PCs for Ayaben

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AYABEN~

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Week 0, post-execution

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[Once he can see again, Chuuya is going to go looking for Ayabe. Where will he find him?]

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[ Ayabe isn't hard to miss post-execution, wandering throughout the mansion with his attention on the corners of the room and around the floors, clearly looking for something. Spoiler: it's rats.

He particularly spends a long time in the kitchen cupboards making sure none of the containers have holes or anything that would attract the vermin back. ]

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[Let the rat hunt begin.]

...you gonna be okay there?

[Because he knows how obsessed with cleanliness Ayabe is, and they just had rats everywhere.]

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I'm fine.

[ So far, at least. He pulls his head out of the cupboard he'd been digging through, satisfied that none of the container lids are loose and none of the open packages are just rolled shut without a clip. ]

...How are you holding up?

Week 2, post-trial

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[Chuuya is exhausted and cranky and hungry. Which is why he's going to go looking for Ayabe.]

Oiiii! Cook for me again, okay?

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[ Chuuya catches him in the middle of the hallway, probably headed upstairs. Ayabe's feeling... just exhausted, really. There's food provided in every trial but nobody ever eats, and he can't honestly say he feels like eating at all after everything that happened, even though the relief should have made things easier. ]

Sure.

[ He frowns, a little confused. ]

Do you mean right now?

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It doesn't have to be right now, no.

[He's hungry, but he can see how tired Ayabe is, and one of his links is making him be more observant about others.]

Actually, you look like you need to lay down or something. Maybe a nap in Fort Asshole will help.

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[ He breathes a laugh, mirthless, because Fort Asshole sounds about right, but he's not attributing all of that to Dazai ]

It's been so busy, I hadn't had the chance to sleep much, even yesterday when we could. Do you want anything? Because otherwise, your next chance isn't going to be until tomorrow at noon.

[ He is going to zzzz from now until then ]

Week 3 memory share!

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[Memory share gonna start off with Chuuya tracking down Ayabe, because new floor.]

Oiii, Ayabe! You gotta see this stuff, come on!

[He'll check out Ayabe's room first, but then move on to other places if Ayabe isn't there.]

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[ It's pretty early on, so instead of being in his room, Ayabe's down in the kitchen, washing his plate from finishing breakfast. How many people here even eat what Peach provides anymore? Ayabe, maybe Subete if they eat together, who knows. ]

Give me a minute to wipe off the sink. What is it?

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[Of course, the kitchen! Chuuya should have thought of that. He does wait though, since he knows Ayabe is picky about stuff being clean.]

There's a new floor to the house. It's got a movie theater.

[And some other rooms, but the movie theater is what he noticed first.]

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[ Ayabe makes a bit of a face, because what sort of house is this, it's like a shopping center with all sorts of things cobbled together into one building. ]

Have you been inside? A movie theater... It would be too much to hope Blue's been recording everything going on, would it?

[ The real horror movies: curfew murders ]

Week 3, post execution

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[Hey Ayabe, hope you're not too tired. Because Chuuya is gonna come up and bump shoulders to get Ayabe's attention. It's lucky that they're only 4 cm apart in height so he can actually do this instead of elbowing hin in the gut like with some people.]

Hey.

[kazokun]

[ He's mentally exhausted more than anything. After that morning, he'd gone straight up to his room to mope for several hours, but seeing as he hasn't eaten anything all day except for a single bean, he comes back down at around dinnertime to force himself to eat something. ]

...Hey. [ He's slow to return the greeting, but he immediately follows up with ] I'm sorry.

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Why're you apologizing to me? It's not your fault. You did what you had to do.

[But that's not really what needs to be said, is it?]

...and I'm glad you made it through, even if he was really shitty about it. I'm glad you're still here.

[kazokun]

[ He did what he had to do, but what he wanted was to find a way to stop it and save Dazai. In the end, all he could do was save his own life. ]

Yeah, I... I need to make it out of this alive. This can't be the last time I see my sister. Not like that.

Week 4, Monday

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[After tugging Ayabe along to his room, he'll make sure Akira is out before closing it and locking it. Then he turns his attention to Ayabe.]

I didn't look at my DVD. I already have an idea of who might be on it, and nothing I can do here will help them.

So say the word, and I'll do it. I'll fill the requirements so your sister is kept safe.

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What? Why?

[ For whatever reason, it's somehow so diffrent to ask somebody to do the very thing he's so reluctant to do. A part of him still strongly believes that it's a life for a life, by his own hands for his own family. ]

I'm not- I can't ask you to do that.

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...if you can't figure out why then you're a fucking idiot.

[Yeah.]

But regardless, I don't want you to become a killer. So I'll do it for you.

Week 4, post-trial

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[Time to check on Ayabe. Is he still knocked the fuck out, or did he wake up?]

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[ He is!! awake by now, probably, just sitting and silently watching everything happen while I have to skim flatview later tonight so nobody has to summarize what happened for me. It's Lio. Ayabe didn't particularly know Lio, or Phoenix, or Four, so the numbness he's feeling right now, picking himself off the ground to leave the room, is just for Chuuya. ]

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...

[Yeah, he's going right over to Ayabe.]

C'mon. Let's go.

[Where? He doesn't know. But somewhere that's not here.]

ENDGAME

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[HEY AYABE

You're solid now, so you get a hug. Chuuya's been waiting too long to do that btw, he was waiting for when the dead came back to life.]

[kazokun]

[ We can pretend Ayabe was there doing things during the trial I barely even know what happened in, where even to the end he is still so so skeptical about the whole dead not staying dead and breaking the laws of the universe thing, until a ball of light flies towards his chest and the warmth spreads through him from head to toe.

And then there's Chuuya turning to him and Ayabe catches him in his arms with a different sort of warmth that mostly just makes his ears feel hot, one arm around Chuuya's back and the other hand at the back of his head to pull him close. ]

...Congrats. It worked.

[ It still doesn't feel real, to be honest. Standing here, full of relief and exhaustion. Smiling. ]

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I knew it would.

[Still, there's relief in his voice too. Maybe he wasn't as sure about it as he pretended to be.

He eventually pulls away from the hug, but he keeps one of his hands on Ayabe, reluctant to break the contact yet.]

I still can't believe it's finally over, you know? It feels like it's been forever.