deercountry | december catch-all (Reply)

Who Atsushi Nakajima + OTA
What: Event Prompts + SoL Prompt
When: Catch-All for December
Where: Varied by prompt

Content Warnings: Child Endangerment mention

(a) Jumping Off An Airship (winter mourning) | CW: Child Endangerment

[Home decor is not supposed to be dangerous, but here he is: Going from carrying a winter mourning to standing in a familiar airship. Granted, it's hard to tell that this is an airship based on the interior alone. It looks more like a luxury hotel with its soft carpets and fancy wallpapers.

But Atsushi knows where he is right away. Distantly, he can hear a beeping sound that raises certain alarm. That tells him when he is too: He's in the Guild's airship, and the entire thing is about to crash into Yokohama City.]

[He's already upset enough to be here on his own. When this happened before, Atsushi was unable to divert the airship using its controls. It was because Kyouka crashed her plane into the ship that it fell into the ocean rather than into the city. But Atsushi doesn't want to relive the moment when Kyouka risked her life because of his failings.

Adding to his stress is the presence of a stranger. Atsushi pales like his blood and reaches for the stranger's hand.]

(b) A Cheerful Party (winter mourning)

[Other times, Atsushi will walk into a more cheerful memory. In this memory, he's an observer rather than active participant. A shame too, because this is a memory that he longs to interact with.

Atsushi and the unlucky tagalong stand in a normal office building, watching as Atsushi and a young girl open a door and walk into one of the rooms. The room has cheerful yellow walls and the desks have been rearranged for a pot luck. Greeting them with party poppers and confetti is a small group of co-workers.

The scene is a happy one. The young girl, Kyouka, is smothered in warm attention and the memory of Atsushi is treated to light teasing. Meanwhile, the real Atsushi stands back against a wall with a look of nostalgia.]

[He's trying not to get emotional. He doesn't want to let himself miss them. Instead, Atsushi tries to focus on more grounding things;]

(c) Trapped By Good Intentions (run, rabbit, run)

[It seemed like a good idea at the time. As a paleblood, Atsushi hasn't felt any of the aggression that many of the others are consumed by. His paleblood impatience hasn't let him off of the hook, though.

Kinda literally?

Because Atsushi has decided that his best hope for diffusing the tension is to disarm the traps set by others. Usually his attempts go smoothly: He's observant enough to spot many of the traps and smart enough to take them apart. But once or twice, Atsushi will instead find himself caught up in a trap. Hooked on the line, if you will.

Like right now. When, with a yelp of surprise, Atsushi goes from disarming one trap to being trapped in another. He's hanging upside-down from a tree, held painfully by one leg. With a frustrated growl, he begins trying to swipe at the rope with his claws.]

[swipe]

[another miss,]

(d) Protective Shopping Spree |Prufrock

[Despite being low on cash, Atsushi has been saving up for a proper pair of gloves. He still doesn't fully understand the dangers of blood, but he can take a warning when it is given. For this reason, he finally winds up at the glove shop.

Atsushi is naturally a stingy person, though. He's glaring at price tags as he browses the wares. Buying expensive clothes is out of his comfort zone already, so he can barely tell what is a good deal and what isn't. Buying stylish clothes is even harder for him, no matter the price. Curiously, he's mostly stressing about gloves while he browses the more decorative and feminine designs. Atsushi already picked out a cheap pair of black gloves for himself.]

[Maybe if he glares enough at the price tags they'll go down???]

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