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[april 28th // video]

[kaworu seems happy today -- more so than normal, and a great distance from his melancholy the last time he'd posted to the network.]

What sort of sweets does everyone here like? Or types of cookies? I have a friend who is teaching me how to cook, but I do not have much experience with what others enjoy most...

[he mostly wants yako and mello's answers, but being that specific would ruin the surprise so it's simpler to leave things vague for now.]

[filtered to takuto]

You can come over whenever you want now, if you would still like.

[filtered to shinji]

[his tone and expression soften and he gives the little mirror a gentle smile, somehow different from the sort he shows everyone else. as much as he loved all his friends here, he hadn't really considered the difference until he could once more see shinji.]

Are you ready?

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Thanks, Kaworu. [Takuto nods as Kaworu drifts away. He looks back to Shinji, completely unsure of how he feels about the other boy, but determined to be nice and give him a good chance. Such a... precious friend of Kawoeu's had to be a good person, right?]

So, what do you think of Death City so far?

I haven't actually gotten around to seeing most of it, yet. [He seems a little sheepish about the fact.] But what I have seen of it, it's actually really nice.

[You know. For a place called 'Death City'.]

[beaming at the two, kaworu slips into the kitchen to put on water for tea. and while waiting for that to heat up, he returns to lurk by the doorway and watch quietly, half curious and half protective.]

[Takuto shrugs, looking almost embarrassed for his city. (And yes, he considers it his city. He's been here for nearly half a year.)] It used to look a lot nicer, but an island kind of fell on it--well, near it is probably more accurate.

But if you want, I could show you around sometime. [He is offering out of habit, but after he thinks about it, he realizes he probably wouldn't mind showing Shinji around anyway.] So, are you a weapon or a meister?

Kaworu told me about the island. [He had taken that much into consideration upon evaluating what he'd seen of the city. And it was still a step up from the way Tokyo-3 was when he'd last seen it.]I would like to get a better look at everything sometime, though.

Ah, and I'm a weapon...

[dammit tea kettle why are you doing what you're supposed to and whistling while he's trying to snoop]

[Takuto nods at Shinji's indirect request, and then smiles.] I'm a meister.

[A pause.] Do you know what your weapon form is yet?

A-... knife. [He has to stop himself from saying 'prog knife', because the only person in Death City who would even know what he was talking about would be Kaworu.]

... Have you been in the city long? [He seemed like he had to Shinji, at least.]

You discovered your weapon form?

[and here's kaworu coming in with three cups of tea, having heard that bit at least.]

[Takuto shrugged at Shinji.] Since last November. [It's certainly longer than a lot of people--the turnover rate in Death City is surprisingly high--but he's not sure if his five months really qualify as a long time. To be fair, he had adjusted to Death City pretty quickly during his first few weeks.

He quickly reaches for a cup of tea from Kaworu--the boy only has two hands after all, so he might as well help him by taking his cup quickly.] Thanks.

[He accepts his cup of tea from Kaworu, muttering a soft 'thank you' as he does.] I found out just recently.

[And he turns back to Takuto, looking a little surprised.] That seems like a pretty long time. [To Shinji, at least. As much as the displacement isn't an entirely new experience, putting an actual amount of time to it gives it a different feeling.]

Mm. [he answers somewhat absentmindedly, distracted. had shinji gotten help to change or just fallen down the stairs or something? now probably wasn't the time to pursue that though, not while he was having an actual conversation with someone other than him.]

We should sit. [it strikes him a little belatedly that it's probably rude to leave a guest standing around -- two guests, technically, but shinji didn't really feel like a guest in his home.]

[Takuto nods at Kaworu's suggestion, starting to make his way over to the couch.]

Sometimes it feels like a very long time, but sometimes it feels like I've just arrived or maybe more like I have to start all over. [He shrugs as he sits, and then takes a sip of tea.]

[Following suit, Shinji takes a seat on the couch.]

That makes sense... [He was no stranger to feelings like that, after all.]

[he takes the seat right next to shinji, perhaps a little closer than what politeness dictates but he could hardly bring himself to care about that sort of thing right now.]

Why would you feel like you have to begin again?

[He notices that Kaworu is practically sitting on top of Shinji, and then gives his friend a sharp look at the question. He hadn't expected Kaworu to be asking a question like that, but then again, given Kaworu's history of question-asking, he probably should have.

But he was feeling unusually stubborn and less than inclined to be helpful to Kaworu if he was going to crawl all over Shinji like that.]

Things happen.

[Another sip of tea. He shifts his gaze to Shinji, all smiles.]

So, Shinji, are you from Japan?

[It's almost entirely due to the fact that there's another person in their company that Shinji takes note of just how close Kaworu's gotten, but he's hesitant to even call him out on it. If it's Kaworu, he really doesn't mind, though it does cause him to blush a bit.]

Ah, yes. I was last in Tokyo-3. [He was a little hesitant to give the name of the city - he wasn't sure if Takuto would even be familiar with it, given the possibilities of what kind of world the other could be from.]

[he noticed that brush off, takuto, and he frowns in confusion. but he's not about to ruin a decent conversation for shinji.]

Tokyo-3 does not exist in this world. [he did do some research towards the beginning of his time here.] As the original city was never destroyed, replacements were not necessary. But the location corresponds with a pair of towns that existed before Second Impact, within Hakone in the Kanagawa prefecture.

Well, I guess you're from a world used to war, then. [So maybe adjusting to Death City isn't so difficult.]

I'm from the south, in Japan. Kyushu, actually, is where I grew up, but I was at a school off the mainland right before I came here.

[It's hard to ignore Shinji's light blush and the whole experience of sitting and calmly drinking tea and making smalltalk is starting to get to him. He's going to be staring at his tea instead of at the two of them.]

Y-yeah... [More used to it than he'd like to be, really. He can't say he isn't a little jealous at the idea of living in a world that hadn't experienced any Impacts.]

I've never been that far South, before. [He was more than happy to latch on to a topic that didn't involve any sort of war, but the fact that Takuto seemed to be... a little uneasy, isn't lost on Shinji. He's just not sure if he should really be bringing it up, considering how unfamiliar he still is with the other.]

[aaaaand now you're both acting all uncomfortable. the mention of war, maybe? but he can't really do much about that beyond continue the conversation and subtly lay a hand on shinji's shoulder -- he'd do the same for takuto, but he can't read that far and there's a cup of tea in his other hand anyway.]

I have never visited anywhere in Japan outside of Tokyo-3. But I suppose it would be hotter, further down south like that?

[Takuto carefully ignores the physical contact between the other two. He should be happy for Kaworu (and for Shinji), but it's harder than usual for him to feel that kind of empathy. It's an effort. He really should be happy for Kaworu, at least, to have a friend from home.]

It's more tropical, yeah. I've never been to Tokyo before, though, so I can't really compare.

[Kaworu's touch is enough to pull him out of some of his more distressing thoughts of home, and bring him fully back to the conversation at hand for the time being.]

That sounds really nice. ... I'm not sure how similar Tokyo-3 would be to the Tokyo from your world, though. [That much was probably for the better.]

Ours is actually most likely hotter, now that I think about it. At least overall. The world had seasons before Second Impact, but you have only ever experienced Japan in its endless summer, whereas this and assumedly other worlds' version of it go through colder periods.

[and he can remember watching over the world when it was in that state, even if he didn't yet have a body to experience it directly with.]

[Takuto frowned.] Endless summer? Sounds like your world definitely had its pros and cons.

There isn't a huge different in seasons in the south, though, except for when it's the rainy season. I never got to see any snow until I came here.

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