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[oorah]

𝓜𝓻. 𝓜𝓪𝔂𝓸𝓻

𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙, 𝖛𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔 (𝔲𝔫;𝖍𝖔𝖙𝖉𝖔𝖌)

𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 (𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖋𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊)

𝖋𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖈𝖑𝖚𝖇 𝖛𝖕 (𝔰𝔞𝔣𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔢)

𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝕶𝖔𝖚𝖙 (𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯)

𝖔𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 (𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖍 : ₁₀₋₃ | 𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑 : ₁₁₋₇ | 𝖋𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖕)

𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖗 (𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔬𝔫, 𝔠𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔠, 𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔩)

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[nishizono]

thanks
and by the way

you have a nasty habit of skipping things you don't wanna talk about
this is like the third time
i'm calling you out

[oorah]

you've never been inside my dreams
have you?

[nishizono]

not that i've seen or remember
but i think you'd know if i was
and would tell me, too

i don't know how half of my shit works

[oorah]

well if you can help it
stay out of there
you've seen enough fucked up shit
i shouldn't add to it

[nishizono]

i'll do my best

also i promised her i'll give her a sword

[oorah]

does she know how to use a sword?
do you have a sword to give her?

[nishizono]

we can teach her.
i said i'd get her one, i can make one if i have to.

[oorah]

OK bring her by fight club [ oh tet ]

[nishizono]

WHAT NO

no one's punching her what the fuck?!?!?

[ THIS IS A CONFUSING TIME AS IT IS WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS DAD ]

[oorah]

no
we're going to teach her how to use a knife
like you said

[ one can practically hear the patient dad-tone even over text ]

[nishizono]

[ oh right. yeah. tetora feels like he just lost a game and he's not even sure what they're playing here,w wow, rude. ]

oh okay
so no one's fighting her
that's good

she's got great aim with a gun
it was really cool

[oorah]

that sounds cool
you do know fight club isn't just for fighting right?

[nishizono]

[ ...? ]

what the hell else is it for then?
it's fight club
it's there in the name for a reason
right???

[oorah]

sure you can fight there
but it's for learning and sharing what you know

[nishizono]

so it's a classroom
you're running a classroom

[oorah]

more like a dojo but yeah
how did you not know this?

[nishizono]

you know why
the only classroom i've ever been in was a crime scene

[oorah]

OK jesus
sorry
just bring her by whenever
i have an extra knife around here somewhere too

[nishizono]

i'll ask her
we'll come by

i'm gonna bring my knives too so there's more to pick from
thanks dad

[ the perfect date: picking out knives ]

[oorah]

yeah

[ at first that's it, he intends to leave it. but tetora... didn't even know what his project here was about. maybe he needs other things spelled out too even after being inside frank's head. ]

you know i'm here
whatever you need
right?

[nishizono]

[ he's not used to reading between the lines for things that are— well, not the death of others. what is kindness? camaraderie? what kind of world is it where people can just come together and no one ends up dead? ]

i know.
you're better about helping others than i'll ever be.
i trust you.

[oorah]

don't say that
you think i was good at helping people before the service?
fuck no. i was a selfish piece of shit.
if i can learn so can you.

[ to hear tetora trusts him is big though, he's internalizing it. maybe even proud of the fact. ]

[nishizono]

i don't think i have the time left to learn
but thanks
i'm gonna try for you, dad

[ does this make it worse? using dad to soften the honesty? tetora thinks so, because he doesn't know better. ]

[oorah]

don't [ he sends it before he means to, shaking his head down at his device. he should know when to leave things be with tetora but he can't. not when the boy is resolved to dying. that won't happen - not on his watch. ]

there's plenty of time
as long as you're here
and we're together
i'm not gonna let anything happen to you.

[nishizono]

[ this makes his chest ache in a way that he's not sure he understands. tetora can't breathe. ]

you can't promise me things like that.
what if i make you break that promise?
what if you have to?