[open] oct. catch-all & overflow

[sotenbori]

WHO: Majima & Everyone
WHERE: Around Town
WHEN: In October
WHAT: Event stuff & Assorted threads
WARNINGS: violence in the nightmare and fog threads



dreams

[ the truth is, if majima could get away with not sleeping, he would. his own nightmares are so twisted even without retrospec helping them out, but it's even worse than normal. at least his are predictable - but jumping into someone else's is by far the weirder scenario. half the time he realizes what he's doing, the other half he's so deep into it he can't tell that it isn't real, can't manage to pull away from it to tell the other person they need to wake up.

do you wander into his to see the terrors that haunt him every night? or has he managed to wake up only to fall into yours, trying to make some meaning out of the mess of these events. ]

fog.

[ majima's first priority is helping people home. whether it's people he's met on retrospec, or specifically his employees (all of whom he definitely tells he'll walk home individually if he has to. as in, he will walk one home and come get another. ohana means family. family means nobody gets left behind). there is something of a double edged sword in doing that, of course. most of the time he's happy to help people with their own problems, but what if he brings his down on them? he almost considers closing the club but they have so much patronage from non-retrospec users. it's like he's said before - it's stupid that they have to keep having normal lives and dealing with this shit. money doesn't stop being a problem just because the world is rewriting itself or whatever the fuck they're doing in their fancy building.

or maybe you just catch him when he's heading home, dealing with his own demons come to roost in the middle of the night. working so late, he can't help but be out during these awful hours. it'll be better if no one has to see it happening, if no one has to watch him get attacked. but it's not like he can help it.

ultimately the answer to most things in the fog, as in life, is punch things or get punched. and he's here to do the former. ]

labyrinth

Fuck this, I just wanted some candy.

[ as a rule he tries to ignore the retrospec building. other people, who were more go-getters than he was, were all about going in there and exploring and finding information to share with others. but the doors just happened to be open and he just happened to go and grab some candy and now he's in the middle of a labyrinth.

cool. cool cool cool. ]

Don't got time for this shit.

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Comments

kyouko

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

What, like ya think it's changin' or something?

[evidentiary]

I think so...this type of tile, I think it was a different kind. In that case...we may be in a place with the characteristics of the fog...?

[sotenbori]

Like the unreality shit people've been talkin' about?

john

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

[ majima doesn't mind following. he steps into stride behind him, trying to come up with non-worst-case-scenarios. oh, and small talk, of course: ]

You've been doin' a lot of good work at the club. We're really lucky ta have ya.

[vitis]

Uh. [ well that was-- not expected.

john hates being caught off guard. even if he continues to look forward, he very nearly stumbles over an uneven stone regardless. ]

You should probably reverse that.. [ muttered; he's the lucky one there. with his freehand, he touches the brim of his hat. ] But thanks for sayin' so!

[sotenbori]

Maybe it can work both ways, but it's still true.

[ poor john he hadn't meant to upset him but also it bears repeating. ]

kuramochi

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

[ majima smiles and nods ]

That's right, we did. That month was way better than this shit, huh?

[cheetahsenpai]

[Kuramochi grins, he knew he was right! It's hard to forget someone who wears an eye patch.]

It was. That month is starting to look much better than this one. I know fog comes around, but this is so thick. I could barely see anything when I left school today. Is it thick all over or just over here?

[sotenbori]

Everywhere.

[ majima sighs ]

Keep gettin' chased by people who want a fight. Usually I don't mind fightin', but it's gettin' ta be a bit of a hassle.

anya

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

[ the man keeps his hold tight on majima but turns to look at the girl who has joined them, his expression moving from anger to something almost sweet, but in a warped expression of it. like someone who has never smiled for real a day in his life is trying to put on a show he doesn't understand. a man painting a swan who has never seen one. Are ya lost, girlie?

Majima keeps his eye on the man until, after a moment it catches up with him that he knows that voice, and he looks over to see anya. shame wells up almost instantly, that she'd see him like this, that she'd have to witness him getting chewed out like this. that he doesn't fight back. ]

You should go.

[ Eh? Did someone give ya permission to talk, Majima-chan? there's that same sneering tone again, the facade falling away. he doesn't even bother playing for her anymore, he just uses his hold on majima to keep him still and punches him in the face for his insolence. Apologize for speaking out of turn. ]

tatsuo

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

[ it occurs to him he has no idea who aoi is but tatsuo looks over at her, so, okay, sure, he'll play along. who hasn't had a nightmare where they forget everyone who works for them, honestly? ]

I'm glad to hear it. Aoi-chan is truly a gem of our club.

[ he guesses??? ]

rose

[sotenbori]

[ continued from here ]

Ah, maybe? But that won't make it any less true.

[blacksong]

Do you like making more work for yourself or what? [SIGHING, but the sooner they get this over with, the sooner everyone can get home.] Fine, I'll walk you back to your place.

[sotenbori]

Let's stop by yours on the way there.

[ see? flawless logic. but as soon as they start heading out a figure starts appearing from the fog behind them, just following them. ]

I think we've got company.

[ at least it looks human shaped?? ]

professor-san & kiryu-chan; tuesday 10/17;

[sotenbori]

[ for all that majima tries to treat ros like everything is fine when he visits her in the hospital, he know it likely isn't fine, and he proceeds to text her pretty much nonstop afterwards until he finally just invites her over. kiryu's place isn't the biggest, but it's still close enough to work so it's fine.

