[network] @ADMIN; Obituary [DAY 344]

[snowblindmods]

We mourn the loss of those who have died in the time between the last announcement and this one:

Vanitas
Hannibal Lecter
Junpei Tenmyouji
Beckett

Comments

@beyonce | audio

[thewarningafter]

...Who is Vanitas?

> audio

[fanboyascended]

The world's most special snowflake.

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[thewarningafter]

Oh, for --!

[This is followed by the furious tapping of a man angrily editing a spreadsheet using a touchscreen.]

[fanboyascended]

[ If Billy didn't feel quite so crap about what happened, he would get a serious laugh out of that. ]

He's going to kill me for telling you now.

[thewarningafter]

Tell him I twisted your arm. Or just tell him he's a prima donna.

[fanboyascended]

I already tell him that all the time.

[thewarningafter]

You're doing god's work, Billy.

@godsend, text

[termineur]

Really?

He goes by @betterhalf on the Network. Or Mickey Mouse.

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[thewarningafter]

Yeah, I just got that.

[The special-est of Disney snowflakes. Screw that kid. Stephen will feel bad in a moment as he remembers that he's mad at a dead kid.]

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[termineur]

He's my friend.

He better come back.

[thewarningafter]

[Aaaand there it is.]

...I'm sorry.

He seems like a better kid than he lets on.

Probably.

-->private, audio

[termineur]

[ As he switches things to private, he can be heard sighing. ]

I know he's obnoxious. But yeah, he is. He shouldn't have gone through everything he has.

-->private, audio

[thewarningafter]

No one should be going through what we're going through. That's not what you mean, though, is it?

-->private, audio

[termineur]

No, it's not. This place is better for him than what he came from.

[ He doesn't want to give away any of Vanitas' secrets, but there is something he's been wanting to get out there. ]

Just- if a 'nice' old man ever shows up that seems to know him? Don't trust anything he says. And help me keep them separated?

[ Not going to even imagine that Vanitas might not come back, right now. ]

>private

[thewarningafter]

...Seriously?

[That's a big claim, Gabriel. Stephen can't imagine much that's worse than this place.]

Yeah -- I can -- I can do that. Give me a heads up if that happens?

>private

[termineur]

[ It is a big claim, which is why instead of a blase answer, Gabriel instead speaks with a quiet seriousness. ]

I'm not kidding.

And yeah, I'll let you know. If we're lucky, he'll never show his face here.

...thanks.

>private

[thewarningafter]

Plenty of us have been here for months without any personal acquaintances showing up. He may just get lucky.

[They're talking like it's a given that Vanitas is coming back. You have to keep your shit together, Stephen reminds himself. And Gabe has to keep his shit together; he doesn't need Stephen reminding him that the odds are already stacked against him seeing his friend again, let alone other concerns ever coming into play.]

@hsiaoke; voice

[heavensreader]

He is not.

[thewarningafter]

I'd like you to ask yourself whether this is really the best time and place.

[heavensreader]

[Kesara takes an angry breath in, then pauses, and lets it out in a sigh.]

He should not have gone away. If he'd stayed I am sure he would not have died. It's his own fault and I - I tried to tell him not to do it.

[thewarningafter]

Aha.

I'm not going to argue that I've seen him make a lot of great life choices.

[heavensreader]

He is a fool, and Alphonse was a fool, and I really do not understand why people keep making such foolish mistakes and dying.

[thewarningafter]

Possibly because they're fools?

[If she's going to make judgment calls he's not going to argue.]

This place is hard on everyone. You get beaten down long enough, you start making mistakes.

[heavensreader]

Yes, and you do not listen to anyone who has better sense, too!

[thewarningafter]

...Right. I think that was implied.

[He has doubts about the better sense of a literal child, sorry...but the dead are dead from mistakes made.]