[homophonic] catchall for rin

[dendroculi]

RIN

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week 0, monday, the mean streets

[damp]

[ Seeing Nahida near the dangerous traffic of Japanifornia, Rin just lifts her up. ]

Hey! Be careful!

[dendroculi]

[she dangles in the air]

...umm... thank you?

[this is just her life now]

[damp]

[ i'm sorry nahida... he sets her down a safe distance from the road ]

Are you alone?

[dendroculi]

[my html no]

I'm out for a walk... is there a problem?

[damp]

[ i didn't eve notice... ]

No! No. I just thought... [ he can't ask if she has parents since they're all dead, so... what to do?? ] You looked... lonely...?

[dendroculi]

...

[oh, she thinks she sees what's happening here.]

Hehe. If you're worried, would you like to join me on my walk?

[damp]

[ he relaxes a little ]

Yeah, I could use the exercise.

[ holds his hand out for her to take ]

[dendroculi]

[she takes his hand!]

Where would you like to go?

[damp]

I was just exploring.

[ He looks thoughtful. ]

I'm trying to find some flowers.

week 0, friday ... 2

[dendroculi]

[nahida is extremely unhappy with this turn of events.

...but it's not like there aren't other people who will be upset about this, too. hikari had been with rin before they all got locked in, after all; they must have been friends. so, after a little bit of time to process the notification they've all received, she goes to look for him.

she finds him in the park.]

Rin...?

[damp]

[ Rin looks pretty pathetic sitting in the park. He's not crying, but he looks like he wants to me.

He tries to shove that down when he notices Nahida though, looking over at her. ]

Nahida. [ ... ] I'm sorry.

[dendroculi]

I'm sorry, too.

[she reaches for his hand, because it is still touch week.]

...he was your friend. This must be so hard.

[damp]

[ OH HELP there he goes tearing up again ]

Wh- no. I only spoke to him a couple of times. You two were on a team...

[ squeezes her hand though ]

[dendroculi]

[...she squeezes his hand back.]

That - that just means we can bring him back if my team earns enough points. We'll work extra hard for his sake.

[damp]

... You can? [ He looks surprised. ] Matsui told me it wasn't a guarantee that if you were erased, you'd return even if your team won.

[dendroculi]

It's not a guarantee, but it's a possibility. The Reaper I spoke to said it wasn't the default, but that if it could happen, it would take a lot of points.

...so it's a possiblity I'm not willing to give up on.

[damp]

[ His shoulders slump slight in relief. ]

That... that's a relief. It's not over then.

week 0, monday

[dendroculi]

[here they are at the museum, where nahida lives now!

...all jokes aside, she is looking at the exhibits. right now, she's stopped in front of a display of what looks like an old-timey liquor store. there are two men behind the counter: one who is mixing a drink, and one who is drinking straight from the bottle. the man mixing a drink is very tall and wearing a top hat.

she's examining the informational plaque that accompanies it.]

Hmm... there was a man named Abraham Lincoln, who was the president of a country. But he was also a licensed bartender, before he was president... it says here that he opened a liquor store named "Berry and Lincoln" with a friend of his, but the store had to close down after his friend, a raging alcoholic, consumed most of the shop's supply.

[thank you, article of 125 weird history facts.]

[damp]

[ He snorts, pausing before laughing a little more openly at the story. ]

That's terrible... How didn't he notice his friend was drinking so much?

[dendroculi]

That's a good question. Maybe his friend did it while he was out of the shop, and tried to pass off the missing stock as just having been sold to customers?

[damp]

Could be.

[ crosses his arms ]

And sometimes, we're just blind to the faults of our loved ones too.

[dendroculi]

I guess so...

[nahida



can kind of relate to that. she supposes. maybe. just a little.]

[damp]

[ ... ]





... I was just kidding. I don't think that's actually what happened.

[ wow is gerard really funnier than him? ]

[dendroculi]

...oh. I'm sorry for not getting it.

[sometimes you get in your own head about things because (redacted i don't remmeber if you know sumeru archon quest spoilers)]

[damp]

[ i don't know a single thing about genshin i promise you ]

... It's okay! Have you been here a while?