Takaomi Private Convos

[frilly]

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[bakaomi]

I'm not always with him.

[ senri has friends ]

[frilly]

[ does he!!!! ]

Of course not. You'd have to be apart from him to be looking for him.

[ after a beat she clarifies, because they're too awkward for her to feel like she can tease him comfortably ]

Um, that was a joke.

[bakaomi]

Yes. I know what jokes are.

[ this is already bad ]

[frilly]

I just - I wasn't trying to be mean... That's all I meant.

[ hhhhhhhhh ]

[bakaomi]

...

[ ugh ]

Whatever.

[frilly]

...

[ are you just here to make her uncomfortable!! did you come here to be uncomfortable!! ]

[bakaomi]

...

[ he is reminding himself of why he is here hold on ]

[frilly]

[ looks...... back to the pretty window...... ]

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

Madoka?

[frilly]

Yes?

[bakaomi]

... do you understand why I got so upset with you?

[frilly]

Because I shared a secret you told me with someone else. And that wasn't very nice, because it wasn't my secret to tell.

[bakaomi]

I think I thought of you as a friend. It was pretty early on, too...

[frilly]

[ she winces, but nods. ]

I know. I'm sorry.

[bakaomi]

[ he's quiet for a moment ]

I don't really have friends here. There's people I work with. And there's the gods, but-- it's different, kind of, with them, since they already know stuff about us.

[frilly]

[ she doesn't really understand. ]

The gods are still just people. And - I'm sure that plenty of the people you work with think of you as a friend.

[bakaomi]

I know they're just people.

[ he says it like he's annoyed she'd try to tell him that. ]

But if they already know stuff about you, then there's not much point in trying to hide those things. That's less of a gap you have to cross than you have with others.

[ he doesn't touch the other thing ]

[frilly]

I... Guess that's fair...

[ . . . ]

Then... Were you upset because it felt like you'd crossed a gap already? With me?

[bakaomi]

Not that we did, but it felt like it was going there.

... this is dumb.

[frilly]

I see...

It's okay, though. You were upset, and I apologized for it once I understood. I think that this counts as a resolution good enough for the rules.

You don't have to force yourself anymore past that.

[bakaomi]

... mm.

[ he looks over at the windows, frowning. ]

I guess so.

[frilly]

... It's okay to have stuff that you can't forgive. Or... To have stuff you do forgive, but to still not want to... [ hm, what's the best articulation for this. ] Um, pick up where you left off? I guess?

[bakaomi]

...

I kind of think it's a little late to pick up where we left off.

[frilly]

Right. Of course.

[bakaomi]

... sorry.