[ It's been a long couple of days. Nanami's been doing a lot of crying. Eventually it feels like some of the emotions have run out of her and she just spends time laying in her bunk staring at nothing.
She doesn't feel refreshed; she doesn't feel empty though, either. Just... kind of quiet. Like a moment in pause, between things.
Something swims to the top of her mind the next time she sees her roommate. After a little while of thinking about whether it's something she wants to ask - maybe it's a sore subject - she finally brings it up, because he did ask her to keep on the lookout for him. ]
[He's not sure what to do when Nanami cries; physical comfort has it's own associations for him, so a lot of what he's been doing lately is heating up more soup and setting a bowl out for her... it really is the food for the soul.]
Who does?
[Will he like where this is going? There's already an apprehension rising in him, masked by nonchalant voice as he looks up from his laptop.]
[...Some part of Shin has a horrible thought. There was a resemblance between him and Kanna... what if Midori really was the older brother Shin had once looked up to him as? Such a thought would have made him happy at the time... now it's like swallowing wire wool.
He represses the initial urge to tell her that's stupid and she's stupid.]
Sheesh... what makes you say that? Our hair isn't even the same colour.
[His is a bright teal, Midori's is, well... green. Like seaweed. It's something he's holding onto in the face of this outside opinion; the whole thing with Helena kind of proved how little he knows about his own face.]
...He didn't... do anything, did he?
[Stupid, why did he put it like that. Midori was a master of dancing along the line of plausible deniability. He wouldn't do something too obviously bad right out the gate, would he? ...Shin still worries.]
[ A sore subject indeed. She can tell right away. It's something about the way they carry themselves, a little bit their wardrobe choices as well... although she wouldn't feel comfortable sharing a bedroom with Hiyori, not even a little bit. ]
He helped Nanami-san and me figure out how ... Keigo-san and Amami-san died. I just ran into him in the hallway.
[ A little frown as she remembers that horrible evening. ] He already had nicknames for us both.
[The old red scarf is still something he can't bring himself to look at anymore. He's uncertain why entirely himself, some internal shift where he can see the trigger of it but not anything underneath. He can only, like so many aspects of his past thoughts, make archaeological guesses.]
Someone must have mentioned you to him... Not good.
[The problem of the confined space that has bothered Shin for so long intensifies when it comes to him. It clicks after, the underlying worry there. It makes sense to Shin, that Midori, who knows everything, could tell the Nanamis apart... something Shin often has to look at their clothes for. But... yeah it would be unsettling, huh? There's no room for camouflage in each other. He understands more in bone deep instinct than true thought here, the power of familiar address.]
Huh... what did he have to say about it?
[Midori... well, he lies, but... in very particular ways, as far as Shin remembers. Things like 'I'm your ally' are lies... things like how much force it takes to pop an eye out of it's socket as a 'fun fact' while Shin's trying to eat are... probably not.]
They already knew each other. Him and my sister. [ So that answers that question. They'd clearly been hanging out... or at least knew each other well enough to be familiar. Perhaps she would have too, without that warning. ] I'm strawberry, and she's pudding. [ By way of explanation. Nicknames. ]
Mm, I'm trying to remember... [ It was a haze, and after a point she stopped paying attention, overwhelmed as she'd been with grief. ] We figured out that sleeping drugs were involved... and my sister tried them out, and he didn't seem too worried.
[ Was there anything else? ] I think... I left pretty soon after that... sorry.
[His expression goes this level of pained when he hears the nicknames.]
Ugh... Disgusting.
[Doesn't help, knowing that Midori has a sweet tooth. It doesn't help at all. His skin prickles with alarm at the vagueness of the recollection, but also the other Nanami already knowing him and trying out the aforementioned sleeping drugs.
Shin kind of hates the part of his brain going 'so there was a third party'. His mind's been occupied with this for months now and it won't turn off.]
...
[He's thinking furiously. It's good this Nanami left but... does that mean the other was left asleep around Midori? While she's in the Robotics and Programming Club, I don't think Shin knows she's an android yet.]
