text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

so i've been stuck inside because i don't know if i'm allergic to bees, and i'm DEFINITELY allergic to giant ants, and also i'm pretty sure half of my friends have vanished.
not trying to whine or anything. i mean, that's sort of how life is after getting space dimension kidnapped?
like, don't get me wrong, i WANT to whine. but it's happened before. and unless we find a way to change that it'll keep happening.
so i guess... if you recognize me just say something?
just so i know you're still here.

anyway.

i've got three days left as a teen, life sucks, and i've still got a few bottles of the drinks from last place i was at.
i want to make bad decisions. give me stupid ideas
like... are there clubs around here? can anyone recommend one?
i've never been clubbing. and i kind of feel like there might be a time limit on that??

screw it. who wants to get fucked up and go clubbing

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[lacrimose]

Really? Because on my first day I was eating like a horse--

[He's cut off by her excitement about alcohol, and he bursts out laughing.] Sa-ke.

[...He's technically underage, but saying that right now might make him sound a little lame?? Plus he's already admitted to clubbing, so maybe she thinks he's older than he actually is. Oh well.]

Yeah, we can try some if you want some. You got enough chroma if we split the bill?

i'm PRETTY SURE akira hasn't mentioned he's a demon to venus proper so!!

[wingstosee]

Oh, uh. I sort of assumed I was paying for all of this? So, I mean... yeah, absolutely. Let's do it.

[ something strikes venus as off about what akira says, even if it doesn't immediately register. even if it had, she'd still take a moment to mull it over. so she spends another few seconds looking at the menu, asking dumb questions - "is the egg hardboiled," and "wait does seaweed actually taste good," things like that - and watching akira from a dozen eyes at once.

when it's finally clicked, and when her curious gaze is too obvious to ignore, she finally revisits the topic. ]

...hey. What did you mean, "your first day?"

he hasn't! he's a dummy

[lacrimose]

[Akira had been edging around the topic, so to realise what he'd accidentally blurted out in the excitement of the moment is. Uh. He scratches the back of his neck and looks away sheepishly.]

The first day I became a Devilman. I said we weren't that different, and I meant it.

[wingstosee]

Oh.

[ oh. ]

Oh. [ she whispers, and then- ] Oh my god? Oh my god, you too! We're both-

[ her hands literally come up to cover her mouth. good job, akira - for once, you're not the first person in the room that looks like they're about to cry! ]

[lacrimose]

H-hey...

[He doesn't know what to do about a reaction like that, and is alarmed about making her cry, so he reaches forward to... pat her on the shoulder? There, there.]

[wingstosee]

[ she reaches up and grabs akira's hand. and now that her mouth is free again, it should be clear: those tears welling up in her eyes are the happiest goddamn tears imaginable. ]

You're literally the first devil my age I've seen in over a year. Like, there were five or six of us back in Duplicity, but now it's just me and Grimm? And- and Grimm's great, don't get me wrong, but he's kind of more of a dad that doesn't suck, not- you know, someone who gets it, and- and now you!

[ there is just. an unashamed, unabashed adoration in her eyes. all like two hundred of them. ]

Wait, was it summer camp for you too? Sorry, that's not too personal, right?

[lacrimose]

Uh--

[Akira seems a little overwhelmed, and, unsurprisingly, his eyes begin to well with sympathetic tears of his own.]

It was the club I talked about. We went to a Sabbath party, and it happened there.

[wingstosee]

[ it doesn't immediately sink in, what he's saying. she's too busy smiling, and giggling, and thinking about how nice it is to finally have someone else that gets it. but her brain halts on "sabbath party," and it's that little pause that finally sinks in. at a club. the club he'd been to. he'd said people had been hurt, right? a lot of them. and that means...

the smile fades away on her face, even if her eyes stay misty. after a moment, she reaches up and wipes at them. ]

Crap. I'm sorry, I didn't... [ think about it? yeah. obviously. ] Should I change the subject?

[lacrimose]

It's okay. I gained the power to protect people, so it wasn't all that bad.

[Some people were saved because of his actions, or so Ryo had said. Akira really doesn't remember it much either way.]

We should go ahead and order first. [It's rude to just sit here and talk, after all.] Still want to try everything?