moonblades | week 1 curfew

[ Why why why. He'd rather be on a boat with a different death game than right here. ]

Having sex.

[Mio's starting to sense that this is even more uncomfortable than her perception's led her to believe, not just something culminating from the two men's failure to express their feelings but something, maybe, that she shouldn't be watching right now.

So she's acutely aware of Kurapika's growing discomfort, too, and she steers herself away from the too-obvious, clearly uninformed questions that she wants to ask first. Her curiosity can't stop her from settling for another probe for information, however.]

Is it always like that?

[turning to pika, vaguely panicked,]

Is isn't always like that, is it? Kurapika?

[Please tell him it's not???]

[ Is it too late to go back and not show up at the theater? To pick another movie? He wonders if they would be mad if he turned it off. ]

I wouldn't know. Probably not.

[What's got Noah so concerned? She's still trying to to wrap her mind around everything. But there's one thing she's sure of. Because Mio isn't so deep into her own head that it's up her arse, she can definitely tell that Kurapika's on edge now.]

Right. I'll drop it, then. [All her basic, ignorant questions unasked...but that's for the best. Just wait until there's a baby on screen and she'll be controlling the line of questioning again.]

[There's nothing for it, is there? They're going to have to spend the rest of the movie in agonized silence, because even if Mio isn't picking up what they're putting down, she can most certainly feel their concentrated manpain.

Noah remains silent, glancing between the screen and the floor, until the unfamiliar squalling of babies hits his ears.]

Are those...? They look like tiny people.

[ Now that? That's an easy question. A much, much better question. ]

They are. They're known as babies where I'm from. They'll grow and mature into an adult over a span of two decades.

They're so little. [The awe Mio feels is slightly tempered by the fact that said babies on screen are wailing at the top of their lungs, yet she still watches them like they're some kind of marvel.

She presses a hand gently to her breastbone as if suppressing a pang she didn't anticipate. Two decades...]

I wonder what it'd be like to hold one.

[Noah's curious mind would really like to know how babby is formed, but the wonder on Mio's face is distracting enough to whisk that thought away. Consider yourself lucky, Kurapika.]

They're quite cute. A bit noisy, but certainly charming. Do you have any babies, Kurapika?

you know what this is

I don't have children, no.

[ He will consider himself very lucky, thanks. ]

They're soft and warm. It's like holding a little bundle of life in your arms. [ ... ] It's the kind of warmth that fills your chest. It's hard to explain, but they're nice to hold.

[She's positively lighting up as Kurapika describes it; Mio doesn't need to say anything for it to be apparent on her face that she's imagining what it would be like to experience something like that.]

Maybe one day you will if that's what you want. [ Getting one's hands on a baby can't be too difficult. Despite the joyful experience Kurapika described and the one that she's imagining, Mio doesn't feel like their subject matter shares the joy.] But they don't really seem happy together. I suppose they really shouldn't be together.

[The baby is cute, but Noah can only imagine that all that crying is a sign of discontent. Poor thing... but what Mio says has Noah wondering if there may be some connection between unhappy babies and the unhappy people who care for them.]

No, they shouldn't. Those two men... Their relationship is fraught, but they seem to have some sort of genuine connection that they don't with those two ladies.

You're both right. They shouldn't be together because they're unhappy.

[ And take that as a lesson, you two. Don't be with anyone who doesn't make you happy! Another fun lesson from Kurapika, who has no experience with relationships.

He turns his gaze towards Noah. ]

It's incompatibility due to their sexuality. On a base level, they aren't attracted to the women they're with.

[When do we get Kurapika telling us it's "human nature," hm? Mio nods.] It makes perfect sense that someone would feel that way only for certain people.

[She's not avoiding looking at the screen so much as she's avoiding looking at the faces of other people in the room, only stealing a couple of long-sided glances that she quickly retracts.] At the very least, wanting something you'll never be able to have... I understand that much.

week 1 curfew

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jk i'm done

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