[ the treehouse is easy for Kaden to find, especially with Sattsu's directions. but instead of going up to it, he stands down at the base. not that he's afraid of heights or anything, but he's just... he wants to make sure that this is the right place, that's all. ]
[ Sattsu had made sure that he'd be able to tell if he was coming, so he was sitting where he could hear his visitor coming. The door's already open, so he steps outside and leans over the railing. ]
[ thank goodness it's the right house. then again, it's... not that hard to find a treehouse? better safe than sorry--- ]
Coming up! [ slow and steady steps ascending up the stairs. ] Wow, this is pretty crazy. I think if I knew how to build one, I'd make one for my home back in Hoshido. We could see anyone approaching and maybe warn them first.
[ he's not really sure which room is Azuma's, but it shouldn't be that hard? especially as he picks one from random and... well. it's okay. even if he's wrong, he can still talk to Sattsu.
[ It's okay Kaden, Sattsu won't leave you to just guess, that would be rude. So while Kaden did get the wrong door, it was really close... it was the next one. ]
Yeah. I stayed over here and on Yin, Lin and Dio's balcony at first, then Azuma disappeared and I moved in here to take care of it.
[ The room Kadden did open the door too though? It looks like a hoarder's dream; full of useless stuff that's Sattsu has found, that he hopes doesn't smell too bad, but he has no way of knowing (it only smells moderately bad, luckily). ]
I'm sure Azuma would be happy that you're doing a pretty good job!
[ ugh. well, it's not half as bad as Keaton's random stuff that he left behind, but he tolerates it. misses him terribly, too. he wrinkles his nose, but he's mostly unaffected. ]
Hm... but maybe you should clean some of this up, you know? Keep the things you need!
[ whatever that may be. but he's happy to close the door and move to the next one, tail upright and swaying. ]
Okay.
[ he opens the closet and grabs as much as he can into his arms. ]
Do you have a tub? A source of water? I have some soap on me.
[ You're lucky Dio comes over sometimes and helps him tell what things smell like so he can make it smell better (to the best of his abilities). ]
I don't like throwing things away, so um. Dio helps me with it sometimes. But I'm sure most of it can be fixed! I just need to figure out how. Does it smell? I try to look at them to tell but you can't always see if something smells bad.
[ Most of the things are broken after all, and have thus been discarded by their original owners. It made him sort of sentimental. Be glad he doesn't dumpster dive, at least? He mostly goes for things just thrown away where people don't even bother putting it in the trash. There are a lot of broken porcelain, toys and clocks.
Given that he only owned two sets of clothing before Kaden helped him go shopping, there will be no issue for him to fit all of it in his arms at once. ]
Oh! Yeah, I do, there's a bathroom. Over here.
[ He leads the way. He's not in there a lot, only when he tries to wash his clothes, because he doesn't need the toilet and he hates looking at himself in the mirror.
He opens the door and lets him in. It's by far the room that's the least cluttered. There's some kitchen pots and pans with flowers planted in them though, and some things he tried to clean that were left to dry, but as a whole it's pretty empty. ]
[ with the load of laundry in his hands, he does his best to not stumble on anything on the ground. the flowers in the pots actually look pretty nice, they make the room a little brighter despite some of the clutter. with a smile he starts the tub, happy that the water still works, and turns to look at Sattsu as he starts to go through the clothes and make sure there's nothing valuable that could get wet. ]
Sometimes, it's not about getting things fixed. Some things can't be fixed.
[ once the tub is filled, he places a pink bar of soap into the water. ]
And yeah, it'd make life so much easier if you could just see if something had an odor, huh?
[ with his tail swishing back and forth, Kaden is happy to unceremoniously dump the clothes in, wiping his hands off as he does it. ]
[ Sattsu picks a little at the things he's got in the room, fiddling with the leaf of one of the plants, that's growing out of a broken radio. He needs to come out and say what he wants to say, it'd feel mean to have Kaden help him and THEN tell him how he feels. And he doesn't want to bring the mood down by giving himself as an example of broken things that can't be fixed, that would be terrible timing.
