"ACCIDENTAL" VOICE/ACTION ::: 1

[molinet]

[VOICE; ACCIDENTAL]

[Sound cuts in, maybe midway through the owner of a new journal saying something.]

-baki? ...No, this isn't...

...where is this? No, where the hell did you take me now! [he almost sounds desperate, his voice rising, both in panic and rage and acting as if he's talking to someone in particular.] He can't go by himself! Ragna

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[Voice]

[black_onslaught]

[That voice. It's familiar -- no, calling it familiar would be an understatement. He knows that voice like Ragna knows the back of his hand. The mention of his own name and Yukianesa just solidify what he's thinking in the back of his mind.

Jin is back in Luceti.

That's just grand. To be honest, Ragna didn't want to see Jin's face or get involved in anything that might be dangerous. And knowing Jin, it would only take a few days for something dangerous or stupid to happen. But ignoring him would only push that date a little closer, he would assume. Because keeping secrets from Jin has worked so well in the past.

Ragna sighs, it being audible over the journals. But he doesn't speak right away. He doesn't know what to say. Maybe his voice would calm him down, since he seemed so... is worried the right word? Hell, if Ragna's voice showing that he wasn't in any danger would do it, maybe he could calm Jin down himself.

Yeah. Ragna calm Jin down.] ... Jin.

[Action]

[molinet]

[Pissy Bull in a China shop, check. Noting his own extreme disadvantage in continuing this conversation without Yukianesa, check.

Jin looks as if he wants to say something really really badly, but it will have to wait until he can actually make use of provoking a fight out of his older brother. It's just a little out of his "stupid ideas" range to further test the boundaries of Ragna's temper control without some type of weapon or defense of his own at this point.

So, instead, Jin just actually listens to Ragna for once, mouth closed, although he's staring up at his brother expectantly.

As you were saying..?]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[He actually listened. That's suspicious and it puts Ragna into an uneasy place. But he'll roll with it. It's just odd, and an unfamiliar feeling. It's been years since something remotely close to this happened -- when they were kids.

Just... maybe Jin isn't as crazy as he used to be. Maybe Jin really conquered Yukianesa, like back home and the last time he was here. Could they get along again?

... Probably not. He's putting too much thought into this. He opens the journal again, to this page. Then holds it out to Jin.] The guide. Read it.

[Action]

[molinet]

[Maybe. Or it may just have to do with Yukianesa quite far from him at this point with no leads as to where she might be. Either way, Jin takes the book from Ragna to look at it, unamused at the length at first. Still, he does as he's told, if only because he really should know more about this place. His unamused look turns slightly into interest as he reads more, but the further down he gets he looks a bit disappointed with there being so much info and yet lacking any real strategy to do something about their predicaments. All in all, it's a guide for adaptation until a way home is found, which isn't really something that will happen with them all just sitting inside this barrier waiting.]

How is it possible to be completely at the mercy of this ... Organization? [Even the overbearing power of the NOL... it only took the man standing in front of him to start taking down branch by branch what was previously perceived as an absolute power after Ikaruga.]

No one that's been experimented on remembers where they've been taken?

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna waits for Jin to finish, and then stares at him as he speaks his mind on the situation. HE won't comment on not remembering where people are taken when they are taken personally. He doesn't remember where he was when he was taken. In fact, all he remembers is waking up in the clinic one day, without the Azure working at all. But that was probably a special occasion, when Noel saved him.

He'll just try for a generalized answer.] They can do whatever they want to us here, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. And last I checked, no one really remembers anything past getting taken and suddenly being back here.

[Action]

[molinet]

[Well SHIT. That just about sums up the worst vacation ever conceived.

Jin hands the journal back to Ragna, clearly irritated by his brother's confirmation that they were all, indeed, screwed over in some sort of limbo.

Just don't tell him you've been a victim, Ragna. He'll flip his shit if he finds out they experimented on you.]

I need to locate Yukianesa.

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

I don't think so. [He's not going to help you find it, nor is he even going to confirm that it might be at the weapon shop whatsoever. If someone helps Jin find it, or he wanders over there by himself and finds it, so be it. But Ragna isn't going to support it.

He takes the journal back, and packs it into his jacket.] You'll do just fine without it, Jin.

[Action]

[molinet]

They don't have it, do they?

[He means the Malnosso, of course. The idea it would be randomly relocated to a local weapon shop here would blow his mind. He's still thinking on terms of it being stolen and that just strikes a nerve in the worst possible way.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[... Sorry, Jin.] Probably not. I doubt they'd just let you walk around with a Nox Nyctores in hand.

Like I said, you'll do fine without it. [He doesn't want to see Jin bend to Yukianesa's whims anymore. That thing was taking advantage of his little brother, and Ragna doesn't want to just stay sitting down for that kind of crap anymore. Even if it seemed he gained control of it for the brief time they were together against Kusanagi back home, it's better to take precautions.]

[Action]

[molinet]

[He's silent for a moment after registering Ragna's words. Twice now told he'll be fine without it. He remembers back home, being unable to draw the weapon in his confrontation with Ragna and his older brother's words then, too.

Both then and now are the closest to brotherly they've been in a long time as far as he knows and maybe Ragna's right. Maybe-

-No, he's not right at all. Jin can still hear her, hear her whispering just short of being able to actually understand her. She's too far, the link between him and that Nox Nyctores are weak both from distance and the situation back home. But he needs her, anyway, doesn't he? He needs her, she's the only one that understands, he doesn't want to follow her orders and her urges, but Yukianesa has always been his crutch and now what? To be left alone in this unfamiliar place without her isn't much comfort.

His brother being here helps, yes, but there's no way Ragna will let Jin follow him around and Ragna's wrong anyway, he's wrong about Yukianesa, no one understands and that's why

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna's going to buy that response, for now. He's pretty sure that Jin won't sit tight patiently without Yukianesa, but he could only hope. He could only hope. :C]

Alright. Tell me the last thing you remember from back home.

[Action]

[molinet]

[Wait until he finds out all of you lied to him about it. Just you wait >(]

Mmm...

[There's a pause, deciding how to best word this quickly and efficiently.]

I tried running after you to the roof of the Kagutsuchi NOL branch but was intercepted by a member of NOL's Zero Squadron.

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[They'll have a fight party, and it will be glorious and bloody and horrible. Ragna's used to making decisions that bite him in the ass anyway. No big deal.

A member of the Zero Squadron? Didn't he know someone that was actually a part of that? He can't ass himself to actually remember, because he doesn't give a damn. If he actually knew it was Tsubaki, he would just nod in agreement because it would make sense.] ... Tch. Further back than I thought.

[Action]

[molinet]

Further back?

[YEP, there you have it, right on the edge of still being Yukianesa's bitch and him managing to overcome her.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Sigh.] You read the part of the guide that mentioned all the crap about timelines, right?

[Action]

[molinet]

[He nods.]

...So, then, how far ahead are you?