Post-Event Reaction Log!

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody
What: Post-Event Reactions
When: Today (and tomorrow too)
Where: Anywhere
Summary: Most of Luceti was back to their normal selves. Not only that, but they now remembered their trips to other worlds. So how 'bout that?
Rating: Whatever

This is for today and tomorrow, since not everyone will be fully reverted until then. Remember to tag your characters in!

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[godbent]

[Ignoring that:]

Kyon.

[Abruptly, and quite seriously, not looking at him]

Tell me something.

[menial]

....

What's up, Haruhi?

[godbent]

[Exhale.

and she turns to look at him very seriously]

Are you in my SOS-Brigade?

[menial]

['...

If she's asking this seriously, I clearly can't just throw it off, can I?

My instinct is to say no. Because that's what I've said to her subtly one way or another this whole time. But my other instinct, of course, unhelpfully, is to say yes, because Haruhi's the only one I really have, and... Well, Grune-san did give me a rather different perspective on it, didn't she? Plus, it would be easier, wouldn't it?

Though since when I have I gone the easy route?']

...

I don't know, Haruhi. To be honest, it's not what I think of when I think of the SOS Brigade. It's like you said. Your Brigade. It's not that it's a bad thing, or there are bad people. But it might not be... mine.

But whether or not it is... I'm with you.

[godbent]

[I don't know, Haruhi.

She almost, almost tunes out the whole rest of that thing. But no, it's because of all the connections she has made here and all the time which has passed that she does not. She listens to the rest of what Kyon says and by the end of it she's slid off her table to stand and walk over to him. She should say this plainly. Yell at him? Retort? Maybe be nice? Maybe tell him he's not allowed? There's a lot of options which roar in her head. As it is though]

...I've been here so long, Kyon. Most of that time, there's not been anyone from home. I won't say it's been lonely, because I've found new Brigade members, I've made... friends. I've even gone crazy and allowed myself to willingly contract a mental illness or two. [Hah] But it has been different. It has- [...] This is stupid.

[And now she bows, awkwardly, stiffly]

Thank you for not vanishing.

[menial]

[He stares, astonished, apprehensive at first, and then realizing, irresistibly reminded of a gesture which had taken place...

'Well, a month from when I left in the timeline, but the day before for me, but really five months ago for me me--- Okay, whatever.

It's the same gesture, isn't it? It really is.'

He stares down at the floor.]

...

You're... welcome, Haruhi.

['And she's right, isn't she? Now that I know it really doesn't make a difference when I go back... Why should I even go back? Why not just let this be all one long dream, maybe even an enjoyable one? One of a simpler time, a village, a forest, and me and Haruhi... And everyone else I've met here.']

And... I'll do my best to keep on staying.

1/2

[godbent]

[She allows herself to be collected in the bow. Mostly because she's sure her face looks really, really dumb. Is she blushing? Is she smiling? Maybe she's got a sour face because she can't think of the face she should have. She has no idea. So one, two, three...]

[godbent]

[And when she gets up from the bow, she has a million volt smile]

Naturally! We need to see this world through to its conclusion!

[menial]

[And he smiles back.]

Right, Haruhi. To the end.

[godbent]

[...

Okay way too open. she folds her arms after this, sits up on the main table, and crosses her legs all in about one movement]

Yuki is gone though. I haven't seen her all experiment and I checked every room in that apartment complex.

[menial]

[His pleased feeling also goes away quickly, at the mention of Nagato being gone.]

So it was that short... Tch...

I had only just gotten her caught up, too.

[godbent]

That's how Luceti is. [and thought she says this coldly, her foot on the crossed leg is tapping at the air. She's clearly bristled, annoyed.]

There's a lot of "given" drop off points for people. The first is in a few weeks, the next one is maybe two months, then maybe six months, then a year.

[menial]

['Six months, huh? I guess I'm coming up on six months.']

After that, they mostly stay?

[godbent]

Hm... into the second year, it's more irregular. I mean, mostly they stay, but when they do go it's a bigger deal. More people know them, there's more impact for others.

[menial]

Right. Makes sense. And who else do you know who's been here longer than that?

[godbent]

Me, Shiki, Sokka, Minato, Buffy, Leon... I guess Keiichi would be about that far along too, wouldn't he?

[menial]

Hm. The old-timers list, huh?

You must be the favorites of the Malnosso.

[godbent]

No, that's someone more like Albert or Sheena.

[menial]

Oh...? Why's that?

[godbent]

Because if my math's right, they're more like four years.

[menial]

Huh. Could've graduated from Luceti College by now. Let alone high school.

[godbent]

Yeah, and this is all just within this barrier.

[menial]

This barrier...?

Wait, are there others?

[godbent]

...Well, yes. But I was mostly referencing what's outside of it. It's not like the TPs or Organization are native.

[menial]

...What? Wait, what Organization?

[Yeah, he's forgotten that time he skimmed the Guide.]