AForestDark— Aspects Game

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Ends on 08/18/2016 at 10pm PST.

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Content warning references to child abuse and drug abuse. Will put more warnings up if they come up.

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I imagine that wasn't the part that didn't go as well. . .

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It didn't. [ Sae pauses again, struggling with her next words. ] Yuu-kun got loud, agitated. "Just take it!" I tried to get him to keep it down, and I let it slip that I knew that he wasn't really our dad's child. He... he was so angry... [ Sae's breathing hitches. ] ...I'd never seen him so angry...

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[ silent for a moment ]

If it's too difficult, you don't have to tell me.

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[ Sae nods, and it takes a moment for her to speak up again. ] I think there was a part of him, at that time, that regretted... maybe just a little... And had been trying to make amends with his gift, with "that" box... So even though it shattered as he was leaving, I repaired it as best as I could, my treasure of "what might have been." If things had happened differently, if he or I had said or done the right thing at the right time to make it a little more bearable...

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. . . do you consider it the last chance?

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I don't think that Father would allow him anywhere near home anymore. I don't even know that he would come. [ Sae sighs. ] Even if it was all a castle of sand, I just wanted to keep the illusion of "our family" together.

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. . . it's a nice wish to have.

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It was my fondest wish. I want to think he might have wanted it, too, wanted it to be real... But he could never pretend.

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Sometimes pretending isn't good.

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I don't think Yuu-kun was happy either way. Life... it doesn't have easy answers. "Try it this way instead, it'll all work out!" People are more complicated than that.

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Mm. . . it's very complicated. Um, your father said. . . his room is here too? We could go together. . .?

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His room is the one before mine in the hallway, but I don't think it's a place I'm very welcome. [ Maybe if this were a heart game and not aspects, but... ]

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. . . Ah, I see.

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I'm sorry... though if you wanted to visit, you could...?

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I'll go see him.

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Please do. It was nice meeting you.

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Same here.

[ and off she goes to yue's room ]

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[ The bedroom is small, but very disorganized. There is a twin bed resting against a wall, unmade and probably in need of washing. There's a small desk with textbooks strewn about, though it doesn't look like the owner has been doing his homework.

...There's also the sound of breathing coming from under the bed. Someone's hiding under there, it seems, though judging by the swaying of the bedsheets, they must have dove under there just as you walked in. ]

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[ she kneels down not looking under the bed but waiting ]

Hello.

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[ There's a sullen silence for a moment before a voice comes out from under the bed. ]

...What do you want?

[ The voice sounds young, far younger than the age difference that there should be between Sae and Yue when you consider the family portrait.... but this isn't reality, this is part of a game, so perhaps it makes more sense than it sounds. ]

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I'm here to meet you.

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[ The boy climbs out reluctantly from under the bed. He looks like Saber might have when he was about nine or ten— though his hair isn't bleached yet, so it's decidedly darker. ] ...Who the hell are you?

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I'm Kennedy. Who are you?

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I'm Yue. Katou Yue. Why do you wanna meet me in the first place? Don't you got better places to be? Go bug someone else.

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I was just speaking with your sister... She sent me.