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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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[And then an idea seems to hit Ibuki out of nowhere, even making her jump a bit like her own brain startled her.]

Wait, wait... can...
Can you draw Ibuki as a snake!? You could do that, couldn't you!?
Rohan-chan's talents are SKY HIGH, so Ibuki's certain you could!

[ Two radically different sides of the coin somehow. ]

It wasn't coming off enough to accommodate how his scales were coming through. It was one set of skin converging with another... [ He blinks at her, eyelashes fluttering when she states what she wants. ]

Draw you as a naga? Let me... See...

[ Shutting one eye, he tries to visualize what he can-- it doesn't take long. What takes shape on the next page is indeed a snake. In black and white, he has to simulate any colors she might have. Blue and pink scales intermingled on a black backdrop of noodly body. With her mouth open, she bares fangs as long as one's fingers, curved and dropped down just as his do when he's upset. Her hair is still there but it has become almost sentient. It fans out and rises like a makeshift hood to accompany and amplify the glowing from her eyes and the radical, wide-armed and claws-out pose she is sporting. ]

What do you think of this?

[ it's sickening the house, fam. ]

[In an over-dramatic fashion, Ibuki's hands fly to her cheeks, and she can't help wiggling in place seeing it. It's like he just told her she won the lottery or something...
But then again, he did just draw her as a giant snake monster.]

Nyahaaaaaa~!! It's perfect, it's perfect, it's perfect!!
You captured Ibuki's badassery perfectly in such a short amount of time...!
Even though it's in black and white, Ibuki can imagine all the colors perfect, too!

[Remember that hug from earlier?
THE HUG 2: THE HUGGENING.]

How? How!? It's like magic on paper!
You are seriously blowing Ibuki's mind over here...! She's getting all DOKIDOKI about this rad talent of Rohan-chan's!!

[ He needs to invest in a panic button with his coins so he can push it and summon Jotaro or somebody to pry this girl off of him. He ends up tilting all about, flapping an arm in the process. ]

Careful-- [ He lets out an exasperated whine. ] Do you want it? [ As his tail slips around to tug at her skirt to cue her OFF OF HIM. TUG. ] If you would like to keep it, you can. If it brings you so much entertainment, I can't just let it fester in my book...

[Silly Rohan, pulling at her skirt isn't enough to remove Ibuki! Though, she'll let go of him anyway.
Because she wants to take the picture instead, nodding her head vigorously in excitement.]

Yeah, yeah! IdoIdoIdo!!
Ibuki has to show Sonia-chan and Hiyoko-chan, of course! And hang it up somewhere in my room!
But, but! It's not entertainment, it's joy! Ibuki will cherish her special Rohan-chan Original featurin herself for a really long time, y'know?
Stuff like this is really special...!

[Look, Ibuki doesn't get gifts often. She waaaants it.]

Alright, alright. Take it down a notch, Mioda. [ Because that rush of energy has made him a little woozy. ]

It makes me glad that you like it so much. [ she's not a KID but she acts like one. ] I don't do little commissions like these except for a handful of people. [ READ: The underground group of humans who have a monster fetish. ]

Don't get too grabby with them. You might find them to be less sentimental...

[What do you mean she's not a kid, Ibuki's clearly just a giant toddler.
Case in point: she sticks out her tongue with a grumble when told to take it down a notch.
She's going to anyway, because Rohan is cool and doesn't seem like he'd be very fun when annoyed, but that doesn't mean she has to like it.

... Which mostly means being more still and talking a little quieter. A little.]

Less sentimental? No way - Ibuki treasures anything she gets from her friends, y'know?
Like these earrings! Ibuki's never gonna take them off! Except to, like, sleep and stuff.
But any other time, they're permanent attachments and should be considered part of Ibuki's unique style!

And likewise, Rohan-chan's artwork is gonna hang in Ibuki's room for as long as she's here. I'll write a note about it and everything!
If people come and go and lose memories so much, then Ibuki's gotta make sure she always remembers who it's from!

