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joshua "miss bitch" kiryu ([personal profile] finalmix) wrote in [community profile] linkingup2024-10-03 07:22 am

shawarma time

[ some time after Atem's palace when everyone has had the time to get back from braphine's temple, and more importantly get that sand out of your everything (and enjoy NOT 40 degree Celsius weather)

everyone who was in Atem's palace will find themselves suddenly added to a group chat by joshua and he just sends a singular address

it's the address to a shawarma place that somehow magically has a big enough table to fit 14 people. amazing. we love fluid locations like this.

post palace dinner, y'all know the drill ]
emptyself: (pic#17402762)

[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-03 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... I mean, I think I got more lucky than anything. But you're welcome.

[ he nods. ]

You said you saw dead people in yours?
privatedomicile: (uhhh)

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-04 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, uh...like, people I knew. Sorta. Knew of most of em, but then...

[Jesse sighs.]

It's crazy dark, man. You know how I said I was a bad guy? That's why.
emptyself: (13)

[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-04 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
I know you said it but...

[ he tilts his head to the side, eyeing jesse again. ]

You've helped me and the others out so many times. I just can't accept that.
privatedomicile: (...bitch)

cw addiction, overdose, plane crash

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-05 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Man, how did other people manage to get such a high opinion of him? Jesse is so used to being seen as an idiotic slacker at best and a pathetic junkie at worst that he doesn't really know what he did differently here to change that.]

Most of the people I saw? They came from this plane crash that happened right over town a few months ago. I knew the guy who was supposed to monitor the air traffic. Well, not like super well, but... [Jesse looks straight ahead solemnly.] He was my girlfriend's dad. She'd... [His voice breaks for a moment, after all this time, still not able to say out loud that Jane died.] If she'd still been around, maybe he wouldn't have been too fucked up to do his job right. And if I weren't dragging her down with me, she might still be around?
emptyself: (pic#17399746)

[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ soujuurou doesn't need to be explicitly told that she's dead for him to understand. he observes jesse closely, humming as he processes the information.

he has a vague idea about what a plane is, but not entirely. still, he can infer from context that this crash could not have been anything but horrible. ]


So you blame yourself for the deaths of the people in the plane because your girlfriend died?
privatedomicile: (seriousmode)

cw addiction, overdose, plane crash

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-05 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Jesse scrunches his nose in thought, because when Soujuurou puts it like that, the idea sounds kind of stupid. The guy's got a way of phrasing things that seems to disarm Jesse easily.]

Kinda? Like, obviously I never blew anybody outta the sky, but––my girlfriend's dead because of me.

Not on purpose, but...ain't matter much when she's still dead.
emptyself: (pic#17314967)

cw plane crash

[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-05 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, maybe.

[ soujuurou frowns, and the further he thinks about it, the more that his expression darkens with worry. ]

I don't know. It's complicated isn't it? At what point do the deaths stop being your fault? Everything's related in some sort of way. If her death caused her dad to mess up and lead to the plane crash... then is everything bad that happens because of that plane crash also your fault?

[ ... ]

What a horrible amount of weight you're carrying on your shoulders. That must be horrible for you, Jesse. It must be painful.
privatedomicile: (genuinely sad)

cw addiction, overdose, plane crash

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-08 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, it...yeah, it's complicated as all hell, man.

[He's responsible for Jane's death and partly for the crash is the main thing he knows.

Jesse looks incredibly sad when Soujuurou shows him sympathy, because he wouldn't be able to say he deserves the most sympathy. He was going to sell meth to a single mom in a support group before realizing she had a kid. His fuck-ups got his friend and his girlfriend killed. And yet, he can't fully bring himself to tell Soujuurou about all of it right now.]


And it hurts.

[The most he can manage is admitting that it's painful to carry.]