Touko Fukawa

good morning i need to kiss Byakuya Togami on the Mouth and then throw him down a flight of stairs.

oh, what id do to lace your fingers between mine, feel the warmth of your skin against my cheek, hear you breathe softly in your sleep...

You just dont like Valentines because you hate White Day!

hhhhhhhHHHHHHHHH I NEED THE SWEET AND LOVING TOUCH OF A WOMAN!!!!

"ah, always like you, yeah?"

little laugh. Oh she has such a right to be concerned.

"stay safe, okay?"

... half smile. She's gotten particularly good at bluffing, and shes not quite chipper so much as just soft and warm and seemingly happy. And, maybe, she genuinely is.

But she has very little clue what went on before this.

"...course. Why wouldnt I be sure..?"

"So am i."

she helps her!

"Yeah, of course! cant see any reason I wouldn't be alright!"

"She's a little skittish, kind of hard to make sure she can relax... I dont mind. Shes worth the work!" Light blush, but a big smile!!

ah. Maybe Junko wasnt so wrong-

"my doors open to you too. I dont get company enough."

... she must be REALLY out of it, to be this honeyed.

When you've been meaning to either work or engage with other people who dont make you angry for hours and have just been smashing your face against the wall because the venn diagram of "people who have no literary analysis skills" and "people who engage in lit. analysis discussions" is a circle.

"im sure i will!"

she... cant actually tell if she's missing any rest. she cant tell a lot of things.

"...I dont know when Mikan will be back. I do enjoy her company though. Its.. warm."

"I think I'm okay, all things considered!"

she... seems ligitimately fine. maybe a little too relaxed, even.

little smile! ... her eyes seem hollow, they hold neiter constant fear like gloomy's, nor any anger like syo's. theres some kind of distanced warmth to them.

She's still Touko, at the end of the day, but its hard to tell *what* Touko.

"they often do. Parents who live viacariously. Parents who refuse to let tradition die for the sake of the wellbeing of others. it creates vicious cycles... People have to power to stop it- they just have to be uncomfortable for a little. Im glad youre sharing, with me."

She looks up, with a +

else out of a larger "branch" she took off. she was nearly going to overprune it.

"They are for most people with bad childhoods. It took me forever to learn that not everything was a thinly-veiled attack and that I shouldnt have been expected to act like an adult all the time."

shes. kind of lost in just staring at her horse. She takes a deep breath and starts to snip something+

"I suppose, if you wanted to file it down into its results. being a better friend is only one of those things."

She seems... blunted, almost. not quite gloomy, certainly not syo.

"Its just teaching yourself how to care about others without needing to control them."

[Passes out 👍]

"Damn straight I could!!"

she actually tries to-- and lodges them into the ceiling, on accident. shes far too dizzy to keep standing like that.

"... well maybe I just wanna see her eat shit sometimes, hotshot!!"

Proooove it!! plus you didnt answer my question!!

I'm at least doing better than Fujisaki- I'd take a long walk off a short pier if i had to live knowing leon didn't eat shit early!! hey!! hey!! @shslchihiro.bsky.social !! How's living with that loser cuck in your attic?

Sometimes existing in a vastly different timeline from the rest of you nerds is fun!! and then Sometimes I have to sit down and remember I fucked Sakura's boyfriend and watched Fujisaki's mom get verbally randy about her sex life.

"mh..."

she thinks, for a moment, About how she wants to phrase this.

Which is extremely unlike her and should probably cause some degree of Alarm!

"... Its a skill. You could train it too, You know."

is a good talent like that. It makes her good at reading between the lines. Reading between the words, reading the room.

"... Apology Accepted. You didn't gotta get self-depricatory with it, yknow. Youre plenty smart. Can figure out a lot more shit than i can, yknow?"

She can tell when people are allergic to certain words, for whatever reason. She's allergic to the word "love". Chihiro is allergic to any lingustic variation of the word "masculine". and, it appears, Kirigiri is allergic to the word "sorry".

But she understands. she always has. Literary progeny+

had written down, a habit she had been out of for a while because they could freely share, but cant anymore.

She doesnt really respond, intricately sculpting the mane of her topiary.

"... if you need to add anything verbally to it, thats for your sake. As verbose as I am? Words never spoke even half as loud as actions."

she pauses for a moment, kind of stares into her horse's eyes. She read what gloomy+

it, if nothing else, for more reasons than just the cold.

"You wanted it to be made safer, right? Its safer when you take the sleds out of the equation and essentially make it into a slide. We wear the trashbags and slide down on our backs so its less likely we Get Hurt."

"ME TOO- Its too cold for this! if the helmets are loose enough, im going to get a hat and scarf from the closet, youre welcome to search too!!"

Touko, several weeks ago in a fit of rage for her other half, Shaved her head. it doesnt look... Bad, on her, but she seems to be deeply missing having+

"Yeah!! Eh, its probably slightly weaker, id imagine... my hands are also probably stronger than yours? but its good to know my blade skills are useful to my pals, too."

"no problemo"

She laughs a little at Kyoko's laugh.

"What! Topiary can be a kind of bonsai, if ya squint!!"

laughing at herself, even.

"yours looks damn good, though!"