(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]

I don't like to.

(He hasn't seen Deku lie, so there's not much he can say about that!)

[bridge_princess]

It shows. Some people say they don't like to. It's sort of obvious with you. You wear it on your sleeve. You don't like to deceive people.

I know I can trust that you believe what you say. Not necessarily that you're right, but you aren't lying to me. It's... refreshing. [And annoying at times]

[forethinking]

Why would I lie to you in the first place?

(Actually, he's curious. He's not being terribly upfront, but she knows this already.

Lying, on the other hand...)

[bridge_princess]

That's not the question you should be asking right now, Ren. You wouldn't. Because you're Ren. And, while you're a human and subject to the weaknesses that entails? You remind me a tiny bit of a spirit sometimes. You're very driven by your nature. You and Akechi both.

So you wouldn't.

So, you should be asking "Why would someone lie to me?" And there's a lot of answers to that.

[forethinking]

(He likes to hear it, as weird of a compliment it is! How would Parsee react to knowing there certainly are "spirits" living within the two of them? Ren with Satanael and Akechi with both Robin Hood and Loki, he wonders?)

You're not wrong. (Specially those who know him a little better. Don't let him get impulsive, Void. Little does he know he was already lied to a bunch these past few months.)

[bridge_princess]

[Jealousy, duuuuuh.]

On either point, I think. It is part of why I put up with your antics. I know you honestly mean them. [She shrugged.] If you were just putting on airs of being my friend, I would have given you such hell compared to what I have already.

You're a very... forthright person. It's an admirable quality. And, while I'm not overtly deceptive... I have trouble being that open.

[forethinking]

(That's a new reaction to having Satan inside of your soul, that's for sure.........)

You don't give me hell. (It becomes clearer with each conversation that Ren's point of view regarding their friendship is much, much contrasting to her own.) You're fine.

(Her deductions tend to always be half correct due to her lack of knowledge on him. He hides quite a lot from the Void, but apparently, not well enough.)

We all do. It's not easy to let others in.

[bridge_princess]

I suppose. I guess that's partially true of most of us. We're kind of in a rough spot here. Forced to trust each other even when we barely know one another.

And it's not like this place can force us to have better understandings, is it?

[Parsee, shut your mouth. You're giving the world ideas.]