hadriel_logs | Event Log: A Hope for the Future

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.
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「Blink.」

Too much bread?

Yeah. I don't like bread.

[almost petulantly, like a brat. WHY? IS THAT WEIRD?]

「Now, that's one interesting change in Law's voice. Sounds like very much like him when he was given fish roe,
WHEN HE WAS SEVEN.」

Why?

「The pirate can bet there is a slightly diverted tone in his voice.」

[aw c'mon tiny king, roe is delicious]

I just don't.

[real answer: because Cora-san didn't and I was impressionable enough at thirteen to make him my whole life and therefore...

Yeah it's really sad when you get down to it.]

Everybody has foods they don't like, right?

「No! IT'S DISGUSTING, ew, the texture........ and don't get him started on the flavor!」

Yeah, that's true.

「Asking doesn't hurt, though.」

It's a bit of a shame, though... There are some from home too.

「Don't mind the nostalgic demeanor. Yugi would have loved them. He eats just another one of those little pieces of heaven. But he goes a little serious after that.」

Say, Law... aren't you tired of all of this...? Of being treated like a guinea pig?

Mm. Yeah.

[murmured into his drink. He feels that so hard]

Pieces are falling into place, though. It's time to take matters into our own hands.

[his vaunted intentions of finding the gods a new food source, of researching the Door and the conflict with the Null, have been backburnered thanks to subsistence-level living. But now Hope is at full power, Sorrow will be returning, they've rescued the renegade Null, and they have luxuries and new houses and everything. Time to stop thinking about fishing enough for everyone to not starve every day and start thinking rebellion.]

「That sounds like something is brewing under the surface. He's not sure what, though. So, when Atem looks up at him, there is doubt in his eyes. What's on your mind, dude?

He can only assume so much, but their thoughts aren't so different, no. He moves away from the table and more into the shadow where Law probably came from, being careful to look around shying away from unknown faces.」

How?

「He's never been on this side of the fence, he always held the resources, the power and the people (until he didn't). Here, they are but a bitter bunch of individuals who have been held against their will and put under impossible circumstances for far too long.」

[yes, secret conferences murmured in the corner, good. The shadows are safe, though what he wouldn't give for Corazon's ability right now instead of his own.]

One thing at a time. Lance-ya is working on things. As soon as Sorrow is in any capacity, I'm going to talk to him.

[he's aware that probably won't amount to anything but he's damn tired of sitting back and relying on outdated information told third-hand from people who aren't even in the city any longer]

Right.

「He doesn't seem to have much opinion about that. Or maybe he's just being cagey about it. He can do that too.」

I don't think you're gonna be the only one.

Probably not. [oh well!] But I need to be proactive. We need a real solution, this can't go on for the rest of our lives.

[he's not living out a life here and then going back to find out Straw Hat has already been the Pirate King for twenty years goddammit]

「To which Atem just raises an eyebrow.」

You tell 'em, Captain.

[what did he say about calling him that? Actually Law probably can't remember either. He just gives Atem the stern face.]

You wanted to know. Now you do.

「Did he?」

I know it's just... Between knowing this is wrong and yet it being all what some have left.

「Some of us.」

I guess this is one of those times when there really isn't any other option left.

[don't worry, he hasn't forgotten. If it seems like he's just focused on going home, it's shorthand for 'giving everyone a better option than being preyed upon by these jerks.' Which is why he actually lifts a hand and puts it on Atem's head, like he's going to muss up his hair but without the mussing.]

It doesn't have to be. If there's another option, we'll find it. You deserve better than being tormented.

「Oh. What? Atem allows the gesture, not that he knew it was coming, he tenses some at it only to relax as he just looks down at the floor. As unexpected as it is, it is exactly what he was trying to avoid. This is not about him. He had his chance, it was about time he went back where he belongs, even if after spending so long in Hadriel has shaken his beliefs. He's truly not sure anymore if there is something else for those like him after this is over. If it ever is.

But those thoughts are quickly tossed back to the back of his mind and he just smiles a little, still not really able to look up at him.」

Something you can see, yet cannot see...

[At the very least, looking for all options means one for him too, even if Atem doesn't want to take it. It would be kind of difficult to try to find safe havens or other worlds for the other dead folks but somehow leave him out. But that's a problem to solve another day.

Law smirks; he never did answer that riddle, did he?]

If the answer's something sappy like 'love' I'm punching you.

「He laughs at that.」

If that's your answer, I guess I cannot stop you. Just... not in the face.

No, it's not my answer.

[does he even have one? He's probably too tipsy to come up with one that sounds like he actually put thought into it.]

When I couldn't sleep out there in the wilderness, I kept thinking about that riddle. I never did solve it to my satisfaction.

It wasn't made to have a definite answer.

「Can't say he's not curious about what Law might have come up with it. After all, the riddle was made to look beyond what was evident, to give a different perspective to a situation, or reinforce it.」

...ah. So one of those meditative posers.

[for a man who likes precise answers, boooooo. Good now he's off the hook.]

I've got nothing.

「A bit of a shrug.」

Don't fret, I was telling it to myself, I guess.

「Can he continue eating his stuff? Yeah, not gonna ask, there he goes.」

Event Log: A Hope for the Future

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