yeah, no one really seems to agree on the whole "is it me or not" question. i think you just have to decide for yourself if you wanna see that other people in your memories as you. i just know my own answer
I think I need to learn more about her before I decide that, but she's already different than me. I know that much
no no I know! I mean... [hm.] you've been really nice so far and all of that but I still don't know that much about you. and I think maybe I would like to? if that's okay. so like...who are you in this lifetime?
[ There's a surprising pause before his response. Not many people ask a question like that. At least, not to him. They either assume they know who he is, are afraid to ask or just don't care to ask.
Who are you in this lifetime? That...was a good question, he found himself thinking. Strangely enough, for all the railing he's done against being Allen and who he's not, he's never given much thought about who he is. So it actually takes some time to come up with an answer ]
in this lifetime? im just a guy trying to get by, i guess. you know, go to school. get to work. not get eaten by monsters. i like movies though.
[Rise's learned after several years of dealing with people that it's best not to assume...even though she also assumes how people see her. It's a double-standard, she knows, and yet Noah isn't telling her off yet so that's nice.
It's nice to be able to casually chat with new people. She's patient and she's probably doing homework or something on her end, so it doesn't matter how long Noah takes.
The answer doesn't surprise her either.]
I think we all are. trying to get by, I mean, not avoid getting eaten by monsters (are there seriously a lot of monsters out there? is that a new thing I have to worry about??) what are your favorites? you told me what your favorites AREN'T but I never asked
theres not a LOT a lot? just some here and there but i wouldnt recommend going out there without someone who can fight
my favourites? horror movies. i always loved scary shit. also movies about food. is that a genre? but i like most stuff unless the dog dies. then fuck that movie.
I'm sure I can find somebody if I ever wanted to go out past the city. fighting isn't really a thing I've thought a lot about...
but horror movies are pretty okay. and I think there's probably a cooking genre? like that movie about that restaurant owner who falls in love with a chef, or that movie about the rat helping that restaurant in paris! those definitely count. but those are pretty good guidelines. guess you're a fan of dogs then. do you have one of your own?
[Small talk? Maybe. But also this is probably the most she's gotten out of a near-stranger and she'll have to practice for college anyway.]
most people dont think about fighting until they get on this app, but its something of a necessity i think. but you might get powers of some kind, those usually help.
[Unless you get a crappy power. And yeah, it was small talk, but it was the type he could handle.]
yeah! i know what movies youre talking about. think ive watched the rat one half a dozen times now.
i love dogs. i had one growing up, a beagle named allie. she was the best dog.
I kind of doubt it. people with powers seem like the kind of people who are really special, you know? I can't imagine any version of me with any kind of fighting powers or anything but I bet a lot of my friends have them and I just don't know it yet
it's a good movie! cute, you know? those are the best kind. and beagles are pretty cute, too...
[She caught the "was" though and carefully steps around it.]
we're more of a cat-family but I volunteer at the animal shelter sometimes and help take care of the dogs
[A pause.]
you should come by sometime if you ever have a free afternoon. the dogs usually need to be walked and played with before they're kenneled for the night anyway and I bet they'd like to see more people
oy, dont be like that. you seem just as special as the rest of us, so you might get something. and even if you dont, some of the most special people i know dont have any powers.
yeah? you like cute movies then? they are! people complain about them being stubborn and loud, but i like that about them. once im done with school, i wanna get another one.
[It's okay Allie died peacefully of old age. No trauma here unlike canon]
oh yeah? i volunteer at the dog sanctuary! i wouldnt mind coming by your shelter sometime. i like taking the dogs for walks. helps clear the head.
I'm serious! it's not a bad thing, I don't MIND not getting superpowers or anything. I mean it would be pretty cool to be able to help people but I'll just have to find another way. ...that was actually really sweet, noah. those people are pretty lucky to have you if that's what you think
cute movies are always a win, and the other kind I told you about! my brothers and I used to watch a bunch of movies all the time and sometimes now even without Aniki me and Hinata and Izumi will do movie nights and stuff. I somethings think as the oldest Chiaki wanted us to have a lot of happy things around us and that's that there's nothing wrong with stubborn and loud dogs! and anyway if you train them they can be quiet when they need to be. I've never thought about getting a dog myself but they're good companions
oh! I had no idea, that's so great! for the dogs I mean. they could always use extra hands over there, I know a few people who volunteer over there, too, I think it's really calming, right? dogs are so non-judgmental and it's just nice that they don't have any expectations or negative opinions unless you're not walking fast enough I'm usually there at least once a week (wednesdays lately), sometimes twice if the soup kitchen has enough people on staff? but i can always change days so yeah, you could come by any time you wanted
okay just dont discount yourself so fast. [As for being called sweet] tch whatever. dont tell them i said something like that.
