teach me how to fly [OPEN]

[fuckinstoplights]

WHO: Kagerou + OPEN
WHERE: mostly Maurita Falls
WHEN: MAY
WHAT: Open Catch-All log for Kagerou. There's prompts but if there's something else you want, throw it at me. Giant robot wandering the city.
WARNINGS: none yet

[A: GASOLINE THEFT]
[It's late at night. You go out to your car. You gotta go to the store or the 7/11. Who knows? Maybe you just gotta go for a drive. Suddenly you see it. Actual cannibal A giant robot. Bent over your car.]

[... Siphoning gas?]

[Yes, that's exactly what he's doing. Whether it's a car or a motorcycle or whatever, there is a giant robot doing his best to illegally borrow your gasoline. And when he sees you, he goes still as a statue. Like you're the T-Rex from Jurassic Park and he's Alan Grant.]

[Oh shit now what.]


[B: HOW I HUMAN]
[Food. Food is important. And guess which hobo just found a five dollar bill on the street?]

[This hobo. Kagerou, the hobo. He looks slightly less hobo-ish now, thanks to Sabriel. But still -- he's wearing clothing too big for his body, his hair is roughly pulled back into a tail, and there are dark circles under mismatched red and green eyes. Slightly glowing eyes. Huh.]

[And he's standing cluelessly in front of a wall of ramen noodles. Struggling to read the labels without using his comm to translate. No way this is going to end in anything aside from tears and awfulness.]

[He picks one up, turning it over and over in his hands, staring at the picture of the ramen on the front.]

[How do noodles come out of here?]



[C: OOPS]
[There's a giant robot bird in a tree. Actually it looks more like a pterodactyl. But regardless. It's a big metal bird. And... it's having troubles sitting upright, apparently. It's wobbling where it sits. Blinking furiously.]

[And then it falls.]

[Right out of the tree. Changing form as it falls -- going from the robotic bird/dactyl to a young man. Thankfully, due to magic, or nanites or whatever, he's clothed. But he is also semi-conscious.]

[What do you do?]


[D: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE]
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Comments

C

[bindsthedead]

Kagerou? Kagerou!

[Sabriel runs over, checking on him. She didn't feel him die, but that doesn't mean he's not injured.]

[fuckinstoplights]

[He's semi-conscious. So that's a start. But, judging from the circles under his eyes, sleep is not a thing that's been happening lately.]

[Which... probably explains a lot.]

[bindsthedead]

[Sabriel huffs exasperatedly, then frowns as she sees those circles? When had Kagerou last gotten a good night's sleep? Did he even have a safe place to stay?

Better let him rest for now, and stay with him until he woke up. She lifts him to his feet, half helping, half dragging him to a nearby park bench.]

[fuckinstoplights]

[One of these days, he's going to screw up and she won't be there to help. One day he'll have to start looking after himself.]

[When his feet lift, he's startled awake, so... that's something, right? He's just sort of staring up at her like he's never seen her before.]

[Or he's a kid caught with his hand in a cookie jar.]

[bindsthedead]

Kagerou, you need to lie down. When was the last time you slept? [And did he even know how much humans needed to sleep? Sabriel wasn't sure.]

[fuckinstoplights]

[He actually shrugs a bit, drawing himself into a sitting position, and avoiding her eyes.]

You don't need to keep looking after me.

[bindsthedead]

Then why aren't you better at looking after yourself? You can't- you need a place to stay, you can't keep hiding and stealing fuel!

[fuckinstoplights]

I do know how! When I'm... me! Not this.

[bindsthedead]

This is you as well now! A part of you you can't avoid!

[fuckinstoplights]

I can try!

[Yelling is probably just going to attract attention. But he's doing it anyway. While something like wiring flickers under his skin.]

[bindsthedead]

Try, and fail. You don't have a reliable source of human food, or a really safe place to stay.

[fuckinstoplights]

You don't know that for certain!

[bindsthedead]

With the way you're acting, the way you look? I'm reasonably sure.

[Sabriel's keeping her voice level- for now.]

C!

[psychofailed]

[....

Maybe one of these days he'll get through a whole 24 hours without something happening that makes him feel like he's lost whatever hold on sanity was left to him.

Kogami just stares at the robot-bird-dinosaur-thing-that-turned-into-a-person for about fifeen seconds before his conscience makes itself known and he somewhat reluctantly steps forward to investigate if the thing/person is alive and/or if he needs to take it to...a hospital? Do robot-bird-dinosaur-people need hospitals? That one girl, the sentient space rock didn't even know what they were.]

Hey.

[ur getting nudged in the shoulder. wakey wakey, eggs and bakey]

[fuckinstoplights]

[He'd probably know what one was. But whether or not he knows if he needs one... that's open to debate. And questioning.]

[The nudge gets him to stir, slightly, blinking up at the stranger.]

[Only to recoil back -- stumble back, really, in groggy alarm.]

[psychofailed]

[Good, he's at least conscious.]

Are you hurt?

[fuckinstoplights]

[He frowns for a moment, as if taking stock. Then shakes his head.]

[He doesn't feel injured.]

[psychofailed]

[He fell out of a tree and isn't hurt. Well, that's not the strangest thing that's happened, but still, man. Still.]

...You should get checked out, just in case.

[fuckinstoplights]

... I don't want to.

[Because that means more people.]

Who are you?

[psychofailed]

Just someone passing by.

[God, can't someone else deal with this for him? Why does he have to be the only one here? He sighs.]

You fell out of a tree. It's best not to let that kind of thing sit, in case you got whiplash or something.

[fuckinstoplights]

Why are you being so insistent if you're only... passing by?

[Translation: what do you want from me and how can I avoid it.]

[psychofailed]

[Why?

Kogami has to think about that question for a minute, though he doesn't fault Kagerou for asking it. Honestly, the amount of blind trust most people have around here still makes him uncomfortable.]

...Because there's no one else here.

[fuckinstoplights]

That... still doesn't explain why you're insisting...

[And yes, he is still certain this human wants something from him. So yes, he is still being cautious as hell.]

[psychofailed]

[...]

I'd rather you didn't collapse later after I leave, that's all.

[fuckinstoplights]

But... why?

[This is completely baffling.]