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Sketch 26

Oct 18, 2008 21:22

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Hiyori is in the Hall of Missing, walking around with something in her hand, before specifically stopping in front of two people's portraits. "Mister Lee, you too? At least you and Tony left together. I hope both of you remember the City and are happy together back in your home world, then." She pauses for a little while longer, and then ( Read more... )

goodby, tony, hall of missing, kodomosensei, i_themagician, arts, baixin, chikane, lee, lightnovelsftw, xanadu, himeko, obliviomancy

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ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 02:53:36 UTC

[The portraits look as they did the day before: faces without names, echoes of a past that he's never known and never will. Roxas lets them run through his field of vision without particular attention until they jump out at him.

Sasha. Nill.

No matter the faces, Roxas keeps walking, striding through the corridor without pause. He turns the corner, and there they are - more familiar ones, known to him by numbers rather than names.

This should hurt, shouldn't it..? But it doesn't. And if he could be, if he thought if it at all, he might be glad of that.

Nothing to be said. He turns on them, and he goes on.]

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 03:27:31 UTC

She's still standing there, just for a little while more- really- when she hears someone else walking through the Hall. It wasn't that guy at the door, he just stands there all the time. As the person start rounding the corner, though, the coat is a dead giveaway for who it is, before he even fully turns it. "Roxas?" He did mention that he came here a lot, after all.

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 03:33:24 UTC

At the sound of his name, Roxas starts. Then, as he sees who it is, his expression settles into blankness. He knows the face; he knows the name, and nothing more of importance comes to mind.

"Hiyori." He says her name utterly without inflection. "What are you doing here?" It's less curiosity about her than it is that strange sense of possessiveness. After all, people rarely come to the Hall more than a handful of times. He's used to being alone in this place.

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 04:08:49 UTC

What would you even call what she was doing? It was utterly ridiculous, wasn't it? Giving a poster to people that weren't there anymore, no, not even people, but their pictures. But somehow it just felt right to her. "Ah, just . . . seeing some of my friends off."

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 04:11:42 UTC

He turned to look - first at the portrait, then at her. The obvious was so terribly glaring that he couldn't even say it at first. When it finally registered, it came out with the kind of flatness that, with any kind of twist, might have been called cruelty. "How? They're already gone."

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 04:18:43 UTC

She wouldn't even call it making fun of her, it was true, she knew it. What she didn't know was how to explain it. Especially to someone like Roxas. Well, either way it probably wouldn't make too much difference, right? "Y-Yeah. I know. But I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, and Chikane said she'd wanted me to draw this for her. So, I don't know, I guess that even though I know it won't reach them in any way, I thought that I should give it to them this way."

Yeah. Great. That definitely sounded weird. "I know, it doesn't really make sense . . . "

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 04:38:44 UTC

Another heartfelt mystery. Roxas considered it, then dismissed it. It was more or less the usual, and nothing that really mattered. She missed her friends.

"No, it doesn't," he said, but it was almost absent, the way he said the words. He paused, thoughtfully. "Do you think they'll come back?"

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 05:04:49 UTC

Come back? She hadn't thought of that. "I don't know. If they did come back, they might not remember anything-" Oh, right. That's what happened to Roxas, also, right? "but there's also the chance that right now they don't remember, too. But most people eventually come back at some point, right? Even if it takes a few years.

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 05:08:21 UTC

He shrugged, discarding the rest of her words as soon as he had his answer. "So save it and give it to them then."

This wasn't exactly altruistic advice on Roxas's part. If Hiyori decided that she could somehow talk to her friends through the Hall - metaphorically or whatever - she might come back. And it was tedious enough to have to walk the place every day without someone else there.

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 05:20:13 UTC

"If they do come back, and I'm still here, I'll draw them as many pictures as they want." She didn't even want to think about them coming back and her not being there. They could come back for a little while, she'd heard of such curses that have brought people back for one day, but after that they would just have to stay in their world and be happy forever.

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 05:25:26 UTC

After a beat, he kept walking, just slow enough for the pace to be taken as an invitation instead of a dismissal. Since she was here, he might as well. It wasn't like there'd be much point in startling himself again by bumping into her later.

He had other people to check on anyway.

"Why would they need more than one?"

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 05:49:30 UTC

She notices, especially the pace, and starts walking with him; she was pretty much done here, anyways. "Um, well, I guess they really wouldn't, but things improve with practice, so a new one would be better, right? Although Himeko-chan really likes my art, so she might actually ask for more."

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 05:55:14 UTC

Her-- oh, yeah, she was an artist. He remembered vague sketches of things that one time he'd been to her apartment. Right before she'd shoved him out into the portal and they'd spent the afternoon falling in and out of other people's places.

Still, the art thing made no sense. How many drawings could anyone want?

"Well," he said, "what do you draw?"

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 06:22:08 UTC

It was a good that she was used to answering this sort of thing, otherwise it would probably seem really suspicious. "Well, I draw some four-panel manga, adventure, a little romance, comedy, and basically anything people ask me for, with my stand set up."

ACTION obliviomancy October 19 2008, 06:29:00 UTC

These were new terms, and not only that, they were weird. They sounded like the labels that you'd apply to movies, not to pictures. Although he guessed that pictures could be funny... No. That didn't make sense at all.

Furrowing his brows, he focused on the nearest mystery to hand. "What's a four-panel manga?"

Not that it mattered, really, but it was something about art, and Neku had said that art made people feel. And maybe Roxas was a little curious.

Maybe.

ACTION doujin_dork October 19 2008, 06:54:15 UTC

Oh, that's right. This sort of thing wasn't exactly common in their world, especially in the Organization. "It's a mang- it's a comic, which is sort of like drawings of a storyline- sort of like something animated but one scene at a time, if that makes sense." Which it probably didn't. She wasn't so good at explaining these things, even if she was going to do it professionally.

It wasn't really something to be explained in words, though, anyways. "Ah, maybe I should just show you some examples."

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