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Current placement: Hospital arc. Last date to appear in the bar was 4/27.

Base timelines will be edited as necessary to fit in new OOMs and bar entrances.

Hospital Arc (tricks 108 - 129)
Wind versus Thorn (tricks 130 - 141)
Fugue (tricks 142 - 145)
The Heart of the Forest, The Fall of the Flame (tricks 145 - 165)
One Week To Fall, One Spark to Carry (tricks 166 - 168)
Super Enhanced Training Program, White Wolf's Fangs (tricks 169 - 184)
Agito's Dissonance, Three Inside?! Brain Charger! (tricks 185 - ?)

Posting order:
3/3/08: 4/26
3/4/08: 4/27
3/5/08: 4/28
3/6/08: 5/1
3/7/08: 5/

When the funk dies, the shit flies. Even a monkey can't match that, yaknow?

Here's the thing. When you've fixed it all, got everyone right on track, they can do it without you from then on.

Here's the other thing. After you fix people, you can't hang offa them. It just makes all the cracks disappear again, yeah?

Ikki'll come back for the tower, he'll get that Sky Regalia and fuck it up where nobody can get to it again. Maybe he'll even go out with it, if he ain't practicing to be that careful. Great end, right? 'Coz what nobody thinks about is wind is hard to hold and anyone who gets too much is gonna snap like Sora.

He can feel his mind close to snapping sometimes. So this is just the best way.

It's not like he's abandoning anyone when they really, really love someone else... right?

Ikki's pissed. He's pissed and he's running, skating the city, his road and nobody else's. He might look like he's racing her, he might look like he's fighting her, but he's not even listening to her goddamn words.

This is shit, and she's gonna have to stop him somehow to set him onto her path.

"Goddamn," Ikki exhales, as he and Kilik arrive home. He doesn't even bother to go past the entrance hallway yet, just leaning against the wall, as if he needs to gather some strength to go farther.

"That was fucked up, okay? Really. Fucked. Up."

He's got a migraine from that Axis being brought out, he's worried about basically anyone and everyone that was involved, and basically the entire thing sucked. "The hell's going to happen after this?"

Hmm, hmm, hmm. Usually, when Ikki goes off to physical rehabilitation or for an adjustment tuning, he comes back in a very poor mood. The type where he tries to avoid anyone and everyone, including himself, until he either sleeps off the mood or someone smacks it out of him.

Today, he's just fine, playing some hand-held video game on the couch as he waits for Kilik to get home. No bad mood whatsoever.

Wonder why the change, eh?

Sometimes Ikki works late. Sometimes a shark or two stays up for him when he does. Sometimes they fall asleep waiting and that's cute, if not guilt-wracking.

On those nights (currently 4:15 am to be precise) he tries to work on Akito's A-T, but he's been at a block for awhile. Days, at least. Knowing what he wants to put in that'll lead it from halfway to the end, but not having it. Knowing but not knowing, yaknow? Just tryin' for the feel of it.

Nah, even he didn't know. He wasn't a tuner, he can't do this crap. But he was determined to anyway.

But he failed today so he's just sitting in that room they use for storage of A-T parts, tuner shit, manuals, all that crap. Because if it was an apartment for -them-, there'd be a room just for workin' on it. He ain't stupid and he figured out eventually that Kanon got the place, but he hasn't figured out a way to pay 'im back. Someday, eh?

In the meantime, he's just got his forehead on the table, hitting his head lightly against the surface, over and over. His head might be hard, but even he'll be damaged by that eventually. Someone save him, eh?

The good thing about living in an apartment rather than on the streets is that sometimes you get to rot your brain on tv. The great thing about living with the two greatest sharks ever is you can rot your brain with them, sometimes - if you can convince them to take the time to do it.

They're not home yet. He is. He has a collection of junk food and caffeine. He may have had too much sugar already.

Fear, sharks, fear.

Ikki is sitting on top of his favourite tower at the school. It's near night-time, but he stays late here sometimes, just because. It's the only reason he likes school. You can see a lot of things from up here.

Remember a lot of things.

It's nice.

Right now he's sort of close to dozing off, but he's not going to. He'd just sleep 'till the next morning, then, and get reamed out by sharkies tomorrow.

Ffff

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How many times does it take to spam your message box, Ringo? Ten, fifteen, twenty, a hundred? Well, Ikki's going to find out. It's varieties of various messages, some the same as others, some actually attempting to be different!

"SO WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK TO SCHOOL
I HAVE TO GET AKITO TO DO MY HOMEWORK NOW"

"COME BACK TO SCHOOL, SERIOUSLY
KANON TOOK YOUR CHAIR AND IT'S KINDA CREEPY"

"RI-RI, RI-RI, RI-RI
YOU HAVE TO COME TO LUNCH WITH ME
STOP IGNORING ME OR YOU WON'T GET FREE FOOD"

"DONTCHA WANNA RACE WITHOUT STUPIDITY
COME ON, NOW
YOU KNOW I'D BEAT YOU IN A FAIR RACE"

"DON'T MAKE ME QUOTE BAD POETRY AT YOU.
I WILL DO IT.
I CAN MANGLE SHAKESPEARE ANYDAY
FOR MY FAVOURITE SISTER."

...yeah, it just keeps going on and on, yo.

"Ooookay," Ikki exhales as he walks into the house, facepalming. "I ain't going near that place with a 20-foot pole right now, but we better check on the dorms tomorrow, because they're all up to no good."