w2 curfew: the artening

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[brotograph]

[ prompto is here and poking through art supplies ]

You know, I don't think I've tried doing any art art in a long time.

[9mon]

Really? When was the last time?

[brotograph]

Let me think... Oh! Maybe when I was in Elementary school. Unless face paint counts.

[dms]

It's never too late to start! All you have to do is pick up a pencil or a brush and see where your heart takes you!

[brotograph]

[ poking a brush. ]

You never did show me your stuff. Mind giving me a peek?

[9mon]

Kazu's amazing! He can do all kinds of styles.

[brotograph]

What about you? Have any art skills or hidden talents?

[9mon]

I drew everything on my presentation myself!

[it was not that good, but he sure did put himself into it.]

[brotograph]

[ the presentation alone and dedication to his brother should count as a skill ]

It was a pretty good presentation. A friend of mine has a cute younger sibling, but she would sooner drag him than compliment him. Not that I blame her... Gladio is pretty draggable.

[dms]

You never asked!

[ he taps a canvas with an underpainting of the garden outside the meeting hall, with what looks like two young men having tea. only a few patches of color have been added so far. ]

Started this guy on Monday, and I've been trying to mix paint all week to get the colors I want. It's not my usual style, though, and oils take a bit of time to dry, so there's only so much I can do at once. Other than that...

[ he holds out a sketchbook! it's the one he usually carries around, already well-worn. inside are sketches from around the prism - the people, the locations, the parties - and some people (and a bird?) that may be unrecognizable to prompto, but familiar to kumon. ]

Have at it!

[brotograph]

[ can he tell who the guys are? ]

Whoa! That's looking pretty nice. Do oils take longer to try or something?

[ time to paw through the sketchbook. ]

How long does it take for you to do a sketch?

[dms]

[ they are pretty small in the painting but might have familiar silhouettes. ]

Oil paints take days to dry, so you have to take it slow. It... might have been smarter to do this one in acrylics instead, but I wanted to try something different, you know?

And that depends on how detailed I want it to be! Some sketches take a few seconds, some up to a few minutes. Most of those are probs... thirty seconds, tops? Except for the landscapes - those took a little longer.

[9mon]

[ A little bit later, he remembers something:

A note on his phone. He can't send it to anybody, but he'll show it to Promto and Kazu. ]

November, Danny and I found this note at Party City. It's that Dreamer person again.

[brotograph]

Huh? [ He'll lean in to look ]

Sounds like the Dreamer is like one of the other residents. You know, if they are telling the truth with all of this creepy pasta.

[9mon]

I wish they were less metaphorical... It's kinda hard to read.

Why would they lie?

[brotograph]

I can't really tell you. Maybe to get us to distrust the others? Though it sounds like they may have been part of them, you know?

[9mon]

Hmm... Then what happened to Dreamer that made them want to leave? Did they deal with stuff like this before?

[brotograph]

Maybe they saw the creepy stuff or had moments of their memories being wiped and rightfully decided Nah.

[9mon]

Yeah... if I started forgetting Juza I'd want to get out.

[dms]

[ oh... kazu copies it down into a note on his phone. ]

They supposedly had a plan to get home that they were working on with some of the others. So this was it - throwing the prism out of balance?

...I wonder if the ones he says weren't ready are the four residents we know. They've said they don't know Dreamer, but with how easily these people from before forgot stuff from their old lives, couldn't they forget someone who isn't in the prism anymore, too?

[9mon]

Hmm.... They seemed to remember stuff if we get them their things back. So maybe they just need more stuff that's important to them?

They still remember Ryonosuke and Kazuma, so maybe Dreamer was here a lot longer back.

[dms]

I did hear about that! So we should def be on the lookout for things that stand out. The more we find, the better we can help them remember!

They did say they were here for a long time. But... I don't know, maybe there's a chance that the prism deliberately took their memories of Dreamer? It sounds like he was trying to provoke it, and it probs didn't like that. If it really wants to keep everyone here, it might have erased the idea of leaving.

But we haven't been here for long, so we're not be as affected by it as they are.

[9mon]

I hope they don't all involve being sent to weird places in the prism. [But it's not looking good.]

They were talking about wiggling knives. Nobody likes that happening to them, even normally. [Even if you weren't a large malevolent prison, getting stabbed sucks.]

Think Dreamer got out?

[dms]

I think the knives were just a metaphor - like poking at something to see if he could find a hole to make it out. And yeah, I think he did make it, just like we will.

[ there's always the possibility that he didn't, that he's stuck somewhere or... something else happened. but kazunari prefers to look at the bright side, and he wants to cheer up kumon, so optimism it is. ]

[9mon]

[There's too many metaphors? He can't keep them straight.

Dreamer could be stuck, writing all these messages and hoping people will see them... but who knows.]

We'll all get back home.

[It's what he wants to believe.]