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霊幻新隆 (Reigen Arataka) ([personal profile] internetsexsymbol) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-02-16 05:27 pm

you're a fraud and you know it

Who: Arataka Reigen and You!
Where: Various
When: Days 21-23
What: Aftermath of Dream Breach Event. Reigen is not coping.
Warnings: Symptoms of depression and panic attacks, mentions of unnatural isolation & starvation, thoughts of death, and death of a child.



Day 21, Train Car

He can't sleep the night after the dream incidents, probably because the entire train had been asleep the full day. Honestly, Reigen won't admit it, but he's afraid to fall asleep again. Sure, he logically figures that whatever collective lucid dreaming nonsense that happened won't happen again, but his subconscious is likely to show all of that to him again anyway.

Being in the sleeping car and not sleeping will just disturb his roommates, so Reigen decides to wander the entrance car, despite how anxious he feels. He keeps having to check his surroundings to reassure himself that yes, all of the seats of the car are the same, and no, his name isn't carved into the floors. When he hears the door open, he nearly jumps out of his skin to see who it is. "Oi, don't sneak up on me like that!"

Day 22, Sleeper Car

Twenty-seven hours of only very briefly sleeping have passed, and Reigen has found that he was right to be nervous about sleeping. When he'd dozed off before, he found himself back in the parallel train car, watching himself and others melt away like a spectator in his own body.

Keeping himself busy and hyped up on caffeine has helped some, and he has chores he can attend to, so here is, dusting off the dining car. Sure, there are points where Reigen finds himself going over the same spot for minutes because of how out of it he feels, but it's fine!

Day 23, Dining Car (CW panic attack)

It's the latest hours of the night, and yet here Reigen is, starting a pot of coffee for himself in an effort to continue fighting off sleep despite the constant headache it's started to give him. Even caffeine consumption can't fight off dozing off forever, of course, and there's been a few times where he's fallen asleep for a few hours only to be awoken by the same nightmares. Right now is one of those periods, and no matter how he tries to push it off he keeps thinking of them, of seeing Madoka in pieces, strings pulling apart her body as it contorts into a massive shadow--

He feels sick. The coffee forgotten, Reigen turns on the sink and leans over the counter, splashing his face with water and trying to force the dry heaving of his lungs to stop so he can actually breath.
runs_on_batteries: (serious close)

Dining Car

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Tony hadn't seen Reigen in a couple days. That was sort of unusual as he liked the man and didn't actively try to avoid him. Although he had been rather busy with his own things. Either way, when he first walks in the kitchen and sees the familiar back, he smiles. "Hey R-" Oh. Oh no. He stops mid-stride to take in the man's demeanor. He quickly sets down his mug and comes closer.

"Reigen? Talk to me. What do you need?" He tentatively places a hand lightly on his friend's back. "Hey. You're alright, Reigen."
longforgottenpromise: (confused)

Dining

[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2020-02-17 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
He had slept for a while after his exploration of the train, exhausted from walking around, from being out of bed at all.

Yet perhaps it was walking around, seeing people in the flesh that he had only seen in dreams. Seeing places that he had strange dream memories of, it made his sleep uneasy and when he woke again it was dark. He tried to settle again but he concluded his tossing and turning would probably disturb Lord Gyousou as well as Lady Wen and their other roommate.

So he had went wandering again. He feels stronger every time he gets up so that is progress. He made his way down the train again, this time he avoids the kitchen, not wanting to risk whatever made him ill in there. But upstairs there was a dining room and he climbed the stairs slowly.

To be faced with another person he knew only from a dream. Someone who was not doing well.

"Um..."

He approached, slowly, carefully. Like he would approach a frightened animal. "Do... Sorry Do you need help?"

He knows better than to reach out, he watches warily.
happyends: (i'll explain all i know)

day 22

[personal profile] happyends 2020-02-17 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes the dining car is a quiet enough place to read without being as lonely as the quiet car - which is why Madoka shows up here today, a book under her arm. And while it's not really a surprise to not find the entire place empty, there is.. something odd here, right..?

At first she just thinks Reigen must be focusing on some spot that's really hard to get rid of, but then he just keeps moving across that spot. Again. And again.

It makes the girl approach him a little more slowly, looking partially worried and partially confused.

"Um.. I.. I think it's probably clean now."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

Day 21

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-17 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Reigen's scenario was one of those that kept Nita up at night as well, though it took her some time to place exactly why.

Did he think he was going to die in there? Did he think that he would the 'last time', too?

The thought chilled her, even though she remembered him saying that he'd escaped that last time too.

She's not explicitly heading this way to check on him, but she's not surprised to see him, either.

She just stands there, just inside the door (which she'd pointedly shut - safety procedures and all), looking around, looking at him...

"It wasn't your fault," she ends up saying.

"Any of it. And I'm not going to go spread the details around either."

It was a little like with Conan - keeping secrets, making sure she wasn't a threat to what the other person used to keep themselves and those they cared about safe.
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[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-02-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"No." Tony shook his head. He wasn't going anywhere and you- clearly- can't stop him. "You've seen me at my worst too, so knock it off."

