[ senri & ray are not okay ]

[usogi]

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[usogi]

Please be nice, he barely knows anything!

[and that says something coming from senri]

I'm not sure if he gets how emotions work....

[selfimmolates]

And yet he's with Love, isn't he?

[usogi]

You're so mean... I said he doesn't know how they work, not that he doesn't feel them.

I think... he's just still learning to navigate.

[selfimmolates]

Regardless, I'm less concerned with his emotional intelligence and more about whether he could be useful or not.

Also, if he knows how to keep a secret.

[because hm this is not promising so far,]

[usogi]

[senri hums thoughtfully]

You could probably use him to get information out there - seems like he has no problem sharing it in public. Sorta like how he just chatted about Ruin...

It's sorta like Chuuya-san - I don't think I'd tell him anything about me, but he's endearing.... He can talk to other people.

[selfimmolates]

Endearing is not the word I'd have used for Chuuya.

[usogi]

Really? I think Chuuya-san could be pretty cool depending on who he was talking to....

Unsuspecting, then.

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, I think we had very different experiences with the guy.

[usogi]

[okay he can't help but laugh]

People really do get scared of you, Ray-kun....

[selfimmolates]

Oh, he wasn't scared. I assume he didn't project his issues with his dead son onto you?

[usogi]

[holy fuck]

What.

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, he had a dead son. You didn't know?

[usogi]

No, that's.... Ah, of course he never mentioned anything like that to me.

[jesus christ]

[selfimmolates]

[he shrugs.]

It came up with me.

[usogi]

... sorry, that's - pretty weird and heavy.

[selfimmolates]

It was mostly annoying.

[because, again, projection.]

[usogi]

... yeah, I don't really blame you for feeling that way either.

[he shakes his head]

Well, that's definitely a weird relationship to have with Chuuya-san.

[selfimmolates]

I mean, he didn't think I was his dead son or anything. He was just annoyingly firm on his stance that children should be protected.

[usogi]

Like to the point that you couldn't make your own decisions kind of thing?

[selfimmolates]

Well, not that bad. Just stuff like how people my age shouldn't have to experience death or go through the hardships that adults are supposed to take care of, or whatever—even if reality isn't that kind.

[usogi]

.... it's a nice ideal.

[but he can see an issue with that too. he shakes his head.]

I feel like Chuuya-san had a problem with good intentions, bad execution.

[selfimmolates]

It pissed me off.

[usogi]

I'm not surprised.

If someone is that firm about something, without asking for your side... it kinda feels like invalidating your experiences, right? Like you can talk about a perfect world all you want, but someone still had to live through that hardship you're trying to deny....

[selfimmolates]

[...

he blinks, evidently surprised by what senri just said.]

[usogi]

[senri blinks back]

... am I off....