We are the named and we are known

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: Arriving at the dorms
When: 26th
Where: Dorms, location unknown
Summary: Dorm information is here. This is your room!
Rating: PG... we hope?

Your characters are shuffling off to their rooms. Each room has their name beside it and only they can open the door. People can only enter their room if they're allowed in (or they leave the door open). Characters will find any requested items in their room already. If they have a requested vehicle, there will be another door in their room that will take them to the hangar to inspect their equipment.

((Mod note: Extra draftees won't experience their Shift Incompatibility handicap in their dorms. :|a))

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[breaks_destiny]

[There's silence, only the sound of Keiichi cleaning the pieces and putting them back together slowly until the gun is in perfect shape again. He holds it on his open palms, as if measuring its weight, it's different from a model gun, those are a bit lighter, but he doesn't think he could see the difference now. Both would feel equally heavy to him.

He could tell Minato. Minato's his friend, so he could tell him. It's not as if it would change anything... Part of him is afraid of Minato despising him but after so long together he sincerely doubts it's possible for that to happen. So it would mean nothing if he told him or not, nothing would have to change.

But he would like to tell, because it's something his. Only about Keiichi. There's no Hinamizawa in this story. There's no syndrome, no conspiracy to kill Rika, no Takano. It's just Keiichi all over it... An old Keiichi, long gone, but without whom the Keiichi now wouldn't have come to exist. If he could go back in time he would punch that Keiichi, he would beat him until he got back to his senses, until he remembered what smiling really felt like. He would punch himself a thousand of times... But he wouldn't stop him, even if after the beating his old self wouldn't understand... He would let him act, because those acts, as horrible as they were and as much suffering as they caused, brought him to Hinamizawa. Allowed him to be the Keiichi he always wanted to be... Still if there had been another way to get the same result without hurting that girl, that would definitively be the best world.

So he wants to tell Minato about it, about what he thought, what he thinks, about the part of him that despite getting sick holding a gun, is still fascinated with it. Simply because it's something no one else can tell him unlike with anything related to Hinamizawa. Because he has never told anyone, even if he remembers doing it in another world, this Keiichi never told anyone. He doesn't remember all the bits of when he told to the girls, maybe if he did he wouldn't want to tell, but still... It's not about forgiveness or pain, it's just about Keiichi wanting to share something only he can. Even if it's something horrible, it's still part of himself, that's not wrong to want, right? Want to tell just because of that isn't something bad, is it?

Maybe he should think more about this.]

Hinamizawa was definitively a great change, my father searched a lot for a place for us to move and start over. Do things the correct way, so even if it was a small place and it didn't have many things, I loved the village right from the start. I don't know what kind of person I would be if I hadn't moved there... Though I suppose I would have still be fine, as long as it was a new place for me.

[emp3thy]

Getting shaken up like that can sometimes be the best thing.

[If he'd never moved back to Port Island... well, he'd probably be the same as always, not unhappy but not truly happy either, existing just for the moment and not for any big purpose. Despite the things people would pity him for it really hadn't been a bad existence. He'd certainly never been pushed the way Keiichi had. But moving had woken him up regardless, not just to Personas but to the different people living and struggling all around him. Even if he was blank himself he could be a mirror for others, to help them find happiness, and through that seize it for himself as well.]

[breaks_destiny]

It certainly was! I'm really glad I moved to Hinamizawa... I'm glad that I was brought here too. Honestly even now, if I was asked to count the good times I've had here and the bad ones, I wouldn't be able to come with even five bad ones. But I would be left without numbers to count the good ones.

[He's really glad he got to meet you and Haruhi and everyone else. No matter what, he wouldn't change this for anything. Just as he wouldn't change Hinamizawa.]

[emp3thy]

I agree. [....] Though I think after this week we need some more good.

[breaks_destiny]

We will have to work hard to get the proper balance back then... But I won't skip school in a while, I want to stay up to date, but we can always do things after school.

[Don't worry, he won't cling to you to drag you to skip classes in a long while.]

[emp3thy]

I don't think I can skip more school either. [between Minako and Mitsuru... he doesn't want to think on what could happen.]

[breaks_destiny]

Why not? Minako-chan got angry? You should have told her it was my fault, it's the truth after all.

[emp3thy]

I did.

[breaks_destiny]

Then why hasn't she come to scold me?

[emp3thy]

She knew we had to prepare.

[as for the week before... he's been avoiding saying anything there.]

[breaks_destiny]

And the times before this week?