Funeral Service for Adaman and Hodaka Morishima

[giddyundertaker]

[ An hour or two after the first trial's end, Hild and the Undertaker set out to invite as many people as possible to the Restaurant for the funerals of our dearly departed friends.

Why the restaurant of all places? Because there aren't enough chairs and tables elsewhere.

Indeed, some of the tables have been moved against the wall to make room for the seats. The chairs have been set up in four rows of six, like an improvised theater or a church. To the side, a small buffet has been set up courtesy of Obi, Mafuyu, and Hild. As for the main event? Two tables have been set up and decorated in black fabric and white flowers. In lieu of a live viewing, two drawings referenced from the profiles have been set up in the center of funeral wreaths... They're not the best, due to the artist's handicaps, but it does look like Adaman and Hodaka at least.]

Comments

[dullshooter]

[Misfire tilts his head at Aiba's approach.]

Clearly, you haven't been to enough places.

[He pulls the trigger of his nerf gun but - out of ammo. He'll have to go collect the rest of those foam pellets, but...not right now. He doesn't feel like he can get up.]

...I'm not gonna force you if you just want to, but you don't have to worry about keeping up the human looks around me, at least. We're all mechanical here.

[pairtner]

...thanks. I will.

[She doesn't feel with the energy to keep up the charade, and she doesn't mean it in the 'my battery is almost drained' way. Goodbye, human projection. Seconds later, Aiba just...waddles until she's near the wall, leaning against it. Somehow she conveys quite well she's feeling dejected]

I most likely haven't. I would have thought you wouldn't be as affected as this, though -- with your age, you must have been in countless places and seen enough suffering and death. You did mention wars.

cw: corpse desecration but like, robots

[dullshooter]

[Misfire almost feels called out by that. He sits up more to attention.]

Hey, I'm plenty desensitised to gratuitous death and violence. After Flywheels died a gruesome and untimely death, we barely spent a minute feeling bad about it before ransacking him for parts.

[Mentioned very casually.]

I'm not - I'm not that affected. I'm just out here playing a solo game of 'rooty tooty wall shooty'.

[pairtner]

I suppose in the end recycling what remains is the right thing to do. That's what nature does, after all.

[She says that to avoid asking some really unnerving questions that came to her mind. It's not the time at all for them.

You definitely didn't brush off things as if they were nothing. Something about Hodaka being the killer seems to have bothered you, at least for a while, she thinks]

And afterwards I suppose you'll go sleep and wake up tomorrow as if nothing happened.

[Probably...?]

It would be for the best.

[She should do that, she figures]

[dullshooter]

[At Aiba’s final suggestion he makes a short exhale, an vague something of a laugh.]

If it looks like I’m acting like nothing has happened, it’s because nothing has changed. We’re still stuck here, and we could all kill each other at any time.

[Noticing that Hodaka and Adaman are gone is all the more unavoidable in close quarters, but it’ll be a dull ache than a gaping wound.

No doubt for some it’ll hurt too much, and all they’ll be able to face it with is denial.]

What about you?