[He watches her for a second, and then he smirks.]
Keh... better get used to it, the world is a pretty fucked up place where you'll be let down left and right. But you know, no matter what happens he'll still always be your brother y'know.
Stop dreading over it and start doing something about it, if you want him back so badly- .... don't let it show the gods that it bothers you. Hold your head head up and tell 'em to go screw themselves.
You don't have to tell me anything about disappointment.
[ Because that's all her life has been so far, right? Disappointment after disappointment - with barely anything to still go on for in the end. ]
Besides, it's not like I'm out to please these so-called gods. If I'm just going to lie around and do nothing in this place, I won't be interesting to them at all, so it's fine. It's not like I have anything else left to do here.
[Senji grunts at that, and then he gets up and walks over to her, snatching that coffee out of her hands.]
I don't give coffee, or even talk to little shits that insist on sitting on their ass and complain. If you want somethin' done then fucking do something. You're not the type to just give in red, right? I thought I felt that from ya, that when you're faced with something you won't just lie down and take it.
Keep moving forward or just roll over and die, those are the only options here. If you're willing to move then I guess we can still talk. [really, he's just trying to get her to not lie around all day and sulk. He doesn't want that for her.]
[ She glances up at him, but rather than the emptiness from before there's more somewhat of a frown on her face now. Sure, in a way this is still all her pessimism, but there's some more actual frustration behind it rather than just giving up - the feelings she's been holding in all this time. ]
Am I supposed to fight "gods" that are only just hiding from us all the time? Am I supposed to watch them take everyone important to me away from me after giving me another chance to see them? Am I supposed to fight so everyone can get away from here, back to their own worlds, and I just return to being nothing more than minced meat, is any of that it?
[he stares down at her, his gaze turning cold when she starts to talk to him like that. If she keeps this up he's sure that she'll regret it one day. He thought he knew everything too, those seven years ago, but due to his hardheadedness it was his fault his best friends all died.
He places the coffee down on the desk.]
Nah... you don't sulk when something bad happens to you, just lying there and becoming depressed over it is something they'd want. Giving in to them would make them win, and I know you're too stubborn to just let someone else be the victor.
No matter what happens though, you got other people here that care for ya. Like that Shu kid. [and he's not involved in that nope.] That kind of attitude you have, it won't only get you killed but someone else might get hurt from it.
[ Yeah, he's right on that much-- she's never one to give in easily, or let someone else control her. It's more just that the loss of Battler is still so fresh it makes her more emotional at the moment.
She's quiet after he finishes talking though, and she does make eye contact for a while, just frowning back at his cold look, but then she finally averts her gaze before she speaks on. ]
So what? Then I'm just supposed to live on like this? Even if they take everything from me, I have to just put on my usual attitude and pretend I don't even care to start with. What kind of life is that? [ Isn't that what she had told those witches as well? If it wasn't for the people she had here, she might as well return to being dead back home. ] Who would want to live like that to begin with?
[He scratches the back of his head.... what the hell else was he supposed to say? That's the kind of life he lives, pretending he doesn't care- and then becoming some sadistic person in prison for a while, only looking forward to fights and killing people.
At least he's not as bad as he was.]
Here's how it's gonna go.... have a little trust, red. Maybe you should rely on lady luck for a bit-
[he reaches into his jacket and takes out a coin, showing it to her.] Tails says your brother is coming back, and he'll still care for you all the same.
[ ... What is this about? Does he really think some sort of coin toss can predict the future? That's all just based on chance, right?
But.. maybe her heart wants to be reassured just a little, even if it's through a lame way like this, so when he flips it and she notices it flying towards her, she does actually make the effort to catch it. Part of her almost feels nervous to see what it is - why would she? it doesn't affect anything, right? and yet.. - but she does slowly peek. ]
[Senji leans over and looks down at her hand when she opens it up, he's smiling. It's a trick coin after all, both sides are tails. He's just doing this to make her feel better, really.]
See Ange? It's tails. No matter how much you wanna just accept things, sometimes you just need to believe in a little luck to make things work out.
[he grabs the coin back from her, before she can realize it's just a trick after all.]
You said you're a witch right? Believing in magic is all the same isn't it? If you start doubting I bet it doesn't work out as well.
What, you're telling me to believe in a coin toss of all things?
[ Still, she can't help but smile juuust a little - maybe at how ridiculous this is, since it's just.. so corny. Yet it does seem like it suits him, really, doing something like this.. ]
... Fine. I'll give it a chance. ... It's not like I have anything to lose after all, right?
Oh, I get a reward when I'm being a good kid? [ GOD, SENJI.. she means it mostly as a joke though, considering there's almost something amused in her tone despite it being deadpan, and she sips from the drink. ]
Besides, even if onii-chan wouldn't come back, you can make up for it by taking Shu and me out to the amusement park again sometime.
