testcase: (that you can't break)
Ryoko Otonashi ([personal profile] testcase) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs 2020-01-18 06:51 am (UTC)

Yeah, this is all we've got. Feels kinda weird going through her stuff like this though. Makes me feel like a creep.

[Except it doesn't at all as she picks up the notebook to start going through it.

And they're exactly what they seem to be. Ryoko's notes from her prior stay in Wonderland. There's maps and notes and detailed accounts of her friends. All sorts of detailed notes on events, records of the couple times she died, items regained, and so on.

There's also things she's learned, the results of that old Dangan cast meeting, a number of diagrams and charts and maps highlighting conflicting information between Ishimaru's class, the island kids, and what she knows. There's even unfortunately some personal information in there, plenty of doodles of Matsuda, wishes that he'd show up in Wonderland, her fears Junko would show up in Wonderland, that kind of thing.

The more they read, the more one might hope that towards the end, there'll be a clue, something to point them towards where Ryoko's disappeared to. But those hopes won't pan out, as the most recent notebook will abruptly end around the time Ryoko disappeared from Wonderland the first time. Sure would be nice if it continued past that, but that would be a little strange wouldn't it?]


Hey...

[Junko looks over at him, trying to be reassuring in what she knows must be a despair inducing moment. He came all the way up here looking for a hint, a sign, something as to her whereabouts and instead, he was confronted with almost everything his friend was. Not everything everything, of course, she's still holding on to that one last reveal in case Wonderland pulls through, but while he may be right about her being more than the sum of her notes, they still paint an almost complete picture of her.]

I know we didn't find anything but...she's got to be around here, right? So we'll jut have to keep looking. I mean...her room's still here, and that mirror's still here, so she still has to be here somewhere, right?

[It's not a lie, in fact it's the absolute truth, but that doesn't stop her heart from sinking into further despair telling it. But she'll just sow that seed of hope that Ryoko Otonashi is in the mansion somewhere. It's important to her that people hope that, that people want to find her. Because Ryoko Otonashi's going to fade from their world without a trace, she knows that much, so even as Wonderland falls into the void around them, she should make sure that until they all do the same, that some hope for her continued existence exists until it's time to turn it into despair.]

So we'll definitely find her, all right?

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