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_{[ The video clicks on and it shows Karamatsu using his new smartphone (he's never really had one before) to record. The picture is blurry, as he is moving around his new living space, as if show casing his shared apartment. There's the bathroom, there's the kitchen.. there's the beds--
Finally, the picture turns on him. He seems to be admiring himself for a moment, and then. ]}

Silence. Solitude. These are things often asked for in a person's life, but it isn't always what it suited for them best. As you can see, I've arrived-- again on my own-- with nobody else. Does loneliness terrify me? Heh, I do not think so, but it is a foreign concept for somebody like moi.

_{[ Then, his tone shifts, less dramatic, if possible. ]}

My name is Matsuno Karamatsu. I am here, again, searching for my brothers. You will know them if you see them, as I'm the second oldest in a litter of sextuplets and we look very much alike. If you have seen them, please inform me. It seems they have abandoned me, yet again, right before our shared day of birth.

Also, if you are familiar with the ship the Eluvio, I am wanting to find any survivors. I hope this place is more pleasant and less... gruesome.
_{[ survivors, huh? He seemed like a pretty serious guy (that isn't going to last very long, just wait.) ]}

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_{[ Instantly, Karamatsu brightens to see Reaper, but he conceals his excitement with a chuff of laughter, trying to look his coolest for the coolest dead-guy ever. ]}

Heh. I knew you couldn't resist following me and watching over me.
_{[ GABE GOT HERE FIRST, DAMMIT. ]}

Does having something to protect bring you joy, Reaper-san?

[Don't brighten up so much. Eugh. He visibly recoils when the other suggests he finds joy in protecting something. How dare you.]

I didn't follow you. I've been here for over a month already, don't accuse me of something so stupid.

I'm not even going to acknowledge that second comment, either.

It is alright to not express your true emotions. What is important is the fact that you are here.. even if those that I care about are not here. With you here, it is less for me to worry about where my friends are.

_{[ because you're a friend that's here, so that's one less that he had to fret over. ]}

'Friends'.

You're talking about those from the Eluvio, correct?

There's very few of us here. I can count them on one hand, for the most part.

[Because Reaper is just full of good news today--and he's not willingly including himself in Karamatsu's group of 'friends'. He's too edgy to admit that shit yet, Karamatsu.]

Ah, yes. Those from the Eluvio-- which includes you too.
_{[ He seems firm with this, as if he knows that Reaper is trying to deny his friendship. But Karamatsu is dumbly optimistic-- he knows Reaper rescued him and has been tutoring him for a reason: survival. Certainly there was some care there, right? ]}

There is still a chance more can come.
_{[ is he saying this to reassure himself or Reaper? ]}

Call it what you want. [Because he's still adamantly on the side of not being able to admit that he has something like a friend. Even if he goes out of his way to look after certain people here, which includes the showoffish NEET.]

It would be better if the rest of those on the Eluvio just went home.

Being stuck here is no better than being stuck out in space.

[And the company is far worse.]

I disagree.. as I have not seen anybody's body in disarray all over the vegetation here caused by something that we never even could figure out.

Being here is better than on board the Eluvio... even if it is painful to be separated from those that you may love.
_{[ oopsie.. ]}

[He should have been unsurprised that Karamatsu was bothered by that event, still. He was a normal guy, not a murder-normalist like him and Vaas who had made dead hand jokes over the network.

He rolls his shoulders for a moment, but goes completely rigid when the other brings up the word love.]

I'm sure your brothers won't take long to follow you here.

[His voice is oddly terse, in that moment. Don't say her name.]

_{[ He'd like for them to be here with him, but would that really matter or make a difference anyway? It would probably effect him more than it would effect them.

They only tried to separate once, and it was awful. Karamatsu doesn't want to appear sensitive about it, though, so he obviously looks bothered but his words are firm. ]}

They can be where they want...
.. as long as they are safe.

_{[ a beat. ]}

I'm sure she'll follow you here, too.
_{[ OKAY HE DIDN'T SAY HER NAME BUT STILL-- ]}

[It certainly wasn't her name, but it was enough. He can feel something roiling up in his throat, something like irritation or disgust, he's not quite sure.

He didn't need to think any more on that, and having Karamatsu bring it up...]

[He doesn't say so much as another word before the line goes dead.]

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