[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.
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.
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?
[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.]
[ 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.
[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.
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.
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...?
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.
[ 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.
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?
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She's heavy. And she doesn't want to move. And she's terrible company.
[the last one is not true. it's fine.]
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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 ]
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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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[ 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.
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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.
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[ 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! ]
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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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[ 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?
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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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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?
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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.
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agreeing: ] Things are really fucking weird, yeah. Kind of expected it, but... 's not like we knew what we were expecting, either.
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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...?
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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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...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.
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...you sure?
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[ he reaches out playfully with that to honk his nose. ]
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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?