[CLOSED] It's kind of like a trainwreck...

[frequent_flyer]

Who: Hinata (ceilingfan ), Otonashi (timelessheart ), and Rapunzel (luminarie )
What: Playing catch..?
When: The afternoon of Day 141
Where: Gefion Park
Rating: (this could go anywhere, will change as needed)



Hinata was eighteen different types of flustered by the time he arrived at the park, even going so far as to get bats and a bucket of baseballs on his way over. He was drowning in a puddle of sporting goods by the time his companions arrived, trying to laugh off his anxiety.

How on earth had the conversation even turned out this way? He half expected Yuzuru and Rapunzel to show up wearing slinky lingerie, while Hinata stood around awkwardly in his uniform.

Comments

fashionably late, party started at 8 and here i am, 8:01.

[trainwrecking]

Yuzuru, on the other hand, just smiles. Hinata might be surprised, but the redhead just can't be. He had already witnessed Rapunzel's athletics, and honestly the portrait of the physically adept girl didn't seem so strange to him. If Rapunzel was exceptionally small and spoke with a voice that suggested she had no personality, Yuzuru might be concerned.

Instead, he looks over to Hinata, noting the mental distance. As she speaks, he heads over to place a hand on Hideki's shoulder, quite literally trying to anchor him down to Ear--Asgard again.

"Aha, I don't know if—"

He intended to say "if you'd believe it," but then he considers Hinata's way of explaining the situation. Somehow letting him go off about how death is cool and 'Yurippe loves to kick me off roofs!' just seems like a bad executive decision.

"—If I can give you all the details. I-it's not that I need to hide anything, it's just... I didn't have any memories for a while. I couldn't even remember my first name." He cracks a weak smile at this, but the edges are dampened with a faraway sorrow. "Both of us were dead... We existed in a strange sort of... afterlife. Purgatory, maybe?"

His smile turns sheepish. "I... honestly have no memory of what part of Japan I'm from otherwise. I guess it's kind of a long story..."

[frequent_flyer]

The words around him are coming through murky water as far as he's concerned, obviously mentally not there. The hand on his shoulder seems to do a decent job of reeling him back in, as he startles a little and looks around. Seeing that familiar hand on his shoulder, he realizes, offering a small smile of thanks as he turns to Rapunzel, finally a part of the conversation again.

"Oh, not everyone likes catch. I just make Otonashi-kun play it with me, haha!" Aaaand he was back. Kind of like a blue balloon that almost drifted away.

Thankfully, Otonashi handled the talk of being dead. Hinata tended to scare people away when he was the one to take the lead. Regardless, he butt in anyway.

"I played baseball with my highschool when I was alive!" Conveniently, he left out the circumstances of his death. As comfortable as he was with the fact that he was dead, the details leading up to it were... shameful, to say the least. Pretty girls didn't need to know about his battle with drug dependency.

"So are we going to play?"

[glistens]

Dead? The way he'd said it, like some offhand recitation of last week's super special vocabulary word, made her think she was supposed to have known before hand that the nature of their being wasn't merely mysterious, but removed from the world of the living all together.

Huh.

Maybe it was common knowledge. Wouldn't be the first loop she'd stepped out of, too distracted to notice the edge of the circle in the first place.

In place of a direct answer Rapunzel only shakes her head to clear it and starts off at a jog until she's a few yards away, positioned between them with her glove surprisingly on correctly.

"I'm ready!" Despite having no idea what she's doing or what the rules are. She has instructors!