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[tindery]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[tindery]

[ i was also startled by the opening monologue, otome games have such wild premises ]

Seems like it wasn't a priority and still isn't. We can trade with the surface, but we mostly get the necessities. [ like. fucking water. ]

Maybe you're right about humans' brains being small.

[ HE ALSO THINKS IT'S STUPID ]

[voring]

[THEY REALLY DO good for them honestly.]

I'm always right! [He is not.] But man, just when I think you guys can't get stupider, you really do some even more stupid stuff, huh?

[It is faintly amusing to him in the passing way that things are amusing to gods... BUT. Since Tobari has offered to provide him with snacks:] Wanna see one?

[tindery]

That's probably true.

[ tobari would always choose to be human, but he can't deny that there's also some pretty miserable wretches out there. ]

Sure.

[ they clearly have time to kill ]

[voring]

[Very sasuga human of a human to want to be human... damn.

But!! He will just tug a couple strands of his own hair out and shake them in the air, where they turn into a set of beautiful roses like a magic trick.]

Here!

[HANDS HIM THESE HAIR FLOWERS.]

[tindery]

[ okay he's amazed by this but he has to lead with ]

What the fuck.

[voring]

[HE'S SO VALID. Obikawa just huffs.]

I'm amazing, right? Even though this kind of thing is no big deal.

[tindery]

[ honestly, he's pretty awed by this. for a lot of reasons. but he'll turn the flowers over in his hand, stunned ]

... they're not going to turn back into hair when you feel like messing with me, are they?

[voring]

[His first flower and it comes from the hair of a god. CON...CONGRATS... His head just cants a little to the side.]

I can turn it back into hair or whatever else, but if you like the flowers, you can keep 'em!

[The way he has truly been caught at his best since he's so lonely after three weeks of just WANDERING AROUND BY HIMSELF.]

[tindery]

[ in theory itehari probably has like. some flowers. but they talk about how expensive they are and probably reserved for nobles. the red light district probably only sees a few bouquets just like this on rare occasions, so it's truly shocking to tobari that they can just

be created ]

... thanks.

[ even when the cage explodes, he will carefully hold these flowers to minimize their squish. when he goes to the library to figure out how to preserve flowers, he'll press them carefully to keep them. ]

[voring]

[THIS IS SO FUNNY... He really did just manifest expensive ass flowers out of nowhere. IF ONE IS A GOD, WHY NOT JUST USE THEIR ABILITIES FRIVOLOUSLY? He'd find it hilarious that Tobari tried to minimize their squish, though. That is so much effort for flowers.]

Snacks for thanks are better than words for thanks! But we can figure it out later. It looks like soup kid can't turn into soup to get out of here.

[tindery]

[ it is so much effort for flowers but he doesn't know if there'll be real flowers around here after all... he wants to keep them for when he sees his sister again

anyway that's sappy and he won't admit to it easily so, ]

What do you like for snacks? What the hell is up with this cage.

[ HE'LL THINK OF ALTERNATIVES THAT WON'T COME TRUE WHILE HE FIGURES OUT WHAT TO FEED THIS TAMAGOTCHI ]

[voring]

[PRESERVING FLOWERS FOR HIS SISTER... NOOOOO he's so cute. i aki think this even if obikawa will probably never know]

Whatever's good! I like rice paper rolls with sweet chili sauce and carrot sticks with maple syrup and ramen and butter and beer and burgers and naan and pizza and rice with eggs and all kinds of things- [THESE AREN'T SNACKS] -but I'll try anything that looks tasty!

[tindery]

[ stop that he's just a big brother

he doesn't know what half of those things are, but it's fine. he can learn ]

... so anything, really....?

[voring]

[HE'S A CUTE BIG BROTHER!!!! au where i apped lucas and they could have bonded]

Yeah! Anything unless it's gross.

[tindery]

[ lucas and tobari have more in common than i am comfortable thinking about ]

What does a god find gross...?

[voring]

[THIS IS SUCH A CONCERNING SENTENCE GIVEN EVERYTHING. TOBARI ARE YOU IN A CULT]

I don't actually like eating humans all that much. They're pretty gross.

[He still does it, though...]

[tindery]

[ hrrmrghghggh

he frowns ]

What drives you to eat humans?

[ he'S GLAD TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE GROSS but he feels like he needs more context on this ]

[voring]

[TOBARI REALLY IS JUST IN THIS CAGE WITH FREAKS!!!!]

Drives? [A lil laugh...] It's not like that.

[tindery]

Then what is it?

[ if not a motivation? ]

[voring]

Sometimes it's the fastest way to get rid of 'em when they're being a pain.

[Like when you swat a mosquito...]

[tindery]

... you eat them instead of kill them...?

Or you eat them to kill them?

[ he at least doesn't sound immediately aghast, even though he thinks this methodology is fucking weird ]

[voring]

Yeah!

[JUST YEAH. The methodology is fucked. He's supposed to be incognito too but honestly he is still not 100% sure that the people in this cage with him are real actual other people and not just maze figments, so he just says:]

My real mouth's way bigger than this one! Bigger than this whooole body! So I just bite 'em if they bother me.

[tindery]

[ okay

alright ]

Do you get bothered often?

[voring]

Nah, not really. Even less lately!

[On account of no longer being an enormous snake and blending in with humans in this meatsack he stole.]

[tindery]

[ nods... ]

... I'll take that for now. [ there are worse cases, he guesses ]

When's the last time you got bothered?

[ now he's just curious what could push obikawa to do it ]