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[October 2013 Event] • Takeshi's Memories • tw for gore

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The first memory is a kind one. Takeshi's holding a hand — large, strong, but gently holding his — as they cross a busy street in Tokyo. Takeshi looks from the hand holding his to an ice-cream in other, half-devoured; the sun is out, people are bustling, but when he glances up there's a skyscraper of a man keeping a nice bubble of personal space around them. Clearly his large presence makes people second-guess walking too close to him. Emotions — love, fondness, trust, happiness — trek through the boy's mind. Dad. Kaze looks down, frown deepening a little.

"Your ice cream..."

Takeshi looks back and finds it sliding off the cone; he gasps, a surprised yelp, and starts to eat against a brain freeze. Kaze just laughs, deep and rich even though it's underused.

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"Dad!! Frisbees!!"

"What — ?!"

The boy is wedged close to his father, held by one of his strong muscular arms while Takeshi stays tucked close to Kaze's neck. As he peers over his dad's shoulder, heartbeat thundering in his chest, he sees a blood-red sky and ships and large metal creations. Skyscrapers are being destroyed by beams of light. Some of the robots are smashing their giant arms into buildings. Rubble rains down, flicking against Takeshi's shoulders. Luckily none of it hurts him or his father, thanks to the leather suits they're wearing. The people around them are not as lucky, though; Takeshi watches with wide eyes as these 'frisbees' come flying left and right at the fleeing crowds. Takeshi watches as heads and skull caps and limbs are sliced away from bodies, guts spilling out before the dead men, women, and children can even collapse properly.

Kaze turns and ducks, and Takeshi watches as the large spinning objects fly by, inches above them. Screams reverberate where the sound of explosions don't engulf the air. He tucks his face away in his father's shoulder, overwhelmed by the scene.

"Don't look," Kaze says unhelpfully, too little too late. Takeshi looks back up, vision bobbing as they run, as a little girl and her brother scream and cry in the street, shrinking as they go; a giant machine bashes through the apartment complex next to them, and it can only be assumed they were crushed in the falling debris.

"Dad — !!"