You really should warn her... if you haven't already.
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Date: 2022-02-25 04:11 am (UTC)She doesn't feel refreshed; she doesn't feel empty though, either. Just... kind of quiet. Like a moment in pause, between things.
Something swims to the top of her mind the next time she sees her roommate. After a little while of thinking about whether it's something she wants to ask - maybe it's a sore subject - she finally brings it up, because he did ask her to keep on the lookout for him. ]
He looks a lot like you.
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Date: 2022-02-28 11:17 am (UTC)[He's not sure what to do when Nanami cries; physical comfort has it's own associations for him, so a lot of what he's been doing lately is heating up more soup and setting a bowl out for her... it really is the food for the soul.]
Who does?
[Will he like where this is going? There's already an apprehension rising in him, masked by nonchalant voice as he looks up from his laptop.]
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Date: 2022-02-28 11:27 am (UTC)She sits up in bed a little to look at him a bit more head-on. ] The man with a rat-tail… I finally saw him yesterday.
[ Is it like her and her twin? Are they different versions of each other? She decides to leave it at that for now. ]
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Date: 2022-02-28 11:57 am (UTC)He represses the initial urge to tell her that's stupid and she's stupid.]
Sheesh... what makes you say that? Our hair isn't even the same colour.
[His is a bright teal, Midori's is, well... green. Like seaweed. It's something he's holding onto in the face of this outside opinion; the whole thing with Helena kind of proved how little he knows about his own face.]
...He didn't... do anything, did he?
[Stupid, why did he put it like that. Midori was a master of dancing along the line of plausible deniability. He wouldn't do something too obviously bad right out the gate, would he? ...Shin still worries.]
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Date: 2022-03-01 02:12 am (UTC)He helped Nanami-san and me figure out how ... Keigo-san and Amami-san died. I just ran into him in the hallway.
[ A little frown as she remembers that horrible evening. ] He already had nicknames for us both.
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Date: 2022-03-26 03:28 am (UTC)Someone must have mentioned you to him... Not good.
[The problem of the confined space that has bothered Shin for so long intensifies when it comes to him. It clicks after, the underlying worry there. It makes sense to Shin, that Midori, who knows everything, could tell the Nanamis apart... something Shin often has to look at their clothes for. But... yeah it would be unsettling, huh? There's no room for camouflage in each other. He understands more in bone deep instinct than true thought here, the power of familiar address.]
Huh... what did he have to say about it?
[Midori... well, he lies, but... in very particular ways, as far as Shin remembers. Things like 'I'm your ally' are lies... things like how much force it takes to pop an eye out of it's socket as a 'fun fact' while Shin's trying to eat are... probably not.]
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Date: 2022-03-27 05:47 am (UTC)Mm, I'm trying to remember... [ It was a haze, and after a point she stopped paying attention, overwhelmed as she'd been with grief. ] We figured out that sleeping drugs were involved... and my sister tried them out, and he didn't seem too worried.
[ Was there anything else? ] I think... I left pretty soon after that... sorry.
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Date: 2022-03-30 01:26 am (UTC)Ugh... Disgusting.
[Doesn't help, knowing that Midori has a sweet tooth. It doesn't help at all. His skin prickles with alarm at the vagueness of the recollection, but also the other Nanami already knowing him and trying out the aforementioned sleeping drugs.
Shin kind of hates the part of his brain going 'so there was a third party'. His mind's been occupied with this for months now and it won't turn off.]
...
[He's thinking furiously. It's good this Nanami left but... does that mean the other was left asleep around Midori? While she's in the Robotics and Programming Club, I don't think Shin knows she's an android yet.]
You really should warn her... if you haven't already.
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Date: 2022-04-04 03:59 am (UTC)[ She knows that logically. But... she's not sure whether she should, either. She frowns. ]
I should... I don't know, though. He hasn't really done anything, and he was helpful... and I think they're friends now, maybe?