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Post by Chimera on Apr 20, 2020 19:04:02 GMT -4
716 WC kinda wish u were bi | It took a great deal of control not to snort at the side-long stare Charlie gave him at Nadia's continued "enthusiasm" and general lack of regard for the rules. Hm, where could she have possibly seen that sort of behavior? Enough so that he knew just from meeting her gaze what she was thinking. "I hope it's not like UA," he spoke, for a moment, in Japanese, "There are enough cocky assholes without throwing another one into the mix. God save disciplinary..."
"What are you saying?? Speaking Japanese is no fair!" Nadia glared little daggers back at her brother. Chimera just stuck his tongue out at her. As they continued down the street the houses stayed ever the same, but some people peeked out of their doors or front windows to call out and wave--a few of them Chimera recognized as Nadia's classmates, and some he'd been...alright with during the five years he'd lived here. Most of that time had been spent just getting used to having a family, never mind making actual friends. That hadn't even been a priority of his going into UA but, well, here he was. He still threw a couple waves back at some of the more familiar faces. Friends of his moms', teens (now probably uni students) who used to babysit them, normal people.
It was a little weird being home. It all felt so far away from UA, from hero class and villains and things he now had to categorize as "normal" to get through it.
I don't think I can ever go back to living in a tiny town like this, even as a hero...
Charlie grabbed him before he did a proper face plant, at least. "Yeah. I'm. No, Nadia, we're not--" he stumbled even more through trying to talk, but Nadia was already hardly paying attention to him and was back to focusing on Charlie. "Ooooh, okay. That makes sense," she said, as if it did. Maybe she'd listened too much to Angelica for her own good. Chimera sighed quietly. "That sounds familiar though. Didn't you say Angie would do that, too? Are they c--"
"HEY LOOK WE'RE AT OUR HOUSE," Chimera spoke up very loudly, turning Nadia around, again, with minimal effort, to point her toward the door, "Why don't you go on ahead and tell them we'll be there in, like, three seconds??"
Nadia pouted. "What, why?"
"Because I still need to give mom the tickets to the festival, and if you don't do it, I'll tell her I only got sent two and you'll get left home. Scoot."
With another huff, the small, bear-esque girl turned and rushed off with the same shocking speed she'd reached to tackle Chimera, only this time toward the door. He head her going "MOOOOOOOM, CHIMERA'S HOOO--" before the door slammed loudly behind her, and he winced slightly. He glanced up at Charlie with an awkward little smile. Uh. Shoot. That wasn't something he'd wanted anyone to hear. That Saito knew about it was because Chimera was just horrible at lying. But this wasn't his gossip to "spill". It was Yojin's. And it was Angielica's. And thinking about it still made his fur stand on end. There was also the matter that he'd kind of loudly and viscerally denied that Charlie was his girlfriend and he didn't want her to misread that for any reason...
"...uh, sorry. I'd swear that she's the loudest part but she'll probably be even worse if she doesn't get a fight out of you. You don't have to. Just be prepped for more whining." He ran his paw through the fur atop his head, and looked down. "And I...I'm sorry that--it's not that you're not--look, if I..."
Just say it. It's the clearest explanation that doesn't hurt her at all. C'mon.
"...if I was into girls I would probably totally like you like that, but...I'm not. So."
He blinked. Huh. That was easier to say the second time. Chimera glanced up at Charlie, gauging her reaction as best he could. She wouldn't get mad, right? Didn't she also like girls? Or, wait, did she ever have a partner? He could have sworn she'd had a thing with somebody at one point or another...
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Post by Charlotte Fujioka on May 4, 2020 18:04:38 GMT -4
SO COME ON IN! THE PRAWN SMILED SLYLY AT CHIMERA.
“I feel like it’s a danger of the job,” she agreed, glancing at Nadia out of the corner of her eye, “Asshole hero students. You’re different, though.”
Nadia’s boisterous protest made the prawn burble in amusement. Charlotte let her gaze wander over the facades of the houses, offering a polite but disinterested wave to the people who called-out to Chimera—only when he waved, though. And her ready acceptance of Charlotte’s bluff about being “part praying mantis” only furthered her amusement. Her remark about Angie earned an outright explosion of laughter from the prawn, and the laughter persisted at Chimera’s flagrant shove of his sister towards the house. Nadia was an absolute riot, her inclination to fight everyone aside.
So… this was their house, huh? Why did they send Nadia ahead? Charlotte began to follow, albeit slowly, until Chimera spoke-up. The prawn turned to face her friend, inclining her head.
“It’s okay,” she said simply, in regards to Nadia. Maybe she’d agree to roughhouse with Nadia if the girl agreed to go easy on her. Charlotte doubted the bear knew how to pull her punches, though.
There was more to say, though, it would seem—Chimera floundered his way through explaining that Charlotte wasn’t—that he wasn’t—okay, dude, out with it already.
The prawn had an enviable poker face—and as Chimera finally got to the point, her brow-ridge arched delicately. She huffed, smiling behind her surgical mask.
“You’re sweet, Chim,” Charlie remarked, her gaze drifting away from him. She wasn’t… really sure what to do with that information. Not so much the “being gay” thing, cuz… well, she wasn’t straight, but… she wasn’t sure what to do with the platitudes he was offering. He’d love her if he was straight? But he wasn’t, so why did it matter? A weird silence settled as Charlotte tried to decide what to do with that information.
“This is kinda weird,” Charlotte remarked, calling attention to pregnant silence, “Not you being gay ‘cuz like, uh, welcome to the club—but I am like… you don’t need to worry about me.”
