No more poison killin my emotion I will not be frozen

[afterlifer]

WHO: EVERYONE
WHAT: Interactions
WHEN: August 28 – September 1
WHERE: Anywhere and everywhere in this afterlife
WARNINGS: Cussing
SUMMARY: INTERACTION LOG you know the drill.

28th: Today seems as though it’s a normal day, right? Wake up, take a shower, walk outside to head to class and… the NPCs aren’t moving. Stopped mid-step they’re completely frozen all over the school grounds. Some may be in class already and frozen at their desks, others might’ve been frozen as they were walking to or around the school. Maybe you were outside just inside to see them come to a sudden halt. After an hour, they’ll return to normal and continue on as though nothing happened.

29th: The school festival is a month away and it’s time to start planning for it! Classes will get a free period to plan for it today and clubs will need to get together and talk about setting up special activities for the students if they want to participate. GET HYPED.

30th: Do you hear that? Outside of your dorm—in the hallway! It sounds like pitter patter of little feet running up and down the halls… a bunch of them too, and there’s even some little barks here and there. Open your door and SUDDENLY LITTLE SHIBA INU AND GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES RUNNING ALL ABOUT. Don’t deny them love, they’re ever so playful and fluffy.

31st: It’s so close to your day off—but the teachers decided they’re going to end this week with a math test. Ew, right? Hope you studied or this is going to suck.

1st: Even in the afterlife your uniform and clothes get a bit dirty from time to time, and it’d be pretty gross if you didn’t wash your underwear so go on, wash your clothes! Or… don’t. The washer’s broken—actually waters starting to spill out of it!!! Now you’re standing in a puddle, oops.

As always, remember there are basketball, kendo, drama and baseball clubs now so practices can be set up whenever you want! And if you want to do something outside of what we've provided, feel free to do so.

Comments

[crayoned]

Wow, your mom- mama really sounds like something. Giving advice and things like that really sounds like something a mother should do. [Or so she imagines anyway, mother are meant to be kind and supportive and all that.] I bet you had a lot of fun with your mama while you were still alive.

[happyends]

Hmm, I did. We promised we were going to do a lot more things in the future too..

[ Except now she'll never be able to live up to those things. It makes her more than a little sad, mostly since she feels so guilty -- she would never come back home to her mother... So she can't help but sniff a little bit. ]

[crayoned]

[Madoka's slight change in mood is completely lost on Mary, leading her to carry on and ask another question.]

... What sort of things, fun stuff?

[happyends]

E.. ehehe, something like that..

[ Like she can bring herself to say the exact stuff. She already has to bite her lip now to make sure she won't cry, she knows her mother wouldn't have wanted her to... ]

Mama.. always really, really l-liked fun things..

[crayoned]

Me too, I wonder if your mama and me would have liked the same sorts of-- Hmm?

[Now she's noticing it. Isn't talking about fun stuff and your parents meant to make you feel happy? This is nothing like when she talked about this sort of thing with Ib...]

Don't be sad, Madoka. It's a good thing that you got to do fun things with your mama!

[happyends]

I-I know, but.. we were still going to do so many things, b-but because of me we won't anymore..! I bet mama's so sad and it's all my fault..

[ One of her hands moves up to rub at her eye, trying to prevent the tears in it from falling. ]

[crayoned]

[Hrmm. The books she read on making friends never covered what to do when one of your friends starts to cry. Telling her not to be sad didn't seem to work. What should she do...?]

It's... Not your fault? How could it be your fault?

[It's very clear that Mary isn't sure what she should be doing right now. In fact, she doesn't even know what isn't Madoka's fault, her dying perhaps? She's trying to understand why Madoka is upset, but all she can manage to do is stare at the other girl... Does this make her a bad friend now? For letting Madoka get upset like this?]

[happyends]

.. It's my fault, since I'm the one who died..

[ Don't worry, Mary. Madoka is just a very, very special case who takes everything personally upon her.. Madoka almost made a contract for your sins, you know. ]

That's why mama must be sad now, all because of me..

[crayoned]

That's not your fault though... Whoever killed you, it's their fault.

[All of their fault, no one else's, especially not Madoka's... Unless Madoka was killed by a something and not a someone, in which case it's the something's fault!]

[happyends]

But.. if I had been a little more careful [ or a little quicker with making her wish, but she doesn't say that one out loud since it's a secret ] then maybe I wouldn't have died, right..? Something like that would make it all my fault.

[crayoned]

Um, well... It's still not your fault.

