[ SEMI-CLOSED ] with your demons and mine, i've been yours from the start

[kaientai]

Who ⬤ Sakamoto Ryouma + various
What ⬤ A horrible time to have a curse + some fun in the sun
When ⬤ June~
Where ⬤ All over!
Content Warnings ⬤ It's raining blood! Violence! Corruption! The baseline assumption here is that a lot will come up but I will specifically content warn for anything particularly noteworthy that wouldn't fall under the horror umbrella of the event itself. Beach-related prompts probably involve alcohol, stupidity, and assorted shenanigans. Will also warn accordingly!

[ ooc; if you'd like a custom starter and wanna plot something out, hmu @ koutenko or pm this journal! ]

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[bratherine]

( Nope. She really doesn't like this. That prod at her own problems (are the shadows moving, hands ready to grab and pin her down? No. No, it's fine. As long as she keeps herself away from walls and corners, it'll be fine) can't be ignored, jaw tight and eyes wide as her fingers twist the charm on her bag's zipper.

Dammit. Dammit. Fucking dammit. Ryouma's a likeable enough guy, but Kate doesn't have a read on how well he'll listen to reason. How well anyone would listen to reason in this night.

(Her throat's still sore from screeching at Andy, after all.) )

...I-isn't that... weird? ( She could yell to the heavens what seems obvious — that Oryou is suspicious as all hell — but she doesn't.

Maybe because she recognises a little bit of herself in the way Ryouma clings to that comfort of a familiar presence. The one who was responsible for her contract, who'd throw herself directly at the obvious warning signs if they looked like her parents. )

How come she can do that? Keep 'em away?

( She hasn't seen anyone else who can. )

[kaientai]

[ ryouma smiles and even that seems different. it's true that often enough he'll smile and it won't reach his eyes, but in that case, it's usually because he's sad. whatever's got into his head thinks it's amusing that she reacted to his words. ]

Because she always protects me. I trust her with my life.

[ so it's debatable as to whether this "oryou" really can or if he just places that much trust in her implicitly. ]

It beats being out here all by yourself, doesn't it?

[bratherine]

( He's a distraction, and a successful one at that. The sheer dissonance of the man she's known Ryouma to be and this one — off in just enough ways as to be unsettling, attached to the phantom at his back — keeps Kate too focused on what's in front of her to think about the world around them.

The ground softens instantaneously, shifting from city pavement to something loose, slippy, trying its damnedest to catch the souls atop it. )

What the—

( The shadows grow out, reaching, reaching again to try and wrap around ankles and legs, catching Kate as she scrambles to get away from the loose group and tripping her forwards into Ryouma.

Well, if there was any time to prove what Oryou can do, it'd be now, because those shadows don't seem content with simply tripping, reaching out with spindly fingers crafted by something that's clearly never seen a hand, grabbing at anything, and anyone, that's in their vicinity. )