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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[almukhtar]

( The voice sounds... very tired. But he has a lot of passion for the topic, and so. ) An honest conversation is always the first point of action, I find.

[blitzcheer]

[ hahahaha he's saying this is for a friend!!! CLASSIC.

Tidus has the decency to wait for the chuckles to leave him, and then he comes onto the ICP, smiiiling, but very normal, thank you!! ]

Sooo, your friend - or friends. They know you're talking about this? 'Caaaause, [ eheh, ] you're kinda talking to the entire train right now.

[ Just.

You know.

Pointing it out!!! ]

[flatteries]

...

[ There's a small pause even after Inigo starts the feed on his end, like he's hesitating. Then he leans closer to the screen - you know, as if the whole train can't see or hear this regardless of his proximity to it - and lowers his voice to say: ]

Were you.. thinking of doing the whole dating thing after all? [ Guess who's misunderstanding.

Because no one actually ever asks that for a friend!! (Hello, Jingyi, it's your single-braincelled friend..) ]

With who?

[calmness]

While I know that this is an attempt to support a certain friend, Jingyi, you have also just turned a personal situation which is likely uncomfortable for both parties into the gossip of the train.

[calm but stern, the next words are followed by a soft, tired but amused sigh.]

Be mindful.

[thawed_pride]

[He's not the only one who's exhausted. Vexen is holding his head in his hand, elbow propped against whatever surface is convenient for leaning on.]

Should it not be the meaning it held in the illusion that carries the significance? After all, that is the meaning that informed the choices made, and it would be quite harsh to judge them based upon other expected implications.

Though, for what it is worth, I do understand the awkwardness that comes from certain...choices being made while deprived of context that would normally make a difference.

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[agoodsoul]

[Dennis is actually a wee bit miffed as it doesn't take a rocket scientist, at least for him in this context, to connect the dots.]

Could just talk to them.

[Like is any of this really any business for the rest of the train, as vague as it is for most people.]

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[wenyuan]

[His friend? Well, Jingyi has many friends. It could be about any of them. Or himself. He listens anyway, eyes widening when he realizes who he's talking about]

Ah? Didi is dating someone?

[paopuofyourlife]

Hmmm... [Was she actually think or was this a case of just prolonging an answer. One will never know.]

I think its one of those times where talking is a good thing. I think a lot can be solved doing that even if it's hard.

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[foxyou]

[Is it possible to recognize him if he does voice only and uses his adult form? Is there even a reason to bother? Maybe he just feels like being tall today, okay?

His tone of voice is kind of cold as he speaks, regardless.]

If there is a misunderstanding, it should be most definitely be cleared before anything else. Leaving things as they are without an explanation can only lead to pain and broken friendships, if not now then sometime in the future. And if both parties are amenable to this 'dating' thing, then what does it matter whether or not it was allowed in another world? Unless you believe the rules enforced in your homeland should be applied to the rest of the universe as well?