Ayabe Catchall

[burningrescue]

Meme to come...

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week 1; mini-invest

[burningrescue]

[Well, since they haven't seen Nia anywhere, Galo is immediately running to go look for her. He doesn't really bother to wait for anyone else to catch up.

And that running around will lead him to the gun room, I guess!]

[kazokun]

[ Ayabe's still preoccupied with Asch, but he heads downstairs meaning to go to the lake when he stops short at the destruction leading from the gun room to the stairs. ]

What the hell happened down here? Who was down here last night?

[ He's already

starting to pick things off the ground to return them to their place, yeah. He looks bad again. Not "I'm about to pass out" bad, but trouble breathing bad. ]

[burningrescue]

Hey.

[He's running around, still kind of frantic, but he stops when Ayabe seems like he's having trouble breathing, and claps a hand on his shoulder.]

You can't mess with the scene, right? Take deep breaths.

[kazokun]

[ That whole slow breathing thing he never practiced after the first time Galo talked to him, and he has trouble remembering about that now when he's so frantic over literally everything- Nia, Asch, and now this.

The best he can do is pull his hands away from the gun lying on the ground and grasp at the fabric over his chest instead. ]

Fine. I'm fine. I won't touch anything.

[burningrescue]

Do you need to get out of here? Maybe we should get you someplace you can get some water.

[He wants to have a look around, but helping a living person who's in distress always has first priority, no matter what.]

[kazokun]

[ Ayabe shakes his head because he's always in distress, when he is never in distress. He just shoves one hand into his pocket and tries to calm down. Emotional support dust rag number two will help him. ]

It's just stress. I won't get anywhere if I have to keep stopping and turning around, so don't mind this. See that wall? It's all broken up- somebody might be hurt inside.

[ maybe they went on a rampage and then collapsed, we don't know, you should go there and check out the room and not worry about Ayabe too much. ]

[burningrescue]

[That's not how anxiety works, Ayabe, but Galo thinks it is, so he nods, impressed by Ayabe's grit.]

Yeah. Keep breathing and face your fears, and you'll be fine! I used to get panic attacks like that when I'd see a fire, and look at me now!

[Giving him a grin, despite everything that's going on. Going into the room to check it out, but not so thoroughly because tomorrow the mods might announce there's another body in here.]

[kazokun]

[ God, imagine if they investigated this place and missed a wholeass body

Compared to the mess outside, the state of the gun room is even worse, and Ayabe has to hold his breath to keep from coughing, because either way he's having trouble breathing so he might as well stop. Completely opposite of what Galo just advised him from doing, but it'll work out.

Like promised, he doesn't touch anything, stepping over the guns and staring at the wall. ]

Who here is strong enough to do this? It must be the monster in the lake, right?

[burningrescue]

The monster? In the lake?

[He missed that.]

You mean Pineapple?

w1, sunday

[kazokun]

[ There will be no mentions of arson plans here, nope. Ayabe heads downstairs with a couple of firearms in his arms so he can return these to the gun room and spots Galo down there by the lake. ]

Careful not to stay too close to the edge.

[ Even if you're friends with the Kraken, slippery water and gravity might not be your friend. ]

[burningrescue]

I'm careful, I'm careful! He doesn't like when you throw stuff in his lake.

[But he's still looking down into it.]

I wonder what he eats...

[kazokun]

He doesn't like it if you place things around the lake either.

[ Gates were tested, but bodies... maybe. Ayabe, at least doesn't stay too close to the edge and works to put the guns away instead. The wall's already fixed too... furries worked hard. ]

Hopefully the thing doesn't have a taste for flesh. How's your hand doing?

[ Maybe it's like a shark and can smell blood ]

[burningrescue]

Heh. He's kind of like you that way, ain't he? Neither of you likes it when someone makes a mess.

[Kraken is his buddy, and that's that.]

If he wanted to eat me I'd be eaten, though. Hand's fine. I bandaged it up.

[kazokun]

[ Being compared to a sea monster...... It's not the worst thing. This place is its home, and of course it'd want to keep the place clean. UNLIKE SOME MURDEROUS MONSTER OUT THERE. ]

I still don't trust it all that much. Maybe it was full. [ Of Nia's head, but that's not how it happened, right? It was his first thought, though. ]

How do you just jump in there, knowing it could be dangerous? Are you really just that stupid?

[ There's no bite to his question, but... yeah. Profile says Galo is dumb and maybe this is what it meant. ]

[burningrescue]

Aww, geez.

[He looks a little chastened at being called stupid that bluntly. He doesn't think he's that stupid. He just sees things differently than others.]

I didn't think we'd get anywhere until we found out whether it was involved in the murderer. I couldn't forgive myself if I just wasted time if I had a chance to get to the bottom of it.

[kazokun]

And if you'd gotten hurt, or died? You don't run into a burning building without proper equipment or training- there's a greater chance you will die than make it out and...

[ He shakes his head before he goes into full blown lecture mode. He wants to, but he's sure plenty of people have yelled at him for it. If they haven't, they should have, and what he's said so far is a good enough start. ]

Are you that lucky, Galo? Confident? [ Stupid? ] That you would gamble with your life?

[burningrescue]

Whoa.

[He wasn't expecting Ayabe to scold him? He has been yelled at, but each new person is kind of a surprise. He folds his arms, defensive.]

That's how I've always lived my life. No holding back. And I'm still standing, ain't I?

week 3; tuesday

[burningrescue]

[You can find Galo in the drawing room, working on some kind of art project, drawing blueprints for some kind of device.]

[kazokun]

[ When Ayabe enters the drawing room, he heads for where the sewing kits are but gets distracted by Galo's blueprint before he makes it. ]

Are you building something?

[ He's impressed? Galo doesn't look the type— and Ayabe immediately feels bad for thinking that, but. Still. ]

[burningrescue]

[When Ayabe looks closer, he can see that it's basically a crayon drawing. But it looks vaguely like a crayon version of this.]

I have to get this right! So Peach doesn't miss any of the details.

[kazokun]

What... is this? A toy you want her to find for you?

[ Without a scale,that's what is looks like. Maybe Galo was carrying a figurine in his pocket before he came here and he asked Peach to find it for him. ]

[burningrescue]

A toy! Tch!

[He makes an offended sound, though there's no venom behind it.]

No way! This is my matoi tech! It's a special firefighting robot Lucia made just for me! It's inspired by the fire fighters of an ancient far eastern island and embodies their spirit while also making use of the latest technology!

[kazokun]

[ Still looks like a toy robot. But apparently it's bigger and the mecha's used to fight fires, which would probably protect more than a simple uniform would. ]

And Peach is going to build you one? To scale?

[burningrescue]

Yep. To fight monsters with. See -

[But before he can go on a long ramble about this, a memory appears.]

[kazokun]

[ Today we both learn about Burnish racism.

There's the gun and the child and then he blacked out— and honestly Ayabe didn't think it could get any worse than that but it does. ]

-—You! That was the gov? Kray?

[ HUMAN EXPERIMENTS, GALO ]