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Name: Demyx
Date: 6/21
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hhhhey can someone do me a huge favor and uh

keep me from boring myself to death in the maze while i wait for the organizers to come get me? my maze buddy-slash-roomie kinda bailed on me like a dick after he said itd be a good "bonding" experience
think im gonna look for another place after this so if you see a wolf-y looking dude with brown fur, blue streaks in his tail and green eyes? he sucks :(

_{[He's so going to get his stuff from the apartment and leave a dead fish in the chimney, mark his words.]}

but tell me your fave things guys
doesnt have to be anything big think like...
fave foods, places to hang here, any songs you like, hobbies, that sorta stuff! i got an hour or two to kill so lay it on me dudes

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Plant maze? Or underground maze? I mean, both could count as "bonding" experience, just in quuuuuite different ways. The plant maze is far better place for a hook-up.

oh man you wont catch me in an underground maze like
EVER
im not claustrophobic but im scared of the dark :(
im in one of the mazes at the festival

Ah, shit. I think that's even worse.

I mean if you're lost in tunnels there's like a possibility for an adventure. So what are you planning for payback for that wolf-y dude? And I'll try to remember good spots to kill time in.

If you'll get out, that's it.

right?? id get ditching me anywhere else but isnt this whole festival supposed to be about getting closer with people and bonding and stuff? its a major dick move

buttttt im thinkin
bumming something from one of the fishmongers and leaving it in the chimney before i leave cause i still gotta get my crap from his place

So you got ditched not by some random but an actual roommate?

Lodge it high enough for it to be hard to remove. I mean, it will eventually remove itself, with forces of nature, but it will take time...

I mean you could also try and talk, but being ditched in the maze sounds like you're past that stage.

yeah i didnt really know anyone when i got here but the dude took me in cause i dunno
maybe he thought i was gonna be a witch or somethin? or maybe he thought id be something that wasnt uh
fish

if he just ditched me in town i probably wouldnt care so much but in the middle of a maze? thats a yikes from me
esp cause i dont do too great in warm weather anymore :(

The more I hear the worse it gets. Geez. Talk about a transactional relationship— There's plenty of space in haven. Bet you will find better.

I'd offer to come and save you, but sadly I'm, uh, underground. Like literally, and far away. Is someone else is coming?

yea the dudes who sent us in said if anything went wrong theyd come looking for me cause im a merrow and i dont think they wanna deal with peeling up a fried eel off the ground
i had to ask em tho so they should be on their way uh...
soon?ish? cause i cant imagine its taking jerkface that long to get out now :( him and his stupid wolf nose

but when you say literally underground do you mean like
a cave?? or mole people underground?

[ Speaking of wolf's nose... ]

Dogs are repelled by the smell of citruses, but you haven't heard that from me.

—and yeah, I mean the mole people underground. I went with that whole expedition to check what's the deal with that weird story about underground city is

Sure, if you want somebody to just ramble to you about stuff that's happy and awesome for a bit, I'm your guy. Believe me. I've been told the real trick is shutting me up.

...but are you sure you don't want want to talk about this guy bailing on you? Did you have a fight?

Sometimes it can be good, to talk about it.

[ In Reynir's experience, sometimes people looked for a distraction when what they really needed was a friendly ear. ]

nah there wasnt a fight or anything like that. usually i try to avoid that kinda stuff if i can

_{[So when things like that happen, he usually just apologizes over and over. But he can't think of anything too out of the ordinary with the guy off the top of his head, so he shrugs and hunkers in against the wall of shrubbery and flowers.]}

i dunno what i did this time so i'll take whatever happy awesome stuff i can get
thinking about it is kind of a bummer all things considered you know?

[ Reynir might not know this person, but he's reading between the lines and starting to get an impression of the situation and he has never been good at minding his own business or keeping his mouth shut. Even when maybe he should. ]

Yeah. Sometimes you can't avoid it, though.

