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[Heart Game] From the ashes we can build
WHO: Macaque, Red Son, Wukong, Korone, Donnie, Cole, Wash
WHAT: Soul fixin'
WHEN: March 9
WHERE: Red Son's house, Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: will be marked
WHAT: Soul fixin'
WHEN: March 9
WHERE: Red Son's house, Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: will be marked
MK CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL
Excuse MK as he just stared at Korone and her shadow. He'd watched the little demonstration. They got to choose the buttons. Great. Time to go into overthinking big brain mode here.
"What does Macchan mean?" A good and easy distraction? Yes please.
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[ So. Like. No pressure! ]
He has faith in us for a reason. He — [ Slow breath in, slow breath out. ] He knows exactly what he's asking, and what it means for him and for us. [ It's one HELL of a trust fall. ] We all know him in our own ways. He's a part of our hearts, and we're part of his. If we let that guide us …
We can do this. [ Screaming internally the whole time. ]
Talking through our choices couldn't hurt. Wash-nii and I helped a friend in … kind of a similar way, once, sort of, except we were mostly using our words and our feelings rather than memories. Leaning on and helping each other helped us help him.
[ Oh, but that question though. OH. Heck. She reddens, embarrassed. ]
It's, it's a nickname. -chan is an informal honorific. [ Extremely informal, in this case. ]
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"Informal honorific? I don't recognize it. I'm Chinese. I wonder if it's like zūnjià or something? What's it mean?" Language differences. At least Korone knew MK was already jealous. How she described it was up to her.
This boi knew three languages; Chinese, English, and Meme. That's all.
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We probably wanna consider placement, too. I mean, the location — which of these memories are the best fit for holes in the closest room to the surface? He chose these memories specifically, so I don't know if there's necessarily a wrong answer this time … but — still. It's really subjective. Hearts always are.
[ MK COMING IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL ]
Ah, I'm Japanese! So, um, something like -san is polite but not overly so, kinda like mister or miss in English? Sensei means teacher. -chan is …
-chan is cutesy.
Really, really, really cutesy.
I'm being a little shit, open parenthesis positive close parenthesis. [ Affectionate as FUCK in a way she can only be with someone she deeply trusts not to hurt her with or for it. ]
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"Oh. So...super information, cutsey, and positive." That was another spike of jealousy. Not too bad this time. MK felt like he was just bad at nicknames. And it felt wrong to try on ones others already had for each other. He'd figure it out. Just sucked everyone else was ahead of him there. Again.
"Keep up the cutsey trolling," He said and gave a thumbs up.
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We're likely to find more and more memories as we go; things he hasn't consciously chosen. They'd be relevant to that aspect of him, but maybe not to the specific issue we're here to help him fix. Like ... um ... [ She runs a hand through her hair, mussing it up (and briefly knocking her glasses askew in the process.) ] This is just me spit-balling, but ...
[ she grabs her notebook ]
[ grabs a pencil ]
[ STARTS SCRIBBLING ]
Maybe we can think of it kinda like a system of interconnected circuits? Some of the wires have been cut. We're fixing them up to re-establish connectivity, both in the local circuit and across the system as a whole. If there's a cut wire in his guilt circuit, we fix it so he's able to feel that guilt towards you guys and resolve it in a better way - with you. Like that, on and on and on, 'til each section is back online and all his many, many feelings are able flow as they should. [ Which, oh. If she's thinking along the right lines?
Oh, that's going to fucking SUCK. Jesus. It's going to be hard in here, likely for MK and Wukong especially given that it was their connections that got tanked, and it's gonna be hard for him when the feelings hit him like a landslide. ]
High-level rooms are often about ... how you connect with people, and let them in. If you do. The memories he gave us are all about our relationships with him, right? So any of them will do, it just ... might affect what kinda "mode" he's in with each of us when we're out of the heart, and influence where we end up when we take the elevator. Does ... that make sense?
[ ... ]
You should ask Wash-nii about me being a troll sometime. He's got some stories.
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"Uh...I got that I should ask Wash about you being a troll. Yeah..."
Sorry, Korone. You lost him.
"Is it like a connect the dots?" He finally asked.
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Sorry. Um.
[ she draws a little chibi MK. It's adorable.
On the other side of the page, she draws an equally adorable chibi Mac.
Between them, there's a series of li'l dots labelled "emotion". ]
Right now, it's like this. We go through his heart, plugging in memories that correspond with each emotion, until - [ she draws a line connecting each dot ]
[ and then adds li'l sparkles around the chibi mac like he's a lightbulb that got switched on. ]
Ta-daaaa.
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Then I know which one I'm gonna use. I think it's the right option. Thanks, Kornoe! [Fist bump?]
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Always happy to help, especially if it means I get to draw. [ FISTBUMP. ]
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Specifically, his really, really deep feelings.
...
So, um, my guess is that we gotta go to the end of the line. [ She nods to the elevator. ] Down.
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"You got any idea what memory you're gonna put in the elevator button hole yet?"
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As for me, I've got one more memory left to check.
[ She has a feeling she knows what it's going to be. The question is ... what it'll look like from his perspective. Until she knows that, she won't be able to make a decision either way. ]
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