hippocarnival | Daybreak Academy

[Truthfully, Yuya isn't thinking about following a traditional funeral. Tsuyukusa was a spirit, and somehow it seems more appropriate to honor him as a spirit than as a human. He hopes that's something Tsuyukusa would have appreciated.

He blinks rapidly as the shape changes, absently trying to physically feel the illusion in his hands.]

... Uh. Three feet, maybe? [Sounds about right to stop somebody's dog from getting to it.] It doesn't have to be wide.

[ Maybe Kano can re-purpose this candle circle into some sort of magical runic thing to keep dogs and other animals away from this spot... he might have to ask Tyzias or somebody about that later, but in the meanwhile, he can dig and not think about anything else, it just takes a little while to get that hole three feet deep. ]

—Hey, Yuya. What'd Toki say? About all of this?

[Yuya glances up.] He took it okay... he said he was glad he didn't have to see it. And he doesn't want another pet for a while, since we have Kuroko...

[He rubs the back of his head.] I think he was sad about it, but... I guess since he was expecting it, he wasn't as surprised.

[ Ugh... How depressing. It's the same as having a great great grandparent die, or something, where you expect it and they pass peacefully and they finally get to rest, but there should still be sadness hung up about it.

Kano drives the shovel into the soil with a little more force than necessary, requiring him to put a little more muscle into pulling it back out. ]

...Did he cry? He's not the sort of person who drinks his sorrows away, is he? His liver, Yuya...! Watch his eyes the next few days, okay??

[ He doesn't know how people deal with grief!!!! He doesn't remember crying, or processing, or any of that- he wouldn't be able to help Toki and is just praying he doesn't have to, Yuya, that's your job now. ]

Uh--he didn't in front of me anyway...? He didn't seem like he was going to. [Maybe he did when it hit him later, Yuya's not sure.

His expression twists uncomfortably.]He said he wouldn't go drinking without bringing someone with him next time, so it shouldn't be a problem?

[Like, hopefully they won't let him drink himself to death. He said he'd be more responsible!!]

[ He has his doubts, but he's also not going to babysit Toki and monitor his alcohol intake. If Tsuyukusa were here, maybe he would go along with... he'd cared about Toki a lot, it seemed, was the responsible sort, kind of, and would've scared away anybody trying to pickpocket an inebriated Toki.

He was gone too soon.

Kano heaves a sigh, and steps back from the hole he'd dug. ] We'll all deal with it in our own ways, I guess. Alright, alright~ How's a funeral work, do you know, Yuya? We bury that, and then fill up the hole... A moment of silence? Should we water the ground, because of the tree thing?

[Yuya carefully sets the horn into the hole, then starts pushing dirt in with his hands.]

That sounds right? I guess is depends, but I don't know how spirits do it... Odd-Eyes said there wasn't anything like that where he's from.

[Yuya glances over at the shrine.] But Tsuyukusa... sounded kind of like a kami. There's no funeral exactly, because their spirits persist. When you honor them, they can find a way back.

-—Is that how it works?! He can find his way back??!

[ ALRIGHT. Kano claps his hands together and rubs them together furiously for added effect, and just sort of starts shouting at the shrine. ]

TSUYUKUSAAAAAAA-! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, COME BACK!! I'M HONORING YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME!!?! I'LL WEAR UGLY TIES TO SCHOOL IN YOUR HONOR AND- Um... Is that the sort of honoring? YOU'RE SUPER SMART, AND RELIABLE, AND IT WAS FUN TO --crap, he's supposed to be a jellyfish?

[ he throws a quick glance over his shoulder at the second floor window but never mind, never mind ]

I'LL WORK HARD TO KEEP THE OCEANS CLEAN! NO LITTERING OR PEEING IN THE OCEAN!! I'LL SAVE THE WHALES!!! SO PLEASE COME BACK, TSUYUKUSA!!!

[Yuya said he'd be gone for a few minutes, and Toki had no intention of asking why or where he was going. As planned, he'd been mostly sleeping since he got back from Soleil yesterday, and otherwise playing with Kuroko. Kano's voice drifts up from below, shouting about... Tsuyukusa. Toki can't make anything out from the window but a little glow, maybe candles? He opens the window and yells down at Kano and whoever else is lurking around.]

What are you doing!?

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[ Kano ducks behind Yuya, as if Toki hadn't already seen and heard him and he can still hide and pretend he doesn't exist. ]

How much did you tell him, Yuya??

