(open) where have you been? been searching all along 𝅘𝅥𝅮

[forethinking]

Who: renren and you!
What: a catch-all!
Where: bathhouse, hblanc, apartments, market place...
When: august-september
Content Warnings: none, but i promise nothing and will update this if needed! spoiler warnings will be on the top level or in the subject of the comment.

edit: remember when i said i promised nothing? there's people bathing in here

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[forethinking]

(... Does Wuxian know what a shower is? How were things back on whatever time Wuxian is from, Ren's mind really wants to know...

When the other starts undressing, Ren doesn't react. Normal things!)

We have been without a bath for way too long.

[yinception]

[What is a shower and can he eat it? (... Minus the fish. One could probably eat the fish.)]

Very true. And what a bath this is!

[It's huge! Definitely not like anything Wuxian is used to.

Leaving his clothes in a big heap to the side, he undoes his hair ribbon, putting it on top of Mount Clothing with no small sense of accomplishment (for some reason), and heads straight for the bath.]

[forethinking]

(He can agree! It is a simple one, but it definitely is comfortabl--, Wuxian is going straight for the shared bath. No, no...)

Wuxian-san, you need to go through the showers first.

(Is this arc based on showing an ancient man how hygiene technology works?)

[yinception]

[This is exactly that arc, because every self-respecting series needs one, come on. It's either this or tentacle monsters, and that is another genre altogether!]

The showers..? Why do I need the showers?

[What do they even do? What, here, is called a shower?!?!

Gosh, this arc could end up boringly long.]

[forethinking]

(Very much agreed!)

... It's this thing here.

(Again, this was expected. Thank God he was here before Wuxian found this place... If he hadn't come in before.

To exemplify what he means, he just turns one of the showers on, allowing the water to make his point.)

First this, then the bath.

[yinception]

[Considering fish dwell in the pipes, could one (1) not-quite-demonic cultivator really have made things worse? ... Well, maybe. But as long as nobody is pooping, and presumably nobody is sweating either, at least the damage is limited.]

Convenient!

[Stuck halfway between admiration and confusion, he tries not to let either show through too much.]

But then, do we even need the bath?

[forethinking]

(Ren is working on it, he promises. He will try to make the bath fish free for everyone...!)

Relaxation.

(Get clean in the showers, soak in water and forget your problems for a little bit!)

Did you not have something like this?

[yinception]

[Better yet: add some tiny fishing nets, play around while getting clean! (Until the fish pooping starts.)]

Of course, we had baths!

[He gets clean in the meantime, trying to work out what he thinks of these showers. The warm water is really nice, but the sheer volume of it is a bit -... It feels more like a massage than a wash, and Wuxian isn't sure whether that's a good thing. But he's doing it! He's behaving!! (Wait - why is he even listening to someone younger??)]

But for relaxation, isn't swimming better? Or even lying around.

[forethinking]

(Eh-

Wuxian forgot the soap. Ren excuses himself for a moment before he returns with a little round object in his hands. He reckons it might not be something Wuxian has seen? When was soap invented? Either way, he turns one of the showers on to wash his own hands as demonstration before handing the bar to the other.)

Try with this.

(It's with a shrug he replies.)

When you go inside, maybe you'll see it differently.