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[isntitsad]

Ah, hello, everyone! And welcome, those of you who are new.

[Marina's broadcasting in her apartment, perched on a stool with an electric guitar on her lap. It looks well-loved, and it's covered in stickers, some that must have been there for a decade.]

It looks like these dragons are making a lot of us more musically-inclined, aren't they? Well, among other things that are taking priority, of course, but... Ufufu. That aside, how are you all finding it? It's certainly made the city more lively.

[She laughs to herself and starts idly strumming the guitar.]

I suppose it's important for the dragons to find one another with song, but we're all here together already, and yet the changes still want us to connect with music. Do you think that means something important? Maybe I'm just thinking about it all too much.

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[isntitsad]

Sometimes the things you say scare me, Pidonus-chan.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I don't mean to, if it helps any?

But given it's just making people sing more or be exhibitionistic more than usual, I'm fairly certain it's not anything horrid?

[isntitsad]

I hope it's nothing. This place does scare me a little sometimes.

[have_hat_will_travel]

It really is sort of like that.

[Pidonus idly strums on the lute a bit...]

How's the dragon thing been going for you, anyways?

[isntitsad]

I think I managed to avoid it so far. At least I don't have dragons breaking into my apartment.

[have_hat_will_travel]

And no weird mark behind your ear?

[isntitsad]

I don't think so? It's a little hard to see back there, though. You got the B, right? Given the makeover.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I mean, yeah. I'm juuust self-aware about it enough to recognize it's off, but that doesn't really help me avoid it any?

I'm going to bet quite a few people are going to be mortified while this is done. I'll be fine there at least as long as I don't let it make me defy my rules? So that helps me a bit. Maybe.

... Mostly.

[isntitsad]

It really is just like the moonblessings, isn't it? But stronger and slightly different. At least everyone who's embarrassed will be in good company.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I mean, true enough.

I've learned that, if it's not making me hurt others, it's probably easier just to roll with whatever happens, honestly. I mean, it got me to change outfits, that's probably a healthy-ish thing for someone who kinda just keeps defaulting to the old outfit, right?

[isntitsad]

It's true that no one wants to just be stuck wearing one thing. Are you just wary of spending too much of your Chroma?

[have_hat_will_travel]

I mean, that too, but also since my clothes are often formed via shapeshifting, it's kind of like, every time I dress normally, I just go with the same thing. Making myself go different is an active choice, usually because of something like an event.

... Doesn't help that I do still like the outfit even though I should have much stronger negative associations with it...

[isntitsad]

It sounds like you've been through a lot, Pidonus-san. But no one can decide what you like or dislike except for you, I think.

[have_hat_will_travel]

You're right. But I do still end up in a rut a lot of the time, andgetting out of that is an important goal of mine!

[isntitsad]

It's good that you're taking advantage of this, then! In a way that isn't stressing you out, at least.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Make the best of the hand you're dealt, right?

Though I suspect you're glad to not have any of that going down?

[isntitsad]

Only a little! I don't want to tempt fate when something worse comes around...

[have_hat_will_travel]

Eh. Wouldn't worry about that too much? But maybe that's just me.

[isntitsad]

You don't believe in tempting fate or running out of luck, then, huh?

[have_hat_will_travel]

It's more like if I let myself think in such terms too much I have to decide I'm just fundamentally cursed, and it's a lot better if I don't get stuck in that rut.

[isntitsad]

It sounds like you've had a lot to deal with.

[have_hat_will_travel]

That'd be a very accurate description, yes. This place is the most stable I've ever had.