First memory, first love.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

*Kotetsu's a pretty fun-loving guy, and the theme park had been a blast. But all good things have to come to an end eventually, and without the park to distract him, all he's got right now is an empty past and a bitter awareness of the huge gaps in his personal knowledge that his arrival to this place had brought. Not that he'd ever admit it to anybody, but the loss of memories had hit him hard. There was a lot he had done in his life, he's certain of it, and the size of the hole is palpable.

He sighs, flopping onto the couch, holding his hat on his head. A little something would be nice. Just a morsel.

And it's about this point that he notices the ring sitting on the coffee table.

He frowns, reaching towards it. He knows this ring, he realizes in a flash. A brief memory runs through his head of a marriage ceremony, and a beautiful woman with long dark hair standing next to him, cutting cake. The name comes to him unbidden: Tomoe.

He has a wife. She's waiting for him.

He smiles, slipping the ring onto his finger. Only with it back on does he register how much it had been missing, the familiar cool metal against his skin. Well then. He's got more reason than ever to get his memories back, and to find a way home. She's waiting for him, after all.*

All right... Wait for me, Tomoe. I'll get back to you soon enough.

*Re-energized, he gets up. Time for a walk around the compound, he thinks. Which is... probably where you're going to run into him, humming a little tune to himself.*

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[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

You know, that never even crossed my mind!

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

*One of these days, far into the future, when all is said and done and everybody has returned home, somebody is going to claim Kotetsu is thoughtless and reckless. And he can point to this guy, and say, 'yeah, but at least I didn't walk on a Ferris Wheel without thinking about it moving!' Just goes to show, somebody's always got you beat.*

Not even a bit?

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

Well... no. It looked steady enough.

[Even if it hadn't been, he'd have been up there just as fast. The concept of falling by accident is barely even in his personal dictionary. Must be what happens when a guy grows up being a bat half the time.]

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

But the whole ride is suppose to move -- you know what, never mind. At least you got something out of it.

*The easiest thing to do, when something is really hard to think about, is to just... stop thinking about it.*

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

So, given any more thought to those ruins out there?

[That line of thought could potentially explain a great deal about Joachim.]

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Not much more than "hey let's check it out." Didn't they say that was part of the job anyway?

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

That guy at the lab said there were monsters about.

Do you know how to fight?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

I got a feeling I can throw a few punches, yeah.

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

Well then! That settles that!

...Still, two people seem a little short for a first expedition.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Probably. How do people usually go around recruiting for crap like this, anyway? Just go around saying, "Hey you, wanna go exploring?"

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

You may be onto something there.

Let's give it a shot!