[Perhaps she could have been more careful herself and done things differently back in the gallery. Then maybe things wouldn't have turned out the way they did... But no, no, it's still definitely not her fault that she died. She did nothing that would make her death her fault, at least in her eyes anyway. All she wanted was to go outside...

She wants off this topic of conversation now. Thinking about the gallery, what her first friends did and what happened is something she needn't worry about now that she's in the afterlife. After some quiet mumbling and murmuring, Mary speaks up.]

Hey Madoka, do you remember that club that we were going to make together?

[happyends]

[ At least Madoka is too rude to go on about a subject when someone else is clearly trying to move on, so in that sense Mary's at least doing a good thing..? She tries to put everything out of her mind as she listens to the girl, giving her a tiny nod. ]

Of course I do. Why are you bringing it up now, Mary-chan..?

[crayoned]

[She's bringing it up now because it makes the smoothest, most perfect segue from a topic she wanted to avoid thinking about in a completely inconspicuous way-]

Oh good! I was trying to think up a name for it, but it's really hard thinking up a good name for a club that's about having fun together with lots of people. [She already considered calling it the 'fun club', but even Mary thought that a name like that wasn't the most creative of names.] So I wanted to see if you had any ideas.

[happyends]

[ Mary!! At least Madoka totally goes along with it.. ]

Oh, a name..? [ She hums for a moment. Isn't it too much responsibility for her to think it up? Then again, she doesn't want to force it onto the other girl either.. ] Um, well, wouldn't that depend on the kind of image you want to show off? Like.. you could go for something cute, or something formal, or something else entirely.

[crayoned]

[Thanks for rolling with it Madoka, this is why you're the best friend ever.]

Oh! [You had her at 'something cute'.] Something cute, it has to be something like that. Everyone likes cute things, or most people do anyway. A cute name would get us lots of club members!

[happyends]

Um, in that case..

[ Hmmm... ]

How about "Mary-chan's Happy Happy Fun Fun Friends Club"? [ MADOKA, YOU SUCK AT THIS. ]

[crayoned]

[Well, that's a name. Mary says the name to herself a few times, thinking about the sound of it for a few seconds before looking at Madoka.]

That's nice, do you have any other names though? [...] It should be shorter, but still cute. Short and cute!

[happyends]

.. E.. eh, no good? [ But she liked it..!! Then again, if Mary says it should be shorter, then she's sure it should be shorter, other people are always right.. ]

Um, how short exactly then? It might be hard to think up..

[crayoned]

It's okay, I just wanna see if you have any other options for me. [But she might as well be saying 'yeah, no good.']

Most of the other clubs are called things like 'archery club' and 'art club', and they're just two words, right? So it should be something short that's two or three words, but still cute. So it fits in with the other clubs![She couldn't be more picky about something as small as a name if she tried.]

[happyends]

[ Mary's just walking all over Madoka here despite the age difference.. Madoka might as well be the club's literal doormat at this rate. ]

Well.. if you want just something that short, wouldn't the "friendship club" sum it up..? It sounds a little simple though..

[crayoned]

[Well that's not right, Madoka should at least be the vice doormat.]

Maybe it's too simple, I-- Oh! The friendship fun club, that's it! [Aaand in the end she goes with her own idea. Which is basically Madoka's ideas condensed down.] It's sounds really good having friendship and fun together like that. And it's cute too!

[Alliteration is awesome.]

[happyends]

[ That implies someone is the head doormat. And Mary can't be that, since she's too.. Mary.... ]

.. Ah, I guess you did it in the end, Mary-chan. [ She giggles sheepishly. As if she expected any different, Madoka always thinks other people are better at anything at all than she is. ] You're pretty good at thinking up names, huh..?

[crayoned]

[That's where the club's actual doormat comes into play.]

Yeah! I thought it was going to be really hard to find the right name, but in the end it was easy. [...] You helped out a little too Madoka, thanks!

[JUST A LITTLE though.]

[happyends]

[ Ah.

Madoka's even below a doormat..... ]

Even a little is already enough for me! [ It's true, okay. Even if it's a little awkward that she did so badly, but at least she tried.. ] I like helping you out.. that's what friends are for, after all. They help each other out so nobody has to struggle with a problem.

[crayoned]

[But that's a good thing, people just can't get as much dirt off their shoes when they use Madoka so they opt for the real doormat!]

Friends... Help each other out, yeah! They help each other so all their problems go away, you're right. [...] What if a friend has a problem you don't know about though? What then? Just wondering...