[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[cw_suicide]

[he blinks at the touch on his face, and then again at that last part.]

... you are something to me.

[accessorytomurder]

I-I know. I just want to keep... to keep doing that. Being that. Being... being what I think you deserve, not just what you think you're lucky to get.

[cw_suicide]

[... sighs.]

Hitoka~ You've got it completely backwards, you know that?

You're definitely far more than I deserve. And, if anything, you could do much better than someone like me. Saphir-kun--or I guess it's -san now?--hasn't been wrong on this point.

[mostly mentioning because one of the loudest objectors]

I'm definitely not the one settling for something.

[accessorytomurder]

That's... what I mean exactly, Osamu. I want to give you what I think you deserve. Not what you do.

[She pinches his cheek.]

...the doctor, um, he... I think, more than anything, he just... remembers me crying, before. A-And, I don't know about better, or worse, or how to score that. I just...

I know that you're what makes me happy. And somehow, Xian-kun and Ango-san make things even happier, but you all alone would be enough, too, if for some reason we had never gotten the chance to meet them, here. ...okay?

[cw_suicide]

[he doesn't object to his cheek getting pinches or to what she's saying, but it's probably clear that this is an area he's not as confident in--not that he disbelieves her or how she thinks of it, but...]

... okay.

Just... if it weren't for you, I would have done much worse in that house. I'm not saying that lightly.

[accessorytomurder]

It was easy to be brave and work hard, when it was for all of you.

[cw_suicide]

It's still something really hard for me, though.

Hitoka has her own strengths, after all.

[accessorytomurder]

...well, I did, at least.

[She sighs.]

I... still have pepperspray and perseveration, at least...

[cw_suicide]

Mm, that's true.

[time to take her hands and press them against his chest, even.]

[accessorytomurder]

She lays her head against his shoulder.]

...I'll try to get better at flirting.

[Maybe that will help take the constant edge off, for a while.]

[cw_suicide]

You've always done really well with me, if it helps anyway.

Probably Wei-kun could use some of your flirting, too?

[accessorytomurder]

...I feel like he'd try to like anything I did, which is, um... kind of a problem with the two of you.

[cw_suicide]

Did it ever occur to you that we like anything you do because we like you and thus anything you do?

Rather than trying to appease you, it's definitely we like you.

Appeasing behavior is more like what I do with Gilgamesh, you know.

[accessorytomurder]

But there are things you like more. I found out yours by accident, but I'm not sure about Xian-kun.

[cw_suicide]

His really aren't that different from mine...

Though I think he's less, ah... wanting for, mm, the sharper aspects?

[rip Wei Wuxian]

Admittedly, I'm still figuring him out, but...

[sometimes you have very similar tastes and feel comfortable enough service topping another bottom, listen.]

[accessorytomurder]

So he won't get excited over me talking about duct tape. Got it.

[cw_suicide]

... I mean. The binding aspect, maybe.

I actually used a scarf as a leash on him recently.

[accessorytomurder]

...what, really? I thought you'd want that done to you instead...

[cw_suicide]

[........ how do approach how he functions with things involving a bit of humility but also control and ownership and all his issues therein...]

I'd probably die if it was done publicly...

[accessorytomurder]

[She kisses the curve of his jaw and neck, gently.]

Well, that's okay. Osamu is plenty cute in private. Does Xian-kun like it public?

[cw_suicide]

Mm... or, at least, there's the firm handed ownership to it that probably gets him more? Though, in general, he's more comfortable in his own skin than I am.

[and that skin wasn't even originally his, so Dazai's doubly envious of that trait. so y'know.]

[accessorytomurder]

...if you say so.

[She tugs at the hair on his nape once, nice and firm.]

So, are you saying you don't enjoy firm handed ownership, Osamu?

[cw_suicide]

[pffff. how does. explain. things.]

Obviously, the issue would be less about enjoyment and more my thinking how the other person might see my enjoyment of it. In this case, if it's Hitoka, I don't worry quite so much.

[accessorytomurder]

[That gets a very soft laugh from her.]

Because, I won't read too much into it. Because I just want you to enjoy yourself, rather than make the whole thing about me.

[cw_suicide]

[hums in affirmation.]

So you see why such public displays would be a bit more difficult?

[not impossible, though.]

When it's a game of escalation, usually I'm not thinking about such things, but if it's not something like that, then... well...

[reasons he and Rin got into it while he and Ango totally did not.]