[seasonality] catchall for rupert

[wtfox]

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w5, sunday.

[heartlands]

[by this point his eye has presumably been cleaned up and bandaged! so he's here, laying down on one of the mats in the nap room. he looks over when he sees her.]

...Hey.

[wtfox]

Hey.

[she looks concerned]

How are you holding up...?

[heartlands]

[incredibly dry:]

I feel awesome.

[wtfox]

[she sits down next to him]

...at least they were able to do something for your eye...?

[heartlands]

...Yeah. I owe Otome and Byleth one.

[wtfox]

...

[she breathes out.]

I'm really glad they were able to do something. It was really scary when you guys showed up hurt like that.

[heartlands]

[there's a pause of his own.]

Maybe I shouldn't have gotten so comfortable. I just - I didn't think something like this would happen. I don't want to think it might happen again.

[wtfox]

None of us expected it, you know? We went weeks and weeks without it happening here, and it was happening every week over there.

The daycare was supposed to be safe.

[heartlands]

I wonder if it's because we're getting closer to the end...?

[wtfox]

Maybe. Or... maybe this place is throwing "plot twists" at us to distract us?

But if it actually wants an ending, that's counter productive.

[heartlands]

...I can ask Hugo to see if he has any guesses. Just - maybe tomorrow.

[wtfox]

Yeah, you should probably take it easy today.

[heartlands]

Yeah.

[...]

Is that really what Paris is like?

[wtfox]

...I guess that'd depend on exactly what you experienced while you were there...?

[heartlands]

Do the heroes usually do a lot of, you know... Stabbing?

[wtfox]

...we're not supposed to.

[yikes!]

But - people do get hurt. Usually Ladybug fixes it, at the end... her power resets everything back to how it was, once she's purified the akuma.

[heartlands]

...Too bad she didn't show up, then, I guess.

[wtfox]

...she usually shows up at the end, once whatever the akuma is hiding in has been broken. Because if it's left on its own instead of being purified, it'll multiply...

[...]

Everyone's always really grateful to her because it's always her power that puts everything back to how it was at the end, but... it'd be more helpful if she'd show up a little faster.

[heartlands]

...Everyone's grateful to you, too, right?

[wtfox]

...

[haha! moving on.]

It sounds like things were a tiny bit different for you guys, if Ladybug never showed up. But that might've just been this place... [she gestures at their surroundings] Playing tricks.

[heartlands]

[he pauses for a moment, confused at the way she just moves on, but.]

Yeah. I know it wasn't really your home. But I saw you, like I did in the first one.

[wtfox]

...how many of these things did I show up on...

[HELLO?]

[heartlands]

...Has it been more than two?

[wtfox]

There was both of yours, apparently, and also the one that Manwol was on... They didn't tell me much about it, but I guess it was, um, bad.

[heartlands]

I hope that's not a weird position to be in... Just keep in mind it wasn't really you.