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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

i cant believe that all went to hell

[manuscripture]

No. I'm not going to.

I will give YOU something for your birthday but if I am honest I am not inclined to do anything nice for the rest of them. You know, I am hard to get along with but if that is how things are going to be with them, then that is what will happen.

I don't think I was sounding unreasonable. Do you?

[karappo]

[YEAH he didn't think so...]

i mean
not at all, really
osomatsu was expecting you to let him use your property for free just because it is our birthday and that is rude
but we are not exactly kind or use our manners well on a normal basis either so it is not...surprising
if things were different and we were back home i would have probably vied for the same thing

[manuscripture]

Maybe but you aren't the same person you were back at home.

[karappo]

is that person a better one, though?

[manuscripture]

Well, do you like it?

[karappo]

i...think so
i like to think if my parents could see what i have done with myself here, they would be proud of it
i have a job and i have not...done anything unforgivable that i could help as of yet
that is something to be proud of isnt it?

[manuscripture]

It is. You already know that I am proud of you, Karamatsu. What your brothers think is no concern of yours anymore. You have come far from 'Boy #2' and 'Tree: Stage Right'.

[karappo]

that is all i have wanted
and while my brothers' approval should not matter to me...it still does
and it probably always will

but things are different now, anyway
i do not think any of us are the same as we once were

[manuscripture]

I think we all seek approval from out families regardless of what our issues are with them.

You will keep growing as time goes on. Maybe you and I should play with your magic a little. You have that, right?

[karappo]

i do yes, but i have not had much opportunity to use it
once when i was...searching for someone to sustain myself, i recall accidentally inducing what seemed to be amnesia in them just before i took what i needed
but at least for the time they could not recall they had anything to miss...