catchall; buzen

[aitou]

Buzen couldn't be Shirou because then the cult would win. In this essay I will

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w0, at some point

[aitou]

[MONDAY FOR NOW I GUESS maybe later in the week if nothing wild happens just so that all my PCs aren't on the same day

anyway Buzen can find Yasusada--well, anywhere that there's open space! He's practicing his cartwheels. WHEE]

[hasteful]

[whAT DOES THIS SHITPOST MEAN

anyway,]

Oh!! Impressive, Yasu-san! You handle that body very well!

[aitou]

[it's the plot of paraiso]

It's a lot more comfortable than it used to be. [Even if he still flails around sometimes] Oh, did he tell you? I learned a special step from Kotegiri Gou.

[hasteful]

[he laughs at that]

He didn't! Show me, show me.

[he misses his gous... it'd be nice to get a little piece of them]

week 0, thursday

[hasteful]

[KNOCKNOCKNOCK from the staircase door!!!!! buzen doesn't even know what floor he's on he's just greeting everyone like this]

Buzen Gou, requesting entrance!! May I come in?

[let him in!!! LET HIM IN!!!!!]

[aitou]

Buzen!

[HEWWO FRIEND. Yasusada will let him inside without any hesitation, obviously!! Come on in to the sneepy binch room I guess]

Did you go to the green one already?

[hasteful]

[THERE'S ANIME POSTERS IN HERE]

I did! My floormates and I were rather quick to gather - I already feel very fortunate for them.

How are you, Yasu-san? Adjusting well?

w0, saturday

[aitou]

[I mean the swords are probably leaving together???? but if not yams will come find him v quickly waves hand]

Buzen? Are you alright?

[For real, now that everything is over.]

[hasteful]

[they probably are - he's a little antsy and it's clear from the way that he shifts from foot to foot like he wants to take off running]

.... have you ever hated someone, Yasu-san?

Like - they did something to offend you, and then you wanted to kill them? Like it was personal.

[and not just a byproduct of being a sword]

[aitou]

[Normally, Yasusada would offer to spar--but he doesn't want to run back and grab that odd knife they first received, because it feels more important to stick with Buzen for right now.

He shakes his head.]

No, I haven't. [He's quiet, thoughtful.] I don't think any of us have--in the Shinsengumi, I mean. I don't know too well, about the others.

[He doesn't know Sengo like Tonbokiri does, after all; and for all that Kashuu went through, Yasusada's confident he never hated Okita, either. The Shinsengumi swords are passionate and full of feeling, but if they'd harbored any hate or rage, it would've been directed at the circumstances of their era more than any individual.]

w0, sunday

[aitou]

[At some point later in the day]

buzen!!!
i don't know if you talked to him already
but
help me and kiyomitsu look out for damien okay
he doesn't have friends
and he likes to kill people or whatever
so we need to help him learn how to work in a unit

[yams dragging damien around by his collar like "this human belongs to swords now"]

[hasteful]

🆗🆗🆗
SURE
HE DOESNT LIKE ACCEPTING MY HELP THO

[aitou]

I think it's the same for everyone with him
Because he doesn't know how
So we can teach him
hachisuka and tomoe learned really good
and you gous are really cloae right???
so were good teachers

[IS THAT HOW IT WORKS?]

week 1, friday

[hasteful]

[where is the pompom just assume buzen is going to head in that direction]

Yasu-san - how are you feeling?

[buzen is sharper today, a bit more subdued. but it's at least enough after the announcement that he's no longer wildly pissed off]

[aitou]

[POMPOM IS just wandering honestly, checking up on everyone he can find. The phones are still awkward to use, and he wants to be moving, anyway.]

I'm okay. [He doesn't sound much better than yesterday, but that can't really be helped. More importantly, his arms and legs and all that are just fine, so he's up and moving around.] You saw it, right? The message.

[hasteful]

[a little more tensely - ] Yes. Ryu-san was my friend, and roommate.

