chickenchoicejudy: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 o'clock precisely)
Ryan Akagi ([personal profile] chickenchoicejudy) wrote in [personal profile] outofsynth 2023-06-13 10:47 pm (UTC)

[They don't answer themselves right away.

Those memories leave a negative fog inside them that lingers and obscures. If they try and feel for the separate parts that make them them, there's one that suddenly feels...wrong.

It feels far away.

This almost splits them apart. There's a flash of light and they can feel the pull, but before it happens completely they snap themselves back together like a rubber band, gasping like they just woke up from a nightmare.
]

--We're fine. Yeah.

[Except, it doesn't make that pit of awful go away. There's no relief, nothing magic has been said that makes it all better. It's just there inside them, this gross self-hatred in their shared body.]

...Yeah.

[The whirlwind of memories has slowed, but now that they aren't hitting the breaks anymore some things are coming up again. Little flashes of people who didn't stick around or think he was worth much - girls, guys, family, people underpaying him at gigs. It all goes by dizzyingly fast, but it lands on a clear memory of one of his sisters - Nancy, age thirteen or so. She's telling someone a story they've since forgotten with time and Ryan keeps trying to chime in, but it just makes her angry and she snaps at him:

"Ugh, Ryan! Not everything has to be about you!"
]

--Sorry. This is supposed to be for Min to show what it's like. What we...no. What he feels like.

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