DAY 60, B/E/ANUBIS/PINK GROUP CALL

[ghostofissues]

[ Sometime in the dead of night a few hours after the game, when all call participants are alone and in their dorms, they receive a series of messages from a display name with no number or email attached:

骸: To avoid sudden termination of your purchased video call or any mobile phone devices, please be considerate of the following guidelines:
骸: Do not record this call in any form.
骸: Do not attempt to contact uninvolved parties until after the completion of the call.
骸: Do not attempt to be overly familiar.
骸: Thank you very much.

And then their phones start to ring.

When they pick up, Mukuro’s face appears, beaming. The general angle and slight instability to the picture make it easy to tell he’s pointing his own phone at himself; it seems like he’s completely alone, wherever he is.

“Wherever he is” appears to be the courtyard of an old-style Japanese home, though it’s a bit disorienting to look at. Part of an old wisteria archway is in the shot behind him, but it seems to be, at once, heavily damaged, singed black in places and partly broken down; yet also perfectly whole and in full bloom even out of season; yet also completely chopped down and cleared away. The paper screens as well appear as two different styles simultaneously, the visuals of the two overlapping on top of each other; a worn but well-cared for framework in a darker color of wood and thicker screens, or a more modern-looking, cheaper framework holding paper with a machine-generated uniformity to its texture, or the first style again but with blood and rips and burns smashed and spattered all across it.

It’s probably easier to just look at Mukuro. He gives a cheery wave, with his marbled green nails. ]

Yaho~!

Comments

[liarliarliar]

[internal screa--oh]

Hey! Whoa your nails are nice. I need to get mine redone.

Ah. Goodness, rude of me. Hello there, Mukuro! Thanks for taking the time to speak with us.

[gonna just. Scoot closer to E so they're shoulder to shoulder. Just so Mukuro can see them both better is all gosh. B looks. Rough. Not much sleep]

[columbidaring]

[ moments before B picked up, E furiously fingercombed his hair, readjusted his hair clips, and tried angling the phone so you can't really see it's. PJs on the couch maybe having just been using B as a pillow. It sorta works. ]

Oh, good... morning? Is it morning?

[ghostofissues]

[ laughs and laughs and laughs and ]

Don't draw this out.

[liarliarliar]

Oh, goodness. That's fair. Let's get started then.

We won't be the only people calling on you, so I'd like to ask if you have any preferences in who you'd like to talk to in the future?

[ghostofissues]

Not at all. If I wanted to talk to any of you I'd have let it be a lot easier.

[liarliarliar]

Fair. Alright. I'd like to ask then about the process of graduation. How it's achieved, what's offered, and the pros and cons of those offers as you see them. Someone wanted to know if there were limited graduation slots and one party was curious if a brief jaunt to hell they experienced makes them ineligible for graduation.

[ghostofissues]

Ahahah! Even that woman's side isn't gonna turn people away for something like that. Well, things have changed after all. Anyway, neither side has "limited slots."

When you graduate is up to the higher-ups to decide, but the process isn't too difficult. You get an offer, you take it. Get a wish, receive power. Refuse and you become one of the "good faithful"~ Or you fail, and you become one of the faceless.

I don't know what Exael told you, but choosing "Heaven" doesn't give you much at all.

[liarliarliar]

What is being a good faithful? And what's being a faceless?

Exael said choosing heaven sends you home. And it seemed like you'd have your memories and what not intact if you did that. Did she leave something out? Or do you just think it's a poor prize for your time as an idol.

1/2

[ghostofissues]

They call the faceless the "damned." I never lost my memories, so I don't know what happens if you go along with "Heaven" even before you've retrieved all of yours, but the damned lose themselves. Faceless, powerless, no real will of their own. I thought some of you met them before?

[ghostofissues]

"Heaven" can send you home, but look- jajaja-jyaannn!

[ sweeps out his free arm and then turns the phone to show off the courtyard, a dizzying circle that isn't really fast but also isn't quite slow enough to get a good look before it centers back on himself ]

It's my old family house. Looks like a huge wreck now, doesn't it? I haven't lived here in a long time.

But I can move around wherever I want. Where I am now, where you are now, not to mention any place I actually spend any of my time~ "Heaven" just sticks you where you were before and leaves you there.

[liarliarliar]

Oh! That's a lot of freedom! Is that specific to the wish you made or does everyone get that ability?

[ghostofissues]

That's what Hell is. Power, freedom. Anyone can have them if they want it enough.

I got that wish a lonnnnng time ago.

[liarliarliar]

Anyone can have them...

Say. I know at least one of our past idols remembered being dead. Would he just go back to being dead if he took Heaven's bargain? Would Hell's bargain be the only way for him to have lived?

[ghostofissues]

Probably ♥

[liarliarliar]

Goodness.

So, you spoke briefly of Exael...what's your opinion of her and her boss? Do you two have to work together as hosts or are you completely separated?

[columbidaring]

[ DRAWING THINGS OUT IS WHAT WE DO MORE THAN ANYTHING THOUGH ]

Of course, of course.

Should we get straight to the questions? We have a lot of very curious people looking to you for wisdom.

[ghostofissues]

Yes, yes, I'm at your service~

[columbidaring]

All right, then let's begin. We won't waste your time.

You were a previous idol who graduated, of course. In your run, did you lose your memories as well, or are we the first set to be amnesiac?

[ghostofissues]

The first set. To be honest, I think it's kind of gross, but it's not like I have anything to do with that kind of decision-making.

[columbidaring]

Are you allowed to tell me who does? Just out of curiosity. It's okay if you're not.

[ghostofissues]

I'm allowed to do whatever I want~♥

Almost all of this was arranged by Pythia and Asmodeus.

[columbidaring]

[ > Save keywords: Pythia ]

Okay, got it.

So, Exael made it seem like a sucker's bargain to follow in your footsteps, but it can't possibly be that one-sided or else no one would do it. What did you gain from the whole deal? And what did it cost?

[ghostofissues]

I came back from the dead.

[columbidaring]

... Well. That's a pretty solid gain.

[ghostofissues]

Besides, you can't trust anything out of that woman's mouth.