text; @bacura

[mellowyellow]

Hey, it's Masaomi here! Bringing you the most important PSA of your life.

Maybe you've seen me around lately, and if you have, you probably noticed something missing!

See, I'm a pretty fashionable dude, not that you'd know it with this lumberjack chic theme the store's got going on. Anyway, I died as every bad ass guy should: with all my flashy jewelry! Which means I still had it on me when the ferry sank and I waded to this sorry shore.

Those cheeky forest spirits stole one of my earrings when everything was going missing, but it wasn't with everything else when I went to check. I've searched this freaking town from top to bottom ever since, and not a single precious glint has caught my eye!

It's a nightmare! The tragedy of the ages!

I've been scouring this dump for too long to come up empty, so now, I have no choice but to involve you all in my woeful hardships.

Cuz this earring? It's not just another normal earring, okay. It's a family heirloom passed down through the generations: a MAGIC earring.

One day, I'll give it to a super cute, amazing, totally-hot-for-me chick, and we'll be soul married on the supernatural plane in order to maintain Earth's proper balance, so you absolutely have to help me find it!

Right now!

The Earth is at stake!

If the one who finds it is a total babe, I may even let you keep it. (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

[It is, in fact, just another normal earring. Masaomi and all of his accessories are the opposite of magical. But it's also one of the only things he has left from when he was alive, so Masaomi is milking this for all its worth. Help him find his jewelry, guys.]

Comments

[pearlstrings]

Alright, just so I can follow-

You want someone to wave their stick at you. You want good things to happen for you because you're hot.

[mellowyellow]

Well, when you say it like that, it sounds stupid.

[Doesn't make it any less true. The boy very clearly is desperate to be noticed, and he's gotta be fun and loud and fashionable to be noticed!!]

[pearlstrings]

Well, perhaps the first part, about the magic.

But I think the second part is very human.

[mellowyellow]

[Very human.

That sounds like something Izaya would say, but that asshole would have been a hundred times more condescending about it. It doesn't sound quite so bad coming from a complete stranger.]

Too bad we're not that anymore.

[pearlstrings]

[It's the kind of thing Selina might turn her face away from. Bruce has a habit of seeing the humanity in everyone, perhaps even the people who those around him find the least deserving of it. He is not always honest. But in this moment, he has been.]

Do you mean because you believe we're dead?

[mellowyellow]

Well, yeah.

I was there.

Kind of hard to be in denial about your own death when you're wearing more blood than you've got left inside you.

[pearlstrings]

One could argue the inverse just as easily. Hard to argue with life when you still have a heart beat. When you're still hungry, still tired.

[mellowyellow]

[...huh.]

So what? We're like Schrodinger's Undead?

[pearlstrings]

Well, it's as good a theory as any, don't you think?

[mellowyellow]

I think I like your style, man.

[That is some intensely satisfying and unexpectedly persuasive optimism you have there, good sir! Will you please share more?]