[ Does he know they're holding a funeral for his pet jelly... Should they have invited him? It's rude not to invite him, isn't it? It's rude and they should've invited him-- he pokes Yuya in the side. ]

Maybe ask him if he has any last words? But phrased in a non-threatening way!

[Once the hole is covered, Yuya pats the ground once, before organizing the stones to make a base for the shrine.

He nearly drops the hut when Kano starts shouting, gently gathering it up to try and place it even a second time.] I don't know if that's how it works for him...

[He just has the shrine right, draws his hands back--and then feeezes when he hears Toki.] I, uh, forgot to mention the funeral?

[He rises to his feet, turning to face the window, cupping his hands to his mouth.] IT'S JUST ME! WE'RE, UH, MAKING A GRAVE FOR TSUYUKUSA.

There's nothing to bury! I-

[He stops and shuts the window. He very likely has a lot to say about this and he might as well do it from down there. A couple minutes later, he's approaching the 'grave', rather confused at the whole thing, and not wearing shoes or a coat.]

Okay, why are you doing this, like at all, but especially in the middle of the night? Not that I completely disapprove! It's just, there's nothing left and why would you do it without telling me!? He was-

[Oh. There's a... shrine thing.]

You made a shrine! It's so cute~!

[ Oh my god, why. Kano doesn't even hesitate picking a candle off the ground and shoving it into Toki's hands, like that'd warm him up enough in lieu of shoes and a coat. ]

Isn't it cute? Yuya made it~ He did a great job, right, right?

[ Get him focused on this, less on the funeral as a concept... ]

[Not even a coat... Yuya bows his head when Toki approaches.] I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just wasn't thinking. I was so focused on the shrine...

[Which Toki then calls cute. Yuya lifts his head with a faint smile.] I thought that was more important than something to bury.

[... But he still buried something.]

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[Okay, candle, why? Kano and Yuya weren't holding any... Toki looks at the shrine and then at Yuya.]

You made it!? Why!?

[He's not upset, he just doesn't understand why Yuya would ever go through the trouble. Then... more important than something to bury.]

Aw, he got to you~, didn't he~!? He does that! Did that... This is... I... thank you?

[He's going to cry.]

[ He does that, yeah... Gets to you. Even though all Kano's encounters with Tsuyukusa were negative, he gets it and there will always be regret for how things turned out.

He stays silent, grabbing a candle from the circle himself out of lack of anything to do with his hands, and plops onto the ground behind the shrine- motioning for Yuya and Toki to sit too, in a circle/triangle in front of it. y'all go and pay your respects; talking like this, Tsuyukusa would be able to see how deeply the two of them cared about him, and maybe his spirit will listen to this and maybe he'll come back. ]

[Yuya smiles sheepishly. Even most of how he saw Toki was just a jellyfish, so it really is kind of a lot. Guilt does that.] Yeah... I guess I look way too sensitive, right? But Tsuyukusa was pretty special.

[And Yuya's a crybaby. He wipes his eyes. At Kano's motion he sits, and also gestures for Toki fo join them.]

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[He joins the triangle thing, and does not at all blame Yuya for being too sensitive, because he is too. Tsuyukusa was a secondhand jellyfish.]

No, he was- he was very special...

[He doesn't know how these things go. Toki had attended Ginshu's funeral, but he wasn't really 'there' for it and didn't do anything but stand around awkwardly and not cry one single tear.]

Are we supposed to say something?

[ Toki's got more funeral experience than Kano, who sits with his knees drawn up and candle balanced on top, idly passing a finger through the bottom of the flame and watching it dance. ]

...Maybe you two can talk about some of your favorite things about him. Happy memories, and stuff?

[ Whatever sadness or tears threatening to spill, Kano hides it for the other two's sakes, tries to think about other things instead, like how absolutely mortified Tsuyukusa was every time Kano took his picture. Thank god he immortalized those precious moments in his phone's SD card, they can never see the light of day again. ]

I think Toki has more to say than me. [He looks at him, slight expectation for Toki to take the lead if he wants to talk about it.]

[Oh. Okay, then. This can't be done properly sitting down, so he leaves the triangle for more room to be overly-theatrical and dramatic. Tsuyukusa deserves the best send-off; a heartfelt goodbye reflecting the impact he made in his short time among them.]

