thebastion | [Day 308-309, closed and open] They say ignorance is bliss.

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[Day 308-309, closed and open] They say ignorance is bliss.

Who: Ibuki Mioda, Ippo, Colin, and others???
Open: Open and closed like a door that has no idea if it's a jar or not.
When: The night of day 308, and day 309
Where: Everywhere
What: Ibuki remembers things
Format: Action but ok with changing
Warnings: Dangan Ronpa spoilers, bad feels and probably lots of mood whiplash because Ibuki. Also, ice cream cake.

[Locked to Ippo, night of 308]
[At their house, Ibuki can be found sitting on the couch and clutching a pillow to herself; clad in her pajamas. Her piercings were already taken out for the day, though she hadn't let her hair down just yet.]

[She felt sick after everything she remembered... and she was worried. It'd be well within Ippo's right to turn his back on her if she told him. But ... still, he had to know, right? It wasn't right to keep that from him. She took in a shuddering breath, waiting for her boyfriend to return.]

[Open to all, day 309]
[The next day, Ibuki can be found doing her usual duties around the bastion. Cooking, taking care of the cows, and ... napping?]

[She took naps now and then, sure, but usually never where people can generally stumble across her. For that matter, her naps don't seem to last long as she suddenly awakes with a jerk and a miserable expression.]

[Also notable is the fact that she hasn't bothered to do up her hair or put in her piercings...]

[At some point during the day, she can be found going to the smithy to hand back the revolver she'd gotten there some time ago. Maya was long gone... and then Raile disappeared recently, too. And besides that, she wasn't sure she could trust herself with a weapon anymore... not with those memories floating around in her mind.]

[Locked to Colin, day 309]
[Eventually, she'll be wandering into Colin's workshop...]

[Ibuki's not looking any better than earlier that day]

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Kyaaa~

Ibuki's being swept away!

[... well, at least she seems to be cheering up a bit]

Not quite swept away. Just taken by papa to take a nap is all.

[Colin grins down at her, and he lays her down on the couch. There's a blanket bunched up on the top of it that he pulls down and covers her up with.]

Now, Ibuki... watch and learn. My father taught me this when I was young.

[He steps back, giving a little kick of his feet as he stretches his legs a little. No sense stumbling when he's trying to take care of her, after all.]

[She clutches the blanket to herself as she watches curiously]

Okay, Ibuki's ready. Show her your moves, otousama!

[Colin's grin grows a little wider, and he needs no further encouragement. He moves into a one-man waltz, his tempo slow at first as he dances to an unheard beat. His steps are staggered and halting at first, and he dances as though he might be possessed by a disjointed spirit.]

[It doesn't last. With time, his steps grow smoother, finding a steadier beat. As he moves, Ibuki's mind will find it harder to focus on that which troubles her.]

[As the minutes pass, he finally seems to be moving like water, the motions smooth and happy, the tune he's dancing to visually regal and upbeat. The energy surrounding him seems to have found pleasure with his movements, and the very atmosphere of the Bastion seems lighter, less troubled.]

[The Love Sonata is a powerful dance, capable of influencing the minds of all those around the dancer. It cannot compel activity, but it is more than capable of guiding thoughts away from the darker aspects of the soul. Ibuki should sleep easier today, at the very least.]

Edited 2015-05-12 06:51 (UTC)

W-wow...

... that's... wow...

[She knew there was magic in this place, yes, but to feel it directly affect her like that, and for it to just melt away everything that had been bothering her]

Thank you... thank you so much, otousama...

[There were tears, but this time they came from the immense relief she felt.]

[Colin keeps right on grinning happily, never once losing his step as he dances before her.]

You should see my dad do it. He makes me look like a stumbling student...

The longer I do this, the better your sleep will be. So close your eyes, Ibuki, and rest. I can keep this up for a while yet.

Yeah...

[And the moment she closes her eyes, she falls fast asleep.]

[... also, Colin may notice a glint from Ibuki's left hand, on her ring finger: A gold ring with a citrine set into it]

Edited 2015-05-12 09:16 (UTC)

[Oh, he's noticed. He's an observant sort, even if his mun isn't. But it was hardly the most important item of the day.]

[He keeps the dance up for a good ten minutes before he gets tired and needs to stop. He sets a monitor on Ibuki in his eye to keep track of her sleep, and he goes to get some water. Then, he returns to work. Fuses and other projects that don't make a lot of noise seem to be the order of the day, he doesn't want her rest disturbed.]

Sleep well, Ibuki.

[Eventually, some hours later, Ibuki will awake feeling rather refreshed. She'll bounce over to where Colin is working and peer over his shoulder]

Otousamaaaaaaa!! That was amaaaaaaazing! Ibuki hasn't slept that well in...

... about a day! Or something.

Whatcha making??

[Colin smiles as he's alerted to her approach, but he doesn't lift his head just yet.]

Working on the network necessities for a surveillance system now. There've been a couple of jerks getting away with things for far too long. Next time that saboteur shows up, I'm going to catch her. Or him. Could be either...

I'm glad that you slept well. I'll do what I can to help you with that when you need it. But...

[Okay, now he turns his head to look at her.]

It's still something you're going to have to face and learn to live with. I can't just whisk it all away every time it comes up.

Terrible... is there anything Ibuki can do to help catch the guy? Or girl? Or people? Or whoever it is sabotaging??

...

And, ummm... Ibuki doesn't suppose you have any sage advice on how to deal with the nightmares without magical dancing, then, otousama?

Nothing I can think of at the moment.

[Colin shakes his head.]

I need to get the parts for this from the monument, and what I'm designing is going to be smaller than most people here will be used to. I'll be happy to show you what I'm doing, of course, but the tech is going to be beyond what you're used to.