[God forbid if they knew I cared!!!]
wow, that sounds really nice. im a little jealous i always wanted siblings when i was a kid, but dad insisted i was enough. [He picks up on that past tense with Chiaki though, and decides not to press.] thats my thought. theyre good dogs.
yeah, thats why i like walking them. people can be...hard to deal with sometimes. dogs are pretty easy though. i can do wednesdays. i usually dont have work then. you work at a soup kitchen too?
sure but don't worry, your secret is safe with me!
[This does nothing to deter her impression that Noah's a nice (albeit possibly misunderstood) boy.]
i guess it IS pretty nice. we're all pretty close in age and everything. Hinata's actually in your class and Chiaki just graduated not that long ago and went to college. I don't know what I would do if the house was quiet or anything and sometimes my brothers are really annoying but I wouldn't trade them, I think now that I think about it it's kind of like living with overexcitable puppies anyway. they both get REALLY hyper about stuff...
but tell me about it. people are pretty nice now but they're not always dogs are nice to you if you're nice to them then let's try for a wednesday! it'll be fun, i promise the soup kitchen can always use volunteers so I try to be there at least once a week when I'm not doing stuff at the shelter or dance classes or homework or student council stuff. i've met some pretty nice people working there
[Not that he'd actually do anything other than probably scowl but still...]
hinata is? huh, wonder if hes in any of my classes. [What is learning classmate names] but yeah, sounds like that would be like overexcitable puppies alright. so are you the calm one?
wednesday sounds great. sure itll be fun. but damn wow, you keep yourself busy.
he might be! Hinata's pretty hard to miss even if people don't know him by name. he's been on the app for a while, too but yeah, totally calm! 100%
[That is a huge lie because she's just as bad around people she's comfortable with, but whatever.]
i don't mind being busy! it's nice to have things to do and i don't have a lot of other stuff taking up my time, so...giving back's nice? plus it's supposed to look great for college applications or something
[...that probably wasn't the right answer and she immediately backtracks.]
majors, probably! I haven't really decided what I want to do yet, I just think college is important? Chiaki has goals and stuff and I want to do my best but I don't know what all of that is yet. but I think I'm staying here for college anyway
it seems really far away but at the same time it isn't. that's the even weirder part
time went way too fast, you know? but at least there's still summer to maybe make up for it
I've heard that, too...and it's silly, isn't it? waiting for something like college to change things. but it would make sense since you get to interact with more people and do more things. i kind of can't wait to see what it's like and see if it lives up to the hollywood dream
next year will probably go by so fast you won't even notice especially if retrospec keeps being a thing that gets in the way anyway ...thanks. for not thinking it's silly. and i will! i actually applied for school here as a back-up just in case, but i'm thinking with everything that's happening now i might stay here but it's doable anyway, thanks for the company, noah. i should get going and help my mom with some stuff. but maybe I'll see you later?
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i think you just have to decide for yourself if you wanna see that other people in your memories as you.
i just know my own answer
huh? what do you mean? noah is me?
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no no I know! I mean... [hm.] you've been really nice so far and all of that but I still don't know that much about you. and I think maybe I would like to? if that's okay. so like...who are you in this lifetime?
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Who are you in this lifetime? That...was a good question, he found himself thinking. Strangely enough, for all the railing he's done against being Allen and who he's not, he's never given much thought about who he is. So it actually takes some time to come up with an answer ]
in this lifetime?
im just a guy trying to get by, i guess.
you know, go to school. get to work. not get eaten by monsters.
i like movies though.
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It's nice to be able to casually chat with new people. She's patient and she's probably doing homework or something on her end, so it doesn't matter how long Noah takes.
The answer doesn't surprise her either.]
I think we all are. trying to get by, I mean, not avoid getting eaten by monsters
(are there seriously a lot of monsters out there? is that a new thing I have to worry about??)
what are your favorites? you told me what your favorites AREN'T but I never asked
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just some here and there
but i wouldnt recommend going out there without someone who can fight
my favourites?
horror movies. i always loved scary shit.
also movies about food. is that a genre?
but i like most stuff
unless the dog dies. then fuck that movie.
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but horror movies are pretty okay. and I think there's probably a cooking genre? like that movie about that restaurant owner who falls in love with a chef, or that movie about the rat helping that restaurant in paris! those definitely count.
but those are pretty good guidelines.
guess you're a fan of dogs then. do you have one of your own?
[Small talk? Maybe. But also this is probably the most she's gotten out of a near-stranger and she'll have to practice for college anyway.]
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but you might get powers of some kind, those usually help.
[Unless you get a crappy power. And yeah, it was small talk, but it was the type he could handle.]
yeah! i know what movies youre talking about. think ive watched the rat one half a dozen times now.
i love dogs. i had one growing up, a beagle named allie.
she was the best dog.
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it's a good movie! cute, you know? those are the best kind. and beagles are pretty cute, too...