[it hits a little close for buzen, and he understands a little bit more why humans want revenge. he doesn't think he'd go that far, but he would like an answer.

that's still more than you usually get, on a battlefield]

Would it be easier if we texted while we talked?

week 1, post-exec

[hasteful]

[well

that happened!!

buzen is just going to be wandering around the greenhouse honestly? it reminds him of kuwana, and that's enough. he'll glance in the direction of footsteps and offer up a smile, sincere if slightly somber]

How're you feeling, Yasu-san?

[aitou]

[SWEET KUWANA... Yasusada hasn't had much of a chance to talk to him yet, but he's spoken to Kotegiri, and that's enough to realize why Buzen's in here.]

Better. [He's all healed up; some scars and bruises have been left behind, which is very odd for a sword, but he looks and sounds better.] That wasn't what I expected, though.

[It's not what any of them expected, really--but "execution" means something very specific to a sword, so.]

[hasteful]

[he nods at that]

... yeah. None of it was what I expected. I even tried to talk to Steel-san and Zuma-san themselves last night about it...

I'm pretty disappointed, that we couldn't do anything at all but watch.

[and get waxy]

week 2, monday

[hasteful]

[i still have our other thread but it's fine

wherever yams is buzen is just going to throw an arm around his shoulders]

Yaaaaasuuuu-saaaan. Scouting?

[aitou]

[I will take Buzen always

Yasusada's perfectly happy to lean into him, though, and barnacle on!! Imagine Matsui having to deal with the gumis. Very funny.

Anyway]

Mmhmm! I just started. [He gestures to the doors!!] Have you been to anywhere yet?

[hasteful]

[matsui would truly just be vibrating out of his skin at all times,]

Yeah! I went to the cemetery... it's a little strange, visiting a place like that.

[dead humans... presumably....]

w7, wednesday

[aitou]

[WIFE SWAP

Anyway eventually they will pry Itsuki away from Buzen and send him off to his own house... and after everyone's had time to visit everyone, they will be here, settled in. Probably, they should try and get some sleep, but Yasusada's still buzzing with energy after all of that.

(And, well. He knows that staying up won't prevent tomorrow from coming, and he'd be lying if he said he wasn't a little scared that he'd find himself awake and surrounded by sleeping bodies all over again. But it's nice, sometimes, to pretend.)

So for now, unless Buzen seems like he's tired, he'll stay awake.]

It's a little hard to believe you're really back like this.

[He'd been so, so worried that Buzen's spirit would be stuck here, unable to get back to the saniwa.]

[hasteful]

[WIFE SWAP

- it's a funny thing though. because buzen has dealt with an awful lot of people lately who can't really sleep once they're with him again. who knows what sleep might bring, when it's been proven that these dreams are truly difficult for them to understand. or when you wake up, and find that those dreams are far sweeter than reality?

so he's not tired. if anything, he's still more closely watching yams. the two of them are probably by the cliffside outside the motor home, overlooking the ocean. he'll go inside eventually....]

... mm. It's a little sudden, but I'm not going to complain.

In the end, we were able to manage to get everyone back. Once we break the prism and open up the paths back home, then I'll consider it a successful mission.

[aitou]

[There's definitely a weight to his shoulders that wasn't there before, all those weeks ago. He wouldn't have traded his responsibilities away--if anything, he would've felt so much worse by this point, had he not had any idea of anything going on behind the scenes--but it was still a heavy burden nonetheless. Combined with everything their adventures did to him, and to Kashuu... there are fears etched into them both that likely won't ever be shaken off again.

For now, he's alternating between watching the ocean and looking over at Buzen, as if to make sure he won't disappear if Yasusada blinks for too long.]

I miss being home. But I'm going to miss the people here, too.

[If they make it out alive. It's still so hard to feel optimistic--they've been battered relentlessly for weeks, to the point where Yasusada and Kashuu were (are) genuinely ready to die trying to escape. But he wants, so badly, to believe that their return means they're on the right path, and he clings to that now, despite the dangers of hope.]