... Of course, vigilance will be very useful. If you see anything out of place and suspicious, let me know.

[He smiles a little sadly as he moves onto her next question.]

Talk about it with people you trust. Don't run from it. Face it with the support you've got. I'm more than happy to listen and lend a hand where I can. But I suspect Paarthurnax will be better suited to actually helping you move past it... Possibly someone else, I don't know everyone's relationships with you. I imagine that Ippo will be able to help some.

Okay, Ibuki will keep an eye out! And an ear out! For suspicious stuff, that is.

[She nods a bit at Colin's advice. Well, she'd already gotten a good amount of support. Ibuki would just keep going to them then whenever she needed them, then.]

... Soooo... you wanted to know about the simulation Ibuki was in before she showed up here, right? Ibuki's not sure how much she can help describe it but...

Edited 2015-05-14 20:49 (UTC)

If you're comfortable talking about it, I'm definitely open to hearing about it. It sounds complex.

[At least complex enough to be worth his attention...]

Yeah, yeah, it's no problem but um... you know, I was hardly tech savvy back then so I don't be able to really, you know, describe stuff that well.

Anyway um, they hooked Ibuki and her friends to this machine that basically downloaded them into the thing. It was supposed to overwrite Ibuki's memories of despair when it was finished.

Consciousness projection into a virtual environment.

[Colin nods.]

I'm familiar with it. Was it expansive?

It was probably expensive!

[badum tsh]

But um, the simulation itself was just with Jabberwock Island... well, Ibuki guesses islands? Since there was more than one but they were all connected by bridges.

... but because of the virus, Ibuki only got to see four of the islands. Maaan, Ibuki heard that one of the islands had an amusement park on it, but that one was still closed off before the Calamity hit...

[Colin smiles at her joke, but he doesn't engage it for now.]

Limited area, then. Not surprising. You all thought it was real, I assume?

Peko-chan tried to swim out but she couldn't find any other land as far as she could manage. So yeah, that's probably all there was to it.

[... she paused at that... remembering that that had been Peko's alibi for... well, there was no point dwelling on that]

But yeah... Ibuki's memories were wiped right after getting put into the thing, so she thought it was real. ... well, actually, there was some whacky stuff that happened but ... we never really thought too much on it. We were kinda more worried about what the virus did...

Edited 2015-05-14 21:39 (UTC)

Again, not surprising. Constructing a virtual world is hard enough without having to account for the whole world and all the laws of physics...

Can you define "Wacky stuff"? Or would you prefer to tell me about the virus?

[He'll let her decide where to take this. She'll be more likely to tell him more if she takes her own route.]

Ibuki will talk about whichever part you want to know, she doesn't really mind! We'll start with wacky stuff since you said that first!

First of all, our teacher in the simulation was this funny stuffed bunny animal thing. Monomi-chan-... wait no, her name was Usami-chan before Monokuma-chan showed up and changed her.

Um, anyway, when we first showed up, we went to this classroom, right? And then the walls just dropped away and whoa! We're on Jabberwock Island just like that! Ibuki heard from a couple of her friends that Usami-chan turned a chicken into a cow, too!

Edited 2015-05-15 07:42 (UTC)

Hmmm... That sounds a lot more like a typical programmed interface screw than an actual glitch in the system or a virus. But nothing's impossible.

A stuffed rabbit for a teacher, that's definitely an interesting avatar choice.

[He watches her, his gaze steady. He wants to pay attention to her face and her shoulders, just for hints of that tell-tale tension indicating he should steer a conversation elsewhere.]

So what was this virus?

The wacky stuff Ibuki said was before the virus affected the system... well, except what Monokuma-chan did to Usami-chan

[Ibuki's an open book. If she was too uncomfortable talking about this, she would've told Colin right away. A lot of the virus business she dealt with post-mindwipe, so it's easier for her to talk about something she's already coped with]

The virus was ... well, it was an AI of Junko-chan, more or less, and... she basically took over the simulation, though she took on the form of Monokuma-chan. Anyway, she messed around with the thing so that it turned into one of those killing games that Ibuki told you about earlier. I'm... not quite sure how it was supposed to work... but eventually she was going to upload herself into our bodies.

I think whoever died in the simulation would have their minds... completely wiped.

Edited 2015-05-18 20:18 (UTC)

Hmmmm... Perhaps. Perhaps not. With... No, no, too much speculation, not worth pursuing when no answers will be forthcoming.

[It's a disturbing thought, but Colin doesn't think it sounds accurate enough. Too many variables, and not cruel enough of an end-game. He could come up with about a half dozen more despair-inducing things off the top of his head. Still, no sense making Ibuki consider those.]

I almost wish I could have met her. She sounds like she was skilled with computers. Probably would have had to have killed her though, when you can't play well with others, there's really no room for you in society. And if she's got no problem with setting up a killing game, then she's already proven that she's lacking the base behaviors responsible for societies to function.

[Colin likes dueling other hackers. Most of the time it's friendly. And when it's not... well, that's why he's got Merton.]

[Colin hadn't exactly asked what the end goal was of doing this as far as inflicting despair goes.]

A-ahaha... in the end she's just a teenager like Ibuki so um... if you wanted to beat her up you probably could capture her pretty easy, if she doesn't have all her other stuff to back her up.

It was Izuru-chan that put together the virus. He probably made the AI, too? That guy was ... like, pretty much the Super High School Level Everything. One of the reserve course students that volunteered for some messed up project at Hope's Peak Academy to get all smarter and everything.

... Junko-chan, and the rest of us... we all had our reasons for falling into despair. I'm... not defending what she did, because that... that was terrible but... we all had totally messed up pasts. Junko-chan probably had the worst of all of us.

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How did I lose track of this? GAH.

so cruel

Malice, or memory problems? YOU DECIDE!

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