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huntress mingle

Who: Huntress residents + visitors
Broadcast: if you want!
Action: Huntress
When: until the next one? /o/

[Crew comes, crew goes! Half of them are invisible but that's normal at this point.

It's a mingle! Enjoy it!]

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[ He knew it took them a while - mostly because he kept picking fights with them, but, you know, sometimes it's like that - and he finally smiles properly, deliberately not looking at the box. ]

Yeah. I kinda embarrassed the hell outta Sorey, though. He said you guys had never really had a dad before.

[...dad, huh... so that's how it is now. And it's interesting to him that Zaveid doesn't balk from the idea the way Lailah did about being called motherly. Is it just that he's being his usual, casual self, or did he want this? Before arriving here, he might have said the former, but after learning his history? It's less of a certainty, and worth thinking about for sure. But... perhaps not overthinking. Sometimes it's okay to just accept at face value.

For now- he scoffs, arms crossing over his chest.]

Well, naturally. As children if we were to ever imagine having a dad, he'd be far more responsible and mature...

[ Maybe, if he hadn't been fatherly before, if he had never had the experience, he would've fled from it, run and hid from the idea of it. Instead, it's something a little nostalgic, something welcome, a feeling that he knows and recognises from his past, and he relishes it instead. He welcomes the idea because family has been foreign to him for a long time, his self-inflicted exile coming from the loss of Eizen and his own promise.

He snorts in return, shaking his head and gazing over at Mikleo with a small smile. ]

That's rude! You need a fun guy when you've got some strict moms, y'know!

That's far too unbalanced. Gramps let us have plenty of fun when the time was right, but with someone like Sorey, you have to know when to put your foot down, or he'll get himself pitched off a cliff or something. And he won't clean his room.

[wait are they supposed to call him Dad or something

.......

NOPE, NOPE THAT'S TOO WEIRD]

Yeah, we've already been there.

[ Wait, um.

Did Mikleo know about that?

Maybe not. Oh well. ]

It's fine, since I'm not really your dad. I don't have to play by the rules.

Mm... I suppose. What's important is how we feel, more than titles or behaviour or anything like that.

[the implication being: he feels the same way, and he's okay with this.]

[and then, after a beat of silence-]

But if you ever get him to jump off a cliff again, you're both disowned.

[YEAH ABOUT THAT]

Yeah, exactly.

[ But, urk, uh, he looks awkward. ]

I didn't make him jump off anything!

[LEANS IN]

So there was cliff-jumping!

Uh... [ Eheh... ] Wall climbing.

Which led to falling, based on your own admittance just now.

[you're not gonna talk your way out of this one, dad.]

But nothing happened! I caught him.

Of course you caught him. That isn't the point.

[it's hard enough keeping Sorey alive sometimes, he doesn't need to be encouraging more reckless behaviour.]

Look. He either went climbing with me to keep an eye on him or he went climbing alone. Which one's better?

You are not going to get me to agree with you.

[HE DOESN'T LIKE EITHER WHEN IT INVOLVES FALLING OFF CLIFFS]

Even if it meant we ended up armatizing for the first time?

[ C'MOOOOOOOON ]

[Oof, yeah.]

...I'm glad. It's taken a long time, but... I think he's back on track with all of us again.

[the road to healing is long and painful, and it's far from over. but armatization is, for them, a very big step. the rest is more gradual.]

... Yeah. I think so. He's... Really trying hard, huh.

[ He can feel it, the more time they spend together, like a tug on his soul. ]

I'm not surprised- it isn't like Sorey to give up. He fought it for as long as he could, but sooner or later he always comes around. He's stubborn like that.

[It could get pretty tiring sometimes, growing up with that. Still, he couldn't be more proud at this point. Together they've proven that it's possible to overcome this.]

We went through something shitty, but... I guess we all went through it together. None of us were ever gonna leave someone behind.

[ He remembers Sorey messaging him, saying so many things that gave Zaveid strength, and he recognises the depth of his own commitment to him as a result. They're a family. ]

Yeah, that sounds like something a family would do.

[and they were a family before all of this, whether they said it or not. In the end this tried to tear them apart and just made them stronger.

It still hurts, but he's okay with that.]

... Yeah. I guess it kinda does.

[ They've been a family for a long time, he thinks, they just haven't been saying it. ]

Ugh. You made me sappy.

Please, like you haven't always been sappy. You're not even good at hiding it.

[he is a bit. it took them a good while to get to know his method of sap, but he really is a sucker for emotional connections when he lets himself have any.]