Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[zerotohiro]

'Busy, leave a message!
...oh, you've reached Hiro Hamada. Whatever. Still busy!'

Hamada art by D-Joel, found on tumblr

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crashes into your inbox aka VIDEO

[braavado]

Hey, Hiro! [Says the upside down image of Korra. Looks like someone's still trying to figure out how to use the device.] At least...I think it's you? [WHAT IF SHE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER, how embarrassing would that be?]

Uh, it's Korra. Just thought... I should, you know. Check up on you since we got separated in that creepy hospital. You got out okay, right?

fwiw I heard "I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALLLLL" when I saw this

[zerotohiro]

[At first, it takes a moment for Hiro to realize why the video's upside down and who exactly is on the other end. He's not laughing at her exactly but there's a small chuckle under his breath as he stares into the CereVice's screen to watch.]

Hey! Yeah, yeah we're fine. ["We're." He doesn't think much about using that word but alas.] Things got really weird on the last level but once I hit the end of the maze I was out in no time. How about you? Any more hugging incidents?

2/10; voice

[immobileyes]

H-hello? [ Well, he may or may not recognize this voice, two days later, but-- ]

It's Mary... um, I wanted to know if you made it out okay?

[zerotohiro]

[Aw, Mary. Hiro actually grins on his end of the line even if she can't see it and when he responds he's keeping his tone pretty light.]

Hey! I got out just fine after I found my way through the maze. It's good to hear that you did, too. [A pause.] Are you doing okay? Nothing bad happened after we got separated, did it?

text; mid-event

[poised]

this is Natalia

residential district, gym, school, parts of entertainment district compromised due to falling machinery(?) other areas flooded. please direct injured, misplaced, tired, and frantic people to upper levels of the hospital for shelter. communication limited to text and voice, healing does not work on those with intense lethargy.

personal request: take care of the debris of the fallen platform, get it out of the way with Ruby

warm regards. stay safe. thank you.

text; mid-event

[zerotohiro]

Natalia, hey. Sounds like a plan, we'll be there. Baymax and I can probably move five or six people at a time. Text me back if you need us to do anything else.

I'll touch base with Ruby, too, and see what we can do.

I'll keep in touch.

text; mid-event

[undaunts]

Hey Hiro we're supposed to work together right

Its the perfect time to be heroes so let's get to work!

text; mid-event

[zerotohiro]

Yeah, Natalia told me. It's just a little debris right? Baymax and I will meet you there!

[Might help if he described Baymax but uh. Oh well. He'll find Ruby in all of the wreckage no problem.]

And if you don't see us right away? Look up.

text; mid-event

[bropane]

Hey, is Baymax with you?

text; mid-event

[zerotohiro]

[Aw shit.]

Uh. Yeah? We're okay, he's with me and we're heading out to help out in another part of the residential district. Why? Where are you?

[ ACTION ] dated right after the event, feb. 23rd

[bakudanma]

<sub>[ Someway, somehow, Katsura has found out where his brave little samurai ( wait what ) has been hiding out at. He remembers Hiro has soon as he returns to Cerealia, along with the rest of his memories— and he was only missing for a week. Hiro probably didn't even notice.

Nevertheless, a task is unfinished, and he isn't one to leave business unfinished.

Zura has in his arms a bunch of flyers. And he's actually being nice by stalking you and not just barging in through your window! Just, you know, stalking you and politely ringing your door bell... possibly over and over. ]</sub>

Ah, excuse me, Shorty-donoooo. This is the pizza man.
<sub>it's not the pizza man it's Katsura.

[ yeah he just corrected himself. ]</sub>

oh my god this is flawless.

[zerotohiro]

[All things considered, it's not like Hiro would have noticed he was being stalked anyway. And also all things considered it's not like he goes anywhere but Tadashi's at the end of the day. He hears the doorbell over and over but he's got his hands full. His face contorts in question because pizza? Really? But he shakes his head and looks up from the project he's working on to direct Baymax.]

