Remind me to give you a fistbump on top of the drink later.
[ Because pettiness is what's kept his ass alive all these years, let's be real. ...Okay AND Jubei and Rachel but- ]
Yeah. Yeah I get it, Cellinia. Not to get all sappy on you, but it's safe to say the happy days are long behind me as far as home's concerned.
[ Only one person at this resort knew what those happy dayslooked like in Ragna's life. ...they used to, anyway. ]
Still. You sharing your story with me is important. That's a tie to home you shouldn't forget. Don't let it go, yeah?
[ Anyway, ]
So a fonder memory, huh...
[ Maybe it's due to the fact he'd only just come back, or that it's a memory freshest in his mind that doesn't hurt. But it does get him smiling all the same. ]
You ever meet a girl named Hilda while she was here? Well, turns out one day when she was texting me, I clocked her that it was her birthday. Back when I still had a little cooking space of my own, I called her up and cooked for her. No outside snacks, no shot at getting hit with an aphrodisiac, just everything I made on the spot.
That was our whole night. Eating and talking and teaching her about parts of my world.
You'd think we weren't stuck in some glorified sex dungeon then...
(it helped she was fine with him and the few others that knew her first name using it. still. she understood that, she could keep herself alive luckily, but she was being a bit quiet on that.)
I do get it though, it's not a memory I'd want to forget. Not whenever it's among what happier times that I had back then before everything changed.
(but....that did catch her attention. hilda. she didn't just know her, hilda was one of her friends. it's almost bittersweet, but texas knows it couldn't be helped.
people will always come and go, even if she's been there for some time now and both lost and gained friends.)
You know....when she was here, she liked to try decorating my tail with ribbons and other things to see if it'd look cute. There wasn't a day when she didn't want to mess with it after we met in person.
Brushing it, tying my actual hair into different styles too.
I didn't get to tell her much about home as much as I learned about hers, but I think it's better she didn't know. At least beyond what little I could.
But it's nice....the little moments I think remind everyone that we're not alone. Regardless of how it's gone.
Same shithole, perhaps, it's the people you find that helps make it less terrible.
[ "-before everything changed." she said. It wasn't his place to pry. Especially when his past wasn't sunshine and rainbows either. It may not have been his place, but that wasn't going to stop him from doing his best to stay involved in the lives of those who remember him. There's other ways he can support someone like her. ]
Yeah. I know how that feels.
[ Their conversation drifts to Hilda; to happier, albeit bittersweet memories. ]
I can't say I blame her. Between the tail and ears, they look really soft.
[ A light tease. But true nonetheless. He bites the urge to call them cute for now. ]
Right. If it weren't for people like you or Weiss or Olivine or...hell, there's a lotta people I could thank for making sure I didn't go batshit crazy here.
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Date: 2026-04-12 04:28 am (UTC)[ Because pettiness is what's kept his ass alive all these years, let's be real.
...Okay AND Jubei and Rachel but-]Yeah. Yeah I get it, Cellinia.
Not to get all sappy on you, but it's safe to say the happy days are long behind me as far as home's concerned.
[ Only one person at this resort knew what those happy days looked like in Ragna's life. ...they used to, anyway. ]
Still. You sharing your story with me is important. That's a tie to home you shouldn't forget. Don't let it go, yeah?
[ Anyway, ]
So a fonder memory, huh...
[ Maybe it's due to the fact he'd only just come back, or that it's a memory freshest in his mind
that doesn't hurt. But it does get him smiling all the same. ]You ever meet a girl named Hilda while she was here? Well, turns out one day when she was texting me, I clocked her that it was her birthday. Back when I still had a little cooking space of my own, I called her up and cooked for her. No outside snacks, no shot at getting hit with an aphrodisiac, just everything I made on the spot.
That was our whole night. Eating and talking and teaching her about parts of my world.
You'd think we weren't stuck in some glorified sex dungeon then...
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Date: 2026-04-14 07:00 am (UTC)(it helped she was fine with him and the few others that knew her first name using it. still. she understood that, she could keep herself alive luckily, but she was being a bit quiet on that.)
I do get it though, it's not a memory I'd want to forget.
Not whenever it's among what happier times that I had back then before everything changed.
(but....that did catch her attention. hilda. she didn't just know her, hilda was one of her friends. it's almost bittersweet, but texas knows it couldn't be helped.
people will always come and go, even if she's been there for some time now and both lost and gained friends.)
You know....when she was here, she liked to try decorating my tail with ribbons and other things to see if it'd look cute. There wasn't a day when she didn't want to mess with it after we met in person.
Brushing it, tying my actual hair into different styles too.
I didn't get to tell her much about home as much as I learned about hers, but I think it's better she didn't know. At least beyond what little I could.
But it's nice....the little moments I think remind everyone that we're not alone. Regardless of how it's gone.
Same shithole, perhaps, it's the people you find that helps make it less terrible.
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Date: 2026-04-15 02:17 am (UTC)Yeah. I know how that feels.
[ Their conversation drifts to Hilda; to happier, albeit bittersweet memories. ]
I can't say I blame her. Between the tail and ears, they look really soft.
[ A light tease. But true nonetheless. He bites the urge to call them cute for now. ]
Right. If it weren't for people like you or Weiss or Olivine or...hell, there's a lotta people I could thank for making sure I didn't go batshit crazy here.