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SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
LSMDFSD dont assign me eustace....
...So that's why I felt so embarrassed that one time.
[the way the orvs are still emotionally linked up and haven't done anything to fix it,]
You guys sure have a funny relationship.
too late
I wouldn't call it funny. [ ANNOYING, maybe. complicated, definitely. ] I'm not even sure it's any sort of relationship at all.
[ that's a lie, he feels one whole shred of emotion for dokja some days. ]
STOP?
That's just how that guy is. He's too annoying to be called a friend and too soft to be called an enemy.
Also, he's super nosy when it comes to your business and super closed off when you try asking after his. A ten out of ten hypocrite.
no :)
Any suggestions on how to deal with him then? Since you're such a great friend of his.
I DONT WANT TO BE EUSTACE
This is the second time you've asked me this, y'know.
[unlike the last time, she thinks about it....]
Unfortunately, I don't have any good advice. If I did, then he'd be less of a pain...
that's fair, no one wants to be eustace irl
[ except neither did i because my memory is so bad, i'm in tears
but wow, that sure is a helpful answer. kind of valid though, because if people were that easy to deal with then there wouldn't be so many problems in the world. time to try a different approach. ]
What makes you want to keep sticking by him then?
wait i want to be eustace
There's a blip of surprise from Sooyoung, as if she hadn't expected the question. Not that she hadn't expected it from Eustace -- this guy seems to ask a lot of questions of her, from what she remembers of him. Just the question itself.
...When was it, exactly? When did Dokja become such a vital existence to her? When did caring for Kim Dokja become so intrinsic -- not only to her, but to everyone? have some gay emotions eustace that hsy immediately attempts to squash]
...Because he'd be even more stupid and annoying if I didn't.
[TSUN!!!!]
Don't you know anyone like that?
do u tho.......
But you know, it's kind of cute? He's not exactly one for friends, mostly because he's a loser always trying to push people away, but it's nice to see two people connected by a strong bong.
Heh. He will remember these soft goopy feelings for later. ]
I make it a policy to try not to meet people who need constant babysitting.
[ Except now Dokja is in his life anyway so like. What was the whole point. ]
i want to own lots of cute dogs
Sooyoung is already hoping that Eustace gets amnesia again -- FORGET WHAT SHE SAID AND ALSO ABOUT HER FEELINGS!!!!]
So does that mean Kim Dokja's your only exception so far?
[because that's gay if so]
THAT'S SO MUCH WORK also wow my typo....that's tragic
also he hates the way she phrased that. 'exception', like kim dokja is special. gross. ]
He's not an exception. [ he is. ] I just owe him one.
treasures ur typo forever
That's gonna turn into two if you're not careful.
[Eustace seems competent and self-reliant, but so is Sooyoung and Anna Croft, and they're both on Dokja's very long list titled 'People Who Owe Me'. He's got one foot in the door already....]
He's in Springstar, by the way. Just a heads-up if you're looking to avoid him.
[she's joking, but also not?]
no...............
Interesting warning. ]
Should I be avoiding him?
[ He doesn't like Springstar much even on the best of days so that's an easy enough ask to follow regardless. ]
YES
I feel like you're the type of guy who'll just do whatever he wants, no matter what I say.
[There's no exasperation or censure in her tone, though. Because that's also like her and like dokja, and unfortunately also like yjh. is eustace an honorary orv? if he's not careful then one day he might turn into one.]
...I wasn't in that Horos place for as long as you and Kim Dokja were. [so she doesn't have any attachment to it, nor does she feel a sense of loss. Not in the way Dokja does,] He'd probably feel better seeing a familiar face.
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Although if they get married, does that make him an honorary orv anyway? π³ Maybe they should get married for that and not for the tax benefits. Nice of her to accurately pinpoint the kind of guy he is though. Now he doesn't have to pretend to be someone he isn't!!! Not that he was going to do that to begin with.
But....hmm. Interesting way of phrasing that. ]
If it's a familiar face he needs, wouldn't yours be good enough? [ he still remembers those gay feelings, ok ] Is it really a good thing to remind him of that place?
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also both of these are such complicated questions, the first one even moreso? how does one say to an acquaintance that actually, she has a very good hunch that Dokja feels nothing but sorrow and pain every time he looks at her? her very good hunch stemming from the fact that she's been emotionally bonded to two idiots for close to a month now?
the easiest way would be not to mention it at all. there's no leak, nothing she lets slip. but maybe that complete absence of emotion is an answer in of itself.]
...I don't know anything about what that guy went through. [so maybe it's actually a terrible idea to remind him,] I don't know the people he was close to or the dumb mistakes he must have made, and as much as I'd like to...
[...hmmmmrnngh, explaining hard. and she calls herself a writer...]
I know that it's a huge pain to have to tell someone all of that. It's way easier to just be around someone who already knows.
[And it's not like Eustace forgot everything, she's pretty sure. Just the stuff with her. thanks eustace.]
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Even if Dokja's problems sound way bigger than any one man should have to deal with. Hmm. ]
I don't know most of the good things he went through.
[ It shouldn't be embarrassing to admit that, but there's still something depressing about saying 'yeah, I was only ever present for the bad times in a guy's life'. Maybe he should have tried to be less of a miser and a grouch every time he met up with Dokja??
But as far as he's aware, all of the good people who could have supported Dokja are noticeably absent. Highstorm and Springstar are both big cities, true, but he's pretty sure he would have heard that loud obnoxious voice by now. He's pretty sure they would have managed to find each other if he had been present.
It's unfortunate, because Abel had always been the best of them.
Ugh. This is all so complicated. ]
Do you know where he's staying in Springstar? Dokja.
[ Fine, he can pretend to be nice for a whole day and make sure Dokja hasn't up and puked on some other guy in the meantime. :/ ]
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While HSY is absolutely a secretive binch, she doesn't hesitate in answering,]
A building called the Tribune in Heliopolis. It's the tallest tower in the city.
[It's the next part that she takes her time with,]
Use my name if you run into any annoying people. [aka yjh] You can say that I asked you to bring something.
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Also, the fact that she's specifically mentioning annoying people is like a tiny red flag in his mind. ]
Are there specific annoying people I should be worried about?
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[
DID THIS GUY FORGET YJH.... Or maybe they never met in Horos...? ...No, if he bumped into Dokja, then he must have bumped into Joonghyuk too.]
Do you recognize the name Yoo Joonghyuk?
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Tall, likes wearing black, never smiles?
[ technicaly that could also be applied to him if he just looked in a mirror but yanno ]
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Yeah, that's him.
[her relief lasts for all of .5 seconds, immediately overridden by her indignation at being the only one Eustace forgot? wow... is she really his favorite orv huh or was that a LIE]
When did you guys meet?
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We fought in the caverns when I first arrived. You weren't here for that.
[ actually i forgot about this because i redacted certain people from my mind but that's fine, i remember now. ]
We met again at the Kenoma headquarters after the shrines became active again, but he didn't seem to remember me.
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Oh, right. I heard that he was here before.
[thinking.........]
I guess it's a good thing the same thing didn't happen to you. [WHY DOES SHE SAY THIS SO GRUDGINGLY]
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but wow..........hsy really does care π₯Ίπ₯Ίπ₯Ί ]
Worried about me?
[ haha just kidding, as if anyone would actually care about him ]
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It'd be a pain if you forgot me again.
[h-hmph, she doesn't care, b-baka.]
So don't disappear or get amnesia or whatever, or I'll make you regret it.
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