[ closed ] everything that kills me

[lyingheart]

WHO: a lion, rabbit, and centipede walk into a bar and... annie & touka & ken
WHERE: mountains outside nonah NC
WHEN: april 4th
WHAT: stargazing!!!
WARNINGS: potential thoughts on cannibalism so warning for that.

[ The trip out on the train to one of the more rural stations has been uneventful. Annie holds the collapsed telescope in her lap along with a backpack, dressed in layers enough to cope with any unexpected cold. As the train pulls into the station, she looks up, indicating for her companions to stand and head for the doors. ]

It's going to be a bit of a walk. I hope you don't mind.

[ If they really mind then none of them were hardcore enough to take Ken's birthday present to Annie out for a test drive, but she doesn't think it's actually going to be a problem. They're going moongazing really, after she talked to Houka about what made more sense to look at with the telescope, and with the moon full, they couldn't be asking for a better night. ]

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[lyingheart]

[ Look at who they are Touka it's inevitable ]

At some point, both species need each other. Enough humans leaving means ghouls leave too. Depending on how long you've existed historically... you're part of the natural process of adaptation and survival for humans, just as they're the same for you. At the same time...

[ She says, speaking slowly as she examines the moon through the lens of the telescope. ]

... wouldn't it be a little amazing for everyone, no matter the species?

[enucleation]

[ Touka what canon did you think you came from???

Kaneki steps away enough to look around their current spot, wanting to make sure everything is alright, wanting to make sure there is no one nearby. He still hears the two girls, and still speaks to them, but his focus is on everything else, back to them as khe looks around ]

Process of adaptation. I wonder if making artificial ghoul should be called that... [ Kanou said something about it, didn't he? The world as it truly is. Break free from the mangled birdcage that keeps humanity. In order to do that, he used ghouls.

Heterosis.

The world as it really is, and as it can become.

Joining Aogiri and the Doctor. Back then, he almost said yes.

Kaneki's head is so loud right now. It's banging, like a siren that won't shut up. It's inside, all of it, inside his brain and it'll explode and spill out-

He hears Annie's voice and turns his head to look at her. He is back, just like that ]

Amazing? ... yeah. I suppose that's true. That's why so many people look at the skies, isn't it?

IM SO SORRY IM SO LATE 8(

[hunterrabbit]

[Gosh, fine. She's still joining in, isn't she?]

Hm- what? So they can adapt to having better ways of killing each other? [What good is a "need" like that? That's all it's ever really brought about.

Yeah, it's hard not to have a pessimistic outlook on all of this.

But as for space? Traveling to the moon or to other planets- that idea is amazing.]

Knowing people can actually get up there already- even that alone is impressive. [She pauses for a moment, and looks between the two of them.] Think you'd go, then? If you had the chance to.

ROLLS YOU IN A BALL OF LOVE

[lyingheart]

No.

[ no hesitation on annie's part. hahaha space... ]

I have enough troubles with my feet on the ground. I'm not interested in the constraints of space.

[enucleation]

There is too much to do here on Earth still.

[ of course Kaneki would say that. But he doesn't think someone or something like him should be up there at all. Really, ghouls in space? he shares the same opinion as TOuka about that. ]

Anyway, I'd like to try out zero gravity, though.

[hunterrabbit]

I think I'd like to see you trying it out, yeah. [It'd probably be a sight to behold.]

I'd rather stick to whatever gravity I'm already used to.

[lyingheart]

Can't you experience that in free fall inside an airplane?

[ She glances up into the night sky, musing out loud. She read about something like that. ]

[enucleation]

[ can they? Kaneki blinks before he laughs lightly ] I never did that, so I don't know. Maybe?

All I ever did was jump from a building and I could feel gravity alright.

[ he places his hands behind his head ] That sounds like fun, though. [ THEY NEXT ACTIVITY ]

[hunterrabbit]

[She's jumped off her fair share of buildings too, but that's a different kind of gravity experience.]

Then there're those people who jump out of planes. Skydiving or whatever it's called.

[lyingheart]

Yes... though you need to stay in the plane for the effect. The rest is an extended fall. You have to remember to breathe.

[ Or else suffocate while falling, which is a little amusing. Suffocate in a cloud. ]

[enucleation]

[ Kaneki hums ]

I used to be scared of doing any of that. [ Skydiving, bungee jumping, free fall ] But I think it sounds like fun now.

Annie, didn't you ump off a building with a parachute at some point?

[hunterrabbit]

Jumping off buildings on a regular basis would definitely help kill the fear factor, yeah. I don't know if I'd like relying on a parachute, though...[Because if it doesn't work? You're screwed, right?]

[lyingheart]

Yes, for charity. ... Also because one of the businesses I work for requested as much.

[ What can she say? A lot, but in the end, she'd gone along with it. ]

Checking parachutes over before packing them is part of the necessity. I don't know... free fall isn't so scary. Pulling the chord is exhilarating in it's own way. If nothing happened, then - well.

It's over faster than you can recognise.