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[codes]

[ Hey, buddy, do you know what time it is? Guessing ADVENTURE TIME™ will only earn an incorrect bzzt, thanks for playing. This time Rin's mood has plummeted to unbearable levels of snark, but at least she's considerate enough to take it to text. ]

✪✪✪ Pop Quiz ✪✪✪ Guess which Chosen Child has taken their leave this time! If you choose correctly, you'll get a nice giant "Piss off!" to redeem anytime you feel like being told off. Really, I'm the best at it or so I'm told! (◕‿◕✿)

[ It sounds a lot less brutal when the words are typed up instead of shouted, right? That may have been the end of her message, but then something else comes through. ]

I bet none of you losers ever had the chance to get to know my roommate, so you know what? I'll tell you all about everything you missed out on. This Chosen Child will be sorely missed because unlike a lot of you other idiots, she had personality. At first I thought there was nothing there because she was a blank slate, but then I got to see how courageous she was in conquering her fears. She fought valiantly while many others chickened out and this alone earned her a spot as my only friend in the world.

She never even had a chance to see what it was like to live. This place? This fake world we all got forced into? This was her chance to finally enjoy a life and she was taken away for no apparent reason. She didn't break any stupid rules. If I can run around screaming and beating up others while she did no harm, why was she sent back?

Do you understand? This place sent a good person back to her death for no reason.

Hakuno was too good for this place. I'm glad she won't get hurt anymore, but she did seem happy while she was here. Kind of hard to be angry at this place when it let her live life like a normal person for once.

I'm guessing her Servant Saber is gone too? I haven't heard from that loud mouth in a few days. Figures. They seemed really close, so I guess that's for the best to be completely honest with you.

Guess this is your way of punishing me for me lashing out, isn't it? Typical. Can't threaten to send home the person who needs to be home, no, just send her only friend to the grave once more.

[ But now Rin Tousaka is alone. Unfortunately that means she has no one else to complain at except for those who are willing to brave the tsun in this post. Be brave, young Chosen... ]

Comments

[velveteenmage]

You must have been close. I'm sorry.

[codes]

Wow.

Someone get this guy a medal for his awesome skills of deduction. What's next, Sherlock? You going to tell me how people don't really die when they're killed, that maybe somewhere she's still alive?

Cause I'll shoot your head off if you try (◕‿◕✿)

[velveteenmage]

You know, you don't make it easy to be sympathetic.

[codes]

If I wanted pity, I would boohoo and cry all over where everyone can see.

So it'd just be like anyone else when someone they know leaves. Excuse me for adding a little variety.

[velveteenmage]

There's a difference between 'variety' and 'biting my head off'.

[codes]

I said shoot, not bite.

I'm not sure if you'd taste very good and besides, cannibalism is likely prohibited here.

[headup_stickontheice]

I'm sorry Hakuno's gone. She was really really nice to me. She doesn't deserve that.

[So you see, this text took awhile to actually be composed. After Cam placed a name with a face and a realization it probably took him a few minutes to process and register that someone else who he met here has gone back to being dead for no reason and gee, he'll probably follow and she was a really sweet person and

it's possible he might have spiraled a little into an anxiety attack.]

[codes]

[ Rin's really good at making people do that. ]

That's right she doesn't.

Everyone better keep that in mind. This is the sort of lesson I shouldn't have to give, but here I am. Giving it.

[headup_stickontheice]

I'll remember her. I should have gotten to know her more.

I'm really sorry.

[codes]

She was pretty cool.

That's fine. I don't get why everyone keeps apologizing for it. I knew she was dead before I got here.

[headup_stickontheice]

She wasn't dead here. That has to hurt. So I'm sorry.

[strengthinkindness]

I'm sorry.

[codes]

What good is apologizing?

Just do better to get to know people, I guess. You never know when they're going to up and leave!

[ Funny, didn't she kind of grill her a few days back when she was feeling down? What is tact? ]

Whatever. How's your wing?

[strengthinkindness]

Yes, I know. So many people have been lost already. But it doesn't make losing someone hurt any less.

My wing is doing much better now, thank you.

[codes]

It doesn't hurt. [ It really hurts. ]

Are you going to be able to fly again with it? If you don't get the bone properly set right, it could be damaged for good. That's what happens to other animals.

[strengthinkindness]

[She's used to dealing with people not saying what they mean.] Well, if you'd ever like to talk. Not just about this, but anything, I wouldn't mind listening.

Oh yes, that's true. I should be able to fly again though once it heals. I used to treat birds' broken wings all the time back home, so I was able to take care of my wing until I got back.

[sonati]

[Wasn't this the person she met in the rain forest a few days ago?]

Did Tousaka lose a friend, too?

[codes]

I don't have any friends anymore because she's dead.

[ Tact is a thing she doesn't know apparently. ] So I guess I lost a couple.

[sonati]

Oh. [Sonata lives with a bunch of other girls with varying personalities back home, including her sister, but hm.]

Does Tousaka really not have any other friends, though? All of Sonata's friends from Akibastar left, but I made some new ones here!

[codes]

That's right.

I can't make friends. Back home, I'm fighting a war with very few people and anyone who associates with me will have to pay for my crimes as well.

I guess I'm kind of a lone wolf, huh?

[sonati]

[Oh boy this is a toughie.]

Maybe.

But Tousaka doesn't have to be a lone wolf! Sonata's an idol, but the bad guys call us terrorists because entertainment is illegal on a lot of worlds. And Sonata has friends.

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[wall_flower]

[Marley...really has no idea what to say to this. She's left blinking at her D-Terminal for a long while before she manages to say something...]

I...I'm sorry. I mean--

[She doesn't know what she means. She doesn't know what she's suppose to say, suppose to do to make this better, and she's left silent once more...]

[codes]

[ Rin has a habit of forcing people to do that. ]

You mean what? That you're sorry or that you're not sorry? Don't apologize and take it back.

[wall_flower]

Wh-What? No, I'm not--I just...

[Yeah, she...is not sure how to go about this to keep the situation from getting worse.]

I'm...I'm sorry she is gone. That I didn't get...I didn't take the chance to get to know her...

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[fuhrinkaed]

>...she disappeared?

>SHE WAS DEAD?!

>There are dead people here?! How does that even work? i mean obv it works by way of ppl showing up here and then they do things but theyre dead thats not supposed 2 b how this works and

>Oh, sorry. That doesn't have anything to do with the problem at hand. I shouldn't have hit 'send.'

>Are you okay?