chroma | WEEK SEVEN: ENDGAME

ENDGAME

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough. After the events of yesterday, it was probably a relief to go about your evenings, reveling in the presences of your friends and loved ones, grateful to be alive and well. Everything is quiet until around noon when alarms start going off on your phones. It’s a gentler sound than the noise that once alerted you to the executions to take place on Sundays. You can always ignore it until 1 PM, but then you’ll blink and find yourself back in the Central Node once again.

The color in the node seems a little brighter as the archway where the Tree once stood continues to shimmer. The fog has gently blown back, revealing an opalescent area just past the entrance. It’s warm and it’s inviting, little tears in the air around it showing off different places you may know as home.

You get the feeling that perhaps, finally, the Prism has listened to your wants and desires. Nothing is forcing you out right away, though nothing is making you stay either. The clock from the Tree continues to tick, counting down to twenty-four hours from now.

The Prism isn’t what it used to be, though all of the nodes have reverted to somewhat pleasant locations albeit drab. Take a tour of places you haven’t seen before, or say goodbye to the places you grew fond of in your time here.

Take your time to say goodbye. There's nothing stopping you from going to someone else's world - but you'll find you need to be careful. The Prism is a delicate thing, constantly in need of balance. You'll need to maintain it, if you're going to use it to go from place to place. All it takes is color - something strong, both positive and negative. When you come through to visit other worlds, you have to offer something that you have faced from home, big or small. A good day, the happy vibes from a birthday party, the sad vibes from a funeral, the pain of an injury. Coordinate, and take care of the space you have cultivated. It's your responsibility now to make sure the Prism doesn't try to hurt itself in its confusion.

You could even stay here if you wanted, now that the Prism’s cleaned up again. You'd slowly forget, just like the Residents did, but it'd be a long process. You could live a normal lifespan in peace.

Or don’t. So many of you are ready to return from where you once came. And that was never really the point, right? You have to face the music. It was always about taking your problems head on, and not running away.

Your phones will still work no matter where you go. You may not always be able to be together in person, but you'll always be in each other's contact lists.

As for your Residents, both current and past? It seems that Thinker, Revenge, and Scout have all vanished, their items mysteriously missing and pieces of themselves left to be regained. As for Dreamer... you don't know what happened to him.

For the living Residents, well. Fret, Rindo, Caduceus and Ei have a decision to make, too.

Make good choices, now. Balance is key.

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Well, I remember that last part...

[ With the rest being ???, but details. ]

Is he gonna be okay with that?

He will be.

[ said with the confidence of a girl who did not inform her 30 y/o bf that he’s now a father ]

If you say so...

[ welp, this may as well happen ]

[ It’s happening I’m dragging Becks and Cola into this right now. ]

Damien~! Crow~!

[ hm? ]

What's up?

[ damien also gives them both a lil greeting nod? ]

[ yo, 'sup.

so uh. 9S looks between Marie, then them, then Marie again. you can tell 'em. ]

[ Okay.

She didn’t think this far ahead. ]

Ah, so…

I would like to bring Nines-kun with us… to Disneyland! … And also just stay with us in general…

[ blinks. ]

...

[ looks at damien ]

You're going to need a big apartment.

[ he like. takes a second?

and then looks down at his hands. ]

How many bedrooms is that...

[ one for 9S obviously but one bedroom for three people seems absurd... but four bedrooms is so many... expensive... ]

[ Well, that's... not a no! So, so far so good? ]

It's—fine, I don't need one. I don't sleep as often as the rest of you do.

I think we should be fine with two? Three, if someone needs office space…

But you’ll need your own room, Nines-kun. Even if you don’t sleep as often you’d still like your privacy, right? And a place to put your clothes!

[ they just put nines on a charger every evening in the living room. ]

[ that's the tag he's just watching this back and forth now ]

It'll get too crowded... Should be at least three.

[ he thinks marie will want her own space too - crow can suffer - and damien is just straight up ignoring 9S because he should get his own room? why does 9S get more rights than crow. it's fine. ]

[ he's going to go steal buzen from itsuki and be appreciated for once in his life. ]

[ Wow, don't ignore him, except yea! ]

Well—if you're okay with that, then... [ ... ] Let me know if I need to do anything.

[ Funny Damien thinks she wants the room for herself. ]

I think the most you’ll need to do is dishes, while it’s you and Damien…

[ does 9S even eat... ]

Fingers crossed it won't be too long before we're back and bothering you both again. We can figure out particulars then.

[ like whether crow can sneakily take that spare room for marie that she doesn't want and idek make it into a bar hehe ]

[ A WHAT???? ]

[ shhh honey don't worry ]

[ NEAR HER SON!? ]

[ he can't drink anyway ]

[ hey lets not fucking talk about that part. he's just fully looking away from crow and marie to address 9S!!!! ]

... I mean I guess you kind of need to lay low? Blend in with humans, you know?

Shadow government agencies and all that.

Edited (typo) 2022-04-10 22:55 (UTC)

Heh—none of you realized I wasn't human until I said so, anyway. No one will suspect a thing.

[ Probably? ]

They would catch you the moment you didn’t use a changing room…

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