We close our eyes and the world has turned around again

[rassera]

WHO: Nonah #005, the people they associate with (YOU!)
WHERE: Nonah 05 and surrounding area
WHEN: All throughout May!
WHAT: General Catch all for the Month of May
WARNINGS: Tetsuo. The Iron Bull. Ken at times. The Air Gears are still there. HAZEL. Mark threads accordingly!

Links to specific starters will be below! If you want to thread anything out with a specific character, feel free to do it there!

TOP LEVELS:
KANEDA - TETSUO - HAZEL - KOMASAN

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[rassera]

[If Kaneda were a dog, all the hairs on his back would've stood up at that word. It's the word he was never able to say: not to Tetsuo, not to Ken, not to...anyone. A word that kept getting caught in his throat and shoved back down no matter how many times he tried to express it.


So when she says it, and says it so EASILY...


He can't help but stare at her, wide eyed.


Unfortunately, that gives her the answer she was looking for, even if he didn't say anything.]

[lasthugs]

...

[Oh, Kaneda. Cass tilts her head.]

Not a thought you're used to, huh?

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...


[His eyes look away.]


It doesn't happen to guys like me.


[Whatever he's feeling...it can't be THAT, right?]

[lasthugs]

Yeah?

And what kind of guy are you, then?

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Y..You know!

[He gestures to...nothing in particular, leaning against that counter as he tries to sort out the words in his head. How DOES he really explain what kind of guy he is?

Especially to Cass...]

The guy who's only there for a good time, you know? The one who's probably had--rreeeeeelations with more girls than days in a month.


[He sighs, defeated ever so slightly.]


A guy who met a girl who he's crazy for and doesn't know what the hell to do...

[lasthugs]

[Kaneda sighs, and Cass leans over, nudging his arm gently with her elbow.]

It happens to "guys like you" aaaall the time. Believe me -- I'm more than twice your age and I see hundreds of people every day.

Besides, it doesn't change that even if it might be an anomaly to you, it has happened, right? Maya comes at you with all her heart and earnestness. Maybe that was what got to you.

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...Yeah.

[It's honestly admitted, at least, that warm, daydream like smile returning to his face at the mention of her name.]


I would've never met anyone like her back home.

[lasthugs]

She's one of a kind.

[One hand reaches up to ruffle his hair.]

And so are you. You're good for each other.

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...


Heh. [His head tilts towards that touch, unable to really speak against that. After all, there was only one girl like Maya, he'd quickly found out.]

I don't think she'd say no, if I asked.


It's just doing it.

[lasthugs]

I think she would be more than happy to accept. You want it to be special?

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Sorta...


I don't know exactly why I can't. It just...won't come out.

[lasthugs]

...

Some words are hard to say. Sometimes, it's scary.

I don't think you have to rush yourself, or force it out. With a girl like Maya, I'm sure it'll find its voice.

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Ka--...Someone said I should say it so I don't regret it. You know...if she gets ported out.


[Which he honestly doesn't want to think about. Even if the reality of it is there.]

Guess that doesn't make it any easier....

[lasthugs]

Even if you rushed to say it now, Maya will know that you aren't comfortable.

Even if you think you said everything there is to say, if the time comes that you can't say any more, you'll always think, "I should have said this. I should have said that."

But... I think that's the same whether you have this Porter or not. I think what will reach Maya the best is anything that you are comfortable saying, that you can say the most sincerely.

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...

[That's the first time he's heard that one, casting his eyes towards her with newfound hope. Everyone had always put a time clock on him--when to say it, how to say it. They didn't say he had to do it THEN...just soon.

But this is the first time he's ever been told 'she'll understand'.]


Do you think she knows anyway?


So if I can't say it...

[lasthugs]

Has Maya ever judged you for what you said? Or what you were uncomfortable saying?

[She shrugs her shoulders, smile gentle and warm, her question just the same.]

Maya knows how to listen to people. Not just to what they say out loud. Even if you can't put it in those exact words, she will hear it in everything else you say, and anything else you do.

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...You're right.

[And there he goes, back into his dreamlike state, eyes looking off somewhere distant as he thinks it over. Maya would never do that to him, and he's even more stupid than she always says for thinking it.


Or maybe that's why she says he's stupid.]

Girls always know this stuff. I don't know how they do it.

[lasthugs]

Hey, we know a lot of things.

[She pats his arm, a firm, confident touch.]

Take it easy, champ. Maya's always got your back.