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[gorb]

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stares at next generation's current state🥺

[tokakujuho]

[ it would be better with Geto around. the kids are strong and excitable enough, have limitless potential from what Nanami has seen so far. what they lack are good role models. people with ideals and beliefs that go beyond their self-interest.

in the weeks after Haibara, Geto had played a huge role in keeping Nanami sane. even though they were still kids, Geto seemed to be the only one to look past his own heartbreak and still see his friends. Nanami's always admired that about his senpai, and suspected the ability to see beyond one's own grief and heartbreak was what broke Geto in the end. ]

Are you happier now?
With your family?

LMAO i know fuck.

[gorb]

( The question draws him up short. A part of Geto, instinctive and a little fierce, wants to say yes immediately. The clear lines he's drawn between the person he was and the person he is have been distinct enough that the answer feels glaring. But he takes a moment anyway. Nanami has always been better at seeing through people's bullshit. He's surprised that hasn't changed much. He wonders if he does the same to Satoru.

The reply comes, typed and then re-typed. )

I think so.

I feel lighter now.

( Maybe that might turn out to be a problem in the end. For now, he's needed. That matters. )

[tokakujuho]

[ lighter. that's all they can hope for. to not feel weighed and dragged down by grief and regret. to find those small singular moments that break the cycle of violence and degradation.

if Geto has managed, there's hope for the rest yet. ]

Good.

[gorb]

What about you?

What would make you feel lighter?

( Genuinely curious. )

The kids help, don't they?

[tokakujuho]

[ he can almost hear Geto's voice, the melodic up and down. it has always been a source of calm for Nanami's forever disgruntled teenage self. minutes pass, not even dots to indicate he's typing.

what would make him feel lighter? he thought leaving would do the trick, but here he is, back with the school and their sordid business. ]

That is not really a priority of mine, Geto-san.

[gorb]

Maybe it should be.

( That part had been frustrating too, the weaponization of child soldiers. He doubts either Nanami or Gojo allow it to happen quite as strongly these days, but old habits are ingrained. He may be the world's worst curse user but he is also, unfortunately, a mother hen. )

It can't all be surviving. That's the quickest way to not.

[tokakujuho]

I'm doing fine, all things considered.
But thank you.
For your concern.

[gorb]

( He's gonna kick your ass! )

Hm, I'm sure. Don't make me worry about you, Nanami. I might end up showing up again, think of the trouble that would cause!

[tokakujuho]

[ oh yeah? him and whose army?? ]

There is no need to be so dramatic.

[ does Geto really thing his showing up would be more troublesome than his absence? if he wanted to come back. if he really wanted to, his miscreant friends would move heaven and earth to make it possible. ]

I am quite well, I assure you.

[gorb]

( Unfortunately, deciding you're irredeemable at seventeen has some drawbacks. )

Make sure it stays that way. You're just as important as anyone else.

But fine, fine. I'll leave it be. The girls have told me I can be overbearing.

[tokakujuho]

Yes, mother.

[ that is an appropriate answer to an uncomfortable topic, right? if anything it shows their common little shithead roots. ]

Well, it's better to have that kind of parent than one who doesn't care at all.
They'll realise that when they're older.

[gorb]

Why am I always the mother?

( 😪 )

It's the hair, isn't it?

[tokakujuho]

Are you fishing for compliments?

Fathers are generally absent.

[gorb]

Maybe.

My ego could be bruised.

( ... )

[tokakujuho]

[ now you've made him laugh in public. :( ]

I'll ask Ieiri to get in touch and say something nice about your hair.

[gorb]

She used to threaten to cut it in my sleep, Nanami. She's not going to say anything good.

[tokakujuho]

She was probably jealous that you were allowed to have long hair.
She's grown hers out now.
It will be fine.

Probably.

[gorb]

( Silly, that he feels a pang of jealousy over someone knowing that, when Geto chose to leave. )

I'll take your word for it. But I'm sure she'd still just call me out so I'll pass.

[tokakujuho]

Very well.

Though I think she'd like to hear from you sometime.

[gorb]

Better to not implicate her. She deserves better.

[tokakujuho]

[ why does he still talk to any of them? he could have stayed a banker boy and be retired, enjoying his beach house by now. ]

Stubborn ass.

[gorb]

( Sucks to be him! )

Aren't we all, in our own way? Maybe it's part of a jujutsu sorcerer's genetic makeup.

[tokakujuho]

I have no idea what you're talking about.
Everyone else aside from you two is perfectly reasonable.

[gorb]

Satoru is his own beast entirely. Don't lump me in with him.

( :C )

[tokakujuho]

If he is a beast then he's your beast and you are forever responsible for him because you're the one who tamed him.