catchall; amelia

[ohthehumanities]

team karens at security guards

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[ohthehumanities]

I'd like to think he would've chosen differently. But I don't expect he was going to.

[He hadn't sensed any true will to go on, yesterday. And Kaveh couldn't bring himself to beg him to try, not when Matsui's reason to fight was gone.]

But it shouldn't have been like this.

[saillune]

[She nods in solemn agreement. Death by roaming land-shark is not a very dignified way to join your partner in the after-afterlife.]

I hope they can meet each other again, as spirits...

[ohthehumanities]

[Imagine if the killed wake up on Fridays and Buzen had to see this nonsense. Incredible.]

Me too. [...] Alex said one of the reapers told her they're still around, in a way. Just on a different "frequency."

[It's a hollow comfort, after all of that. But it's something, to think that they might be together.]

[saillune]

[Huh...]

I thought the idea was that the erased would go on to whatever afterlives they normally would have...

[ohthehumanities]

From what I understand, that's at the end. After everything's over.

[Once they know who wins, he means.]

[saillune]

Then they're still nearby...

[She feels a little hopeful, at that.]

Maybe they're watching over us... like Rin was.

[ohthehumanities]

Maybe.

[It's a kind of selfish comfort, he thinks--the idea of them having to watch helplessly.]

Matsui will be okay if they're together, though.

[saillune]

... That's good, then...

[It's hard to be too relieved when it's only speculation, and it's in the wake of all the traumatic events of the past few days... but it's something.

She glances a little ways down the canal.]

... Maybe I'll go offer some prayers for them at the cathedral.

[ohthehumanities]

I think Matsui would like that.

[Buzen and Rang, Kaveh doesn't know. But he thinks Buzen would be happy so long as someone honored Matsui, and Rang... Rang deserves to be remembered.]

[saillune]

He really liked that place...

If he's a ghost now, then that's probably where he'll be haunting us from.

[ohthehumanities]

I think you're right. [He's quiet for a moment, contemplating that.] We'll have to make sure they know we haven't forgotten them.

[Even if it's just in small ways, like visiting their favorite places and saying their names.]