dramatispersonae | Kazuki Heart

[ When your sight clears find yourself in a flashy room... and not alone! Just disorientating, bright lights blinking everywhere and screens no matter where you look. There's bling and toys and strange levers and buttons...! If you're familiar with this sort of thing, you would realize you are in a modern arcade. There doesn't seem to be an immediate exit, and if you look behind you you will find the screen is on, with a display of all the characters on your team, as if selectable. You yourself are greyed out. ]

((Toki, Nia and Estelle start here!))

[ And everyone else starts in the following: ]

[ Once your sight clears, you see you are in a strange yet familiar bedroom. That might be because it does not look unlike Kazuki's bedroom, from home! Complete with a window and balcony. The interior decorating is somewhat different though, because though the walls are white the edges and accents are all sapphire blue. One corner is pretty much a duplicates of Yuki's pillow/memory pile too. A clock ticks idly in the background... On the bed a plush puppy that doesn't look unlike Sapphire is rested on the pillow, along with... with, is that Edeleine, Kazuki childhood doll? ]

[ Well whatever. In the center of the room is a sunflower in a pot, and there are even books on a desk, though almost tellingly there is a TV with DVDs and a PS2 attached as well. Various other objects are strwen around too, but those most definitely are the things to first catch your eye. The space feels like it belongs to you. ]

[ Once your sight clears, you find yourself in a quiet bedroom with white walls and soft, kunzite-coloured accents. The only thing that seems to make noise is the tick tock of a clock in the background. There's a soft looking bed, on which rests a plush doll of Elizabeth. There's a window with a balcony, outside of which soft snow falls. As if fitting the theme, there's also a snowglobe sitting on a small coffee table, which is situated right next to a gameboy. In the middle of the room is a cheerful looking sunflower in a pot! And in the corner there's... a bunch of weapons... ]

[ Nonetheless, this room feels like it belongs to you! There's probably more objects if you look around, but the above is what should immediately catch your eye. ]

[ Once your sight clears you find yourself in a comfortable bedroom, even if someone made the choice to paint the walls bright turquoise with white accents. A cloc ticks softly in the background, though you don't see it on the walls-- maybe it's in the familiar looking pillow piles sitting in the center of the room... and a large table, with a TV and wii attached, along with assorted video games(?) to it. The table also happens to have brownies, alcohol and... hand cuffs... ]

[ More demanding of your attention! May be the large stuffed animal in the corner, with a large sword through it, next to a sunflower in a pot. Or the window and how outside there is a blizzard and a large ferris wheel in the distance. Or the multiple other objects, if those did not first catch your attention. ]

[ The room you start in is stark white, not unlike a hospital, but if you have an eye for detail you may find there's a hint of heliodor yellow here and there. In the background, a clock ticks softly, whittling away time. Looking around, you will notice the room does not look unlike this one, which might make it feel terrible and unwelcoming-- except the atmosphere is very much about you belong here! ]

[ Almost out of place is a beautiful potted sunflower under a portrait of a purple sunset, which particularly seems to beg for attention, your eyes constantly being drawn to it. A PSP sits on a table next to the bed. ]

[ You find yourself in... literally, your bedroom, the one that was in Boudo. It's panel wooded floors are exactly the same, your bookshelves, the couch and TV in the center of the room-- Kazuki's gaming console attached, of course. There's been a few additions however... if you look out the windows you'll see sakura in full bloom, where there may have not been any sakura before. On your desk is a small musical merry-go-round, finely detailed. Next to your desk is a wilted sunflower. A clock ticks softly in the background... ]

[ And your bed is actually hospital bed. ]

[ All said and done though, there's more objects that could be found! And besides, the atmosphere feels very welcoming, like you belong here. ]

[ You find yourself in your room as it was back in Three's realm, with a few (possibly welcome) additions: A clock ticks idly on the wall, and Beauty's lantern rests center on your desk. In one corner stands a full set of knight armor, and in the other there's a small sunflower blooming in a pot. ]

[ And while you might have trouble completely puzzling it, there's also Kazuki's gameboy rested on your desk. Yhere's probably more unique objects scattered around too, if you look. Most of all though, your room feels welcoming and like you belong here. ]

[ Once your sight clears, you find yourself in a bright turquoise bedroom! for some reason the room is loud, you can barely hear the clock tick, but that might be because the TV in the middle of the room is showing a movie about... typhoons! IMAGINE THAT. There's a console and everything set next to it too, that must be from where the movie is being played. There's a mp3 player set right on top of the TV too, gosh, and in fact the whole room seems a little messy-- books and paper everywhere, glass jars of light, a small sunflower wilting a little because it's been cloaked by a dress, of all things. A small model ship rests in a bottle on a messed up futon, and there's definitely potential of finding more items. Something about the whole set up feels like home. ]

