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?

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[jingyeets]

( Shame baby has learned, and shameless less-baby is simply glad he doesn't have another freakout on hand because by now Inigo is wise enough to exactly what happens when Jingyi shifts. At this point, Inigo probably won't even believe Jingyi has modesty, though he does, if it's not related to the necessities of nudity.

Which also means he shimmies out of boxers to turn, silvered with light, into a very familiar dragon, thumping down on the floor. He hooks his tail through said boxers and pauses before sinking his teeth into his hoodie: )

All dragon.

( Then drags his clothing toward his bed, leaping up and stashing them at the foot of said bunk. )

[flatteries]

[ "So, Inigo, what did you go to Jingyi's room for?"

"Oh, you know, just to turn him down and then he got naked in front of me."

This is his life now, apparently, because that imagined conversation sure is going through his head as he's sitting here, still with his hands tightly pressed to his face. Heck, even when the other gives him the clear sign, Inigo still removes his hands from his face with some great hesitation. As if the other might be pranking him, and Inigo will suddenly catch a sight of Jingyi's full moon butt.

But no, it seems like he truly is in the clear. Inigo lets out a sigh that has more relief in it than absolutely necessary, before starting to kick out his own shoes. He's not a total barbarian, he's not going to defile Jingyi's bunk with his shoes! ]

.. you know, you do look super cute and cuddly in this form.

[jingyeets]

( More like a partial eclipse, that tail does have a place right there, right? Right. Totally. Thankfully nothing Inigo needs to be worried about, since once he's back to using his eyes there is Jingyi still collecting and stashing the sleeves of his hoodie so it sits in a mostly folded pile there at the foot.

His ears flick at the sigh, one swiveling to track Inigo in particular while he turns and walks up the length of the bed toward the pillow. Inadequate pillow! He wants a proper one! He can... worry about ordering that sometime, maybe.

The cute and cuddly comment earns a slow turn of his head, staring at Inigo with very cute, very narrowed eyes. )

Appearances, ( he says, dryly, ) can be deceiving.

( Then, pointedly, uses his talons to primly pick up one corner of the blanket and slowly walk it back, deadass staring at Inigo. Here, friend. Trust the cute and cuddly one you ran over here to turn down and are now sleeping (platonically) with. There is... so much... ease in seeing how Inigo gets himself into trouble.

Poor guy. He's so glad his own (nonexistent) romantic life is cut and dry in comparison to everyone's he knows who aren't already married. )

[flatteries]

Please, Nah hasn't eaten me while I was sleeping yet, and she was bigger than you are in this form. I'll take my chances.

[ Not to mention that Nah actually did... threaten to eat him before... so if he can somehow soundly sleep near that, then surely he's not going to mind having a little cuddly dragon buddy here. Please. J-Just some platonic friend cuddling here, that's all that's going on, pals.

But with the blanket drawn back, Inigo moves to actually lie down on the bunk, trying to make himself comfortable. Then he pats his chest. ]

You know, you can just put your head here if you think that'd be more comfortable.

[ No homo here, bro.

Only bromo. ]

[jingyeets]

( Smol dragon that he is, he also looks visibly disgusted. )

Like I'd be a cannibal.

( Meanwhile as Inigo sets about making himself comfortable, Jingyi sits off to the side. It's only when it looks like Inigo has settled, and is patting his chest with all his pec pillow offers (no, but heartbeats are nice, generally speaking), Jingyi simply walks across said chest, curling himself back so that his midsection, head, and tail are all technically resting across some part of Inigo's torso. Draped instead of curling up just on his chest for a better spread of his weight. )

Slept in piles when younger. Now, when traveling.

( Saves on having to set up camps depending on where they're headed, and for what, and if they're on elder escort duties. )

[flatteries]

[ Inigo wasn't too sure if Jingyi would agree to the whole chest pillow thing, but.. now he actually has the dragon on his chest like this, it feels rather comfortable. Partially since the other has properly spread himself out, so he doesn't have to deal with all the weight in one spot, but also since it's just comforting to have something against him like that. Something warm, something living.

That feeling, coupled with Jingyi's whole piles remark, makes the corners of Inigo's lips tug up slightly as he tries to tug the blanket somewhat over them both. ]

.. think you can teach Tidus the wonders of pile sleeping for my sake?

[ He sounds like he's joking.

(U-Unless!) ]

[jingyeets]

( Whiskers twitching as the blanket's settled over them both, he hums a note of assent, sinking back toward exhausted quickly enough to know he'll drop into sleep again soon. )

Sure. 'M 'n excellent pile sleeper.

( Flexing the talons of one paw, he pats... probably Inigo's side? In what might be reassurance? Before the pat stops and he's leaving his eyes closed, his breathing steadying out. There's a big difference with having other people around, where you can hear their lungs and heart and feel their warmth, and it's less isolating, less alone: safer, on a level his whole life has taught him to trust.

It doesn't escape him that's usually because he's much, much bigger when doing this away from Gusu. When he was little, it was because the elders were around to ... okay this will just get sad, he decides, so instead he opts to turn off thinky thoughts, and simply lets his brain start drifting off to sleep. )

[flatteries]

[ .. cute.

He was right. Jingyi totally is cute in this form. Just a small cuddle dragon - and not even as grumpy or complainy when he's sleeping. (Though Inigo already knows by now that there's so much more to Jingyi. That the other can be so surprisingly nice and thoughtful when it matters, if today has proven anything to Inigo.

So he just smiles as he notices the other drifting off to sleep, gently wrapping his arms around the dragon to keep him close and warm.

Eventually he'll even close his own eyes for a moment, just to enjoy a quick nap as well. ]