SYNOPSIS. MARCH 2015. makoto's dropped from his relatively normal slice-of-life sports anime into a game of vivid, a powerpoint presentation, and a theme park catering to nightmare fuel and titillating libidos, respectively speaking. it goes about as well as you'd expect. he barely makes it through the day running solely on gas fumes and human fear, although he does meet a few sympathetic (and unsympathetic) strangers who help alleviate the bone-wracking consternation that typically comes with being informed your entire planet was apparently obliterated by extraterrestrial invaders. at some point he runs into haru, who informs him about meeting up with nitori, and they find kisumi and rin on the network with the same level of bewilderment. if nothing else, at least they weren't all annihilated by intergalactic aliens ... gotta' think about the silver lining ... so far, makoto holds his own personal doubts in regards to verifying whether or not this isn't just a bizarre dream spurred on by some late-night caffeine overdose.
◦ NOTES: what are the five stages of grief to a guy with a shrieking intolerance for things that go bump in the night???
SYNOPSIS. APRIL 2015. plot-wise, not much happened this month! SOL, mostly. copious amounts of SOL. makoto danced at natalia's christmas party with kisumi, hid the existence of a pool from haru (for a while), and participated in weiss's secret santa event. additionally, he got a calico cat cybuddy from edgeworth (his secret santa), which he named ... haku ... because i'm self-indulgent as hell, leave me be. he also met and embarrassed himself in front of a bunch of different people, but that's just par for the course at this point. upsides: he's scoped out haru's workplace (the arcade), deemed it safe enough, and bought katamari damacy to play on their game console sometime in the future.
◦ NOTES: i wanted to name the cat after haru but makoto would never ic'ly be a little shit like middle school haru(ka) so i went for the next best thing.
SYNOPSIS. MAY 2015. more ... SOL ... makoto makes more acquaintances and learns the true definition of paparazzi (deadcat) when people read his weird fanmail and solicit him for help in the middle of the night. makoto continues being the unrepentant cat enthusiast he is and ends up making some unlikely connections. meanwhile, rin and kisumi disappear into the void and the two stooges go looking for them to no avail, although tadashi steps in to aid in their search at some point. they also land themselves in jail with a bunch of other criminals for snooping around the research tower. what a feat. in other news, makoto and haru continue to overtly ignore the elephant in the room in order to avoid confrontation.
SYNOPSIS. JUNE 2015. makoto spent his downtime trying to reconcile with the weirdness of living in tellus with varying degrees of success. he conversed with sword spirits and a vampire, respectively speaking. pretty wild stuff (read: makoto gives advice but forgets to take his own). somewhere along the way, tadashi played check-up to give him the bad news re: missing persons and makoto hired a private detective in a wholehearted attempt to figure out what became of his friends. everything went to shit with the advent of new ceres supervisors and all of tellus glitching out, but makoto was able to surmount the predicament with vietnam (and an exorbitant amount of firearms). in the interim, makoto and haru continued to kick it SOL-style, even if haru's gotten into the unfortunate habit of sleepwalking at night since kisumi and rin's disappearance.
◦ NOTES: ooc-wise, i was largely incapacitated for two and a half weeks (approximately 6/7 until the last week of june) thanks to unforeseen rl circumstances slugging me in the face. haha, yeah.
SYNOPSIS. JULY 2015. aka: the month makoto fucked up and turned his stay in tellus into a soap opera. haru wanders far into the pleasure district instead of the gym pool this time around and ends up ingesting half a glass of pure aphrodisiac (thanks). upon retrieving him, makoto gets jumped by haru, ensuing in a hot and heavy encounter, a (melodramatic) confession of love, and tears. the next morning, haru ditches his delirium for a fever and an inability to remember anything about being intimate with makoto the night before. their relationship effectively goes through calcification as makoto distances himself while dying a slow, painful death on the inside. time passes to no avail. in the middle of playing pretend doctor in a virtual hospital instead of facing the real issues in his life, makoto runs into the regular brand of craziness he's come to expect from vivid, which ranges anywhere from avoiding lobbed bodies to handsy people to actual bloody hands (as attached to the younger facsimile of makoto accusing him of murder in the basement) and everything in-between. he also wins the justice quest. a few days later, he finds rin while shit hits the fan. talk about bad timing.
SYNOPSIS. AUGUST 2015. in a stunning display of faulted lateral thinking, makoto chooses to disregard rin's advice to solve his tinny heart-issue with haru by talking it out and just save reconciliation for a good time (whatever that means). when tellus goes haywire, rin ends up selectively amnesiac while haru and makoto are reduced to cold, shivering quasi-poltergeists. shortly afterwards, makoto ends up in the nexus code with the veritable (if intangible) corpse of his friend kisumi strung up like christmas tinsel along so many unnerving lights. upon returning to reality mostly intact (albeit dead tired, in more ways than one), he does his best to help haru and rin make up after their first (re)encounter in months goes horribly awry. in light of the great, colony-wide flood and the onslaught of mutant rinharu dolphin-shark spawn that nearly ate them whole, their reunion ended on a decent note. while makoto's advanced considerably in terms of reaching out to others, making connections with fellow tellus residents, and coping with his all-encompassing fear of inadequacy on a regular basis, he still hasn't found the right moment to converse with haru in earnest. more often than not, he can't even take the first step forward (metaphorically and literally struggling against a sporadic inability to move, courtesy of tellus's many glitches). it's a problem.
SYNOPSIS. SEPTEMBER 2015. morale continues to dwindle while makoto stubbornly persists in displaying the receptive emotional tactility of a brick wall, even while remaining completely chill the entire time. tellus takes a turn for the worse when rei and gou are among the new arrivals in a retro version of vivid, replete with run-of-the-mill arcade games inverted and thrown into virtual reality. in the downtime, makoto races a mermaid, plays as a sponsor for rebuilding the colony, and hits up the net a few times to get the quick rundown on public health and play customer service himself re: viable job listings. elsewhere, he has a heart-to-heart (or its rough equivalent) with a couple of people, and as per a weird late-night impulse, sends out a couple of cat videos to some of his friends with varying levels of success. similarly, rin's date plans fall through, but not for lack of trying.
SYNOPSIS. OCTOBER 2015. everyone is transported to a jungle. pandemonium ensues. the rest of the swimming anime cast falls like a displaced deck of cards, and makoto continues to be makoto, insufferably. luckily, the people around him have the good sense to keep in-check. good times.
◦ NOTES: cereal went from serial experiments lain to george of the jungle in .005 seconds flat
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