I can move mountains, I can work a miracle [OPEN]

[rassera]

WHO: The residents of Nonah 05 + YOU!
WHERE: Nonah, Residence #005
WHEN: All month long (January)
WHAT: Nonah 05 open log for January Shenanigans
WARNINGS: Obligatory Bull and Tetsuo warnings apply.


Starters will be appearing in the comments. If you want something specific from any one person (Kaneda rassera, Tetsuo iamtetsuo, Bull rideme and Ken amadaman), feel free to drop them a line and ask! Otherwise, feel free to add your own starters for the whole household or individual residents as you like.

Comments

[burnmetwice]

Me? Well, maybe it counts that Pan kind of stole me... borrowed... That can't be the reason, though. There's no way Ikki was summoned here just because his minion was temporarily requisitioned.

[resoundingpledge]

Have you ever been temporarily requisitioned before?

[burnmetwice]

Er.

Nooo...

[resoundingpledge]

And the timing is just right, isn't it?

So that's it. That's your 'how we're here'.

[ Content with that puzzle solved, she stretches her legs out under his, holding it a moment before letting them relax. ]

[burnmetwice]

[Gaaah. That's. Right. That's still a thing. Kazu flushes a little and sinks back against the mattress because his everything hurts a lot.]

Usually the protagonist gets extra-dimensionally teleported first...

[resoundingpledge]

It's hard to have rescue missions and heartfelt reunions with long-lost friends that way. And harder for the audience to follow the genre-shift, too.

[ It's definitely still a thing, and she slips her fingers back under the blankets, pressing them carefully back into the muscles of his calf. ]

Besides, this way we can rely a bit on your exposition, too. At least as soon as you're feeling better.

[burnmetwice]

[He winces a little. Not even because Kururu is really hurting him; the touch just reminds him of how beat to hell he feels.]

... You've been taking care of me this whole time? I really owe you, Kururu. I don't think anyone here really knows how to deal with AT injuries...

[resoundingpledge]

[ She shakes her head, fingers steady and slow. ]

I'm not as good at this part as Makigai-. . . Makigami-sensei, but taking care of your human 'parts' is as important to Tool To as looking after your A-T. And you . . .

[ She lets herself slip halfway back into the world of his sound, the muscles under her hands becoming taut strings of discord, his joints thrumming unsteady notes. ]

You need . . . someone to look after you.

My team would, if you want us to.

[burnmetwice]

[Kazu, beginning to relax back against the headboard with his eyes lidded, tenses suddenly. If he could pull his leg away, he would.]

I don't need a tuner.

[His tone is... flat, dull. Even as he says it he knows it's bullshit.]

[resoundingpledge]

[ It's like stepping back in time. For a moment, it's not Kazu here at all, she's back in the 5th district's neighborhood park, and Ikki is talking to Akito as he does pull-ups on the edge of the park's gazebo.

I don't need a tuner.

The same tone. The same hurt.

. . . she wonders, suddenly, if his heartbeat would sound like Ikki's too. If it would have that same—no, not the same, but if it would have something like the same sound, if there would be some unfamiliar tone that she wouldn't be able to place.

Something unique to the space between Kazu and the Flame Road.

. . . her fingers relax on his leg, resting there without pressure. ]

Right now, you need a doctor.

I won't be good enough to help if you get much worse. But I can right now. Will you let me?

[burnmetwice]

I need to be able to run again.

[The only answer he could give. There was more to the ache in his bones than just the stress of too hard a run. All these months he'd been holding back, knowing he was playing with fire running on his regalia. Now... whether it was Ikki or just the fierce aching joy of being able to pour himself fully into a run the past month had re-awoken in his body, he needed to fly.]

[resoundingpledge]

[ It's answer enough, despite the obvious contradiction. More than that, it's permission, and her fingers dig back into his calf, pressing and holding tense muscles until they're forced to relax.

(Her fingertips are rough, rather than soft. Calloused.)

One movement lifts the blankets in just such a way that Kazu's A-T shift lightly on bed, tilting to rest reassuringly by his side. ]

Once your hand's better, I have some extra parts, if there's any you need. Most of them are a match for Ikki-kun's, but Ikki-kun's A-T were originally built from yours. The parts aren't originals, but those specs . . . I've never changed them.

There might be some you'll like.