After School Detention ([personal profile] detentionroom) wrote2025-07-15 01:32 pm

[KIN'UN]

[You needed an escape.

For a moment– however brief, or however not– you longed to get away. Perhaps you envisioned a vacation upon sunny, beachy shores, palm trees at your back and seagulls floating in the air. Perhaps you envisioned nothing at all, and merely accepted that anywhere but here would do. Either way. . .?

You blink. . . and you wake up slouched on a school desk, arms folded with head resting between. You lift your gaze and realize that you've woken up in the middle of a classroom, seated in one of the. . . uh, very few functional desks that remain. The others have been broken into pieces, with legs and splinters of wood scattered across the floor. Deep claw marks decorate the walls, having gouged the sheetrock with jagged, violent gashes. The window curtains are closed, but they too have been torn and ripped to shreds, with holes showing a dark and unidentifiable landscape beyond the four walls which trap you.

And written on the blackboard, in large, white letters that seem to glow in the midst of the dim room lighting, is a warning]


DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR NAME.

[. . . you are not alone]

[Each and every new arrival awakens dressed in a high school-issued track uniform. The design is up to the players, but each uniform is already color-coded to match the group at large. Somewhere on your body is a new marking: a mysterious floral design shaded the same color as your track uniform. It is glowing very gently. And in your pocket you feel. . . something warm. Further investigation reveals a tiny little omamri, tucked away in your outfit, for safe keeping. Huh! What a nice gift!]

[For now, the front door to the classroom is locked. No matter how hard you try– with physical prowess or otherwise– the door cannot be opened.]

[But hey! You can poke around the area, if you'd like! Maybe get to know your new classmates. . . ? Try not to panic. For now, everything is. . . calm]
velluminous: (sell yourself daily; speaking so hasty)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ look at me 🥺 ]

Ha! As fishhook loves fish's eye.
demergo: (15)

[personal profile] demergo 2025-07-19 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ not looking her way!!!! actually he probably turns to face away from her a little more. ]

....

[ give him several seconds to try to understand what she means here. ]

Umm, that's a g-good thing right? Because it's good to be sought after and caught...
velluminous: (i am not alarmed as i should be)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ how strange, to have a conversation where the other participant will not look at her. and yet—for her, this is not beyond the realm of belief. this would have been her grandparent's everyday life. ]

Nyet. No. She is fishhook in eye—barbed and blinding.
demergo: (27)

[personal profile] demergo 2025-07-19 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
But she still wants you and loves you, doesn't she? Even if it hurts, she looks at you.

[ he is still not looking at her but this is the most he's projected his voice throughout his time here, including with everyone else. ]
velluminous: (beggars and mongrels all)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there is more to this boy than it seems at first, soft-spoken glance. but she's not a delicate woman, and her charisma is sorely lacking. her insight, her empathy... all stunted. all she can do is bark a laugh at the mere idea of Eunoia Vaux loving her, wanting her. ]

Only in disdain. Eu— she—... I am only in my family's way.
ratiocinations: (🔎 197)

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[damn are the two of you all right over there,]
ratiocinations: (🔎 180)

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[mommy issues much!!!]
velluminous: (faces for Wilbur Soot)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ AND daddy!!!!! we're an equal-opportunity household ]
ratiocinations: (🔎 103)

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ]
demergo: (8)

[personal profile] demergo 2025-07-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ shaking his head. he should perhaps shut up but he doesn't have the wherewithal to realize that this is a conversation he should be taking delicately. ]

If you were only in their way, they wouldn't even do that. They still know you exist and they still see you.
velluminous: (why don't you give me a call?)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ let her hate her parents in peace, haruka!!! ]

Agreeing to disagree, da? There are more pressing issues to attend than my mother who is so graciously not with us.
demergo: (28)

[personal profile] demergo 2025-07-19 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he turns to her finally, his gaze vacant and empty. several likely uncomfortable seconds later he lets out a breath, something in it that sounds brittle. ]

...alright. [ with that he's going to go find the furthest corner of this room he can and hang out there instead otl. ]
velluminous: (shoulder the sky)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-20 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ she fucking BIFFED this, dude ]