Baymax, can you answer that...? [The robot moves from his place next to Hiro. Katsura can probably hear the squeaking of vinyl as Baymax walks toward the door and manages to pull it open, staring down at the nice (and maybe slightly crazy) man with his flyers.

Annnd the cheerful, circular wave.]

Hello! I am Baymax. How may I assist you?

[And then it clicks. There's literally only one person who would call him that and he snaps his head up to look back over toward the door.]

Katsura?

text; 2/23 ic... 1/2

[braavado]

What is Σ(ノ°▽°)ノ supposed to be? I saw someone use it on these devices last time and forgot to ask you.

[LOOK, HIRO, SHE'S USING TEXT. Aren't you proud of her??]

2/2

[braavado]

No wait that wasn't what I wanted to talk to you about either. Are you in your apartment right now?

action; (whatever the date is now)

[bropane]

[ tadashi's on his laptop and chilling on his couch when he calls for his younger brother- ]

Hey, Hiro. I got a question for you.

action;

[zerotohiro]

[And said-younger brother is actually rummaging around in the fridge looking for an energy drink. But he'll probably only find juice boxes. At least he'll respond from where his head is.]

What kind of question?

Text 2 IC Days post raid (WHAT ARE DATES?!)

[faithfulflame]

[Well, it's been a couple of days, for the weird effects and the migraines to fade enough to allow her to speak. So, Mars will send the only other person she knew a message.]

Hiro? Do you have time to talk about what happened? We should compare notes.

DATES ARE MEANINGLESS--I mean text

[zerotohiro]

[Despite how things had turned out, he's been taking it easy for the last couple of days. When Mars's message comes through he reads over it before tentatively texting back.]

Not a bad idea. Where are you? I can probably head out for a little bit if I bring Baymax with me.

3/26 or something also VIDEO

[cryptologic]

[ so someone's found an unexpected surprise in his apartment today. so much for his game plan to avoid talking to anyone. now there's a marshmallow-like robot trying to assess his emotional state like okay no, HE DOESN'T NEED A HEALTHCARE ROBOT TO ASSESS HIS EMOTIONAL STATE. ]

Heeeeeey, Hiro? [ he turns the camera to face baymax. ] I think your robot somehow ended up in our - [ nope ] - my apartment.

[ please help, this robot keeps trying to hug him. ]

[zerotohiro]

[For Baymax, it was also an unexpected surprise to power back on inside an apartment not his own. He knows this isn't the home to the Hamadas and while that's concerning, it's still his job to help the sick and injured. So. His armor's off to the side and Baymax in all of his squishiness steps out from his charger and has since been trying to "help" Dipper. Sorry, Dipper.

When Hiro answers the call he's quickly scrubbing his face because shut up he wasn't freaking out, you were freaking out. Upon seeing what Dipper's showing him though he grins suddenly.]

Baymax! […wait.] What're you doing?

Hello, Hiro. [He's still trying to hug Dipper, excuse him, partner.] I woke up in my charging station here after our adventure in the jungle. I believe I was brought to the wrong place.

You think? [And then, to Dipper:] Sorry. I don't know--he got left behind in the jungle when we all split up, I don't know how he got back. [Now that he knows Baymax is safe? He's a little amused at Dipper's plight.] His armor and everything's still there, right?

[Dipper gets a headpat for his troubles.]

text; 1/give me a second

[undaunts]

Ok so consider like...BUBBLE WEAPONS

[undaunts]

Theres someone here who has these bubbles and theyre really really hard to pop! Practically indestructible so long as you dont like try to pop them from two different places at once. They could totally be useful for all sorts of things!!

text; somewhere after the intro log??? whatever

[cannonades]

[ This is the second person he's reaching out to by choice. How strange. But, he'd hazard that this is just as important to follow up with, all things considered. ]

Do you mind if I ask a question?

text; who needs timelines

[zerotohiro]

[When he sees the text, he's actually sort of surprised that Trowa's bothering but...okay.]

