recolle | [semi-open] how many hugs will be in this log? place your bets

WHO: Shuji Tsushima and all his friends who were out of the city and are back.
WHERE: Recolle, which is 100x safer than wherever everyone else was.
WHEN: February 15th.
WHAT: Shuji has one day to check on everyone he knows and he's not going to waste it.
WARNINGS: Nothing as of yet!

[A: text]
[As soon as Shuji learns that people who had volunteered to leave the city are back for a brief period, he wastes absolutely no time. Everyone he's friends who's back is getting a text, something to the tune of:]

Where are you? Can I come see you today?

[B: somewhere in Recolle]
[But if you don't want to thread that part, and just skip to the inevitability of Shuji getting his friend to agree to meet up - and it is inevitable, he has to make sure they're okay with his own eyes - this is the prompt where Shuji spots your character after arranging a meeting and rushes up to them.]

Welcome back!

[He looks like he could hug them at any second. This is probably only a little due to his heartstone's influence.]

[closed to Oda]
[Of course, he'd promised Oda curry, so his lunch date is Odasaku for sure. He's all smiles when he meets Oda outside a really, really nice curry place.]

Welcome home, Odasaku. I hope this place is okay?

[It's probably one of the more expensive places to get curry in Recolle, but sure, ask if it's 'okay'.]

[wildcard]
[You know me, I'm easy. Hit me at

Misheard for anything else.]

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Stayed in the city. Nothing to fake sick about. I've had to lie about why my pupils have been shaped like hearts half the time, but apparently 'it's an infection' works pretty well.

[It seems like it shouldn't??]

That actually sounds kind of nice, though. [rubs the back of her head] Sorry? Uh, anyway, here...

[She holds out a cloth bag. Inside is... well, it's a few pieces of broken eggshell? But they're not from any animal he might know.]

You were asking stuff about the dragon, and we were already there getting stuff, so... yeah.

Thank you.

[He'll accept that bag.]

Did you get everyone souvenirs, or just the people who were annoying you with texts?

You weren't annoying! I was just worried that I was bothering you by making you worry.

I was worried about half of Recolle. You wouldn't be the only one.

Doesn't that just make it worse, though, kind of?

I guess, but it's not your fault.

I still actually can't believe we're doing this. I mean, it's for a good cause, so I can't not.

What are you actually doing over there? Besides upsetting dragons.

We were trying to get parts at first, so they could rebuild a-- whoa.

[Kara holds her head for a second before shaking it.]

Sorry. Weird-- weird memory thing.

Happens all the time, you don't need to apologize.

[Shuji knows he's done it mid-conversation a lot.]

Want to talk about it?

Oh, uh, sure! It's nothing bad. More hero stuff. I was flying a race or target-hitting thing with... I guess she was a friend? Some orange girl, against this other orange girl and some who-knows-what person. It was this thing for school, sports or something. But I heard something all the way across town and we ran off to save some people in a building instead of finish the event.

That sounds like good priorities. Save the people instead of finish a sporting event.

I hope we didn't get in trouble. [gulp] I mean, I also currently hope we don't get in trouble for running off to some underground blacksmith town.

You're helping, you said? So you'll end up fine.

You really think the school won't get mad over, y'know, Retrospec obligations? Or your neighbours? [her foster parents.]

When we were tiny I either missed or fell asleep in practically all my classes, and I still passed that semester.

And your foster parents are good people, you know. They'll probably just be happy you're safe.

I... guess. I just don't want them to get upset. They seem nice, but... I mean, not that they're not nice, they are...

...Have you had foster parents who weren't nice?

[Concern levels rising.]

Uh... Sometimes. Sometimes they were just tired of having me around, or someone else caused trouble so they didn't want to foster anymore, or -- you know how you go to the store and buy something, then it doesn't fit, so you take it back? Just not fitting, you know? I think so.

Sure, I do that, but I'm not buying people. That's completely different.

Yeah, I guess, but... [shuffles feet] I just don't want to be trouble.

If you're always worried about getting sent back into foster care for every little thing, wouldn't you be miserable all the time?

[Yes.]

...Not really!

[The hesitation and resulting look on Kara's face do not say "not really."]

I'm just, you know, trying to get by and all.

[Kara...

Sorry, Shuji's going to try to gently ruffle her hair now.]

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