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bitcoin scholar junpei tenmyouji ([personal profile] coolerjunpei) wrote2024-07-01 10:02 am

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Junpei Tenmyouji
Zero Escape

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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ meanwhile, charles withdraws from the rest of his team, leaving the spiders and shinji to chat while he finds a large enough rock to perch on. ]

yeah, my uncle - mum's brother - he owned some, back in india. we went to visit a few times when i was a kid and he taught me

[ and this — this is normal enough that he can almost fool himself into thinking this is any other day, and they're just spending the time talking about nothing in particular. and if he thinks about it like that it's easier; because if he really lets himself think of everything, well, there's so many other things he'd rather be saying... but just as he hadn't said them before leaving, for a good reason, it's not like the reason has changed in the last two days. ]

brownie. and if you think, oh, it's probably brown, you'd be wrong. it's actually grey. whoever named it has a weird sense of humour
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
hey, you never know. maybe you'd like it. and if i'm teaching you i don't have to ride, so

[ so it's a win all around, really. and besides, thinking about it is — nice, something beyond the immediate future, something that implies there is a normal future after whatever happens with the terminals... and just that alone makes him feel tremendously better. ]

well, actually, dust bunny's a pretty cute name, innit? i could name a horse that.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
we can find one of those smaller ones for you. or a pony

[ read: you're tiny, actually. but that's cute, so it's all fine. and shh, they're very much not thinking about what's happening after the next few days... ]

well, yeah? i mean, maybe it's not the name for a noble steed or whatever, but if i had to have a horse, reckon i'd rather have one that's old and lazy and dust bunny's perfect for that
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 'i'll get you whatever you want' is what he writes, first, and then just backspaces it away. ]

why not?

[ "because the world might not exist in a day's time or so" is not an acceptable answer. he is very much ignoring that. because there will be a world and he will be able to teach junpei to ride. ]

yeah, it'll be too old and lazy to even bother. you'll have a nice and easy time.

how's gab?
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's — not entirely sure what he expected as an answer, but what he gets leaves him staring at the tablet with an expression that's as much longing as it is tender. ]

i miss you, too.

[ is it embarrassing? not really, not to him, not when it's simply something that's a fact of his continued existence, now — that any time they're not together, he's going to miss junpei. of course he will. of course he does. ]

shouldn't be too long, now. maybe a day or so. there's still some stuff to do, but

[ but! he's not talking about what it is, or any details... but he hopes once they actually get going with the plan, it won't take too long. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh, so they are talking about this, now — he can do this, he thinks, if it's only in relation to how much he wants to be back with junpei. ]

yeah, that's the plan. been long enough, already.

[ frankly, he's not eager to have a repeat of this, oh, ever — this being them having to be apart for this long, specifically. ]

just... wait a bit longer, yeah?
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
i'd never.

[ and maybe that's too earnest of a response — but he can't answer any differently, not when the last thing he wants in the world is to keep junpei waiting at all. though the idea that he is waiting for him specifically, actually, that's... well. that's something that makes him feel the kind of way he might if he still was capable of feeling his whole face flush red, all the while making his heart feel stupidly light.

but then the others are signaling that it's time to go, and he needs to cut this short.
]

i gotta go now, but i'll see you soon. give gab a hug for me.

[ and then he pockets his tablet... and is promptly unable to check it for the next day or so, what with everything in ketsora going to hell in a handbasket real fast, an iron-tipped arrow burrowed into his side until jinx saves him for the second time — and the beach isn't much better, with a dead girl on the ground and scott on actual fire and then his time going to tinkering with the terminal —

well. all this to say, he doesn't take much time to actually rest, nor recover, and by the time the terminal is back-upped and the reset performed, his side is aching very badly; not that that's enough to deter him from setting up the mirror, saying bye to the others and then quite simply stepping through it and emerging from the mirror in junpei's house.

and he intends to say something, to announce that he's back — but the relief of it all being over crashes over him instantly, and though his all-black clothes hide the wound and the blood on his side well enough, he's not taken a moment of rest since being hurt badly enough to incapacitate him completely... so it's perhaps no wonder all he manages is to stagger forward a few steps, dropping his backpack onto the floor with a clattering sound.

he did make it back, though, right? he kept his promise. that's what matters.
]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's right to worry, because charles feels like he might collapse now that he no longer has to keep himself functional with nothing but his sheer force of will — if he was human that'd never work, but for ghosts, intent is what matters, and he's long since learned how to push himself to the limit when necessary.

and yet, when his eyes land on junpei, he breaks into a smile like every single thing that's wrong in the world has suddenly been made right.
] Junpei.

[ that's all he says, for a few moments, just his name paired with that look of undisguised affection and relief. ]

I'm — [ he does as instructed, leaning his weight on junpei and intending to reassure him that he's doing fine, really, except the movement has him wincing as he presses his hand against his side. ]

It wasn't, [ it wasn't my fault, except let him take a breath, ] I tried, yeah? I promise I tried. But they had iron arrows. It could... have been worse.

