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Bishop Mingle!

Who: Everyone on the Bishop!
Broadcast: none!
Action: Bishop!
When: Anywhere from 3/15 til the end of the month!

[Welcome to the Bishop. We have rave lights.]

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[He tries to nod against her, but he's not sure it translates. He needs a couple of minutes to calm down this time, but at least he's on his way to doing so. The only people who ever saw him do what he did, he never really talked to about it. If he pauses, if he's sad for just a second... they always make contact, comfort him, bring him back to the real world.

[By now, Ino is just as capable of picking up on the signs. He's never told anyone about what he almost did. What he tried to do. What he almost became.

[Ino is the first, and the only one Hiro intends to cry about it to.]

[ This is good! She's just quiet as he makes his way back to calm.

And yeah, she can tell that was the first time he had ever tried to talk about it. Your secret is safe with her, Hiro -- don't worry. Though if this Callaghan guy ever does show up, she is really going to give him what for ... ]

You wanna know what my dad said to me, the day I came back from my sensei being killed?

[He makes just a little noise, but it's a grant for her continue. Yeah, he wants to know, he just doesn't trust words to come out just yet.]

He told me -- when something bad happens to you, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, you can let it destroy you .... or you can let it strengthen you.

You picked the third one, Hiro. [ She grasps his shoulders ] It might have been a bumpy road getting there ... hell, it's still gonna be bumpy, if Atroma has anything to say about it.

But I know a lot of people who have faced a situation like yours before, and they didn't have it in them to pick that third choice. They let that death become a part of them. They let it turn them into something that they never wanted to become. You know better than to let that happen. And I'm so, so proud of what you've become, despite everything.

[he finally actually looks at her, and this is the teariest smile he's ever given anyone, because hearing that... is really exactly what he needed. someone who wasn't hurt by tadashi's death telling him he did it right. someone who wasn't affected... the only thing more comforting to him would be tadashi's approval of his choices himself.

[he wipes at his eyes some more.]

... Thanks, Ino... I'm sorry I'm such a mess right now.

[ She smiles back, and offer him a hanky from her pocket. LMAO. ]

If you think this is a mess, you should see when I cry. Furniture and walls get smashed.

[ It's true, but ... also a joke, to lighten the mood a little ... ]

... You know, I can't say that surprises me.

[he sniffs, and it's kind of awful. he refuses the hanky, though; he'd rather get his own stuff snotty.]

I'd hate to be the guy who cheats on you. I say "the" because no one else would ever be stupid enough after that.