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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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My boyfriend kind of died.

Sorry I didn't feel like sending you a card about it as a cue to mock me.

[ HE'S STILL SAD. ]

[adandyinspace]

[...]

No.
I'm sorry.

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It's.

Fine.

I'll recover.

It has just been difficult lately.

[adandyinspace]

Yeah, well, don't force yourself to recover too fast.
"Fine" and "difficult" don't really go hand in hand if you get what I mean.

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I know. It is going to take a while to get over. Jotaro is the only person I have let get that close to me. It's disheartening when you lose something like that so quickly. My best friend went with him too.

I'm pretty good at faking it. I have my outlets regardless.

I never expected to hear a sincere condolence out of you.

[adandyinspace]

You might be a creepy weirdo, but no one deserves that shit.

Especially not in a place where people aren't "supposed" to die.

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I believe that the Fog God does everything for a reason. I will never doubt Her.

Anyway, which girl have I been chatting up? I have a line of them out the door.

[adandyinspace]

oh
uh
guess i forgot
whatever i dont even care anymore

have fun with ur imaginiary line

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I'm not interested in any of them.

Just don't try to kiss on them or whatever it is you do. Show some class.

[adandyinspace]

brb gotta go "kiss on" everyone now

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You are hopeless, Dandy.

ACTION; Day After Dog

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[ Maya's not... entirely sure she should be doing this, but Ibuki was pretty upset about the whole debacle and... well. Maya's still not too keen on Rohan making murder plans for Dandy blatantly on...line. Did it count as online? Maya's going with online. Anyway, with her distractions aside she approaches Rohan in his office when he's already in it at some point, knocking gently on the door but not waiting to open it.]

Hey-- Rohan? Are you busy?

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[ Just as he had been when he called Ibuki, Rohan is working on a long winter coat settled on a mannequin. He isn't expecting Maya, but he doesn't look up. ]

Not really. What did you need?

[ He is certainly a little POINTED at the moment though. It shows in his posture from where his shoulders are to where his elbows are bending. ]

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya steps in and closes the door behind her, looking back to make sure it's closed appropriately, and watches Rohan work. It's time to conduct a bit of an investigation.]

I was wondering... Um, a lot of stuff happened yesterday, didn't it? How are you feeling?

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[ Stitch, stitch. ]

I'm living. [ Pause. ] I fired Ibuki.

[missleadingquestions]

Oh.

[Maya's brows raise.]

Wait-- why?

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[ Rohan casts a moment's glance her way. ]

Because I wanted to be treated like an authority figure at work. She never shows up anyway. She works with Dandy and she'll still have food on the table. She doesn't need a job she doesn't do anything with.

I'm a businessman. Not a babysitter.

[missleadingquestions]

Uh-huh.

[Maya says finally, quietly-- an affirmation, not sarcasm. She purses her lips to one side and breathes, taking a minute to come up with a response.]

That's... fair.

Did you decide that yesterday as a boss... or as a friend?

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Her boss.

[ He draws his thread out from the thick fabric, clipping it with his claws. ]

I don't have any problems with her as a friend. I just want to work on my image again. She can have me on Friendship Probation for as long as she pleases but it isn't any skin off of my back.

I want her to learn from everything I told her... Though I fear she will not.

[ Because Ibuki is as Ibuki does. He can't fix that. ]

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya nods, trying not to show how hypnotized she is by the way Rohan works. She's listening clearly, but other people's talents have always been so fascinating to her.]

...I guess that's fair, too.

[Ibuki's a teenager and it shows, and you can't expect everyone to deal with it.]

But... saying things like that publicly, and picking fights with people's friends... [Maya sighs lowly, breaking her concentration on what Rohan's doing to push her hair back over her shoulder. She's wearing it mostly loose today, but the baubles in her long bangs remain, and she plays with them.]

Don't you get why somebody would be mad about that?

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Dandy is a shitheel and deserves everything that happens to him. I don't care who he is and isn't friends with. [ He was cordial like ONE TIME. ]

I understand why she is upset with me over that but I am tired of her thinking that I need to get along with HER friends when I have no interest in them. Lucas is alright. I don't mind him.

But do you see where I am coming from?

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I think I do.

[Maya leans back against the door, still playing with her hair.]

But when you say stuff like that about Dandy-- not like, what you justsaid. I mean, about anybody she would be friends with.

[Frustrated with the way her train of thought turned, she substitutes it with--]

Do you guys all have to be so mean to each other in front of us?

rohan ffs

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[ maya have you ever heard of how men act around each other????

NOW TAKE A BUNCH OF MEN WITH ANIMAL-LIKE BEHAVIORS. ]

I just thought that exchange was funny. I don't pick fights in front of people. It's bad for my image.

[missleadingquestions]

[this is what happens when you live around only women most of your life.]

You talked about killing him in front of everybody twice!

[She suddenly leans up from the door.]

How does that look for your image?

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Maya, we all kill people here.

There was literally someone on the network the other day wanting to fight and maybe die as a meal.