yes YES the tiger is out

[demonvinegar]

Who: Kin'un and anyone who wants to come across a dead man walking
When: October 5th, afternoon
Where: Kin'un dorm and surrounding area
What: "Gehou" has been dead for 5 days bruh... BUT ALSO HEY WE WON!!
Warnings: TBD


[ This is largely a Kin'un teampost. But before he returns to the dorm, Gehou has to make the walk of shame from the nurse's office. ]

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OPTION FOR NOT KIN'UN

[demonvinegar]

[ a man walks down the school hallways, covered in blood. days old blood that cakes in his long, knotted black hair. it stains his once pink uniform dark brown, or at least whatever is left of it. his jacket is gone, and his white undershirt is torn and stained nearly completely reddish-brown at his chest. he pads barefoot through the halls, and most of his pants legs are missing. cut and torn up as if by some kind of blade. and, of course, stained with more blood.

quite frankly? he barely even resembles the Gehou you might know. he looks like a ghost wandering the hallways. ]

[bowtiedbones]

[she automatically averts her eyes when she spots that much blood, because you're safer if you ignore the human-sized ghosts here, but uuuuhhhhhhHH wait that one's familiar?]

[demonvinegar]

[ it sure is familiar!

and it just paces past her. without looking up. closer up, it's definitely Gehou. and his clothes definitely used to be Kin'un pink. ]

[bowtiedbones]

[on one hand, this does explain why there hasn't been any congee for a week]

Gehou—?

Re: OPTION FOR NOT KIN'UN

[pissandvinegar]

[ freezes at the sight of him. blanches so pale his complexion goes gray. for a split second he doesn't so much as breathe

AND THEN HE TURNS AND ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BOOKS IT DOWN THE HALL. HE DOES NOT CARE WHO SEES HIM OR WHO HE HAS TO SHOVE OUT OF HIS WAY. FUCKKKKKKK NO FUCK THAT FUCK THIS ]

Re: OPTION FOR NOT KIN'UN

[demonvinegar]

[ how far are you going to run, shen qingqiu? ]

Re: OPTION FOR NOT KIN'UN

[pissandvinegar]

[ dorms ]

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[presgarddihellis]

[......... oh that's not a sight he's wanted to see in this place.]

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[demonvinegar]

[ Gehou doesn't stop. he just continues to walk as if in a daze towards the dorms. ]

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[presgarddihellis]

[truly, the real reason he pauses is because... how to even address this guy?]

... Gehou-shuaige.

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[brokenlance]

[

???????

am I hallucinating again???]

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[demonvinegar]

[ honestly maybe you are. he looks just like a ghost, and he walks right past Azure without even acknowledging him. ]

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[brokenlance]

[…yeah, of course. this must be a hallucination. it makes no sense why he’d be dead.

snap out of it, Dimitri. get some sleep.]

this is a great follow-up thread, right

[suplexer]

[ Now that Tifa's feeling better, she's eager to get back to her normal training regimen, but she's aware that she'll need to build up some endurance first. She's doing some power-walking around the school for that reason, with the intention of heading out to the track to do some running once she's warmed up.

But then...

She spots the bloody, marching figure, and assumes the obvious. It's a ghost. A gasp catches in her throat as she stops short, given that she was on a path to crash right into the ghoul. Instead, she staggers back, halfway ready break into a run— ]

ABSOLUTELY LMAO

[demonvinegar]

[ good news: it's not a ghost! and even if it was, it doesn't seem aggressive. in fact... it doesn't seem to notice her at all. or if it does, it pays her no mind.

as the "ghost" comes closer she may even be able to recognize him... or at the very least, recognize the Kin'un pink. even if it is stained in blood. ]

1/2

[suplexer]

[ When the ghost comes closer, the flight instinct turns into fight for a moment. Tifa balls her right hand into a fist and she's fully prepared to try and punch a ghost until the light hits him just right and she realizes... ]

[suplexer]

Wait — Gehou?! Is that you?

KINUN!!!!!11

[demonvinegar]

[ .... so uh, yeah your humble disciple Gehou is attempting to very slowly, very quietly open the door to the Kin'un dorm and slip his way inside without alerting anyone.

he looks like absolute shit. he's completely covered in blood, he's missing like half his clothes, and honestly he looks a bit dead inside. but don't worry about it it's fine. shhh ]

[velluminous]

[ blood
blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood
blood.

she, too, approaches from the hallway, and so from behind him is privy to... everything. the knotted hair, the stained uniform. the bare feet protruding from trousers which look as though they were dragged over glass.

she was right to worry. see? see, Adair? she's always.. right.

her footfalls echo on the floor as she sprints the rest of the way to the Kin'un door. ]

Get inside.

[demonvinegar]

[ man he's lucky she didn't come across him arguing with shen qingqiu earlier huh.

even with all the echoing emptiness in his heart, he manages to feel a little bit of shock and apprehension and guilt. he's getting inside. ]

Shijie-- [ he starts. "I'm alright"? "It's not mine"? ]

It looks worse than it is.

[ratiocinations]

[Team Dad is here to do the team dad thing, AKA having the energy of the parent waiting at 2 AM in the living room for their kid to return in the dead of night-

Except he's up on his feet, frowning, and walking over fairly quickly when he sees the state of him.]

Good god, man, what happened to you?

[velluminous]

[ oh, so NOW you're parenting, huh ]

[demonvinegar]

[ dad help mom is herding me inside and already having a panic attack- ]

... I encountered something in the woods. [ is he really lying to them? is he? does it count as a lie if it's technically the truth? that's a stupid question, he's an expert at half-lies. ]

I'm not injured anymore. You don't have to worry.

/2

[threadling]

-- AND THE PINKS GO MARCHING ON! ON! ON!

[She's been doing this ever since the fundraiser ended. It's actually a massive relief to everybody that Gehou showed up covered in blood because --]

[threadling]

[When she sees him, she actually stops chanting.]

Whoa - shit.

Did you get in a fight? Badass, dude.