seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

[commandertoolbelt]

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[commandertoolbelt]

Maybe it should be. The evidence wasn't singling you out any more than thr rest of us.

[ ...he uh. awkwardly pulls out the cup tsuyukusa gave him earlier to hamd it back. ]

Thanks for this, by the way.

[branches]

Yeah, but there's always going to be some humans who think less of me because I'm not one, right?

[He will take it though.]
... No problem. I had it anyway, so.

[commandertoolbelt]

Well, if they do, they're wrong, but that goes both ways, too. A lot of nonhumans think less of us because we're mortal - even demigods get that.

This whole thing's a bad situation, but honestly? That'd be the last reason I would vote for someone.

[branches]

Sure. You don't seem like a bad person. Just annoying.

After all, I don't think Shinonome would associate with a bad person. Even if he's annoying too.
[Your TAPPING.]

[commandertoolbelt]

Aw, thanks, man.

[ somebody finally appreciates him for the annoying little shit he is :) ]

And yeah, he's a good guy. He's been doing a lot for our dorm, but sometimes I think he pushes himself a little too far.

[branches]

[LAUGHS.]

Yeah, he and my brother have that in common. I guess being able to change heaven's net makes you think you can't rely on anyone else and have to do everything yourself. Like the rest of us are stupid or something.
[This seems like a very specific grievance.]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ blinks. ]

Change heaven's net? That some special fishing thing where you guys are from?

[branches]

[Ah right.]

Of course not. It's like... I mean, everyone has a place in Heaven's Net. It's like, they can change how the world works? Or they could, before they lost their ability.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ hm. not sure he's getting it. ]

Ooookay. But I mean - anyone who thinks they've got the weight of the world on their shoulders for whatever reason is like that, you know?

Take my homeboy Jason - praetor of the Roman legions, son of the Lord of the Universe. That guy has a huge chip on his shoulder and would try to do everything on his own because he thinks it's the responsible thing to do or whatever. It's stupid! We can't be a team if we don't work together, right? And what's responsible about pushing on until you drop, anyways?

[ can you believe all it took to help him relax a little was talking about jason ]

[branches]

[That's pretty bisexual of you, Leo.]

That's right! And like, they think they're protecting you or whatever, but what about how you feel!? You want to help just the same as they do! No one wants to sit around being useless and in the dark like some idiot little kid!

[commandertoolbelt]

[ STOP HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HOT JASON IS ]

Exactly! He isn't even the only person I know that's like that, either. Gods, for all that they say they're trying to help, you'd think they'd stop to think about everyone else, too. But nooooo, you just have to force them to chill and accept a hand now and then.

[branches]

[ATTRACTION IS ABOUT MORE THAN LOOKS LEO!!!!

Anyway I can't believe they're actually bonding.]

Your gods are helpful?

[commandertoolbelt]

[ this is not how i expected their bonding to go but i'll take it ]

Ha! I wish. Any of them that might have helped went and locked themselves away on Mt. Olympus - my dad can't even talk to me with his bootleg radio dreams anymore. And any gods that haven't are almost all on Gaea's side, which means they're trying to kill us. One of them blasted me off my ship right before I woke up here, actually.

[branches]

[Wait. Putting two and two together.]

Your dad is a god?

[commandertoolbelt]

Yeah. My dad is Hephaestus, the god of fire and blacksmiths. But Kon said you guys have a different pantheon, so you probably don't know the Greek gods, right?

[branches]

[AH RIGHT, THAT BITCH...]

I don't, but that's... cool I guess. [This does not change his assumption that Leo's a regular boy because you don't have to be related to your dad by blood??]

What else did he tell you?

[commandertoolbelt]

[ that's about the reaction he's used to yea, just the ugly blacksmith god it's nbd ]

Not a whole lot about where you guys are from? Mostly just about some of the monsters. Apparently there's a lot of overlap between yours and ours?

[branches]

[Oh... he simmers down then.]

Yeah, like the dryads you mentioned.
[They sound cool!!]

So what was with that tapping?

[commandertoolbelt]

Yeah, exactly. And chimeras? But it sounds like they're a little different from the ones I know.

[ ...ah, that. why is everyone so interested in it, anyway? ]

It's called Morse code. Call it a nervous habit? I didn't realize anyone else would know it.

[branches]

[Ah. A preexisting thing.]

Yeah I guess he's some sort of big weirdo who knows a lot of stuff?
[He has only a vague understanding of it.]

It's not like he's my friend or anything. We're just both Toki's friends.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ is that so. hm. ]

He does know a lot of random stuff, huh? Gotta wonder where he fits it all.

So... what? Did you want to learn how to use it yourself or something?

[branches]

[He didn't but then he thinks abotu how Kon would probably say he doesn't need to. Or maybe he thinks Tsuyukusa isn't smart enough to learn it!!!]

Sure. Something like that can't be that hard to learn!

[commandertoolbelt]

It's not, really. You just have to know what to listen for.

[branches]

[Nods!!]

So how do I learn?

[commandertoolbelt]

Well... Here, let me write it down for you first, and then we can go through the sounds. Might be easier to have the visual.

[ he'll just keep talking as he pulls out a pen and notebook and starts writing the alphabet. besidw each letter is a series of dots or dashes. you know how morse works I don't need to explain it ]

Morse code is all long or short sounds, and each letter has a set that belongs to it. See?