Audience: Gojou Satoru

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w3, sunday

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Doesn't matter.

[please give gojou a little more than that, pride.]

[mukagen]

[ IT'S OKAY. THE MEAN REMINDS HIM OF HOME. ]

You sure?

Well, you can come visit if you want to pay respects to him whenever, too. Not that you need my permission to do that.

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[long pause.]

where.

[mukagen]

i set up the memorial in my room for now, but i'm considering moving it to some place public so people can pay respects, too.

kinda worried someone will ransack it, but Molly insisted.

[probe]

[wow hello they're right behind gojou, what's up.]

Someone will likely ransack it.

[mukagen]

[ damn... other avatars show up nicely or are somewhere else but no Pride gotta show up right behind him ]

Yeah. I need to figure out something to keep it safe.

[ EH. ]

I can step out if you want some privacy.

[ He recently added the flowers for the newly deceased. It is a pretty, colorful memorial where the flowers cup a bunch of offerings: incense, tea, snacks, fruit, etc. ]

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[they can't help that they're a dramatic bitch]

I don't care. [they're not here to really do much other than crouch in front of the memorial, staring at it.]

Didn't know that much about him.

[mukagen]

I didn’t know him much, either. What I know is that he was a pirate with a revenge story. Super cool.

[ Not much more and Gojou doesn’t seem too sad about that, even though he liked Law a lot. ]

You can give him an offering if you want, though I guess all the flowers are kind of your offerings.

[ Except for Fukuda. Fukuda is an herb Gojou took from the kitchen. ]

[probe]

No.

[they say, standing up after a moment.]

He doesn't deserve one for rolling over like a dog.

[mukagen]

[ damn pride ]

Is that how you see it?

[probe]

Yes.

He had plenty of options. He chose none of them, and died because he thought he'd be reunited with someone he met here, of all places.

He will not. He is dust. Sentimental dust.

[mukagen]

I don't believe in life after death, unless you become a curse, and I thought it was a stupid move, too.

[ HE IS A DOCTOR. A DOCTOR? HE IS A DOCTOR. THEY HAVE PODS, BUT A DOCTOR. THEY LOST THEIR DOCTOR and Law is a good guy. ]

But! That's what he wanted, Pride. Apparently, this weighed the same as his wish.

[ Gojou shrugs. ]

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He doesn't get one, now. Or anything at all. It was a waste, after everything he did to survive so far.

[they just really don't understand.]

[mukagen]

I don't want to speak for him, but from what I saw? It wasn't a waste. He met that someone, didn't he?

[ And Law seemed to change a bit for them. ]

For some people, that's worth it... Still a bit much to throw chances of living, though.

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What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter if he met someone. He's now dead. Now he can't preserve their memory.

[frustrated:] If I don't get to give in, they don't either.

[... hm.]

[mukagen]

Going to have to be up to everyone else to preserve theirs!

[ Finger guns. Gojou is doing his part for his dead friends and will remember these guys, too. Laugh track. ]

Is something stopping you, Pride?

[probe]

Yes. All of you.

[mukagen]

[ OOOOOKAY? Should he ask? ]

I didn't know we were somehow in the way of your options...

[probe]

You're just all very slow.

[mukagen]

How are we supposed to go faster? Indulge more?

[probe]

Among other things.

[mukagen]

Everyone's trying their best, Pride.

[ or are they he doesn't know who's doing what he doesn't want to know ]

Anyway! You got to see the memorial. If you ever start missing him, you can just... Do what you usually do. Appear.

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[a pause.]

Mm. [they take a step back closer to the shadows in the room, because they're... taking this as a dismissal, because they have the social skills of a toad.]

[mukagen]

[ ........................ pride. GOJOU WANTS TO LAUGH BUT HE HAS FEARs. Just kidding, he will laugh in spite of those fears. ]

If you want, we can hang out? Try to take our mind off of things! It's been a tough day and all...

[ gojou is emotionally stunted too i hate this ]

[probe]

[how does one even "hang out"]

If you want to. [they sound baffled as to why he would want to, though]