[ for that one's more difficult to tell whether it's a joke or not. ]
[ ... 8| That last part sounds ike he has something in mind.. Senji.. what.. ]
Oh? So, what do you think the three of us should go do then? [ don't say anything ridiculous, don't say anything ridiculous, don't say anything ridiculous.. ]
Yeah, I was pretty surprised by that too.. I figured he was the kind of guy to practically pee his pants over something like that, but I guess I was wrong.
... Still, a rock concert is totally different from a haunted house.
[ Yeah, rock concerts sound like they'd be his kind of thing.. Ange is just apathic to all the things that are supposed to be fun, okay. 8| She glances curiously at him though when she hears that question. Sure, she normally doesn't really talk about her world, but that's more since she feels there's no reason to bring it up.. not like she has some sort of sob story she wants to spread to everyone. But if he's asking, she might as well - Ange never really bothers to keep it secret, and even so Senji is someone she trusts, right? A friend, as weird as that thought is still. ]
My world? [ There's a pause though since.. how does she explain this easily.. ] I guess the whole 'witch' thing started when I was only six. That was when everything started. When I was six years old, my entire family died in an 'incident'. I was the only one who survived since I was sick and couldn't go with them that day, the only other one who survived was one of my aunts, who somehow got away from the incident and returned home alive, but I didn't get along with her at all. She hated me from the very start.
But more importantly.. stories started to spread, and some people thought it wasn't any normal kind of incident, but that it had all happened because of a witch. That my family was killed by magic. Even at my school people believed it, and they verbally and physically abused me over it, calling me a witch over it as well. But I thought it was just ridiculous, that there was no way magic existed. [ surely he thinks the same, from what he had said there wasn't really something like that in his world.. 8U ]
[he takes another swig of his coffee, nearly finished the thing now. He listens to her story and he stares down at his cup. Really.... it sounds so weird, but at the same time... he believes her. If there's something as abnormal as an earthquake that mutates people and turns them into Deadmen, he'll believe something like magic and witches from another world.
Everything was so fucked up though- she was all alone with an aunt that hated her since she was six? Hah, what a shitty world.... sounds like his wasn't the only one that was unfair.]
Did you kick the asses of those kids at school? Heh!
I tried, a few times around the time when it just began. [ Ange's not a complete pushover, after all. ] But there were so many of them against just me that in the end I realised it was just useless, so I thought they might stop thinking it's fun and cut it out when I just wouldn't react to them. But even that didn't stop them.
... Well, I guess this and that happened, and in the end I thought about just making an end to all it. My aunt hated me, the girls at school always hated me, and even when I graduated all people wanted to do was kill me to gain my family's money, since we were pretty rich. [ There's still something as deadpan as usual about her, but it's a little different, maybe just a tad softer as she thinks about all of it. It's not as casual as usual, at least. ]
So I was going to jump off a skyscraper, but.. before I could jump, I was offered an opportunity. A chance to change the past. A witch came to me and she said my help was needed. I had to go back in the past and help out my older brother, who was fighting a battle against the witch who killed our family. It was a battle of logic of sorts though, a battle in which he tried to prove that it was a human and not the witch who killed our family. My job was to help him win and get our family back. That's when I was proclaimed a witch as well.
... It's all a little weird and complicated, but you get it up to this far at least, right?
[He had put his coffee down on the ground and laid down on her bed, his hands behind his head and he stared up at the ceiling as he listened. He gets it though, it was really rough... and he understands what it's like to be alone, what it's like to go through such hard times you don't know what to do with yourself.
But killing yourself isn't the answer, it never is.]
Yeah, I'm followin' just fine. It's kinda weird though, you're trying to oppose magic when you're a witch yourself.
....Then again, humans have been fighting humans for centuries, it's really no different. Fighting your own kind really isn't that off the mark.
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Keh... better get used to it, the world is a pretty fucked up place where you'll be let down left and right. But you know, no matter what happens he'll still always be your brother y'know.
Stop dreading over it and start doing something about it, if you want him back so badly- .... don't let it show the gods that it bothers you. Hold your head head up and tell 'em to go screw themselves.
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[ Because that's all her life has been so far, right? Disappointment after disappointment - with barely anything to still go on for in the end. ]
Besides, it's not like I'm out to please these so-called gods. If I'm just going to lie around and do nothing in this place, I won't be interesting to them at all, so it's fine. It's not like I have anything else left to do here.
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I don't give coffee, or even talk to little shits that insist on sitting on their ass and complain. If you want somethin' done then fucking do something. You're not the type to just give in red, right? I thought I felt that from ya, that when you're faced with something you won't just lie down and take it.
Keep moving forward or just roll over and die, those are the only options here. If you're willing to move then I guess we can still talk. [really, he's just trying to get her to not lie around all day and sulk. He doesn't want that for her.]
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[ She glances up at him, but rather than the emptiness from before there's more somewhat of a frown on her face now. Sure, in a way this is still all her pessimism, but there's some more actual frustration behind it rather than just giving up - the feelings she's been holding in all this time. ]
Am I supposed to fight "gods" that are only just hiding from us all the time? Am I supposed to watch them take everyone important to me away from me after giving me another chance to see them? Am I supposed to fight so everyone can get away from here, back to their own worlds, and I just return to being nothing more than minced meat, is any of that it?
