minato

[whitewalls]

I'LL PUT A MEME HERE LATER I'M AT WORK

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[compendiem]

[ His world is doomed, it's okay. He goes ahead and follows after her. ]

[whitewalls]

[ IT'S NOT OKAY???

but once they're at a bench, she is just going to climb onto it so she can kiss minato on the forehead. because he is too tall for her to do it otherwise. ]

[compendiem]

[ He's accepted it, it's fine!!

But also, oh... the kiss was unexpected, but the smile on his face becomes something warmer, and he has to sit up a little straighter out of his slouch to kiss her back on the cheek because that's all he can reach. ]

[whitewalls]

[ naminé smiles back. she has no idea how to really address any of this, or how to make minato feel better, but... at the very least she can show him affection, and that she cares. if she can't do anything else, there's that.

she climbs back down after that, since knowing them she'll probably trip otherwise and break her neck. ]

Let's do our best while we're here.

[compendiem]

[ It's more than anything anybody else has shown him, accepting the futility of his situation with him and making the best of it, instead of caring and scolding him in the same breath like he'd come to expect from most anybody else.

This is why Naminé is his best friend in this place, and why he takes her hand again to have her sit next to him, so he has somebody to lean on both literally and figuratively. ]

Yeah. We'll work hard so people can be happy again. Make the most out of our time here, and live without regrets.

[whitewalls]

[ listen she still wants him to change his mind about asking the hosts, but she doesn't want to force him to make that decision.

but naminé will settle next to him, placing their hands on her lap. ]

Live without regrets... that sounds nice.

[compendiem]

[ Minato wouldn't even go to the hosts to ask about fixing his everything, even after even after he's been asked to, and the world is so much bigger than that. ]

Doesn't it? [ It sounds... impossible. But nice. ] Do you have any? Maybe we can fix things, little by little.

[whitewalls]

... most of mine would be hard to fix here.

[ ... ]

I did some not that great things back home, so I was doing my best to make up for them before I came here.

[compendiem]

...It's the same with me, I guess. Things I did back then aren't things I can take back, or change.

[ Like letting people die!! and other fun things like that ]

I don't know much about making up for things, but... you're doing some great things here. So I hope you know that.

[whitewalls]

I wouldn't be able to do anything without the people here... I was kind of a coward.

[ she turns his hand in hers. ]

So I'm thankful to have someone like you here.

[compendiem]

Being a coward, that really surprises me. You're always doing stupid things with me.

[ A coward wouldn't crash a tractor into a gate or launch a car off a hill? Oh my god Naminé being reckless is his fault isn't it ]

[whitewalls]

I was too scared to do the right thing, so people suffered because of it.

... it was actually Axel who made me get up and try to do better. I owe him for that.

[compendiem]

That sort of fear is pretty normal... But I'm glad Axel was there to help you. If you haven't thanked him yet, it'd probably make him happy. ...He'd probably be embarrassed.

[ Which would be funny. So Naminé should say it again, even if she already did a first time. ]

[whitewalls]

He is pretty embarrassed by it...

[ although she and axel sort of have an agreement to try not to talk about it because it was

not a fun time for either of them. ]

I'm trying to do things I wouldn't have done back then.

[compendiem]

[ Minato really hopes Naminé hasn't been doing half the things she's doing here, back home?? ]

There's plenty of opportunity for that, here. What's been your favorite thing so far?

[whitewalls]

My favorite... oh! I got to go to the beach.

[ this is such a simple thing but she sounds so happy about it. ]

[compendiem]

[ It's such a simple thing, but it's something that warms Minato's heart, because he loves the beach too. That's why he smelled like salt that one trial and Dana kept going ??????? at me for it. ]

I love the beach. That sort of place reminds me of home, so I'm glad there was one here.

[whitewalls]

Yeah. I've never been, but I've seen it before, so... it was kind of like a dream come true.

[ even if it's not the specific beach she wants. ]

[compendiem]

[ beggars can't be choosers, Naminé ]

...Do you want to go to the beach now? We can hold hands and walk under the sunset or something.

[whitewalls]

[ that gets her to laugh ]

Mm... that sounds nice! Let's go.

[compendiem]

Cool. We can play with the crabs.

[ Minato gets up, still holding Naminé's hand so ig they're just walking like this the entire time anyways, and they head off for the beach ]

[whitewalls]

[ that's fine, they can have a romantic walk and akane will then jump out of the water to stab her. ]

Maybe we can get them hats...

[compendiem]

[ hey, look, it's an entirely platonic friend date where hold hands and play in the water?? it's fine, akane, don't look here ]

Little hats... Cute. We'll have to make a detour to get them, then.

[whitewalls]

[ she won't until unlocks happen it's fine ]

That's true... unless we come back again later to give them the hats? We might not know how many we need otherwise.

[compendiem]

[ ...a "they" disappeared from that last tag bc I guess I'm just that scared of Akane and didn't want her to know ]

That's true... I wouldn't want any of them to feel left out. And it means I get to come back another time with you, too.