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.

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[violentmotion]

[It's almost as if he has identified Tetsuo as a side character...

The last view Tetsuo gets of this freak is him kicking off his pants just before the bathroom door closes behind him.]

[iamtetsuo]

[He can't even really do anything about it now. That's the worst part - by the time he's settled on a reaction, the guy's already dropped his pants and vanished. Because of course that happens.

If Tetsuo were feeling more like himself, he'd at least have thought to go destroy those damn pants just to make him think twice about invading his space, or bar him completely, but Tetsuo stays put. Without powers, what's the point in trying?

It only took half a year for him to forget that he could do plenty without them before. Even then, he never realized how far he got when he was normal. Just how far others did in comparison.

So in the end, everyone else wins and Tetsuo doesn't even get say over this room, or who goes in it? Damn it.]

[violentmotion]

[This intruder certainly takes long enough for Tetsuo to really stew over it. The flush is almost in punctuation of ... well. Everything.

Ikki strolls out, as normal as can be, as if picking up his pants in the middle of this stranger's room was the most routine thing in the world. Still, his expression is fixed on Tetsuo, as if he expected a challenge and... got a flat, despairing affect instead.

He drops his skates and pads over to the lump.]

Yo.

Sup?

[iamtetsuo]

What do you want.

[That's a lump edging a little bit away from him now.]

[violentmotion]

You kinda look like shit, bro. You need to get sprung outta here?

[iamtetsuo]

Not really.

[violentmotion]

Seriously?

There's an open sky. The burgers here are huge.

So are the ... [There's no mistaking the gesture for huggggeee tracts of land.]

[iamtetsuo]

[It's really starting to bother him. Why does this guy seem familiar??? He's never seen him before in his life... yet he has.

Maybe in another one....?


Ugh.

Sorry, Ikki, you get no answer to that. What's he gonna say, 'well sure the sky was great when I could be in it' or 'well sure but I think I actually don't have a girlfriend anymore' or 'I just miss real food fuck this burger shit'.]

[violentmotion]

[Almost as if he stepped out of another memory entirely...

In the mean time, this really... well... it reminds him of the horrible shadow of a person Kazu slipped into in his weakest moments. Annoyance surged up from top to bottom, looking at this kid.]

Oi oi. [He reaches out, hand on Tetsuo's head, pushing down.] Where's your fire? Where's your heart?! What's this kind of face!

[iamtetsuo]

[Tetsuo leans back more, throwing one arm behind him to brace against the bed as Ikki's hand moves onto his. Adrenaline surges through his body, eyes widening at the threatening contact. But it's not fire, just fear. There's no heart in it at all. He'd have reacted sooner if his powers would just EXIST...

Speaking of...

His eyes only widen further at mention of heart, and his hand shoots out all on its own in an unusually weak punch. He's 5'4", sure, but there was a time once that he had muscle. It's sort of there still, and Kaneda's jacket definitely hides just how much damage he'd done to himself.

Panicked, he falls back on the bed, scrambling awkwardly to get a little bit of distance between the two of them.]

D-don't touch me!

1/2

[violentmotion]

[Ikki doesn't stop him, merely watches, one hand still outstretched and a clearly surprised expression on his face. The punch barely even registered, for Tetsuo he might as well have punched drywall. A little give, but not enough...

He gives Tetsuo another long, odd look before simply leaving without a word.]

[violentmotion]

[Which probably would have been great if the asshole had stayed gone. Instead some four hours later or so, he drops back in - thankfully fully dressed.]

You know, I don't know what's going on, but that's an annoying look you've got. It's been pissing me off.

[Exactly against the tone of his words, he actually has rustled up enough for a cheap ramen bowl from one of the small markets nearby. Better than the American excuses for ramen cups, it's the standard 3 minute boiling water.]

It probably tastes like ass, but hey. What do you expect in America?

[iamtetsuo]

[By the time Ikki walks back in, Tetsuo's moved up to 'messing around with a gameboy advance' - looks like some pokemon knockoff. He's still largely expressionless... right up until Ikki shows up, announcing his presence.

His face darkens instantly, deepening as this guy - who the FUCK? - wanders in further.

...

To offer him ramen?]

Huh?

[violentmotion]

What? You some kind of local?

[Because clearly, that's the problem.]

[iamtetsuo]

No.

[That at least gets a bit more life out of him. Him?? A local?!]

Don't mistake me for an American.

[violentmotion]

[Uho.]

I was beginning to wonder. Pale, meek, kinda shriveled, no fighting spirit. Total side character material.

[Ikki no. That doesn't describe American stereotypes at all.]

You gonna eat that?

[iamtetsuo]

'm not a side character.

[Whatever that means??? It doesn't matter, he's against it. He'll take the ramen too just on principle.


...call him an American, will you..]

[violentmotion]

Phase one complete!

[And without ANY DAMN EXPLANATION, he stands up to leave.

Again.]

[iamtetsuo]

....

[He watches him leave.

Looks at the ramen.

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!]

[violentmotion]

[It's the next day entirely.

You know what you needed, Tetsuo?

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY NEEDED?

The door bursting open, followed by a kid wearing a gorilla mask and a bedsheet tied around his neck as a superhero cape to launch a flying tackle at him.]

DIVE ROLL 5000 APE-POLOGIES STUNNER

[You're welcome.]

[iamtetsuo]

[It's a calm day. Tetsuo's finally upgraded to playing video games again. He's doing fairly well, despite not taking the time anymore to translate the dialogue for this fight that he just can't win. All the actions are in the same places, so it's a matter of memory-

All of this concentration shatters at what sounds like a door being kicked down.

The violent slam makes his head jerk up, eyes widening just in time to see something his brain doesn't quite piece together as more than 'gorilla thing with cape coming straight for him' and barely has time to yelp in terror before an Ikki-colored blur slams into him, knocking him to the bed.

His gameboy flies somewhere, miraculously not losing its batteries.

As for the rest of Tetsuo, this is where the scene devolves into a whirlwind of flailing.

This is what you caused, Ikki.]

[violentmotion]

[Before the expensive piece of electronics even bounces twice, before the bedsheet cap has barely drifted to settle around them, Ikki is up, dragging Tetsuo into an elaborate pin to the bed that. Wouldn't look right no matter how you were to walk in on this.]

OH-HO! I see you are ready to SUBMIT to my kindness! WRETCHED FOOL! BE BLESSED!

[iamtetsuo]

[There's few words to describe the sheer chaos that erupts in Tetsuo's mind, turning his entire body into some wild hapless thing his brain has lost all control over. But the few that are adequate run thusly:

SHITIMGONNADIEAGAINADGGZFdfAdfdsAFFSJF;JNOOOOO

This is not submission. This is scrambling for any purchase he can grab hold of desperately like a cat trying to avoid the bathtub at all costs. This is a dog that heard 'vet' mentioned and took off on a mad dash for freedom. Something deep in his mind tripped the switch between depressed human being to wild animal, writing and thrashing to get out from under that pin.

Unfortunately for Tetsuo, he's spent most of half a year on a drug-addled bender across the US, or otherwise not eating, sleeping or doing anything well enough to give him much physical strength at this point. And all he's got to rely on is his horribly deteriorated physical capabilities.

Thrash all he wants, but he's not getting out of this unless Ikki lets him.]

[violentmotion]

[He can wait til he gets tired. It's cool.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Eventually the whirlwind of limbs dies down, panting from exertion and panic, eyes wide.

He tried. He failed. Again.

This is the part where he gets killed.

Again.

Right??]