ardent: (Admits to every little flaw)
Kiyotaka Ishimaru (石丸 清多夏) ([personal profile] ardent) wrote in [community profile] route_10652013-08-21 06:18 pm

Everything we've loved has turned to stone

Who: "Alice White"/Parker ([personal profile] nostabbing); Kiyotaka Ishimaru ([personal profile] ardent); Mondo Oowada ([personal profile] diamondo)
Where: Route 36, en route to Goldenrod City
When: The evening of 8/21
Summary: What with so many new arrivals from Hope's Peak Academy, telling Alice what actually happened in the school is becoming a necessity, not an option. Contains spoilers for Dangan Ronpa.
Rating: Starting it at PG-13 due to swearing and discussion of dead teenagers; will adjust if necessary!
Log:

[They'd discussed it after they'd landed for the night.

The idea of going to pick up Celes was an uncomfortable one all around, but one that Ishimaru deemed completely necessary for his own well-being; he still wasn't sure how he should feel toward her in general, but for now he was doing a decent job of pushing through it. However, he couldn't trust her to not say something in front of Alice; even if it wasn't anything completely damning, she might say enough to make Alice ask questions that neither of them were prepared for. Just the same, he would have been willing to ask Celes to just remain quiet and actually pretend to be a decent person for two days and spend the next 48 hours running on sheer optimism alone if it weren't for Hagakure and Kuwata showing up.

Kuwata was angry beyond belief, something Ishimaru had inadvertantly not helped with (and in all honesty, he's still not sure what he did; he'll likely spend some time thinking on it, because that was...bad and he knows it, he's just not sure how to fix it and Kuwata is being stubborn as hell about answering his phone) but just the same couldn't fully blame him for; Hagakure meant well but tended to run his mouth without thinking about the consequences. The chances of someone saying something around Alice was suddenly much higher, then, if for no better reason than there were so many of them - she could overhear them talking or stumble into a sensitive topic conversationally (as she had with Naegi some time ago, apparently) - and in the end Ishimaru had pulled Oowada over and they'd decided that something needed to be said.

Of course, being the masters of conversational planning and general foresight that they are, they've only hashed out the most basic of guidelines by the time they go find her; there are some things that are Definitely Off-Limits, but the rest...they'll see how it goes. Ishimaru is less keyed-up than he was yesterday; it's hard to tell whether that's because he's genuinely calmed down or he's managed to overstimulate himself to the point of not feeling anything anymore - he seems to have spent the last damn he had to give on that fight with Kuwata and so he's been pretty comfortably numb for the better part of the day, which is a little confusing but not something he's going to question too much.]


Alice-san? We'd like to talk to you about something, if you have a moment - it's important.
diamondo: (✦ 04)

[personal profile] diamondo 2013-08-22 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mondo briefly glances to Ishimaru before moving to sit on the ground. He stares at the fire rather than at Parker, but when he speaks his tone is a lot colder than normal.]

She killed someone.

[That's all he says; no elaboration or anything.]
nostabbing: (WARY ⚡ teach me how to like stuff)

[personal profile] nostabbing 2013-08-22 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[No elaboration needed; that's really all she wanted to know. So the person they're dealing with is someone like that. Okay. Now she knows a little better what to expect.

No wonder Ishimaru is upset, though. Ishimaru loves his classmates and cares about them so much. Of course he wouldn't take killing people lightly.]


Okay.

[She nods, a little more convincingly now.]

Yeah, okay.
diamondo: (✦ 48)

[personal profile] diamondo 2013-08-22 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mondo doesn't look at Ishimaru, but his expression does shift a bit. He's still obviously annoyed, but it looks like he's not really sure what to do with his face. After what Celes did, how can Ishimaru still say something like that? Now isn't the time to dwell on it though, and instead he nods.]

Yeah. She's one of ours and we've gotta look out for each other.

[He does believe that and obviously he'd never hurt Celes, but he doesn't understand how Ishimaru can say something like that and mean it.]
nostabbing: (SIDE ⚡ wonder what eliot is cooking)

[personal profile] nostabbing 2013-08-22 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand.

[...Sort of. She kind of does, but she kind of doesn't — but what she does get is that this is what Ishimaru and Mondo both want, and this is their business, so if that's what they think is best, then that's what she's okay with too.]