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" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,/If your Snark be a Boojum! For then/You will softly and suddenly..." the Cheshire Cat recites, breaking off when it notices it has company. It's sunning itself, draped belly-up over a parapet of the castle, but with an unsettling upside down smile it vanishes and then reappears on the bridge, just to one side of where the transformation took place.

Katou lifts his head a little when he hears someone talking. He had thought death was going to be much quieter than this. He’s bandaged and his head’s bleeding, his leather clothes ripped pretty much to shreds, and his biomechanical arm is laying at his side, but it seems as though he has enough energy to look around a little.

"Well, h-hi there!" says a squeaky voice. Mickey, beaming, is coming up the bridge from the direction of the central plaza. "It's great to see you again! And isn't it a beautiful day!" He draws in a breath and seems to be a millisecond from zipadee-doo-dahing when the castle's portcullis rattles slightly and drops half an inch. He glances over his shoulder. "Cut it out, fellas! Just a minute..." He pats his newly appeared pockets.

Katou jumps a little when he hears Mickey’s voice, and then turns. There’s a memory tugging from the back of his mind, and then he realizes it’s Mickey mouse. “To see me again?” Katou asks. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before.” He frowns a little, realizing that he can’t really remember much of anything. “Have I?”

"If you were a book," asks the Cheshire Cat, apparently apropos nothing, "what book would you be?"

Katou can’t help but laugh at that a little bit. “I don’t really read,” he answers. He looks at the cat, frowns a little trying to place it, and then shrugs. “Looks like Alice in Wonderland right now, don’t it?”

Mickey has extracted his notebook, and clears his throat. "'Boxers or briefs?'" he reads aloud, and promptly blushes redder than a fire truck.

“Nothing,” Katou says, raising his eyebrow. “Listen, I thought you was a child’s cartoon character. Is that really appropriate?”

"Here's another," says Mickey. "List three things you'd do if you ruled the world."

Katou closes his eyes and tilts his head back so it’s facing the sun. He didn’t think he’d ever see it again. He was given the choice of reincarnation, and he chose to pass it up. He remembers that, strangely enough, despite the fact that he doesn’t even remember his own name.

“I’d make everyone be happy,” he says, because that is Se-chan’s dream, and Katou’s only dream right now is to let Se-chan’s dreams come true. “And I’d make incest legal, I guess. I don’t really know what else. And I’d make it so I didn’t have to go to school no more, and I wouldn’t give Kira back his CD.”

The Cat's eyes seem to be wandering in opposite directions. It says, "Is reality best described as (a) an absolute, not reducible to the sum of its parts, (b) the material or phenomenal world, as presented to us through our experiences, (c) fundamentally unknowable, (d) all of the above - please elaborate - or (e) fish?"

Katou pauses for a moment, seriously considering the question. “I don’t’ know what none of that means,” he answers after a while. “And I’m sure it’s not just because of the head injury or the fact that I can’t remember nothing. So I’m gonna say fish.”

Mickey raises one white-gloved hand as though measuring his own height. "Are you tall enough to go on this ride?"

Katou looks up at Mickey’s hand, then snorts. “What ride? Whatever, it don’t matter. I’m sure if I could stand I would be.”


((Katou, this time from post series. Meaning he's somewhat different than how he was before, and he's not going to remember anything that had ever happened in the park.

The shape Katou's in right now is something like this, please excuse the text on there, I don't have a clean copy on me right now.

To see how his biomechanical arm attaches to the rest of his body, check out here