(kiryu is dragging both of their asses to the beach house tomorrow though, theres PLENTY of space out there.)

he takes off work early - it's tuesday, after all, and sends the kids home early too because again, it's tuesday for goddsake, so he can be there relatively early when ros stops by. ]

Hey. Make yourself at home, okay?

[ it maybe be "kiryu's place" but majima moved in here a couple weeks ago, so, it's his place now too. ]

If ya need anythin', let us know but feel free ta help yourself ta anythin' in the fridge.

[ of course, there is the small and minor detials of the fact majimas a little more roughed up than the last time ros saw him but its cool. she shouldn't worry. ]

[originallutece]

Ah . . . thank you.

[She feels a little awkward, truth be told. She appreciates the efforts, she really does, but she feels like an intruder in this house. Add to the fact she's still uncertain about how people tend to fuss (she'd much prefer to forget about it, frankly; just shove it in the past and move on), and Rosalind isn't quite sure what to do with herself.]

. . . what happened?

[Perhaps she should have approached that more delicately, but he looks as roughed up as she does. Beer bottles and rough handling were the causes of the scabs and bruises littering both her hands and face; she wonders what the cause was for his.]

[judgementkazzy]

[ Kiryu for his part, is a quiet, supporting force even in his own home. Despite his protests, he knows Majima wants to go about his business like normal.

Yeah, that's not gonna fly for much longer. Kiryu's got plans.

Still, he's there with whatever Ros needs, whatever Majima could want. It's not his place to answer, so he just comes by with a glass of water and offers it to her. Obviously, the "make yourself at home" bit comes from both of them. ]

kiryu-chan; 10/21

[sotenbori]

[ it's early, like 6 am early but it's not dark anymore and that's the important part. majima untangles himself from the blankets and pillows in whatever is left of their pillow fort and heads out to the beach to have a smoke. it's not hard to find him, of course, and when kiryu does come to talk to him he's finally ready to be direct. it's been days since he was wounded but there's so many other things on his mind - he's talked about so little of it.

eventually he has to talk though. there's a level of unhealthy even he can't continue adhereing to here. ]

D'ya ever think about how fuckin' pointless everythin' is?

[ these days, he understands all too well the sentiment behind that conversation he'd had with sagawa. when he'd put on that hideous jacket and decided to say "fuck you" right back to the world. but it's that step, that somehow learning how to not care (was that it? did he really stop caring?) that he can't figure out. he never quite makes it there, he only gets sadder. ]

[judgementkazzy]

[ Kiryu hasn't been sleeping well since Majima was injured. The usual guilt aside, he wants to stay alert for him, wants to be there where he couldn't be when... whatever happened to him happened. They haven't talked about it, and that's fine. Kiryu is patient and he can wait for Majima to be ready to talk about.

It hasn't made waiting any easier, but this morning when he follows Majima out onto the beach, he's just as sure that he'll wait as long as it takes. ]

Do you mean in general, or with all the stuff happening this month?

[ He's not a smoking kind of guy but even he's considered it after all this. ]

fog

[me_matey]

-It was the sounds of scuffle that drew May off of her normal path through the fog, knowing full well the Bed Man may spring out if she was out in the open, but she could have sworn someone was in trouble out there. But by the time she could make out just who it was and what was going down, she found herself mostly puzzled.-

Majima? -It had to be him. The patch-eye was synonymous at this point. But who the hell was he rumbling with? She fought back the first reaction; to jump in immediately. She didn't want to draw the Bed Man into this fight, either, or they'd all be in serious trouble.-

[sotenbori]

[ the dude majima's fighting is a huge, bald guy in a suit. like this guy looks more comically yakuza than pretty much anyone else, a characteristic of himself. but majima's moves against him are sluggish, not the normal refined way he fights. like he knows -- or at least part of him knows -- he's not supposed to fight back. maybe that makes sense in a way. the only memory he has of this man was screaming at him while being tortured. oyaji, he'd called him. and rank was important in the yakuza. well, that and he'd been roughed up earlier this week. but, hey, pain is temporary. he'd never complain about that part.

but he is fighting at least. which was better than he'd done against the fog's version of sagawa when anya had found him.

at the sound of may's voice he turns -- just in time to take a punch on his blind side that knocks him down. ] Fuck. [ he climbs back to his feet because like hell he's going to lose in front of may and the fact she's his auidence now seems to at least spur him into fighting harder, snapping him out of the spell of thinking "this is my boss and i can't touch him" and remembering, nah, these are some weird fucked up fog constructions. ]

Ya wanna help me fight or what?

post mid month.

[erythristic]

[usually, she texts instead of calls. but she needs to right now - and she can't ask anyone else. not when still, it boils in her blood that something needs to happen, something needs to shift. she gets why some people smoke, some drink, but she won't put herself through that.

instead, the safest outlet. so she calls, sitting in her car, already resolved.]

Majima, I know this is going to be out of nowhere. But...would you fight me?

[for real, her tone implies. she won't get what she's looking for at training.]

[sotenbori]

[ he's (mostly) healed from his trauma from the week before -- well, maybe not mostly, but at least: he's definitely up for fighting. and that was pretty much the same thing. ]

Yeah, I'll fight ya. I got super strength now, ya gonna need me ta pull my punches or some shit?

Voice, backdated to 10/3 (sorry this took me so long)

[bitemefightme]

Hey, I need to speak to the owner. [A pause.] Goro Majima?

[sotenbori]

Yeah, that's me. How can I help you?