[ Once your sight clears you find yourself in a bright, heliodor yellow bedroom... though it's helped a little by the black accents lining it. It seems quite comfortable too, a leather couch situated across from a TV, video game console, and table. On the table rests a dark red vial of blood however, U... M. ]

[ Nonetheless! There's other objects scattered in here too, and what really offsets the vials is the little origami cranes scattered next to it on the table. A clock ticks in the background innocently, and there's a number of small pile of books too. A small sunflower in a pot seems to shine at you from a corner. ]

[ You're surrounded by a gray city, the sky overhead dark and not just because it is a soft purple dusk, but due to heavy clouds full of dramatic potential there too. The air at least is clean and electric, and perhaps you can feel a few drops of rain on your skin now and then, or more rarely see some snow fall to the ground—ground which, if not the cold hard checker pattern on which you stand, has deteriorated enough to crumble and create steep ledges, the bottom of which are organic valleys full of flowers. Even more inspiring is that each snowflake and drop of rain encourages more flowers to open and... glow, like lights, its stark brightness and colour contrasting against the monochrome city background. It's just a pity everything just seems a little... artificial. It does a good job of mimicking reality, but it's not unlike an HD video game where something's just off enough to tell. As if continuing the video game theme, on the upper left corner of your vision you’ll notice what seems to be a ‘X’ button. You might be able to press it if you concentrate enough. More worryingly there also seems to be a timer under that 'X', and you can hear the audible tick of it in the wind-- a tick that does not sound unlike a heartbeat. ]

[ There is just a more pressing matter than the overall set up though, which is where you came from and where you can go. If you look behind you, you will find the very piece of technology you were transported through, along with many others-- some screens off, some screens on, some connected to each other and all connected to a central computer. There's even some leads from that computer which seem to go and drop into the fields, where you cannot see and would have to drop down a ledge in order to find. It's really a pity the entire area you're on is like a checker patterned island standing high over the meadows. Though from what you can tell this entire place may have originally been a checker board too, before it was destroyed and worn away, because there are other checkerboard islands out there with their own indistinguishable objects on them. There might even be a way to get across to them, if you look around hard enough. ]

[ Something about the world around you has gone horribly, horribly wrong-- and now you are somewhere you are not meant to be, surrounded by dark tall buildings and snow coming down, covering you and the ground more and more by the second. Everything is quiet, and isolating. The only thing you can do is try and find a way out. ]

[ Who knows how you managed to get here, but maybe it would've been better if you didn't. While the entire room definitely looks like it was once a normal Japanese classroom, those days are now long over and it has become a battlefield-- the entire place is stained with blood, miscellaneous bodies and body-parts everywhere. There's a crown at the desk at the head on the classroom, pristine and almost innocent. There's also a bunch of lockers in the back of the room. ]

[ The blackboard is covered in gruesome, hateful, almost incoherent graffiti. ]

[ You find yourself in a fancy, almost royal like building. The walls are covered in portraits. Yes, of... Kazuki(?) A clock ticks heavily, echoing down the halls. ]

[ And for a place that seems so fancy, it is also a mess. There's blood stains and puddles all over, seemingly unable to be cleaned away thought some pages of paper are soaking what they can up. This is probably easily explained by the large amount of weapons strewn along with the not just random body parts and corpses, but also machine parts-- cogs, wires and the like. Broken shards of glass are also scattered every which way. ]

[rubbing his one eye, looking a bit confused]

Huh . . . ?

[... wowww]

What is this?

Whoa, look at this place.

[:|a going to check out the mp3 player what is this]

[shaking his head a little, that entry was a bit jarring]

[but once he gets his bearings he's picking up the gameboy, taking a look at it]

This is Kazuki's . . . ?

[ You're going to have to do more than that to get a reaction. The machines are colourful and beepy and sure are confusing! ]

[ IDK you tell me ]

[ It is! The game isn't turned on, but the screen reflects almost perfectly-- but instead of your face looking back at you, it's Kazuki's. Kind of creepy, huh? ]

[well that was weird but]

[...it's nice here can I just stay here]

[ ... it's an mp3 player. It's blasting music enough for the sounds to leak from the earphones! ]

[ You sure can. ]

Kazuki Heart

ARCADE

YOUR ROOM

YUKI

RUKA

NAOTO

SION

HARUKI

FLYNN

TYPHOON

SEEKER

THE BOARD

FROM YOUR ROOM . . .

GLITCH CITY

CLASSROOM

GALLERY

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