🎧 homophonic | pcs | mizuki okiura

[silicone]

I've grown out of my brooding, pretentious teenager phase.

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[adorabrawler]

[ She doesn’t notice him until he approaches; it’s only then does she blink a few times, as if pulling herself away from her thoughts, and tilts her head to the side to look at him. ]

… Oh. Hey.

[silicone]

Wiped, yeah?

[ he starts picking at some of the flowers he's made, slowly beginning to work them into something. ]

[adorabrawler]

Mmhm.

[ She only watches briefly before looking back up. ]

… But not tired enough to sleep.

[ Somehow. ]

[silicone]

Same. Every time I close my eyes I keep seeing Wenzhou...

[ he twists the stems gently into each other. ]

Just... trying to remember him as he was. Before everything.

[adorabrawler]

[ ... ]

You shouldn't have forced yourself to do all that.

[silicone]

That man... called me his son.

I owed it to him... to find out.

[ failure you don't deserve that love you don't deserve him

he just rubs his forehead slowly, his voice tired. ]

I wanted to. I needed to.

[adorabrawler]

[ She's silent for a long moment, before she breaks it again. ]

I'm... sorry. That you didn't get the result you wanted.

[silicone]

I know why we got the result we did.

[ twisting the stems together. ]

I got about as much of an answer as I needed...

[adorabrawler]

Did you?

[ a genuine question ]

[silicone]

Yeah, not like it matters.

If I could get a reason why, then that would be enough.

[adorabrawler]

[ She hums, thoughtfully. ]

Dunno if you'd like it...

[silicone]

I probably won't. But what can I do anyways but listen?

Truth is worth more to me than anything on a night like this.

[adorabrawler]

... Well, all right.

It was just a contingency plan.

[silicone]

A contingency plan for what.

[adorabrawler]

You know—this dumb game. What we're ultimately trying to do here now.

[silicone]

... Did you think the top three teams were going to get nuked this week? Despite the messages from the erased?

[ his question is calm, soft, he's not really thinking anything right now. just vibing and twisting flowers together. ]

[adorabrawler]

[ shrugs ]

You never know what could happen. But doing nothing seemed worse than trying.

[silicone]

Why Wenzhou? Why their team?

[adorabrawler]

... These things come down to who you're willing to hurt and who you aren't.

[silicone]

Yeah. Sure is.

Do you know how many people you hurt? Besides Wenzhou. All for points that don't matter? Nahri, Kazuki, Kyoko, Fei Du... there are more victims besides the person you killed.

[ calmly still: white, white, white, doves, fresh snow, fresh snow, blood, blood, wenzhou's body, wenzhou's head coming apart in my hands. ]

You blew his body to smithereens. I think that's a hell of a thing to make everyone watching look at.

Including the Erased.

[adorabrawler]

Look—I know.

If I knew it'd end up that bad, then I would've done something else.

[silicone]

How you get him to hold still long enough for someone to smash his face in, Mizuki...

... Did he go willingly? Or was something done to his autonomy? Like Fukuzawa.

[ he never would. he would never leave us. ]

[adorabrawler]

... You guys really don't think much of me, do you? I didn't do anything to him. He put up a fight.

[silicone]

Then walk me through what happened to blow him into three pieces.

Why did Luo Wenzhou put his gun down?

[adorabrawler]

I don't know.

[ She rolls over. ]

I don't really need to go through all of this.