you can't go home meme

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You Can't Go Home Meme

❝holding on and letting go❞

For some reason or another, your character is displaced from their home — be it in the sense of homeland, home planet, home universe, or literal house — and unable to return. How they and the people around them handle that is left up to you.

Prompts
001. Exiled For one reason or another it's been decided your character is to be exiled. Pushed out of their home by force for some criminal act.
002. Run Away You have to run away. Your troubles are too great, or maybe you consider yourself a great danger. Either way, you can't stay here.
003. Destroyed the doomed hometown, up in ashes, razed to the ground. No matter how much you wish and pray, things will never be the same
004. For your own good some event has occurred, it's made living wherever you grew up impossible. You have to leave. it's the only option.
005. Adventure Out on a grand adventure, except you have a sense that you may never come back to your humble abode again.
006. Welcome Back you made it home, but things are strange. Everything is alien and strange-- and really you've realized you have returned changed. This place cannot be your home ever again
007. wildcard anyway you want it

emotions
001. Anger Bitterness and anger are the only things you can feel. How dare this happen! This was your home. That was where you belonged.
002. Depression gloomy darkness and a dim grayness.
003. Elation the chance of a lifetime, complete happiness about the possibilities! Bring on the world, you're read
004. Anxiety A brimming sense of dread, are you ready for this step? Is there any chance to reverse it?
005. Free This was your chance, for once in your life you're on your own. But is this new found freedom what you want?
006. Resignation this is what had to happen, and you will accept the consequences for what they are
007. wildcard that's the way you need it

» POST with your character
» TAG others, use RNG if you need to, or just make up your own scenario if you want!
» HAVE FUN.

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[beni_shigure]

[ Koujaku nods simply in thanks in Mizuki's direction as he fills his glass, taking a short sip before turning his gaze back to the other man's face out of the corner of his eye. Everything came so easily with Mizuki: laughter, conversation, companionship. Koujaku supposed he hadn't really realized just how much he'd missed him.

He knows that the other man had to be struggling, though he was doing a bang-up job of hiding it. Placing his glass back onto the counter with a soft thunk, Koujaku's eyes flickered back to the wall behind the counter, laughing. ]

I suppose so.

[ Koujaku's romantic prospects were almost exclusively of the female persuasion, and while he had of course entertained romantic thoughts about a certain mutual friend of theirs, said thoughts had never gone anywhere. Koujaku was grateful for Mizuki's friendship, and as far as he was concerned, any romantic inklings towards the other man were nonexistent... and would cheapen their relationship, anyway. There was something sacred about friendship, just as there was something sacred about a romantic bond; while crossing the streams sometimes worked, Koujaku was quite happy with the way their bond was as it stood.

After a few minutes and another swig, Koujaku's voice dips low as he speaks. ]

So, really. How are you holding up?

[ It was a question that he knew part of the answer to, but he wanted to hear the answer from Mizuki himself. ]

[ribstearz]

Well enough.

[ Mizuki has never been the type to sugarcoat reality, but neither does he enjoy talking about himself and his own neuroses overmuch. There's a reason he'd resorted to trusting in the likes of Virus and Trip to buoy his family-come-rib-team rather than taking a more open and oollaborative approach to the problem.

Especially now, after he's realized that much of what he believed in the past was wrong, misguided, and/or a nebulous combination of the two. Making Rib more interesting wouldn't keep his friends and family close.

That's why he's here now, resting his chin in his palm and looking over at Koujaku with a faint smile. ]

Better than many of the others, at least. I've been getting a lot of work done to get the parlor and the bar back to what they were - everyone has such negative things to say about the insomnia, but it's what I'm least bothered by, can you believe that? [ his grin is wry. ] I marathoned an entire season of that new show - you know, American cover ops, the lead guy kind of looks like Scrap's old leader? - last night. I know you're more for the old-fashioned samurai crap, but you should check it out.

[ Because that, too, is Mizuki's way. Drop a vulnerability, roadroll over it with good humor. How else could he have survived this long?

Koujaku will understand. Mizuki doesn't know what happened to Koujaku in the past, and he's never asked - but he recognizes kindred. Sometimes it's easier to slough off old skin rather than learn to live with it. ]

[beni_shigure]

[ Here, in the dim light of the bar, Koujaku finally realizes that he has nothing to worry about. Mizuki's answer to his question about his well-being is as succinct as ever, but to Koujaku, it's enough. He knows that it isn't Mizuki's style to talk overlong about his afflictions.

He exhales softly, a low chuckle rumbling at the back of his throat. ] I can. Insomnia does have its virtues; I remember hearing somewhere that sleep is death's cousin, after all. [ He takes another sip of sake before giving a bark of laughter. ] I assure you that it's far from crap, but to each their own. I'll give your trash television a shot, but only because I've known you long enough to not mind when you shove your shitty taste down my throat.

[ His tone is affectionate, though far from gentle. He's willing to roll right along with Mizuki exactly because he understands. Tragic backstory aside, Koujaku surmises he would have always approached life in this way, and he's glad that he's found good company in Mizuki's coinciding worldview. ]