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Dazai Osamu ([personal profile] thesettingsun) wrote in [community profile] recolle2018-08-17 09:19 pm

[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.]
manufactured: (014. you'll understand when i'm dead)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
I got that impression, yes.

[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.
manufactured: (002. we burn and coil like cigarettes)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll stop for now, without trying to take it; he folds his arms, the gesture actually reasonably casual, despite the fact that - well, wow rude?]

Is that so...?
manufactured: (018. when i'm god everyone dies)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, that's. All right, that explains it.]

You would know, I'm assuming.
manufactured: (001. your world is an ashtray)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I certainly can't argue that any. Interestingly enough, Shuji never did pass judgement on me for my past life's actions, however harsh I may have been on myself about them.

[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.]
manufactured: (021. and the world gets smaller)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[...He's going to owe Shuji about six thousand apologies after this.]

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...?
manufactured: (002. we burn and coil like cigarettes)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Naturally. I've already come to terms with that inevitability, far moreso than I care to divulge to most people.

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?
manufactured: (004. your ashes turn to mud)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets a soft noise that might almost be a laugh out of him.]

Fair enough.

[Mm...]

So what is it you're hoping to get out of this, through curiosity?
manufactured: (019. can you feel my power?)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Please. The end goal here is fairly obvious.

[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.
manufactured: (018. when i'm god everyone dies)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
...Good to see that base logic isn't your strong point, seeing as you don't seem to be considering what will happen to you, in that case. But you get points for moxie.
manufactured: (001. your world is an ashtray)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Mm.]

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.
manufactured: (021. and the world gets smaller)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[...Are his powers still intact here, because if they are that's going to be simple enough; he acknowledges that it's possible they aren't because Shuji didn't really know about them, but either way -

fuck it we're going for that book

because goddamn dazai is obnoxious]
manufactured: (007. you've only spent)

[personal profile] manufactured 2018-08-18 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[where the fuck is john when you need him goddamn

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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