redstray: (Wha)
Eric Surt ([personal profile] redstray) wrote in [community profile] homralings2015-12-25 01:37 pm

Ghost AU (Ghostsuka + Eric)

[ Eric yawned, tired from school and helping out another ghost go over to the other side. It wasn't that he wanted to help, it just meant one less spirit to bug him for doing something that would let them leave him alone. A bag of convenience store food in one hand and his other in a pocket, he made his way slowly back home.

He couldn't remember a time when he never saw these things. His parents shrugged it off as imaginary friends and over active imagination as he got older. But when they started to tell him he was getting too old for these kind of stories, he stopped telling them all together. He thought he could tell his friends at school but with all the teasing and bullying that came after the stories disappeared as well. He was getting better at least figuring out who was real and who was a ghost. The looks he got when it looked like he was talking to himself were hardly good.

His parents were gone for so long that he couldn't remember when they were home last. They were gone for business a lot, traveling around Japan and other Asian countries, which was why they moved here to be closer to their business. So that left him alone with their home, his schoolwork and the many spirits wandering around aimlessly in the city.  ]
preciousmemories: (I guess you're right.)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2015-12-31 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs slightly.] Who knows? I don't.

[He waves a hand.]

I'll tell you if I do. Go back to eating. You don't want to be late for school because you were talking with a ghost, right?
preciousmemories: (Another nightmare?)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2015-12-31 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Are other ghosts rude, then? Assuming that you can drop everything to help them?

[Sounds to him like they were newly dead. He sure feels like he has all the time in the world. Maybe it comes with no longer sleeping or needing to eat...

He'll...still ask questions while Eric's eating though.
]
preciousmemories: (Got caught)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2015-12-31 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
It just means there's nothing I have to hurry for anymore, unless the people I knew are still alive. I can never make up my mind if I think they are or not.

[Why rush when he literally has all the time in the world to do anything he wants?

But also, wow that was directed at him.
]
preciousmemories: (Not used to being filmed.)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-01-01 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I remember...things. I wouldn't exactly call them memories, but feelings. I know I met people I never wanted to leave, and I know we had a lot of fun together, but...

[More than that, he doesn't.]

I think we might have adopted a daughter? But I'm not sure that wasn't just how we felt about her.
preciousmemories: (keeping the memories alive)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-01-31 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't it be sad, if I only had sad feelings of before?

[But he doesn't sound terribly bothered by it.

He follows Eric's gaze to the time and nods, smiling at the boy.
]

Enjoy something while you're gone, and come back safe then.
preciousmemories: (I'll be your support)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-02-14 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He already told Eric to come back safe so he just nods, smiling at the boy.

...now what will he do? He doesn't want to snoop in Eric's room by cleaning, and cleaning the rest of the house would probably just be a reminder that the parents aren't present so...

Maybe there's an interesting book somewhere, since he's sure he'd just cause trouble by watching something while Eric's away.

When Eric comes home, he's reading.
]
preciousmemories: (keeping the memories alive)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-02-20 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome home! [That's his response to hearing the confusion about him still being present. Someone has to be a somewhat positive influence in the kids life, jeez.

He sets down the book (something about history? who reads those for fun...) with a bright smile.
]

I'm glad! You've got more homework to do or something, right? Let me know what you want to eat and I'll cook it for you.

[You have a ghost parent now maybe, congratulations Eric.]
preciousmemories: (Another nightmare?)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-02-22 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
[See, that's why he's got a parent ghost. Deadbeat parents get you a...dead parent. That's an odd sentence.

He tilts his head, watching him for a moment.
]

Alright. Let me know when you start getting hungry, okay? [You are going to eat tonight, kid.

But he picks up the book again, not reading it yet but Eric doesn't know that.
]
preciousmemories: (I'll be your support)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-04-19 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Look, food is important when you aren't dead??? EAT SO YOU LIVE, ERIC.

Better than like. Trying to force-feed you, right?

How does it feel to actually be left alone without the feeling of being ignored? Sure he's reading, or at least looks like he is, but if Eric speaks, he'll answer.
]
preciousmemories: (Hm?)

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-04-30 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? [He lowers the book again, his thumb keeping his page.]

And...if you're going to call me something, Tozuna sounds less weird than just being called "Ghost" all the time. Being remembered by the fact I'm dead just seems weird.

[Please say this is about food though, let him feed you....he's kinda worried about you, Eric.]
preciousmemories: (keeping the memories alive)

i just realized his memory thing is like if he died and became a seraph....

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-04-30 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[A name is a name. It's not his living one, but then, is he really who he was when he was alive if he doesn't remember? A different name seems better, then.

Curry though...He grins.
]

I think so! And if I don't, that's what phones and recipes are for, right?

[But it certainly seems like he knows, with how he sets down the book (with a bookmark, even if it's just a scrap of paper) and heads into the kitchen to start pulling ingredients out.]
preciousmemories: (KING WHAT DID YOU DO)

because of how he "gets attached" maybe actually wind? we don't have light examples anyway

[personal profile] preciousmemories 2016-06-15 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll call if I need it! [Or, you know, when it's done.

Probably when it's done. He hums to himself as he cooks, not thinking about the fact that this would look very Odd to anyone unable to see him. That doesn't really matter to him, after all.

He can see everyone and everything. It's hard to think about not being able to see something that you have "always" been able to see.

But not half an hour later, Tozuna calls out
] Eric!

[Hopefully it's cooked to his satisfaction! ....he forgot to say it was done, didn't he. OH well.]

maybe! :|a

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