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[gekkajuu]

Hello, everyone. I hope you're having a good day!

[Have an enthusiastic Atsushi, with his white tiger cub in his lap. He even makes the cub wave at the camera - which it accepts, even though it playfully attacks Atsushi's hand immediately afterwards. Atsushi is such an embarrassing egg mom...]

For everyone who knows Chuuya Nakahara-san: it's going to be his birthday on the 29th! We'll have a party at the mansion, and you're all invited. It's not a secret as such, but maybe don't talk about it unless you have to? It would be fun to surprise him with how many people show up. It's in Olympia, but anyone coming in from Wyver - well... We'll find a way to let you stay the night, so please don't worry about it!

[He has one guest bedroom, and other people can use the couch, or share beds, or -... The important thing is that everyone who wants to come should come!]

One thing that is a secret:
Since Chuuya-san likes alcohol, I'm getting a bar installed at the mansion. I think it would be really nice if everyone could give him a bottle of something or other to fill it up! I'm sure he would appreciate that as a gift.

I hope to see you on the 29th!

[The address is attached. Come one, come all!]

Comments

[gekkajuu]

... I don't know.

[He doesn't think so. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that he's never had any reason to believe so - but he'd like to think that his parents would have made arrangements to see him taken care of, if they knew about his ability.

Then again, who knows? Until he met Dazai, everyone had just cast him out.]

I don't really remember my parents.

[inreturn]

[Kaden's face deflates like someone let all the air out of him. One moment, he's excited! The next, he feels like a big poop. And he doesn't often feel that way, he's too glamorous to make that comparison.]

Er...mm. That's my bad, huh?

[He's quiet for a moment. In the end, it's not his job to police this sort of thing, right? He clears his throat.]

You know, I do remember another type of shapeshifter that lived with humans, so...you're definitely human, I think. I was making it too complicated!

[Said human shifted into a dragon and killed Kaden while the Storm was happening, but you know. These things happen.]

[gekkajuu]

[#just-furry-things]

There's no need to apologize! If I don't remember them, there's nothing to miss either, is there? Haha...

[His fake laugh doesn't get much more convincing, the more he tries it, but what else can he do? He doesn't want Kaden to feel bad! If anything, he'd as soon forget all about this awkward part of the conversation.]

No - it definitely depends on your definition! I don't think ability users were seen as anything but human, even back home - but that's my own world's bias, isn't it?

[It probably helped that abilities were still pretty new on the general public's radar.]

[inreturn]

[That's some delusional logic, Kaden thinks to himself. It's really easy to miss something you never had, isn't it?

It's best to play along at times like these.]

That's one way of looking at it!

[But just like Atsushi wants to forget this part of the conversation, so does Kaden? Yikes? Yikes.]

I don't know a lot about your world, so you're the one who has to make the final call on that. But...hey, does your world have kitsune? I hear we're pretty popular in some worlds.

[gekkajuu]

We definitely have stories about kitsune, but I don't think we have the real kind... We do have regular foxes, of course! But nothing like you.

You're still pretty popular, though~

[inreturn]

That's too bad. I bet you'd get along really well with them.

[Why? Because furries. It's a recurring theme, isn't it.]

How popular are we? ...Wait, wait. No, you can tell me in person. I'll want to hear all the stories about kitsune from your world.

[gekkajuu]

[If the furry fits... Atsushi gives a soft laugh.]

All right. Then, I'll see you at the party?