463 ❀ backdated to last night

[ino]

[Reno]

Are you ready for this? I'm about to totally blow your mind.

Comments

[Ino]

[ontheclockpro]

[Oh? What's this?]

Yeah? Hit me.

[Reno forever]

[ino]

Okay. So I was talking to Martel, right? And she told me possibly the most horrifying thing I've ever heard in my life.

[DRAMATIC PAUSE. GO ON RENO, ASK HER WHAT SHE SAID]

AND EVER

[ontheclockpro]

[Luckily he knows how this goes. good old gossip]

Oh? What was it?

[ino]

She said her and Yuan have been engaged for two whole years ... and they've never done it. They haven't even come close!

[ontheclockpro]

-- Whoa, what?

No way. You can't be serious!

[ino]

Yeah! I know, right? Martel was kind of upset about it too, like, she wanted to but Yuan is such a dumbass that he keeps missing her hints and stuff.

[ontheclockpro]

[a sigh]

I should've told her to get drunk and hit stuff...

[ino]

Eh?

[ontheclockpro]

...Never mind.

So you tell her anything?

[ino]

Well, yeah, of course! I couldn't just let that go on! And if how they looked coming out of the forest just now is any indication, I'm preeeetty sure it worked~!

[ontheclockpro]

[An impressed whistle]

You sure went above and beyond this mission. Good work!

[ino]

[she laughs] Well, come on, if you'd seen her face you'd have helped too. I just can't believe Yuan was being such an idiot ...

[ontheclockpro]

The old man can be pretty thick sometimes, what can I say?

1/2

[ino]

Seriously ...

[ino]

Anyways, I figured you would want to know. Other than her having a kind of poor self-esteem, I haven't heard much that you couldn't find in the journal.

[ontheclockpro]

Poor self-esteem? Seriously?

And hey,. I like to hear about a good job done~

[ino]

Mm. She was saying that she has healing spells normally, but that she felt useless in the Dead Zone. She said, "Without them, I'm just a weak woman" ... And she kept putting herself down, kinda. Like, she said "The one thing that ever mattered, I failed to do."

[ontheclockpro]

[.........]

[Oh god Ino just put it in the way that is his pet peeve.]

Okay we gotta shake her of that or it'll be a serious pain later.

[ino]

Yeah, no kidding ... I think what I said cheered her up a little bit, but it's hard to tell. And an attitude like that isn't just going to magically go away because someone says one thing, you know? [EVEN AS A SHONEN she knows this]

[ontheclockpro]

Yeah, yeah I know.

So what do we do? I'm guessing telling her to knock it off like I do with Elena won't help.

[ino]

I'm working on that. Even if she messed up in the past, doing well now might help improve her attitude. I'm trying to teach her some stuff she can use out here that'll make her feel less useless.

... Not sure about where to go from there, but it's a start, I guess.