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[#082] Graduation (countdown 7 Days)
Theme Prompt: #082: Countdown (Amnesty Week)
Title: Graduation
Fandom: countdown 7 Days
Rating/Warnings: Some of the stuff that comes with ghostly characters
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 880
There's something nerve-wracking about witnessing your first graduation. Your first few. For Akito, it still, after witnessing it so many times, after so many decades worth of them, makes his heart flutter to witness the new graduates from the Reincarnation Course step up and through the gate. It warmed and saddened him at the same time. So many souls had suffered, before their death. So many would suffer once more, as they faced their new lives. Some souls returned far, far too quickly. So quickly it felt like Akitos heart might get torn apart.
There were always new students there to witness their first Reincarnation, both fellow classmates to the reincarnating spirit, and those from other classes. There was an endless cycling of souls in need of guidance, before they could take their own steps toward their chosen goal, before they even could choose a path toward a new life, a continued afterlife, or complete obliteration.
Witnessing a spirit who had chosen to terminate their existence, to end their spiral of life after life, was the hardest. Terminating another soul was the greatest sin in Sheol, and needing to bear witness to the willful termination was something that some could not bear. It was a good thing that only school staff were witness to it, though the Principal ensured that each soul ending their existence could face their end with warmth, which Akito fully supported.
But it was a complicated thing, for newcomers and oldtimers alike. Soon, a group of three would leave Sheol for their respective new lives. Akito could see them talk to their friends, eager and nervous and uncertain yet hopeful for their new futures.
He smoothed out his trousets as he found his place next to a fretting student close to his own graduation, though this spirit in particular had chosen to remain in Sheol. Akito was certain that the young man with the big eyes and scarred face would end up his co-worker soon enough, as he had chosen to be a worker in Sheol, rather than a guardian spirit.
"Are you nervous, Rasu-kun?" he asked, softly. The man, all skin and bones under a uniform that should not be oversized, as they accommodated all sizes, shapes, and species, nodded sharply, once. His long braid bounced with the movement. "I believe you have witnessed over a dozen reincarnations by now. I don't think it's that, which has you so rattled. May I ask about it?"
The mans hesitation was obvious, and Akito waited, allowing him to take his time to decide. Eventually, he gave a much smaller nod. "Are you undertain about your own decision?" He saw the man still, though he had already been still, in a jerky sort of way, before. "It's alright to be. It is a big decision. You are given all the time that you need to feel confident in your decision, here."
"Y-y-years t-too?" the man stuttered, not only a result of his anxiety. Akito nodded.
"The main thing we have plenty of here is time," he assured him. Akito had also taken a while to decide. He wondered if his son, on the other hand, had not been too quick to decide to stay, and take up employment at the school. Akito had been shocked, when he found the paperwork filled out a mere three days after the boy's arrival. He loved his son, he adored being able to live with him again, but it hurt to know that he had died at a mere twenty-one years old. What father's heart didn't break, when he saw that name, that cause of death, so soon after he himself had left the child behind, albeit unintentionally?
"V-v-vice-p-princip-pal?"
Akito looked away from his hands, which he hadn't been seeing anyway, and relaxed his grip as he had squeezed them together. He looked up at the much taller man. "Sometimes, the most nerve-wracking moment such as these isn't in the future," he explained softly. "If you remain on course to stay here, we will take care of you. The principal wishes everyone to be happy, temporary stays or lasting ones, it doesn't matter. As do I. Even if you end up deciding to try life on for another time, you will be well-taken care of when you next need to make your decision."
Rasu shook his head, and only when his big, so big eyes locked on Akito, does Akito realise that the man hadn't blinked even once since he approached. But Akito had encountered stranger people still, during his years working at the soul school. Even during his time as a living human being. "I don't- wan-ant to make it ag-again," he said. Akito smiled softly. He reached out and ruffled the boys brown birdsnest hair, gently.
"You don't have to," he said, in another assurance. "And if you ever do feel ready, or change your mind, for any other path, staying here gives you all the other options. But you don't have to stay with the intent of someday moving on. Many stay to stay for good. Me too. And the principal, and Maria. You may feel hesitant for a long time still, or you may not, but you will always have people to turn to with your worries here."
