TSUYUKUSA

[foreversweaterweather]

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[branches]

It doesn't matter! It was still me that did it, Otome is still dead and someone has to take the blame, Mabel!

Ayakashi don't run and hide behind excuses! We're different from humans!

[foreversweaterweather]

It's not an excuse, it's the truth!! Why do you want to let yourself be hurt so badly?!

[branches]

Because I want the person who killed Otome to suffer just as much as anyone else! And I've already died before so what does it matter anyway!?

[foreversweaterweather]

[ bursting into angry tears and squeezing him tighter ]

Because it matters to me! And I don't want him to suffer!!!

[branches]

[AUGH HE'S SO DISTRESSED ITS A GOOD THINK HE'S WORKED UP SO HIS TSUN CAN'T KICK IN]

Don't you understand, Mabel!? I was never real to begin with! And even if I was, my tree is gone, it's dead! I don't have any connection to the forest anymore, I'm nothing! I'm just a shadow! You'd be better off just forgetting about me, seriously!!

[foreversweaterweather]

If you're not real, then neither am I! And neither is anyone else here! Because I know we weren't all just hallucinating an imaginary friend together!!

I don't care if you're part of some computer code, or whatever happened to your tree--all I know is, you're here, you're one of my bestest friends ever, and you don't deserve this!

[branches]

[STOP JUST LET HIM HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS YOU ALREADY]

You don't know that! I killed a lot of humans before I came here, if anything you should be scared of me!

[foreversweaterweather]

And I started the apocalypse! So what?! I don't care, Tsuki, and I'm not letting you chase me away when you need someone in your corner more than ever!

[branches]

[STOPS.]

You what?

[foreversweaterweather]

[ sniffles ] I started the apocalypse?

[branches]

And you expect me to think you can't accomplish anything?

[THE WHOLE APOCALYPSE, MABEL]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ tbf, it was a very localized apocalypse. ]

I didn't mean to! It was an accident, I--ugh! Whatever! [ she punches him lightly in the shoulder ] That's not the point! What I mean is, just because you might've done some bad things doesn't mean I don't still care about you! Cuz I know who you are deep down, and I like that guy, no matter what!

[branches]

[Of course it was.]

I could have been lying to you this whole time. Maybe I actually still do hate all humans and want them all to die.
[The use of "still" implying he one time felt that way for real.]

[foreversweaterweather]

But you don't!

[ throws herself into another hug at him ] Why are you trying so hard to get me to not like you anymore?!

[branches]

Because then you won't care once I'm gone?? So stop making it so difficult!

[foreversweaterweather]

Nuh-uh! You think this is any different than you getting mad at me over using my no-sadness power? You're trying to do the same thing right now! Well, I'm not falling for it! I'm gonna care--and even if you did make me hate you somehow, I'd still care! Cuz you'll still have been one of my best friends since we showed up here!

[branches]

... Didn't you have a crush on Leo?

[He knows it's mean to bring it up but he's stubborn and it's his last chance to get her to hate him despite her protests!!!]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ she flinches back a little at that ]

...it's okay. I knew he didn't like me back anyway.

[branches]

You could still be mad at me for it. It would make complete sense.

[foreversweaterweather]

Well I'm not! The more you try to make me hate you, the more I'm gonna love you instead!

[branches]

[UGH!!!!]

You're impossible.

... The first time I died I tried to tell my brother the same thing. We were always arguing, and unlike me, he remembered the whole time how our father died because he was protecting me. He should have resented me, should be glad to have me gone. But do you know what he said?

[foreversweaterweather]

...what?

[branches]

He told me to not even think about leaving him.

And then do you know what he did right before I got here? He went and died himself. Who fucking does that? After saying something like that.

[foreversweaterweather]

...you know people can't decide when they die or not, right?

But I bet he was glad to have someone with him, all the way to the end of his life.

[branches]

[YOU KNOW WHAT LISA IT IS ROUGH.]

I wasn’t. I wasn’t there when it happened. That’s what pisses me off the most. That’s why I have to go to the real world where he is now and punch him in the face.