(After the trial! Izumo will watch out for Izumo to see if she wants to speak or not. If she wants to be left alone, he'll leave her alone! But he'll keep an eye out for her.
He catches her by the docks but doesn't approach her right away. This week's effect is pretty rude, isn't... both of them. He taps his boot against the pier to let her know he's there, though.
[ she's lost to the world, but the tapping gets her attention and she'll turn around when she senses it and while her face is expressionless for the most part, there's a weak, twisted smile that creeps on her face when she faces him.
the anger from her very core is impossible to ignore. ]
(Another week, another hit. It's not fair, he thinks, how some people just can't seem to catch a break. He isn't completely familiar with Izumo's relation to Shima but he knew some things.
They were from the same world. They didn't get along. But he wasn't under the impression that they didn't care for each other. Maybe that's why Shima's actions are so surprising, )
If you have something to say, you should say it. (Instead of keeping it in, letting it fester.) I'm willing to listen, if you're willing to speak.
[ some people really can't catch a break and things honestly look great for izumo up until trial and i, naru, have lost my mind once again. big hate. ]
I don't even know what I want to say.
[ she...sounds so tired. the anger is still there but now she's just too tired to know what to do with all of this anger. ]
The person you saw at the end is the real him. A liar who is proud of how little anything means to him—someone who could throw away everything.
[ except her, apparently and painfully, but nevertheless, a perfect spy. a person with no personal attachments. ]
The other person you spoke to is the act he puts for everyone so that they'll never know who he is. No one would have thought twice it was him had there not been more than one connection to him.
...I've been fooled by that persona.
[ so, yeah. we're all foxes because we're all fake and liars. ]
(Himself included. Takes more than a liar to know a liar sometimes... maybe Shima was just a better one than he is which makes him wonder what must have led to him becoming so good at it.)
That's why you didn't like him. (And was so adamant about him not speaking to him about her.) He's lied to you before.
I'm not surprised. He's very good at what he does, but he betrayed me—not just lied.
[ she's quiet for a moment before she shakes her head and just continues. this will add weight to what a story with layers where none of them are any kinder than the one previous. ]
He kidnapped me and took me to the last place I can remember from my world.
He steps closer, slow and cautious, ready to stop at the first sign she might actually want to keep the distance. Of course, this means letting the air settle around them. It's a different feeling than one Claude is used to expressing.
Concern, worry, sympathy... feelings that are much heavier and more muted than his usual, warm and bright aura. Above it all though, is a sense of care and compassion. These emotions aren't coming from a place of feeling sorry for her but rather, because he seems to really care. Who would have thought, huh?)
How often did you talk to him here?
(He doesn't really get the impression that they'ved avoided each other, especially when she was close enough to know his team. How close did they remain after everything?
There are questions he could ask but... he opts to take it slow for now, hoping to prompt more answers from her. Giving her some time to sort out her words and thoughts.)
[ laughs softly in backtags but—it's not like his concern or the compassion is unwelcomed but it feels...foreign. rather, just different. she knew that he had considered her valuable to him, a person he could work with but this is different. she lets him get closer as there's really nowhere else she can run to. ]
Every so often. [ there's an emptiness to her voice, to her being. an apathy that slowly masks her anger and any traces of sadness that she may feel. ] It was more that he found me than anything else.
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Week 2, after trial
He catches her by the docks but doesn't approach her right away. This week's effect is pretty rude, isn't... both of them. He taps his boot against the pier to let her know he's there, though.
Tap, tap.)
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the anger from her very core is impossible to ignore. ]
Twice now.
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(Another week, another hit. It's not fair, he thinks, how some people just can't seem to catch a break. He isn't completely familiar with Izumo's relation to Shima but he knew some things.
They were from the same world. They didn't get along. But he wasn't under the impression that they didn't care for each other. Maybe that's why Shima's actions are so surprising, )
If you have something to say, you should say it. (Instead of keeping it in, letting it fester.) I'm willing to listen, if you're willing to speak.
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I don't even know what I want to say.
[ she...sounds so tired. the anger is still there but now she's just too tired to know what to do with all of this anger. ]
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(he wasn't very close to shima soooo there's no opinion here.)
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Suspect him of what? There's plenty of that between the two of us.
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I wasn't close to him but you knew him from before we came here. You don't like to talk about him either...
Then there was the way his entire character seemed to changed towards the end.
(It came out of almost no where. And yet, he isn't entirely surpised,)
I wonder if we were really put on this team because we had the same things in common.
(They're all liars.)
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[ except her, apparently and painfully, but nevertheless, a perfect spy. a person with no personal attachments. ]
The other person you spoke to is the act he puts for everyone so that they'll never know who he is. No one would have thought twice it was him had there not been more than one connection to him.
...I've been fooled by that persona.
[ so, yeah. we're all foxes because we're all fake and liars. ]
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(Himself included. Takes more than a liar to know a liar sometimes... maybe Shima was just a better one than he is which makes him wonder what must have led to him becoming so good at it.)
That's why you didn't like him. (And was so adamant about him not speaking to him about her.) He's lied to you before.
(And it hurt her, didn't it?)
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[ she's quiet for a moment before she shakes her head and just continues. this will add weight to what a story with layers where none of them are any kinder than the one previous. ]
He kidnapped me and took me to the last place I can remember from my world.
[ to die. ]
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He steps closer, slow and cautious, ready to stop at the first sign she might actually want to keep the distance. Of course, this means letting the air settle around them. It's a different feeling than one Claude is used to expressing.
Concern, worry, sympathy... feelings that are much heavier and more muted than his usual, warm and bright aura. Above it all though, is a sense of care and compassion. These emotions aren't coming from a place of feeling sorry for her but rather, because he seems to really care. Who would have thought, huh?)
How often did you talk to him here?
(He doesn't really get the impression that they'ved avoided each other, especially when she was close enough to know his team. How close did they remain after everything?
There are questions he could ask but... he opts to take it slow for now, hoping to prompt more answers from her. Giving her some time to sort out her words and thoughts.)
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Every so often. [ there's an emptiness to her voice, to her being. an apathy that slowly masks her anger and any traces of sadness that she may feel. ] It was more that he found me than anything else.
[ shima, her every kind stalker. ]
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(And yet...
He's quiet for a moment, trying to figure out how to proceed from here.)
Do you want to talk about it? The things you talked about?
(Sort them out? Yell?)