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[manuscripture]

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[ Somewhere around town-- at the bookstore, the Tomoe-Kaname Bakery, attached to posts and notice boards --you find a small white notecard. On it is printed a little message and some numbers in ornate lettering. If you look closely, it reads the following: ]

Rohan Kishibe, Mangaka & Visual Artist
Owner Pro Tempore of Ebony Threads Tailor Shop
Highly Experienced.
Commissions & Advertising For Hire
Pay Negotiable.
Contact At: 512.66.730.91 for inquiries
Castle Lüvchaque - Directly North of Bavan per appointment ONLY.

(( feel free to use this as an action-based prompt too. any random interactions will MOST LIKELY take place in the form of walk-ins at the tailor shop unless it's pre-planned. just drop a starter in here! ))

Comments

[starmark]

"your things" are every part of the castle that isn't my room

by existing here i'm sooner or later going to go through your things

everything is your thing

[manuscripture]

What did you think of the book?

I'm just curious.

Since I know you read it.

[starmark]

you make me look like something priceless

i liked it

i don't like myself a lot but i like the guy i see when you're the one drawing him

[manuscripture]

Why do you not like yourself?

You're beautiful. I have said that before.

[starmark]

i'm not fishing for a self-esteem boost or anything

i just meant i don't go around thinking i'm something special, but you make me look like i am

i never got this notif gdi

[manuscripture]

Because you are special.

Jotaro, I don't hand these things out. I look at them not at face-value, but at what they are. That whole book is a testament to that.

Find which one is your favorite and tell me what it is.

it's okay i have all the time in the world

[starmark]

oh um

okay hang on

...

oh

you drew me with my guitar?

[manuscripture]

I did.

Back at the apartment that night you played through the wall to me.

[starmark]

...i was playing through the w

you did that from memory??

[manuscripture]

Of course I did.

I did it as you were doing it. I knew exactly how you were sitting and where your hands must have been on the guitar. How close you were to the wall by ear. I had watched you enough times by that point to know.

Does it not look accurate?

[starmark]

it looks like you like me a lot

i dunno what it is about this one but i can tell you were...happy, i guess, but like...warm soft happy, when you drew it

[manuscripture]

I was happy.

It was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.

[starmark]

...really?

i should do it more often then

[manuscripture]

Contrary to what people think, Jotaro, I like being happy. I haven't BEEN too happy lately.

Drawing you fixes that. The last six or so pages are all from recently.

[starmark]

...

oh i like the one from the beach

when i kicked the water and it sprayed up

i can't believe you can draw like this

do i really look that happy when i'm by the water?

[manuscripture]

You do. You smile and everything.

[starmark]

i guess that's something you and the ocean have in common

[manuscripture]

Is that so?

[starmark]

that i'm more likely to smile when i'm around you?

yeah

[manuscripture]

You come second only to my artwork.

[starmark]

that's basically the same thing as first

nothing could ever bypass your artwork so everything else is really just competing for second place

[manuscripture]

You raise a good point. Does that make it any less meaningful?

I am too tired to be poetic.

[starmark]

i think it makes it more meaningful

it means i understand you

[manuscripture]

What is it that you understand?

[starmark]

that in your world there has to be room for both

anybody who wants a piece of you has to be willing to share it with your art

and anybody who tries to make you choose one over the other doesn't get it well enough to deserve that piece of you anyway