three ◆ action.

[extraordinarily]

✖ everywhere;

[ There is a teenage girl running around, carrying a huge amount of papers that state something really important is happening. At least, to said teenage girl, it's 'important'. However, that's not the only thing that's odd.

This girl is wearing something that is completely different than her past outfits as a detective and a somewhat average high schooler.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen: the girl before you is wearing a bunny girl outfit. Sure, she might not have been allowed to wear this anymore on school grounds while she was alive, but now that she was dead, those rules were also dead to her.

Either way, Haruhi Suzumiya will wander around everywhere and anywhere, passing out the flyers to any person who doesn't seem to be an NPC, giving this announcement along with it: ]

Alright! Later today, there will be a very important meeting that may concern you, your lives, and possibly even your deaths! It's really important that you come if you want to know all the latest information regarding... well, everything!

[ Basically if your character reads the flyer, it pretty much says this (insert link of a pretty flyer here). ]

✖ in an empty classroom, during school hours;

[ After passing enough flyers, she'll head into an empty classroom. In fact, this classroom is one the music classrooms. Haruhi will stop here, pick up a guitar and play a little song... ]

If we could understand each other better
Right now, she'd be getting along with me

The way back home is always a paradise
Did we talk about everything while licking ice cream? ♫

[ However, she won't exactly notice anyone coming in the classroom as she sings, so feel free to bother her any time during or after the song. ]

✖ in an empty classroom, afterschool;

[ Haruhi will be waiting for people to arrive, and when they do, she'll put on her nerd glasses on (not that she needs them, she just feels like it) and grin at everyone. ]

Welcome, everyone! As you might already know, I'm Suzumiya Haruhi: former brigade chief, ultra detective, and expert on everything supernatural!!

[ Of course, she's speaking in the most energetic voice before she starts drawing some diagrams on the whiteboard.

The first diagram is here and the second is here, linked for your convenience. ]

Anyway, I have called all of you guys here in order to explain several things to you. I've spoken to a bunch of people who have different interpretations of what 'Earth' is like, and I've come up with two possible solutions!

[ She then slams her hand down on the first diagram on the left side. ]

The first is that everyone is from different worlds! Parallel worlds, if you catch my drift! But then that raises the obvious question: why are we all in the same afterlife? That's simple. You see the diagram?

The words intersect with one afterlife, meaning that everyone and everything that dies ends up here, no matter what world they come from.

[ And then she points at the second one, just as energetically. ]

The second is that everyone is from a different point in time! Of course, I thought this was crazy, but there's a possibility that after you die, you don't 'wake up' right away and that whoever rules this place gets to choose when and where you wake up in the afterlife.

Though it might just be an altered timeline thing, as you can see in the diagram.

Genius, right?

[ Soon enough, however, she stops sounding energetic and instead sounds a little more serious. In fact, even her expression looks more serious than before. ]

Anyway, if you have any questions about that, go ahead and throw them at me. Also, I'd like to hear what each and any of your Earths are about so we can come up with a more logical conclusion.

[ And you think she was done? Think again. She already got all the 'important' stuff out of the way, so now it's time for the other things. ]

If you don't already know — or if you haven't heard of it already, in just a few weeks, it will be Christmas! Christmas! Which means that this place has to be Christmas-upped for the holiday!

I'm sure that Mr. Christ will be proud of us, celebrating his birthday even after we've all died! And maybe he'll even do something real great! So keep the date in mind: December 25th! We'll have a party and maybe even cook a nice hot pot, too! If you have any ideas, I'll keep them in mind.

(OOC: OKAY, finally finished with this long, horrible, and image-filled post! The English translation for the song lyrics are here if you need them!

Basically, the third half of the post is a mingle option, so feel free to threadjack other threads and such.)

Comments

[tsunball]

[ Leon is far from a piece of pureness, sorry, Lilly.. ]

If there's a weird place like this, then they could at least do something weird like that too, right..? [ But it's half-mumbled - mostly because he too realises it's impossible, he's just being like a spoiled kid right now because he still thinks the way he died is really unfair. ]

[gentlelady]

[ If he's dirty she ain't touching him!! ]

I doubt that would be the case. Such miracles never happened, right? [ Have a figurative pat on the shoulder, Leon. She's not moving from her pose, but she can understand his frustration, and in truth- she was feeling the same way, although death gave her a huge advantage instead. ]

Don't you really like it here?

[tsunball]

[ BUT LILLY-CHAAAAAANNN..

And he grumbles something, as if he isn't entirely sure or doesn't want to admit it, or.. well, who understands him, it's Leon, he always has something to grumble about. ]

This place isn't too bad, but I just wanted to live..!

[gentlelady]

[ Poor boy... she gives him a look full of sympathy. ]

I'm sure everyone here feels the same way. At least we didn't exactly stop existing, did we?

[tsunball]

No one knows that we're still here like this, right? Back home, back in life.. everyone will just forget about us! [ It's maybe not exactly his biggest issue. But for someone like Leon, who always craves attention, it's still quite a big deal. ]

[gentlelady]

Are you certain? That would be true if you had nobody you were close to, when you were alive.