[Yeah, just straight up calls him her friend, whether he agrees or not. Sorry man, friendship ain't a two way street with Ibuki.]

[ A-Aw... If that didn't get him right in the doki. She might even be pulling a real smile out of him. He likes flattery. He's more prone to it than ever. But it's not the superficial kind. It sounds like she means what she says. ]

Mm... [ He doesn't argue and just nods his head. ] That isn't a bad idea. I don't know if I have met anybody here who has lost any memories. I certainly hope I never do. [ Because there's one thing... ]

Memories are highly important to me. Myself and others. Back at home, I had a power that I no longer have here. [ WELL HE DOES BUT IT'S... NOT THE SAME AT ALL HERE. ] I have the ability to read the memories of any person I meet. I can read everything from their birth to the present. I can remove them if I feel like it to use as material for my writing but in all honesty I believe that memories are the most important things a person can have.

[ it's also a little inappropriate to mention the BODY HORROR THINGS his Stand can do. or that he would TAKE MEMORIES WITHOUT CONSENT. ]

I can't say that I have always been respectful in the past but they are things that I feel should be held very dear.

[ also at the moment right now he can trigger the most traumatic event in your lifetime and make it happen Live From This Room. ]

[Yeah please don't do that, she doesn't need to remember literally any of her traumatic events.

But hearing that, Ibuki goes... uncharacteristically quiet, listening to everything Rohan says and even staying silent for a couple of moments after.
Almost like she's being... serious.
She's taking this seriously.

It could be because he's talking about trespassing into someone else's memories. Or how he's mentioned stealing them from people for his own use.]

[... But nah, it's neither of those; after a moment, she can't help her smile drooping into something more nervous, looking up at the ceiling instead of at Rohan.]

Well, y'know... Ibuki can't really feel the same about that. 'Cause she's so bad at remembering things...
If Ibuki doesn't write things down, she can completely forget what she planned on doing an entire day! It can be really fun; Ibuki makes a game of it, called "Will I Get There?"
I just leave the house and go wherever the wind takes me, and sometimes I end up somewhere real neato! Ibuki tried that here, and found a shop that sells fake monster parts!

... But, since memories are kind of fleeting, y'know, it means Ibuki doesn't need them that much, either. Sometimes there's stuff worth forgetting, anyway!
In Ibuki's honest and real opinion, it's better to live in the moment!

Aaaaaand, this is an important milestone for Rohan-chan, too! 'Cause Ibuki's apparently lost a lot of memories, and not just because she forgets things so easily!

[She'll just eek that in there at the end of what she's saying, yep.]

[ Her hesitation he can catch on her face. There is more to Ibuki than the obnoxious glee thing she has been putting on.

No, she's actually like this but it does a nice stunt. He appreciates this random 17-year old girl for what she is. Or what she appears to be. None of it seems fake. Her smile droops but his grows a little, eyelids falling slack. It's a real smile that only shows the beginnings of his teeth. His chin is resting on his hand it's like listening to Jotaro when he talks about something stupid or when he's playing him music. ]

There are things that are worth forgetting. They no longer apply to anything. And they likely won't ever apply here. You can make a new batch of them forever in any way you wish. If you need my drawings to document that, then by all means, Ibuki.

[ ER... mioda... ]

Maybe! Maybe they won't apply here, maybe they will.
Ibuki will deal with it as it comes!

[Specifically: if Mikan ever shows up here... how is she gonna deal with that? She has no idea.
But Ibuki really does appreciate him offering his drawings like that.
After all, she has a hard enough time remembering to write down things to remember!

Drawings from people who actually have working memories sound so much more useful.]

[... Of course, a moment after saying that, she makes a little sound like something just hit her out of the blue.]

W-wait, wait - did Rohan-chan just say --

-- Kyaaaaaa...!! Rohan-chan, how forward!

[Sorry if he was enjoying the sentimentality and realness there.
Her free hand - the one not holding his drawing - goes to her cheek, as she acts like he said something just... so inappropriate.]

Saying that so freely...! Are we really that close? Are we?
Do you really think we're close enough for something like that?

