.]

I didn't do anything.

[There, crisis solved right.]

[rassera]

You didn't.

[He smiles at that, making sure Tetsuo knows he's not in trouble, in fact, he's already setting a plate down where he expects the boy to sit. He didn't want this to be a grim talk, even if it was a...looming serious matter.]


But we've got a little problem, and I'm gonna need your help with it, alright?


Nothing you can't handle.

[iamtetsuo]

Okay.

[Fine, he'll sit down. But (almost) more than the promised food, the confession Kaneda needs his help's got his interest.

'You mean you've got a problem', he almost says. He would have, a month or two ago. He couldn't really say why he doesn't now. Nnn... can this wait til it's not early? Whaaat?]

What's up...?

[rassera]

[Kaneda doesn't say anything, but opens the door to the backyard, showing Capsule laying on his back just by the koi pond.


You know, just harmlessly being a dog.



Meltdown imminent in 3...2...1...]

[iamtetsuo]

[The door..? There's nothing out there, just the shed, the pond, and-

....

Tetsuo's eyes widen, adrenaline shooting him into complete consciousness. He knows that shape. It's gotten way bigger from the last time he tried to make it vanish completely.

Regardless of what's in the way, that door's slamming shut as hard as he can push it. It's a lot faster than reaching all the way out to have to touch that thing.]

DAMMIT, Kaneda!!

[rassera]

[It manages to barely nick Kaneda's hand, shaking the pain out with a small wince as he leaps away when Tetsuo slams it shut.]

Dammit, Tetsuo!


[Okay, he just had to get that out. All better.]


You knew this was coming!

[iamtetsuo]

No I didn't!!

[Does he honestly expect that he can just go on living with an animal without ever encountering it?



maybe.]

[rassera]

You can't keep avoiding him like this!


[He's not surprised that Tetsuo would have that mentality, honestly. Not as surprised as he should be.]

[iamtetsuo]

Yes I can!

[rassera]

[He flings open the door again.]

Look at him!!


I've seen Skeener do more than he does!

[iamtetsuo]

[He's going to try to close that door again instead of having to stare at a dog. Nope.]

I don't care! I'm not gonna do it!

WHATEVER DAY IN CONVENIENT

[burnmetwice]

[So today there is a bird sprawled across the kitchen floor. He has his head resting on one of those enormous bags of white rice (sealed), elevating it to an angle to he can screw around with his phone while his leg rests (elevated by an upside-down pot) until a towel-wrapped back of ice. There's the tell-tale crunch of the ice maker making more.]

[iamtetsuo]

[As Tetsuo staggers back into the house, he's not particularly expecting anyone to be around, or not be around. People just are here, now... but it'd be best if he didn't run into anyone. Time's been passing, he hasn't gotten anywhere nearer to exacting revenge, but now he's starting to try to push his limits harder with predictable results.

Never here. They'd know.

There's water in the kitchen.. at least. Or tea, that sounds even better. So far, no one's around; the TV's even off. Now to wander a little further, rubbing at his head, gait just a little unsteady, and... oh come on!]

Wh- Kazu? What're you doing here?

[OH RIGHT DIDN'T HE LIVE HERE OR SOMETHING AT ONE POINT?]

[burnmetwice]

[Kazu knows that tone too well.]

Did you forget that I lived here again.

[iamtetsuo]

Tch! No.

[Yes. And before Kazu can see through his carefully constructed lie (read: really obvious), he follows that up with yet another seamless attempt at covering his tracks. Even more obvious than the last too; he's not usually the most caring or empathetic person out there. Especially when he's clearly not feeling too well himself.]

The hell happened to you, anyway?

[burnmetwice]

So obvious...

Eh, nothing really. I've just got some swelling... probably from running too much.

[iamtetsuo]

[He looks at Kazu, spread out helpfully exactly where he wants to go, then at the teakettle.. and unamusedly angles to take a step over him. No powers this time. He's not up to it.]

That again, huh...

[But this time, it's not like it was directly after fun times or anything. Or maybe it was, it's not like he's kept up with anyone.]

[burnmetwice]

Being a Stormrider means dancing on the edge of death. My joints will probably be dust in a decade and I'll need a synthetic skeleton.

[iamtetsuo]

[There, made it over him. Only almost fell once.]

So why do it.

[He tries to make that sound casual - beyond the eyeroll at the extremely dramatic way Kazu phrased that. Really? Come on.

But in truth, there's more to the question, and Tetsuo's bad at hiding things. Maybe even some judgement, at this point - you have a choice.]

[burnmetwice]

[Anticlimactically, Kazu just shrugs.]

I can't not do it, now.

[iamtetsuo]

You don't care it does that to you?

[There's no inflection in his voice. He digs out his mug, turning to fill it with water. All of this has a renewed interest to him; he can't not keep asking. It's Kazu's answers, but to questions he's not really asked himself yet. Not truly.]

[burnmetwice]

I mean... I care, I guess.

But—You know that even just by breathing, you're slowly setting yourself on fire, right? Oxidation. Same chemical process. But you still have to breath. A-T's like that. If I stopped... I'd shrivel up even smaller than I am now.

[I am personally sorry to everyone who reads this who does science.]

[iamtetsuo]

...

[Slowly, the water flows up the sides of his mug, eventually spilling over. Tetsuo's not paying attention in the slightest to that; he's busy focused on 'what the hell did you just say'.

Breathing is what?! He'll get to that metaphor in a second, what the fuck?]

You're full of shit. That's not true!

[..is it?! Breathing in gives you oxygen that you need to live, but he's not entirely sure what all it does. Something about blood moving it around the body...]