So he shifts from one foot to the other as he reminds himself where he put the box of (valentines) chocolate. Wait, it's in the kitchen. Just like the soap is, which he's pretty sure they'd need anyway... (he doesn't have laundry detergent) ]
Ah, wait, I'll go get the soap and, uh. Gimme a second.
[ He leaves the room, an embarrassed pink cloud of fog following him. The scent of lily-of-the-valley fill the bathroom before he leaves, though Sattsu can't notice.
A minute later he's back, trying to make the pink fog less noticeable but not noticing the flowers filling the room with their scent. He's holding the soap in one hand and a wrapped box in the other. With Hei's help he wrapped it as nicely as he was able. ]
So um, before you, uh, help me, I have something I wanna, uh, say...
[ he's oddly fidgety--- this is what Kaden thinks as he tests the water, looks at the state of the clothes. they're really not in bad shape, given how the rest of the treehouse looks? in a way, this makes him happy, that perhaps Sattsu was careful about taking care of gifted things. ]
Sure, sure.
[ the fog is a little alarming, but the scent that goes with it... it's relaxing. peaceful. it makes him wonder why such Sattsu is emanating such a smell as he leaves the room. this sticks in his mind as the Doll returns, holding that box and the soap and Keaton gently cocks his head to the side, ears twitching. ]
[ He does care about the things he's been given, no matter who it's from, but especially when it's from someone he thinks of as important. And in this world, the people most precious to him is Yin (who has become his sister throughout his time here) and Kaden.
The pink fog grows a bit more intense as he's finally going to say it, and he puts the soap on the sink for a moment, holding out the box. ]
I, uh, I'm, I'm in love with you!
[ He doesn't understand that most people start by saying they crush on someone, they don't go right to saying they're in love with them, so he goes all in into it.
...Please take the box because he's not sure how he's going to be able to say anything else until he knows Kaden's response, be it good or bad. ]
[ his ears immediately splay, his tail poofing up in a comical display--- its shape almost like a thick paintbrush. Kaden's face immediately turns pink as he tries to look ANYWHERE but Sattsu in order to hide it. that blush from being surprised, though in a good way. ]
You're in... love with me?
[ he... has to take the box, quietly opening it and checking its contents. it only makes Kaden's blush even more prominent as gentle pink lights start to blossom around him. ]
Sattsu, you're very sweet.
[ but as quickly as those lights appear, they fade. ]
That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time.
[ Sattsu stares at his feet, not sure what to do with his hands now that he's not holding on to the box with the chocolates he made for Kaden.
He nods. ]
Yeah, a lot.
[ He doesn't know what exactly Kaden's response so far means, but at least he didn't react badly to it, he thinks. He thinks he'd notice that, but he can't be sure, considering how new he is with love and those kind of things. ]
I um, made those for you. I mean, I got help of course, but, um, yeah.
[ Ah. So Kaden isn't in love with him too. At least, that's what he gathers from it. It would choke him up a bit if he were one to need breathing, but he accepts the hug instead.
It tears at his metaphorical heart a little bit, and it probably will do so more later, but that's okay. He's happy Kaden'd still want to be his friend even after this. He doesn't know how people usually react to being confessed to by someone they're not in love with in return after all, so this is... admittedly, a fairly okay reaction.
And he knows the chances of someone falling in love with a doll are pretty low. ]
[ he's certainly seen some dates, but has never gone on one himself. he and Keaton already felt similar about each other--- their life together was a lovely date. ]
A way they sort of... figure out if they have similar feelings!
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Date: 2018-04-02 05:02 pm (UTC)Sattsu?
[ hopefully he's loud enough. ]
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Date: 2018-04-02 05:43 pm (UTC)Hey!
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Date: 2018-04-04 02:15 am (UTC)Coming up! [ slow and steady steps ascending up the stairs. ] Wow, this is pretty crazy. I think if I knew how to build one, I'd make one for my home back in Hoshido. We could see anyone approaching and maybe warn them first.
