[ todomatsu is in his normal clothes, sitting on a bench near the bonfire and looking down at his phone. he glances up when he notices someone, but upon seeing that it is neither a pretty girl nor an obvious axe murderer that he needs to run away from, he immediately loses interest.

...BUT because he still doesn't know what the fuck is going on here and feels like he should be making Good Impressions, he puts on a smile, sets the phone down next to him, and waves. ]

Hey, uh... [ quick glance to the profiles... ] ...Strife-san, is it?

[ damn, that's a name for a character who's always having a bad day. sorry the production team did you like that. ]

[ he could be an axe murderer. he does have a giant sword. cloud honestly barely notices todomatsu because people looking at their phones is not out of the ordinary in NEW EXCITING FF7 WITH TECHNOLOGY, but he does notice when he is hailed. ]

Just Cloud's fine. [ no one uses last names. he doesn't know what being polite means. he looks over at the profiles as well because if todomatsu is going to do it... ] ... Todomatsu?

[ look if the sword isn't out there in his hands and ready for slicing he's just assuming he's a chuuni ]

Yep, that's me!

[ it is so wild to be instantly recognizable from a photo instead of having five others that look almost identical looming around it like trick answers ]

I figured I should at least get through introductions with everyone if we don't know how long we're going to be here.

[ he absolutely is a chuuni, it's accurate ]

... Not the worst plan. Pretty sure most people read those things just to snoop, though.

[ nodding towards the notice board. it's not an accusation he's saying. he doesn't care if that is what todomatsu did ]

Haha, well, I guess I'm doing a little of that too. Better to have some idea of who you're dealing with when there are so many other unknowns.

Right. Can at least find out about each other even if nothing else around here's got any answers so far.

[ i keep laughing at the stupid butt strife thing ]

[ in front. of the noticeboard??? you can decide if he still has the hand i dont know what im doing. he has smoke inhalation issues because the mods won't let me pretend fire damage isn't real so his voice is RASPY i GUESS ]

You guys see anything last night?

Edited (they introduced themselves already i forgo) 2024-06-15 02:02 am (UTC)

[ help yeah please still have the hand that's hilarious. he's probably looking at his phone again and hasn't noticed yet. ]

Uh, Aventurine-san was at the cabin with... a bunch of us, but I never saw him leave before I fell asleep.

[ ... ]

I'm not even sure how he did leave, because the door was totally jammed shut with all of us inside it last night. Like, Karlach went at that thing at full power and it didn't even budge.

[ looking around.. for a bucket... to hold his hand...? ]

Outside wasn't much better. We were around the pyre when the fog set in thick, and we couldn't go anywhere after. [ ... ] Don't think that sleep was natural.

[ amongst everything else that was unnatural, ]

Yeah... I don't even really remember falling asleep. It was more like blacking ou—

[ finally looks at what cloud's holding. hm. ]

Is that a hand.

[ ... ]

We found it in the fire. I don't exactly want to leave it... around.

[ he is TRYING to find a SPOT FOR IT, he WEARS GLOVES SO IT'S LESS TERRIBLE ]

Ah......... maybe there's... something at the mortuary? They probably have, like. Specimen jars, right?

... May...be?

[ he hadn't thought of that, because 1) he doesn't like the mortuary much. or specimen jars. 2) corpses and ff7 is a mystery to me. theirs just fuckin vanishes. ]

Guess I can look.

That seems like the safest and least weird place to store it, at least.

Yeah. Thanks. Can't say I've ever had to think about this before.

[ where... to store... limb... ]

I mean, fair.

Where did you even find it... was it just out there on the ground in the flames?

Edited (clarifying...) 2024-06-15 10:42 am (UTC)

Aerith found it near that weird tree in the swamp. [ and then cloud looked at her bare hands and went i...will take that... ]

[ help

you know. cloud thinks karamatsu is the most real of these brothers by the end of it. he looks somewhat exhausted. ]

...

Never been more glad I'm an only child.

[ he is correct, karamatsu is objectively the best. anyway this is my favorite genre of matsu memshare which is starting with a few identical guys in a room and then more keep showing up.

todomatsu sighs and rubs his face. ]

Wish I knew what that was like.

A little less talk about pizza.

[ a little. ]

So... five of them? [ FIVE? that's SO MANY ]

Yyyyep.

[ if i'd actually kept going until the end of the episode they move onto WHAT THE FUCK EVEN ARE SEXTUPLETS, THAT'S WAY TOO MANY, THIS SUCKS in a few minutes, actually, so mood. ]

I'd say "never a dull moment" but as you can see, that is definitely not the case.

No kidding.

[ ok i am going to memshare but ]

Hey, what's... a NEET, anyway?

[ SWEATS

he wants to lie but he can't be sure he won't get doxxed by one of the other japanese people here or by a contradictory memory of his own, so. just. sugarcoats it a little. ]


It's, uh. Just a shorter way of saying someone is currently unemployed where I'm from.

... Ah.

[ both in a "that's it?" way and in a "you LOOK unemployed, that tracks" way.

anyway. card games. ]

Edited 2024-06-26 01:05 am (UTC)

[ wow.

also this is such a funny memory help... he's like, you know what, sure. why not. cat guy does a good moonwalk. ]

...Congrats.

... Thanks.

[ that's fair. cat guy does do such a good moonwalk... ]