HOMOPHONIC 🌺 MIZUKI OKIURA

[piteous]

it's a baby

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[piteous]

Losing yourself to the pain and stuff like that. It gets rough!

[ Vash is really hoping they experienced one single thing. ]

[adorabrawler]

Then I guess... not?

I mean, it was—hard. Really damn hard. But I guess there was always something to keep us going.

[piteous]

... It's good to have hope.

[ A nod. ]

All right. Did you want to start from the beginning?

[ this is so funny mizuki has the mental age of 151 ]

[adorabrawler]

[ very thank you for this food ]

... Uh.

[ well. s. sure?

... ]

Like, the very beginning? The literal beginning? 'Cause I could always start with "one day we were born from a plant on ship five".

[piteous]

... Where else would you start?

[ He doesn't know how long they've been gone on this trip. ]

Is... Something wrong with that?

[adorabrawler]

It's not wrong, no. But... there's a lot. I think you would know.

[piteous]

... Well, if it starts with your birth, then I'm imagining it might end with a ship crash or something.

[ him: scope must be small! ]

[adorabrawler]

[ vash, sweetie, ]

More like that's what really started everything...

[piteous]

... How long were you in there for? I know that the trips aren't exactly like our memories, but you're scaring me here!

[ lord have mercy ]

[adorabrawler]

[ "i'm scared" says Vash; Mizuki, easily, as if she were talking about the weather: ]

Iiii just celebrated my 150th birthday... Heh heh.

[piteous]

... It's one thing if you were an adult and had to live another 150 years, but you... Were 12... And...

[ OH


NOOOOOOOOOO ]

You spent most of your formative years there!!!

[adorabrawler]

What? I mean, yeah, but it's not like I was the only kid in the entire world.

[piteous]

Okay. Let's... Let's put that aside for now.

[ But he is sad for her. ]

Happy birthday?

[adorabrawler]

Thanks. You owe me a birthday drink, by the way.

[ he gave her a froyo but that doesn't count ]

[piteous]

Sorry, Mizuki, but you have to go through another couple of years again before I'm giving you a drink.

[ Smiling sadly. ]

So... You guys were just living through it, huh.

[adorabrawler]

Oh, come on...

[ cursed with being a preteen.. twice.... ]

Yeah, basically. [ ... ] But we did end up at another ship eventually. At least... those days were peaceful.

[piteous]

Sorry.

[ Not sorry about that as much as the other parts. ]

The colony found you! That's good, that's good. Did you guys get to live normal lives there?

[adorabrawler]

[ she nods. ]

Mmhm—for a good... sixty or so years. Something like that. I was... pretty surprised to find out a place like that was out there.

[piteous]

They got lucky with their antigravity plant. It's why they get to keep their piece of Eden.

[ He laughs a bit. ]

Did you get married?

[adorabrawler]

[ help ]

Are you kidding? I don't know what was more impossible—keeping a boyfriend or finding one that was even worth the time!

[piteous]

Woah... No one? No one at all in those years?

[adorabrawler]

Do you really have to rub it in like that.

[piteous]

No one confessed to you, either? I mean, you were cute.

[ objectively ]

[adorabrawler]

[ she WAS THANK YOU!! ]

Hmmm... A few. But one was, like, too desperate, the other just wanted the money so I had to kick his ass, and Jonas threatened to shoot the last guy.

[piteous]

... I don't think I like hearing that Jonas threatened to shoot someone.