[When he first came here, Nene told Shin about the way the things of the deceased would disappear without trace. The clear toll it had had on her had taken root in his mind enough to contemplate leaving a thing living enough to survive for her if he disappeared, even as he'd later starkly realized how Asunaro that was, thanks to Ranger.
Still, knowing about something and experiencing it are two different things. Up until now, in Shin's experiences the dead had always left some kind of trace, some of it in the form of evidence collected on the room's shelf. The past always has an effect on the present, and that's something he's held to before. Nobody can just disappear completely... can they?
Her games have remained, and the note tucked in the closet's depths, but all other signs of Nanami having lived here are gone, erased as if they'd never been the moment he woke up. He hasn't turned them on since, because all their old save files are still on them; if she returns she might want to pick up where she left off... For this reason he's hidden them away, too.
It's the thing he can't erase about himself, no matter how he might try and sometimes succeed, and the thing about him he fears on bad days; he gets attached, and cares deeply when he does. It always hurts.
It does help it's Alice who's moving in, for multiple reasons, some of the practical kind like that he's proven himself trustworthy enough to sleep around and probably wouldn't let Midori in if he came knocking, and others more a sort of osmotic pressure of inclination. He lifts his head at the sensation of eyes on him from where he sits cross-legged on the top bunk, although his gaze remains on the laptop in front of him.]
Ugh, that thing... [Creepy as hell. Shin's not fond of it... it's also always a bit embarrassing being jumpscared by a stationary object. It really does feel like it's biding it's time to get up and move, he's trying not to think about that phrasing of volition.] Dynamo probably moved it...
[Since Add was obsessed with it in a way you couldn't not know if you were in his vicinity whenever he got going about it... Shin'll pick this option over 'it moved back there on it's own' even if that's mostly trying to convince himself. He doesn't have much cause to go into the science lab anyway...]
...if I was superstitious I'd say it was the number, ahaha.
[It would be easier to set it at that instead of the constricting sense of dwindling numbers his brain has gripped onto like a vice, sometimes catching his lungs in the bargain.]
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Date: 2022-05-29 11:34 am (UTC)Still, knowing about something and experiencing it are two different things. Up until now, in Shin's experiences the dead had always left some kind of trace, some of it in the form of evidence collected on the room's shelf. The past always has an effect on the present, and that's something he's held to before. Nobody can just disappear completely... can they?
Her games have remained, and the note tucked in the closet's depths, but all other signs of Nanami having lived here are gone, erased as if they'd never been the moment he woke up. He hasn't turned them on since, because all their old save files are still on them; if she returns she might want to pick up where she left off... For this reason he's hidden them away, too.
It's the thing he can't erase about himself, no matter how he might try and sometimes succeed, and the thing about him he fears on bad days; he gets attached, and cares deeply when he does. It always hurts.
It does help it's Alice who's moving in, for multiple reasons, some of the practical kind like that he's proven himself trustworthy enough to sleep around and probably wouldn't let Midori in if he came knocking, and others more a sort of osmotic pressure of inclination. He lifts his head at the sensation of eyes on him from where he sits cross-legged on the top bunk, although his gaze remains on the laptop in front of him.]
Ugh, that thing... [Creepy as hell. Shin's not fond of it... it's also always a bit embarrassing being jumpscared by a stationary object. It really does feel like it's biding it's time to get up and move, he's trying not to think about that phrasing of volition.] Dynamo probably moved it...
[Since Add was obsessed with it in a way you couldn't not know if you were in his vicinity whenever he got going about it... Shin'll pick this option over 'it moved back there on it's own' even if that's mostly trying to convince himself. He doesn't have much cause to go into the science lab anyway...]
...if I was superstitious I'd say it was the number, ahaha.
[It would be easier to set it at that instead of the constricting sense of dwindling numbers his brain has gripped onto like a vice, sometimes catching his lungs in the bargain.]