ayano's theory of bruises - 9/19, 4:15PM

[kagepuro]

Ummmm

Is there anyone on here who’s like...good at make up that can help me...Like one of those instagram models or something...

I was clumsy enough to give myself a black eye, and I need to hide it from my parents so they don’t freak out or get the wrong idea…

[A picture of Ayano follows, purple and black underline her left eye--thankfully not particularly swollen. Even so, whatever she smashed into must have smashed into her pretty hard. She wears a weak, sheepish smile on her face despite the heavy bruise. If it weren't there, this would be a perfectly good Facebook profile picture, in fact.]

It’s not that bad, right? Silly me...
Maybe I should just do the emo hair thing...?

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[darkinferno]

[Oh hell no.]

who punched you

[kagepuro]

i didn't say anyone punched me, I'm just kind of clumsy and hurt myself...

[darkinferno]

bullshit

i've been in fights before, hell, i've GIVEN people bruises like that before

who punched you

[kagepuro]

um.

No one else can see this, right...?



It was my fault...

[darkinferno]

yeah, it's private. nobody else can see

what did you do?

[kagepuro]

i made him do it, it's my fault, i provoked him when i shouldn't have, and now everything is gonna be all messed up and it's all my fault

Please don't tell anyone, dante...

[darkinferno]

slow down and give me the full details

you made WHO do it? what do you mean you provoked him

what's gonna be messed up

[He's not promising not to tell anybody yet.]

[complementing]

[There are very few people in this world who are clumsy enough to give themselves a black eye...but she doesn't know the girl at all, so she's not going to pry. Yet.]

not an Instagram model but still pretty good with make up!

where can I meet you?

[kagepuro]

he'll get in trouble...i don't think he has a very good life, and i just made it worse by making him hit me...

He was talking about how bad he was and trying to get me to leave him alone, so i thought I'd say, okay, if you're as bad as you say you are, then hit me as hard as you can!

He actually did it
He struck me so, so hard, dante...

I thought i could prove to him that he wasn't a bad person, but I just made him want to be a bad person even more...i made an already unstable person get even worse and now bad stuff is gonna happen and he's gonna know that it's all because of me...

[kagepuro]

ummm, I'm still at the high school...I don't wanna go home yet.

who are you?

[handstrike]

[This is oddly familiar.]

Get better at lying.

[kagepuro]

I'm not!!!! You of all people should know how dumb and incompetent I am........

[handstrike]

Your parents even more so.

If you're really that clumsy, why are you trying so hard?

[kagepuro]

because I don't wanna get in trouble, obviously!!! They'll actually get mad if they find out i got myself hurt this bad...

[gudaguda]

[ #instafamous cosplayer checking in ]

I think you need to see a doctor more than someone who can do makeup

[kagepuro]

I don't think I need to see a doctor or anything...it's just a bruise, so...

[gudaguda]

I know, but it's really hard to put makeup on bruises because it might impair their healing

but if you really need someone to cover it up for now, i can help you

is that alright?

[kagepuro]

I just don't want my parents to see it, I can take it off at night time...

I just need to know how to do it because I'm gonna have to keep this up until it heals...

That's really nice of you to offer....I'm Ayano!!

[gudaguda]

okay!! i'm sakura!

I've got spare samples cause i cosplay a fair bit and sometimes the shops send them to me... you can have them.

i can teach you some of the really basic stuff so you can apply it yourself! that's not a problem

[kagepuro]

id really like that!! I don't know much about make up at all...I was never much of a make up type of girl...

It's so cool that you do cosplay, though...

[gudaguda]

it's an expensive hobby but it's one i love and good at so!!

hey, where are you right now? you're not using retrospec in some toilet cubicle somewhere hiding from the world, are you?

[darkinferno]

[If Dante hadn't seen that first exchange between Ayano and Malik on the network, he might not have drawn the connection. There are a lot of people out there that don't have good lives, after all, but with that in the back of his mind...]

it's not your fault

he shouldn't have done it, even if you told him to. it's HIS fault he didn't decided to control himself, not yours, that's not your job

have you iced it yet?

and will you at least tell me if it was someone from the network or not

[kagepuro]

yeah..I put ice on it when I went home and managed to hide it from mom and dad until now...

I just feel so stupid and dumb for putting myself in this situation at all, I was prodding an angry dog thinking it would let me pet it
I'm so dumb and stupid and awful, Dante

...yeah, he's on here

[cheetahsenpai]

[When he sees the picture Kuramochi has to take a few breaths to calm down. He knows she's wasn't able to give herself a black eye like that. He's ready to find whoever did it, but he has to be calm.]

You should see a doctor about that instead. Have you seen someone about it?

[kagepuro]

I'm still at school, I don't really wanna go home yet, especially still...looking like this. It was weird enough the way everyone looked at me, I don't want my mom and dad doing that too...