There must be a future that we can choose

[iamtetsuo]

WHO: Tetsuo and YOU
WHERE: Nonah
WHEN: Plot Pull Plot
WHAT: Open Log for said plot
WARNINGS: Spoilers


[Those who know Tetsuo typically know him as a young man with black hair, typically dyed white with blue-frosted tips these days. Large forehead, very intense eyes when focused.

The kid wandering around now, lost and more than a little dazed, is most of these things. He's the exact same (entirely unchanged) height, if a little more muscular. He's also a silvery blue all over.

And he seems a lot more vacant than before, distracted by the weirdest things. Sometimes, he'll catch sight of his hand, and clench it closer to his body. Sometimes, he'll seem to just watch someone, most likely Kaneda, with a more mature kind of sadness than he should know how to feel. Sometimes he'll forget stuff about eating just because it's been a while since he had his body. His mind's just as easily miles away as it is in the moment. When he talks, he sounds humbler than he does even after death.

And when he first gets here.. he probably won't have clothing, so he'll need to borrow stuff.]


a; Wandering in a park.

[Light and life press down on him, overwhelming compared to the vast quiet.  This isn't Neo Tokyo- too green, too friendly, and yet it feels so jarringly dissonant that it's impossible to not immediately tell this is somewhere he's not supposed to be. Tetsuo stands still, a statue despite his small stature, marveling at the sensation of cold wind wrapping around him.

It's been a long time since he felt cold. He doesn't seem to care, reaching one hand up to catch a branch through his fingers - he has FINGERS now - eyeing a new leaf on it.

He can't see it now, but his head knows there's patterns there, intricate shapes woven together deeper and deeper through this leaf. He can't see it now, but the wind blowing it out of his grasp holds infinite possibilities, uncountable variables... but just one path it can ever take. He can't see any of this now, the way he's come to understand a world. And that's normal, he figures, this is how he should feel. No one's supposed to know what this tree is, anymore than the rocks or the sky.

He lets his hand drop, head tilted upwards to watch clouds drift lazily in scattered patches across a stretch of blue.

It's not enough, somehow.]

America... huh?

b; Nonah 05

[He's around less than usual, but Tetsuo's still claimed his spot here. If he's not sightseeing, he could be anything from lying on the couch with his eyes half-closed, mind a million miles away, curiously poking around as if he's never been here before, lying down in the back yard, or checking over his bike all over again for the novelty of it. Or messing around with rocks in the yard, levitating them in weird patterns for Tetsuo reasons.

One thing he's not doing is playing video games, or poking around at his comm. Actually, has he even touched his comm? Is he aware of how it works?]

c; Exploring

[Compared to so many other revelations in his life, this one barely seems weird. He's human. He's got a form. He can act again on a planet, instead of be. And you might find this weirdly spacey blue kid wandering the streets, checking into businesses just to see what they are.

Or you might see him getting waylaid by extremely interested natives with a million questions, or comments, and doing his best to get rid of the flock of people. Pushing through them doesn't seem to work. Telling them he's not interested also doesn't. Telling them off in harsher tones ALSO does nothing. Walking away ... nah. Taking off only gets phones trained on him.

He lands on a roof, or over the building to duck into the first place he sees just to be left alone.]


WILDCARD - feel free to throw up more starters or ask for a specific one.

Comments

sorry, you said running and my mind immediately went here

[deadtective]

[even as she manages to accept what she'd heard as reality rather than some momentary delusion, Hazel can't think of a single thing to say. what could she say? it was significant to him in his own way, but lacking the context which had just drilled clean through her. even if she could find words that she was comfortable spitting out, this Tetsuo wouldn't understand them.

it was better to pretend like nothing had happened. run away from the problem, like always.

and so, eventually, once he's got that other app started up, Hazel finally shakes back to life. she tilts her head to the side, leaning over to get a better look at the screen to catch up with whatever he's been doing while she was lapsing in her own insecurities.]