God this was awkward. Why did he want to talk about this, especially now when they were about to meet his family?
She rubbed the back of her neck, a nervous chirr rising in her chest. Charlotte tried to swallow it back.
“I wasn’t totally joking about being cursed, you know… although not with the biting-off of peoples’ heads,” she confessed, “Both people I tried dating left U.A. altogether-” Note people, not boys, “-so… even if you weren’t gay, I wouldn’t date you for fear that you’d move away, too.”
She breathed a half-hearted laugh. He was important enough of a friend that Charlotte didn’t want to lose him by trying to date him. And admitting that made her face feel hot. It was like a romantic confession, in its own right. You’re platonically important to me.
“So uh…”
Charlotte finally pried her eyes from the lawn, her gaze flitting nervously to Chimera again. She let her hand fall from the back of her neck, holding a closed fist for a fist-bump. It would be her unspoken reset—once they bumped fist, this conversation would get sealed into the archives.
“L… let’s meet the parents, I guess?” she said with a smile. At least with lesbian moms, Chimera didn’t have to worry about coming-out to his parents, right?
The two would turn to walk up the path, and Charlotte squinted towards the house ahead of her. She inhaled deeply and sighed, trying to steel herself.
“You know…” she trailed, on the topic of being mistaken as someone’s significant other, “When I first met Hye’s dad, Papa Kang, he thought I was her boyfriend. And he approved of it.” She laughed. In retrospect, it was absolutely hysterical, even if it had smarted at the time, “Maybe it’s like a rite of passage for me… you’re not a real friend if a relative doesn’t think we’re dating.”
| ft. chimera ooc notes: cue awkward prawn. she's so good. <3 <3 <3 |
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Post by Chimera on May 19, 2020 18:22:48 GMT -4
351 WC aaaand wrap up! | "Aww, I'm flattered. I blame rooming with a support studies kid. It puts every possibly stupid choice into perspective," Chimera snorted, "Or maybe it just instilled me with enough adrenaline to not need to find more of it. Both?"
Ah, shit. He was thinking about Yojin now, and it made his chest ache. He drew in a deep breath and sighed it back out, relishing in the few more seconds they had to themselves before they were bombarded with questions and, probably, attacks from small children. Charlie looked a little confused by what he was saying, but after she took a second to process it, she spoke up. He could hear the smile in her voice even if he couldn't see it, and a sheepish little grin crept over his muzzle. "I worry about everyone. It's an occupational hazard at this point." His claws scratched at the back of his neck now. Huh. He didn't remember if Charlie had ever come out to him before. He thought she had been going out with a guy for a little while...she could be bi, of course.
Chimera took the chance to bump his arm into Charlie's as they walked like a friendly nudge, though he had to be careful not to simultaneously poke her with his horns. "Maybe you've just got that kind of air about you. Don't ask me what kind, I've got no idea. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking on their part." He snickered. "I can't speak for Hye's dad but Nadia would probably leap at the chance to fight anyone dating me. Harder than she already has. I might need to warn anybody before they hit on me that my little sisters are a bitch and a bloodknight respectively. I think that would look lovely on a dating profile."
Not.
He went through the little wooden gate on the low brick fence and stepped onto the lawn, then thumbed a paw towards the door. "C'mon, I'll protect you from the bear but I can't promise the same about my moms. Onward?"
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Post by Charlotte Fujioka on May 28, 2020 18:38:24 GMT -4
SO COME ON IN! CHIMERA ATTRIBUTED HIS HONORARY STATUS of “not as bad as he could have been” to rooming with Yojin, which earned a chuckle out of the prawn. Yes, perhaps he was a Support Student by proxy. Charlotte’s retreated into her own thoughts momentarily, her lavender gaze lingering on the door to Chimera’s house. She scratched at her throat, one of very few soft spots in her armor. Chimera ribbed at her a little bit, suggesting that she must have a “significant other-ly air” or perhaps “wishful thinking”.
“Oh please,” Charlotte intoned pleadingly, rolling her eyes. Her romantic misfortune seemed to flagrantly contradict that—if she was such a hot commodity, why was she still single, hm?! Not like Chimera had the answers to those questions. She slung an amicable arm around his shoulder, tugging him down slightly for an easier reach.
“Sure, man,” she agreed, giving her horned companion a brief hug before releasing him, “Onward.”She would lag behind Chimera as he wrestled the door open, and weather the onslaught of siblings with varying degrees of introversion. Despite her gusto on the walk there, it was understandable why she withdrew a little—there were—so many brothers and sisters to interact with and remember. And as the chaos enveloped them, the prawn couldn't help but glance periodically-- his open smiles, his periodic exasperation or embarrassment. It drew Charlotte in. By the time Chimeras’ moms made an appearance, the prawn had finally found it in her to open-up. They were lovely. The family was lovely. How lucky Chimera was, to have such a family as this. Loud, chaotic, cheerful. In a way, it reminded Charlie of her friends that she'd find in her year at U.A. Loud, chaotic, mostly happy-- in a way, it reminded her that there were, truly, people who loved her. Even if not in the romantic sense. And that was infinitely more valuable than any romance. - FIN - | ft. chimera ooc notes: cue awkward prawn. she's so good. <3 <3 <3 |
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Post by Maya on Jun 3, 2020 8:57:44 GMT -4
Charlie had 171 EXP and gained 43 EXP
Chimera had 398 EXP and gained 64 EXP
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