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[insightful-mother]

"What am I going to be for Halloween? Easy."

"An office worker who is very much aware of life's disappointments and torment."

Oh, so that's where Neku gets it from.

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50 Dialogue Prompts

“It’s really not that complicated.”

“Close the door.”

“It’s three in the morning.”

“I should have told you a long time ago.”

“Why are you helping me?”

“You have to leave right now.”

“Just trust me.”

“I’ve been waiting a long time.”

“You’re in love with her.”

“Come here.”

“We could get arrested for this.”

“What are you thinking about?”

“I thought you were dead.”

“You’re never going to let that go, are you?”

“Was that supposed to hurt?”

“I can explain.”

“Love is overrated.”

“Watch me.”

“I’ve missed this.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“Sometimes, being a complete nerd comes in handy.”

“I don’t owe you an explanation.”

“We have to be quiet.”

“You’re trembling.”

“I want an answer, goddammit!”

“It was you the whole time.”

“Tell me again.”

“This is why we can’t have nice things.”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

“You don’t see me.”

“I can’t keep kissing strangers and pretending that they’re you.”

“You could have died.”

“Prove it.”

“I might never get another chance to say this.”

“Do you regret it?”

“Tell me I’m wrong.”

“Lie to me then.”

“You’ve thought about this, haven’t you?”

“We need to talk about what happened last night.”

“I never stood a chance, did I?”

“I feel like I can’t breathe.”

“I’m only here to establish an alibi.”

“Are you drunk?”

“I still remember the way you taste.”

“How much of that did you hear?”

“What happens if I do this?”

“Why are you whispering?”

“You make me want things I can’t have.”

“I don’t want to screw this up.”

“People are staring.”

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Her arms cross and she frowns as she stares down at the other, her eyes narrowed as she swore she knew this person....But where?

It was the face that had caught her attention, something about the other was striking a chord in her that she had run into them somewhere. But where?

Emi couldn't recall, but the longer she studied the other....It had to be the face. However something was throwing her off that finally she sighed, closing her eyes and relaxing her posture before shaking her head.

"Sorry...I really thought I knew you, sorry if the staring bothered you," Emi finally spoke up with a weak smile, "I try to remember people I speak to a lot...Part of my job." Socializing with clients was so normal for her....Perhaps she just met the other in passing? Either way even with her 'sharp' eyes, Emi knew the limit of how long a simple glance to a full on stare was rude. Instead she glanced at the display of jewelry, taking in each piece before speaking up again.

"Actually I'm here with a friend...She begged me to accompany her and I'm trying to broaden my horizons in doing other activities aside from just work and staying home. Also I'm here on a bit of an errand for a someone my son knows. I was asked to find something she liked," Emi offered a soft chuckle, "If it's not too much trouble to ask, did you make all of these? If so you're very talented."

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"O-oh...! Uh, n-no, I don't think so..."

God, of all the times to be caught like this...! Yes, he remembered her, though thank god it was only a brief meeting. Miss... Sakuraba, if he remembered correctly. Il Cavallo had hired her to create some promotional material for their brand, and since his store was going to be the site of the promotion, he had been put in charge of handling everything. He'd met with her, had several lunches with her while the two of them worked on the designs for the promotional ads and which pieces would be at the forefront, had shown her around the shop and the products she would be promoting. God, he had spent an ample amount of time with her during those meetings, and his spine was frozen from the thought of it.

But that had been in his usual attire, perfectly presentable and well within what the public would expect of him. He never would have thought he would have found her here of all places, in the middle of a convention at a booth where he was selling his homemade jewelry based on a number of different series he was watching and new the public enjoyed. And... dressed as a woman... How embarrassing. How mortifying if there was even a slight chance that she might recognize him. How absolutely awful! He'd be ruined! Why was she here!? Was this a job? Was she an otaku or something!?

But he tried to have faith in his own abilities. Because while he hadn't pitched his voice up to a ridiculous extent, he certainly didn't sound like he normally would in the shop, and his makeup was absolutely impeccable, and judging from the compliments he'd been receiving all day he'd done a good job of portraying the woman he had decided to cosplay as.

God. Oh god, he prayed he didn't get recognized...

"B-but since you're here," he perked up and tried to turn her attention away from himself and more to his wear, "what do you think about buying some jewelry? It's just the kind of subtle merch you would be able to wear out in public spaces. Er, if you're trying to hide it from your family anyway."

#Verse: Shibuya's PRESENT #networkscrambled #((It's all good! #IfeelikeI'veseenitsomewhere #And you're welcome! I love having interact with your muses #And as usual happy to be writing with youuuu!!))

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"...Thank you for that. Really," she remarked as she stole a glance back at him.

The smile on her face growing before she felt a familiar nudge in the back of her mind to memorize her 'brother's' current position. When she got home she would probably sketch out what she saw...The sudden increase of creating hadn't gone without notice for her.

