ALPHINAUD;

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w0 friday

[goalsides]

[at some point, taichi's walking across campus to head back to the spring dorm. he's more alert than usual, and so as he goes he spots someone a little familiar.]

Alphinaud, hey. [a pause.] You saw the news?

[arcsplainist]

[ Alphinaud is likewise doing similarly; the day as barely started and it's already. Something. ]

I have. [ a pause ] I pray it does not mean what it implies.

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If you mean the implication of murder? I don't think there's any other way to take this right now. I just don't know what we're supposed to do about it.

[arcsplainist]

So he is dead, then? Truly?

[goalsides]

Yeah. We double-checked just to be sure, but it's true.

[arcsplainist]

[ ... welp. ]

I knew all these appearances of a school had to be lies, but for this? Was someone meant to die all along?

[goalsides]

Good question. We don't have an answer to that yet, but it does make you wonder with everything else they've told us about how graduation and the dorm wars work.

[arcsplainist]

More lies, is my guess, to further push this image they want us to believe. They being the ones who have orchestrated this.

[goalsides]

No, that's not what I mean. Or, well, kind of. One of the questions some of us have been wondering is how they could guarantee to grant these wishes when people graduate. But...it's probably easier if there's fewer students, isn't it?

[arcsplainist]

It would be—if these wishes exist at all.

[goalsides]

We don't know one way or another. That's what the problem is...if someone really did kill him on purpose, wouldn't that be a motivation?

[murders. it's a lot to think through.]

[arcsplainist]

... Yet would that not mean—'tis not this school at fault, but an individual who has grown desperate enough to kill?

[goalsides]

It'd be a good assumption if that's what it turns out to be. But I don't know if I've met anybody yet that would be desperate enough to do that. Have you?

[arcsplainist]

'Tis difficult to say. Even one with the most pleasant persona could still be hiding such horrible intent.

[goalsides]

[yeah. that's definitely true.]

That's going to make it even harder to decide who we should be looking at.

[arcsplainist]

It will not be an easy task ahead of us, but if we are able to come together, then maybe...

[goalsides]

It's a thought. If we can get people to get together, that's gonna be the other hard part. A lot of us are still trying to figure out what we should even be doing.

[him included.]

w1 thursday

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[WELL. WITH ALL THAT HULLABALOO... after things get a little more settled, taichi's out wandering campus making sure no other group is going to mysteriously pop out of nowhere. as it is though, in one of the quieter parts he does come across someone familiar which...]

Should you be out right now?

[arcsplainist]

[ By now I'm assuming Otome has handwavily done her thing because loltime, so Alphinaud is not the grime coated, utterly smelly mess he was earlier. Yay! He's in his issued school uniform now, his old clothes lost to cyoa hell forever, a proper amount of bandages on where necessary—which is a lot of places, but details.

Alphinaud just seems to be standing around somewhere across campus, where few people go, lost in thought? Just enjoying the scenery while the sun sets? Who knows! But then Taichi's voice ventures into the silence; Alphinaud looks up, surprised. ]

... Mayhap not. I apologize—I needed the air.

[ like, literally ]

[goalsides]

[alphinaud your clothes...and your grime...and your everything? at least he looks a little less worse for the wear but there's a nod of understanding as he approaches.]

You picked a good place for it. [...] Mind the company at all? I was just making sure things calmed down after earlier.

[arcsplainist]

[ Well, now that he mentions it. ]

I could use for the company, I think. 'Twould be preferable over allowing my thoughts to wander.

[goalsides]

That doesn't surprise me to hear. [usually when people go through something strange, being alone isn't a great idea anyway.] You guys...kind of look like you had a pretty hard time.

[arcsplainist]

[ His shoulders slump. ]

Trickery or no, never would I wish that horror upon mine greatest foe.

[goalsides]

[the thing is, taichi's not always great at emotional support. he's not always good at comforting people either, but he can at least make an attempt.]

...do you wanna talk about it? Or is it the kind of thing you don't want to re-live?

[arcsplainist]

[ If only not speaking of it were enough to forget. Alphinaud doesn't think he has it in him to go terribly into depth, however: ]

First a death, and now this...

We had been whisked away for what felt like days. I fear for what else others may be subjected to.