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kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-10-14 23:41:00

Entry tags:

kozue, tom

Who: Kozue and Tom
What: Sneaky Conversations. Or conversations and sneaking.
When: Evening, after the dungeon and the angels and all
Where: The lawn outside Tom's room
Why: It's too stereotypical not to do.

Plink. Plink. Plinkplinkplink. Something was hitting the window of Tom's room with light force, and persistent, uneven rhythm; something was being thrown against the window. A pause. And the whole process repeated. Most people in the world probably wouldn't notice it, but Kozue was counting on Tom's extreme paranoia. He kept his room like a fortress, practically. He'd have to notice a weird sound. (And if he didn't the dog would.)

She was standing below his window, throwing handfuls of small pebbles up at the window every so often. And waiting.

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ofmanydevices
2009-10-16 04:59 am UTC (link)

Tom looked at Kozue, and felt an odd desire to make Kozue feel better about the situation. He frowned slightly.

"No one else could have done it. If Ikeda is anything to go by I'm exceptional at getting people to hate me.
All of you may have family issues, but I'm the only one who can say without a doubt that if I went down no one would miss me. Except Max, and I'd wager you would take better care of him then I would.

I... I'm... I think it's good that everyone survived. But I'd rather the solutions be because of something we did, *any* of the team, instead of... butterfly magic."

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anthesphoria
2009-10-16 03:10 pm UTC (link)

She frowned slightly right back — she'd see his slight frown and raise him a concerned slight frown, even! Expression poker!

"Kiriko-san, I don't think that she really hates you. Or, if she does, she's overreacting." She tried thinking back to figure out if she'd actually seen how Kiriko behaved towards Tom, but all she came up with was the general distant disapproval that was Kiriko's normal public front anyway. "And who says we all have family issues?"

A slight defensive motion of her torso as she walked. Then, she relaxed. Had he mentioned her family to him? Hell, she couldn't remember if she had or not. "But of course someone would miss you. Aside from Max-kun."

She paused, and then, "Also, I kind of want to know. Why do you always use yobisute with everyone?"

* yobisute: calling someone by their family name without any suffixes.

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ofmanydevices
2009-10-16 04:12 pm UTC (link)

" In the states, revering to someone that way is both informal, and shows that you aren't that close to the person you're speaking to. It's an easy way for me to have everyone I talk to be on equal footing, and less dangerous then using Japanese honorifics."

Tom rounded his shoulders and returned his face to it's previous, neutral expression.

"And please tell me aren't going to have an argument like the ones I've had with Aoi, about how I have friends a d that. It just ends up going back and fourth and we never get anywhere."

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anthesphoria
2009-10-17 03:35 am UTC (link)

She actually snickered at that: "You have arguments--you've had more than one argument--with Misaki-chan, about whether or not you have friends? That's…" She shook her head, and left off. Man, that would be something to watch. Maybe, between the two of them and their far-distant delusions, they'd actually arrive at reality?

"Well, I'm not going to argue. But since I'm your friend, I think I just proved you wrong. Do people in the West really do that? I thought everyone called everyone by their first names. Like. Joe and Smith." First of all, her pronunciation is terrible and a bit cheesy. Second of all, Smith? Really?

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ofmanydevices
2009-10-17 06:30 am UTC (link)

Tom frowned, and tried to keep the emotions out of his voice.

"Yeah they do call each other by their first names, but you can't do that here."

Then he held up his hand.

"Hold on a second, you're not..."

Tom shook his head, and took a breath.

"Look, I don't know how it is with most people, but... I don't want this whole thing. I know who you're friends are, I know the people you spend time with.

I'm not one of them. I'm better off alone."

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anthesphoria
2009-10-17 06:39 am UTC (link)

She frowned, and looked back down at Max. "What do you think about my friends, exactly?"

Of course, here it would come; not her friends but her boyfriends. Either he'd be judgmental or he'd be affronted that she wasn't putting out for him—or, at least, that's what she'd expect from most guys, and by now she'd mostly forgotten that she'd come here to find out if he liked Renju or not. Besides, even if he did. Someone was fully capable of having a crush and still being interested in fooling around with Kondo, because it was uncomplicated, and easy.

Never mind that Thomas clearly had no concept of physical affection—he'd asked her what a hug was, for goodness sake.

After a few moments of silence, she responded: "So use honorifics. It's not that complex."

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