Pretty sure you already did.

[Blame his brother for his sass and sometimes dumb sense of humor. Nevertheless, he's curious.] But I've got time. What's up?

text - sometime during the event;

[psycholawgy]

[ GRUDGEWANKER ATHENA APPEARS. ]

Commoner Hiro,

I've just remembered that your brother stole some cotton candy from me months ago. He mentioned that it was upon your request that he did such a thing, so therefore, you must take responsibility.

Dutifully yours,
Queen Athena

[zerotohiro]

[Excuse. He's not a commoner (at least he doesn't think he is.) At least he's finally figured out his name is Hiro and not that everyone's just calling him hero. Generically.]

I think you might have the wrong guy, Queen Athena. I don't have a brother and I don't even like cotton candy.

[He doesn't think he does. He doesn't remember ever eating it. Or having a brother. Nothing in that sentence makes sense.]

audio;

[braavado]

Sooooooo. How would you feel about going to the library with me?

[A pause, and then a scoffing noise on her end.]

You know--assuming the books aren't going to make us act all funky again.

audio;

[zerotohiro]

Depends. [But he already sounds open to the idea.] What are we researching today?

text

[refate]

[ It's a two-parter, the first text just being a small pile of chips that have been labeled with the title of the book each individual one came from. ]

this will probably net me a couple dozen library fines but they should've hidden them better if they didn't want people taking them out.

text

[zerotohiro]

[He doesn't react at first, namely because he's looking at the chips curiously and trying to parse out just how Kon actually pried them off of the books. Or where he found them in the books. But that doesn't matter too much at this point since they're there.]

So what kind of data do they contain?

text ; mid-december 3 am ; 1/2

[sunshrouded]

[bzzzzt!

there is now a video in hiro's inbox at 3 am

good morning]

[sunshrouded]

when i'm not sneezing we need to recreate this video are you up for the challenge

text;

[adminproof]

[Ding! Files attached: log.txt]

Attached is the file you requested of me during that time in the mountains. I trust in your ability to analyze and encrypt it properly.

[But he's got his own encrypted copy, just in case. Better safe than sorry. He knows that CERES is probably monitoring their CereVices like this, but since CERES has been watching them through their eyes anyway, they most likely already know that he has it, so there isn't much point in hiding things like this.

................Yes, this is a month and a half later than the time a normal human being would expect it to come in, but hey, better late than never...?

Aliens are weird.]

text;

[zerotohiro]

[At first, he's not sure what he's looking at until he opens the file. And then he buries his head in his hands. Aliens are weird.]

I was starting to wonder if you ever actually made it off the mountain. But thanks. This is seriously going to help out, especially with some of the new stuff I've learned recently.

Where've you been anyway? [Yes, he's allowing himself to actually ask as a friend. He likes him enough for that at least.]

Action

[2cool4guardian]

[Busy indeed. Hiro may suddenly feel a chill behind him, as Jack stares at the boy at his desk, wondering exactly how annoying should be at the moment. Too much work, not enough fun.

(Nope,, he didn't knock or anything. That's for fools.)

In the end he decides to blow some snow at Hiro's neck. Take that, nerd.]

Too busy for chocolate too?

Action

[zerotohiro]

[Busy, indeed. He doesn't even notice that Jack's shown up or that Jack's behind him, so when he feels that chill on the back of his neck he shivers almost violently and jerks his head up, tilting it back and being completely unsurprised by what he sees.]

Jack! [His expression is mildly confused.] What does chocolate have to do with snow? [He's dropping his pencil though and giving Jack most of his undivided attention. No. Not too busy.]

text, sometime during pure heart event

[cannonades]

Exactly how many hours have you slept in the last week?

[ He's been seeing Hiro and Baymax running around the city quite often. ]

[zerotohiro]

[Trowa. Trowa no...Hiro doesn't answer right away which is probably an answer in and of itself, but eventually he'll text back.]