[She caught the "was" though and carefully steps around it.]
we're more of a cat-family but I volunteer at the animal shelter sometimes and help take care of the dogs
[A pause.]
you should come by sometime if you ever have a free afternoon. the dogs usually need to be walked and played with before they're kenneled for the night anyway and I bet they'd like to see more people
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and even if you dont, some of the most special people i know dont have any powers.
yeah? you like cute movies then?
they are! people complain about them being stubborn and loud, but i like that about them.
once im done with school, i wanna get another one.
[It's okay Allie died peacefully of old age. No trauma here
unlike canon]oh yeah? i volunteer at the dog sanctuary!
i wouldnt mind coming by your shelter sometime.
i like taking the dogs for walks. helps clear the head.
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...that was actually really sweet, noah. those people are pretty lucky to have you if that's what you think
cute movies are always a win, and the other kind I told you about! my brothers and I used to watch a bunch of movies all the time and sometimes now even without Aniki me and Hinata and Izumi will do movie nights and stuff. I somethings think as the oldest Chiaki wanted us to have a lot of happy things around us and that's that
there's nothing wrong with stubborn and loud dogs! and anyway if you train them they can be quiet when they need to be. I've never thought about getting a dog myself but they're good companions
oh! I had no idea, that's so great!
for the dogs I mean. they could always use extra hands over there, I know a few people who volunteer over there, too, I think
it's really calming, right? dogs are so non-judgmental and it's just nice that they don't have any expectations or negative opinions unless you're not walking fast enough
I'm usually there at least once a week (wednesdays lately), sometimes twice if the soup kitchen has enough people on staff? but i can always change days so yeah, you could come by any time you wanted
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[As for being called sweet] tch whatever. dont tell them i said something like that.
[God forbid if they knew I cared!!!]
wow, that sounds really nice. im a little jealous
i always wanted siblings when i was a kid, but dad insisted i was enough. [He picks up on that past tense with Chiaki though, and decides not to press.]
thats my thought. theyre good dogs.
yeah, thats why i like walking them. people can be...hard to deal with sometimes.
dogs are pretty easy though.
i can do wednesdays. i usually dont have work then.
you work at a soup kitchen too?
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but don't worry, your secret is safe with me!
[This does nothing to deter her impression that Noah's a nice (albeit possibly misunderstood) boy.]
i guess it IS pretty nice. we're all pretty close in age and everything. Hinata's actually in your class and Chiaki just graduated not that long ago and went to college. I don't know what I would do if the house was quiet or anything and sometimes my brothers are really annoying but I wouldn't trade them, I think
now that I think about it it's kind of like living with overexcitable puppies anyway. they both get REALLY hyper about stuff...
but tell me about it. people are pretty nice now but they're not always
dogs are nice to you if you're nice to them
then let's try for a wednesday! it'll be fun, i promise
the soup kitchen can always use volunteers so I try to be there at least once a week when I'm not doing stuff at the shelter or dance classes or homework or student council stuff. i've met some pretty nice people working there
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[Not that he'd actually do anything other than probably scowl but still...]
hinata is? huh, wonder if hes in any of my classes. [What is learning classmate names]
but yeah, sounds like that would be like overexcitable puppies alright.
so are you the calm one?
wednesday sounds great. sure itll be fun.
but damn wow, you keep yourself busy.
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he might be! Hinata's pretty hard to miss even if people don't know him by name. he's been on the app for a while, too
but yeah, totally calm! 100%
[That is a huge lie because she's just as bad around people she's comfortable with, but whatever.]
i don't mind being busy! it's nice to have things to do and i don't have a lot of other stuff taking up my time, so...giving back's nice? plus it's supposed to look great for college applications or something
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but ok if you say so.
[Doesn't matter all that much to him. He's used to hyper puppies from Prompto anyway]
oh yeah, ive heard that.
the college thing.
what are you gonna do with college?
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change.
[...that probably wasn't the right answer and she immediately backtracks.]
majors, probably! I haven't really decided what I want to do yet, I just think college is important? Chiaki has goals and stuff and I want to do my best but I don't know what all of that is yet. but I think I'm staying here for college anyway
it seems really far away but at the same time it isn't. that's the even weirder part
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[Sure he has another year, but for her it's just a few months. But he gets the feeling her first answer is her more sincere one. ]
wanting change's not a bad thing.
i hear colleges a good place to get it it too.
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I've heard that, too...and it's silly, isn't it? waiting for something like college to change things. but it would make sense since you get to interact with more people and do more things. i kind of can't wait to see what it's like and see if it lives up to the hollywood dream
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i dont think its silly, as long as youre working towards something. lemme know if it does live up to it.
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especially if retrospec keeps being a thing that gets in the way anyway
...thanks. for not thinking it's silly. and i will! i actually applied for school here as a back-up just in case, but i'm thinking with everything that's happening now i might stay here
but it's doable
anyway, thanks for the company, noah. i should get going and help my mom with some stuff. but maybe I'll see you later?
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yeah, ill see you later. have a good night rise.