[Ibuki, he just used your first name. That's something literally everyone else in Ryslig does.]

[ Well all of that went clear out the window and into Lake Dala, didn't it.

It's pretty much like a reverse version of getting Deep with Jotaro where all words grind to a halt and just random noises and 'yeah' at varying spaces.

But uh... ]

... What are you talking about?

[This is what he gets for letting Ibuki into his life, honestly.]

Oh, you know...! Don't be so shy about it, Rohan-chan!
It's better if you're upfront and proud about everything you say, even things like that!

[That's said as she waves a hand a little at him, an obvious "oh, you" type of gesture.]

Ibuki won't tell anyone, promise, promise! Gosh, to think she's so lucky, though...!!

[ what a mistake. ]

I... [ He doesn't know a fucking thing, my dude. ]

I like to be upfront about things but I'm not quite sure what falls under "even things like that".

[ He is asking too much of her. ]

Awww, c'mon! You just said it!
Ibuki thought we established that she's the one with the bad memory!

[Blush blush, wiggle wiggle, etc. It's like a scene out of some sort of shoujo manga--
But yeah, no, okay. She'll be nice.]

Rohan-chan used Ibuki's name...! Without a second thought!
So bold, so forward!
Not even Sonia-chan is on a first name basis with me, but Rohan-chan just did that so plainly...!!

[it's making her kokoro go DOKIDOKI

... And, actually, though she's definitely just harassing him, this feels kinda familiar.
There's definitely some other angry rich man she likes to hang off of, isn't there --]

[ CALM YOUR KOKORO.

The reason comes to light and, frankly, it's still just weird to consider being a thing to get all riled up about. He swaps between Karamatsu's surname and given name all the time. Josuke occasionally. Jotaro is always the given name unless he's getting scolded. ]

Ooh... [ How childish. ] Which one do you like better?

Whatever one Rohan-chan is most comfortable with!

[That's said with a little grin, of course.
"Bad memory", yeah, even though she's specifically mimicking something he said a few weeks ago.

Also yes it's childish, does he really expect better from her??]

[ It looks like he's stuck with this one. There isn't a deeper meaning her outside of, "Well, maybe she likes to be loud". ]

I will go back and forth depending on the situation. [ Meaning that he will forget about it. ]

I think I need a nap now. You've positively drained me.

[ Really, every bit of energy is sapped. ]

Did you need anything else before I send you on your way?

Awww... really? Rohan-chan's not that old...

[There's a touch of actual disappointment there. But it's easy to ignore, Hinata does it all the time -
Ibuki thinks for a little bit, like there really might be something else she needs, but ends up shaking her head.]

Naw, Ibuki really only came here for the lyrics. Guess Ibuki's all done here!
She'll leave so old man Rohan-chan can get his beauty sleep...

[ Flatly....... ]

Do you want to stay?

[ Because he doesn't have the energy to get a broom and whack her with it. ]

I can set you up a room here if you would like if you just want to crash here. Not today but eventually.

But do you need a nap. [ he is all out of attention. ]

[... Oh. Ibuki was just playing around, still - but that makes her pause for a moment, thinking on it.
Would that be cheating on her other castle?? She doesn't wanna have a nasty break-up with Castle Mirai...
Can Castle Lüvchaque be her side-castle??]

... Do you mean for sleepovers and stuff? 'Cause, y'know, Ibuki's class is over at Castle Mirai, and she can't just leave them...
But if we're talking sleepovers, Ibuki would gladly accept!

Just for sleepovers. I have a friend who comes and goes depending on where he needs to be. I can allow you the same offer. You can keep things in there but you are under no obligation to live here. We're a busy household in the first place but I have an...

Excess of rooms.

[ Because you bought a fucking castle for two people. ]

If you turn into something that can't be out in the daytime when the Fog rolls in, it makes for a good hiding place. [ Because now that he thinks about it everyone in the house is nocturnal but him?????????? ]

Princess Anna is a goblin, so is Josuke. Jotaro is a gargoyle and Miss Lorna is a demon. [ haha wow ]

... Huh.

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