( everyone has their personal biases, of course, but why would that change how makoto felt about it? even in his own world, which had been just as perfectly generic of an “earth” as one could imagine, he had felt judged and maligned despite the fact that he had never actually done anything wrong. he simply hadn’t fit in—a strange young man with morbid interests and macabre tastes, who had never known the right thing to say to classmates his own age, who had never been able to make a true friend until after his mortal death. he is still somewhat convinced that there is no world that would welcome him which also clung to concepts such as “morality” and “justice.” it’s an awareness which brings him no small amount of self-loathing, but he’s aware that he’s the type of outlier to the norm that the average person would prefer set aside or put away—out of sight, out of mind. did it matter if he had never hurt anyone if it would be a constant battle on his end to keep it that way? there’s a reason he had felt more at home in hell itself than under his father’s roof.
makoto smiles with false cheer. ) You won’t think it’s bullshit for very long. If there’s one thing we know about this place, it’s that it’s absolutely haunted. The flooding is actually new, and I… hope it doesn’t happen again. But the ghosts are a common occurrence.
( in the instance of the inmates running the asylum, here it’s more like it’s the ghosts with their hands on the wheels and levers of this place. for example: ) Like the portraits in the elevators. The spirits in them like to trap people inside and not let them go until—ah. Well, until they’re satisfied with how well people play along to their demands.
( makoto tried to avoid the elevators when this was happening more often. it doesn’t really help when they move around the stairwells so that you can’t find them. despite his best efforts, he’d been caught in that trap three times. ugh.
he shrugs. ) I’ve just heard that there’s machinery down there as well. Who can say what any of it does? You could go take a look for yourself if you’re so curious. Just keep headed down.
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makoto smiles with false cheer. ) You won’t think it’s bullshit for very long. If there’s one thing we know about this place, it’s that it’s absolutely haunted. The flooding is actually new, and I… hope it doesn’t happen again. But the ghosts are a common occurrence.
( in the instance of the inmates running the asylum, here it’s more like it’s the ghosts with their hands on the wheels and levers of this place. for example: ) Like the portraits in the elevators. The spirits in them like to trap people inside and not let them go until—ah. Well, until they’re satisfied with how well people play along to their demands.
( makoto tried to avoid the elevators when this was happening more often. it doesn’t really help when they move around the stairwells so that you can’t find them. despite his best efforts, he’d been caught in that trap three times. ugh.
he shrugs. ) I’ve just heard that there’s machinery down there as well. Who can say what any of it does? You could go take a look for yourself if you’re so curious. Just keep headed down.