video | merriment 15

[jingyeets]

( Jingyi anchored, and thus he's still tired. Very tired. Flopping between areas and people to nap with kind of tired. It hasn't resolved yet, and he hates that, but he can't let him not get around to important questions.

Which is why he's on camera as crossed legs only, laying down on the bench with the ICP swiveled his direction. It's almost like he's shy... but no, he's not, he's just exhausted. )

Everything was a mess and all of us there had strange illusion things to deal with before things went really bad, but I have a question. About my friend.

( A pause. He does, in fact, literally mean this about a friend. )

Say he was in a situation where... certain boundaries were willingly crossed, but what it meant in the illusion was different from what it means outside of the illusion. And explaining what that means and how it's different is kind of important to the one they were crossed with.

( For both sides, but he's more worried about his friend than he is the other guy, for various biased reasons he has no regrets over. )

How do you handle when people here do casual things with 'dating,' but I'm from—he's from—a place where you definitely don't?

Comments

[thawed_pride]

Well, that makes it either more or less awkward...but it sounds as though it is a conversation that needs to be had, and sooner rather than later.

[He stifles a yawn and a grumble.]

Otherwise, you risk having to give that explanation in the wake of said boundaries being inadvertently pushed.

[jingyeets]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

( He grunts, the effort it takes to sit up being momentarily monumental. Then he's sitting and on screen, plopping his elbow on the table and resting his chin in his palm. )

Or pushed again. My friend doesn't need that, there's enough to figure out. And the other person, I dunno, whatever they're figuring out too, part of it has to be this.

[thawed_pride]

I can only imagine it would be worse should this other person attempt something your friend was comfortable with in that moment, but is not comfortable with now that they recall their true background.

That said... [He rubs at his face in a clear effort to muster some focus through his exhaustion.] I think all but the most urgent of difficult conversations can wait until we have managed some significant recovery from our exertions on Diagad.

[jingyeets]

( He has the biggest sigh at this, because he agrees, and rolls his eyes after he's done sighing, because he knows he agrees. )

Gonna have to. Keep falling asleep...

[thawed_pride]

You are not alone in that. It is a not inconsiderable force of will to simply stay awake long enough to manage some number of at least semi-productive hours.

[jingyeets]

... You're actually getting hours? At one time?

( A scoffing wheeze of envy, over this way. )

This has been worse than healing from major injury.

[thawed_pride]

Coffee and stubbornness can do wonders. I am hardly a stranger to working through exhaustion. Although, I must admit that I cannot recall ever having been quite this worn out, except perhaps in the aftermath of our efforts to repel a demonic incursion some months past...

[jingyeets]

Ooooh...

( let that process for a moment. )

... You fought demons months ago and I only got dragged here for illusion world?!

( this is not the right conclusion. it is, however, the very tired one that's decided on being somewhat absurdly annoyed. train, what the heck! )