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[betheman]

Noboru Gongenzaka
UN: STEADFASTSTANCE

STATUS: Student - Y8

ACCOLADES: - Current Inheritor to the Gongenzaka 'Steadfast Dojo'

- Studying Lycanthropy, Runic Arts, and Law

BIO: Please, call me Gongenzaka- I have attended Daybreak for 2 years, and am currently in year 8! If you are able, please, speak to me in French, or Japanese, as I am still learning English!

© TESSISAMESS

Comments

Morning after drama night

[hippocarnival]

['Sup Gon you're getting a text right when the transformation nap should be ending.]

You okay?

[betheman]

yes

[DON'T LIE YOU DIDN'T EVEN CAPITALIZE THE 'Y']

[hippocarnival]

I don't want to hear that if it's not true.

[See. Whatever.]

[betheman]

[MNHNHHHHH

It takes a bit before he replies.] It is absolutely true!

I am getting ready for class now

And breakfast

[hippocarnival]

How long before your class starts?

[betheman]

1 Hour

[Just enough time to get clean, get breakfast, and go, basically.]

[hippocarnival]

Still in your room?

[Guess who's planning a meetup.]

[betheman]

[...................]

Maya is sleeping.

[YOU WILL MEET HIM ELSEWHERE...!]

[hippocarnival]

So i'll be outside your room. Don't keep me waiting too long, okay?

[betheman]

[Dammit. There is an audible sigh, but in the end he gathers his things and heads out the door. Here they gooooo...]

Auh.... ...Good morning, Yuuya...

[hippocarnival]

Good morning, Gongenzaka. [Yuya moves to step beside Gongenzaka as he finally exits, stuffing his hands in his pockets.] Did you stay in your room the rest of the night?

[betheman]

Auh, good morning... [It is extremely hard to hide the lingering upset from the night before. But....

He tries.] ...Mnh, naturally! It was already close to when I, the man Gongenzaka, would need to shift back after all...

[hippocarnival]

Yeah, I guess that took a long time... [And only got more dramatic following it.

Yuya leans over a little, letting his arm press against Gon's as he looks up and offers him a smile.]

[betheman]

Y...yes...

..As well, I, the man Gongenzaka, felt it would be best to remain in my room, in case Maya awoke... [Nightmares, tea....that sort of thing...]

...Do you have a class soon, yourself?

[hippocarnival]

I've got time. You have to have breakfast before learning anything! [It's true, but is he applying it for the right reasons...] We can go eat together, right?

[betheman]

Auh... [He rubs the back of his head, and nods.] ...Mnh, of course, then! Let us hurry however, so that we are not late, [He adds a little more seriously.]

[hippocarnival]

We're not going to be late. [They don't have to run, Yuya doesn't know where he gets this morning injury.] What are you going to eat? I hope they have pancakes today.

[Yuya always hopes they have pancakes.]

[betheman]

[If you saaaay soooooo... It'll be a brisk walk though.

Gongenzaka snorts.] They more often than not do have pancakes, do they not? It is a buffet after all. [The upsides of a cafeteria in a rich environment, apparently.]

[hippocarnival]

But not every day! Sometimes my luck runs out.

[He stuffs his hands in his pockets, letting the silence sit on that for a moment before he looks up at Gongenzaka.] And you know, whatever happened with Toki isn't anything to do with you.

[betheman]

That is because you are late..! [He begins, only to choke on his words.

And immediately, he quiets, and turns his head.] ...I, the man Gongenzaka, suspect it has very much to do with me, Yuuya, [He murmurs, referring of course to the lycanthropy.] ...It is bad enough, that our initial meeting went so poorly...but to have caused this, as well..!?

[hippocarnival]

But... you didn't, not really. [Yuya grabs Gon's arm firmly, forcing attention to his presence.] If it were anyone else who's a lycan, it would have gone the same way. You aren't the one that did that to him, and you work every day so you never will.

[betheman]

[Gongenzaka...does not have a lot to say to that. He's still walking, albeit at a slower pace- but he doesn't have a lot to say.]

Somehow, given how he left the tour, it feels all the worse anyway, Yuuya.

[So. Turns out the guy he was talking about EARLIER is your roommate, Yuuya. Great.]

[hippocarnival]

[Ah... well.]

That doesn't change my point. [Yuya squeezes just a little, briefly.] You're way too hard on yourself, when you're doing twice--no, ten times as much as anyone else!

[betheman]

[AAaaAAAaaaaa Yuuya, you know he can't argue with him long about these things..!!

...So instead he's left rubbing the back of his head, looking away.] Mnh...Even...even still...

[Nope, no 'buts' (or 'even's), mister.]

[hippocarnival]

Not 'even still'. You try and hold yourself to something impossible and then you'll never reach it, you know?

[He understands Gon's feelings enough to give him a pass, usually.. but blaming himself for trauma Toki has from before they even met is a bit much.]

I'm happy having you here just the way you are, too.