Catch-All for Minato

[specialdog]

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[specialdog]

[ Happy...? Of course. Yes, of course she's happy with how she is. Because she became like this so carefully. So purposefully. ]

If you want to be different from how you are, you just change things. But I've already changed. I'm already who I want to be.

[ So she can't change again. Obviously. She makes the it sound so simplistic, but... Very clearly has conflicting thoughts and feelings on it.]

[compendiem]

[ The process is much harder than that, Minato's found, but he also really doesn't know what sort of person he wants to end up being; maybe it's just hard for him because he's aimless, that he tries to move forward without any real goal in mind. ]

You've worked hard, huh... I like the person you are now. I wish I could've known who you were before, too.

[specialdog]

[ Worked hard... No, that's not the important part here. He likes the person she is now...? Of course he does. Isn't that natural? ]

What makes you say that? Why would you want to know me as different from this if you like this?

[compendiem]

Hm... Because who you were before helped make you who you are now. Isn't it something like that?

[ Because everybody grows and matures, and he can't hope to understand anybody fully if he didn't know where they started from. ]

[specialdog]

[ ... after a beat, Akane plasters a smile on her face. This conversation is Upsetting so she's just going to stop engaging with it on a sincere level. ]

I guess. I don't really get it.

But you shouldn't make yourself sick.

[compendiem]

[ He could convince himself that the smile is real, but coupled with the bluntness of her words, he gets the hint. ]

Yeah, I'll look after myself. Sorry for making you worry.

[specialdog]

Who would worry about someone when they've only got themselves to blame?

[compendiem]

[ ...That's true, isn't it? ]

Then, a correction: Thank you for talking sense into me.

[specialdog]

But you didn't change your mind.

[compendiem]

[ whispers into my hands, I'm losing my shit at that icon ]

.......Yeah, I did. I'm going to tell Naminé the bet is off. 'cause it'd be no good if I get sick and die.

[specialdog]

[ Enjoy your Manipulation Smile™. Meanwhile Akane's heart could have grown three sizes that day. It did not. But it could have! ]

I feel bad ruining your fun with a friend...

[compendiem]

[ He shakes his head ]

No, it's okay. We can find something else to bet on, after all. Or do other things together, that she can do too.

[ Since waiting for Minato to die drinking coffee must be pretty boring for her and not at all fun. ]

[specialdog]

That's a relief...! You really have to take care of yourself, you know?

[ phew!!! ]

[compendiem]

Yep. I'll do my best.

[ And then two days later he's found living in the casino with nothing but several dozen cups of coffee, a bowl of week old gravy, and Shirasu's inedible cooking. ]

[specialdog]

[ tut tut, Minato. can't leave you alone! but oh well. it's hard to change, right? ]

Mm. I think you can change, if you really want to.