Who: The Mizuki Quest Crew What: Mizuki Quest When: Roughly around the end of Feburary Where: The Caerula Arbor Warnings: Will come up in tags when appears
You're right here, Gnosis! The Liberi! Just kidding, the Liberi is... probably around! Who knows! It's hard to really tell what's going on when this memory is not... clear?
Perhaps it's probably better it's not, given the context.
Given that touching the little Mizuki "selected" that memory, you believe maybe if you want to select an order, you have to touch them.
[Well, the first is obviously where they arrived, seeing the scene of Mizuki running around happily with his mother chasing him, right? So then...
Sesa will look for that version of him, and when he sees Mizuki go running past, he'll wait until he sees Mizuki's mother picking him up, taking that opportunity to walk over and take the boy from her hands.]
Sorry...I need him just for a moment.
[He says, as if the vision could understand him.]
1/2 same cws here, death, child death, u kno the drill-
The party will certainly make quick work this sequence, even if it takes some trial and error. It looks like it's incredibly forgiving, too, in terms of time and mess ups. After a while, they'll put everything in order, and the scene plays seamlessly, though still blur and static-y in parts.
The happy family in the morning. Then, his mother at night in his room. You hear her words again, saying the same lines before.
"It's okay. It's just like when we play hide and seek. But you have to be really quiet, okay? You just have to stay here and you can't come out no matter what."
You feel that heavy weight of exhaustion on you, that you can only imagine Mizuki felt. A child suddenly pulled from his room in the middle of the night. He doesn't know what's going on, not really. He just knows he was stuffed into a cabinet, and despite the smile on his mom's face, there's something fearful in her tone that makes him uneasy. But he's alone in the dark now. The rest of the memory is... blurry. It's less what actually happened, and more what he assumes happened, given his perspective today.
Molotovs hit the side of the house outside, and while the house begins to catch fire the three men enter, and grab the woman who's attempting to "flee" to the side of the house Mizuki is not. You don't see it, but there's a scream, then a loud thud, and when the scene is less blurry, his mother is on the ground. The Liberi orders the men to grab whatever's valuable, heading outside himself. There's a stifled sob from the bathroom Mizuki's huddled in. This makes the two men search the house.
The Oni is the one who ends up finding Mizuki and he tries so hard to hold onto the small child, but he seems just too slippery. Those of you who know can easily deduce his pliable body is just a natural trait of being a sea jelly. He slips away twice, before the men start to argue.
He's a kid! How are you this useless?! Then how about you do it, asshole!
And then... as soon as Mizuki gets outside, he's thrown to the floor. He barely gets a chance to see the Liberi man above him before there's a knife, and-
[ The scene disappears not with a bang, but from a frantic gasp from the Mizuki in Affogato's arms. The memory is gone, and they're all in the dark and murky underneath of the Arbor. It's not an unnatural darkness this time, and there's just solid (or not so solid in the places there's mud) ground beneath them. The Seaborn babies are safely huddled at the wall of the Arbor, giving little chirps here and there. All is finally calm.
Mizuki squirms just a moment to get his bearings, hands against his neck protectively, and tendrils squeezing Affogato perhaps just a little too hard. But he relaxes after a second or so with a little tired whine. ]
...Oh, there's so many more of you here then I thought... [ He's still waking up. Sorry. Give him a moment, or don't, I'm not your mom- ]
[oh. baby is awake and did in fact just share his trauma with the class, intentionally or not... razlo will (surprisingly gently) set affo and mizuki down and step back to give him some space.]
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Perhaps it's probably better it's not, given the context.
Given that touching the little Mizuki "selected" that memory, you believe maybe if you want to select an order, you have to touch them.
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Sesa will look for that version of him, and when he sees Mizuki go running past, he'll wait until he sees Mizuki's mother picking him up, taking that opportunity to walk over and take the boy from her hands.]
Sorry...I need him just for a moment.
[He says, as if the vision could understand him.]
1/2 same cws here, death, child death, u kno the drill-
The happy family in the morning. Then, his mother at night in his room. You hear her words again, saying the same lines before.
"It's okay. It's just like when we play hide and seek. But you have to be really quiet, okay? You just have to stay here and you can't come out no matter what."
You feel that heavy weight of exhaustion on you, that you can only imagine Mizuki felt. A child suddenly pulled from his room in the middle of the night. He doesn't know what's going on, not really. He just knows he was stuffed into a cabinet, and despite the smile on his mom's face, there's something fearful in her tone that makes him uneasy. But he's alone in the dark now. The rest of the memory is... blurry. It's less what actually happened, and more what he assumes happened, given his perspective today.
Molotovs hit the side of the house outside, and while the house begins to catch fire the three men enter, and grab the woman who's attempting to "flee" to the side of the house Mizuki is not. You don't see it, but there's a scream, then a loud thud, and when the scene is less blurry, his mother is on the ground. The Liberi orders the men to grab whatever's valuable, heading outside himself. There's a stifled sob from the bathroom Mizuki's huddled in. This makes the two men search the house.
The Oni is the one who ends up finding Mizuki and he tries so hard to hold onto the small child, but he seems just too slippery. Those of you who know can easily deduce his pliable body is just a natural trait of being a sea jelly. He slips away twice, before the men start to argue.
He's a kid! How are you this useless?!
Then how about you do it, asshole!
And then... as soon as Mizuki gets outside, he's thrown to the floor. He barely gets a chance to see the Liberi man above him before there's a knife, and-
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Mizuki squirms just a moment to get his bearings, hands against his neck protectively, and tendrils squeezing Affogato perhaps just a little too hard. But he relaxes after a second or so with a little tired whine. ]
...Oh, there's so many more of you here then I thought... [ He's still waking up. Sorry. Give him a moment, or don't, I'm not your mom- ]
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Couldn't just leave ya here, could we, Squirt?