He found a wash cloth and dampened it with mildly warm water. "Here, this always feels soothing," he explained as he gently brushed it across Reigen's forehead and then settled it on the back of his neck. Next, he got a cup of water and set it beside his friend. Lastly, he found a stool for the younger man to sit on. "Now just breathe. Don't worry about anything else right now, okay? Want the water or something stronger? Not coffee, you're cut off."
longforgottenpromise: (confused)

Re: Dining

[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2020-02-18 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Taiki blinked at him, trying to remain calm and steady. It is probably what is needed here, someone calm and steady.

Definitely not someone who can barely walk without holding a wall. But that was what Reigen had so Taiki would try his best.

Water. He could fetch water. They are near a sink and everything, all Taiki needs to do is hunt down a glass. Easily done and he fills it before passing it over silently, hovering worriedly at his side.
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[personal profile] happyends 2020-02-18 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Really..?" For a moment she almost sounds a little doubtful, or like she's still thinking about it. But.. on the other hand, she really doesn't think Reigen would lie to her. So even though he seemed kind of off, maybe it's just since Madoka doesn't understand everything about his amazing ability to ward off spirits yet?

The girl slowly steps over before crouching down to stare at the floorboards. If she remembers anything at all about the same dream Reigen is thinking about, she doesn't show it at all. She only has eyes for the thing he was talking about right now.

"So they could come in right through here? That's so scary! It's a good thing we have you to protect all of us.."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-18 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Nita's accomplished part of her intended purpose, anyway; putting him at ease, if to as little an extent as someone new to this train - new to him - can manage.

"Oh? Good. That's... that's good, then. I wasn't assuming that," she said, running one hand through her hair in an attempt to combat imaginary tangles.

"But what I do remember of those dreams - where they're not entirely fragmented, they're unpleasant, y'know. Except some of the flying dreams."

As for the rest of what Reigen says, well, she nods, expression grim.

"Yeah. When you don't think you'll make it out of whatever you're in alive... I've been there."

Only, she hadn't been stuck in a train compartment; she'd been in the Crossings, fighting some seriously overpowered alien mercenaries.

And that came up in one of the dreams too, didn't it? she finds herself recalling, pulling her hand back down.

One of the weirder ones.

Which was... difficult to say, overall, given how she remembered Reigen's dream ended-

"Though, uh, what was up with the whole 'city of you' deal? Any ideas?"

By this point she's started moving away from the door, not right at Reigen but toward his side of the train.
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Day 21

[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-02-19 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Kaito blinks at him, his hair all mussed and yawning.

"Arataka-san? Sorry. I didn't think I was being particularly quiet..."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking right, holding a book. (I'm In The Book)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-20 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ego or not, that last part does make her chuckle - not something she would have expected from this conversation offhand, so by all accounts a good thing!

"As long as we can get something out of that whole mess. Sometimes that's all we need to keep going in our regular lives."

She looks around the carriage, feeling suddenly sheepish.

"Not that this is supposed to be regular for any of us."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

Prepare to blow Nita's mind, Reigen.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-21 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"From what I've been able to figure out, whatever it was started in the games car, and spread from there..."

Then she pauses, processing the second thing Reigen just said.

"Wait, WHAT? What inspectors?!"

This must've been long before Nita showed up on the rain, but that's definitely got her attention now!
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-02-21 04:03 am (UTC)(link)

"Guess so. Weird dreams too." He scrubs a hand through his hair and yawns.

"Makes it hard to rest now - I'm tired, but I'm also wide awake, you know? You want to play cards or something?"

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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2020-02-21 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh... Um..."

He steps backward, he doesn't believe that the man really is fine but he also knows a dismissal when he hears one. He doesn't want to stay when he's been told to go, but he also doesn't want to leave him.

He shouldn't leave him... "Um... Do you have anyone... I can try and call them. On those screens I mean." He hasn't really played around on the ICPs yet but he's heard people talking over the tannoy system. He figures if he calls someones name they might answer, if they wake up...
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[personal profile] happyends 2020-02-21 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That question gets the girl to turn her gaze back to him instead.

"Hm?" At first she just blinks and stares, but then she nods. "I'm fine! Sure, there were some odd dreams, but.. everyone is okay now, right?"

Of course she says that not knowing a thing about what Reigen is going through right now.. Especially since, considering what she's about to bring up, she only seems to remember one dream with him rather than two.

"That city full of people who looked like you but different was really odd too. I'm glad there's only one of you here.. Then it's a lot easier to find you."
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[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-02-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Tony was doing his best to read Reigen's body language, but this wasn't his area of expertise by a long shot. Fortunately he did have some idea given Peter's anxiety and his own attacks. He hadn't completely figured out that's what this was. Reigen looked like shit and there could be numerous causes to that.

He waited patiently- which wasn't something he normally did well- as Reigen slowly calmed down enough to speak. When his friend just put his face in his hands though, it made him worry. "What's going on?" He asked, ignoring the apology. "Have you been ill? You look like hell."

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