this is the anti-spam log: take 2 [semi-closed]

[substitutable]

Date & Time: throughout June; label your own dates!
Location: places!
Characters: the Mekakushi-dan + friends (one-on-one threads, open through plotting!)
Summary:

a collection of threads throughout June following the Dan's activity with one another as well friends connected to the Dan, put into one post to avoid spamming the comms. Sometimes a dan roll call.

Warnings: Uuuuuh idk lots of gross sick people. Dying! Sad teenagers and friends!

The virus is spreading, and even the Dan is catching it. And so are their friends. This is whatever they decide to do during June while sick. Prose and action spam friendly!

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[bloodyashes]

[Kido's allowed. Asch isn't going to question how she got past Luke - the answer is pretty obvious.

Weakly, he shifts in the blankets and pushes himself up to look at her, not quite managing to sit up properly.]

What is it?

[His voice is hoarse from coughing.]

[concealingeyes]

[He sounds awful. She gives a little wave.]

I was wondering how you were doing- [a.k.a. worried.] -so I wanted to check on you. Your throat sounds bad.

[bloodyashes]

You didn't have to come here to ask.

[She's got enough people to take care of without coming all the way out here to check on him. Asch scoots a bit so that he's got himself propped in a sitting position against the wall.]

Luke's hovering over me constantly as it is.

[concealingeyes]

Heh... I'm not here to hover, promise. [Though she would if she could.] It's nice to have someone worry over you, even if it's irritating, too.

[bloodyashes]

[Just another reason why he doesn't live at the Initiative apartments.]

Maybe for some people.

[Asch is far too independent - having someone hover makes it feel like he isn't expected to take care of himself, and it chafes.]

How's your charity case?

[Spoilers, that's Shintaro.]

[concealingeyes]

[She sighs as she sits down at the end of his bed.] He's really sick. His immune system is bad. Back home, he stayed shut inside for two years. I don't think he went outside at all the whole time so... I'm not sure how well he's going to do through this.

[bloodyashes]

[There's a weak nod, about all he can manage at the moment.]

It makes sense. A weaker body is more vulnerable to things like this.

[Spoilers, Kido, that includes the senpai in front of you.]

[concealingeyes]

[Actually she was wondering about that.]

I'm pretty surprised you got it... I guess anyone can get it.

[Because sempai is too cool to get sick.]

[bloodyashes]

[Senpai's always been sick, Kido. Or at least as long as you've known him.]

My body isn't the strongest either.

[It's a little self-deprecating. Really, he just hates the weakness.]

[concealingeyes]

Huh? [Her head lifts in surprise. She doesn't mean to pry or ask but...] Sorry, it's just... I never would've guessed after all those impressive moves.

[bloodyashes]

It doesn't impair my abilities in that regard. It's my stamina that's decreased.

[As well as his ability to feel pain, and the rate at which his body heals itself. After a moment of thought, he pushes the right sleeve of his shirt, showing the cut on his arm from his duel with Luke.]

This is from ten days ago.

[It looks a day old, maybe two - in anyone else, it would be almost healed already. On the bright side, it's not infected; Asch is aware enough of his condition to take steps against that.]

[concealingeyes]

Ah...

[Seeing that makes her heart jump a little. Ten days? How is that possible? If he was Kano or Seto, she'd start fretting and scolding him and trying to take care of the wound. But she doesn't really have that right and anyway it would irritate him.

So she rubs the back of her head, looking down. It's a weird moment when someone you were starting to think of as invincible really isn't at all.]

Have you always been like that? You seem pretty used to it.

[bloodyashes]

[He's good at looking invincible, apparently. Doesn't mean he is. Asch shifts to lean back against the wall again, pulling his sleeve back down, shaking his head.]

A bit more than a year, if your calendar's the same as here. half a year by ours.

[Oops Kido's about to find out that he's old.]

[concealingeyes]

[Kido blinks, trying to figure out what that means. Half a year by his calendar but a year by theirs? So his years work differently...

So a year to him would be two years to them, right? Wait a second.]

...Eh? W-Wait a second how old are you?

[bloodyashes]

I turned eighteen not long after arriving here.

[Senpai is old, Kido. Really old.

And now you know why he has that hair comb. Sort of.]

[concealingeyes]

[Okay so. Simple math time. Since it's doubled, eighteen equals out to thirty-six.

Thirty-six.

Thirty-six.]

Y-You're so old compared to me!

[bloodyashes]

[Actually it's more like 38 by the time you add the extra month, but oh well.]

I'm not even considered of age yet.

[concealingeyes]

By your years I'm- I'm just eight!

[bloodyashes]

And?

[He knows two-year-olds who lead religious orders and thirty-something-year-olds who threw tantrums like they were five.]

Age doesn't matter as much as you might think.

[At least not for him.]

[concealingeyes]

You don't think it does? I get judged for my age all the time back home.

[bloodyashes]

Not as long as you know what you're doing.

[It's time for backhanded compliments with Asch!]

[concealingeyes]

[She can't tell if that means he thinks she's fine or not.]

Must be kind of nice. I guess people judge by merit more, huh?