Enough? What kind of question is that?

voice; IC 4/24

[immobileyes]

... It got worse.

[ Mary hasn't set foot outside the apartment, not when there's been the occasional ghost flitting through the wall, and also not when her head feels like it'll split in half if she stands for longer than two minutes. But Hiro had asked her to tell him if her symptoms got worse, so here she is. ]

[zerotohiro]

[Oh no. This is bad. Give him a moment before he finally clicks into the CereVice and responds, tone very low like he's trying not to draw attention to himself. That's probably the case.]

How much worse is worse? What happened?

voice; 4/26

[earthpulse]

[Edna's not one to call for favors or anything of the sort, but this is something she can't really handle all alone by herself if Mikleo actually does pull a stunt like this while his BFF is missing. He hasn't re-enacted The Great Escape (yet), but better safe than sorry. It also doesn't help that Mikleo has an ability that allows him to pass undetected for a short period of time (as a literal bubble boy). And so, Edna speaks, in a completely deadpan voice, sounding for all in the world like an officer looking for a lost housecat.]

If you see a Meebo wandering around unsupervised, return him to [insert Zestiria household address in the Residential District here.] If he refuses to come along, tell him that Edna knows where to find search dogs. I'll ask for them to bark extra loud.

[Dogs. One of his worst fears, even as robot CYbuddy dogs.]

voice; 4/26

[zerotohiro]

[...why are the seraphim so weird?]

You got it, but what's a Meebo? [Not the point].] Better question, what's going on? Why's he wandering, possibly?

[Guess who hasn't seen Mikleo's post yet? THIS GUY.]

Voice, 4/27

[cresthopes]

Um...Hiro-san? When you get this, could I talk to you for a moment?

I thought maybe whenever we have enough time, we can go to the arcade? You said you really wanted to see Angemon so hopefully we can make it work this time?

[And then there was another voice from nearby]

Oh and make sure that you're not sick too! We don't want any germs coming our way again!

Voice, 4/27

[zerotohiro]

Hey! [Hiro's been pretty busy checking in with everybody he knows, but he definitely has time to answer that.] I think that sounds like a pretty good idea. You really think Angemon can make his grand appearance finally?

[There's a derisive snort.] And I'm not sick. I've been fine this whole time, but I should probably be saying the same about you. You doing better?

text, 4/29 [1/2]

[cannonades]

Have you ever wanted to run really far from someone

text, 4/29 [2/2]

[cannonades]

In hindsight I didn't phrase that very well.

Maybe it's more like someone makes you feel like your stomach is trying to exit your throat.

[ This probably doesn't make any sense ]

action - 28 april;

[bropane]

Hiro, Hiro!

[ those are the first words that come out of tadashi's mouth the moment he gets back to their apartment. he just dashes into the living room and then into his (well, technically hiro's now) bedroom, looking for his brother. if hiro's in the bathroom and HE'LL JUST BUST THROUGH THAT DOOR. this guy is just so excited!!!!!! ]

action - 28 april;

[zerotohiro]

[Lucky for both of them Hiro's not in the bathroom. He's in his-formerly-known-as-Tadashi's bedroom laying sprawled out on the bed. He'd fallen asleep face-down on some notes but Tadashi wakes him up immediately. He flails a little, papers crinkling and one of them sticking to the side of his face as he sits up in alarm to stare at Tadashi.]

What? What is it? [He'd been panicked at first, but then he gets a look at Tadashi's face and recognizes that look. That's not "Hiro I'm freaking out", that's "Hiro I just accomplished something awesome."]

[Text at some crazy hour of the night - after sealing the wall]

[2cool4guardian]

why did the robot go back to robot school?

[zerotohiro]

[Jack you're lucky Hiro's still up. The response comes almost immediately.]

...dunno, Jack. Why'd the robot go back to robot school?