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 Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm
Daphne had powered down when Alkmene had said that he would go to dinner with her, and grinned at the male, waggling her eyebrows. “If you think she’d like me, I’m always down to meet new people. Right now the only people in my life are…well. Me and my girlfriend. I’m pretty sure I coaxed her into staying with the Negaverse so sometimes I wonder if she’s my girlfriend or my project, but then we kiss…and I still don’t know.”
She gave a little shrug, putting her hands behind her head and running them through her pixie cut. “God, I forget how hairy being powered makes me…and then I always end up forgetting that I sheared my hair off a few months ago and it’s still nice and short…Does that ever happen to you?”
After a moment, she held her hand out towards Alkmene again. “By the way, I’m Daphne when I’m like this so, it’s nice to meet you all over again.”
God, she hoped that they would be friends…he seemed like that kind of friend she would love to have.
“Also, tell me the tea about your magic? Why did it do all of that?” Was he cursed? Was that a thing that should happen?
“...Did you complain to the Council of the Elder Magic Users…or whatever I called them? Did they fix it?”
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:59 pm
There was always a moment of strangeness, shedding his magical outfit as Alkmene and returning to being Haruhiko. But it passed quickly, and it was barely a breath before he was flashing Daphne a smile, flipping his braid over his shoulder and giving the bottom of his crop top a brief tug. Summer was coming to an end, but its last days had decided to be hot as hell, and so tiny crop tops, cute shorts, and Mary Janes instead of boots were his concessions to not roasting in all the black he preferred to wear.
"Oh, I bet she'll like you. Jada's great, really fun." Sometimes a little less homicidal than Haru, but that was probably a reasonable balance. The mention of a girlfriend made him reach up, and turn the cameo from Eion over in his hands. "And...I get having a relationship all tangled up in this stuff. My..." He sighed. "He's technically my General, but he's also...a lot more than that to me? Not that we've ever slapped a label on it, or whatever, but it's...there, I guess."
He hummed, briefly. "Every once in a while, yeah. I mean, I keep my hair long even like this," he reached back and picked up the end of his braid, "but it's just so much longer, when I'm powered up, it's like..." He shook his head, briefly. "It's a little weird, honestly. Been thinking about trying to do the space buns, though. they're real cute."
He took her hand, and shook it. "I'm Haruhiko. Haru will do, though. Pretty much everyone calls me that." He'd probably be shocked to be full-named, if it ever happened. "As for my magic, I don't know what it was--it would just...fizzle. Not work. Or only half-work, or something. For a long time, I couldn't trust myself in fights because it would just....do nothing." He huffed. "But there was a...thing, and my team needed me, and I bullied my magic into cooperating, I'm pretty sure. Because it hasn't fizzled since."
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:08 pm
“Ohhh~ Haru and his General, sitting in a tree!” Daphne teased, looking utterly delighted by this information, though, the smile faded after a moment and she sighed. “...I know how that can be awkward though. My first General. We were…kind of a thing too. But. Then she got a better corrupt and ******** off into the abyss somewhere. I had another girlfriend after but she vanished into the void too…so. I’m half hoping this one doesn’t vanish but…at the same time I’m half like…ready to just get myself half a dozen so I won’t be alone when they all vanish on me.”
She looked at his hair and nodded, glad for the chance to change the subject before things turned sad and awkward. “Space buns are always cute. I used to have drill pigtails. It was a whole thing but. Now I’m more…I mean.”
Gesturing at her pixie cute, she shrugged. “My twin was killed and pigtails were our thing so I just…decided…to change things up after the last girlfriend poofed and I’m enjoying it mostly so far. Meeting you’s been great. I’m hoping to get some good new friends out of it all, but…to do that I have to actually talk to people, and that’s always the hardest part, you know?”
For some reason, she thought that he might actually understand.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:19 pm
Haru winced. Daphe's story...it sounded awful, and it sounded like everything he was deep-down terrified of with Faustite. Like he might one day decide Haru wasn't worth the trouble.
He hadn't yet, though.
"My General and I--I don't think he's gonna leave me for someone else, not least because we're not exclusive? Like, he's sleeping with basically every guy on our team, so I don't really have to worry that he's gonna just...find someone new and run off on me. There's no reason to, y'know?" He shrugged. "Which I guess speaks to the merit of collecting a harem for yourself. It's working out for him." Haru laughed. It actually was pretty funny, all things considered. And, anyway, it wasn't like there was a dearth of handsome men on their team that he might like to get his own hands on, really.
The smile dropped, though, when she talked about her hair--and the reason she'd cut it.
"...s**t, I'm sorry. I don't know what I'd do if I lost my sisters," he said, voice soft. "But I'm glad you're starting to find your way again." He huffed. "Talking to people is the hardest part, though, isn't it? I'm on a team, and that helps, but it's still like...what do you even talk about." He shrugged. "It's pretty easy with you, though. You're a good listener."
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:38 pm
“I hope that he doesn’t. You deserve the world.” Daphne sighed and hesitated, trying very hard to move past the conversation. She didn’t want to ignore his words but…she was honestly feeling as though she were about to cry. “I listen as well as I can, but now, my darling Haru!”
Looping her arm through his, Daphne set off towards her favorite late night diner. “We are going to be unhealthy and stuff our face full of onion rings and chili cheese fries, and then we’re going to…maybe get drunk, if you want to! I haven’t done that for a while.”
And honestly? Haru seemed like quite a fun buddy to get drunk with.
“And then, we’re going to go forth and conquer the world!”
…Or…whatever.
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