turbo heaven 🌼 majima

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is there a flower joke we can make here andie

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week 0, sunday

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[ still looking a bit ill after all of that. ]

Making us all see the punishment is one thing, but making us watch them fight to the death...?

[ that's fucked up!! ]

[dickkick]

[ unsurprisingly, majima is looking no worse for the wear as he lights a cigarette and takes a drag. ]

Fucked up, ain't it?

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Seriously. It was bad enough when - [ hm. he hesitates, and starts over. ] They never said expelling him meant he'd die.

[dickkick]

Funny, 'cause that's what I heard from Ram-san yesterday, too.

He wasn't gonna die, just that he'd "have to go somewhere else."

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I asked Gamaliel during that trial, but it sounded like they didn't know. I really thought they'd just - I don't know, escort him out, or something.

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Ram-san said their souls go to somewhere like purgatory, but this already feels more like purgatory than heaven to me. Then againi, words only mean things 'cause we assign meanings to 'em. If we're at the mercy of the Angels and their God, who knows what anything is anymore?

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Wait, they figured out where they go? I was hoping Charlie'd be able to go back to Hell like she wanted.

[ damn. sucks. ]

It definitely doesn't feel that... heavenly. I just thought it was because we weren't approved for the real thing yet.

[dickkick]

Can't say one way or the other, 'cause they kept clammin' up on me. Then again, it's only been a week an' change, so who knows?

[ ... ]

So, what's yer deal? Are ya always prickly around adults?

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Maybe they still don't know much...

[ aren't the ones in charge supposed to know these things? it's weird that they don't.

that question catches him off guard, though. ]

Huh...? No. Most of them are fine.

WEEK 2, tuesday

[dickkick]

[ hi laurence! there is a purple chao looking up at him, holding a little triangle. like the musical instrument, which it baps as it continues to stare. ting. ]

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[ why is this is a little unnerving help ]

Don't worry. Mine doesn't have the best rhythm, either.

[dickkick]

[ i forgot to mention it does actually also wear a lil eyepatch so like there's no question as to whose chao this is. anyway. it waves its little nubby arms and kinda sorta gestures for him to follow it? ]

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[ huh. ]

Okay, lead the way.

[ not like he has anything better to do than follow this little guy ]

[dickkick]

[ off it goes! i'm going to godmode us into being at the olive garden path already so the chao can lead laurence to majima, who's back to normal and sitting at one of the tables in the flower garden. he looks up when his chao and shakes his head as it toddles back over to him. ]

Lil' guy doesn't know how to quit, does it? ...'sup.

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[ ah, okay. ]

Maybe he thinks you need more friends. Why'd you make him wear an eyepatch?

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[ he rolls his eye at that first quip. ]

Ain't it obvious? Lil' Goro-chan here is a representation of my soul, so he's gotta have an eyepatch, too.

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...I guess.

[ in a tone that suggests he doesn't understand at ALL but sure, whatever, ]

Wait, did you name it after yourself, too?

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Where I'm from, ya don't just call people by their given name unless yer real close with 'em—it just ain't done. But, again, lil' guy is supposed to be a part of me. So why not give him my name, too?

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I've never heard of a rule like that. But I guess if that's how you feel about it, sure, why not?

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That's why I said "where I'm from," knowin' we're from all kinds'a different worlds an' places...

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At least some of us are from the same planet, just not the same place. Like Akihiko said he was from Japan? It's still weird that he didn't know about demiflora, though.

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I'm from Japan, too...

And, for the record, I got no clue what that is, either.

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People with supernatural powers. It's normal to know about them back home... but I don't know, maybe Japan just doesn't have any.

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Seriously? That kinda shit would be all over the internet.

And, y'know. If there were ever a place that churned out people with superpowers, Japan would be right behind America on that.

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What's the internet?

...I don't think it's a competition, though.

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I dunno which one of us is worse off in this equation.

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[ stares at him in confusion ]

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If the words "cancel culture" don't mean anything to ya, don't worry 'bout it.

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Nope. Never heard of it.

[dickkick]

So don't worry 'bout it!

[ IF ONLY THINGS WERE SO SIMPLE FOR HIM... ]

...so yeah, I was a dumb bright-eyed kid too, once upon a time. Heh.

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[ hm. fine, he'll let it drop. ]

You were nice, though. The chaos probably liked the help.

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What've I been tryin' to tell ya this whole time? Just 'cause I seem shady and fulla shit don't mean I actually am. Never judge a book by its cover. Or a weirdo by his eyepatch, I guess.

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I never said you couldn't be nice. Just that it's annoying if you're always doing what you want even if it bothers everyone else.

WEEK 3, monday

[dickkick]

[ welcome to the funhouse, laurence. is this the sort of memory that will make him respect majima? ]

...c'mon, this is gettin' old now...

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[ laurence has so many questions. dojima? like mr. dojima?? but first, more importantly-- ]

You... You were trying to save someone?

[ tell him more about that what's going on there ]

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Heh.

I did a lotta things when I was young, Laurence.

[ HAHAHA................... :MAN_STANDING: ]

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[ he's not leaving it at that sorry to say ]

Was she a friend of yours? What happened? Why was she in trouble?

[dickkick]

Y'know, yer askin' a lotta questions that don't exactly got simple answers.

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I wasn't expecting it to be simple. Nothing ever is.

[ he's waiting. ]

[dickkick]

...

[ he sighs. ]

It ain't my business to be the one to tell her story.

But yeah. She got hurt real bad, and I wasn't gonna let the bastards who did that to her get away with it.

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[ huh. there's a bit of surprise on his face, but also... yeah, maybe a little grudging respect. you hit the nail on the head with this one. ]

I didn't know you were the kind of person to go that far out of your way. [ ... ] Did you have to be that brutal, though?

[dickkick]

[ he doesn't have any sort of reaction to laurence's first comment, but the second makes him bark out a laugh. ]

Now that's a question I can answer easy. My ass would've died right then an' there if I wasn't.

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Seriously? Why? Just because you were trying to help someone?

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Ya know what the Mafia is?

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No...?

[dickkick]

What about organized crime?

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[ shrugs. ]

I guess that's what a lot of spawncampers do.

[dickkick]

...Yeah, sure, let's go with that. [ waves hand ] Point is, they're ruthless, an' she had something that was real important to 'em. Important enough that they'd kill for it. And... well, ya saw the rest.