Look, maybe it's not my place to say, but sounds like he's got you second-guessing yourself a lot? And that, plus the ditching, makes it sound like he's not that great of a friend, after all.

But I'll stop being a bummer.

Have you ever been to a hot spring?

[ Commence operation: pleasant distractions. ]

hey no sweat i might shove a dead fish in his chimney once i get outta here anyway (･ω･)b after i get all my crap outta his house anyway cause boy id mclose it if anything happened to my sitar

_{[It might be petty, but you know what? Demyx may be a little salty about being ditched on a warm day in the middle of a maze.]}

dont think i have though! they got em here or are they only the super cold parts of the world?

The fish plan? Devious, and I love it. But the chimney seems like too easy a hiding spot. Are there any loose floorboards you could stash it under? It does sound like he's earned it.

[ There are times when Reynir really wonders about things getting lost in translation. What is (･ω･)b? What does it mean, to mclose something? How much cultural and linguistic nuance is he missing out on?

As has become custom for him, he picks just one question to ask, rather than four or five. ]

And what's a sitar?

[ He hasn't yet learned the trick of just waiting and looking up the things he's never heard of before, yet. ]

If they have hot springs here, I haven't found them yet. But they're all over the place on the island I come from. I'm not really sure if they have them in warm places, too. I'd only ever been to cold regions, before I came here. But I think it's to do with volcanic activity and not the weather or anything.

[ He isn't an expert on the things, but Reynir is pretty sure that Demyx isn't looking for a scientific explanation anyway. ]

There was a small one, close-ish to my village, and it was always one of my favorite places growing up. We didn't really go places, we had a farm to run, but my parents would take me and my siblings when they were still around, once a year, just for a few days. There would be people there from lots of different villages like ours - total strangers, you know?

_{[The floorboards, huh? He opens up a separate channel on the Watch and types it out, purely as a note for himself later. Maybe under the bed... Nah, that might be too obvious of a spot. He'll have a little bit of time to figure it out, at least.]}

so its pretty much a super outdoorsy public sauna kinda thing, yeah? ive never been around volcanoes but they were always cool. and kinda scary. if you ever find anything here lemme know for sure cause i so want in on that

_{[After that message, he attaches a slightly blurry picture of a sitar drawn in the dirt - both a traditional one, and his own unique beast.]}

these are sitars btw
i can play guitars and stuff too but i like these a little more

Yes! That's the idea. We have saunas, too, but those are more of a health thing and hot springs are just fun. Though I've heard there are some of them back home that are supposed to have healing properties. I never went to any of those, though. They were too far away.

If I find one here you'll be the first person I tell.

But it wasn't just the hot springs itself I loved, it was the whole tradition of going there, you know? Getting our things packed, the carriage ride there, sleeping in an unfamiliar bed, meeting people from all over the country...

[ Reynir isn't a poet but he's doing his best to evoke that feeling with his words, to cheer Demyx up and distract him from his current situation.

When the picture of the sitar comes through, he squints at it for a moment or two before he guesses: ]

It's a musical instrument?

[ Or perhaps it's some kind of technology he doesn't know about. Reynir's getting used to assuming that is what people are talking about, when they mention things he's not heard of. ]

And so is a guitar, I'm guessing, maybe?

its that feeling of belonging to something, right? like a...

_{[Demyx's fingers pause over the keypad, and he thinks back to something Aqua had said when the mirrors were being their weird, mirror-y selves. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but he continues typing anyway.]}

family sort of thing. where no matter how different you are, being there gives you the feeling that youre part of one. i knew a bunch of people and we never had hotsprings or even like

hottubs but we had these heated tables that we brought out when it got super cold and we would all just sorta veg out under them.

_{[He misses those moments more than he likes to admit.]}

and yeah! guess youve never seen one before, huh?