[ or stop them. permanently. ]
No spiders, right?
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Date: 2018-04-04 10:30 am (UTC)[ He gets it Kaden, he was part of a war too. ]
Nope, not anymore. I kinda. Uh. I never figured out how to make them live really long so, uuuuuh.
[ You get it. ]
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Date: 2018-04-04 01:49 pm (UTC)[ yeah, that makes a little bit of sense. but at the same time, perfectly fine with that. ]
So. Where are your clothes? Do you want me to take care of them?
[ as he reaches the top, he lets out a sigh of relief. ]
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Date: 2018-04-04 08:20 pm (UTC)[ He's been so busy trying to figure out how to not back out of confessing that he forgot about that. He points and leads the way. ]
It's in Azuma's bedroom, in the closet. I try to take care of them but maybe you can check if I need to do better?
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Date: 2018-04-05 04:42 pm (UTC)[ he's not really sure which room is Azuma's, but it shouldn't be that hard? especially as he picks one from random and... well. it's okay. even if he's wrong, he can still talk to Sattsu.
oh well. he can also sate his curiosity, too. ]
Do you live by yourself in this house?
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Date: 2018-04-05 05:34 pm (UTC)Yeah. I stayed over here and on Yin, Lin and Dio's balcony at first, then Azuma disappeared and I moved in here to take care of it.
[ The room Kadden did open the door too though? It looks like a hoarder's dream; full of useless stuff that's Sattsu has found, that he hopes doesn't smell too bad, but he has no way of knowing (it only smells moderately bad, luckily). ]
In here.
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Date: 2018-04-07 04:50 pm (UTC)[ ugh. well, it's not half as bad as Keaton's random stuff that he left behind, but he tolerates it. misses him terribly, too. he wrinkles his nose, but he's mostly unaffected. ]
Hm... but maybe you should clean some of this up, you know? Keep the things you need!
[ whatever that may be. but he's happy to close the door and move to the next one, tail upright and swaying. ]
Okay.
[ he opens the closet and grabs as much as he can into his arms. ]
Do you have a tub? A source of water? I have some soap on me.
[ because he's always down for a bath. ]
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Date: 2018-04-09 11:57 am (UTC)I don't like throwing things away, so um. Dio helps me with it sometimes. But I'm sure most of it can be fixed! I just need to figure out how. Does it smell? I try to look at them to tell but you can't always see if something smells bad.
[ Most of the things are broken after all, and have thus been discarded by their original owners. It made him sort of sentimental. Be glad he doesn't dumpster dive, at least? He mostly goes for things just thrown away where people don't even bother putting it in the trash. There are a lot of broken porcelain, toys and clocks.
Given that he only owned two sets of clothing before Kaden helped him go shopping, there will be no issue for him to fit all of it in his arms at once. ]
Oh! Yeah, I do, there's a bathroom. Over here.
[ He leads the way. He's not in there a lot, only when he tries to wash his clothes, because he doesn't need the toilet and he hates looking at himself in the mirror.
He opens the door and lets him in. It's by far the room that's the least cluttered. There's some kitchen pots and pans with flowers planted in them though, and some things he tried to clean that were left to dry, but as a whole it's pretty empty. ]
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Date: 2018-04-12 05:58 pm (UTC)Sometimes, it's not about getting things fixed. Some things can't be fixed.
[ once the tub is filled, he places a pink bar of soap into the water. ]
And yeah, it'd make life so much easier if you could just see if something had an odor, huh?
[ with his tail swishing back and forth, Kaden is happy to unceremoniously dump the clothes in, wiping his hands off as he does it. ]
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Date: 2018-04-12 06:24 pm (UTC)So he shifts from one foot to the other as he reminds himself where he put the box of (valentines) chocolate. Wait, it's in the kitchen. Just like the soap is, which he's pretty sure they'd need anyway... (he doesn't have laundry detergent) ]
Ah, wait, I'll go get the soap and, uh. Gimme a second.