She felt much like she had before when she was a teenager, no holding back when she let her creative streak go wild and flowed naturally. The hold over her doing it just for work purposes was no longer the first reason to picking up her sketchbook and pencils.

Emi laughs a little before turning back to her sun, her hand shaking the can lightly before putting her mask back on.

"Jeez...I feel like a kid again doing this, but without me whining about paint fumes," she admits to him as she slowly began to form a line underneath her sun a few spaces down, "Have you figured out what you want to do? Or are you fine watching me just paint Sanae?"

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Hanekoma sat behind and somewhat above her, perched on top of a vending machine that had broken down ages ago and had been discarded back here with some other odds and ends. He'd delighted in watching Emi work, when he had really taken the time to seek her out and do so, and today was no exception. Even just from a cursory glance he could see that something was finally starting to transform within her, and it was some growth that he liked to see. He wanted to watch her really spread her wings, and maybe something nice would come of that.

"Sure it does," he replied, chipper himself. He'd been taking care of himself, and he'd been a little brighter lately. "Sounds to me like you're just about ready to start living your life again. Ya got a taste of it now, and you can almost see those words beyond your current horizon, can't ya? It's good to expand your world, Sunshine. I'll be here to help ya out if you're worried about it."

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“But of course,” Rindo hummed in return. “I don’t mind taking you to the station. I just assumed since I’m here I might as well. And anyway, it’s the gentlemanly thing to do. It’s been a pleasant evening, I’m glad to have gotten a chance to meet you. You’re a very interesting person, Miss Sakuraba.”

As they completed their meal, Rindo quietly took the check and paid in full. He really felt like he’d sort of wasted Emi’s time with all of this, and he didn’t want to inconvenience her more than necessary. He’d just had to be absolutely sure she didn’t get more information than she should have by picking up his phone like that. And since she seemed safe from the knowledge of non-humans he was happy to let her go back to her oblivious life.

Both for people like her, and for everyone else in the world, Rindo wanted to be sure to keep the non-humans as far away as possible. He wanted to ensure they were protected no matter what, that they could go on smiling and living their comfortable lives.

After his card was returned to him, Rindo saw Emi out of the restaurant and back to his car. He knew he would likely never see her again after this, but he was happy with that anyway. He didn’t really need to be making friends when he had so much he had to keep secret and when his work could be so dangerous. He didn’t want many people missing him should something happen. He didn’t want to drag anyone into danger. So he drove her back to the station content in knowing he’d likely never see her again.

Well… Unless he ever did go check out this Wildkat Cafe…

She can’t help the chuckle that leaves her, “Thank you...I’ve been told that often enough.”

Her eyes are careful to not quite hold contact too long with his, keeping their conversation at best minimal with no need for either of them to dig further into their personal lives to share. Which is the safest in the end....

Because she might not ever cross paths with him again, she rarely left Shibuya unless on business and even then she seemed content in staying where she was. This encounter would probably only be a faded memory unless of course he showed up somewhere she would be.

#Verse: Shibuya's PRESENT #enchantedbrew #((And end! #For now :3 ))

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Perfection: woman in suit.

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"...Even if you ran away and had a chance to allow yourself to fall prey into that false sense of security in hiding, it won't allow you to grow. You're hiding...Eventually you will have to face what you run from, your demons, your fears....It won't be an easy journey, facing something like that is never easy, but..."

"...You're not exactly alone."

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"...It's always Halloween for me."

Seeing the UG seemed the case...

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🌻 - I see 'Wonderland' on anything or see it as an aesthetic, I'm screwed. I love Alice in Wonderland so much.

🌻 - The one thing I love about theater is interpreting plays and also getting a chance to also do symbolism in your own way. I guess the best way to explain it is how to consider staging, costumes, how characters act....I really love that. I remember a project where my professor had us choose a play we studied and told us to go ham on how we'd like to have it done onstage. I chose A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and had it where one stage there would be a little puppet stage and Nora would be portrayed as a puppet while everyone else was normal until the end where she emerges out from behind the puppet theater.

🌻 - I only attempted to skip school once, it was during lunch and I was sneaking behind two older friends of mine-I was a freshman and they were juniors-before stopping right at the fence that would lead us out....And bawling my eyes out. My friends were super nice and just took me back inside the school and helped calm me down. They stayed my friends and didn't hold it against me. I hid a lot in the library during lunch so they'd stay there a little before skipping.

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🌻 - If I had to assign a Sanrio character for Emi, it'd be Kuromi.

🌻 - So....I beat the very first TWEWY....In the lobby of my dentist. No joke, I was fighting the final boss and I won the fight just as they called my name. I begged one of my brothers to go ahead of me first so I could watch the cutscene.

🌻 - A middle school friend had Sho's catchphrase as her ringtone, and she had no idea I was playing the game. When I heard 'So zetta slow' during her birthday dinner at a Hibachi place I jumped up so fast in my chair with panic on my face. She was so amused by my reaction until we both went quiet and sighed because we HATED his fight.

