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Dec. 14th, 2020 02:58 am
vrdantwind: (If I'm right here with you)
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"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

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Date: 2021-01-29 02:41 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (Might fuck around and let nature)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[...Or, at least, it is probably still January 28, just very late at night when Claude gets a small message on his Gear.]

[Despite. You know. All of them being in the same house.]


Dear Claude,

Are you still awake?

Date: 2021-01-29 02:58 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (I feel bad for anyone who has ever)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[No answer on the Gear, but there is the sound of a door opening down the hall, and footsteps as careful as Dimitri can possibly make them. A soft knock.]

May I come in?

[Upon the door being opened - or Dimitri being told to come in - it will be revealed that he's still wearing Kent as his usual night aid on his head, with.... Gremlin apparently vying for skull space as he clings where he can. Wrapped up in Dimitri's arm would be Knocker, Gabby, and Gwin all sharing his cloak.]

cw mild auditory hallucinations

Date: 2021-01-29 05:27 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (Interviewer: You have a 5 year gap)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
Oh, no. Kent ensures that I never dream.

[Some people would think this a bit of a loss, enjoying the ability to dream. Most people don't have constant nightmares involving gore, death, and more self hatred than a reservoir.]

[...Although...]


It is the path to sleep that is the difficult portion, so... I was hoping that I could stay in here a while, perhaps listen to you talk about - whatever you like, really.

[In all honesty, Dimitri has been having issues sleeping ever since they arrived in Goldenrod. The fangirls, the paint incident that still doesn't leave his cloak smelling right, and then Ashe and Dedue arriving and Jane falling unconscious for a while...]

[Some of those had been good, of course, but it's been a lot, and well. When a lot happens, when his body starts to feel anxious...]

[There's the sound of footsteps that Dimitri knows are likely not there - too heavy, too metallic, not stepping on the right surface. Yet he still can't help the way his gaze flicks to the side before he forces it back on Claude.]


If it would not be too much trouble, of course.

Date: 2021-01-29 06:52 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (DM: You’re doing so whilst waving)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[BEFORE MARRIAGE, CLAUDE?]

Oh - I would not want to intrude too much. I can-

[Lie on the floor - wait, no, he thinks people might get upset about that.]

- I can sit in a chair.

Date: 2021-01-29 07:14 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (DM: You’re doing so whilst waving)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
I could be settled in a chair...

[But still, for a moment, he's paralyzed with uncertainty as he stands there near the door in his secret Rattata pajamas. Is it improper if they are only boyfriends, and not married? He wants to give Claude so much, after all... but this is only sleeping, isn't it? Does that make it fine-]

[Gremlin almost falls off his head, and Dimitri finally starts to move over to the bed.]

[Gremlin immediately leaps down once they're close enough, curling up on the pillows as well with a twitch of his whiskers, which means Kent can slowly slide back into proper place on Dimitri's head. As for the cloak full of Pokemon? That just gets carefully places down on the ground. Gabby and Gwin are knocked out cold, being just Babies, but Knocker peers out from the furry and blue depths with bright eyes. What's Up.]

[That means there's fortunately plenty of room still on the bed as Dimitri hesitantly sinks down to sit on it.]


...I suppose I did not wake you this time.

Date: 2021-01-29 07:38 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (I feel bad for anyone who has ever)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
I worry that I would be too big than you...

[Still, Dimitri shuffles a little more onto the bed. He doesn't... quite lean against Claude, not yet.]

What are you reading tonight?

Date: 2021-01-29 04:39 pm (UTC)
nastyboy: (I feel bad for anyone who has ever)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[And it's working, especially on a man who very much wants to just nap. He hesitates just a second before he shuffles over, shifting his head onto Claude's shoulder. It's... very strange, honestly. When's the last time he did this...?]

The people, or the land...?

Date: 2021-01-30 08:54 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (I feel bad for anyone who has ever)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[Kent nudges what exists of his head, just enough to put his snout on Claude's hand in appreciation before he curls up right where he belongs. No nightmares for him to devour yet, but he's sure they'll come in time.]

[In the meanwhile, Dimitri peers at the book.]


That isn't surprising... They're such an important part of life here.

The Ruins of Alph were another similar place, weren't they?

Date: 2021-01-30 09:12 am (UTC)
nastyboy: (So who wants to be my new best)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[Dimitri actually makes a sort of pitiful noise.]

No... That was terrible, Claude.

[He yelled and broke down and cried and also they fell down a trap door.]

I wish to do better for you.

Date: 2021-01-30 07:41 pm (UTC)
nastyboy: (I feel bad for anyone who has ever)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
[So that's how it looked to Claude... Dimitri traces nonsense symbols along his pants leg, thinking back to that time.]

...The world felt clearer. It felt... as though it had slowly been becoming clearer throughout the days.

And I felt as though I could focus on you right there in front of me again.

Date: 2021-02-02 08:05 pm (UTC)
nastyboy: (Might fuck around and let nature)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
....Are you not comparing two different circumstances?

I have no knowledge of what that man went through, what was able to change him. [He has his suspicions, but...] I can only say what happened here.

And... it was true, that you were frustrating, at first. I felt as though you were just... in denial. That you were refusing to accept something that felt obvious to me, and that you kept concocting elaborate excuses for it. Not only that, but you kept speaking so much, and it felt too overwhelming. I could only focus on so much.

But... You were the person I still felt I could turn to, when things did not seem so clear cut. I felt as though you were someone who could put me on the right track again.

And... you did.

[Dimitri turns his face into Claude's shoulder.]

You helped.

Date: 2021-02-04 06:12 pm (UTC)
nastyboy: (Ghosts are so funny.)
From: [personal profile] nastyboy
I like listening to you talk...

[Sometimes to listen. Sometimes to try and learn. It depends.]

[But nights like this... Dimitri lets his eye close.]


Mm. It felt as though... You were saying the sky was magenta, over and over again, when I could see that it wasn't. It was infuriating... [A low sigh.] But I suppose I was the one wearing a blindfold...

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