homo: setsu

[damp]

itp: setsu being way better than rin deserves

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week 0, monday, park

[damp]

[ Rin is checking out the basketball courts when he notices Setsu. And because Setsu is nice and pleasant to be around, he waves. ]

Hey. Looks like some new places showed up.

[gnosia]

[ Setsu smiles with a wave of their own. ] Hello Rin, it's good to see you again.

[ they look towards the basketball court after with some curiosity. ]

I wonder why they're showing up now...? [ they'll take a basketball in their hands, lifting one up. ] ..Oh, it's lighter than the bowling ball.

[ what is basketball ]

[damp]

Huh? Of course it is.

[ looks at them for a moment. ]

You've never seen a basketball?

[gnosia]

I haven't, no. I'm not really familiar with a lot of "sports."

[ they're examining the basketball some more because this one... does not have holes. hello? ]

I've come from a military background, so it wasn't really a thing at my base. And my interstellar traveling didn't really have me coming across it either.

[damp]

[ blinks slowly ]

You're from space?

[gnosia]

I am. [ fortunately they're used to the reactions they get from this ]

I've been interstellar traveling for a long time now.

[damp]

Why?

[ hopefully for fun? ]

[gnosia]

[ imagine ]

Partly because of my occupation, I'm with the Federal Galactic Army Special Forces.

[ They are military... ]

[damp]

[ UH ]

But you're my age...? Don't you have school?

[gnosia]

No, I've got a military upbringing so..

Your world must be more similar to Kazuki's. He had the same thought.

[ kazuki 🤝 rin in "wtf but school?" ]

[damp]

Uh, yeah. We're from pretty similar backgrounds.

[ the only normal people here ]

You were in the military growing up too?

[gnosia]

[ the normies... ]

Most of my upbringing, yeah. [ lore doesn't give that many details outside military background though, help. ]

What is your school like?

[damp]

[ He almost says "normal" but then realises they might not know what that means. ]

It was okay. We learned things like math, music, English... art. It has a really good swimming team, which is good for people who want to go pro.

[gnosia]

[ good boy. ]

Your profile did mention swimming. Is that what you're interested in doing? Going pro?

[damp]

[ gazes in sports anime trauma ]

I... was. But it's hard to go pro when you're dead.

[gnosia]

..There's a possibility we aren't dead. [ which they sound a bit sure about. ]

Hopefully, you can get back and continue pursuing that goal.

[damp]

[ hehe ]

What would you do if you went back? Go back to the military?

[gnosia]

[ WHY HEHE ]

I'm already a Lieutenant, being part of the Federal Galactic Army Special Forces, so going back would simply mean resuming my job. [ ... ] I was.. stuck, doing something important however, so going back would mean returning to that.

...It's not something I can escape so easily- which is fine by me, it's just something I need to do.

[damp]

[ felt like it ]

... Doesn't sound like it's pleasant work.

[gnosia]

[ hehe... ]

..No, not really but. I owe it to someone.

[damp]

[ the way claude would go off here

But Rin is nice. ]

Is it something only you can do?

WEEK 0, FRIDAY.

[gnosia]

Are you alright, Rin?

[damp]

yeah i'm okay [ physically. emotionally? not so much. ]

are you?

[gnosia]

Gyuhyuk Lee and I nearly had a run-in with a train, but we're alright otherwise.

[ anyways, ] Do you have company with you?

[damp]

what?! what were you doing in the subway? are you okay??