Matsui

[honkinbigteeth]

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[honkinbigteeth]

Hello, Matsui! I brought your a bag of treats to make you all better!

[thank god he's no longer just screaming wordlessly.]

[sanguinary]

[Yeah! The wordless screaming is over. Now he's just staring like he's staring into the middle distance and also has no idea how to process the words he's just heard. There are a few moments of silence.]

...You don't need to worry about such a thing.

[honkinbigteeth]

Of course I do! I'm the expert at helping people feel better, so I brought you lots of goodies.

[pulling out like cupcakes and cookies from her bag for him.]

[sanguinary]

[THIS IS SO GENUINELY SWEET AND ALSO SO FUCKING FUNNY.

But Matsui is just staring toward her and the sound of her little bag rustling, looking very faintly confused beyond his general inexpressiveness. He thinks he smells something sweet? Hm.]

Ah... I'm sorry. I can't see what you've brought.

[honkinbigteeth]

You can't see?

[matsui...well.]

It's cookies and cupcakes. I can hold one out to you if you want.

[sanguinary]

[Sometimes your eyeballs become byeballs.]

...If you wouldn't mind.

[The funny thing is he doesn't even like sweets but what the hell is he gonna do, not accept this offering?? Ylfa is clearly out here doing her best. He'll extend a hand, palm up.]

[honkinbigteeth]

[good putting a cookie into his hand.]

Were your eyes injured?

[sanguinary]

[He take-a the cookie. His eyes seem fine! There's some marking along his exposed skin that looks like lightning scarring, though.]

Thank you. [For the cookie, which he doesn't eat yet.] ...Yes. I'm unsure how.

[honkinbigteeth]

...It looks like you were injured there by something. Maybe - fire or something.

[sanguinary]

Ah... I don't recall there being any fire. I don't recall much, though.

[Sometimes a severe trauma button gets slapped in the first few hours of an adventure and you just disassociate for the rest of it.]

[honkinbigteeth]

I get that.

[sometimes you just lose time! it's fine.]

When you got back, you were a little kid...

[sanguinary]

[Please everyone stop falling into time vortexes.]

Ah... Yes. I had noticed earlier that my height had changed. [He didn't know anything else because he has never been a kid before UNTIL NOW.] I also don't know why that happened.

[honkinbigteeth]

That part was weird. In the memory, did you have a mom...?

[sanguinary]

The memory? [A very light furrow at his brow. Also some definite confusion when a mom is mentioned.] No - I've never had a mother or a father, or any form of family. Why do you ask...?

[He missed Kaveh yelling about his mom because he was too busy And I Will Scream-ing.]

[honkinbigteeth]

I...wanted to help Kaveh find out if his mother was really in there. Maybe if you imagined it, too, it would have proved it wasn't real.

[sanguinary]

[Oh... KAVEH YOUR MOM. His brow furrows for a second and he looks in the general direction of the altar.]

...I don't believe she was with us when we were together, at least. I don't know what happened to him before then, but... What I experienced when I was on my own turned out to be "fake".

[He doesn't actually airquotes but it's practically audible because HE BELIEVES THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN TO THE REAL BUZEN BUT IT STILL HAPPENED TO A BUZEN SO IS IT REALLY FAKE. Existential things to consider.]

[honkinbigteeth]

[oh...!]

That's a relief. We'll have to let him know, and that will help him feel better.

[sanguinary]

...I don't necessarily know that it may help him to feel better, but he should at least know that it's a possibility.

[honkinbigteeth]

Mm. Are you going to be okay, Matsui? I know what happened was really hard.