Chroma: Danny

[9mon]

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w3, monday

[gogoghostpowers]

[ wow! a music store! Here's Danny, eagerly rifling through a display case of CDs full of mid-2000s pop punk and manpain rock. ]

Aw, sweet! I wonder if I can get a CD player here too...

[9mon]

[Kumon Hyodo, born probably Jul 20, 2004, stands here for a moment and-]

They should, right? It'd be weird to have all these CDs and no way to play them.

[gogoghostpowers]

Wouldn't be the weirdest thing this place has done, but, yeah.

Hey, let's check over by the record players! They're big enough I can see 'em from here--maybe they've got CD players next to them.

[9mon]

That's true.

[What with the incredibly depressing animals last week? And also the murder. Mostly the murder.]

Alright!

[He bounds over and smack into a bubble.]

Wha--

[gogoghostpowers]

What?

[ Hey! Danny bumps into the bubble too! ] Oh great, another one of these.

[9mon]

At least they're not too hard to get outta.

[It's just the memory you get could be... bad...]

[gogoghostpowers]

Yeah...[ sighs ] Well...let's get this over with...

[ Danny takes a breath, and presses a yellow palm to the bubble. Kumon will find himself witnessing a memory. (24:52 to 26:13) ]

[9mon]

[This has to be Danny, it cannot possibly be anybody else but he turns towards Danny with a moment of "Woah, I wasn't expecting any of that."]

Whoa! I didn't know you could land a whole jet! And the super powers? With the going in and out of stuff? So cool!

[gogoghostpowers]

[ groans into his hands ] Why do these bubbles always show off the worst moments?

[ sighs ] Yeah...I know how to pilot some stuff. Although that wasn't a jet, it was a space shuttle. I've...done a lot of those digital piloting simulations.

[9mon]

That wasn't too bad. [He'll pat Danny's back.] Nothing super embarrassing happened there.

Do you wanna go to space?

[gogoghostpowers]

Yeah...I wanted to be an astronaut.

[9mon]

You're still young? You could do it eventually, especially if you've already put time into lit.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ shakes his head ] Nah. You saw what I did back there, right? With the...intangibility?

Even if I could get good enough grades for the space program, I'd never pass the physical.

[9mon]

... Does the space program text for intangibility?

[he's stupid.]

[gogoghostpowers]

No? But they do test for like, health and fitness and stuff, and...my DNA is like, super messed up now. I don't even want to know what my blood tests would show.

[9mon]

[He nods slowly.]

So they don't really have a test for people with superpowers...

[gogoghostpowers]

[ he snorts ] Are you kidding? People with superpowers don't exist in my world.

[9mon]

Are you saying you don't have superpowers???

[gogoghostpowers]

Not technically? It's...because I'm actually half-ghost. So. I can do ghost stuff.

[9mon]

[You known when you've been confronted with entirely too much at once and then you say the first thing that comes to mind, regardless of how much you should say it?]

Ghost are real?!

[gogoghostpowers]

[ snorts ]

Yeah? I thought we established that like, our first week here.

[9mon]

Oh! You're right. It's just. Having ghosts here and having ghosts at home feel like they're different, y'know?

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh trust me, I know.

[9mon]

You would definitely know.

[Being a half ghost and all!

Kumon just accepts this like it's just a new fact of life because every adult at Mankai accepts living plushies.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Just, uh...don't tell anyone about it, okay? I don't like people knowing.