GRAVEYARD ✨

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POPULATION: GHOST TOWN

You die - and then you wake up.

For a second, it feels as though you can't breathe, and then your head breaks the surface. You crawl out of a pool of blood and into a large, crystalline room. Moving images play across the crystal walls, and if you watch close enough, you'll realize that you're seeing the land of the living; a familiar space station with familiar faces. You can watch these images for as long as you'd like - there are several very large benches (as in, you have to climb them to sit on them) around the room for you to rest on while you do.

Regardless of how you died, it seems as though you're not quite gone completely. You're in one piece, at least. That's good news. However, your surroundings are not exactly what you remember.

When you exit the first room, a bleak, empty city sprawls out ahead of you.

The city itself is large. The framework of it seems to tower higher and higher than you can see, up into the black opal sky that shivers and curls every so often. A river entirely made of blood runs through the city, winding around buildings and ending at the crystal room. The most noticeable thing about the buildings themselves is the fact that thorny vines made of pure white steel dig into the walls and floor, cracking the foundations.

The residential building is worn down and old. It's two floors, and has a few small studio apartments built for one or two people to live in. The beds are extremely uncomfortable. It has a communal area downstairs, but the TV is broken, and the couches are torn apart. Sometimes, this building feels obscenely hot in temperature, and smells like rotten eggs.

The grocery store is your typical convenience store. There's a large selection of food in this area, but it all tastes the same - like chalk. On top of this, every so often there will be bloodstains on the walls, the floor, and the displays. They change in size and location, each time you enter the store.

The clothing store is thrifty in nature. All the clothes here are uncomfortable and scratchy, and don't fit quite right. While you're here, time feels... weird. Distorted, almost dreamy. As you're picking out clothes and trying them on (no money needed, just take what you want), you swear you can hear a gunshot in the distance.

Enjoy your time in this city, and remember...your story isn't quite over yet.

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Comments

[brightred]

So? He's an attractive man, and he's going to be here. Can't a girl enjoy herself in the afterlife?

[holeful]

Didn't you just say you weren't the type to go to bed with just any man?

[brightred]

No, I said I'm not the type to tell my secrets to just any man. I'll go to bed with whoever I want.

[holeful]

... Can't you just tell me what I'm supposed to say?

[HE GIVES UP IT'S SLOTH WEEK FOR HIM.]

[brightred]

[no she can't it's despair week she has to make her life worse!!!]

Of course not. What's the point of just telling you what I want you to say? I could say that to myself!

[holeful]

Because I'm not good at this sort of thing but I don't want you to be mad at me?

[brightred]

Then you should get better at it. It's not my job to tell you how to act!

[holeful]

... You being with Omi would be just as bad for me as Omi and Gojou dating.

[HE WILL TACITLY ADMIT HE WAS JEALOUS AND ALSO SAYING HE WOULD BE JEALOUS IN THIS HYPOTHETICAL.]

When it's two people I like... it's a lot harder to bear.

[brightred]

[Hm.... he's stupid.

She'll switch tactics, turning away and pouting a little, toying with her hair.]

But you can't expect me to be all alone... I know I'm supposed to indulge in despair, but I don't want to despair that much.

[holeful]

Why would you be alone? Do you not want to be with me anymore?

[Grell he is so stupid.]

[brightred]

But if I'm with you, and you're with everyone, that's not very fair to me. Really, you can't be that selfish, it's just cruel.

[holeful]

I mean, there isn't anyone I could be with here besides you and Omi, and Omi's dating someone else, so...

[STOP BRINGING UP YOUR CRUSH ON OMI?]

[brightred]

Are you stupid?

[holeful]

I mean, there's multiple different types of intelligence. I'm only skilled in a few of them.
[So yes.]

[brightred]

Obviously.

[holeful]

So I don't understand why you're upset.

[brightred]

If Omi's with someone, who am I allowed to be with?

[holeful]

[His instinctive response is "whoever you want" but he actually finally stops to think about it, because so far his gut is not getting him anywhere. His brain isn't equipped to deal with this sort of problem but MAYBE he can try??? Logic it out?? If they're talking about Omi being with someone, it's not just sex but dating, and Grell said she wouldn't tell her secrets to just any man, and that sort of thing you'd have to be able to do if you were to date someone rather than just indiscriminately sleep with them, he thinks? That's what relationships entail. Honesty is always key to resolving relationship problems on TV. If it's like that, there's really just one option, right?]


... Me?

[brightred]

Oh, is that so? You certainly don't seem very interested, for someone standing there deciding you're the only person I'm allowed to be with.

[holeful]

[HE WILTS. SO THAT WAS WRONG? HE THOUGHT SO HARD THIS TIME.]

Well, it doesn't make sense to me either, but if we're talking of the options we have here now, I thought it made the most sense... I'm just trying to make you happy.

[brightred]

So, I'll ask again. Who have you decided my only option is?

[holeful]

I mean... it's not my decision, really. You can be with whoever you want. I just thought.... that something like that would make sense.

[brightred]

If it makes sense, you need to put in some kind of effort, otherwise I'll just do whatever I want to do.

[holeful]

[Effort... he doesn't want to put forth any effort. Putting forth any effort this week has seemed deeply undesirable. He's been tired. And he's been sad. It didn't feel like there was much of a point to anything.

But at the same time, the idea of Grell going off with someone else is just as undesirable. Really, she wouldn't have a use for him anymore after that. He doesn't have anything special besides the hole in his head, and she doesn't really care about that. He only knows how to do one thing that Grell likes.

So he sighs, before forcing himself to his feet so he can grab Grell by her shoulders and kiss her.]

[brightred]

[A kiss or a fight, she'll settle for either one, just to have something to do, to get a rise out of this man. She returns the kiss, then pulls back.]

And what is that supposed to mean, sir?