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[orphne]

[Kotone is not a girl used to asking for help. If it's something she can't do on her own, she usually doesn't. But with recent events in town and outside of town, not to mention the passings of the one-year anniversaries of some difficult days from back home, it's been hard to muster her usual good cheer and can-do attitude.]

Hi, everyone! It's Kotone. You might know me from working at Lupin recently. :D

I know we're all really busy, but I wanted to ask if anybody had time to help me rebuild the club building. It's the one that looked like a flat-roofed warehouse on the edge of town? It got destroyed cause of the corruption.

Oh, I'm also still looking for people to help out on Astralin-san's farm, too! Especially with the crops and animals.

[A pause, and then she adds,]

I'd really like to start the cooking and sewing clubs again. :) And if other people had things they wanted to do like club activities, it would be good to have a space for it! I think it's really important to have some normal things to do with all the crazy stuff going on.

[There's not much she feels she can do with everything happening between Ketsora and Rumpitur, but she can try to do something to help the Chosen feel more closely tied together.]

Comments

[cursegod]

[Huh, that's actually a good question. She's not used to having a choice outside of taking whatever to given or accessible.]

I wouldn't want any bright colors unless it's red. I think subdued patterns are better for me.

Are you planning to paint a picture of him?

[orphne]

I can handle that! I'll look to see what my options are... it'll take me a while for something like that, but I promise I'll try my best.

Haha, no. Just getting to see him once like that is okay. His powers are important to him, so I'd never tell him what to do with them, but if it's not permanent, it's ok to be a little selfish, right?

[cursegod]

That's fine. I'm not in a rush for it.

I guess it's okay to be selfish like that. I don't really get why it's important though.

[orphne]

Cause we've been together for a couple months now. :) And you have to be really careful getting close to somebody whose eyes can blow you into pieces if you nudge his glasses the wrong way!

[Not that she thinks Dara actually cares about her love life, and she also doesn't go around advertising it, but if Dara's going to do them this favor (because yes, it's a favor for them, not just Scott himself), maybe she should know!]

[cursegod]

When's the wedding planned?

[What is the concept of dating? She's running on Edo standards because this is not the kind of information she would care to be knowledgeable about.]

[orphne]

Huh??

[Wedding???]

[cursegod]

???

By couple, did you mean you're already married?

[orphne]

No!! We're just like, going out! Dating!!

[cursegod]

I don't get it. Dating is like courting, right? Which leads to marriage.

[orphne]

[Whew that is a big sense of permanency that had made her reluctant to even date Scott in the first place. It takes her a few seconds to figure out how to reply.]

I mean, we're not gonna be here in Aldrip forever. We're not even from the same place, so...

[And once she goes home, that's it. There's nothing for her after.]

We're happy together the way we are. :)

[cursegod]

[.......HMMMMM what? Confusing.]

So perpetual engagement until you're separated?

[orphne]

We're not engaged!!

Where we come from, people just kind of get into relationships for fun. They don't have to end in marriage or anything.

[cursegod]

How is that fun?

I guess this shows my age. I'm assuming the concept of a relationship has changed since I was alive. I probably shouldn't be surprised.

[orphne]

You know... you go on dates, do other stuff couples do...

[Does she have to spell it out??]

Nobody came to your shrine to pray for their boyfriend or girlfriend, huh?

[cursegod]

[Unfortunately, yes.]

No, not really.

My shrine isn't one that is meant to be approached outside of its family of caretakers.

[orphne]

Ooooh, well, don't worry too much about it! Stuff like dating and romance doesn't have to be serious in modern times, usually. Unless you're from like, an important family or have a lot of money or something. [Looks at Mitsuru.] You can just go out with somebody because you like them!

[cursegod]

I'm assuming you mean general "you" unless modern times includes legends of humans dating gods.

[orphne]

:\a I know there's a lot of old stories like that... do you really think gods stopped dating humans, or did they just get like way more subtle about it?

[cursegod]

Again, I think it's more marriage than dating... Or at least copulating followed by the creation of divine bloodlines.

[orphne]

Sounds complicated... I've never really thought about it that much! I think as long as you're having fun with a person, that's enough. :)

[cursegod]

That's a very light-hearted perspective.

[orphne]

I've been told that before! :) Me and Scott actually had some problems cause of that a while ago, but we talked it out and it's fine now!

[cursegod]

That's surprising. You seem like the easy-going type. What kind of problems?

[orphne]

I am really easy-going! He's not, though. Not about that kind of stuff. I thought we were just dating casually, like, for fun? But he thought we were more serious, so it caused a big misunderstanding for a little while.

[cursegod]

So he wanted to marry you.

?