commandertoolbelt | seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

[ tsuyukusa can find the local demigod out near the woods, kicking at the dirt. ]

This sucks. How long is this keep happening?

[How dare you kick dirt, that dirt belongs on Tsuyukusa's feet??? Just kidding he's a shoe wearing boy now. Or more technically a sock-with-reinforced bottoms wearing boy now.]

Either until the term is up or we're all dead, I'd guess?

[ leo winces. tree boy really doesn't know a thing about subtlety, does he. ]

Well. The only plus side there is that the year seems to be going by pretty fast in this place.

[Listen you asked.]

Yeah, I noticed that too. Which is good, since I don't really think I could survive a full winter here without getting killed.

[ blinks. ]

Is... that a tree thing? But even evergreens usually live through winter, don't they? Just without leaves?

Well my tree was a gingko, so evergreen has nothing to do with it.
[Was, he says.]

I just tend to get tired in the winter. I don't normally need to sleep much at all, but in the winter I do a lot. Maybe partly just because my father did.

[ internally: the fuck is a gingko ]

"Was?"

And I thought you said your dad chose to be your family...? Or is there some biological thing in the mix there, too?

[ very quickly learning that he knows nothing about how tree spirits work ]

[Looks anxious for a second but then just proceeds onwards!!!]

I-Yes, but I mean, when I was little it just sort of became habit to sleep when he would sleep, you know? But also I can't get a lot of energy the normal way in the winter.
[So there's a biological factor independent of the environmental factor of his caretaker sleeping.]

...I guess that makes sense. Would something like a greenhouse make a difference, though?

[ sorry tsuyu but this is infinitely better than thinking about how a friend is going to die tomorrow ]

Oh I keep falling asleep in there, actually.
[Annoyed!!!]

I'm already tired and then It being warm and damp in there, well when I was really little, he'd pile up damp leaves and they'd warm up as they decomposed, and I'd sleep in there. I guess it reminds me of that.
[Sounds... mulchy.]

...You sleep in a compost heap?

[ PLANTS… ]

Not anymore! When I was little!

[THAT MAKES IT BETTER???]

[ he stares at tsuyukusa for longer than necessary, probably, and finally shrugs. ]

I guess I can’t judge. My babysitter did put me a burning fireplace for a nap once.