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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Just water is fine. [ Without needing to be asked, he takes off his shoes and makes his way inside, sitting politely on the couch. The divine dog is mannered as well, making sure to rub any sand on the mat so it doesn't track inside. ]
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He'll come over to the living area after, setting the glasses down on the coffee table before he takes a seat at the armchair adjacent to Megumi. This is already a much calmer reunion than his one with Yuji, where there were tears (from Yuji) and hugs as a result. Megumi has always kept his emotions a bit more close to the chest, on the other hand.
After that, he'll start the conversation with — ]
From what I know, you have to accept an invitation from the hotel to arrive here. Either on purpose or subconsciously. Is that the case for you, Fushiguro-kun?
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Now that the man is here, calmly handing him a glass of water, it's really sinking in now - this man is gone from their world. He's never going to come back. Growing up, Gojo would bring him along on missions and he would meet the older sorcerer occasionally. He wouldn't say they are close, but he always respected him, so it's still a melancholic thing. ]
I don't fully remember doing it, but that seems to be the case. [ Might as well just ask. ]
Is this the afterlife?
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But now he's gone, he's dead, there's no coming back. Megumi doesn't need him in his life anymore, he's long since matured and is able to take care of himself. So, Nanami can't help but wonder if Megumi would even miss him, in the end.
The question doesn't surprise him. Considering what Megumi is going through right now, if he's in the future like Yuji is — there must be a genuine concern that he might be dead. It's a little sad to think about. ]
No. You're free to leave this place if you wish and go back home at any time. In turn, I'm free to move on to the actual afterlife when I chose to do so. Gojo-san is here and has left a few times and returned, but he's currently sealed from his point of view so he doesn't know what else is happening outside of the box right now. I also know of other residents who have returned to their homes and come back as well.
It seems this place exists outside of our universe and our points in our... timeline, I suppose? Time back home doesn't progress if you're here. And while Gojo-san and I come from that night in Shibuya, I know Itadori comes from somewhere in the future and I'm assuming you're also from sometime in the future as well. It's a little hard to wrap one's head around but I hope I'm making sense.
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There's a nod. He's a sharp boy and takes in all that information effortlessly. ]
... If time doesn't flow back home, that resolves my biggest worry. [ The worry that Tsumiki would be dead by the time he makes his way back home. With that stress no longer looming over him, he can relax and process everything else. ]
Are you ... okay with everything? [ He doesn't really know what to say or how to talk to someone who's very recently died, but he's not so callous he would brush past that. ]
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I'm glad that helps with your worry. Take this time to rest, you certainly will need it.
[ And then a pause as he tries to figure out how to answer still. What's he supposed to say to this? ]
I am... not. But that doesn't change the situation as it is. This is what it's like being a sorcerer and we all know this. There is nothing for me to complain about when this is the life I have chosen.
[ And he chose it more than most people. He left. He didn't need to come back, but he did. ]
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Because the more time they spend together right now, the more Megumi can feel himself start to grieve, as paradoxical as that is. The last time he saw him, the older man was protecting him, and that's just the sort of person that he is. He's one of the very few adults that Megumi has abundant respect for. ]
You're still allowed to complain. [ They live in an unfair world, so he thinks it's fine. ] Does that mean you've decided to live here instead?
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In a way, Nanami appreciates it. ]
I could, but I'm not going to burden you with my complaints, Fushiguro-kun.
[ He is a child, even if he is a competent one. What kind of adult would he be if he let out his frustration and anger over being dead right now to someone he should be caring for instead? It's just not done. ]
And I wouldn't say instead. If I had the choice, I'd go back home immediately. But I do not have that ability. I'm not ready to move on though, so I'll stay here for the foreseeable future. Find a bit more life in my own way.
[ He is not expecting to stay here for years, for the rest of his life, nothing like that. But... for now. It works for now. ]
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What have you been doing with your time then? I can't sense any curses to exorcise.
[ And nobody would expect him to jump back into that, even if all evidence points to the fact that he probably would. Mostly, he's curious. They don't have much time to talk back home. If not a sorcerer, what does the older man want to be doing? ]
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There aren't any, no.
[ It's... peaceful here, for the most part. ]
I've been catching up on my reading and meeting the other residents here. Sleeping in. Having good meals. Things I could never really do back home. It's been... nice.
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Has it been difficult to get used to?