crau2 pcs: kazunari

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week 0 tuesday - door #7

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You open the door to find what looks like a storage room, with marionettes hanging on the walls that look like yourself and the other guests of the Starlight Hotel. The strings belonging to any guests who are dead have been cut, and the expressions on their painted faces are grotesque and in pain. The marionettes of the living stare eerily at you with glassy, lifeless eyes, as if they're waiting for someone to pick them up and make them move. If you try to touch any of the marionettes of the living, you will hear a voice hiss "M̶̦͕̰̼͊̆i̴̱͒̌͜N̵̘̎̏̔e̸̛̟͆͝ͅ". You will then suddenly find yourself back in the hall, disoriented and feeling like you've just been slapped on the wrist. Only four minutes have passed.

[ it's no #1, but 7 is supposed to be lucky, right?? so this seems like as good a room as any to check out! (it is not.)

sebastian opens the door and peeks inside. time to find out what fresh puppet hell awaits us here. ]

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...Whoa! It's like something right out of a movie! But at least nothing's jumping out at us, right?

[ time to get closer to check out the deets on those puppets! ]

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Well, not yet, anyway...

[ but he sure wouldn't be surprised if they started!!!

he'll go over for a closer look too, though he's still hanging a little further back, because yikes. and speaking of yikes, now that he's actually seeing the face on one of these things— ]

H-hey, isn't this...

w0, saturday

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[ ok so like right after trial he's going after seb where you at baby boy ]

Hey. You okay? It looked like you were getting really worked up there.

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Oh. Y-yeah... sorry about that.

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No, you don't have to apologize. I'm just worried about you, is all. It sounded kind of personal to you...?

...Ah, but you don't have to tell me anything if you don't want to. I know talking about some things can be hard, so I just want to make sure you're okay. We could also just try to find something to get your mind off of it for now.

[ does seb want to talk or does he want a distraction? kazu's here to offer it either way. ]

week 1, thursday night

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[ welcome to the best room (bathroom excluded)!! ]

Come on in!

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[ you really designed his whole room i'm in awe and the skull carpet is destroying me help ]

It's amazing how nice these rooms are, right?! How they totally nail everyone's aesthetics - it's def got Bestie vibes. It's smart and cute all at once!

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[ the skull carpet is absolutely my favorite part ]

W-well, I don't know about cute, but thanks! It is pretty great. See, over here in the courtroom part it's even got these things!

[ flips switches on the devices that sit on the floor at each side of the judge's bench, and... holographic fire pillars!!! ]

It's not real, though, so you don't have to worry about anything getting burned.

[ sticks his hand in to demonstrate!! which is maybe not the greatest impulse and may or may not give some insight into the old burn scars he has on his hands under his gloves, who knows. ]

Cool, right?

week 1, saturday post-trial

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[ the art room in the prism probably isn't a place sebastian would normally go to on his own, but he figures kazu might be there if he's not in his room, so. he comes over sometime in the evening after the trial and pokes his head in. ]

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[ sure enough, he's here! a mixing palette and various tubes of paint sit out on the table, a small canvas in front of him. he doesn't seem to notice sebastian immediately, focused on the strokes of his brush - it has the makings of a beach at nighttime. ]

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...Hey.

[ he opens the door and steps inside, and comes over to look at the work in progress on the canvas. ]

You're good at this.

week 2, wednesday night

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[ this party has been a novel and mostly fun experience!! but also it was a lot and some of the dares were mean and he had several drinks and one of them splashed out of the glass and stained his white glove and now he's just standing against a wall somewhere looking at his hand and tearing up. ]

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[ sweetie. darling boy. as soon as kazu sees. him tearing up, he heads straight over. ]

Sebastian-san? Did something happen?

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N-not really... I just... got something on me, and then I was thinking about stuff...

[ he looks up and wipes his eyes on his already dirty glove. ]

...Why aren't you calling me Bestie anymore?

w2, sunday

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[ where is sebastian, we've all been so busy the latter of half of this week that kazu thinks a check-in is long overdue. ]

Hey, Bestie. How're you holding up?

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[ he has very obviously been crying a lot off and on since the end of yesterday's trial. but at least his dog ears perk up at hearing his nickname again, and there's some relief mixed in with everything else when he looks up. ]

Um. Not... really that great, honestly.

[ a weak shrug. ]

I-it's bad for you too though, right? You just... went through that whole thing with him...

week 3, monday

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[ as much as this whole memory sharing thing has sucked, at least most of sebastian's leaked memories thus far have just been edgeworth making him look stupid rather than anything personal.

that is very much not the case with the memory kazunari gets while they're hanging out today... which probably seems... a little different from how sebastian painted it when he talked about it. ]

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[ hey. hey, what the fuck? i'm going to fight his dad.

kazu, for his part, is stunned into silence for a few moments? how do you respond to this? do you even?

maybe he just won't address that yet. instead he focuses on sebastian, with a gentle touch on his arm. ]

Bestie? Are you gonna be okay?

w3, friday

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[ he's coming to find sebastian wherever he went after waking. ]

Hey, Bestie, how're you and the injuries feeling? The bean bag wasn't too harsh on you, was it?

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[ just back at his room! ]

Hey... no, it was okay. A-and they're better than they were yesterday, at least...

[ but still kinda bad.

... ]

This is just... [ he swallows. ] I really hate this. I mean, we were used to three each week last time, but... it's different...

week 3, saturday

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[ three trials in a row he's come out to whatever the detention center of the week is, and every time it's been worse than the last. he's not even sure what he's supposed to say this time, and it's several long seconds before he can even get a word out through his tears. ]

I... You didn't remember... right? The shadow made you... forget, or something?

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[ with red-rimmed but dry eyes, kazunari looks at at sebastian with a sad, smile. ]

No. It made me lie. I- [ his voice cracks. ] I remembered everything.

w7, saturday

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[ sebastian is probably going to be sticking pretty close to kazunari for a lot of the evening, and at some point once the clown noses are gone, he'll sit down next to him somewhere. ]

Thanks... for supporting me that whole time. I'm, uh... not sure I would have made it through everything otherwise.

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[ this is fine! he'll be making sure to stay in sebastian's general vicinity too, even when they aren't talking directly. but when seb sits next to him, kazu leans over to give him a gentle nudge with his elbow. ]

It's no big! That's what friends are for... and it looked like you were having pretty rough time for a while there. But we made it, so we can celebrate soon~!