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Tweak says, "My boating arm!"

kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-06-14 23:09:00

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kozue, seiko

WHO: Kozue and Seiko
WHAT: Ice Cream and Consolement?
WHERE: Seiko's Room.
WHEN: After Seiko!Dungeon
WHY: Rocky Road

Kozue had waited what seemed, to her, like a decent amount of time after they had brought Seiko back; two days, and now, here she was. She had two large tubs of Betty and Jenny's in a bag and a bottle of chocolate sauce along with. (Her life was beginning to feel like the saga of the Head God Team Delivery Girl.) After she'd taken some time to think about what Seiko's Other Self had said, and after she had eaten more sweets than she probably should to make herself feel better about it, and feeling lighter even though in all logical senses she was heavier, Kozue had known she had to be here. This was what Seiko had done for her (well, something close to it). And now, knowing a great deal more about her upperclassman, Kozue thought that it probably had hit at least one nerve for Seiko.

It was the right thing to do, to pay her back. Maybe Seiko needed someone to tell her that they weren't mad about the penguins and the death by fabulous and all of that. Maybe Seiko just needed chocolate. And if she had to leave the ice cream and come back next week, Kozue could manage that.

She knocked on the dormitory door and, after a moment, called out, "Seiko-chan? It's me. Kondo. Are you there?"

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anthesphoria
2010-06-24 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"I've always admired that about her, too," Kozue was quick to add, scooting a little closer as a silent testament of agreement. She could remember telling Kiriko that; it seemed like ages ago, but she knew it'd barely been two weeks. "That, and she knows what she wants," the smaller girl added, with the sort of tone that suggested and that's something I want so much was the kind of statement meant to follow it.

She stopped herself. Reminded herself that this wasn't about her. And kept on, after another bite of ice cream. "And I don't think that Tom-san really wants to be a superhero, any more than I wanted to be Prom Queen, or than you wanted to be a musician. You don't... uh, that's not like, your top life goal, is it?" She stopped and considered, not sure if that was the case. "I don't think what they turn into is really all that indicative of what's flat out, blatantly true, like you could write down on a piece of paper or your PlaceBook page or anything." And, yet again, Kozue was left at a loss for what, exactly, to substitute there. She knew what it wasn't, but she had no idea what it was.

"And you're right, the emotions were the worst part, even though nobody's really said anything to me… not about the things I was most ashamed of." She looked down and went for an exceptionally large bite of ice cream this time.

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mellow_lellow
2010-06-28 01:25 pm UTC (link)

"She's amazing, I mean a bit, sort of like, um, scary sometimes but She manages to do that, and that is hard when you are a girl particularly a girl who people value on their looks first." She phrased it awkwardly, not really sure how you could say 'hot' without it sounding strange, maybe Kozue would understand.

"I'm not so sure about Tom, I mean his clothes are filled with knives and like... Spy things. I don't really know, I haven't seen them all. But no I don't want to be a..." She frowned 'musician' was not really the term she'd use for her shadow, 'outrageous showgirl' or possibly even 'stripper' were terms that came too readily to the top of her mind. "I don't want to do what my shadow did for a living no. But really it made me think a lot about them, shadows I mean."

She tapped her spoon on the edge of her ice cream tub thoughtfully, taking a few moments to organise what she wanted to say. "I mean my shadow, she didn't really want to kill you til she got all mad, and even then I think she wanted to be beaten. She... She really just wanted to be accepted by me. And all the clothes and the glitter and everything have given me a lot to think about, it has to mean somewhere in here I am still, well kind of whimsical? I don't know, I think it is a good thing." She looked at Kozue for a moment, glad to finally be able to share what she had been thinking about since she had left that place, what it had all meant, why things had been quite so outrageous.

"Sometimes it seems the things we are most ashamed of aren't the things people have trouble with. My shadow told everyone I was using them and you all just wave it off. She says I hate just being seen as a pretty face and Ishinomori goes berserk." She sighed. "It's all difficult letting people know how I really feel, I don't even want to know myself, let alone other people seeing it all."

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anthesphoria
2010-06-29 09:03 pm UTC (link)

Kozue was quiet for a while, thoughtful or immersed in herself, or merely distracted by ice cream (it was very good ice cream, after all; she had good taste and had exercised it). Finally, she spoke up again.

"Why wouldn't we wave that off? What were you using us to do, benefit yourself? And be nice to us in the bargain?" Unless everything had flown over Kozue's head there towards the end—and it had been confusing, but really, she thought she'd gotten it, at least better than half the team. That was what she'd gotten out of it. "People use each other for much more selfish things all the time, and that's… well, it's kind of how everybody lives." Everybody, even people like Misaki—they'd seen that in her place in Paradise.

"But it does suck to have everyone see it, you know? And then they're all on their toes around you and…" She shook her head. "I don't know."

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