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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:49 pm
Otto may have been convincing himself he was fine all alone, but that didn't mean he wouldn't seek out those he cared for entirely. Just that if he had no one, he would be okay. The more time went by, the more he needed to convince himself it was true.
Molly was always a comforting presence when he felt sad or down. He started to worry he only ever saw her in his darker moments. She deserved better than to see him only when he was angry or upset. His confidence in his friends may waver here and there. However he still held her in high regard anyway.
Otto went looking for the curly haired angel, hoping to spend time with her. The more he searched, the more he doubted himself. What was he supposed to do, say or talk about? Casual conversation was alien to him. Worrying about it made him feel nervous, anxious and eager to forget the whole thing and just go back to his room.
He stopped outside the Mist lounge, fretting internally and convincing himself to give up on trying to be a real friend and just close himself up like he ought to.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:43 pm
Molly, luckily, happened to be coming out of the Mist Lounge as Otto hung around. Sometimes it was just easier for the trainee to focus on her safety projects when she was in a Mist Hunter orientated place. Her brows were knitted in thought and worry as she came out, and she was carrying quite a few notebooks under her arm. As soon as she caught sight of Otto though, the knitted expression immediately disappeared, and she offered the hunter a wide smile, genuinely pleased to see him. "Hello, Otto!" She called out. "What brings you to the Mist Lounge today?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:02 pm
"Hey." Otto replied, his nerves no less tense than they had been previously. "Um.. lookin' for you, actually." His eyes gazed down to the amount of notebooks she held under her arm. He assumed they had to do with her specialization. Still, he was curious about the specifics. "What's all that?" He asked quietly, easing his hands into the pouch in his hoodie.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:18 pm
Molly blinked, looking a bit surprised that Otto had some specifically to the Mist Lounge for her. "...Oh!" She then beamed even brighter then before. "Well, here I am! Did you need something?" She asked, tilting her head, before she looked down at the notebooks. "Oh! Just some of the material I've gathered for safety protocol and seminars...um...well..." She paused, "I guess it's more like notebooks of ideas right now..."
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:21 pm
"No, not really.." He murmured passively, his gaze averting hers to focus on anything but. He wouldn't admit he missed her.
"Ideas? Can you show me?" He figured that was one way to get her to talk. He certainly wasn't good at conversation, but he could listen fairly well. Sure he had news and things to talk about, but most were depressing. Only a few things he could mention were anything positive. Such as the new Sun coat he wore in place of his Death coat.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:33 pm
"Oh...! Okay!" Molly smiled, and she seemed to get it, and luckily, didn't make a big deal out of it that would no doubt embarrass the grumpy boy before her. "Ah well...ummm..." Molly looked embarrassed. "It's not that I don't want to show you...! It's just that...it's a bunch of words..." She laughed a bit.
"It would probably be better to just explain...um...if you'd want me to, that is!"
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:37 pm
Otto nodded. He just wanted to spend time with Molly. In a way that didn't involve making her fuss over him. He didn't dislike it, but she deserved more than his burdens and downfalls.
He wanted to show her that her work and interests were important to him. Just as her empathy and comfort in times of need were also important.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:31 am
“W-well…” Molly paused for a moment. “…You see, there’s so much equipment that comes out, and things change so fast, that there’s really no…go to for information about it! You remember the time when the titans attacked? No one really knew how to use that equipment…so there was a lot of mis-use! So my job is to collect all the information that I can about every new thing and then relay that information to others…!” Molly beamed. “But other things too! Like personal health, emotional health…and hygiene even! I’m just making sure everyone’s taking care of themselves! Oh, and not just in one division, either, but all the divisions!” Her smiled widened. “All the hunters…!"
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:09 am
"That sounds... intense." It also sounded like a lot of work. She was spanning a lot of different issues. "Just you? How're you gunna get all that out there?" Did she have a Molly office or billboards of free information? Twitter was a cesspool of drama, and any attempts to use it in a friendly information sharing way often got ridiculed. He wouldn't even bother mentioning it to the nice lady. "Yanno, you're always taking care of people. Don't you get any time to take care of yourself?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:12 pm
Molly just beamed, and nodded her head. “Yes, just me! Well, um, after I collect that we currently have, I’ll start setting up presentations and…maybe a place where others can find what they need to know in a timely matter…” Otto’s question went over her head. Ideally she should have a team working underneath her for this…but that thought never crossed her mind. At his question, the trainee blinked. “Huh…?” She blinked some more. “Oh, of course I do!” She beamed at him again. “I couldn’t take care of others if I didn’t take care of myself too!” But once again, the entirety of his question went way over her head.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:19 pm
Otto rubbed his head, looking at Molly with a furrowed brow. "You ain't a robot, yanno." He wondered if she thought such a thing as an insult. A lot of people seemed to think they needed to carry the weight of the world on their own. "Think about getting a little help here and there, alright?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:23 pm
Molly looked briefly surprised before she laughed. “Oh, I know, silly! No one is!” She then smiled widely at him, but said nothing more on the matter, and was about to talk about something else when her mouth opened and she paused. Something caught her eye.
Something was different.
Molly gasped loudly, freckled fingers coming up to cup her cheek.
“Otto…your coat!” She exclaimed, eyeing the different division emblem on his coat, as if he didn’t know…
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:25 pm
Typical Molly.
"Don't change the subject." He scolded with arms folded. "Is it so wrong that someone's tryin' to look out for you?" Otto assumed she was trying to clean his coat or something. Maybe it had a smudge.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:30 pm
“Don’t change what?” She asked, looking surprised and a bit confused at what Otto could be referring to. She then came closer to the teen, and reached for the tail end of his coat and brought it around for him to look at. “Um…” She pointed at the sun emblem.
“…What’s this?” Well, Molly knew what it was…but maybe she was trying to find out if Otto had grabbed someone else’s coat by accident or something…
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:32 pm
Otto huffed, not winning this one. He tilted his head to see what she'd been looking at.
"...Oh." He'd almost forgotten. "I um... I switched Divisions.. recently."
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