Happy February, folks! The hotel is chugging along as it always does and nothing really seems that out of the ordinary, actually. Mr Bennet is at the front desk as per usual, greeting new guests, checking out old ones, generally being mediocre at his job but there's something a little... off about him this morning. A little more Springtime focused. Is it the suit? No, no, that's the same as it always is. Is it the face? No, Mr Bennet's face is unable to be perceived by eyes as per usual. No, it's the —
The bunny ears?
HOP TO IT
It seems Mr Bennet has developed a pair of bunny ears and a tail overnight, but he's not the only one. Every staff member and guest of the hotel will find that they have grown a pair of animal ears and a matching tail when they wake up that morning. It's nekomimi time, y'all! But not just neko, characters will find themselves with all categories of ears and tails. Cats, dogs, rabbit, deer, fish. Whatever animal best suits the characters are what they'll find themselves sporting.
For all intents and purposes, these will be part of your characters bodies and real additional limbs. It will hurt if someone hurts them and they will bleed if someone cuts them. There will be some added bonuses as well as characters will also take on the traits of the animals they become. However players want to interpret this is up to them — it can be light like a cat person just being more aloof or heavy like a spider person having multiple eyes and limbs. Whatever is most fun for the player and most hectic for the character, of course.
This effect will last till the end of the month.
Of course, an additional note: For characters who already have animal ears and/or tails — they will either keep those ears and tails and develop more traits of that animal. Or they can become something entirely different for the month. Player preference!
ANIMAL CRACKERS
Mr Bennet has found this to be hysterical though so he has set up a stall in the main lounge that's advertising animal crackers. They're a little less cracker and more cookie though, and larger than the traditional animal cracker. They also come in all shapes and sizes. If you can think of the animal, you can have an animal cracker with it. There is a dog cracker. There is a whale cracker. There is a spider cracker. All kinds of things. Even fictional animals, like gryphons and dragons!
The only catch is — once your character eats the cracker they will become that animal entirely. This is probably tipped off by the bunny rabbit hopping around the lounge in a little hotel jacket, huh. Thanks Mr Bennet. The effect of these crackers will last as long as the player prefers and characters are free to eat another cracker and become another animal afterwards.
One thing though, as the animal, characters will still be able to speak in animal form. So there's that!
The animal crackers will also be available till the end of the month.
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I checked when I arrived. I talked to some of the other residents who had left and came back. It's the standard for the hotel, time doesn't pass. It's just how it works here.
[ Of course there's an outlier like Sumina but Nanami doesn't think it'd be wise to let Yuji know that just yet. He doesn't want him to spiral on the low chance that their world might be one of the ones that time passes in as well.
And at the second part, Nanami nods, giving Yuji a squeeze. ]
We can.
[ Part of him wants to promise more, wants to say I'll stay as long as you're here and make sure Yuji knows he won't leave him. But it'd be foolish to promise that, especially when it might cause Yuji to stay longer than he wants to for fear of not being able to see Nanami again. No, it'd be like cursing him with his death all over again. ]
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The time he was able to spend with Nanami was so short, but the impact was so undeniable. He was shaped by the man holding on to him now, given strength but also broken down by his loss, knowing that he would carry the weight of that guilt for such a long time after. Nanami had told him that he had it, that he would carry things on, but Yuji's well aware of his failings in that regard; there's no way Nanami would've performed so poorly if their roles were reversed.
What this does mean, however, is that he has a chance to grow here. He's got a lot stronger since he last saw Nanami, he can't hide that, but he has further that he can go - and if he can get stronger than he can take it back and use it against Sukuna. He can use it to free Fushiguro and undo all the damage his survival has cost people. Work on the cursed energy he still has, work on his new techniques, make sure he's as powerful as possible before stepping back into the real world and leaving his happiness and joy behind him once again.
He might die, but he's prepared for that. He's been ready to die since the first moment.
Breathing out, soft and slow, Yuji lifts a hand to wipe at his face, pressing the heel of his palm into the corners of his eyes - conspicuously missing scarring, without Sukuna inside him. ]
I'll be happy, then. I want more time with you, Nanamin.
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But that isn't what it's like here, he's accepted that. Things are a bit easier, a bit safer. The world is less of a burden to carry. But that's also why he became so complacent and Yuji's arrival surprised him so. In a way, he needs this hug more than Yuji does, he thinks. ]
... Okay.
[ There is no reason for him to reject Yuji here. He has nothing but time here and if Yuji wants some of his, he doesn't see a reason not to offer it. It isn't like back home where there are too many things to do and his personal time is minimal and to be cherished. No, now his time is open, for himself, for Yuji, for anyone. ]