voidbreaker | AKIRA

[IT'S FINE. rocks back with the shove, noting the warmth but not commenting. he just seems amused]

So where should we go next?

[ he's distracted for a moment by what genuinely looks like a pile of fluffballs with eyes, making little squeaking sounds, before he glances back to akira. ]

Might as well wander down the row of shops, yeah?

Mmm. Might as well.

[to the shop exist they go! what is the next, the pink cafe?]

[ who knows what the layout of hogsmeade is so.... yeah. i'ma say it is. ]

At least retracing our steps'll be easier.

[a hum]

At least there's that.

[anyway. and then a thoughtful pause as they walk towards the pink cafe]

[. . .]

Hey, Ash--

[he looks like he wants to say something]

[ it's all still so quaint. this whole place is so much. ]

Yeah?

[ say your words akira. ]

. . .

[a tiny huff]

It's a new week, so it should be safe. . .

[what is he mumbling about]

[anyway--]

My power is to nullify the effects any power or this camp might have on a person for up to twenty-four hours.

[ hm. ]

No healing kisses then? Maybe it really is carrot-top with that kind of power after all?

[ still he nudges akira — it’s not gentle but it’s nowhere near the sort of power he could or would normally use ]

Hah.

[he seems amused]

Yeah, maybe. But I'm the one who shielded Dick on Thursday night and Friday until eleven.

[a beat]

By the way, thanks to SOME PEOPLE-- [he coughs] I had to make sure I or the people close to me wouldn't get punished after it came up at trial.

. . . fortunately, so long as nobody confirms it, it seems fine to speculate on powers. Even if the speculation is correct.

Ah, so that was the delay.

[ he tilts his head ]

Does Chatterbox know your powers? I normally assume if Lili knows something he does too, unless you specified she keep it to herself.

[ in that case, he might as well ask: ] Whose powers do you know now? I don’t think telling people who without revealing what’ll count, right?

Thaaaat was the delay.

[. . . MAKING A FACE when Kara comes up]

And he doesn't, though Lili has encouraged me to share it with him. Lili definitely knows, but she's covering for me right now. I don't know how many people genuinely know or believe the power is mine, but nobody has asked me about it so far. And if anyone asks her, I'm pretty sure she'd tell them that it isn't.

[probably because they know better]

. . . not counting those who have died, I know yours, Lili's and Chuuya's.

[ hey, at least he’s hot ]

She likes to encourage things, huh. You don’t have to tell him shit if you don’t want to — if she tells him to back off you, then that’s that. And even though you were getting really passionately into that argument, it isn’t an automatic flag that you’re involved.

[ a shrug. ]

Hm. So you knew one of the recently dead’s powers then, but I guess they’re common knowledge now.

. . . I'm still thinking about it.

[ugh. he knows that Lili really wants them to get along, and getting along with him is better in the long run for their alliance, but. . . meh]

It's not even that I think Ookurikara was wrong, he just didn't have to treat me like a kid he was lecturing, you know? The only thing I was trying to do was protect people from the consequences of having their powers revealed. Nobody really cared or acknowledged that. They just assumed they were entitled to the information because I happened to use my power on murder night.

[and even though his is the null power, even if it hadn't been, he would have stilled argued as heatedly as he did. and that's why he's sore with everyone who just ignored what he was saying and was like WELL SORRY WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT]

[but anyway. . . he huffs]

And no, I didn't know those powers before they died, only afterwards.

I get it, but from another perspective when someone has something suspicious about them and they won’t elaborate then people are gonna push it. And a simple “drop it” ain’t gonna cut it.

[ annoying, but true. and especially with the outcome they got. ]

So... you both make sense, but maybe you need to actually say that to him. [ he flicks akira’s forehead ] Rather than fuming in the middle of a resort village. Same goes to him, he can’t sit around sulking about people keeping secrets when we’ve literally been ordered to. I kinda think we forget these powers can be literally fuckin’ anything so we’ve gotta know when to push a topic and when to drop it.

[a frustrated noise]

I know. But that doesn't mean I can't at least try.

[anyway. he'll get over it with everyone else. Kara tho. . . we'll see. either way Akira rocks back with the flick, still frowning!!]

Well, I'm not going to talk to him until I've gotten my feelings under control a bit. [. . .] . . . but I am going to talk to him.

[he promised Lili u_u]

[ and lili’ll string them both up by the balls if they don’t talk uwu ]

Just fight him. He’ll probably say yes and that way you can get rid of sone of that rage and chat with him too.