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April shenanigans

WHO: Caramia, Kyrie, Minato, Akechi and more TBD
WHERE: Chroma and the forest
WHEN: April
WHAT: Quest things, mostly! More tbd
WARNINGS: Crying lions and also Minato is getting shot so like read @ ur own risk

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[ Bang.

It wasn’t as if Caramia had even expected to use his gun today. He was perfectly content with wandering the woods, trying to figure out what was causing the trees to enclose like this, and maybe some other answers would pop up along the way. This, however, wasn’t as safe as one might presume. Being around here made Caramia feel dizzy and sick. And in turn, he was not nearly on top of his game as he knew he should have been.

Which is why he couldn’t let any sneaky monsters, Kalidahs or otherwise, try and get the upper hand! Or, that’s what he thought, anyway. But this wasn’t a Kalidah, or an orc, or a wolf lost from its pack, or a stray ghoul from the depths of the forest. He didn’t even get lucky and hit one of the many harmless mutated animals around here that made for a good meal.

The funny part was… he didn’t even need to see what he had hit at first. There was something wildly off when the colorless, scentless blood instead favored an unmistakable coppery scent that Caramia knew a little too well. His stomach clenched tightly, and the world slowed as his dizzy mind tried to make sense of things and finally see what he had hit, and… ]

Minato…?

[ Wait. No. No, no, no, no. That couldn’t be right. He didn’t really— this had to be some illusion from the forest, right? This was just to mess with him… right?

…

Caramia managed to holster his pistol before sprinting towards Minato. Even if this was a trick, he couldn’t just... leave him there. ]

[It'd been silly, really--Minato should have called out to Caramia long before this--but he's always been quiet. He follows Caramia into the woods because he sees him disappearing into them, and he knows quite well that it's dangerous to go alone--

But it takes him time to catch up. The woods are twisty and windy, can't be trusted at all, and send him in so many different directions, and when he finally hears someone else, it's...

Well, it's too late.

The shot takes him off-guard, and for a long moment, he can't even process what happened. He staggers back, the force of the bullet sending him stumbling backwards--and then the pain sinks in, Minato's breath hitching as he crumples to one knee, his hand coming up to a shoulder that's on fire.

W...what...? What just happened...?]

It wasn’t as if this quest was what spurred something like this on. If anything, he wanted to avoid the quests as much as possible this month, but this did give him an excuse to act on something that he had been thinking about for... a while.

Approaching Kyrie without his courage pendant around his neck, but instead tightly clasped in his hand might have already raised some red flags for his consigliere, but he seemed pretty intent on having this conversation with him whether he wanted to or not.

“Kyrie,” he said, making sure to stand in way of any potential exits so Kyrie couldn’t just walk away and call him an idiot. “I have something… that I think you should have.”

[ He knew he couldn’t stay with Minato the whole time. He needed to recover, after all, and why would he want to see the man who shot him standing there? Which probably didn’t explain the reason why Caramia was standing pathetically on Akechi’s doorstep and knocking just barely loud enough to truly be audible, until you also considered that he shared a home with the girl who was absolutely head over heels with the boy who had a first hand experience with how Caramia handles his gun.

All in all? Not fun times for anyone, really.

He could only hope Lupin wasn’t the one who answered. He already felt like he was about to breakdown, he didn’t need to do it in front of the town’s resident classy thief. ]

Edited 2019-04-06 01:04 (UTC)

[ Fortunately for Caramia, Lupin isn't the one to answer.

Unfortunately, Akechi is a perceptive young man-- has become even more so, in the year he's been in Chroma, through the unlikely bonds he's forged-- and his easy smile upon seeing Caramia is swiftly replaced with a frown. ]

... is something the matter, Caramia-san?

[ No unnecessary pleasantries, not even a single "hello" to preface this conversation with. That alone is a telling sign of how worried he really is. ]

[ Caramia figured he could maintain at least some composure. Maybe not enough to have the guilt and worry plastered onto his face, but certainly enough so that he could talk to Akechi like a normal person. …Right? Well. No. Not really. That much was evident by the way Caramia staggered forward after only a brief pause of wondering how he was supposed to tell Akechi what truly was the matter, pulling Akechi into a clingy hug a more anxious part of him scolded him internally for.

You’ll just hurt him, too, he thought… but, for now, he could ignore them.

Still, he didn’t have time to properly collect himself, between beating himself up and the stress and panic of anything, he wasn’t sure what to say or where to start or... ]

I… shot Minato.

[ Thanks, Caramia. ]

[ The hug itself isn't so much unexpected; having known Caramia for so long now, he's come to more easily accept, and even genuinely appreciate them. They make him feel welcome and wanted.

This, however, isn't one of those times. This isn't a friendly gesture, or even a show of sympathy; it's a different feeling, one that Akechi is fairly acquainted with. ]

You... shot Arisato-kun?

[ That's despair. ]

Hold on a moment-- Where is he right now? Does he need medical care?

[ Someone has to keep their cool in trying times, right? So even though he doesn't pull away from Caramia, Akechi defaults to the rational path-- and as a result, perhaps he doesn't offer much else in the way of comfort, except for a warm body to be latched onto. ]

[ It was for the best he stayed calm, because Caramia seemed more like a really intense Jenga tower ready to fall at the nearest gentle breeze. Which was precisely why a warm body was all he needed. Any sort of support would suffice, really, but it was nice knowing someone was there. Even if he felt he didn’t deserve it. ]

No, I… I brought him to Maya, I- I didn’t… I couldn’t… [ He tried his best to recollect his thoughts, but where was he even supposed to start? ] I shot him. I hurt him— it’s all my fault, I…

[ His voice caught in his throat, trying to rationalize everything. Things from ‘calm down, you’re making a scene’ to ‘it was an accident, you’re being dramatic’ to ‘how dare you seek pity over something like this’ all crowded themselves in his head too much to make any semblance of coherency. ]

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