Heaven's BBS | Video (because spelling is hard when you're six)

[welcome_home]

From: Nanshe
Date: June 18

[ The video opens to Nanako sprawled on her stomach, kicking her feet in the air behind her but her expression is one of serious thought. Although she looks a little shy and uncertain about leaving a message like this, she also looks pretty determined, too. This... hadn't been something she was sure about asking her big brother, so instead she tries here. Maybe that will be easier? Or people will be less quick to guess why she might be asking... ]

Sooo.... this is heaven, right? And where people go after they die?

If someone died a while ago, can you find them here somewhere?

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Hachiman; video

[koukai_kirai]

[The camera clicks on to show a tall, broad, stern-faced man on the veranda between a Japanese-style garden and what looks like perhaps a dojo. He might be taking a break from training, since he's dressed in simple, traditional clothes and wiping a bit of sweat from his brow.]

Is that a path you really want to go down?

[He's thought the same thing, of course. Every single day. All of his family, all of his men -- all of them must have existed in this world, if he did, so all of them must be dead now... but what would come of looking for them?]

There aren't easy answers to those sorts of questions.

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[welcome_home]

[ She looks a little startled at the stern-looking man replying to her with that question, ducking her head in shy nervousness. ]

Is it bad, to ask?

[koukai_kirai]

[She's so young. Even Hijikata hesitates a little bit to lay the harsh truth too directly on her -- but it's more cruel to let her string herself along, isn't it?]

Asking isn't wrong. Feeling pulled to those who we've lost isn't wrong.

But when you can't let go, that pull can hold you back. You have to look forward, not backward.

[welcome_home]

[ She looks confused by that, because she's not sure what that means. ]

I look forward. I think? I just... wanted to make sure she was happy here. Or wherever she is. I wanted her to know that I was taking care of dad, and that I grew up and can do lots of things all by myself now. I didn't want her to worry.

[koukai_kirai]

It's a parent's job to worry.

[He never had them, but maybe he was one, by the end. In a manner of speaking, anyway.]

It's your job to live. That's what would make the ones who cared for you happiest.