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He places the coffee down on the desk.]
Nah... you don't sulk when something bad happens to you, just lying there and becoming depressed over it is something they'd want. Giving in to them would make them win, and I know you're too stubborn to just let someone else be the victor.
No matter what happens though, you got other people here that care for ya. Like that Shu kid. [and he's not involved in that nope.] That kind of attitude you have, it won't only get you killed but someone else might get hurt from it.
Only kids think something can't be changed.
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She's quiet after he finishes talking though, and she does make eye contact for a while, just frowning back at his cold look, but then she finally averts her gaze before she speaks on. ]
So what? Then I'm just supposed to live on like this? Even if they take everything from me, I have to just put on my usual attitude and pretend I don't even care to start with. What kind of life is that? [ Isn't that what she had told those witches as well? If it wasn't for the people she had here, she might as well return to being dead back home. ] Who would want to live like that to begin with?
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At least he's not as bad as he was.]
Here's how it's gonna go.... have a little trust, red. Maybe you should rely on lady luck for a bit-
[he reaches into his jacket and takes out a coin, showing it to her.] Tails says your brother is coming back, and he'll still care for you all the same.
[he flips it and-... YA BETTER CATCH IT ANGE.]
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But.. maybe her heart wants to be reassured just a little, even if it's through a lame way like this, so when he flips it and she notices it flying towards her, she does actually make the effort to catch it. Part of her almost feels nervous to see what it is - why would she? it doesn't affect anything, right? and yet.. - but she does slowly peek. ]
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See Ange? It's tails. No matter how much you wanna just accept things, sometimes you just need to believe in a little luck to make things work out.
[he grabs the coin back from her, before she can realize it's just a trick after all.]
You said you're a witch right? Believing in magic is all the same isn't it? If you start doubting I bet it doesn't work out as well.
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[ Still, she can't help but smile juuust a little - maybe at how ridiculous this is, since it's just.. so corny. Yet it does seem like it suits him, really, doing something like this.. ]
... Fine. I'll give it a chance. ... It's not like I have anything to lose after all, right?
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[and he hands her the coffee again.]
You've earned some caffeine now, hehaha!
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Besides, even if onii-chan wouldn't come back, you can make up for it by taking Shu and me out to the amusement park again sometime.
[ for that one's more difficult to tell whether it's a joke or not. ]
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...Hah?! Why Shu too....?
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Don't you think it was somewhat.. fun, I guess, last time around with the three of us?
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We should do somethin' else....
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Oh? So, what do you think the three of us should go do then? [ don't say anything ridiculous, don't say anything ridiculous, don't say anything ridiculous.. ]
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That might be cool.
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[ Joking!! ]
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... Still, a rock concert is totally different from a haunted house.
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[a pause though.... he straightens up on the bed and scratches the back of his head.]
So red.... what's your deal? You don't look like a typical witch or anythin', the hell is your world like?
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My world? [ There's a pause though since.. how does she explain this easily.. ] I guess the whole 'witch' thing started when I was only six. That was when everything started. When I was six years old, my entire family died in an 'incident'. I was the only one who survived since I was sick and couldn't go with them that day, the only other one who survived was one of my aunts, who somehow got away from the incident and returned home alive, but I didn't get along with her at all. She hated me from the very start.
But more importantly.. stories started to spread, and some people thought it wasn't any normal kind of incident, but that it had all happened because of a witch. That my family was killed by magic. Even at my school people believed it, and they verbally and physically abused me over it, calling me a witch over it as well. But I thought it was just ridiculous, that there was no way magic existed. [ surely he thinks the same, from what he had said there wasn't really something like that in his world.. 8U ]
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Everything was so fucked up though- she was all alone with an aunt that hated her since she was six? Hah, what a shitty world.... sounds like his wasn't the only one that was unfair.]
Did you kick the asses of those kids at school? Heh!
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... Well, I guess this and that happened, and in the end I thought about just making an end to all it. My aunt hated me, the girls at school always hated me, and even when I graduated all people wanted to do was kill me to gain my family's money, since we were pretty rich. [ There's still something as deadpan as usual about her, but it's a little different, maybe just a tad softer as she thinks about all of it. It's not as casual as usual, at least. ]
So I was going to jump off a skyscraper, but.. before I could jump, I was offered an opportunity. A chance to change the past. A witch came to me and she said my help was needed. I had to go back in the past and help out my older brother, who was fighting a battle against the witch who killed our family. It was a battle of logic of sorts though, a battle in which he tried to prove that it was a human and not the witch who killed our family. My job was to help him win and get our family back. That's when I was proclaimed a witch as well.
... It's all a little weird and complicated, but you get it up to this far at least, right?
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But killing yourself isn't the answer, it never is.]
Yeah, I'm followin' just fine. It's kinda weird though, you're trying to oppose magic when you're a witch yourself.
....Then again, humans have been fighting humans for centuries, it's really no different. Fighting your own kind really isn't that off the mark.
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