山下 洋介 ~ Yōsuke Yamashita (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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afterliving2013-09-19 08:49 pm
keptwaiting) wrote in afterliving2013-09-19 08:49 pm
001 - dear future (reprise)
[ He was dead. Yamashita thought he was fairly certain of that. After all there had been a bang, crashing glass, sharp pain, a short moment mid-air, people screaming... Yes, laying on the pavement like that, with each feeling slowly numbing through a strange fog, even a cheery boy like Yamashita had been sure he was dying. It's not like he had comprehended what that meant, but the feeling of 'this is it' is not something easily pushed off when you were sure your heart could stop beating any moment.
So when he wakes up, Yamashita feels off to say the least. Alive? Dreaming? Is this reality at all? ]
Ah...?
[ It's a school. That kind of hallway is just too much of an universal sign for learning facilities as that it could be any other way. He sits up, rubbing his head. No blood, no injury, no pain. He's wearing a school uniform too... Strange. Yamashita gets up to examine the scene, looking through the hallways for people. Too bad he's arrived after classes ended and most NPCs aren't around anymore. With careful but feathery steps he runs through the school, dramatically bursting into rooms and leaning around corners. ]
Hellooo~? Is anybody heeere? I'm looost, can anybody help a poor guy out?
[ He'll be wandering about all over the school and campus, feel free to encounter him at any place, just specify where! ]
So when he wakes up, Yamashita feels off to say the least. Alive? Dreaming? Is this reality at all? ]
Ah...?
[ It's a school. That kind of hallway is just too much of an universal sign for learning facilities as that it could be any other way. He sits up, rubbing his head. No blood, no injury, no pain. He's wearing a school uniform too... Strange. Yamashita gets up to examine the scene, looking through the hallways for people. Too bad he's arrived after classes ended and most NPCs aren't around anymore. With careful but feathery steps he runs through the school, dramatically bursting into rooms and leaning around corners. ]
Hellooo~? Is anybody heeere? I'm looost, can anybody help a poor guy out?
[ He'll be wandering about all over the school and campus, feel free to encounter him at any place, just specify where! ]
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Um.. it's probably good that you remember though-- w-well, it's a bad thing to remember, but I mean, there's a lot of people who don't remember.
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They don't? [ He tilts his head. ] Wow, that must be really weird for them...
... it's already weird for me, this memory of sudden 'bam and end'. I still have homework in mind that I'll never need to finish, even... [ He laughs a little, but it sounds forced. ]
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[ She sort of.. left the world to be destroyed now. She knows it's her fault. She could've saved it if only she hadn't died.. Madoka knows she's the cause of more suffering for Homura and for an entire world. But she keeps it to herself, instead smiling sheepishly. ]
But.. at least you can make a lot of friends and have fun here! It might be the afterlife, but it's not a bad place at all..!
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The realization that he won't meet Shouma again hits him like a ton of bricks. Not only Shouma, but everyone - his teacher won't scold him for not doing this homework, he won't spend lunch break with Kamba... He won't come home to his family either.
He wipes his sleeve quickly along under his bangs and over his eyes
he has eyes right. No matter how emotional he could be, this nice and easily startled girl wasn't someone he'd want to break down in front at first meeting. ]So? That's good! People make the afterlife out to be this boring stuffy place full of solemn spiritual salvation, so I was already getting worried. But if you say it's fun then I'll trust your word and make the absolute best out of it!
[ Along with the end of it, there goes a dramatic cool pose. No, I lied, 'cool' is not the right word. ]
By the way, what's your name?
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He has literally no face. The faceless ghost. Madoka is the bravest girl for talking to him so normally.]Oh.. it's Madoka. Madoka Kaname, nice to meet you. [ She quickly bows. Pretty deeply too. Talk about overly polite. ]
Well.. I mean, not nice to meet you considering the circumstances, b-but you're a nice person so I'm still glad to meet you in that sense!
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[ It's hard to not find her adorable when she's this concerned. His 'dead life' could have started out worse. Yamashita mimics her bow, including the depth - it's obviously exaggerated and overdramatic, but hey. ]
Yousuke Yamashita at your service!
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Um.. It's.. n-nice to meet you, Yousuke-san.. [ There you go, Madoka. Now was that so bad? ] But.. is my name really that cute..?
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I think it is! [ He leans forward in enthusiastic reassurance. ]
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[ She can't turn down a compliment, after all! But she still feels a tad shy because of it, she's never heard it that quickly. ]
I think your name is.. um.. nice too.
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[ He just smiles brightly. ]
So this place... is it really just like school then or are they like... exceptional supernatural rules or something?
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That shouldn't be hard to keep up with, right..?
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[ He's certainly not a good student, but not a trouble-maker either. Who likes to be scolded and get detention? He just couldn't understand people who caused a riot on purpose and made everyone else's lives more difficult as well. ]
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I'm gonna go and check out the rest of the place, but I bet we'll meet again soon, right?
[ Even if he's a social person and Madoka is incredibly nice, he probably needs a bit of time alone to get over the news. ]
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It's not that big of a place.. um, I mean, the school isn't as big as it seems, usually. So we'll run into each other either way, and.. I-I'll keep an eye out for you too, Yousuke-san! So bye bye for now.