(ROLE) DOCTOR WHO

[dormheads]

doctor who.

On Monday at 9 PM, Nier receives an encrypted e-mail.

middleman@Wiwaldi.edu

Meet me at the Student Health Office alone. Don't tell anyone.

Luke

No one is in the halls as Nier creeps to the Student Health Service Office. The door opens, and Luke waves him inside.

There is a trendy plastic letter board standing up on the counter which reads:

DOCTOR WHO
● DOCTOR or WHO?
● DOCTOR will spare someone from execution on Sunday, but under certain conditions. WHO? will allow the removal of a single piece of evidence. If no evidence is known, use "wildcard" to make it random.
● This choice is only active during the current week.
● You have to pick one or the other (doctor or who), not both.
● Deadline is Tuesday, 6 PM.

Comments

[darksubverted]

I get what you're saying, but Yamato and Taichi might surprise you. They can handle their own.

[Why is he taking up for them?! Friendship.]

...It's fine. I think narrowing it down as much as possible is good. What does.... everyone else think?

[EVERYONE YOU TOLD, NIER.]

[amain]

I wouldn't be surprised if they threw themselves at someone with a sword or a bomb, you're right.

[ IS THAT A GOOD THING, NO. ]

Sakyou and Kainé are fine with it since they narrowed it down with me. Sakyou just has to tell Dimitri and Claude.

[ Sakyou is new pope and... Nier doesn't feel happy about it, but. It's fine. ]

[darksubverted]

Don't worry. I'm keeping my eye on them.

[Well... as much as he can, considering SOMEONE(S) went off to a CYOA and got beat to shit before crawling back.]

The worst that could happen is... it just wouldn't work. If they're guilty. [A pause.] I know it's frustrating. For what it's worth... I think you're doing fine with what you have, Nier.

[amain]

Friends?

[ He's touched that those beaten up gay boys have another gay boy watching over them. ]

... It's fine, Riku. A chance is a chance and I still appreciate it—and I appreciate all you've done so far to help me.

[darksubverted]

[What pops up immediately is intense fluster that doesn't register on his face. But! He does look away quickly with his eyes. Stop. Don't perceive.

And then he looks back, hoping it's faster than it takes Nier to realize.]

You were angry.

[Dodges his own feels by calling out Nier's feels.]

[amain]

[ Why are you flustered over friends? Nier only raises his eyebrows, curious and very endeared. ]

Am I supposed to feel something else?

[ It's either mad or sad here. ]

[darksubverted]

[Sometimes it's hard to admit anything about friendship. We can't all be like Nier, over here feeling endeared.]

No, but... that's what you were feeling.

[Now that he thinks about it... That's weird. He makes a confused expression to the side, fingers curling over his heart.

Thinking about that time on the beach with Sora. "It's like something's squeezing me inside!"]

I could feel it, too.

[amain]

[ At first, Nier is like... Yeah? Yeah. At least he isn't mad now, instead he shares weariness and irritation. ]

Right. It seems like that's a part of this week's curse or whatever people are calling these effects. It's invasive in a different way, but I prefer it over sharing memories.

[ But he's a blockhead that wears his heart on his sleeve. ]

[darksubverted]

I figured.

[It's still really weird. Sora is the one who always scrambles to shove people in his heart, not him.]

I think I prefer it, too.

[MAYBE...............he hates having his feels on display a lot, too. GOD.]

[amain]

Even though you always try to keep cool?

[ Yeah, fondness is back. It is very annoying and 200% more obvious cause of emotionshare. ]

[darksubverted]

[UGH. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo. That's exactly the emotions Nier gets. A very embarrassed, teenage sort of petulance. His face really doesn't change. He's trying to keep cool!]

I am cool.

[He's sooooo cool.]

[amain]

Yeah, you are.

[ The emotions don't change even if Riku is blaring out moody sasuke vibes. ]

I wish I had a little brother like you, actually.

[darksubverted]

[He's DYING. He's SUFFERING. Truly.

Heat crawls into his cheeks, and nothing but a bundle of scribbled embarrassment comes off him. The equivalent of a keysmash.

But also... surprise?]

You have a sister, though... right?

[amain]

Yeah, I do, but I think she'd like another brother, too. Then she wouldn't be as lonely.

[ There's so much love and sadness mixed together in this chili's tonight and Nier tries his best to dispel some of the melancholy. ]

We're also kind of reckless people, so...

[darksubverted]

[Hmmm. There is some sympathy he can't keep down.
]

Maybe you're the only brother she wants and needs.

[amain]

... Thanks.

[ There's... Actually so much guilt it's suffocating, but also gratitude. ]

I'm not going to take back my comment.

[darksubverted]

[Tch. His brows lower, both as a deadpan response to what Nier said, and as a curious pique at the wash of guilt.

Hm.]

I'm not falling for that. You're not going to pawn me off on her while you're off being stupid. [:\] I've never had siblings. What makes you think I'm going to start now?

Sora and Kairi are enough of a headache.

[amain]

Mm… I thought of it more that you would be good to her—and maybe you’d make me a better older brother.

[ Less guilt, more fond now. ]

Family isn’t always about blood ties. [ But that isn’t the point. ] You should tell me more about those two next time.

[darksubverted]

...

[That sobers him slightly. The unfortunate part is he would. But he's not much different than Nier, so even though he would, and he'd try, his execution might not always be great. Is Nier's long con trying to set him up with his sister...?]

I know.

[He's probably made more family out of people who aren't related to him by blood. Now Nier is trying to headlock him into little brother. Is this a spider trick? Is Nier just Rui from Demon Slayer? So many questions.]

I don't know what I'd say.

[amain]

[ ...... no........... because nier refuses to let his sister get to know boys like that... it's canon. if there was ever any indication that could happen with riku he would disown his ass. He isn't forcing anything onto Riku. Riku is allowed to be who he is and accept what he wants. ]

Say whatever you want to say, even if it's nothing. Just remember you never know when you'll lose someone.

[ He pokes his forehead like Itachi did to Sasuke. This is my curse. ]

Right. I also wanted to ask about the note—the one about the recent field trips' documents eluding to something.

[darksubverted]

[STOP THIS.

What's hilarious is the last phrase before he gets poked draws a clenched, painful sort of frustrated sorrow out of him. He reaches up to push the hand away, lacking any kind of energy for it.

His eyes finally lift again.]

What about it?

[amain]

[ he loves you little brother ]

It says "who" a lot on it and wasn't sure if it's supposed to be an indicator. Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

[ Though Nier hasn't even used who. Yet. ]

[darksubverted]

I don't know. I don't think it's related to that, if you're worried.

[As funny as it is for the feelings coming off him to to be so morose before, he now gets an air of an amused gremlin. Apparently, he thinks it's funny Nier is paranoid about something he doesn't think may be related.]

Who else would "who" be if not us? It's a bunch of weird scenarios. Sounds like a story to me.

[amain]

[ Nier is blinking several times because RIKU is giving off GREMLINE vibes and this is so funny. Stop. Nier is actually paranoid for the stupidest things.

HE RUFFLES RIKU'S HAIR. ]

I was actually wondering if you guys have gone through anything in those scenarios in your scripted memories, too.

[darksubverted]

[BOY, HOW QUICKLY DOES THE GOBLIN ENERGY SHRIVEL UP AND WITHER WHEN HE'S RUFFLED. He hunches his shoulders and reaches up to try to wrestle the hand away.]

Cut it out. [HIS HAIR.] Not that I know of. What makes you think they're about us?