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tindery: (❧ no matter how)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-08 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ i think everyday about how even in the canon purg timeline, rafayel gave tobari the vial and tobari was a lil bitch about it and then the literal next day, yosuke gave him the second one. which made tobari go 'what the hell' and then he had to apologize to raf exactly 2 days after he turned down his offer.

this is pretty much the same timeline but fucky-er.

anyway, tobari is already there. he's hanging out not quite at the base of the tree where all the eurydice are, but just a little ways out in the flower field itself. the stark red of his haori probably makes him easy to find, even as he's sitting in the field cross-legged with his head resting in the palm of his hand. the index finger of his free hand brushes against the petal of a daisy.

when he hears rafayel approach, he looks up and pulls up two vials from his belt: one empty, the other still full. ]


Thought we should start here.
tindery: (❧ the words rush out)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-08 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
... I think I'm just a more troublesome person than I ever intended to be.

[ he knows that raf means it as a joke but—it doesn't change the fact that people thought of tobari's circumstances enough to think he needed the help. it's funny because tsukasa was also worrying about him and that makes me laugh. imagine if he got three vials.

as is, ]


... I'm going to ask something, and I'll understand if you say no.

But does your offer for a place to go have room for two?

[ because as raf can probably guess—tobari comes with a plus-one at all times

... but after how he's treated raf, he wonders if he's allowed to make such a selfish ask ]
tindery: (❧ to stay)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-08 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ he shoots rafayel a slightly annoyed look at the first remark—but it's entirely toothless. this will be something else that tobari ruminates on for a while. the way in which he keeps being saved by other people.

. . . like now. again.

he'll gesture for rafayel to sit with him in the flower field. ]


... I'll figure out how to repay you. Even if it takes the rest of my new life.

[ that might still only be three years but i suppose in this au you can send him to zayne if you really want ]
tindery: (❧ pulls you in)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-08 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. [ it took rafayel a second to ask—but tobari's answer is immediate. whatever it is, the answer is yes. it is for the sake of the fact that he's pretty sure rafayel wouldn't want him to jump into saying something without thinking about it that he'll pause for just a second, and then reaffirm: ] ... Yeah. Anything, Raf.

[ everything, if rafayel really wanted.

because he's still processing this. some part of him didn't actually expect everything to work out—well, most of him didn't. tobari's losses are so, so recent. the red light district burnt down maybe five weeks ago by now, his own death only a month ago, his immediate memory before making it to purgatory. everything disappeared in an instant and yet... this new future also opened up so fast.

is that really how it works?

those are big questions he still has to answer, maybe, but while he has raf with him, he has to say— ]


... and I'm sorry.
tindery: (❧ the words rush out)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-08 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ he shakes his head ]

I'm not an idiot. I just trust you.

[ tobari is used to contracts and negotiations. he's used them more than once in his role as boss of the red light district and its delegate—but with rafayel, why bother? if he gets tricked or betrayed again, then that's just tobari's fault.

it's not impossible. tobari's own brother turned on him. foolishly, he finds himself choosing to believe again anyway. ]


... and I trusted you even before you pulled this. I don't like the way you did it—but I get why you did. [ because he's right. tobari would've never chosen himself. ] But based on what I said to you... it probably seems like I doubt you or resent you a lot more than I do.

And I don't want you to think that.
tindery: (❧ i understand)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-10 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ the awkwardness is a little amusing… but tobari isn’t sure he wants the serious air to linger. so he just offers a small smile and a raise of his brow. ]

… ah. If there’s more you want me to apologize for, we can deal with that later.

I said what I wanted to.

[ but at the very least, he can admit he doesn’t expect one from rafayel in turn. because tobari understands where he was coming from and assumes that the action comes out of care for tobari… the resentment will dissipate so unreasonably fast. (the odd emotion that such Care elicits will linger for a long time instead.) ]
tindery: (❧ the words rush out)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-10 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . rafayel trails off, and tobari tilts his head. ]

... don't force yourself. I'd rather have your truth, even if it's something I don't agree with.

[ he's tired of being betrayed and having his trust put in the wrong people... but even when it happens, he takes it upon himself for not noticing. still. it does mean that when someone seems so firmly on his side, like rafayel, it stands out just a bit more.

as for a vacation, he looks thoughtful ]


We need to finish up what we're doing here, and then I'd need time to get Suzune settled... [ it's not that he doesn't trust raf, he really is just an overprotective big brother. more so now after his sister has actually just straight up died, ] But after.... sure. You coming with?

[ on that vacation ]
tindery: (❧ makes you feel a bit feverish)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ tobari looks thoughtful about it, letting his gaze fall back down to the flowers. the daisy by his hand. ]

… I won’t let Suzune and I be an imposition on you. At least, not more than we already have been. So you don’t need to feel like you have to babysit us. I’ll be able to make things work.

[ he’s already deep in rafayel’s debt. the idea of troubling him anymore than this gives tobari hives. ]

But if you’re asking if I’d want to spend time with you again, the answer is of course.

[ and he would find it slightly baffling if rafayel’s answer was different, given the fact that he literally used a mazekeeper gift to keep tobari alive ]
tindery: (❧ so let's run wild)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-11 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ not the head pat

the funny thing is that tobari actually will endure being patted on the head by certain people he’s close to—but weirdly, he doesn’t want to accept one from rafayel. so he reaches up to catch that hand instead before it comes into contact with his hair, huffing ]


… she’ll like you, I think. A lot.

[ he glances over to where the eurydice sleep and his whirlwind of a little sister is so peacefully at rest ]

Something tells me I’m not going to get peace for a while.

[ and despite this he can’t help but sound… fond.

more time with two of his favorite people even when he didn’t think that it was possible… how does he still manage to find such luck? ]
tindery: (❧ exhausts me)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-11 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ first of all: ] She likes everyone more than me, but she likes your type the most.

[ playful friendly slightly dishonest guys with purple hair

that said, it’s not hard for him to agree ]


… but yeah. I know I am. [ he knows exactly what rafayel has offered him and it’s still making his head swim a bit. he looks at him again for a long moment, as if trying to get any type of stability before getting swept away in the waves of whatever rafayel has planned ] Maybe I’ll get to see that ocean of yours after all.

[ even if lemuria itself isn’t an option. something close. ]
tindery: (❧ makes you feel a bit feverish)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-11 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

[ he just lets raf compliment himself… says nothing in affirmation or decline…

it’s easier to talk about the ocean. he looks thoughtful, thinking back to the vision of the ocean that obikawa showed him in the simulations… ]


… it’s hard to imagine getting sick of it. [ he looks around at the flower field they’re in, a little moment of awe taking over again ] All of this that everyone else finds so commonplace.

It feels strange to admit that what I’ve always dreamed of is so small to everyone else.

[ maybe this is also why he doesn’t think to want much - everything he actually desires is so impossible ]
tindery: (❧ think they know)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-12 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
… thanks.

[ a little distracted, a little soft. it’s funny when itehari would think you’re a heretic and an insane person for even expressing a desire to see the world and now he hears someone so openly encouraging about it. ]

Did you always want to see it? What’s your favorite part about it?
tindery: (❧ and now it's frayed)

[personal profile] tindery 2026-01-12 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ if they’re going back with each other, isn’t it for the best if they’re able to fall back into step again?

and maybe it’s just because there’s too much to navigate in terms of the bigger feelings that tobari doesn’t feel like looking in the eye right now. too much to do at the moment. ]


A tour of… the surface? All of it?

[ the fact that they both kind of call it this is funny ]

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