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POSTED ON Sept 13, 2024 23:55:07 GMT

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[attr="class","yuinatag"]John Sullivan

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If the path that she had started to tread was a sidewalk before, it slowly began to narrow and grow thinner the longer Yuina walked it. Now she was stepping along the finest edge of razor wire, poised with nothing more than the fleeting notions that she could have ever had a life beyond the path she'd been forced to walk...[break]
She was stood at this edge, her own darkness and her own shadows a harrowing culmination of all the mistakes she had made as Yuina Higashi, a grave of her own making. A grave that was so deep and so wide with every lie she told to herself and to those around her, that any hope of seeing the surface again would be a still born dream if she were to fall... And she was being pushed...[break][break]
And she deserved it.[break][break]
Yuina fled from Evergrande at the very first moment she could, unable and unwilling to spend a second more, a grain of sand more, at league HQ than she already had. She was out of time in the worst way, out of time because she had never done anything to help herself turn back the sands of that hourglass. All of the pretending, all of the lies, everything was falling apart and falling away from her as she rushed back to... Where could she go? Where was she supposed to go?[break][break]
The museum, her office, the reminder that she was lost in all of this just as each artifact was lost in time never to be returned... Petalburg was in ruin, shambles marred by the rockets that over took it... Yuina didn't want to see anyone, know that anyone could see her distress, the threads of her fraying and tearing at the edges just like the distortions that bore her to this world. The only person she wanted to see...[break][break]
Against everything, with no where else to go, Yuina fled back to the apartment in mauville, where she had spent so little time... She couldn't bring herself to stay for any more than small portions at a time knowing it was empty, knowing he wasn't there... And as she swung the door open, locked shut behind her as if it could stave off the edges of her world splitting apart in her wake, she felt a fool all over again expecting him to be there...[break][break]
Everything was just as it had been, untouched, unmoved... Everything was so damn still and so damn quiet that Yuina could hear the falling sands of that hour glass, and it was just about spent.[break][break]
Her hands fisted a white knuckle grip into the sides of her hair as she slumped against the door behind her, sinking to the ground. Legs pushed against her chest, head buried in her knees in front of her, Yuina just wanted to shrink away. If she willed it hard enough, could her shadows consume her? If she pined for it, could she disappear from this life as she had her last? The only sound that broke the silence was Yuina's quiet sobs, the final threads of herself snapped.

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 16:05:27 GMT

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ft. Yuina Higashi

He was wandering. Going somewhere.

It felt like both days and years had passed since he had fallen into the haze. Wandering through messy, colorful planes: terribly grounded memories, nonsensical wonderlands of unspoken desire, shadowy, horrifying nightmares— everything in between.

Never intervening, only observing— drawn by the distant colors that broke the monochrome of magenta that was the mist.

Forgetting mere moments after witnessing, getting lost in the meaningless details, getting dragged about by the familiar silhouette of his matron as it darted around within the haze.

Lucidity came sparingly, briefly. He only had but moments to ponder where in the world he was before falling back into the haze. Perhaps, if left alone, he'd forever wander the mists, following the colors until whatever was expected of him was achieved.

However. His detours to appreciate the colors never once changed his final destination— a growing, darkening, familiar shade of hazel.

It was now almost pitch black. And even as out of it as he was... it made him go faster. A brisk walk turned into a jog, then a run, then a sprint.

The haze was growing slight; pink giving way to familiar streets and buildings. Familiar walls and ceilings. A familiar door and welcome mat.

Not quite lucid just yet, John Douglas Sullivan nonetheless leaned forward and peered through the door... His ghostly, pink torso sticking out and over one Yuina Higashi and looking down at her with glassy eyes.

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 20:02:57 GMT

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Nothing was left of the veil she presented to the world, it wasn't even torn or in tatters. It had been completely and wholistically undone, each and every stitch unwoven, each and every thread laid out to bear. Nothing she could ever do, nothing she could ever say, would be able to shroud her again, Yuina Higashi was exposed for all to see, the shadow pretending to be what never could have been.[break][break]
Her shoulders shook in sobs that too were released by the veil gone, but the weight didn't leave her. She no longer had the secret to keep, no longer had the worst of herself to carry and hide away from those around her, but there was no relief in it being forced from her hand. Instead her truth, her lies, would be brought for all to see, and it was all so far out of her control that she had to wonder if this was all part of her very special path curated special just for her...[break][break]
Was she supposed to lose everything and be cast away from those who might have supported her so that she could be a good little puppet to the Drk Triad?[break][break]
Yuina's distress mounted at the thought of loosing everything, at what she had already lost, where he had been gone for so long now that she wasn't sure she'd ever see him again, or would have the chance to... Her hands trembled as she held them out in front of her, she could see the threads of space time pricking at her fingertips, she could feel the discourse of how fragile everything around her was... Her anger, her rage, her fear, her hatred, all seethed to a coursing fury as her hands shook, daring to reach out and tear into the very fabric of space and time around her just to know that she had some control, any control, over anything at all...[break][break]
But through her bleary eyes stained by burning tears, she blinked when she could swear she saw... a soft pink glow emanating around her...?[break][break]
Everything froze around Yuina, and perhaps even time itself at her will as the threads at her fingertips held still. She wasn't breathing, she didn't dare move as she tried to focus, she knew the color anywhere... If it were lele, Yuina felt a particular spike of white hot rage at the idea of seeing the entity again without him, where she had taken and kept him away from her all this time. But where she slowly pushed herself from the door behind her, sat on the ground and turning, Yuina paled entirely. She wanted to scream, but she felt so cold in devastation that her voice was lost amidst the surge of tears that pricked at the corners of her eyes.[break][break]
It was like a vision of him, empty eyes looking at her without any of the care and compassion she knew... He wasn't there, he couldn't be, no matter how much she willed it and how desperate she was to see him, some force was mocking her for it. Either a visage of her own desperation or... a ghost because.... the worst had happened and she truly had lost everything...

