Event Log: A Hope for the Future

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
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► If you get hit by levitating rubble or eat a food that wasn't meant for you, please let us know here.

Comments

[puzzlingly]

And yet, you keep putting up with me.

「Said as the chuckles dies out. Take your cute insult and stick it up you know where!」

That's not so logical of you, Set-- 「He squints at him, as if he had some trouble seeing if it is really him, why must you bastards look the same? Well, kind of.」 ... Kaiba? Kaiba...

[allthecards]

[Now he actually doesn't find him endearing. The drunk bastard doesn't even know who he's talking to. That's right, he is Seto Kaiba. Not Seth. And Seto Kaiba doesn't joke around with his rival.

He sets down the wine, blanks his face and sits up taller.]

Hmpf.

[puzzlingly]

「Too bad Atem is too far gone to know what might be bothering his friend. But at least he knows something is bothering him.」

What's wrong?

「Meanwhile he goes for just another glass...」

[allthecards]

Hn

[Back to being monosyllabic. There was no sense in replying to inane questions. Instead he stares at Atem letting his expression say everything it needs to about what he thinks about him having another glass.]

[puzzlingly]

「Cue, staring. Then a smile.」

Kaiba, you're gonna have a very hard time in here if you don't loosen up a little.

「Look who is talking, the little hypocrite, if only Kaiba knew. Now watch him drink from that glass! It must be so annoying.」

[allthecards]

If I want your opinion I'll ask.

Don't hold your breath.

[puzzlingly]

Too bad, I could give you a few pointers.

[allthecards]

I'm sure I can figure out how to drink my own body weight in wine.

Though, it would take me a lot longer.

[Yes it's a short joke. He's mad at you. What're you going to do about it?]

[puzzlingly]

「Laugh, what else does one do with jokes?」

You know? You and Law would get along.

「Nah.」

[allthecards]

[You're not supposed to laugh when he insults you...jerk.]

Oh really? Who's that?

[puzzlingly]

「Aw sorry, broke your rules? Want a band-aid?」

A pirate! Like a real one, he's really great. A bit of a jerk too. But mostly great. He's the only one who's called me short... heh. But he's just really tall...!

[allthecards]

Hmpf.

[This is how much Kaiba cares about your other friends Atem. Why don't you, Law and Seth all go hang out together? All the eye rolls.]

[puzzlingly]

「Atem does hope a bit for a reaction, and keeps waiting.

That's enough. The rest of the contents of the goblet go right to Kaiba's face.」

[allthecards]

[Of all the things Kaiba expected to happen that was not one of them.]

WHAT THE HELL YUGI?!

[Starts looking around for something to wipe his face with.]

[puzzlingly]

「Oh dear Ra, that volume. He doesn't know if that's exactly what he was looking for or not.」

I needed to check if you were listening at all!

「He's always sharing things, always worrying! And for what?」

When are you going to tell me why are you so angry at me!?

「Oh, oh... there it is.」

[allthecards]

[Finds a napkin and angrily dries his face.]

BECAUSE YOU JUST THREW WINE IN MY FACE!

[puzzlingly]

「Oh golly, that's not the answer he's looking for. He finally stands from the table, stumbling a little and leaning against it.」

You know that's not it! Since you got here you've been angry all the time! At me! We were friends, Kaiba! And now you... You said we aren't, that it disgusts you! Why did you-- Why would you say that if it's not to hurt me!? What did I do to you?! If you don't tell me, I cannot fix it!

「It all hits a bit too close to the stuff he had going with a few people here, and it hurt him deeply then, he doesn't want to resent Kaiba that way. But this is what happens when one is a bit too drunk to put up some walls.」

I was happy to see you! I haven't seen any of you in months! I was stuck with Bakura of all people! Bakura! What I would have given for him to be you instead! Worried about Mokuba without you here! And when you finally get here... you.. It's like if you hated me...

「He starts losing volume as he stops talking, as a deflating balloon.」

[allthecards]

[He clenches his fist at his side and feels it shake. He's done that more since arriving in Hadriel than he has since Battle City. Since Atem left. Kaiba has two settings; stone wall and all out there. All of the stress from being brought to Hadriel, seeing Atem again, and then suffering all of his insults including having wine thrown in his face has finally broken through the wall into all out.]

You have the nerve to ask why I hate you? [Yes. Hate.]

You disappeared without a word. Without us settling our score!

Then I come here...You mock me every chance you have. You set that worthless dog after me! Because you think I'M WEAK! That I can't protect myself and my brother? That you need to make all of my decisions for me like some CHILD!

I knew everything you said at Alcatraz was bullshit!

[puzzlingly]

「Kaiba's words are sobering.

Or that's what we would like to say, but they are truly not, not completely anyway. He still listens to them as attentive as his attention span allows him, and as he does, his face pales some; the flush in his cheeks seems to even lose some strength.

So, he does hate him... That's all what he hears at first, all the rest a little more than muffled for a moment.

He disappeared? He doesn't know what he means about that, he was there, he... he just didn't disappear on him! Or maybe he did... but he doesn't get to ask because Kaiba keeps at it. And it's a direct attack after the other, and Atem has no defense whatsoever to any of that. He cannot win this one.」

I don't... I didn't...

「Pathetic, he cannot find the words to respond to him, even if he tries, he cannot think really straight at the moment. He doesn't know how to fix this.」

I meant it, every word that I said, Kaiba...!

[allthecards]

[Kaiba just stared at Atem waiting for some excuse, some explanation, that didn't come. Not that he expected him to be able to justify anything, but Atem always managed to surprise him. He'd hoped he might have something up his sleeves again. Of course he couldn't, he couldn't even tell him apart from some long dead phantom. How could he have meant anything?]

Hmpf. You don't even know who you're talking to.

[puzzlingly]

「Oh... is that it? Atem expression shifts slowly into something a little more somber and focused, as much as it's possible anyway.」  

Is that what you're so scared of... a name? Does it make you feel inferior?

[allthecards]

[First "weak" and now "inferior". He knew that's what Atem had always actually thought, no matter what he might have said of there being more to life than winning.
Winners were at the top, everyone else was nothing. Atem kept making him forget that.

Everything was a game and everything had a winner; including this conversation. He'd given his opponent too much ammunition to use against him. Fortunately he had his own supply. ]

What about you, Yugi? Afraid you can't face me on your own? You already sent a new mutt after me. Who else have you replaced?

[puzzlingly]

「That makes this one laugh. It's not a gentle one.」

Why do you feel so threatened by my friends, Seto? Is that jealously?

[allthecards]

[The laugh is met with the smirk reserved for activating a trap card]

Threatened? Try annoyed that they were always in my way when I tried to challenge you.

Here I thought now that you'd finally abandoned them I'd have a chance to face you without anyone howling in the background.

[puzzlingly]

「What kind of trap card is that, buddy? He meets that smirk with one of his own, a far less gentle one than the one he's always given him.」

Hah... You keep making it about yourself. I have news for you, Kaiba. The world does not gravitate around you. Correct me if I'm wrong but... It's you who were looking to settle that score, weren't you?

「You're but another little planet.」

So... Why are you still standing there?