Title: Graduation
Fandom: countdown 7 Days
Rating/Warnings: Some of the stuff that comes with ghostly characters
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 880
There's something nerve-wracking about witnessing your first graduation. Your first few. For Akito, it still, after witnessing it so many times, after so many decades worth of them, makes his heart flutter to witness the new graduates from the Reincarnation Course step up and through the gate. It warmed and saddened him at the same time. So many souls had suffered, before their death. So many would suffer once more, as they faced their new lives. Some souls returned far, far too quickly. So quickly it felt like Akitos heart might get torn apart.
There were always new students there to witness their first Reincarnation, both fellow classmates to the reincarnating spirit, and those from other classes. There was an endless cycling of souls in need of guidance, before they could take their own steps toward their chosen goal, before they even could choose a path toward a new life, a continued afterlife, or complete obliteration.
Witnessing a spirit who had chosen to terminate their existence, to end their spiral of life after life, was the hardest. Terminating another soul was the greatest sin in Sheol, and needing to bear witness to the willful termination was something that some could not bear. It was a good thing that only school staff were witness to it, though the Principal ensured that each soul ending their existence could face their end with warmth, which Akito fully supported.
But it was a complicated thing, for newcomers and oldtimers alike. Soon, a group of three would leave Sheol for their respective new lives. Akito could see them talk to their friends, eager and nervous and uncertain yet hopeful for their new futures.
He smoothed out his trousets as he found his place next to a fretting student close to his own graduation, though this spirit in particular had chosen to remain in Sheol. Akito was certain that the young man with the big eyes and scarred face would end up his co-worker soon enough, as he had chosen to be a worker in Sheol, rather than a guardian spirit.
"Are you nervous, Rasu-kun?" he asked, softly. The man, all skin and bones under a uniform that should not be oversized, as they accommodated all sizes, shapes, and species, nodded sharply, once. His long braid bounced with the movement. "I believe you have witnessed over a dozen reincarnations by now. I don't think it's that, which has you so rattled. May I ask about it?"
The mans hesitation was obvious, and Akito waited, allowing him to take his time to decide. Eventually, he gave a much smaller nod. "Are you undertain about your own decision?" He saw the man still, though he had already been still, in a jerky sort of way, before. "It's alright to be. It is a big decision. You are given all the time that you need to feel confident in your decision, here."
"Y-y-years t-too?" the man stuttered, not only a result of his anxiety. Akito nodded.
"The main thing we have plenty of here is time," he assured him. Akito had also taken a while to decide. He wondered if his son, on the other hand, had not been too quick to decide to stay, and take up employment at the school. Akito had been shocked, when he found the paperwork filled out a mere three days after the boy's arrival. He loved his son, he adored being able to live with him again, but it hurt to know that he had died at a mere twenty-one years old. What father's heart didn't break, when he saw that name, that cause of death, so soon after he himself had left the child behind, albeit unintentionally?
"V-v-vice-p-princip-pal?"
Akito looked away from his hands, which he hadn't been seeing anyway, and relaxed his grip as he had squeezed them together. He looked up at the much taller man. "Sometimes, the most nerve-wracking moment such as these isn't in the future," he explained softly. "If you remain on course to stay here, we will take care of you. The principal wishes everyone to be happy, temporary stays or lasting ones, it doesn't matter. As do I. Even if you end up deciding to try life on for another time, you will be well-taken care of when you next need to make your decision."
Rasu shook his head, and only when his big, so big eyes locked on Akito, does Akito realise that the man hadn't blinked even once since he approached. But Akito had encountered stranger people still, during his years working at the soul school. Even during his time as a living human being. "I don't- wan-ant to make it ag-again," he said. Akito smiled softly. He reached out and ruffled the boys brown birdsnest hair, gently.
"You don't have to," he said, in another assurance. "And if you ever do feel ready, or change your mind, for any other path, staying here gives you all the other options. But you don't have to stay with the intent of someday moving on. Many stay to stay for good. Me too. And the principal, and Maria. You may feel hesitant for a long time still, or you may not, but you will always have people to turn to with your worries here."