last despair calls first hope

[ringwizard]

Date & Time: July 2nd & 3rd
Location: Initiative Library, Room 701, around the apartments
Characters: Haruto Souma (ringwizard), Kousuke Nitoh (ringbeast), Oriko Mikuni (precludes)
Summary: Haruto witches out gets the d(espair) hits his breaking point, becomes despair monster.
Warnings: Upupupupu. Depression, despair, a dickbag monster, at least one fight, Chimaera being a tool, references to mass murders, references to not so mass murders, possibly suicidal ideation, character death. Oriko's sense of priorities.


Haruto leaves the Initiative's Hold early in the morning with a certain spring to his step. He's gotten a little tan--his time in 2050 had done him some good, a lingering scrape on the back of his right hand aside, and it's obvious. Being back in the city again leaves a lingering malaise to his mood, but he forces it away. With things to be done all around, he's got to keep moving forward, right? There's a lot of hustle and bustle outside the Hold with the still-lingering confusion of new arrivals, as far as he can tell, and he steps around people talking as he opens his tablet and messages Nitoh.

Are you still asleep?

Comments

[ringwizard]

"Excuse me," Haruto says, looking for one of the actual technicians--specifically the one who'd handled his mission report, who would know why he had to go back without an extended explanation.

When he spots him, he walks straight for him. Distantly, he notices the guy is starting to look like a caged mouse the closer he gets, and he schools his expression more pleasant with effort. "Hi," he says, "I need to talk to you about--going back. Fixing a mission."

'I'm sorry' begins the answer, and Haruto's heart begins to sink. The political balance of the period plays into the UE power structure. The sequence of events cannot be logistically altered without heavy public influence of the period, which they could not support and would not facilitate. The temporal physics were extremely fragile, and returning to the period too many times would alert the UE to their plans. The last breaks his rapidly diminishing composure, and he half shouts, "stop."

He breathes in, then out. His voice shakes. "You guys'll just take any victory, no matter how bloody it is, won't you?" he asks, and then turns on his heel to leave the lab--and Nitoh--behind.

[ringbeast]

"Whoa- Haruto, wait!" But he's off so fast that Nitoh doesn't have a chance to chase after him. He managed to follow the explanation, and his disappointment become palpable as he spoke. He didn't expect Haruto to take off, though he really should have.

He leans over the counter and sticks his finger into the face of the technician. "You pieces of crap! You don't even know what you did, do you?!" He slams his fist down on the table, and then storms out after Haruto.

Of course, by then, he's disappeared from sight. "Dammit. I gotta find him..." He activates his driver and passes the Gryphon ring over it. When its finished assembling itself, he tells it, "Find Haruto. Fast. He might be on his way home..." Gryphon peeps assent and flies off, while Nitoh sets off towards home, hoping he'll just run across Haruto.