Sure is getting dusty in here.Day 9 of my Christmas advent/challenge thing, and it only took until a week for me to almost regret doing this! Every day until Christmas, I'll make a post featuring either the character from the Arcana assigned to the day (apologies in advance if I fuck up their personalities) or an event of my choosing if no relevant character exists for the Arcana. Arcanas are assigned numerically, as in Fool (0) was the fourth, and the World (21) is Christmas Day. Stories have no set theme and they have no minimum length. Next Arcana is Justice, XLeg's Toma Tanaka. Again nothing much to say besides mentioning the tiniest bit of Noboru fanservice in it.
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Though usually having some winter fun was, well, fun, Toma was certainly not enjoying being stuck in waist-deep snow. Having not spent much time in Warakuma for much of his life, the boy was still unfamiliar with the nooks and crannies of the town, and upon going out for a walk, had decided to try to fix that and go down one of the back roads. The one thing he didn't expect though, were there to be sudden trenches in the path several feet deep. A single step too far out finally cracked the thin layer of ice on the top of the snow and sent Toma straight into the snow up to the middle of his torso.
He had attempted to escape by crawling out, but the snow merely collapsed in on itself with incredible ease and kept his legs awkwardly buried. Eventually, he gave up on getting out by himself and remembered that he still had his phone on him, albeit in his back pocket and thus difficult to remove due to his position. It took him a few long and despair-filled moments but the boy managed to squeeze out his phone from beneath the snow and attempted to navigate to his contacts. The freezing temperatures combined with the snow all around him made it incredibly hard to keep his finger steady enough to tap the buttons. Once he was looking at his list of names registered, the boy finally considered the fact that he didn't know who to call. Who was available, who was even helpful in a situation, and who cared enough to actually come out in the frigid winter weather.
Toma soon decided on a person and shot them a text before sliding his phone into his coat's pocket, and it was only then that he realized how cold the lower half of his body and how the risk of getting some form of frost bite, likely in the extremities, was a very real thing. Time passed on as Toma continued to try to struggle out of the snow pit to no avail, and it felt like an eternity before Leiko Hamada and Noboru Yamamoto came running over to him, though they stopped as soon as their feet started sinking uncomfortably low in the snow. Noboru, in his noticeably tighter-than-usual shirt and coat, lowered himself to the ground and slowly started creeping forward, body flat and stopping whenever the ice and snow beneath him creaked or cracked. Leiko simply watched on in disapprovement as Noboru went ever closer to the boy.
Once Noboru was close enough to grab his hand, Toma took hold of the boy by the forearm and started to try to climb out of the snow, clawing his feet into the sides as he waggled his way onto the snow's thick surface alongside Noboru. Once Toma was completely out, he let go of Noboru's wrist and the more muscular male slowly flopped around to face the opposite direction. Both began crawling back to where they started, and as soon as Toma was sure he could stand up, he pushed himself onto his feet, breaking the snow and subsequently bringing Noboru with him. Both boys scrambled out of the snow trench and back over to where Leiko was standing. The girl chastised Toma for being so foolish as to fall into and get trapped in an entirely avoidable snow trap, though she soon relented and the three returned home quickly.
Oh also Kissu, you better get yo stupid ass in here and write dat post.