[7rings] catchall for sasazuka

[shiftingwinds]

something will go here later once i know more about sasazuka being canonblind to most of these people is hell for prettying these posts up.

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[shiftingwinds]

[she just

shoots him a look




because that is obviously a lie.]

[dotcom]

[ he just glares back and will go quiet for a while.

but, once he has reasonably calmed down. ]

I can't deal with guns.

[shiftingwinds]

[well


at least he's being honest about it now.]

...something involving them happened to you...?

[dotcom]

[ look. even he has to accept that it's hard to just casually explain away a panic attack. ]

Yes. [ hm... ] My mother died. She jumped in front of me.

[ sometimes you react extremely poorly to people trying to shield you! ]

[shiftingwinds]

[



jesus christ francy i was not expecting that.]

...I'm so sorry.

[dotcom]

[ he shakes his head. ]

Where I'm from, it's not really common for people to just be carrying weapons around like a lot of other worlds here. In most places it's fully illegal, and in others there are exceptions. But the country I used to live in has a major gun problem to the point where people have been hugely desensitized to things like mass shootings and don't really blink anymore at this kind of news.

[ ... ]

It's just how life is, but it's not really something I can accept.

[shiftingwinds]

That's not the sort of thing anyone should be able to accept, I think...

[sqx would hate america. anyway.]

...is that what you came here for? To - try to change things for the better...?

[dotcom]

Mm, something like that, yeah.

[ he checks to see if he's steady enough now to walk and... yes. ]

But I apologize that you had to see that.

[shiftingwinds]

It's not your fault - you don't need to apologize for it.

[it's not like he asked for his dream to take that turn.]

...I assume this is something you'd prefer that I didn't bring up with you again? [a beat] I already know not to tell anyone else that I saw it.

[dotcom]

If you don't mind. If you have questions now, I'll answer them, but in general it's not really something I talk about.

[ like ever, unless he's forced to give an explanation. ]

[shiftingwinds]

...your comfort is more important than my curiosity.

[it's not that she doesn't want to know more about him; she does. but she wants him to be comfortable enough to share it, not for him to feel like he's being made to answer questions when he wouldn't normally want to talk about it.]

If there is ever anything you want to say about it, I'll listen, but I'm not going to make you answer questions. That just seems cruel.

[dotcom]

[ it's very kind of her. but...

it's a little funny, with how much shi qingxuan reminds him of someone, there's times like this that shows the differences. ]

Okay. We should get out of this room.

[shiftingwinds]

[sqx fails takeru's route for not being pushy enough]

...right. Let's go.

[she gives the machine a wary look, and - out they go!]