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Who: Izaya and whoever wants to interact
Where: Plaza. Probably near the elevator.
When: Evening about.
Style: Action. Because.
Status: Open

[It's not that unusual to see Izaya looking happy. It's just unusual to see him lugging so much shit with him. Okay, it's not a lot, but by his standard- it's too much.

There's a telescope slung around his shoulder, a blanket under the other arm, and then a basket filled with who knows what, probably heads of dullahans or something, in his spare hand.

He's peering up at the bubble as he makes his way towards the elevator.

When. Oh no. A book that had been crammed into the top of the basket topples out. The tragedy.

But look.

Izaya keeps walking. Wow, his attention must be elsewhere pretty intense. And what is that book anyway? It looks weird. Are those instructions on human sacrifice------!!!

Actually it's just a fairy tale. But who can read kanji anyway? Aw look at the fairies-]

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[He shakes his head vigorously.]

He doesn't hate you, but he said that, ah...

[Should... he say other people's names like this? Usually he wouldn't, but people talking about his friends makes him upset. Izaya should know that people are displeased with him, anyway. Ion decides to go ahead with it.]

That Signless and Zelda seemed very angry with you.

[Signless? Well that's a new name. He tilts his head entirely to the side and just as he does that, the elevator comes to a stop.]

Who's Signless? I don't think I know him.

[He steps out of the elevator and onto the island.]

And I don't really care if Zelda is mad at me or not. I'm not really her biggest fan so. She was the reason for a lot of bad things to happen.

Anyway. I don't understand why everyone's mad at me.

He's the one taking care of Sola. He's a troll, and generally a kind person.

[Ion steps out after him, smiling a little.]

I think it's because Sola is so young. An adult influencing a child to jump from a building is not something that most people smile upon. What they seem to be forgetting is that you jumped, too...

[The rest of the statement is left unspoken. He doesn't think that they should judge Izaya so harshly if he was in a bad enough place that he himself also took the leap.]

A troll? Huh. One of those.

[Izaya hadn't paid them much mind before. But now, after one had sort of talked to him, he turned his head more than before.]

Mmm. That's okay. People tend to forget a lot of things.

[He looks up at the sky and for a moment, appears perfectly distant.]

It doesn't matter though. When you do a lot of bad things people tend to just ignore anything bad that happens to you or they say that you deserve it. That's just how things work. Heh. I don't really think anyone cared that I jumped. Because I wasn't the one who hit the ground.

[Another indifferent shrug and he starts to walk along, eyes darting around the sky. It...didn't look familiar at all. But he wasn't that great with constellations to begin with.]

I cared.

[His sincerity is the sort that just can't be faked. Ion did care that Izaya jumped whether he actually hit the ground or not - because the feelings that were behind such an action were present regardless.]

"Bad" is a relative term, anyway. Most people follow the course of action that they feel benefits them, that is not inherently bad.

[Oh. Ion. Izaya chuckles at this and gives him a bit of an odd, unreadable look.]

Vatheon is crammed full of people like you, isn't it? I could step on a baby's head and you would all reassure me that I have some good quality in me and that what I did was some metaphorical whatever.

[Not that he's complaining about people being idiotic. He stops somewhere on the island near the beach and drops everything he had been holding.]

But thanks, Ion. for caring.

[Ion... takes that pretty much literally.]

Step on a baby's head?!

[He gapes at Izaya as he drops his things. Who would step on a baby's head?! What possible good reason could there be for that? There wasn't one.]

No, I would yell at you for something like that!

[JKSJKF LAUGHING.]

It was a joke! I would never do something so brutal!

[It would make his shoes dirty.]

Well thank God you have some sort of line to cross over. Heh. You should see your face right now.

It's not a very funny one...

[Ion most certainly does have lines that must not be crossed. He doesn't tolerate people hurting his friends, nor does he accept overly destructive behavior. Izaya has done neither yet as far as he is concerned. He laughs sheepishly when Izaya mentions his face.]

Does it look strange? I suppose it would. I was surprised!

[The Fon Master leans down to try and help Izaya organize his things on the ground.]

Aw that's the point. It's this thing from my world known as 'dark humor.' It's supposed to be offensive and make people cringe.

[Really? Well Ion. You are unique.]

Heh. It looks funny.

[He squats down himself and spreads out the blanket a little bit. Opening the basket, he dumps out everything from inside.

Which- really just looked like the most random pile of junk, honestly.]

Have you ever used a telescope before?

Yes, I have. Mostly to observe the fon belt, but I enjoy looking at the stars too.

[A soft expression appears on his face as he looks at the sky.]

To think that we're essentially seeing the past, viewing things as they were before even the Score existed... it's amazing.

That's in your universe. I come from a pretty simple world. There is no God or heaven or anything fantastical like that. There's just the earth, man, and death.

[It sounds pretty grim but Izaya doesn't seem to mind. He sets up the telescope carefully, adjusting it.]

That's fine though. Because I'm not there anymore. Sometimes...I think....I'm in heaven here.

Heaven? It's pretty chaotic for heaven, don't you think?

[Now that he thinks about it though, would eternal life in complete peace be any fun? His life had been nothing but a blur before Anise brought a little chaos into it. It's only then that he'd begun to live at all.]

Actually... I can see that!

Who says that heaven isn't chaotic?

[It's up for debate but he won't get into a theological argument about this.]

See what? This being heaven?

[He nods, sitting down on the blanket and adjusting his robes.]

We can't die, after all. And we're provided for in every way, for free. Vatheon has so many interesting people too, and more arrive all the time. Truthfully, I thought it was the afterlife when I first arrived.

[There is the small problem of not everyone remembering a death, though... but Ion doesn't want to imagine that Tear, Guy or Anise had died back on Auldrant. Not at a young age, at least.]

Mmmhm. I did too. And it's kind of not that weird to speculate, considering a lot of people seem to come here after they're fatally wounded or something.

Anyway, it's a theory. I doubt it's a heaven or anything but I always like to think of it as one.

And honestly? I'd rather stay here forever than go back now.

[That would depress him a lot more than he's about to admit. He knew it would change a lot.]

Me too.

[Not that Ion has a choice. He looks up at the unfamiliar stars, then scoots near Izaya so that he can peer through the telescope. Maybe he'd be able to recognize the shape of a galaxy or two, at least!

...if Izaya's telescope is that powerful.]

[It is obviously not. It only reaches the usual scope of a telescope and it doesn't really seem like there's any constellations recognizable.

Though it is nice to know that they can at least see stars. Izaya leans away properly so that Ion can have his look.]

[Ion looks through the telescope intently, but doesn't see anything that he recognizes. He looks apologetic when he draws back.]

I'm sorry, I don't see anything that I know...

[HE'S A FAILURE, END HIM NOW!]

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