[CLOSED] I Will Surround You and Give Life to a World

[bakudan_bambino]

Who: Hayato Gokudera('s interactive memories) and Takeshi Yamamoto
What: Yamamoto goes to the VR room to relive some happy memories from the Daisy Darling
When: Sometime after the zombie hoard is wiped out (VR sounds like a bad idea DURING zombie time)
Where: The VR room (one of them. whichever fits)
Warnings: Character death; mentions of past underage sexual slavery; anything nsfw is going off comm

When Yamamoto first turns on the game he's set up, or tried out the cerebral interfacing to relive his memories, something will not work right. Maybe the interfacing is not working correctly because he didn't hook it up right. Maybe the collar he's wearing that once was connected to Gokudera is interrupting the program. It's projecting the memories it had contained of the pet it held captive and his owner.

Either way, when the game starts, the swordsman will find himself standing in a dark room. White text floats before him, reading out the motion controls, giving him a tutorial on how to interact, and a light comes on a few feet away as an overhead lamp. It lights up a mahogany storage piano bench with silver, cream, and red embroidered upholstery for a seat. Takeshi may be able to lift the seat to search for sheet music within, given that the hinges are clearly visible. However, there is a lock.

In order to open it, there is an on-screen command to scan his thumbprint on his "pet ring". If anyone else were to try to bring the collar in and access the bomber's old memories, they would also have to scan their thumbprint. Possibly to unlock their memories with him. There is no other information, just the command for Takeshi to follow. And once he does, the lock will noisily unlatch.

The bench will open to show an assortment of items. Only some can be interacted with, picked up and displaying the option to "visit". Some items do not, though there is clearly more to be revealed. Simply put, Yamamoto must start at an introductory level in order to progress in the game that is Gokudera's memories. There is a futuristic pistol, a lei, a capped syringe, and an orange. In this currently playthrough, only the lei and pistol are accessible. Yamamoto can pick each up, turn it around, zoom in with his handheld controls, and place it back down. There are even some items that could be interactive, but he'd have to clear more to get to them.

Comments

[tsuyoi_ame]

Grief.

One word describes his entire life right now, he wakes up every day, goes through the motions of keeping himself alive. He has not trained his sword, he has not been to the AZ to work, he has not seen or spoken to anyone other than as briefly as possible. Once the zombies were gone, all that was left was his grief.

And still, every morning when he opens his eyes, he scans his device, he goes to the welcoming area, he goes to the medbay. Still every morning, Hayato still has not returned and the swordsman is starting to slip, starting to think maybe he won't. He may even begin to think it was all a dream, except, the collar strapped to his arm beneath his shirt. He does not wear it where anyone can see it, it is his own personal thing, his own personal pain because it is a symbol of a love that literally transcends worlds.

His love, his bomber who is now gone from him and the world has never been so dark, so desolate, Yamamoto could nearly give up, throw his life away. Except, he promised Hayato he would be here when he returned, and here is where he will be, till his last breath even if his bomber never returns.

Some small part of him begins to worry this may be the case as the days drag on. So today, today after the medbay instead of returning to the base they built, retreating to the upper room where the piano sits, gathering dust, to sit, to stare, and to ache for the love he felt in that room to be back in his arms, he goes to the VR room.

He has not accessed the Daisy Darling since the last time he and Hayato did it together to take the time to sit on the beach once more, this time holding hands, kissing, loving each other as more than friends. That beach, that ship, holds so much of their happiness and their first day here together that he aches for it. Maybe seeing it will give him the strength to continue on, maybe even try living, Hayato would hate to find him lost this way.

But...

Of course, fate is a cruel mistress and after allowing Yamamoto Takeshi to make it through life as easy as he has, it would seem she has decided to heap all the pain of his life into this one tragedy because he knows the moment the screen loads and that bench is there, he knows. This is Hayato's memories, this is the collar and he can not stop himself. He swallows, pain wracking his heart and his body as he lifts his shirt sleeve and touches his thumb to the pet ring.

Fingers tremble when he lifts the bench, he stares for a few moments, unable to reach out and interact just frozen. Finally, he grabs the pistol, the lei seems like it may be something too tender for him to handle now, does he really want to see his boyfriend with someone else, see him remembering those moments. Maybe the gun will be different, he does not know, he can not think clearly, all he can do is reach out and start this game, whatever it may be, whatever it may do to him.

If it can bring him a piece of Hayato, he wants it, no matter if it kills me.