[ Reynir reads what Demyx has written, interpreting what made the trips to the hot springs so memorable and lovable. He is surprised to find that Demyx's response isn't just a little different from his own feelings, but practically the opposite. Reynir had never had any shortage of belonging, or family feeling. As someone from a tiny, tight-knit farming community, he had way too much of it. So much that it became suffocating. For him, those trips had been a glimpse at something else. Anonymity, separation, freedom.

However, it would take far too much explaining to begin to address that, and a great deal of talking about himself and the accumulation of little things, growing up, that had made him eventually choose to run away from that small village, and his family, and all the people he'd known. And, frankly, he doesn't know Demyx well enough to go there, and it wouldn't make for much of a happy distraction. So - he lets it slide. A little lie, just one of omission.

Instead he's going to refocus Demyx on those fond memories of his own. ]

Wow, heated tables? How does that work? Is it magic, or electricity? Are they made of wood?

[ He's never heard of such a thing, but he obviously appreciates the value of warmth after coming in out of the cold.

Reynir wonders, too, who that 'we' is that Demyx is referring to, but his instincts tell him that asking at this precise moment is only going to make Demyx feel more alone in that maze, more separated from his friends and family back in his own world. ]

No, I haven't. So you're a musician? That's awesome! Will you play something for me sometime?

[ ...pretty bold there, Reynir. ]

Edited 2020-06-25 23:13 (UTC)

pretty sure it was electricity? but i worked with a guy who could make fire come out of his fingertips and stuff if he wanted to so if we ever lost power we couldve had him as a backup lmao

_{[God, he really missed Axel for that reason. He used to know a little fire magic, but it didn't go the way Demyx planned most of the time. Here? Lord, how do people function without electricity? Or magic, for that matter? Being a merrow has its drawbacks.]}

but sure dude i can play whenever you want
well
not now obvs cause its all back at that dudes place but once im outta here!!

Have they got heated tables here, because if I'm around when it gets cold again I would definitely love to try that out.

[ It doesn't snow all that much here, compared to other places Reynir has been, but there had been a few decently cold days, when he'd first arrived... ]

I'm going to hold you to that! Once you've got your instruments back.

How long have you been playing? Was that your job, before you came here?

the organizers will help u get out????

[She feels like they were deliberately screwing with her when she went...]

are we allowed to ask the same questions back to you??
it feels kinda self-absorbed otherwise haha

its pretty hot out so i asked em if theyd bail me out if anything happened cause the guy i went with deeeeefinitely couldnt carry me. im already startin to feel it so all i can do is sit tight in the shady spots. sometimes the whole mer-life sucks :(

_{[It wouldn't bode well for the festival if he keeled over from heat stroke in the middle of the maze, right? It'd be a bad omen.]}

but sure, why not??

i can't believe your friend just up and left you like that!! what the heck?? (」゜ロ゜)」
well, for me it's hard to pick a fave food!
buuut i do like sweets a lot? does that count??
what about you?

right?? thats what i thought too
as far as food tho hmmm...
anything suuuuuuuuper cheesy for me

and chips
i reaaaaalllllllyyyy really miss chips

u better not let him get away with treating you like that

omg yes chips!!
why hasn't anyone introduced this place to chips?

[Asking the hard-hitting questions here.]

ive got plans dw (･ω･)b

but right i mean
i asked for some at a sit down place here awhile back and they brought out these potato wedges?? dont get me wrong i love those too but sometimes you want that good crunch you know??

_{[Maybe he should try and schmooze up to a cook and see if they can't make them mainstream?]}

someone's gotta know how to make chips so they can teach the locals
it's just a plain ol disservice to all of us not to

he LEFT you??

yeah man :( dude just booked it on me
hey

you wanna find me the nastiest, stinkiest fish for sale in the harbor??

what's his name? i'll kick his butt for you!!!

ugh i can already feel my nose burning thinking about that

but fine! just for you though

i'll make it up to youuuuuuu i promise

an ill tell you his name when im outta here cause i dont want this getting back to him >:(

good! maybe you can let me use your pool... it's getting way too hot

i'll hold you to that! do you need help getting out?

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