welcome sleepies, to our very first meme saturday! every month a little mod-hosted meme will go up for us to play around with admist the chaos, and this theme was chosen by popular demand! we've all heard about texts from last night, but have you heard of......
MURMURS FROM LAST NIGHT
strange things happen in the night. maybe you drink, or dream, or get high as a kite, and it's hard to hide it! especially when we're all collectively connected in a way! the rules are quite simple! you may even know them by now.
π post a top level for your character and include a few text starters, like the ones provided.
π interact.
π thrive.
π if you wish for your threads to be game canon, the sky is the limit (just make sure your thread partner is okay with it!).
π We might have some special guests later.
[ The undertone is rather clear, though, that his problem believing it isn't because he thinks she would lie about it or that he doesn't take her seriously. It's entirely a problem on his end of the equation.
I chose you, if you recall. You're mine to wield. And if you've come to know me at all, I have exceptionally high standards. I accept nothing less than the best, the most valuable, the most precious.
I wouldn't waste my time or sentiment on someone unworthy of it.
[ Everything she says is true, he knows. She's never shown anything but high standards in the time he's known her. Lortel chases perfection with a deadly serious intensity. ]
[ Megumi's used to people around him thinking of him more like an asset than anything else. Megumi the person is just attached to the Ten Shadows technique and the Zenin bloodline and all the bullshit that goes along with it.
When he feels broken, it naturally follows that the asset is worth less, doesn't it? ]
[ it bursts out of her, shocking even her with the sincerity of its vehemence. ]
You're misunderstanding me from the start. I don't like you for your skills, Megumi, or for what you can offer me, or for theβthe deal that we made. I don't mean to say those things aren't valuable.
[ if she realized what she was saying, she'd stop immediately from the horrifying realization of how unlike her it is to say. ]
[ It may be true that he's badly prepared to hear things like this, after the mess that was his sale to the Zenin and the subsequent deal to relinquish him to Gojo, after he spent the rest of his years before Jujutsu High pulling away from everyone instead of looking outward and finding the people who would help him get past that.
It took until he was fifteen years old to actually make real friends. His issues have issues. ]
[ she, in the interim of his silence and consideration, is having her own series of realizations.
the very first of which is:
would she ever have said such a thing even to Ed?
though she'd not wanted it to be, though he'd risked his safety and even life for her without expectation of recompense, though she'd made her romantic interest in him awkwardly clearβ
βwould she ever have really admitted she liked him just for him? without keeping up some cutesy veneer of appreciating his utility to her?
the second realization is:
was that a confession?????
he's not ... reacting like it is, so maybe if she just curls around her own racing pulse and pretend saying all that isn't affecting her in any way whatsoever they can get through this without catastrophe!
the weird swooping feeling in her gut tells her she's probably in a lot of trouble anyway. ]
[ By which he means he is going to try not to go spiraling down into the darkness of his own shitty mental health and necessitate her to yank him back up to the surface again.
Although he...did like hearing it. Would like to hear it again.
Maybe without the preceding moments of self-loathing, next time. ]
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[ Not a thing he's used to hearing. ]
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because she kind of pauses before replying: ]
You're smart, Megumi. Surely even you must realize why I say these things.
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[ But. ]
Getting myself to believe it is the sticky part.
[ The undertone is rather clear, though, that his problem believing it isn't because he thinks she would lie about it or that he doesn't take her seriously. It's entirely a problem on his end of the equation.
Self-esteem, what's that. ]
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I wouldn't waste my time or sentiment on someone unworthy of it.
1/...3?
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When he feels broken, it naturally follows that the asset is worth less, doesn't it? ]
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Lortel...knew exactly what condition he was in, and it didn't stop her.
Until you can wield yourself.
This is the first step to that, isn't it? A first step he might have to retake who knows how many times, because old habits die hard, but... ]
You're right. I'm sorry.
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[ it bursts out of her, shocking even her with the sincerity of its vehemence. ]
You're misunderstanding me from the start. I don't like you for your skills, Megumi, or for what you can offer me, or for theβthe deal that we made. I don't mean to say those things aren't valuable.
[ if she realized what she was saying, she'd stop immediately from the horrifying realization of how unlike her it is to say. ]
I like you forβforβ
you, Megumi.
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It took until he was fifteen years old to actually make real friends. His issues have issues. ]
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That...means a lot to me, Lortel.
[ Despite what an absolute dumbass he is at reacting to it. ]
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the very first of which is:
would she ever have said such a thing even to Ed?
though she'd not wanted it to be, though he'd risked his safety and even life for her without expectation of recompense, though she'd made her romantic interest in him awkwardly clearβ
βwould she ever have really admitted she liked him just for him? without keeping up some cutesy veneer of appreciating his utility to her?
the second realization is:
was that a confession?????
he's not ... reacting like it is, so maybe if she just curls around her own racing pulse and pretend saying all that isn't affecting her in any way whatsoever they can get through this without catastrophe!
the weird swooping feeling in her gut tells her she's probably in a lot of trouble anyway. ]
... good. I wasn't going to say it twice.
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[ By which he means he is going to try not to go spiraling down into the darkness of his own shitty mental health and necessitate her to yank him back up to the surface again.
Although he...did like hearing it. Would like to hear it again.
Maybe without the preceding moments of self-loathing, next time. ]
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[ pardon her, she's gonna... go... blush her face off in peace. (can he feel through the Murmur how flustered she is??
god no absolutely not BYE) ]