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[recrowns]

HELLO

"And what is this—"

GOODBYE

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[handfast]

[ adds another thread to your pile without asking ]

hey
we can send messages using these things
its faster than trying to find someone in person
you can talk using them too

[ though knowing soo-won he's probably found out already.... ]

[recrowns]

[ whoa hak reaching out to him first

well his instinct is excitement anyway ]

amazing!!
imagine if we had this in kouka
it could be so useful
so much faster than letters
are you getting this message right away?
hak!

[handfast]

[ listen sometimes you want to know that your ex (best friend) is still doing okay even though you broke up messily (redacted number of) months ago ]

yeah
i can see them

[ ..... ]

if something happens
use this and tell me

post-week 1 maze run

[recrowns]

[ wahoo yippee

anyway i said i would start but this starter is going to be so stupid and useless because soo-won is literally just going to collapse. he can't even deal with everyone else's issues which are way bigger! he doesn't crumple to the floor so much as just stagger to his knees, but who cares about him! this is simply another day in the life of soo-won ]

[aerodynamic]

[ OKAY? he watches this insane vine snake its way back down into the ground, rooted in place and trying to regain his senses. he snaps out of his own head temporarily watching soo-won end up in the dirt of nowhere. ]

Hey! [ he can help, right? he can do something, and it means he moves forward to try and support him. ] What happened?

[ sorry, he was busy and couldn't track what you three were doing. ]

[recrowns]

[ the way that soo-won was apparently gaming so hard that he also didn't notice what happened to everyone else. it's fine. it's cool. he's breathless against the pain, his hand pressed against his chest—but he tries to focus enough to respond to yosuke ]

Ah... I suppose... the game isn't meant to... do that.

[ YE OLDE ]

[ordimame]

[well, by now Edamura has figured out that he and Lois. . . missed something?? apparently?? giving Yosuke a sideways glance as he checks on Soo-Won]

[are you okay, son]

[ordimame]

[the funny part of all of this is that Edamura missed every intensely creepy thing that happened to Yosuke and Soo-Won because he was too busy chasing his childish whimsy and eating a delicious orange. an orange that started off as a drawing on a paper and somehow became a real fruit, but you know what. he won't thinks too hard about that]

[still munching on a slice as he hears the sound of Soo-Won's knees hitting the ground with a soft whump. he spins around, and--]

-- Won?

[hold on give him a second to shove the rest of the orange into his mouth before he trots over to check on this poor guy]

[sinceritas]

[ oranges shouldn't be capable of holding so much juice, is what Lois is thinking airily when she happens to turn her head at the exact moment she registers movement out of the corner of her eye. what's his name again?

Sue Won. right. ]

You alright?

[ he doesn't look so good. she hesitates (she would NOT normally be this bad about sharing, but this damn fruit is so good that it's making her forget about everything else for a while—isn't that a slippery slope to go down, although she's probably skiing down one already at full speed—) before offering him the last two slices of her half. ]

It's really good.

maze one overflow

[recrowns]

[ makes this for myself bc my internet is too slow to fight captcha repeatedly ]

edamame

[recrowns]

[ from here ]

... I don't know that I'm a person deserving of sympathy, but thank you.

[ in the end, it's just mirrored sentiments, isn't it? it's so much harder to take the kindness when you're the person who will be the last to forgive yourself. ]

If anything, I would just like to ensure that those people can have simpler lives without me. Maybe then I'll be satisfied.

hien

[recrowns]

[ from here ]

A change in topic...

[ with a small, slightly muted laugh ]

As well as politics ever goes.

However, in the end, I think that I am near the point of achieving my goals. At least, enough that I can be with fewer regrets.

yosuke

[recrowns]

[ from here ]

[ tilts his head with a smile ]

But I am an ordinary person.

Noble lineage or royal standing doesn't make anyone all too different, I think.

lemuen

[recrowns]

[ from here ]

[ tries to decide what answer might upset hak the least ]

There is someone I know here, though I can't say that's particularly good news given that we're in Purgatory of all places...

hak

[recrowns]

[ from here ]

[ i went digging for 6 years to find a scene that would help me tag this back and then i didn't find the scene so you're getting guesswork and prayer ]

To what end?

[ he's curious. ]

His Majesty Il was adamant about never allowing me to succeed the throne. Even on the night of his death, he said I would never become King Hiryuu. As if that was what I wanted. [ as if soo-won ever wanted to be king at all ] If Yona was appointed as Queen, she would have had to make more decisions on the battlefield that could cost people their lives since Kang Soo-jin was already planning treason, or when South Kai invaded. Or would you have wanted to rule over the country, Hak?

[ soo-won has already shared his ideal scenario. kill il. remove hak and yona from politics as much as possible, to some lovely villa just as removed from the horrors of kouka as they originally were, but without sending them scrambling into the forest for their lives. another faraway dream - but one thing had always remained the same: he would never tell them. he needed hak to be with yona. to protect her from everything, include soo-won himself. ]

... I have been trying to think of alternatives since you suggested that I would not repeat my past mistakes. The path I could've taken that spared all three of you.

Knowing what you do now... do you have one?

[ what should he have done instead? ]

action

[lucentia]

[if soo-won happens to be passing by the kitchen there is smoke coming out of it but dw about it]

[recrowns]

[




WORRYING ABOUT IT!!!!!! wandering over? ]

Eh? Is everyone alright?

action, w4

[handfast]

[ like a day after their movie date, hak will find soo-won and give him a book. ]

Here. You said you wanted to read it.

[ it is not actually the same book as the one he read but there are so many BL books in that library he can't be assed to tell the difference. also you do not have to tag this but i need to establish that it happened. ]

[recrowns]

Oh, thank you!

[ he'll take the book from hak and immediately start reading it









HE FINDS HIM THIRTY MINUTES LATER ]

Why did you give me this?!

w5

[handfast]

[ one day when soo-won returns to his room he will find 30 bottles of kewpie mayo stacked by his bed. you're welcome. ]

[recrowns]

[ literally makes you deal with this to balance out the rancidness

opens the door to their adjoining rooms with 15 bottles of kewpie mayo ]

Were you hungry?

[ DEPOSITS THEM ON TOP OF HAK LIKE A BRAT ]

w5.....again

[handfast]

[ do you think about how yesterday hak was high as shit buying a zillion bottles of kewpie mayo from 🅱️ostco and now soo-won is dead? good times.

anyway hak's camped out by the river. where are you, bitch. ]

[recrowns]

[ um i think hak should live his best life

who cares if soo-won is dead! eventually there will be movement by the river, someone's hand outstretched breaking through the surface of the water before once again, this soggy ethereal(?) dead(?) wife(?) coughing out river water, trying to expel it from his lungs as he moves to stand. oh it's not very elegant at all. maybe he can die again from drowning. ]

post cyoa

[oversea]

Okay?

[recrowns]

[ what kills me is that i died before i got far in tagging you back in your post-cyoa i hate this ]

Perfectly fine, aside from the expected loss
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