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[missingache]

Who: Roxas & You! + prompt for Yuma
Where: Near Shore, Artemis’ Temple, aquarium (for Yuma)
When: April 22nd & 23rd
What: Wandering around the city, training ghost doggies, and looking at fish
Warnings: None so far?


Too much has happened again, but at least Roxas has been sleeping a lot better. Taking the advice of the him-but-not-him Roxas had paid off. Having no one hanging around but his shinki at the temple was also a welcome relief. The blond has just gotten bored since the whole mess with those drakes and that guy. Who knew he missed fighting that much.

Near Shore

[Roxas’ favorite haunts lately were any bookstores he came across. Books always had something interesting he could learn about on his never ending mission to fully understand this whole gods’ business. Besides, after learning about the Roman equivalents of the Greek pantheon has him curious about how those two compare.

The other place he’s been visiting are cafés, namely the Calico Café. Being surrounded by cats while reading and enjoying super sweet coffee was a nice way to relax. Roxas is always up for talking about whatever book he’s currently into at the moment. At least it’s not manga.

Other than that he can be found pretty much anywhere!]

Artemis’ Temple

[Grudgingly taking the advice of a fellow god totally not Shun, Roxas has decided that maybe training the animals he’s already got would be easier than getting a new one just yet. Except he’s got a few problems.

One: Can you even train deer and a random bear to do anything?

Two: What treats do you feed ghost dogs?

At least the second one can be dealt with easier since they seem to respond to clicker training to a degree even without the treats the book suggests. Anyone who comes by, at dawn or dusk, can see the blond standing in front of his temple with said dogs. The ghostly apparitions seem to be rather large Greyhounds. Don’t worry about them attacking unless their owner tells them to.]

Prompt for Yuma!

[This Yuma might not be the one he knows from Koriko, but Roxas is still happy to see him. Of course he struck up a friendship with him right away, and at least this meeting didn’t involve the smaller boy jumping off of a roof to catch a phoenix. That was a painful encounter.

Since this Nobody has never been to an aquarium it was high time this needed to happen! So why not go with Yuma? It’ll be good to spend time with people he wasn’t constantly in contact with anyways. So Roxas waits in front of the aquarium and waits for Yuma to show up.]

Did he get lost?

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Near Shore

[fullcowl]

[Look, it's been a very exhausting couple of days. With Add's help he's come back from the dead, his arms are still recovering from being crushed, and he's finished answering a prayer.

The prayer wasn't an issue- but he has been busy, and that's why he's quietly stepping into the Calcio Café.]

[missingache]

[Oh. Hey! He knows you!]

Izuku?

[It's said quietly enough that if the other wants to ignore him he can. Roxas wouldn't be offended if Izuku is as tired as he looks.]

[fullcowl]

[He perks up when he hears his name and meanders over. Somebody he knows, huh?]

Roxas?

[He settles in a chair across from him.]

[missingache]

[To not be rude he makes sure to mark the page on his book and... Seems the table is the only place to put the book. Where did all these cats come from???]

It's been a while! Everything okay?

[fullcowl]

[Well, it is a cat café, it's not too surprising that they're everywhere.

One of them hops into Izuku's lap and he starts petting it. Just for something for his hands to do.]

I've been better. What about you? Did you get involved with those weird ayakashi?

[missingache]

[Roxas didn't expect to have his lap covered in them. They are cute so he'll just pet them.

He doesn't consciously mean to touch his cheek, but it makes him bite back a hiss.]

I got dragged into fighting with Sora. It was a tough, but we beat one of those drakes. What about you?

[fullcowl]

The drakes, huh...? I went past the drakes and to the... the person? Who was killing all the gods.

[And then he died and got revived, it was a magical experience he's not sure he wants to go through again.]

[missingache]

We got blocked off by one so we never made it that far.

[All Roxas did was go berserk and break half of his face. And then broke someone else's shoulder... Dying... No thanks. Did that once. Never again.]

[fullcowl]

From what I could tell not a lot of people made it that far.

[He sighs.] He was... much faster and stronger than anybody I've ever faced before.

[missingache]

There were a lot of them.

[He frowns.] Was it an ayakashi?

[fullcowl]

... No. It was Susano'o's shinki.

I'm not sure how it happened, but he went berserk.

[missingache]

How would a shinki go berserk? Was it his power?

[He only knows one who can go berserk but the vessel form is needed.]

[fullcowl]

I don't know, it didn't look like he was in vessel form.

It might have been something from... home.

[missingache]

I know someone like that here if it's from home, but I don't think we're talking about the same guy... He's got a different god anyways.

The Temple

[battered]

[When left to his own devices, Raichi tends to be antsy and restless. And what better way to burn off that nervous energy than to go outside for a run? The temple grounds provide more than enough space for something like that, and it's a good way to clear his mind on top of it. His inability to be much help during the fight against the drake (and really be more of a hindrance) left him with a profound sense of disappointment, the kind of feeling that's far too deep for him to do much besides stick his toe in, and the sort of thing he doesn't really know how to sort out on his own. Whatever life he lived prior to this clearly didn't equip him with the right skills for it.

But! It's while he's out on said run that he spots Roxas trying to work with the creatures of the temple, and after a moment or two or three of hesitation, he approaches.]

Hey! [A small kaha!] Can I, uh, help at all?

[After his first encounter with the ghostly dogs, Raichi's found himself a little (just a little!) skittish of them, but he still wants to be able to do something.]

[missingache]

[Since the fight Roxas tried his best to be as kind as he could to Raichi, but the truth was that he was terrified. He had hurt Sora using Raichi. He'd been so scared of hurting his friends, and then it happened... Roxas just acts like nothing has been bothering him. It's something he's gotten really good at.

So when Raichi approaches, Roxas looks over with a smile. The dogs look over as well but they seem anything but happy to see the shinki. Picking up on their owners mood might just be obvious right now.]

Sure? Do you know any dog tricks? I know they can sit and lay down...

[fullcowl]

Man... Going berserk like that has to be rough. It seemed like that shinki was usually in control- at least, that hadn't happened before.

[missingache]

... It's not fun. [Feels great at the time until it's all over.] Maybe something bad happened to trigger it?

[fullcowl]

I wish I knew.

Amaterasu seems to be handling him now, and there doesn't seem to be anything similar to the rampage.

[missingache]

You think he'll be okay? I mean, Amaterasu can't punish him for something he couldn't control. Right?

[fullcowl]

I think so, she said they weren't planning on punishing him. Since whatever happened was essentially Suano'o's fault from what it sounded like.

[missingache]

I still can't believe that Susano'o guy created his own ayakashi... I hope no one ever does that again.

[fullcowl]

I really hope not. Ayakashi are already enough of a problem, we don't need augmented ones running around too.

[missingache]

Amaterasu and the other head gods really gotta pick god replacements better. They could have stopped something like this from happening.

[fullcowl]

So some kind of god screening? That's probably not a bad idea, but I don't know how possible it would be.