It's nice to have a stable income source that doesn't change every couple of months. Not that I think you'd struggle with most quests, but not having to rely on them counts for something.
[Taking Eva out on a quest was a nice idea Louis had, he thinks - he just wanted to get her away for a little bit, just spend an afternoon somewhere they can sort of relax and do something she'd enjoy. Of course, most people wouldn't see any of the quests in the Winter segment as "relaxing" or "enjoyable", considering how cold it is, but hey - bundle up enough and surely it'll be just as fun and enjoyable as any other, right? Haha, yeah. That's how Louis sees it, anyway.
Which is why he's currently cradling a glowing rock in his hand, nice and bright to lure out those Fluorescent Hares, while going through his hammerspace purse for a few others... he still has glowing gems from the Hell dimension, after all. What a sentence.]
... Are we sure these stones are bright enough for those pesky hares? I feel as though we might need something brighter, but I'd rather not risk losing any light from my belongings, either...
So uh I know you're gonna say you don't know but What do you do when you're dating someone now but you can't announce it because they want the fact they exist to be a secret but also it used to be a secret from everyone and you're pretty sure it isn't anymore because they've gone out in public, you even went on what you're pretty sure is a date once or twice and they said they visited you in the hospital, but it's still a secret from one specific person, and you can't ask them what to do about telling people because they were out too long and have to go away for a while and they promised they'd tell you the next time they were out but ????
That's true... But I still wanna tell you guys about it at least. But also if I tell Mary-chan then she's gonna tell everyone. But also also Hina-chan overheard and later Mecchan gave me a card that I think says "congratulations" though it took me a while to figure it out, so she must've told all the other kids already, just Mary-chan doesn't speak Zubat...
... i never got the notif and just assumed you were also sleepy whoops
Oh, right, this would've been before you were here? Criminals blocked out the sun and took out the power to the city in order to cause chaos, so the place was pitch black. And I can make fire harmless and was out rescuing people from gang members, so...
... So you opted to light yourself on fire, perhaps multiple times. I suppose that makes sense, if you can make it "harmless" - it's an easy source of light in reach at any time - but...
[- Honestly, she's lucky Louis's not the type to startle, or that definitely would have made him jump a foot in the air like a cat.
...
But he is going to look between her, the fire, and back to her, before just... reaching out to touch it? Slowly and carefully, of course, like it's definitely gonna burn.]
[Ah - he's on fire now. Apparently. Just gonna... wiggle his fingers, there, above her shoulder where he'd had his hand hovering.]
Yes, this definitely does seem like the sort of power this place would just give to people... I suppose it has its benefits, though it's strange that you'd be given an entirely cosmetic power such as this. All of mine have been... well, it feels rude to say useful, a power like this has use, but none of mine have been purely cosmetic.
Even though I sort of wish they have. There's just no way to keep your hair nice when you're practicing with wind.
Ah - that's something I hadn't considered... I thought it was just for fire that you created, which, well. It would be entirely cosmetic, in that case. But if you can do this to preexisting fires... yes, that would be a lot more useful.
So it's more of a skill that happens to have cosmetic uses, then.
[Which he's still checking out, mind you. Even getting a step closer to look at the fire closer, even though, you know, it's still fire. It may not be burning him, but it's still, like, bright?? Why is he like this.]
Pretty much! If you want a cosmetic power, summers learn cosmetic shapeshifting before they learn how to add limbs and stuff. Sometimes I use it to change my hairstyle.
[Moth-ass man that has several lighters in his hammerspace bag.]
I wouldn't call shapeshifting cosmetic, exactly... such a power is intended for stealth, isn't it? Sneaking and the like. But it's good to find uses for it otherwise.
... Your hairstyle, though? Do you not like styling your hair?
[His eyebrows scrunch up, and he's finally moving his hand elsewhere - to play with her hair, of cousre. Because Louis is nothing if not very tactile when he's allowed to be.]
... I can't say I relate; if I'm going to style my hair, then I will, and even a rush won't stop me. But then again, it's something I take a lot of joy in. As I'm sure you can imagine.
[Not allowed to do it himself while he was alive, so he's taken to it pretty readily now that he's dead.]
Regardless - this does seem very useful for styles that would require cutting it. There are so many I could never try, as that'd require going at my hair with scissors, and, well - No.
... Any time I attempted to grow my hair out, inevitably someone would have it cut off again.
[The "someone" probably isn't hard to guess. It's also said with a blase shrug, even as he goes from playing with her hair to just holding her cheek gently.]
Among the living, it's usually considered "messy" or "abnormal" for a man to have long hair - unless they're some sort of rock star, which obviously wasn't in the cards for me. So mine was cut on a routine, even when I expressed that I wanted to try it long.
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