pc catchall for souji.

[agleam]

aki give me a shitpost

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[agleam]

[nodding, with a grin.]

Sure! By getting engaged.

[what the fuck]

[illomened]

[Souji just sitting here listening to that like "it might as well happen, I GUESS."]

—Congratulations! I have never heard of a curse being lifted by such a thing, but it sounds like a very good first-time-for-everything situation.

[agleam]

Thanks! There was more going on than just that to make it work as a solution, but - I'm glad it worked out like that.

[tilting his head, though.]

Okay, your turn now.

[illomened]

Very "the kind of storybook story that you'd want to be in if you had to", you know?

[He just nods... But then:]

What sort of story would you like to hear in return?

[agleam]

[thinking, thinking... and then:]

The one that makes you happiest to think about!

[illomened]

Ah! There are far too many to choose from! [Said with a little GLEAM IN HIS DEMON EYE...]

But, hm... One of the happiest - let's see. One summer when I was much younger, after I had just finished practicing in the dojo, Kondo-san said that we could take the rest of the evening off to celebrate the work I'd done. Normally I would clean after I had finished, so it was quite a treat, you see! That day, instead of either of us doing any more work, he took me out into town. We bought so many sweets that I got a toothache, hah... Taiyaki and dango, and my favorite brown sugar candies. He carried me on his shoulders all the way back home, after, and we stopped to watch the sun rise in a field.

[agleam]

I'm glad to hear that.

[having too many happy memories to choose from seems like a good thing! and he smiles as souji continues.]

The sunrise? Jeez, you must've been out pretty late for a kid... It sounds like it was a good night, at least. Memories like that are always really important.

[illomened]

[He thinks he's very lucky to have an abundance of happy memories to cling to as he dies, yes.]

Mm, it was quite late, but I've gone to bed late in the night and woken up before the sun for as long as I can remember... So it wasn't all that different, really. Except that time, I had good snacks and I was able to try catching fireflies in a field with Kondo-san! It was a wonderful thing... And I agree. [A little nod.] If you have memories like that, then you can take them with you wherever you go, you know?

[agleam]

[i'll kill you]

Wow... You're pretty disciplined!

[amused... he nods, though.]

It's a way to keep people close even if they're not there, right? So you're never really alone.

[illomened]

[ME, INNOCENT AKI???]

Hah - goodness, do you think so? I've just always hated feeling like I'm wasting time that I could be using doing other things, you know?

[Is he disciplined or is he a busybody on a time limit...]

But that's exactly what I think, too. It's a nice comfort, isn't it?

[agleam]

[:unamused:]

Well... I guess it depends on what you consider wasting time!

[he nods, though.]

Yeah. It's nice to have something like that to carry with you, no matter where you are.

[illomened]

Sleeping.

[Sleeping is wasting time. That is TIME he could be using on OTHER THINGS, that instead he's just using on BEING UNCONSCIOUS!! He also feels like he has a right to say this after spending seven weeks KO'd.]

--Will you tell me another story? Whatever comes to your mind first!

[agleam]

[after a moment of pause:]

No, you should definitely sleep...

[concern!! but.]

Oh - sure! About him?

[illomened]

[He just

IGNORES THE FIRST PART.]

Yes! Or about anything else that comes to your mind, I suppose. I'd love to get to know you a little better!

[agleam]

[SQUINTS..... his expression very clearly says that will remember that!! but.]

I do, too! So you owe me another story after this.

[hmmmmm]

Well, I talked a little bit about it earlier, but - I could tell you more about how I got engaged?

[illomened]

[He can't see anymore wow, he has no idea what expression Rupert is making, how strange...]

Mm, a trade is fair! But certainly, that sounds like a good story.

[agleam]

Sure! So, backstory, I guess... The reason that the forest I mentioned was cursed was because our fathers started a war right before we were both born. They got punished for it, and once they were stopped, there was this prophecy - essentially, that one of our kingdoms was going to have to prevail once and for all to stop it from spreading any further.

[pausing to make sure he's following this fairy tale nonsense...]

[illomened]

[That is some fairytale nonsense but fortunately he's from Grimm, so he just nods.]

Mm. So a prophecy that sounds as though one must finish what they started, essentially?

[agleam]

Kind of. Or... That our families would have to do that even if we didn't start anything ourselves.

[something something sins of the father]

So for a long time, when both of us were growing up, everyone around us thought the same way. That it was about finishing the war they started, and one of us was going to have to kill the other to get rid of the opposing kingdom's heir to the throne. Which - obviously didn't turn out to be the case, thankfully. There was a certain place we had to go for what we thought would be the fight, and it took us a while to travel there together, so we were a lot closer by the time we arrived than we had been when we started. And neither of us wanted to go through with it any more.

[illomened]

[Just nodding along as he explains...]

--A bit like these places, hm?

[Having to be in such close proximity with people you're supposed to FIGHT OR KILL or people who might eventually kill you really does just crank up the bonding levels somehow. Wild.]

What happened, then? Did you say that you had no mind to follow through?

[agleam]

We didn't want to, definitely, but we felt like we had to in order to keep everyone else safe. The whole starvation thing I mentioned earlier, you know. But he was about to win, he's a way better fighter than me, and... I didn't want to leave him before telling him how I felt. So I told him I loved him, and as soon as he said the same thing - the curse broke.

[the power of love..... gross.........]

Because, you know - one kingdom. Not in terms of, like, conquest, but unity instead. We realized we'd been thinking about it wrong the entire time.

[illomened]

[THE POWER OF LOVE...]

Oh, my! What a cute story! Ah, well, the part where you almost died was a bit less cute, but considering it all worked out wonderfully in the end, I'd say it's an "all's well that ends well" situation.

[When will someone tell Rupert about his final words left to be read by god and everyone revealing that his world is suffering largely right now.]

[agleam]

Yeah, no, that part was rough, but - like you said. The most I could ask for is that it ended happily.

[that specific story at least!! it's fine.]

Amir's really incredible. I think if it was anyone but him, things wouldn't have worked out the way they did.

[illomened]

And I'm certain that he would say the same thing about you, no doubt.

[Cute... Couples are cute. BUTT ANYWAY because i aki am like truly we can't keep having dead people not tell everyone about their heartfelt letters, he pauses for a second.]

...You - don't have to answer, of course... But is Amir still with you?

[As in LIVING but honestly this also just sounds hilarious as a "so are y'all still an item or" thing.]

[agleam]

[that's very specific!! and he pauses for a second, hesitating, because he can think of a few reasons why he would ask that. his first guess is that someone mentioned a particularly horrible memshare which is wrong but very funny.]

...Did someone tell you he isn't?