R1 DEADLAND PT2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

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[starswink]

[Yoosung's face couldn't get any hotter, but when Yuuki's expression changes, he feels like he's going to die of embarrassment. He'd read him wrong... but at least he still looks happy about it... his heart is in his throat but he feels good too. Yuuki isn't rejecting him. He's right here. If he thinks about it, this was almost a confession and now he's asking to hear more. But he's right about his girlfriend, how he prays with his all that she's alive and won't ever come where he is - that he's still managed to keep her safe with the only love he was able to give her. Yoosung has only just now realized that he might love Yuuki the same way. If that were really the case, he would want to tell him properly, the kind of heartfelt confession there's no way he's articulate enough to string together right now. Before they kissed... he would owe him that much... Yoosung's eyelids flutter as he comes to another realization. His smile stretches wider, confident in his response.]

Yeah.

[And then he finally closes the gap. Not with his lips - he touches their foreheads. He wishes to convey to him the precise way he has felt in this moment, so he can understand. He sends this sentiment gently, synchronizing their breaths for a moment. Then he pulls back, back to the distance they were before, so he doesn't overload him. He hopes he got the message.]

[supportrole]

[ Mishima lets his eyes close when their foreheads touch, though it takes him a few seconds to even understand the intention. Ah... right, this is a thing they can do here.

It's different than the other times before, though, in part because that warm, deep affection is flowing both ways. Coming from anyone else, he might still have had trouble believing it, and thought the person connecting with him had to be faking all of this to manipulate him to some end. But between the two of them... he can believe that feeling is real, because he trusts Yoosung so completely, and because this is so close to what he was already feeling himself.

When Yoosung draws back, Mishima opens his eyes again, smiling back at him with greater certainty. ]

I, uh...

[ ...Well, certainty in his feelings, not necessarily in his words. ]

Me too.

[starswink]

[The tide of this love just keeps rising... he feels a profound contentedness knowing his feelings were received. He wants to capture this moment and freeze it in time. His hand reaches for Mishima's - but stops short, and he laughs. His songpyeon is still in it. He'd almost forgotten.]

...Hey, Yuuki. Did you ever figure out your wish?

[supportrole]

[ Mishima blinks for a second, and follows Yoosung's gaze to his songpyeon. Oh, right--! Jeez, he'd almost forgotten too. ]

Mm... I dunno. I was thinking before that maybe I'd just wish for the Phantom Thieves to keep changing our world without me.

[ He shrugs, and looks back up at the moon with a more wistful smile. It still looks like the moon he's always known, though he knows it's not real -- he's not sharing it with any of the Thieves back home. ]

I mean, I'm pretty sure they can do that whether I wish for it or not, honestly, so maybe that's a waste... but I also don't want to wish for anything that's too impossible, you know?

[starswink]

I don't think it's a waste. You've always given them the strength of your belief. Why not give it some extra power?

[He smiles a bit.]

Unless you have another good idea.