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[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou grinned at that. "Samurais were around the same time that ninjas were, and ninjas and samurais always fought eachother, and samurais were better. Ninjas were sneaky and stayed hidden, whereas samurais were all about honour so they refused to sneak up on their enemies to kill them but instead did it up front, and if they failed in a mission they killed themselves."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay's eyes were wide by the end of that, like a child listening to a new story. "That's silly," he decided. "They probably would have succeeded in the next mission, which would have cancelled out the failure. And Kuro-piyuu's honourable! Just this morning he brushed Chii's hair so I didn't have to rush our breakfast!"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"Who's Chii?" he asked. "Anyway, that's not the point. The point is that they failed, and they failed their Master, and it's the honourable thing to do."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Our daughter," Fay answered blithely. "There's nothing honourable about killing yourself. It's just silly, whatever your reason." He closed his eyes and said seriously, "Things get better - you just need to give them a chance to."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou closed his eyes, and turned his face towards the sun. "I'm going to need to disagree," he said. "I've killed myself several times for Se-chan's sake, and I've never regretted it. Things wouldn't've gotten better if I hadn't been willing to make the sacrifice."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Was it you killing yourself or someone else killing you, and you just sacrificed yourself? Because that's different."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"About fifty-fifty," said Katou. "I've killed myself a few times, and I've been killed a couple of times."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay raised an eyebrow. "How did you manage that? Don't you only get one life, and if you die that's it?"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou shook his head. "Well, Se-chan killed me, so we went to Hades and there I killed myself, and then I was brought back, and I ..." he shrugged. "Well, I guess I was killed sacrificing myself. And then Uriel gave me a body, and then Assiah and Heaven fell on me - I guess I wasn't actually dead but I didn't remember who I was and thought I was someone else, and then I destroyed the world and stayed behind as I did so."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"You live a very interesting life, Katou-nyao," Fay commented. "Or death. Are you dead or alive now?"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"I don't conform myself by labels like 'living' or 'dead'," Katou said, with the same air of someone saying that they weren't 'goth' or 'emo' because they didn't like labels.

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay hid his smile behind his hand and excused the movement with a fake cough. "How very wise of you, Katou-nyao."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou nodded sagely. "Yes," he said. "I am, after all, the great Katou-sama. All bow before my wisdom."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay touched his forehead to the floor and intoned solemnly, "Oh wise Katou-sama, I have come so far to hear your words of enlightenment. Please inform me of your worldly knowledge." Playing the clown was still fun, sometimes.

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou liked this guy already. He shook his head. "The Great Katou-Sama cannot give wisdom without first recieving an offering."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"What offering would you require, Oh Great and Wise Katou-sama? I am but a humble man, though I have been told I can cook very well."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"An offering of food will suffice nicely," said Katou, nodding once again. "The Great Katou-sama has not had time for the delicacies of food in quite a long time."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Would the Great Katou-sama like me to get him something now?" Fay sat up a bit to look him in the eye. "I could make you some sandwiches, and I made a chocolate cheesecake this morning, if you want some."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"Un," Katou said, giving one short, curt nod. "The Great Katou-sama approves of sandwiches and chocolate cheesecake. What kind of sandwiches?"

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Ham, cheese, turkey ham, tuna, mayonnaise, salad, chicken, chocolate spread, mustard, beef, beetroot, and probably some other ingredients but I forget," Fay recited. There was always one he forgot. "Any of those sound appealing?"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"The great Katou-sama will have all of the above," Katou said. He grinned, because really, that sounded like the most disgusting sandwich either. "I have no idea what the hell turkey ham is, so I'll have beef."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"The Great Katou-sama must have a strong stomach if he can manage all of them together," Fay replied. He smiled and stood up, patted his trousers once to get the dust off them, and said, "Just beef, or do you want anything else in it?"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"Anything else you feel like throwing on it will be fine for The Great Katou-Sama," said Katou. "As long as it's not shit like, I don't know, beetroot or chocolate."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Beef and salad it is, then," Fay laughed. "See you soon, Great Katou-nyao-sama."

Fay was back after twenty minutes or so, expertly balancing a bottle of water, a plate of beef and salad sandwiches, and another with a cheesecake and one of those small cake-forks on it. "Sorry about the cheesecake melting a bit," the mage apologised as he handed the water and sandwiches over to Katou before he sat down. "It's a bit too hot for it."

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"It is kinda warm here, ain't it?" he muttered, wondering if he should eat the cheesecake first. He decided to not, and instead began to work on the sandwiches, guzzling water between bites. "The Great Katou-sama would say it's good, but it's kind of hard to fuck up a sandwich."

He paused. "I mean, unless you're Kira."