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Sunny & Omori ([personal profile] sadpoem) wrote2020-02-08 08:28 pm

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-09 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)

[Were it not for their preceding exchange, Aubrey would half wonder if Sunny’s making this up, too. He’s gay?]

You’re… dating? [Sunny would date a cat-person. Aubrey’s not judging.

[Actually, she has a few questions about a person who’d get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t remember half his day. But from Sunny’s earlier description, Kenma seems nice enough, and Sunny trusts him. Aubrey will just have to see for herself that the trust isn’t misplaced.]

headhooligan: (00D - _  -)

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-09 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)

[It’s funny. Eren’s from another world and has multiple spouses, so that’s one thing. Luz has talked about her girlfriend, and only later did Aubrey realize Luz is from (what Aubrey thinks is) the same version of Earth; if a place can have magic, it can have girls dating girls, too.

[Sunny, though. It never occurred to her…]

I’m glad. [She has no idea what to say to this sort of thing. Two months feels… fast. But the sentiment is genuine, and Aubrey’s faint smile remains.] Congrats on the boyfriend.

headhooligan: (07A leaning)

😔. hands you a seashell.

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-09 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)

Xie Lian. [She mucks up the punctuation a bit, but there’s an honest effort. The kindest person…]

How’d you meet? [It’s a soft question. Sunny’s telling her a lot…]

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 01:43 am (UTC)(link)

[Ingredients. Sunny’s kitchen was not stocked.]

You meet a lot of people through the network, huh?

headhooligan: (00B talking.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 02:09 am (UTC)(link)

[He never was the biggest eater. But it’s not lost on Aubrey that he’s leaving his breakfast at three bites; that seems new.]

I guess it is.... I feel like you miss a lot, though. Tone and stuff.

[Small shrug. She’s not judging too much; as long as he’s talking with someone, somehow. Charlene would probably be the same way.]

By the way, ah. You gonna finish that? [The food.]

headhooligan: (08B back bat)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 02:31 am (UTC)(link)

You know, it sounds like you. [Very, very lightly teasing.] I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve heard you before, but this sort of… all lowercase, with the short messages. It works.

[She pauses, taking a couple bites of her own, before answering the question. This might be one of the first times the topic hasn’t felt incredibly loaded.]

I have Luz. Whether I like it or not.... [It’s fond, though. Aubrey really has to wonder what kind of person gets yelled at like that and sticks around anyway. Sunny and Kel came back, apparently, but that’s different…]

It’s been a little while, but— Oh, I should show you the new bat. And the sword. [She gestures with the empty fork, a little “just you wait” motion.] Wolf guy, Eren, got me that one. I think we’re friends, too.

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)

[At this Aubrey’s face lights up, vaguely mischievous.] Yeah? I’ve been training with iiit… pretty much every day. Haven’t had to really use it yet, but. [Absent wave of the fork.] If I need to, it’s good to have.

[She swings it loosely in Sunny’s direction. Reminding him there are monsters here might be dangerous, but considering how they ran into each other out here…] I can defend you better now.

headhooligan: (01A skill issue)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 03:09 am (UTC)(link)

Honor?

[She takes the fork in both hands, holding it upright like a real knight. Or at least like knights in picture books.]

Hell yeah, I’ll defend your honor. I pledge my sword to thee, Sunny [insert surname here].

[And god help her, the knight schtick may be a joke, but protecting him is a vow she will keep.]

headhooligan: (07B to be used whenever the planets alig)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 03:33 am (UTC)(link)

[She bows her head when he does, and doesn’t look up until his pledge is complete. There’s already a laugh in her chest, and when she sees that tiny smile again, it comes out in a soft, borderline-giggling sound. When was the last time she sounded like this? When did Sunny last smile like that?]

I won’t let you down, my liege. [Anything for that smile.] Neither monster nor man shall contest us.

headhooligan: (08A etc)

eren jaeger: guess i’ll go fuck myself—

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 03:56 am (UTC)(link)

[It works!] Nor man-eating monster, or… monster-eating man? [Okay, not funny to some people out here, but this is between Sunny and Aubrey.]

Really, though… [She sets the fork down, then crosses an actual hand over her heart.] No matter what this place throws at us… I’m keeping my promise, and I want to keep you safe. Don’t…

[Don’t pay attention to anything I say to the contrary. I don’t want this place to force it out. Which means it probably will…]

Don’t doubt that. Okay?

headhooligan: (06A hm.)

smash… :pensive:

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 04:05 am (UTC)(link)

[She sort of figured that might kill the smile. It stings to see it go, but this felt… right, to bring up, then. Important. Watching Sunny mirror her hand is significant in its own way, much as the curl of his fingers tugs at her heart.

[Then he speaks.]

You’re… [Aubrey’s own voice is quiet, searching.]

For that?

headhooligan: (06B tired.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 04:21 am (UTC)(link)

[Gently, she slips her hand back towards his.]

I wasn’t even thinking of that…

[This could get very, very dangerous.]

Look… I would’ve kicked me out, too. [Shame has Aubrey shrinking down, glancing away. But she forces herself to refocus on Sunny.] You don’t… need to be sorry for anything.

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-10 04:32 am (UTC)(link)

There were, and we made it out fine. [She squeezes back, steady.] I shouldn’t have left you. We could’ve stayed together, and…

[He doesn’t want to hear how goddamn sorry you are.]

…We can now. We will. That’s what matters.

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