and if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

[assent]

CHARACTERS: Sonia Nevermind, and assorted others!
DATE: January 6th - 31st
WARNINGS: SPOILERS for Danganronpa 2 are heavy in here, but I will mark individual threads for it. Also cw things for violence
SUMMARY: Just putting all my log plans for this month in here! If you want to do something just drop a prompt, hit me up at serves to work something out or there are 2 open prompts inside!

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flops like magikarp

[assent]

[ She doesn't know how to even express it on her face right now, it's a whole new experience in terms of things. Like yes, she has kissed before, but it wasn't really with feeling and more curiosity of trying something with someone who was practically a stranger. In fact, it's at the point where she barely remembers it, and that isn't only due to the fucked up things she's done afterwards.

Her eyes flicker back to him when he speaks, her own hands drawing back half way like she's unsure of what she wants to do. Finally, she reaches out with her hand to brush back some of the strands of his hair. It's easier to keep her expression blank, so that the tears don't fall again. ]

You... look really handsome with your hair back like this. [ She breathes out slowly, her eyes closing. ] But I have never truly had much of a chance to feel what I want, or at least the memories of those times are hazy, so I admit I am a little lost. [ Then softer: ] It did feel nice, but at the same time I know I felt guilty because all I could think of was everything that I did before. So I think... I would like that. To offer to be support, to take support... so we can be there for each other.

dies like one

[competing]

[ the touch startles him, making him jerk back out of reflex. he doesn't stray too far, though, just far enough that he can look up at her properly once more, meet the eyes she's now gone to closing. his breath hitches when her hand lingers, hovering around those words...

it would be so easy now, he thinks. to just lean over and kiss her again. kiss her properly. without the excuse of magic, without the adrenaline of a night of dancing.

but just as she admits that her feelings had been muddled then, heavy with her guilt, he knows his, too, would be just the same. he has no right to kiss her now, not when he doesn't even know where it's coming from.

slowly, he reaches up, gently taking her hand in his. squeezes.

he realizes right then and there how starved he had been for that. for this... support. strength.

unconditional friendship. ]

Thank you, [ he says around a croak. he doesn't cry, but boy does he get pretty darn close to it. ]

becomes a drowned magikarp...

[assent]

[ She almost jerks her hand back as well, unsure of if she maybe misunderstood something. She dare not open her eyes for the longest of moments for that reason too, waiting until he speaks and his hand is squeezing hers again.

In the end, she had done something--copied from the world of fiction to try and feel a semblance to what is "normal" for people her age--just because she wanted what seemed to be a normal date. She went to Japan just to feel like a normal girl, and instead ended up brainwashed into three years of destruction and hell. Of destroying the world she had longed to give peace. Taken everything from her Kingdom, when she had wanted to give so much ... had lost her life to that cause almost.

She breathes out when she hears his voice, her eyes finally cracking open again. The need to cry yet holding back is something she understands so well though now, that she quietly and wordlessly lets go of his hand to instead lean forward, moving to hug him as best as she can. It's awkward with where he's sitting, but it's important at the moment -- at least that is what her heart tells her. It means she's half leaning into him with her knees sinking to the floor as well, her arms pushing to curl around his sides to hold on. Comfort usually comes with hugs, and there are faint memories of her hugging Nanami... maybe Akane or some of her other classmates. It just feels like a blur compared to everything else. ]

I could say the same.