[[ I don't have a musebox because I only play one or two characters at a time and also thinking up usernames is hard. So let's call this an open post to function as a CMO for Ritsuka, such as people may want it. (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑ ]]
[ cool cool cool she is just clinging to him with all her strength, and pressed up this close it's obvious she's struggling not to just dissolve into pure hysterics. ]
When did you--where did--you're not even from here.
[ for a moment she's gripping his face too hard, and then she forces herself to loosen the grip, though she doesn't let go. the horror of that is both immediately obvious and slow-blooming. ]
I'm barely twenty! That's so long--and this place isn't--why?
[ look, Ritsuka doesn't actually have that many self-worth issues, but also, she cannot wrap her mind around the idea that this promise would be worth it to him. ]
[ she's doing that thing, that thing where she has started to cry and hasn't actually realized she's doing it, still clinging to him and staring like she isn't sure he's real. ]
[ what is she even supposed to say to that. she never actually got the guts to try and put her feelings into words back in the hotel, and now this? what the heckie. ]
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Date: 2023-10-19 04:56 pm (UTC)When did you--where did--you're not even from here.
[ she's very eloquent. ]
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Date: 2023-10-20 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-20 04:03 am (UTC)[ that is not the answer she was expecting. there's a pause, and then she leans back just enough to peer at his face, bemused. ]
This isn't even technically the right timeline... how long were you looking?
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Date: 2023-10-20 04:57 pm (UTC)[lightly. tone even. nothing sus here.]
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Date: 2023-10-20 06:08 pm (UTC)...how long is "a while," Dan Heng.
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Date: 2023-10-20 07:08 pm (UTC)[squeezing her tighter.]
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Date: 2023-10-20 10:08 pm (UTC)but also, she cannot actually help herself from leaning in for the hug. ]
...is this one of those things where if I find out, I'm going to be upset?
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Date: 2023-10-22 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 12:26 am (UTC)[ she takes a DEEP BREATH, then reaches up to take his face in her hands, a mirror to what he did earlier. ]
How long, Dan Heng?
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Date: 2023-10-23 12:30 am (UTC)keeps his tone very even.]
...Eighty six years.
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Date: 2023-10-23 12:34 am (UTC)What?
[ what ]
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Date: 2023-10-23 12:36 am (UTC)To call getting even this close to you a one in a million gamble would be an understatement. So I stayed.
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Date: 2023-10-23 12:41 am (UTC)[ for a moment she's gripping his face too hard, and then she forces herself to loosen the grip, though she doesn't let go. the horror of that is both immediately obvious and slow-blooming. ]
I'm barely twenty! That's so long--and this place isn't--why?
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Date: 2023-10-23 01:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 01:22 am (UTC)[ look, Ritsuka doesn't actually have that many self-worth issues, but also, she cannot wrap her mind around the idea that this promise would be worth it to him. ]
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Date: 2023-10-23 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 01:41 am (UTC)[ she's doing that thing, that thing where she has started to cry and hasn't actually realized she's doing it, still clinging to him and staring like she isn't sure he's real. ]
Eighty-six years? That can't be worth it.
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Date: 2023-10-23 01:43 am (UTC)You are. It was.
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Date: 2023-10-23 01:56 am (UTC)[ what is she even supposed to say to that. she never actually got the guts to try and put her feelings into words back in the hotel, and now this? what the heckie. ]
H-how are you even real?!
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Date: 2023-10-23 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 03:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 04:05 am (UTC)and then she just faceplants into his chest and starts to cry in earnest, if mostly quiet about it. it's a very contained crying, at least. ]
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Date: 2023-10-23 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-23 10:57 pm (UTC)What am I supposed to do with you, huh... I was gonna make a speech and everything.
[ she was not ]
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