AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[situationship]

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[residentflorist]

At least until the leeches bleed you dry...does that really count in this case?

[situationship]

It'd take a while and that means time to possibly escape.

[ Yeah! ]

[residentflorist]

If those are my only two choices, then I guess leeches it is. [a beat.] That isn't permission to actually bring leeches anywhere near me.

[situationship]

I'm anti-leeches.

[ to be clear ]

[residentflorist]

As opposed to Karma being pro-leeches? [she does sort of sigh tiredly.] Maybe we should find a better way to get people to stop bringing the leeches out of the swamp and leave them where they belong.

[situationship]

I wonder if we can ask the goats to eradicate them. They can live in the swamp, but keep our stream clean!

[ The word "future" floats elsewhere on him. ]

[residentflorist]

[i'm GETTING THERE HEI.]

If they're able to do other small favors for us, it's worth a try. [her eyes do, in fact, settle on the word again.]

...Gojo, are you aware your tattoo is moving?

[assigns it as traveling tattoo.]

[situationship]

[ I AM NOT PRESSURING STOP YOU DON'T NEED TO i just know i can probably forget after sleeping ]

I requested something already, so it may need to wait until next week. [ looks at word, i guess? ] Oh... Becoming an adult is so scary...

[residentflorist]

[that is fair, but i want to know.]

I kinda wanna know what, but maybe that's a surprise for later. [because. being an adult is a time. she's silent for a moment as she decides how to phrase this.] Are you worried about growing up? Or what will happen to the future as a whole?

[situationship]

It's not really special, just something to charge my cellphone.

[ HIS ENRICHMENT OF SCROLLING THROUGH HIS PHOTOS LIKE A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

How long can he pretending to be a baby ]

Growing up is eh, it'll happen. Changing a society will be hard and will take time. It's stuff like that.

[ Daunting. ]

[residentflorist]

Oh. It might not be special but it could be helpful for later. [his ENRICHMENT and she's out here thinking COMMUNICATION.

anyway. she seems to be assessing him with that.]

Is it up to you to change a whole society? [curious. she doesn't say that it doesn't have to be just him or question what that means, she's asking what this is to him.]

[situationship]

If they decide to give us cellular data, maybe.

[ and then him and todomatsu can text each other secrets. ]

No! But! I want to. I wish it was up to me.

[residentflorist]

I'd say you could ask but that definitely sounds beyond their capabilities at this point. [but my god it would sure be easier to keep track of everyone with phones. instead, she's more focused on what gojo's talking about.]

A want is still pretty powerful, I think. Who's it up to in that case? [do you also have an evil corporation looming over your head.]

[situationship]

[ Satoru also thinks that it would be convenient if they all had phones. Or if they upgraded the crows.

...... ]

Old people.

[ the antagonists of real life. ]

[residentflorist]

[.......yeah no she agrees, apparently, judging by the look on her face.]

And because they're older and have set the precedence for the world, it's harder to bring the change around even if it's actually maybe making the future worse. Something like that?

[situationship]

That's cooooorrect!

[ Like she's in a game show. ]

"This is how it has always been." "If it works, it doesn't need to be fixed." "Back in my day, sorcerers can take on twenty missions in one single day."

[ Hyperbole... Not real, but similar. ]

[residentflorist]

But does it actually work? [or does it only work for them...questions.] I can't blame you for not looking forward to that then. Or wanting to be the one to change it.

[situationship]

During their heyday, but things change.

[ Throws arms up and stretches. ]

It's not like I'm dreading it. There's just a lot of ways to mess up.

[residentflorist]

Sure. Even if it gets messed up, there are ways to fix it. But only if it doesn't get messed up too far. [i.e. the end of the world.]

[situationship]

Yeah, that's it. It isn't that deep.

[ Or at least to him... It seems simple. It is probably more complex, but when you see it as a problem that needs a solution, even if unwieldy, then it's simple. ]

I'd ask the word on you, but loss is general and kind of touchy.

[residentflorist]

That's not a bad way to look at it. [it at least means he's not going to be stressing too much about it. that counts for something. her eyes flicker down to her wrist, hand covering the word briefly as she ponders.]

I think a lot of people have seen it and have been too polite to ask for that reason. [it is touchy, and it is general.] To be honest, I'm not fully sure which it applies to myself because it can be a few things. Maybe it's all of them.

[situationship]

At least vague ones are easy to skirt... Some of it can be specific, or very telling!

[ Hands over his head. ]

You can tell me about how you lost your doll in your childhood or something.

[residentflorist]

[she is trying to think of the best way to spin this so it isn't sad, yeah, but she's not always great at lying.]

I could, yeah, but I don't think I ever really had one of those. [a doll? a childhood? debatable, nothing about growing up was normal.] Not that I don't mind specifics, but not everyone wants to hear it. Maybe it's easiest to think of this one as losing sight of a target we need to follow.

[situationship]

[ She can make it sad... He is abnormal. ]

I don't usually have time or care to listen to people's problems, but... I'm trying to be a better person and work on that! [ He is growing out of being a brat. ] You can tell me whatever you want to tell me!

[ is this comforting ]

[residentflorist]

[HELP. honestly she seems to think this is kind of funny that he's honest about it. also it is not lost on her what the difference is between geto and gojo. so she doesn't mind that he says this, because it is not entirely comforting but she'd rather have this than someone giving her lip service.]

Effort counts for something. [hah. but...] I never really did tell you much about home, did I? The things we're doing.