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『 like a final puzzle piece, it all makes perfect sense to me 』

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Bread is much better than resurrection

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💖🦐❤️

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@synchronicon <{🎶🎶🎶} good (it's meant to be remembered (you're his friend and his Sweet Cheese, his Good Time Boy,))> [another good clasp and he looks around] <Did You Have Food>

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@synchronicon JOHN!!! [it's so rare to hear Link speak, and even rarer to hear him shout anything you can parse, but that's definitely one of your best buds hollering from the other side of the room, waving and grinning]

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@synchronicon [solemnly clasps his fist to his chest] <{it'll be an honor to represent you}> [he and olwyn had a long "talk" about this and he understands his duties, this is one of them]

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@synchronicon [tilts his head] <{sympathetic} should you have a cigarette now {you'll smell more like yourself}>

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@synchronicon <{but you love pictures [you keep pictures of your family in your coin purse, he's seen them, you've shown them]}>

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@synchronicon [giggling because Zelda would love that, wouldn't she, and because your voice sounds silly and because you're getting married; he releases you only to take your elbows] <{[you asking him to be]} a grooming man. {he gives you permission to be less groomed}>

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@synchronicon <{the blistering intensity of his friendship and defense, his stalwart belief in the army amassed in this hall, (flashing teeth and drawn steel and divine energy, oh let them TRY)}> [the hug intensifies in tightness] <you're too clean>

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@synchronicon [you handshake Link? you clap him on the back? hugs for John Constantine!!! he sweeps you up, crushing and cheerful] <{love, enthusiasm, protective (no one is gonna stop this for you two on his watch)}>

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@minima_vox [aware that this has plagued you for years, there's a relieved slope to his smile on your behalf] <{[the comforting thrum of cicadas, fairies floating over a spring surface, the water undisturbed]}> [he scoop soup]

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@minima_vox [brushes thumb against your cheek, one last lil tuch and his quiet I Love You Too, before he sets about fussing with the food, fishing your heavy mug from his bag. it smells great, which is to say, it smells like meat and garlic and armoranth] <so..., {is anything Different?}>

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@minima_vox [snickers, delighted by the attention, and tucks an errant long strand of hair behind your ear before finally asking aloud] Hungry?

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@minima_vox <(oh) right {amused at himself}; {[the cut of you from seconds before, his POV, regal in the powder (in your power! /pun)]}> [he nuzzles your nose]

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@minima_vox [he nurses a thought for a few seconds before loosening his grip] <{[shades of the Hero, years past, luminescent and shadowed figments of form, the same blue eyes but set in different faces, reflecting back from different mirrors, times, worlds]}...?]

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@minima_vox [a steady gaze back, even and grounded; he's with you, but he always was] <did you find it {whatever She called you for?}>

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@minima_vox [as always, if you're content, he's content. Link sighs out the extra breath he holds when you're away, assuming your lack of distress means a successful completion of the trial, and presses a kiss to your forehead]

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@minima_vox Mm. [there are blankets pooled around him, made heavy with heat from the flame, and he lifts one of them now to invite you closer. your last two trials were not for casuals]

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@peripocalyptic @synchronicon @yourturntorole [oh he's seen this before. not a fan. that is way too much for his current brainstate and he will pass, thanks. instead he makes his way to Junpei's side, giving Carlos a glance as though this is the strangest question he's been asked today] Yeah? Good. [thumbs up]