[ her sister surely won't forget her, as well as the rest of her family, and Hisao, and Hanako, and her other friends, so she won't worry any bit about being forgotten. ]

[tsunball]

[ He just meant like.. his.. non-existing fans.. the fans he dreams he has yet he doesn't. ]

My parents don't count! [ LEON, DON'T MAKE YOURSELF SOUND LIKE SUCH A LOSER. ]

[gentlelady]

... But there are other people beside your parents, right?

[ DON'T YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS, LEON... ]

[tsunball]

[ SHUT UP, LILLY. ]

O.. of course there are! My classmates and my baseball teammates, but.. who knows, maybe they're already over me! [ His last classmates are sort of the ones who got him killed, after all.. after he killed someone else, but that's a different story entirely. ]

[gentlelady]

[ Bad, Leon, you're really bad, don't make her punish you...

But seriously, she's confused by his behavior, and she can't help but point it out. ]

It seems that you're placing so little faith in these people. Aren't they your friends?

[tsunball]

[ Why do you need to question him on this issue, Lilly, it's a sensitive one.. his thoughts mostly go to his more recent classmates. ]

Some friends they were.. [ Okay, he does realise it's his own fault as well. But that's some tiny and deeply buried part of him that he'd rather not listen to, it's much easier to live without that guilty, so he instead mumbles. ]

[gentlelady]

[ She can't read minds, but from the way he's reacting, he must have had something happen to him. Was he bullied? Oh no, that would be terrible, her motherly insticts would kick in and she's going to smother him protectively!! ]

Have they done something to you?

[tsunball]

[ Smother him, huh.. h.. hehehe.. hehehehe....!! ]

They all turned their backs on me right before I ended here. [ His voice dips, but he forces the earlier confusing feelings down, just focusing on his anger from that moment, at how unfair it was-- just don't think about the rest, Leon. So he quickly returns to something more angry. ] It was so retarded!

[gentlelady]

[ Just act like a woobie and you'll become Hanako the Second, Leon. ]

They did? All of them?

[ Ok, she finds it weird that something like that would happen, though. ] I suppose they did it for no valid reason, didn't they?

[tsunball]

[ He doesn't have scars, though.. .. well, he would've had them after that execution, but they don't show!!

And at that he just.. seems to grumble something before dropping his head on a desk. Don't make him talk about this part, Lilly, it's already awkward enough and he doesn't really want people here - let alone cute girls - judging him for it, so nope, not saying anything about it. ]

[gentlelady]

[ If there's one flaw you can find in Lilly, it's that she's too fussy over people, even if she doesn't know them well. In her opinion, it's just normal to worry about those around you, even when it's not required. She doesn't even know the name of this guy, and yet she wants to know what happened to him, whatever circumstance that brought him here, and if she can do anything to help him easen up with this experience. His current behavior is not making her worry any less, rather the contrary!

But she does know there's a line that shouldn't be crossed too much, and so she backs off. For now. Maybe one day he'll tell her everything... it'd be normal if he doesn't trust her yet! Hanako was the same way after all. People need some time to trust others, right? That's certainly it. ]

Ah, by the way. [ Breaking the awkward silence. ] We haven't introduced ourselves to each other yet, have we? How careless. My name is Lilly Satou.

[tsunball]

[ Don't worry, Lilly, this isn't really about trust.. It's not that he doesn't trust her enough to tell her, but it's more just that it's issues he doesn't want to discuss because he's sure people would judge him over all of it and because there's parts of it that makes him feel bad or a little weird too, and he doesn't want to scratch at those parts to see the feelings that are really beneath it.. ]

.. Leon. [ He lifts his head again, slowly regaining some of his spirit. Come on, Leon, it's a cute girl..!! ] Leon Kuwata. .. Nice to meet you. [ Apparently he can be at least a liiittle more wary of manners. Sometimes. When he wants to score. ]

[gentlelady]

[ Don't look like such a kicked puppy, she's going to adopt you in a flash... ]

It's nice to meet you as well, Kuwata-kun. [ Smiling warmly at him. ] Well then, do you still feel like showing me around the place?

[tsunball]

[ But he's not into incest, Lilly..!! ]

Of course! [ It's almost like he responds to that too quickly, but.. his chance, man, he isn't about to let this get away from him!! ] Anytime at all you want, just say it..!

[gentlelady]

... Ah. [ And then she notices... Haruhi is pretty much done and half the class is gone as well. Whoops. Time flies conveniently in the afterlife. ]

I guess right now would be a good time.

[tsunball]

[ Yes, let's finally do what Leon wanted to do from the start and just escape from here, okay, he would appreciate this very much.. he'd rather hang around a nice girl like Lilly than a scary girl like Haruhi. ]

Then let's hurry before she changes her mind! C'mon, Satou! [ He's already quickly getting out of his seat, heading in the direction of the door. ]

[gentlelady]

[ Hey, so fast! She excuses herself before standing him, and then following him. ]

Wait...!

[tsunball]

Huh? C'mon, it's just about keeping up!

[ Sorry, he's just excited since it's a cute girl.. but he does stop at the door for her, waiting. ]

[gentlelady]

[ Once outside, she quietly closes the door, and sighs. ]

You have no qualms leaving a lady behind, don't you? [ She teases, but that comes with a little pout. ]

[tsunball]

W.. what, no, it's not like that! [ Of course he immediately falls for it, it's Leon. So yup, freaking out is happening here now. ]

I didn't mean to, I was just-- just excited, yeah, that's it!