Anniversary Event: Defying Fate

[eternitymods]

Who: Everyone
When: April 8th-11th
Where: Vaikuntha
What: The Heroes of Light relive the three days leading to the Apocalypse, again and again. With this come the chance for them to save the world, but also to explore opportunities otherwise out of reach. Will they find a way to save the world and prevent this terrible fate from coming true?
Warnings/Notes: Depends on the threads.

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[pishirogane]

She didn't mean to sound nonchalant about it herself, but it was just their situation that they were dealing with and she was treating it as thus. Another day, another loop, another incident overall...

Blinking at his yawn, she looked away from her notebook and gave a faint smile. She wasn't doing it intentionally, but he seemed to like it.

"... Oh, you're right." She hadn't even been thinking about her birthday...

[topgun_textiles]

"P-pff..." He couldn't help but grin. Cheeky, he reached back and gave her side a little poke. Beep beep.

"Hell yeah I'm right! It's only a friggin' important day, ya dork! So let's kick the shit outta this loopy timeline; Reruns belong with the Phoenix Rangers."

[pishirogane]

"H-Hey..." She fidgeted slightly, managing to avoid letting out a laugh. Well, she did until his next statement.

"Haha, alright. That's fair... Hm, the time-travel episodes were always interesting. Not that I think all of them would've avoided resulting in a time paradox."

[topgun_textiles]

"Nah, the budget took a nosedive after that first time-travel arc, I don't think they could'a handled a paradox plot. Plus I was too busy gettin' weepy over the big Falcon origin reveal."

Man, how could he forget? What better way to reveal why Falcon wouldn't rejoin the group than with his origin story?

"At any rate... you're up for sleep. Got a couple hours before that whole cult meeting. Got a better pitch this time, too."

[pishirogane]

"No, they wouldn't be capable of that. New writers might be able to pull it off though if they try again."

Oh Kanji. She pat his head again, recalling the episode herself. It had been moving, but he would be emotional over it.

"Oh... I guess it has been ten minutes..." Maybe even longer.

[topgun_textiles]

He nodded thoughtfully. The show was picking up again among the kids today. Maybe he should peek back in for nostalgia's sake sometime. In the meantime, he thought he'd not like this stuff, but... he was always down for touches to the head. It was always okay if it was her.

Kanji turned and brushed back some of her hair with a thumb.

"Yeah. Sorry. But this'll all be right here when ya get up, don't worry." He shifted, and sat upright.

Then, after a moment of thought, he set up his jacket and one of the spare pillows. What followed was a small gesture of invitation. Come here.

"Down for an hour, then back to it. Fair?"

[pishirogane]

Closing her notebook with a sigh, she pocketed it and allowed Kanji to sit up, shifting away to give him space.

"It's fine, Kanji-kun. I understand."

She should attempt to get some rest. And with his jacket and the pillow all set up, she would settle down herself, curling up a little bit.

"One hour. No longer."

[topgun_textiles]

With everyone else scrambling to get their shit together elsewhere - and if he could help it - that hour may be exactly what she needed.

"I gotcha. No longer."

But to help her along, his fingers trailed through her hair. He thought about humming something, but he wasn't really the guy with the voice for it, he supposed.

[pishirogane]

"Mmm... thank you."

Settled in, Naoto closed her eyes... but then opened them again upon feeling his fingers in her hair. Hm... maybe that's why she'd done it to him. It felt so comforting.

[topgun_textiles]

"'Course."

He settled back against the back of the bench, his fingers busy with hair much softer than his own. Of course it was, after all, as hers wasn't chemically treated on a regular basis.

His position helped him mask a small sigh. They had to end the time paradox. Soon.

Kanji just hoped they'd find the means to finally come together as the supposed 'Heroes of Light'. If he was honest, they were all kind of a mess.

But he and his friends were a mess too, weren't they? And they saved Inaba. They'd just have to put some elbow grease into this, too, just the same.

...

For now, he had all the time in the world to contemplate birthday cake.