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[welcome_home]

Posted: October 1st (Morning)
From: Nanshe

[ Nanako's sprawled on her stomach on her bed when the video starts, feet kicking behind her in the air absently, a look of concentration on her face. ]

Is there a difference between wishes and prayers? If a god makes a wish here... does someone hear it somewhere and make it happen?

Comments

[welcome_home]

AH, hi, Shun! Yeah, in a couple of days.

[revolutionfalcon]

How many? Even without the wish, I think a lot of people here would want to help you celebrate.

[Implying he is not one of them, because Shun is still Bad At This.]

[welcome_home]

Oh! It's on the 4th! I'm going to be seven!

[revolutionfalcon]

[That...is sooner than he was expecting considering the announcement.]

Does anyone other than you and your brother and now me know about that?

[welcome_home]

umm... I don't know? I don't think so? Why?

[revolutionfalcon]

Do you want to celebrate with everyone?

[welcome_home]

I want to, yeah. But... would it make the shinki feel bad? I didn't want to make anyone sad, either.

[revolutionfalcon]

I don't think so. And it would make people sad if they wanted to celebrate with you and didn't get the chance to, as well.

[welcome_home]

Oh. I guess that's true, too. But what should I do?

[revolutionfalcon]

You could always add it to this post.

Just don't tell anyone I suggested it.

[He has a reputation as an irascible jerk to uphold.]

[welcome_home]

Why not?

[revolutionfalcon]

[...Okay, so he probably needs a better excuse than "I don't want to give people reasons to think I'm nice". Give him a minute.]

Because it might put off people who don't like me, and I don't want that to affect you.

[Ostensibly true, though still not the actual reason he's making the request.]

[welcome_home]

[ She's confused. ]

Who doesn't like you? Did something happen?

[ It's a completely foreign idea to her that everyone doesn't like him like she does. ]

[revolutionfalcon]

Sometimes people just don't like other people. And I'm an easy person to not like. It's not always just because something happened.

[welcome_home]

I think you're an easy person to like.

[ Not that this is that hard of an accomplishment... ]

[revolutionfalcon]

Most people don't. I'm nicer to children than I am to older people.

[He has no shame in admitting it, it's just fact.]

[welcome_home]

Why?

[revolutionfalcon]

Because I want to make sure that if someone wants to get close to me, it's because they mean it instead of just having some frivolous idea of who I am or out of convenience. I don't trust people very much anymore.

[welcome_home]

What's frivolous mean?

[ She is still confused. But she's not going to argue with him about it over text. Probably. She knows he's nice, after all. Maybe that's enough? ]

[revolutionfalcon]

Careless. Shallow. Without meaning. Things like that.

[welcome_home]

Oh. I guess that would be a bad thing. I like you, though, Shun.

[revolutionfalcon]

I know. But the point was that not everyone does, so you shouldn't mention me when you talk about celebrating.

[welcome_home]

Okay, I won't.

Will you still come, though?

[revolutionfalcon]

If you want me to.

[welcome_home]

I do!