[ it very nearly was worse, so much worse, but he doesn't intend to ever let junpei know just how close of a call it was. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The Ketsorans, [ he answers, and would elaborate but then junpei is telling him to shut up, presumably so they can relocate to somewhere that isn't where they're standing right now, and charles nods, glancing at junpei as they walk, expression soft and grateful, not just for the help but for the little things he keeps saying, filling in the silence so he can focus on simply moving his feet.

when they get to the bedroom, charles smiles again at the sight of gab, muttering a quiet sorry and reaching his hand out for him to sniff before giving him a few scritches.

but then he realises his hand is needed elsewhere; namely, the second he thinks junpei might try and leave, even if it's with good intentions, he can't help but extend his hand so he can take junpei's in his, hold him there with a little tug towards the bed.
]

You, [ he says then, quiet and honest, as much an answer as it is the start to a sentence, ] You can't... do anything. The arrow's out, the wound just needs to heal, it'll do that on its own as long as I —

[ he tries to shrug, but the movement has him grimacing again, and he doesn't finish the sentence, but it's pretty obvious he means he just needs rest.

and so he says, with his eyes large and pleading,
]

Stay. Don't go anywhere.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-30 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ once again, he simply does as told, scooting a tad awkwardly as he tries to not jostle his side too much, relaxing a little as junpei sits down and he doesn't have to fear him just — leaving, for whatever reason. that is why, as junpei pats his leg in the universal sign of come here, his first thought is good, then he can't get up without me knowing, and he moves without really thinking anything more, lifts his head obligingly and rests it against his leg. only then does the reality of the situation set in, and he thinks, oh, and bites down a stupidly pleased little smile. he doesn't quite manage it, but some of it is lost in an exhale as he lets himself settle, feeling far more calm and whole than he has in the past days altogether.

with another slow exhale, he lets his overcoat flicker out of existence, then his bomber jacket, leaving him in just the black polo shirt — and without the extra fabric covering them up, the tears in his shirt are more visible, the stains that can only be dried blood, with the jagged edges of an arrow wound blackened, almost burnt-looking, peeking from underneath.
]

Took an iron-tipped arrow to the side, [ comes his answer, a little self-deprecating and succinct. ]

Ketsora's a fortress. Like, walls and archers on top and all that, and they're not keen on outsiders, yeah? So we had to [ he pauses, swallows, ] create a distraction. They weren't supposed to have anything that could hit me.

[ and, well, here's the result. and because he knows, he knows what this sounds like, ] We had to let the younger Peter and Gwen sneak in, they were the experts on this whole reset thing, and Shinji's the only one who'd been there before, so he showed them the way in. The older Peter and I stayed behind. And he — he took far worse hits so I wouldn't, so. [ so!! him getting hurt was an accident, and then peter actually ensured he wasn't hurt any worse. which he feels terrible about but it's fine!

anyway,
] And then the portal threw me at the beach, a lot of shit had gone down there when I got there, and I ended up helping with the terminal... [ hence the lack of a message. and no, he's not explicitly saying he never once stopped to rest or take care of his wound or do anything about it at all, but he's also not not saying that. ]

I came as soon as we were done. [ a pause. ] Sorry it took me this long.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-30 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it is with a soft hum that he tilts his head into the touch, closing his eyes for a moment, to focus on nothing else but the sensation of the hand in his hair, in the way he can feel it. and it is because of that focus that he says, almost absently, ] I almost didn't.

[ and then he blinks his eyes open, sharp and sudden, because shit, he didn't mean to say that — but he did, and he can't take it back, so he hastens to add, ] But then Jinx showed up. I owe her twice over, now. [ she'd been there for him when he was reliving his death, and then now prevented him from experiencing an entirely new one.

in the end, maybe it doesn't matter, what could have happened; not when it didn't, not when he's here, now. he did make it back, and he has no intentions of leaving again. with a sigh, he lets his eyes fall closed for a second, two, three, before junpei's voice makes him open them again and tilt his head so he can gaze at him, the look he gives him soft and tender in the way he only ever directs at junpei and no one else.
]

... Yeah. Yeah, I promise. [ a moment passes where he simply keeps looking at junpei, and then, ]

But next time, I won't leave you. Either we both stay, or we both go, yeah? Cause I don't ever wanna do this again. [ 'this' meaning 'be apart for days at a time'. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-09-30 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he at least has the good grace to look sheepish and apologetic at once, and yeah — maybe they do need the promise. and more than that, maybe he's incredibly, stupidly lucky that junpei gets it; does he wish he didn't, because it'd mean he wouldn't do the same? well, yes, of course. but he can't help but be grateful nonetheless, that junpei speaks of this not with anger but understanding... and a little wryness and a pointed look, well, he's definitely owed as much. ]

Think she might. [ truthfully, jinx seems more like a sweets person to him, but that's not really the point here.

the point, it turns out, is junpei saying it's you and me and holding out his pinky for another promise and charles — fucking hell, charles loves him so much his heart might just burst, so much it actually hurts more than the bloody arrow wound, and once the promise is made and their hands are simply holding onto each other again, he looks at them instead of at junpei because he knows that if he doesn't distract himself, somehow, he's going to go and discard every good reason he's thought of to not speak of his feelings at all and pour them all out, reach into his chest and drop his spectral heart into junpei's hands.

he exhales, once, very carefully. okay, he can — he can do this. he can be normal about this, can't he? and talking about ghost healing, yeah, that's a nice distraction.
]

Oh, uh, not too long? It started healing the second the iron was out, but I need to, you know, have a good and proper rest for it to work. So it's been pretty slow until now, but I reckon a few hours and I'll be able to move round without it hurting.

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