[ Normally Saya doesn't think she's all that important to people, nor should she be, but she knows better with Rosen so Hijikata is spared her low-self-esteem-babble on the subject. ]
Thank you.
You should do that even while I'm awake. Goodness knows he likes being looked at, and rightly so. There's a reason we get along so well.
Well, I can't spend all my time admiring him. I've got other obligations.
[This is silly banter, but between his police job, all the quests he tackles, and the dependents(???) he somehow managed to amass he really is busy - and Rosen knows, of course, having gotten him stressed by keeping him up at work before.
His eyes wander to Saya's sewing hands... she works fast!]
Do you have to mend clothes often?
[If doesn't seem far-fetched, given her love of a good battle.]
Don't we all. Thankfully I work at night, it gives me plenty of time to admire whoever's available. [ There's a reason she'd need three extra hands to count up all her partners. ]
Often enough. I have to alter my clothes to make them backless. I never know when I'll need my wings in a hurry. And then there's all the fighting.
I used to do more of it, both practical stuff like this and other needlework. Back in the day that was something all women were trained to do.
[Wings... Hijikata tries to imagine what it would be like to be able to grow them at will, but then he realises that he, too, can technically have that experience (or a similar one, at least) via partial animal transformation. He wonders if he'll have to transform his arms... back on Avalon he got "extra" wings via familiar fusion with his tengu partner, but here on Ellipsa he'll have to make do with his own abilities.
Something else about what Saya said made him curious, though.]
What do you work as?
[He somehow didn't expect her to have a regular job!]
[ It's kind of a Story. And it's evident that she's slightly embarrassed about it. ]
Venti took me to this club with a goth theme. I didn't really appreciate the style much, just because it's such a vampire stereotype. But the manager spotted my eyes and fangs and cornered me and wanted me to work there. I said no way, he said he'll make it worth my while, I said definitely not, he said what would it take to get you to agree, I named an absolutely ridiculous set of conditions and a salary that no one would ever agree to, and he said "Done".
So basically I work at the bar a few hours a night and get paid ludicrously well for it. ...Strictly look and no touch, of course. Occasionally I have to toss someone out on their ear. And all my friends get free drinks, that was one of my conditions. [ It keeps Venti well buttered without her entire paycheck going to wine. ]
It's sort of exploitative, but it lets me pay for my share of the expenses and save some money so that after I'm asleep there will be something left for my housemates.
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Date: Jun. 14th, 2023 02:06 am (UTC)Thank you.
You should do that even while I'm awake. Goodness knows he likes being looked at, and rightly so. There's a reason we get along so well.
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Date: Jun. 14th, 2023 11:00 am (UTC)[This is silly banter, but between his police job, all the quests he tackles, and the dependents(???) he somehow managed to amass he really is busy - and Rosen knows, of course, having gotten him stressed by keeping him up at work before.
His eyes wander to Saya's sewing hands... she works fast!]
Do you have to mend clothes often?
[If doesn't seem far-fetched, given her love of a good battle.]
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Date: Jun. 15th, 2023 08:37 pm (UTC)Often enough. I have to alter my clothes to make them backless. I never know when I'll need my wings in a hurry. And then there's all the fighting.
I used to do more of it, both practical stuff like this and other needlework. Back in the day that was something all women were trained to do.
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Date: Jun. 16th, 2023 08:05 pm (UTC)Something else about what Saya said made him curious, though.]
What do you work as?
[He somehow didn't expect her to have a regular job!]
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Date: Jun. 16th, 2023 08:48 pm (UTC)[ It's kind of a Story. And it's evident that she's slightly embarrassed about it. ]
Venti took me to this club with a goth theme. I didn't really appreciate the style much, just because it's such a vampire stereotype. But the manager spotted my eyes and fangs and cornered me and wanted me to work there. I said no way, he said he'll make it worth my while, I said definitely not, he said what would it take to get you to agree, I named an absolutely ridiculous set of conditions and a salary that no one would ever agree to, and he said "Done".
So basically I work at the bar a few hours a night and get paid ludicrously well for it. ...Strictly look and no touch, of course. Occasionally I have to toss someone out on their ear. And all my friends get free drinks, that was one of my conditions. [ It keeps Venti well buttered without her entire paycheck going to wine. ]
It's sort of exploitative, but it lets me pay for my share of the expenses and save some money so that after I'm asleep there will be something left for my housemates.
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Date: Jun. 17th, 2023 02:30 am (UTC)[This is news to him!! Venti doesn't look the part at all!]