bear_necessities: (faraway look...)
bear_necessities ([personal profile] bear_necessities) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-07-02 11:46 pm

Once again, Senri does not cope well with change...

Who: Senri and Open (Hitsugaya has dibs on picking him up, but anyone who wants to comfort sad!bear is very welcome.)
When: After Roxas disappears
Where: The site of the former temple of Artemis
What: Senri's god is gone.

[Roxas is gone. Senri knows that instinctively, even without the Temple or his Name vanishing. There's a sense of.... emptiness. Loss. It's.... hard to take. What he doesn't know is what he's supposed to do about it. He's a shinki. Meant to serve a god and help them defeat ayakashi, right? He understands that.

Without a god, what is he? And why did Roxas leave? Was Senri not doing his job? Did he do something wrong? Did something bad happen to him?

Complicating matters is the sudden strange rush of memories that return to him on that very morning. The first flower pressed into his book has meaning to him again. Crystala. She was his master before Roxas. She gave him the book. And the eye patch. In a way, this knowledge is what saves him from complete despair. If there was someone before Roxas, there can be someone after. He just has to wait. Either Roxas will return or someone else will come by and tell him what to do.

He's made a little campsite on the empty lot where the temple used to be. There's a  campfire, a small tent made of a tarp and some branches, and a little kitten curled up on his lap. Senri is watching the fire crackle away, a slightly lost look in his eyes.]

gentilitea: (With an outstretched hand)

[personal profile] gentilitea 2017-07-05 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Though Jakob tries not to visit the only person he’d consider a friend too often, he does still drop by from time to time, and today is no different. Save, of course, for the fact that the temple is no longer in sight, and a cold feeling of dread grips his heart as he charges into what used to be the temple grounds, making a beeline for the fire and quickly grabbing Senri by the shoulders in a fit of panic. ]

You…you’re his shinki, aren’t you? What has happened to Lord Roxas?!
gentilitea: (With an outstretched hand)

[personal profile] gentilitea 2017-07-09 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He barely even notices the kitten, at any rate. Senri has all of his undivided attention, unfortunately for him, and Jakob has never been more exasperated with his penchant for one-word responses as he is now. ]

What do you mean by “gone”? [ In his heart of hearts he knows what Senri truly means by it; he’s been through this before. Data-Roxas’s temple had vanished only a few months ago, after all. He feels his throat tightening at the memory of it. ]

Surely he’s…he’s gone on a trip? Perhaps to relocate his temple?
gentilitea: (So command the wake of dreams)

[personal profile] gentilitea 2017-07-20 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It can’t be. [ he says weakly, finally relenting on his grip on Senri and staring downward, at nothing in particular, as he tries to process all this. ]

If—If only I had been here sooner. [ Not that he could have done anything about it, but at least it’s something. ]