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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! ))

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[ The naga opens one eye by the time the music stops and a few beats have given way to a silence. His tail stops swishing like it's been caught doing something and called out on it. ]

You have quite a talent, Jotaro. It's a pretty piece. You wrote it by yourself...?

For... Me?

[starmark]

Yeah. I mean, I didn't do it overnight or anything, it took me...a while, of figuring stuff out. I was thinking about your sketchbook, how you draw whole pictures from, just...single moments. So that's where it came from. Moments.

[He shrugs a little, watching Rohan's reaction without outright staring, calm but not overly proud.]

Then a melody came out of it. Then...it went from there.

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Music is an artform like any other.

[ He points at the guitar. ]

What moments made up this song?

[starmark]

...Hang on, I want to get way over here so you won't try to punch me when I say it.

[BECAUSE THAT'S REASSURING]

I was thinking about you playing fetch with the dog. And how he kept trying to jump on your tail.

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[ THAT'S THE MOST ROMANTIC, SONG-INSPIRING THING HE COULD COME UP WITH. ]

Are you serious? Why that?

[starmark]

[jotaro.jpg]

...

Because it made me want to laugh.

I don't mean at you, I mean just...laughter. Is what it felt like.

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[ He feels like he should be offended.

It's... Charming in a way that only Jotaro can pull off. Since murdering Kira a couple of days ago? He... Needs this. ]

You weren't even there for that. That dumb dog could have ripped me open.

What other things make you laugh? You don't do it enough.

[starmark]

You were playing with my dog. In a fucking castle that's too big for just us but we're living in it anyway. It's...nice. Like playing house, except not playing.

[The word you want, Jotaro, is "domestic", but god forbid that cursed word ever pass his saintly dragon lips.]

What things do most people laugh at? Things that are funny, I guess. When someone you don't like does something stupid...or when you're hanging out with someone you do like, I guess. Shit like that?

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I didn't fancy you the type for domesticity. [ he did it for him. ]

I can't believe you're asking me what people laugh at. They laugh at your bad jokes sometimes.

[starmark]

I didn't, either, but it's not so bad around here.

[...]

I'm just saying, I laugh at things just like anybody else would.

[manuscripture]

You don't laugh that often, though. [ Says a person who doesn't like to laugh either. ]

It reminds me: You wrote a song about being happy after I drew a picture of you being happy.

I'm a fan of it, by the way. [ And Rohan smiles. ] I'm pleasantly surprised.

[starmark]

I like the way I —

[But then he stops, as if experiencing an odd sense of deja vu, and realizes that no, he's said almost those exact words before verbatim, and he should know better than to do it now. I like the way I look when you draw me begs the question why he doesn't like the way he looks all the other times, and no, that's not —

No, he's got a better answer than that, these days.]

I like it when you draw me. I like seeing how your talent makes me come alive on the page.

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That is the appeal of my style back at home. It's part of what made people gravitate toward my work. Because I draw from the things I see instead of all of it being artificial and manufactured.

[ Which he believes he has explained before too. ]

I'm never going to not love drawing you, Jotaro. You may not think that you are all that special sometimes, but I do.

[starmark]

...I like it when you say that, too.

[He pauses, thinking something over.]

When you talk about your art...sometimes it makes me hope I can find something I care that much about someday. It makes me want to.

...When I got here I didn't want to do anything. I think you're the reason that changed.

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[ Hm. ]

Do you not care about anything that much? Really? You love your music.

People don't tell me that I have ever changed them for the better. I'm going to take the compliment and slither with it.

[starmark]

It's not my life. If I couldn't ever play again, I'd get over it. I don't think that's the same thing as you and your art.

[Hmmm.]

I guess that's how I feel about things I don't know, though. Wanting to understand things I don't understand. That's what keeps me up at night, more often than not.