Dazai Osamu (
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recolle2018-08-17 09:19 pm
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[open dreamdive] no longer human
WHO: You!
WHERE: Shuji's subconscious.
WHEN: August 18.
WHAT: Dreamdiving!
WARNINGS: Depends on how the dive goes, but a likely one is suicide.
[Maybe you weren't even in line of sight of Shuji. Just about everyone has a reason to be out and about on a Saruday afternoon, and nobody wants their day interrupted by the ground falling out from under them. Maybe you don't even instantly recognize that the library entrance you fall into would be part of Shuji's subconscious and not anybody else's.
This is how things ended up for you today, unfortunately. Might as well take a look around and see if you can't spot the man himself.
Locations are in top-levels added as divers enter them.]
WHERE: Shuji's subconscious.
WHEN: August 18.
WHAT: Dreamdiving!
WARNINGS: Depends on how the dive goes, but a likely one is suicide.
[Maybe you weren't even in line of sight of Shuji. Just about everyone has a reason to be out and about on a Saruday afternoon, and nobody wants their day interrupted by the ground falling out from under them. Maybe you don't even instantly recognize that the library entrance you fall into would be part of Shuji's subconscious and not anybody else's.
This is how things ended up for you today, unfortunately. Might as well take a look around and see if you can't spot the man himself.
Locations are in top-levels added as divers enter them.]
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Shuji doesn't notice where he's looking in particular.]
Of course he is! I could spend all day with him ♥
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[Bingo.
So can he get anywhere near it, or will this get hostile...]
I have something to tell you, by the way. Once we're out of here. It isn't particularly my place to say just yet, unfortunately, but sometime soon it will be.
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So you're telling me you have something important to tell me but you won't let me know what it is? That's cruel. ...Well, I suppose that's not surprising from you.
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Is that so...?
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[Shuji's smiling, but he's definitely still focused on Wesker and when he might move.]
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You would know, I'm assuming.
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[Never mind how recently he's been adamantly against this viewpoint.]
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[Not you. Shuji.
He's very, very familiar with past lives being shitlords to people; this isn't as blatant as his own or Jaeger's, but it's... The cracks are telling, assuming he's correct.
If not, he can apologize to Shuji later.]
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[Dazai's smile widens.]
I'm not wrong. He can struggle if he wants, but he's still a degraded copy of me, at best.
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Well, you certainly do seem to have more of a spine, for better or worse.
I assume you believe it's an inevitability as well. That things are shifting back to the way things are supposed to be - one day you'll take your proper place, and that will be the end of the entire annoying ordeal...?
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Of course I do. All he's doing by pathetically crying about how he'll never turn into me is making it worse for himself.
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I see no harm in telling you, however. After all, if you're anything like the others, you don't seem terribly inclined to leave the room we're in.
[He shifts a little, though he's still not moving to try to grab that book.]
Tell me, what's keeping you here? Do you know?
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Fair enough.
[Mm...]
So what is it you're hoping to get out of this, through curiosity?
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You're an intelligent man. Why don't you guess? I've practically told you already.
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[Come now.]
However, I've no idea how you're planning on actually achieving it. Outside of being overly protective of that bookshelf, that is, but I imagine that even you know that's a stalling tactic and not any sort of actually productive move.
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[So all he has to do is stall.]
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tw: suicide mention
[Dazai says this fairly casually.]
I just don't want an inferior copy of me to be living when I'm not.
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That's fair. Though I do have to question why you're doing this if you believe that things are changing in your favor. Even Retrospec seems to agree that we are the people we once were, and all of their interference seems to be aimed toward causing a paradigm shift within our souls as well as rebuilding our worlds.
If that much is true, "Shuji" will cease to exist anyway, won't he? It seems to me, then, that it would be to your benefit to keep both of you alive for the time being, such that you can emerge again to do whatever it is you choose to do.
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[Dazai's complaining is breaking his concentration. Now might be a good time to move.]
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fuck it we're going for that book
because goddamn dazai is obnoxious]
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Put that down.
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you know what, he literally just got memories yesterday that reminded him of how easily humans die, so just...give him a moment to stare down the scythe and try to sort out a course of action]
...Scythes are such improbable weapons; I really don't understand why Jaeger uses them, either.
[...wesker
for fuck's sake.]
Bear in mind, again, if he stays alive then so do you. And you have the opportunity to take over once he inevitably dies off.
I see no reason to not assist both of you now. If you have a valid reason for why I shouldn't, then I'll hear it. I understand that he's obnoxious, but surely you have more patience than that - you can feel the shift happening already, can't you?
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Valid reason why Wesker should not try to assist both of them: Dazai swinging his scythe at Wesker. Not pulling that attack at all - Dazai most definitely does not care if Wesker gets seriously hurt or dies.
He is the least patient person in the universe.]
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