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POSTED ON Oct 4, 2024 15:06:24 GMT

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ft. Yuina Higashi

Stared at her blankly, his expression unmoving as her own broke down into tears.

For he did not see Yuina Higashi— he saw maelstrom of hazel, one which continued to grow darker still, the room around them enveloped in a suffocating blanket of inky black.

But the familiar warm at the eye of the storm drew him in all the same.

He stepped past the threshold of the door, fully inside the now cooled warmth of a familiar setting. Even in the maelstrom, something about the location put him at ease— both familiar and foreign to him as he found himself then.

For but a moment, he took it in.

To Yuina, the ghost stepped past the door and into the home, wandering briefly past her before standing at the middle of the room and craning back his head, eyes fluttering shut.

This place was important— but the source of the maelstrom was even more so.

He turned back, facing the source, and marched towards her, his hand reaching out to her—

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POSTED ON Oct 6, 2024 16:56:09 GMT

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There was only silence. No breaths, no sounds from the outside, not even the falling sands of that hourglass... Nothing. There was only silence, and a suffocating cold that flooded into Yuina's every fiber as she looked on. She blinked only once, tears pushed from her eyes, expecting this... This vision, manifestation, whatever it might be of him to disappear... But it didn't.[break][break]
Instead the figure moved, silently, empty eyes glancing at her before stepping through the door and into the space. There was a moment that Yuina felt fury, like it was an invader to their home, a space that should be safe and familiar and theirs... An intrusion that needed to get out, but it was so much like him, the way it walked, hair drifting down his back as it craned its head back, eyes closing...[break][break]
Her bleary eyes and bleeding heart were so fixated on the still figure that when it moved again to turn towards her she flinched, but she didn't back away as the vision moved across the room again to come towards her. Yuina stood slowly from the floor, eyes tracing the shape of the figure in front of her, studying it, as if it could be her last chance to see him at all.[break]
Her eyes fell on the hand that reached out to her, and against everything that told her she was foolish to believe that this vision, this ghost, was anything other than just that, she reached out a trembling hand to touch the vision, perhaps for the last time.

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POSTED ON Nov 13, 2024 3:49:22 GMT

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ft. Yuina Higashi

The room rippled, furniture getting pushed back, cases rattling and books falling off their stands as their palms 'touched'.

His eyes widened as he snapped back to consciousness, a loud, obnoxious gasp leaving his throat as he swallowed in greedy gulps of oxygen. The gasping was followed by coughing, his chest ringing loudly as he coughed into his fist.

It felt as if he had only just remembered to breathe after several days of holding his breath.

"C-o— Augh! Shit." He groaned, banging his fist against his chest, blinking blearily.

The phantasmal, magenta, see-through quality he held before slowly disappeared as he desaturated into regular, warm skin tones, glassy eyes turning back to a deep, inky black.

Weeks of 'wandering' disappeared from his mind like a distant dream as he looked around his apartment briefly, before his gaze fell unto Yuina.

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POSTED ON Nov 13, 2024 18:58:35 GMT

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The moment she made contact with the apparition, an erratic energy took over the room and Yuina was sure it had to be Lele. She stumbled back as the furniture slid across the floor and books fell to the floor, stood up against the door behind her. Whatever it was, whatever Lele was doing, she just wanted it to stop, why was the entity mocking her still for keeping Doug away?[break][break]
But then as if he were truly standing in front of her, the visage began to cough and wheeze, breathing and then a curse, and the sound of the voice startled Yuina as the silence broke. The pink began to fade, color drawing back to the hair, the face, and his eyes...[break][break]
...[break][break]
Without even being able to consider anything else, Yuina rushed forward. It could have all been a vision, she could have rushed right through him like an illusion, like he'd never been there, but the second she actually made contact with a figure in front of her, she was nearly inconsolable.[break]
Her arms wrapped around his torso like a vice, terrified of the idea of him disappearing right from her grasp and he very well still could... But she needed this one moment, this one second, more than anything.[break][break]
"Please--," a broken whisper against his collar bone, hands trembling clutched to the back of his shoulders.[break][break]
"Don't go again..."[break][break]
The idea that this was just another manifestation of her desperation was haunting...

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POSTED ON Nov 21, 2024 2:46:29 GMT

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ft. Yuina Higashi

"Oof." He releases a wheeze as she barrels into his chest, knocking whatever coughing was left right out of him with a vice-like squeeze.

"Oh..." He utters as she hugs him suddenly, his arms reflexively winding around her back in turn, squeezing her. "Okay."

He set his chin atop her head, breathing in her scent with a deep whiff as his eyes fluttered shut.

It was overwhelming— the sudden onrush of sensory data. It felt like his sense of smell, of touch, of hearing, of sight— everything felt sharper. Or... different?

Something was... off. Yuina had always been easily depressed, but now, she truly felt both... miserable, yet not? There was a strong contrast that he could feel from her...

"I promise. Where did I go?" He wondered airily.

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