asgardeventide | sixth song ♫ video/text; BACKDATED to last week

[The feed opens up to a pair of teenagers talking. The bracelet isn’t on either one of them, having been left on a table. Seems like one of the Gods is up to some sort of trickery or tomfoolery.

Rion is in view of the camera, holding a conversation with Yukari. Well, sort of - she’s talking, he’s responding with something written down in such a way that the viewer can’t see what he’s responding with.]

...I guess I’m just not sure... Why her? I mean, other people you know must’ve disappeared too.

[Whatever he responds with is unheard and unseen.]

[She mulls it over for a second.] I know that feeling... But, other people will understand you too, right? I mean, I guess I do, to start with. At least kind of. [Though she is having to ask questions that show she might not, on the other hand.]

[He shakes his head. Something long is written, and he gives Yukari time to reply -- and then he stops again, then writes one more thing.]

[That’s a lot to get from someone in a short time. But Yukari isn’t 100% in a position to criticize that, either. So she nods.] I know. It makes sense. They were--they are really special, huh?

[He doesn’t reply, instead just looking at her. There’s something he needs to explain to her, but he can’t find the words... thankfully, the gods will take care of this for him. He opens his mouth, and the boy who as far as she (or anyone else) knows doesn’t ever speak speaks. No, not speaks - sings, in a high tenor that seems to fit him; it’s what one may have imagined him to have a voice like.]

(Song is here!)

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

[When the song ends, he still hasn’t noticed that the device is on; his eyes are wide in absolute shock. He hadn’t seen that coming either, any more than Yukari has. There’s a long pause, and then Yukari speaks.]

….Um, Rion-kun...

What the hell?

(OOC note: Green is Rion, and pink is Yukari!)

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[JUDGING BY HIS STILL STUNNED EXPRESSION HE DOESN'T KNOW WTF EITHER, YUKARI.

He tries to open his mouth again, but nothing comes out.]

...

I mean, I've gotta give you credit if you've been pretending all this time.

[HE LOOKS LIKE HE IS ABOUT TO FLIP THE TABLE.

He starts writing again, furiously.]

I haven't been faking anything! I don't know what just happened!

[Her bewilderment fades a bit. The anger is palpable.]

S-Seriously...?

So you think it was them again?

I haven't talked as long as I can remember. They say it's something in my head, but I've never done it.

Do you think I'd wait until now to say something?

[Sorry, no, Yukari, he's still pretty pissed. You got some apologizing to do.]

...It was just a joke, ya know.

[IT WAS APPARENTLY NOT FUNNY AT ALL

HE'S STILL REALLY PISSED, IF LOOKS COULD KILL YUKARI WOULD BE HOSPITALIZED AT LEAST]

...

[It would be as she's casting around for some way to mollify him that doesn't involve her apologizing, because she's an egotist who doesn't want to apologize, that she spots the bracelet on the table and her eyes widen.]

-- Is that yours?

[... great.

He turns, realizes it's on and may have been recording all of this, and rushes over to it.

It has been.

So he's just going to turn it off for now, then turn and GLARE DAGGERS at Yukari. He's still so, so, so angry.]

[... Fine, take the bull by the horns it is.]

Don't be mad at me for a joke, Rion-kun.

[He snatches the notebook he usually carries around back up, and starts writing. Furiously. Honestly, with the amount of pressure he's applying to that pen and to the notebook it wouldn't be surprising if he managed to break it.

But he doesn't, and when he finishes, he whips the notebook at her.]

Hilarious. I guess I've just been faking it this entire time. I just had you and Chie and Minako learn how to sign because it was fun. I didn't say anything when I got the shit kicked out of me because it was a joke. I haven't been able to talk to anyone my entire life just to set things up for one moment where I finally decide to sing.

All a joke. All of it. Really funny.

[... she has probably never seen him this angry pretty much ever.]

[oh that isn't going to make her any happier, either.]

I didn't mean you were joking. I meant I was. Because I thought it'd make you feel a little less awkward about it. What should I have done, huh, just kept standing there? Don't try and pin this on me. I didn't do anything, I'm not gonna get guilted about this.

[Rion's only response is a flurry of sign language that like, Chie might understand if he slowed down by about 50%.

Yukari at this point has no hope of comprehending any of it other than that it is clearly directed at her.]

--You know I can't understand that.

[Which is only frustrating him more, because it would help if he hadn't hurled his notebook at her, and he sure as hell does not feel like typing.

Which leaves him out of ways to communicate other than to glare.]

... Come on. Calm down, will you?! You shouldn't be getting mad at me about this. It was the gods who made you do it, right...? Lots of people have been singing this week?

[FJDKSAFJDSA NO YUKARI YOU CANNOT BE THAT DENSE.

He storms over, grabs the notebook, and starts writing. Again. How inconvenient this is is making more frustrated.]

I'm mad about the joke, not about the singing. If I could sing again right now I would.

Okay, but I don't actually think you were pretending! I was trying to lighten the mood. Stop being so stubborn.

Those jokes aren't funny.

[He's being stubborn because you're being a hurtful bitch Yukari!!!]

Fine, they're not funny. I won't try to be funny for you again, okay?

Just don't make jokes about that, okay?

[>:|]

Whatever. Fine.

[And no one was happy.]

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