[ He leaves the room, an embarrassed pink cloud of fog following him. The scent of lily-of-the-valley fill the bathroom before he leaves, though Sattsu can't notice.
A minute later he's back, trying to make the pink fog less noticeable but not noticing the flowers filling the room with their scent. He's holding the soap in one hand and a wrapped box in the other. With Hei's help he wrapped it as nicely as he was able. ]
So um, before you, uh, help me, I have something I wanna, uh, say...
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Date: 2018-04-14 07:10 pm (UTC)Sure, sure.
[ the fog is a little alarming, but the scent that goes with it... it's relaxing. peaceful. it makes him wonder why such Sattsu is emanating such a smell as he leaves the room. this sticks in his mind as the Doll returns, holding that box and the soap and Keaton gently cocks his head to the side, ears twitching. ]
... yeah? What's up?
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Date: 2018-04-14 08:20 pm (UTC)The pink fog grows a bit more intense as he's finally going to say it, and he puts the soap on the sink for a moment, holding out the box. ]
I, uh, I'm, I'm in love with you!
[ He doesn't understand that most people start by saying they crush on someone, they don't go right to saying they're in love with them, so he goes all in into it.
...Please take the box because he's not sure how he's going to be able to say anything else until he knows Kaden's response, be it good or bad. ]
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Date: 2018-04-15 02:30 pm (UTC)You're in... love with me?
[ he... has to take the box, quietly opening it and checking its contents. it only makes Kaden's blush even more prominent as gentle pink lights start to blossom around him. ]
Sattsu, you're very sweet.
[ but as quickly as those lights appear, they fade. ]
That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time.
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Date: 2018-04-15 05:05 pm (UTC)He nods. ]
Yeah, a lot.
[ He doesn't know what exactly Kaden's response so far means, but at least he didn't react badly to it, he thinks. He thinks he'd notice that, but he can't be sure, considering how new he is with love and those kind of things. ]
I um, made those for you. I mean, I got help of course, but, um, yeah.
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Date: 2018-04-17 08:36 pm (UTC)... thank you. And please, thank your helper, too!
[ with a half-smile, he nuzzles Sattsu's cheek with his own, tail gently swaying from side to side. ]
I'm... very lucky to have a friend like you.
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Date: 2018-04-17 08:52 pm (UTC)It tears at his metaphorical heart a little bit, and it probably will do so more later, but that's okay. He's happy Kaden'd still want to be his friend even after this. He doesn't know how people usually react to being confessed to by someone they're not in love with in return after all, so this is... admittedly, a fairly okay reaction.
And he knows the chances of someone falling in love with a doll are pretty low. ]
Me too. I mean, having you, too. As a friend.
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Date: 2018-04-18 09:15 pm (UTC)[ and Kaden laughs, a small and polite noise, before giving Sattsu a small nudge with his forehead. ]
... usually, I think it's a custom to go on a date or two, to learn about each other.
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Date: 2018-04-18 09:35 pm (UTC)Date?
[ Wait, he knows what that is, he's heard of them before, as something other than the date of the day. Now he's flustered rather than confused. ]
Oh. Um. It is?
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Date: 2018-04-20 03:09 am (UTC)[ he's certainly seen some dates, but has never gone on one himself. he and Keaton already felt similar about each other--- their life together was a lovely date. ]
A way they sort of... figure out if they have similar feelings!
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Date: 2018-04-20 07:35 am (UTC)[ He doesn't have the knowledge of the right grammar for it, but he tries. ]
I don't really know what you're supposed to do on a date though.
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Date: 2018-04-22 05:01 am (UTC)[ after he gives Sattsu's cheek a nudge with his own, he takes the extra soap and dumps it into the tub as well. ]
It's about spending time together, I think. Just getting used to each other? I don't really know.
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Date: 2018-04-24 04:01 pm (UTC)Does that make this a date?
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Date: 2018-04-26 04:45 pm (UTC)This is... I guess it's sort of a date. Granted, I can't think of many ones that might start with clothes washing.
[ he snickers, continuing to cling around Sattsu. ]
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