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[ashioki]

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[paperpusher]

[cute... it'll even wave at him when he sets it down, hello.]

You too!

[ashioki]

[ m-moe............ ]

[maladie]

I refuse.
Besides, I think you enjoy my particular brand of pain. 🙃

[Vanitas doesn't understand why it's easier for him to pick on the people he likes more than it is to allow himself to be vulnerable, but maybe he'll work on that. One day.]

[ashioki]

[ why does vanitas have to be so right and so loud? ]

any answer to that is only gonna incriminate me so i'm gonna keep my mouth shut

[maladie]

[Because they've imprinted on each other at some point in their acquaintanceship, and Vanitas is studying him like a textbook now. Oops.]

Your aversion to incrimination is incriminating.
I'll let it go for now.

[susano_oh]

[ ...this guy! ]

no i wont! im a professional worrier!

i mean
what kind of weakling do u think i am!?
i'll feel sorry anyway, getting thrown around that much is
anyway i wont harp on it. give u a break from that stuff

i'll go with truth again. u can ask smth thatll give u a laugh if u want

[ashioki]

what's your biggest fear

[ oh??? is he going for the jugular or is he curious to see how genuine an answer yosuke would actually give?

either way, what a jerk. ]

[ashioki]

don't you have enough to hold against me?

[ listen, he's just fortunate he hasn't seen vanitas face-to-face since his official check-in at the resort... otherwise he'd have to suffer through the other man knowing about his stupid heart freckles curse...

hopefully that goes away soon.......... ]

[susano_oh]

[ ... this guy.

one day, yosuke will learn to not bear his throat to people willing to bite! but that's not today, and yosuke doesn't think he's been lied to for any of his questions, so after a few minutes: ]

my friends leaving me behind. us growing apart or them just waking up one day and realising they don't want or need me anymore. and... well

being alone, basically

[ and then, because he knows that's a DOWNER, ]

betcha thought it was smth like waking up naked in public huh
shldve asked my 2nd biggest fear. smh
nice try tho

[maladie]

Mm, maybe for now.
But that'll only keep me busy for so long.

[ashioki]

[ so yosuke chose to be honest after all... and what honesty, too. oushi can't pretend to know this kind of fear — but that's because he hadn't bothered to think past himself and his own problems for so long. his world was truly so small, and of his own doing, and he has only recently begun to really understand the value of his friends.

in his opinion, someone who already worries this much about being left behind must value his friends a lot. and that kind of friend isn't one that's easy to forget or discard.

but that kind of thing isn't something somebody really wants to hear from a stranger. especially one who has purposefully antagonized him already. ]

hey
what's your name

[ashioki]

what else do you do on your free time around here?

[ lowkey asking about vanitas' hobbies and interests... nbd. ]

[susano_oh]

[ maybe he should have lied instead of admitting something like that for a game but, dammit, lying didn't feel right. it's still embarrassing, and he spends some time fretting about it after, but whatever he expected to come of it is not at all what happens. ]

yosuke. yours?
wait
hey ure not gonna expose me r u!

[maladie]

I mostly stay in my room, but sometimes people watching can be insightful.

I've been in the library a lot lately too.

[ashioki]

oushi
and no, i'm not gonna expose you
i may be mean but i'm not an asshole

i just figured [ — no matter what, so long as he was around, someone would remember yosuke. but that's not the same as being left behind, huh? — ] if i was gonna ask you such personal things, i'd at least better know your name, too

[ashioki]

people watch? insightful how?

[ is vanitas studying people? what the hell for? ]

what do you like to read?

[calmomile]

if it shut the bird up then i'd say we're done. gj partner.

oh
i'm borrowing you for a dare btw

[ashioki]

[ instantly: ]

i refuse

[calmomile]

[ TOO LATE— ]

hey are you a library book







because i'm checking you out

[calmomile]

cool, thanks. dare's done.
byeeeeee

[maladie]

That's a secret.

[Just collecting knowledge about anything, and simply for amusement most days.]

I like learning new things.. [A subtle way to express he likes to study in his free time. He just might be a nerd.]

🥺 the start of a beautiful ( insert whatever they have going on)

[susano_oh]

hmmm
ok oushi, ure convincing me on this mean being different from asshole thing

[ oh, that—makes sense. the order might be a bit off but isn't that typical of this place? still, yosuke snorts to himself. ]

that totally sounds like a blackmail setup man
buuuut u dont seem like the type. so
i look forward to asking u personal things 2 now that i kno ur name!

[ashioki]

[ what the hell. ]

was the dare to use the lamest pick-up line possible?

[ though. it was all kind of elevated when she prefaced it all with "borrowing" him.... like you borrow a library book...........................

he ain't saying that though. ]

[ashioki]

[ a big nerd.......... a cute one, tho— ]

if i'm ever by the library i'll pop in and say hi

what they have going on is (vague hand gestures)

[ashioki]

it's not an invitation...