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Rainy nights in Tokyo, Japan. 

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❝  have you even taken the time to let yourself feel it?  everything that’s been happening.  eventually,  you have to slow down and let it feel real.  ❞

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She stares at the wall in front of her, can in hand as she tugs at her mask a bit as she stares at the half finished piece. Emi had enacted from her previous promise and had taken a very lengthy vacation to really think over what she wanted for herself. Her work hadn't, for once, bothered her in the past three days and there had been an odd sensation of both confusion and relief.

Usually she would be bothered, but with preparation and knowledge that her team could handle everything....Emi had been left unbothered. It was such a strange sensation to just...Not be worried.

Instead she had picked up on her old ways in art, more sketches and now as promised with Hanekoma going to spot and tagging a rather rare empty wall. They had been working in half silence and a few exchanges with smiles, but his words hit her a lot as she stared.

It had been years since she a spray can and just...Went with a flow she hadn't felt in a while. The paint she had used forming a sun, the rays flaring out into shades of reds, golds and oranges....In a way she could feel the warmth, not overbearing heat like the real sun. Emi really had no real intention of creating a sun, but thinking about how happy she had been lately and how her days seem brighter without so much worries.

"....I guess I felt...Happier," she admits after standing in silence, "Like my days aren't heavier with something. There's a new way to look at my life now after meeting others just like me or who I let in instead of just being fleeting about it." Emi glances over at him, shrugging, "Does...That make sense? It's really the first thing that popped up without being shoved away from my other thoughts."

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CONVERSATIONAL  SENTENCE  STARTERS  

❝  you wanna know how i know you’re a good friend— not just for me but in general?  i always feel better after hanging out with you.  ❞

❝  sometimes things aren’t alright and they’re not gonna be okay for a while.  and that’s alright.  as cliche as it sounds it’s okay to not be okay.  give yourself time.  ❞

❝  have you even taken the time to let yourself feel it?  everything that’s been happening.  eventually,  you have to slow down and let it feel real.  ❞

❝   i’m not really the advice type,  but i am damn good at coming up with distractions to forget the bullshit for a while.  ❞

❝  was this not what you expected?  ❞

❝  i think the whole idea of ‘finding yourself’ is kind of bullshit.  we are what we chose to be.  we make ourselves.   ❞

❝  did you come by for a reason or did you just want some company?  ❞

❝  i’m going to tell you this,  once,  because i think you need to hear it.  you deserve more.  you should expect more from the world and put in the work to get what you deserve.  ❞

❝  i brought some seeds for your garden.  i thought about bringing a bouquet but— this way you can grow them and enjoy them longer.  ❞

❝  please,  stay for dinner?  i enjoy your company.  ❞

❝  come sit a little while with me.  tell me how you’ve been?  really.  ❞

❝  you don’t know how glad i am to see you made it.  here,  let me get you a drink.   ❞

❝  if you’d like to discuss it in private,  we can step outside?  ❞

❝  whatever it is you wish to tell me,  it won’t leave this room.  ❞

❝  well,  i’ve been wanting to talk to you.  but i don’t really know how to put it all in words.  ❞

❝  how have you been sleeping?  ❞

❝  don’t take this the wrong way,  but you don’t quite look well.  ❞

❝  don’t feel bad for not knowing—  i was trying not to bother anyone.  you didn’t know because i didn’t let you.  ❞

❝  miscommunication is a shitty trope in sitcoms and it’s even shittier in real life,  so let’s just take a moment to breathe.  and let’s get on the same page.  alright?   ❞

❝  is this a time for me to listen or fix it?  ❞

❝  i don’t really have anything to say,  i just know that i don’t really want to be alone.  ❞

❝  could you just…talk to me?  it doesn’t have to be anything important.  i just like listening to your voice.  it calms me.  ❞

❝  honestly,  it was a long time ago.  i don’t really remember the details.  ❞

❝  i’m rather proud of you.  i don’t say that often,  so believe i mean it.  ❞

❝  you seem content here.  happy,  even?  ❞

❝  i’m not here to drudge up the past.  i’m just hoping we could have a future.  ❞

❝  i see you’re not getting much sleep either.  should i make us both some tea,  then?  ❞

❝  are you sure you didn’t want to mention something to me?  ❞

❝  are you sure you’re alright?  ❞

❝  i’m a fan of your work,  actually.  ❞

❝  you have more of a reputation than you might think.  ❞

❝  you haven’t heard of me?  how refreshing.  ❞

❝  go on,  tell me what’s on your mind.  ❞

❝  something is troubling you,  yes?  ❞

❝  with a smile like that,  i can’t help but want to know your secret.  what’s got you so cheery today?  ❞

❝  come on,  you’re clearly upset.  and i’m not the asshole who pretends not to notice.  ❞

❝  oh,  i’m going to enjoy making my first impression with you.  how am i doing so far?  ❞

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