More bedninjaing

[hinooo]

[You know the drill. XD]

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[regretnooothing]

[That can be a problem he handles on his own.]

I wouldn't say I do this a lot, but it has happened. It's never happened like this before though.

[hinooo]

[yes, I'm not sure I'd be ready to see that]

...wow. It's never happened to me! Maybe we really are two different people and we just look alike?

[regretnooothing]

We can check! What's happened to you recently? Do you have Ankh? What's his status of existence?

[hinooo]

[ah, yes, good idea, now I'm eager]

I do! We fought Maki, and won. He's human.

[slow grin]

[regretnooothing]

I... [staring at you blankly] I was with you until that last part.

I fought Maki and Ankh died, but I ended up kidnapped and put in a strange, magical place. Ankh can exist there separately from Shingo, still as a Greeed though, as long as he doesn't ever leave.

[Welp, smiling again] That was fast. We've already found at what point we became different.

[hinooo]

[I'll huff out a big puff of air here, taking that in]

Yes, that's something. But -- but are you all right in there? Is Ankh?

[regretnooothing]

Well, we're all fine now. Ankh's doing fine now to-- well, Ankh have face envy, but we're all pretty much trying to ignore him and his strange jealousy.

[Thinking about it and then looking at you]

Oh. Uh. I guess I could put this like... Before, I was in a relationship with Ankh, and then someone who looks like him, his name is Kane, showed up in the space. But then I broke up with him be extenuating circumstances. Ankh doesn't like Kane because they share a face, and I'm currently rooming with Kane while Ankh is rooming with Shingo-san, but he's still being selfish and immature.

[hinooo]

Face envy? The detective's there too?

...Kane-san. Oh.

[blink blink]

That sounds really confusing!

[regretnooothing]

It is! Confusing and terrible. I can't do anything right between them.

Between us, you're significantly luckier.

[hinooo]

[impulsively grabs your arm]

Stay.

If they're all okay... stay.

[regretnooothing]

[Looking down at your hand and then to you. Not what I expected, but..]

... Okay. I'll stay.

[I know they'll be okay. That place isn't going to do anything too terrible, and Ankh and Kane can protect them better than he can right now anyway.]

[hinooo]

[inhales sharply, delightedly overwhelmed]

[have an armful of me]

[regretnooothing]

[holding you because, well your there and you look like you needed]

Is everything okay?

[hinooo]

Yes! Yes -- I'm just pleased.


[I like helping people, though I have issues with accepting it, so I don't know what the hell just happened, but I'm very happy to help you get out of that place.]

[regretnooothing]

[I'm sure we both have no idea what just happened, but I am moving past it to focus on the future]

I don't really have control on when it wants me to be there and when it doesn't, so if it randomly takes me back I'm sorry. I don't really think that it will happen though.

Will it be weird for me to be here though?

[hinooo]

Okay, I won't take it personally!

[laughing]

I'm sure it will be! But everyone will be happy, too. Ankh will have two of us to glare at.

[regretnooothing]

That's true I guess.

[Ankh will always be Ankh, I guess.]

Is it different for you now? You know, now that he's a human?

[hinooo]

Ah, some things. Many things are the same.

[unhappy little sigh]

We're dating, and it's good. But I worry about him.

[regretnooothing]

Why are you worried? Did something happen?

[I'll be sitting back in the bed comfortably now. Since I'm not going anywhere for now, might as well be comfortable while I listen]

[hinooo]

[swallowing, but if I can't talk to you, who can I talk to]

I think things are easier for him now, but harder, too. He's not driven by needing Medals. But he doesn't know how to be human, and it's... it's eating him up.

[regretnooothing]

He wanted this. He wanted life, so he should deal with everything that comes with it. You're the only person who can help him figure everything out, I bet.

[Reaching a hand to rub at your back gently.]

[hinooo]

[relaxing against you a little]

That's very kind of you.

Thing is, I'm not entirely sure he does want life, any more.


[I'm not explaining this well, but it's distressing me, and how does words]

[regretnooothing]

[That hurts to hear and it's not even my situation.]

He doesn't want it? Is it about being a Greeed again? Is that it?

[Looking at you, concerned.]

[hinooo]

[and I don't like upsetting you, but it's not like talking to a completely different person, I don't feel bad in quite the same way]

Maybe. He'd probably find it simpler. He keeps saying things about how he... ended.

How it was perfect.

[regretnooothing]

He wanted to stay dead?

[Staring at you and then away. It's something to think about. We never really got to ask him his opinion before it all happened.]