welcome home

[outofoffice]

Who: Venti, Yuri, Saya, Lumine, and Kantera
What: A moment of respite
When: March 4th
Where: A house at the far edge of Blossomcrown
Warnings: Probably mentions of previous game trauma/violence


[ Venti has always been the type who wanders to the beat of his own drum, dipping in and out of people's lives as easily as the blowing wind. But Tokyo-F . . . changed things, somewhat.

Though his initial instinct had been to sleep under a tree and call it "home," an invitation to live with old friends put a halt to those plans. For starters, it would be protection from the unpredictable weather in the segments. For another, maybe he did get used to having a bed and a room to call "home," in no small part because of the teammates and friends who inhabited it with him. Now that solitary tree feels . . . lonely, in a way it didn't before.

And so here he is, standing at the threshold of a house full of people he loves and trusts, who asked him to stay . . . it makes him feel his age, but not in a bad way, for once. Nor does he feel that nagging urge to disappear into the wind.

Should he catch anyone watching him, the pensive expression dissolves into a smile. ]

Hehe, is this the part where we fight over bedrooms?

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[happydreamed]

[The kiss goodnight is important and must always happen, no matter what. They're agreed on this.]

If they're not, I assume Yuri will put me through strict tutelage before I'm allowed to cook for you again.

[sangreine]

Maybe I like Lumine's pancakes better than his, you don't know. [ She's just saying! ]

[happydreamed]

[Mock gasp!]

Should you say that where he might hear you?

[sangreine]

If he wants to give me crap about it, he's more than welcome. But he also knows I'm joking. I love all of your pancakes equally.

[happydreamed]

Oh, good, then mine shouldn't be too much of a disappointment.

[sangreine]

Very little about you disappoints me. [ It used to be "nothing about you disappoints me" but. ]

[happydreamed]

[He can live with that.]

You're still far too kind to me, my dear.

[sangreine]

Loving you isn't a kindness. It's part of me.

[happydreamed]

A part I sometimes struggle to believe I deserve, then.

[sangreine]

Then let me believe it for you. And you for me. [ She suffers from the same affliction, of course. ] You might doubt your own worth, but you'd never doubt my feelings.

[happydreamed]

That much is true. Knowing you love me helps to curb some of my worse impulses.

[He told an anonymous person on the network as much - she might have seen it, since she responded to the same thing.]

[sangreine]

[ She saw, and it was sweet, but she unfortunately didn't answer the question in the same way so it feels awkward to bring up. ]

That's what I'm here for.

[happydreamed]

[That's fair.]

You're here for many things, and I'm grateful for all of them.

wrapup

[sangreine]

Mm, good.

Right now I'm here for sleeping on, so I think we should do that. We wouldn't want to keep people up.

[ She already gave him a goodnight kiss before, so it's just a matter of shutting up and letting him sleep. (She, of course, won't be sleeping much, but that's normal.) ]