rindude: (I'm 'bout to wake up)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[unfortunately, tora just purrs and makes herself even more of a loaf on riff's back, squashing him down into the floor.]

She's heavy. And she doesn't want to move. And she's terrible company.

[the last one is not true. it's fine.]
daggering: (213)

[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[



he does nothing to stop this ]


Maybe she just knows you need it. 'ssat right, Tora? Are you just trying to smother him to death with your love? Is that it?

[ cooing ]
rindude: (Shake it on this battleground)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[GROANING.]

I stand corrected. You're both terrible company. [tora's tail flicks and she leans further into vax's hand like she's very proud of being a gremlin.]

Smothering me with love isn't the most helpful solution.
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
You sure?

[ pspspsppspss tora

okay he will let this torture continue for a few minutes longer and then hop back up to his feet. ]
C'mon, kitcat. Let's get you a treat.
rindude: (Doing some things that I know)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[tora immediately responds to the word treat like a glutton, claws digging into riff's back before she's up and following vax closely. treat? treat for tora??

riff, meanwhile, is dead on the ground as he finally rolls over to stare at the ceiling instead.]


...I mean. I don't know if I can even take her back with me.
daggering: (197)

[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Does that mean she doesn't exist right now?

[ he doesn't even turn around as he says this, going to go poke around in the cabinets to feet this cat some treats. time to spoil her rotten! ]
rindude: (You don't know me so I'll show you)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I'm sort of expecting her to leave, too, at some point. [he will just openly say that. tora seems to know where riff keeps treats because she's clawing open a cabinet.

there is a gray, leaking hole in the back of it. but the treats are there!]


Anyway I know the answer's no, she exists right now so I should pay attention to her. And I am.
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe she's secretly a part of your soul, or something.

[ maybe she's a wildshaped shoka (no)

he reaches down to pat tora's head and then fetches the treats, leaning against the counter to toss her a couple - if he sees the hole, he says nothing about it, but moves the treat box away from it. bad. ]


Looks like she's paying attention to you, the most. Maybe she can tell you're having an existential crisis?
rindude: (Watch it burn like a firebird)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[i'll tell you a secret the reason he imprinted on this tiger instead of just freeing it from aymeric initially was 100% his shoka memories, yeah.]

I doubt it. [tora pounces on the treats and immediately ignores both of them now that she got her way.] And I never said I'm having an existential crisis.

[he didn't. like. have to. but you know. shut up.]
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ sometimes your girlfriend is a tiger? he understands this intimately.

anyway,

vax watches this happen with some fondness, hopping up to put the treats away in a taller cabinet where they will not be immediately stolen, and then comes over to where riff's laying on the floor.


... he will come and lay down next to him, folding his hands on his chest. ]
Didn't have to.

Wanna talk about it?
rindude: (Doing some things that I know)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[the tiger is derailed and riff turns his head to look at vax briefly.]

I feel like all I do lately is talk about stuff instead of doing anything about it. And I'm not even sure what to say. Things are just...so weird right now.
daggering: fingers. wow. sooooooooooooooooo imperssed. (85)

[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow proud of you for your action mode riff

agreeing: ]
Things are really fucking weird, yeah. Kind of expected it, but... 's not like we knew what we were expecting, either.
rindude: (We'll be right back after this)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
I mean if it wasn't obvious, I haven't really known anything for a long time. I think that's what I'm still trying to work on. But yeah. It's expected but not the kind of expectation we had, because we didn't know what to expect.
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ grumpy ]

Yep. [ a beat. ] Fuckin terrible. [ eloquent as always.

he just lays there for a moment, contemplating. ]
Bass said that you guys can usually control your spaces a little better than everywhere else. You gonna be okay, in here...?
rindude: (Getting numb really fulfills me)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[...shrug.]

I'll figure it out. It's sort of a lower priority on my to do list. [riff this is literally your house.] It'd be nice to, like, not deal with it, but it's minor in comparison to everything else I think.

["for now."]
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[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ vax is quiet for a moment - maybe that unspoken "for now" that sits in between them. he gets it - the whole prism is falling apart. shit's serious. ]

...you wanna come stay with me and Yasu for a night? We could make another pillow fort.

[ the marine home for wayward teens ] Bring Tora.
rindude: (Doing some things that I know)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[...glancing at the marine portrait. glancing at the wall. glancing at his chalkboard wall.]

...you sure?
daggering: officer he asked me to do it (9)

[personal profile] daggering 2022-04-05 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Positive. Clown house's always got room for you.

[ he reaches out playfully with that to honk his nose. ]
rindude: (So let me let me)

[personal profile] rindude 2022-04-05 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[he wrinkles his nose and swats at him. no!!]

Yeah, I know. [...an unsteady sigh follows.] I know. Thanks. I...don't like the idea of just leaving it but if it's for one day that's not so bad, right?