[ AUDIENCE: KAINÉ ]

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week 2, wednesday

[darksubverted]

I'm free for a while.

Where?

[overshaded]

[ I KEEP FORGETTING HER CURSE UNTIL TWO TAGS INTO A CONVERSATION HELP ]

you have nice hair
the garden

[darksubverted]

[WMFKASNFJS ARA YOUR CURSE]

Uh. Thanks? Give me ten.

[It takes three of those ten minutes of him just standing staring at his phone in disbelief. Okay.

And then the other seven minutes are him getting out to the gardens. Hewwwo, cursed Kaine?]

[overshaded]

[ Leave her and her cursed self alone!! ALMOST NO ONE HAS NOTICED IT'S STRANGE WHY

Anyway, she's just looking at the flowers. Sometimes, you need more of an impetus to pick them. ]

He told me you two talk often enough.

[ She means Nier. ]

[darksubverted]

[THIS IS SO OMINOUS TO JUST SAY WITHOUT CLARIFYING. Thank god he is a Square.]

Nier? [It's the one person he's seen bum around most with Kaine in public.] We've spoken here and there.

Should we not...?

[Just to see what she'll say.]

[overshaded]

[ Wow, she's a good girl?? Sometimes. ]

There's no reason why you shouldn't. I bet he's already fucking attached himself.

[darksubverted]

[You know, he had thought to lead with that actually, but then didn't want to offend her. He should've just lead with that.

His sigh is so exasperated.]

He's tried to make himself my big brother, yeah.

[overshaded]

[




can't believe riku luke is now more important to nier than kainé is.

No, it's fine. The sigh is such a mood. She's not surprised. She knows Nier will force his way into people's lives whether they want him or not, maybe especially when they don't want. ]

How do you feel about that dumbass?

[darksubverted]

[Surprisingly, he doesn't answer right away. His eyes lower under his lashes while he thinks about it.]

...He's too kind. Which I think makes him a little stupid. But his intentions aren't bad.

[overshaded]

Yeah, you got that idiot in one.

[ All of those are true, most of the time. ]

You'll make sure he won't do anything too stupid, right?

[ Nier is older than Luke, and yet, ]

[darksubverted]

[Sometimes knowing a do-gooder idiot when you meet one is inherent knowledge.]

I'll try. But I get the feeling he'll do what he wants if he sets his mind to it.

[overshaded]

That's why you beat the shit out of him.

[ Why do you think she's so violent with him?

(That's how she always is.) The point still stands. ]

[darksubverted]

[GOD.]

I don't know if that's really my style. But I did think about having to break his fingers once or twice because he kept patting me on the head.

[overshaded]

[ She almost cracks a small smile at that. ]

You really should at least punch him for it.

[ It won't get him stop, considering how Nier still is how he is with Kainé, but maybe it can be a little cathartic. ]

He can take it.

[darksubverted]

[He really should punch Nier, yeah.]

I think if I did, he'd just try to hug me, or something later as revenge.

[Nier, hand out: pspspsps tsunderes]

[overshaded]

[ Yeah, he really should. One of the few times Kainé will allow someone else to. Luke should feel special.

Her lips twitch. ]

If he sees you as a sibling, yeah. Tough fucking luck.

[darksubverted]

[He will keep the punching in mind...............but he's Disney, so maybe he won't.]

Great. I've never had a sibling, and I don't plan to start now. Why's he so adamant about that?

[overshaded]

[ He is also a Squeenix.

At the question, her expression shifts into something more serious and as closed off as he usually is. ]

You should ask him that yourself, but his sister is the most important person to him.

[ She knows Nier would do anything, if only it meant Yonah could live. She thinks he might miss her, miss the connection, miss that kind of relationship. He was a fucking idiot who threw away so many things, and so he's holding onto whatever he can. There are so many things she can begrudge Nier for, but she can understand that, at least.

I wish Kainé knew the term siscon so she could call him that here. ]

[darksubverted]

[His face doesn't soften so much as it simply gains a sense of understanding. Maybe not about the (ara voice) siscon, but about protecting someone important.

That it runs a little deeper than only "I'm here to annoy you on purpose."]

I'm not really sister material, [he's a fucking boy, nier] but... I'll ask him then.

[overshaded]

[ stop. there is a cd drama with an official high school au and kainé calls nier a siscon. it's canon.

They can all vibe in wanting to protect someone important. ]

Don't fucking mention me.

[ She is relatively sure Nier would tell anyone about Yonah, as long as they gave him an opening, so it probably can't be traced back to her, but she's covering her bases. ]

[darksubverted]

[CLOSES MY EYES.]

I hadn't planned on it.

[As if Mr. Cloak and Shadow would.]

[overshaded]

[ She doesn't know he's Mr. Cloak and Shadow? She just knows he's Mr. Ninja Cat. ]

Good.

[ ... ]

I have a coupon for a communication item. What does that mean?

[ SHE DOESN'T KNOW THE SCOPE. PHONES ARE NEW TO HER? All she knows is snail mail. HELP ME, ANNA. ]

[darksubverted]

[I'M LOSING IT. Post-apocalyptic Nier world, please get some fucking phones. Luke looks wryly amused, not because she doesn't know, but because of her getting that kind of coupon.]

It's for whatever your imagination can think of that falls under communication. It's you and someone, or something else, communicating.

[overshaded]

[ She's thinking, maybe thinking harder than the her simple braincell can process. ]

Is it a one time communication? Can it still work when we're locked in our dorms?

[ When their phones don't work? ]

[darksubverted]

[ARA, BE NICE TO HER.]

You can keep on you until you decide to use it, but once you do, it's one time. It lasts for about an hour.

You can use it in your dorms if you want. What are you going to say? "I'm locked in"? "Me, too"?