linkingup | mid-week 11; un: monday

[ With the regression of the city, working at Sunset Theater has quickly become less enjoyable than it used to be. Though the cast remembers the rapport McGillis had built with them, even if they're more standoffish now. And it's not as though McGillis had placed much stock in his interpersonal relationships to the random citizens, but... the shift in atmosphere serves as a tangible reminder. That this is temporary. That this world is susceptible to insane levels of mind manipulation. That he wants to leave.

Leave and... do what? That's the question that has haunted McGillis for weeks now, and the countdown is mercilessly continuing. Soon Braphine will release them from her hold, one way or another. Soon, he'll have to know. And so will everyone else. ]

Just a little over two weeks until we're free from this, if Braphine really keeps her word and the God of Conflict doesn't swallow up all her power. Until then we'll doubtlessly face a number of additional challenges and hassles, but while we're still in the quiet before the storm...

Are you going home to your own worlds after this? Or will you take Braphine up on her offer and come along with one of your 'bonds'? What is your world like? What is making you return? What is making you abandon it?

And if you're like me and cannot return to where you came from no matter what, maybe the answers can give you some perspective.

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If they don't I'll drag them over myself.

( she almost does type the next message, but- pauses.

'i want to see you again too, after all'. there's

implications. implications that she's not sure what to think of.

... )

Even if it's not to stay, it sounds like a wonderful place to visit.

[ There are a lot of implications here... but he'll let Mafuyu take her time on reasoning them out to the fullest. ]

Don't you worry, I think at the least two of them would love to explore that world with you. 'Dragging' will be unnecessary - you'll only have to ask.

I enjoy your company too, though.

[ ... oh no. That's... really sweet. ]

Not to worry. I'd be tagging along. I can't exactly leave them unsupervised - and catching up with you will be a treat as well.

Good! Regardless of where we end up, you're like family to me. So I want to stay connected.

[ ... family, huh? McGillis doesn't share that sentiment, but that is most of all owed to his conception of family as a legal unit. Unlike Mafuyu, he'd never held any positive associations with the term even as a small child - so a family is a neutral thing, not inherently anything. It is not something he is seeking to replace or gain.

But he also understands what it means to her to be saying this and it's a strange yet warm sentiment. It had been impossible to miss the way she'd declared Celeste her father and Izou her brother after all. ]

I also hope that possibility will exist, to be clear. I am hesitant to count on it ahead of time, but if there is any venue at all then I would make use of it.

So what am I in your family set-up? A future in-law?

If I had to put a term to it, I would say an uncle. But I think not everything needs a term, if that makes sense? I'm content to know you and have you in my life regardless.

[ Uncle.... he regrets asking, somehow. ]

It makes perfect sense. I only asked for my own amusement, not because I am particularly eager to claim any specific title.

( he asked, she answered! but it makes sense to her- an adult figure she respects and loves, but while there's advice and care, it's not in the same sense as celeste and yi sang. )

Nor am I really eager to doll them out. I'm not entirely sure what the vibes even would be, since I don't have a wide extended family.

Neither do I. It was only me and my father, and the less said about that relationship the better.

Which is why I'd be hesitant to apply terms like 'family' to anybody... but that doesn't mean your sentiment is not received.

We also need and want different things.

( she doesn't know the depths of it, but if family is a term he doesn't wish to apply to others, there's reason for that. she, however, wants to nurture the child that her mother mistreated. to give her more room to grow, to love and to be loved. )

I won't ask anyone to view things the way that I do. But I'm glad you understand.

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