lunaecalamitas | Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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( The former half of the answer is a mix of what he expected, and logical given what else he's learned - which is good. Mika doesn't like Solomon types because they can be difficult to predict and irrational (Ferid, his beloathed). But Solomon is not so extreme in this alignment, and as long as he can be partly predicted - not perfectly, given Mika's hardly a grandmaster - then that lowers his threat level.

Somewhat.

The rest, though: the opening does clearly get his hackles up, but he does not interrupt Solomon's continuing, which does him some good. Mika still doesn't like it, but he can hear him.

... )

... Do you see him as a demon? ( He's extrapolating. But. ) Don't. He's just Ginger. If you actually liked him, you'd get that.

... Truth.

I do. Just as much as I see him as all of his other parts. To ignore that part of him is to ignore something that he wants to improve, something that makes him unique.

[Mika honey you might wanna hold your tongue before you learn too much.

Anyway.]

Do you want to go home?

It's not ignoring that part of him. Ginger already is more than the sum of his "parts." ( By seeing him as Ginger, you're accepting all of him! Obviously!!! ) Don't go telling him that that part of him is some kind of flaw.

( He doesn't care that Ginger thinks it's a flaw! Don't enable it!!!

He's a bit agitated right now, and the question only leaves him moreso. )

... I don't know. If I go back, I'm going to try to find a way to protect Yuu-chan as a demon, somehow. ( He knows his heart, he knows himself. ) And I should, because it's Yuu-chan, he's my family, and I need to make up to him every way I've failed him. But I—

( All that makes it out easy enough, even if it's a bit grim on his heart. But this... he struggles with. )

... I want to be with Ginger. I really... really want to. But I don't know how much he believes me.

( He feels guilty for remaining attached to Yuu, and guilty for wanting to stay with Ginger. So maybe it's all pointless, and maybe it doesn't matter either way what he does, because he's wrong no matter what and he's failing someone no matter what and both Ginger and Yuu deserve better. )

[He didn't tell Ginger anything of the sort. But he knows this isn't an argument he can have easily with Mika now that it's in his head.

So he exhales slowly, putting his cup aside.]

Trust in him, and talk to him. That is all you can do. Let him meet you in the middle with the rest.

Thank you for your questions. I will not be asking anything else from you.