Alas, poor Tsuyukusa! I knew you for such a fleeting moment, the months come and gone so quickly~! An unexpected friendship that I will treasure in my heart for eternity~! You were a sympathetic ear for my struggles, a confidant for my most hidden fears and aspirations alike, and a truly remarkable example of a bond of friendship that transcends the need for communication~! So many times, you would float patiently in silence, while providing unconditional companionship~! You bore witness to the most terrible events in my young life as well as to my lowest moments of desperation, distress, and hopelessness! There will never again be a friend so intertwined with my very being as you were~! I will remember you fondly and find solace in the notion you have ascended to an existence I cannot perceive at present, but that one day we shall be reunited and once again bare our very souls in fellowship~!

[Toki's crying by the end, despite all attempts not to. He was a jellyfish. Get it together.]

[ He was a jellyfish, but after hearing all of that, there can't be doubt in anybody's mind that Tsuyukusa wasn't something more- somebody who was always there for Toki (because he can't run) and listened to all his troubles (though it might've been better if Toki talked to a real person who could talk back...) and -oh boy, Toki's crying now.

don't cry don't cry don't cry goddamnit Shuuya come on

Kano ducks his head, then sends a sharp glance Yuya's way as if to say, "Alright, your turn, you have to top that." ]

[Yuya's already crying again when Kano looks at him, wringing his hands tightly in his lap while he bites his lip. He was a jellyfish to Toki, but also a source of comfort. Yuya took something precious from Toki and killed a man being careless, he feels like the worst.

Yuya sniffs loudly, trying to wipe his eyes.] Ts-Tsuyukusa was really... I didn't know him long, but I liked watching his tank and I think if he could speak, he'd have a lot to say about it. Toki was probably important to him, too, taking care of him until...

[Jellyfish can't speak and no one can prove him wrong.]

[Toki sits back down while Yuya tries to get out his feelings. He didn't expect Yuya to be so upset by Tsuyukusa's death; maybe he had been having long talks with the jellyfish too, when Toki wasn't there.]

You help take care of him, too, Yuya. I'm sure he enjoyed your company. K-kano, do have something to say?

[He's still crying a little and staring at the candle flames. This hurt more than it should have. He doesn't move at all for a time, but he can't see the candles anymore...

He's standing in the middle of the street; it's deserted, there's no cars or pedestrians. It's evening, the sky darkening and the street lamps bathing the pale stone of the buildings in soft yellow light. He doesn't recognize the one he's looking at; there's columns and carvings of medallions or circular flowers. Lots of windows. Closer, there are statues in robes with crowns and lion shields, above are the carved words 'DEPARTS'. Underneath one of the statues 'COMPEIGNE' is carved into the stone. Low echoey bells chime and he looks up to the clock in the center of the building, surrounded by giant glass windows. Before he can read the time, the clock had melted into a moon; huge and bright and full, the craters visible and clear. No longer deserted, people chatter and walk around him. Surrounding buildings boast assorted red and pink decorations and hearts, signs still advertising specials and holiday inventory. At the edges of the crowd is something dark and ominous, void of shape like a thick mist, tendrils almost finger-like emerge from it, touching people who don't take any notice. The colors mute into a palette of grays except for her. Minako. She's in the middle of the throng of people, shouting something he can't hear and holding a gun to her head. Shadows blanket everything as a gunshot rings out, followed by stark silence.

... jumping up quickly, and upsetting the shrine, he reaches out for Minako.]

NO! DON'T!

[She's gone. He's outside the dorm, doing... something... with Kano and Yuya. It doesn't matter what at this point.]

[ Does he have something to say? Yes, but not out loud, nothing he wants to voice, whether it's to Toki or Yuya or even Tsuyukusa if he were here, so he stalls, rolling the candlestick in between his palms until it starts to soften, pre-writing something in his mind that might be suitable for a funeral and opens his mouth to--

Toki jumping to his feet and Kano does as well, candle flame snuffed out when he drops his to the ground and grabs at the one he'd stupidly given Toki before the shrine catches on fire and/or Toki accidentally steps on it. ]

—hey! Toki! Alright, alright, I won't say anything, okay!!?

[ This reaction to him wanting to say a couple of words... Another pleading glance gets thrown Yuya's way to get Toki to calm down please. ]

Yuya...!

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RNG mandated mood whiplash, cw: suicide imagery

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