Shit, is that fucking QWOP? Don't play that.

excellent

[iamtetsuo]

[He didn't expect her to say anything, almost jumping at the sudden resumed conversation. He'd been too busy focusing on trying to get this new magic science to work to pay any attention...]

Why not?

[Too late. He pushes one of the four buttons, rewarded by the guy shooting his leg up. And then falling. And falling faster. And plowing into the ground.]


...

"i'll see where this keeps going" you said. well the answer is legs up on the race track.

[deadtective]

[...]

Never mind. You fucking knock yourself out with this if you want to.

The adventure never ends. Please stop the adventure.

[iamtetsuo]

[Some trial prods at the screen - why is it all in English.... - end up getting the guy back on the screen. He tries again, with similar results. One by one he tries pushing each of the four buttons, and each one ends in dramatic failure.]

I don't understand this!

command not recognized

[deadtective]

Come on man, you haven't even made it past the starting line yet.

[depending on how frustrated he gets she might step in with some basic help. right now, though, she's just enjoying the spectacle.]

Adventure no

[iamtetsuo]

[After some trial and error, he gets one more leg motion in before he dies.]

How do you do this??

adventure ho more like

[deadtective]

Not falling over like you just had a stroke might be a good start.

[just wait until he starts windmilling up into the sky this is gonna be great.]

adventure needs to slow the fuck down

[iamtetsuo]

It does that on its own...

[It falls so slowly, too...]

adventure lost its brakes years ago

[deadtective]

Nah, that's all you.

adventure better crash into a stop light or try to coast or something

[iamtetsuo]

It's doing it. See?

[Push button, push another button, die.]

adventure's going to try and jump the bridge instead

[deadtective]

Yeah, 'cause you're ass at pushing the buttons.

that's one way to stop adventure's continuing journey

[iamtetsuo]

[Finally, he's starting to make decent time backwards. Two steps before it starts careening backwards.]

Go forwards!

[And leans more.. and more...]

not if it sticks the landing

[deadtective]

Hey, maybe you can just drags his ass backwards around the track and win like that.

[HAZEL YOU'RE NOT HELPING]

at least it'll be too far away for us to deal with it

[iamtetsuo]

[...he's going for it.

He's barely alive, almost tipped too far backwards, but it's really hard to push buttons on the mobile version.]

or so you hope

[deadtective]

Shit, dude, you might actually make it a couple feet.

[COME ON YOU CAN DO IT PLAY THE SUGGESTION SHE NEVER INTENDED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY]

bye adventure

[iamtetsuo]

[... he might... or he might end up eventually succumbing to the gravity his frantic shuffling attempts were trying to avoid.

This would be easier if he didn't have to hold it, huh.... hmm. Experimentally, he lets go of it, letting it float...]

hello adventurequest 2016

[deadtective]

I dunno, is that really going to help?

I'm not questing to get adventure back

[iamtetsuo]

It might.

[He can push both sides easier this way. He hasn't found the magic combo and timing to move the legs yet, so ... no, no help yet.]

who said this was an optional quest

[deadtective]

Think it just makes it easier for me to watch you eat shit, dude.

[not that she's complaining...]

i know how to beat the system

[iamtetsuo]

[the weird guy flips dramatically backwards to land on his head.]

What's wrong with this guy's legs?

but do you know how to beat me

[deadtective]

How would you feel if a total dumbass started controlling just your legs?

[iamtetsuo]

[... and he closes out of it. You know what fuck this, he didn't reincarnate just to try to make a digital person not fall down repeatedly.]

Stupid game anyway.

[deadtective]

Awww, now he'll never win gold. His country's going to be so disappointed in him.

[from the devastated look that Hazel is plastering on her face, you'd think it was her country that just got deprive glorious international sports recognition.]

guess what

[iamtetsuo]

With that ability, he was never meant to.

[Don't you even start with him about olympics. What's this next button- oh, calendar. closing out. Next one?]

the answer is no

[deadtective]

[next one looks like a Flappy Bird expy. great secondary choice, Tetsuo. she's going to keep her mouth closed for this one.]

Not with that attitude he's not.