[Day 153] I understood the meaning of love... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin and YOU!
Open: Open
When: 153, afternoon
Where: The Gazebo
What: The past few days have been difficult, but Rin is in a surprisingly good mood today. Apparently that's enough to warrant randomly singing??
Format: Starting in action, but I'll folow
Warnings: Rin being Rin is a given by now.

[The past few days had been a whirlwind of emotion. Some good, some bad, but all of it actually fairly exhausting. In it, though, Rin had gotten out some much needed things that had been bottling up for some time, and in a stark contrast to the anger that had nearly destroyed the kitchen, she found herself in a surprisingly good mood this day.

Like. Really good mood.

Good enough to apparently sing. Which she didn't do very often at all. Sometimes she could be caught humming a song while working, but actually singing something?

Well, she did used to be in the church choir growing up, so it wasn't that far fetched of an idea. But it had been years since then, and her voice was a little out of practice.

Still, something about that good mood compelled her to make her way over to the gazebo where the piano was. She couldn't play (Yuki could, but even she had fallen out of practice with that in recent years, too) but she knew enough to strike a note and start from there. She wasn't singing to anyone in particular, and the song that came out of here surprisingly wasn't a church hymn.]

Kuon no shijima yagate sora ni
aoku aoku tokete nijinde
mahiru no tsuki no usui kage wa
sugu ni sugu ni mirai wo yobu...

[It didn't quite sound the same without some accompaniment, but she still got rather in to it. Enough that she probably wouldn't notice if some one stopped to listen...]

Comments

[blackblooded]

But... um... you're not scary.

[hellpyre]

Psh. Yeah I am. More than Bon.

[blackblooded]

He yelled at me, the first day I was here. You didn't do that.

[hellpyre]

... what'd he yell at you over?

[Bon yelling at some one right off isn't unusual.]

[blackblooded]

... I don't know. He just wasn't nice.

You were there, back then.

[hellpyre]

... oh.

... I usually don't remember most of the things Bon yells about, honestly.

[blackblooded]

He's scary.

[hellpyre]

He really isn't! I can prove it!

[blackblooded]

I don't know. That's hard, you know? Thinking that people aren't scary. They usually are.

[hellpyre]

What if I went with you to talk to him?

[blackblooded]

... maybe. That might be good. I don't know. I don't know how to talk to people.

[hellpyre]

Well then I'll go with you!

[blackblooded]

... R-right now?

[And here's Crona, looking likely to bolt at any second.

Honestly, it would probably be a good idea to drag the meister into interacting with people, even if it's not something Crona really wants to try.]

[hellpyre]

[Calm down, Crona.]

Well, no. I need to get back to the kitchen. But later, I'll take you to talk to him.

[blackblooded]

[Never.]

I don't... I don't know. [The "what if"s are just piling up now, a hundred different things that could maybe happen if Crona makes a single mistake in talking to him. The meister fidgets, not looking at Rin anymore.]

I don't think it's a good idea after all, you know? I think it might even be a bad idea. He probably doesn't want to talk to me.

[hellpyre]

[Geez...]

I don't think it's a bad idea. But I ain't gonna force you. I'm not that mean.

[blackblooded]

But he's your friend, so he must not be a bad person. [Crona doesn't know what to do.]

I don't know how to deal with this. [Which is Crona's way of saying "tell me what to do now"]

[hellpyre]

Boyfriend. He's more than just a friend to me.

[Which, yeah, he would have to be a good person. And a stubborn one, to put up with Rin daily.]

Usually doin' the thing you're scared to do is the best way to get over it.

[blackblooded]

I... I don't know how to do it. Do you just talk to someone? How can people just do that? What am I supposted to say? What is he supposted to say? What I I say the wrong thing? That wouldn't be good, he'll think I hate him. [Crona's social experience is pretty much just limited to the Bastion, with a few weeks of very quickly-formed friendships back home.]

It's hard. I don't know how to deal with it.

[hellpyre]

... startin' with "hello" is usually the best way to go. Most people can carry on a conversation from there pretty well. Maybe "how are you?", "how have you been?", nice things like that.

[Why is she being the social councilor in this situation]

[blackblooded]

[Because Rin has some social experience.]

You just ask those sort of things? Just like that? What if he's been terrible, it would be rude to ask that then, wouldn't it?

[hellpyre]

[Clearly, because she actually has an answer for that.]

... actually... no. Askin' means you care enough to wanna know if it's good or bad. If it's good you can say "that's great!" or of it's bad you can say "I'm sorry, that sucks. Do you wanna talk about it?"

[blackblooded]

E-even to a person you don't really know? That's okay?

... what if he says "pass"?

[hellpyre]

Mhm. That's how you make friends.

[Well, that's how OTHER people make friends. Rin makes them... by being annoying and persistent, but she sees no real difference in it.]

... eh? Pass?

[blackblooded]

It... [Rin doesn't know that either, does she?]

When someone asks you a question, and you don't want to answer, you just say "pass". Then they ask you the next question. That's how things are supposed to be.