003 ☀ Kyle Dunamis, Otome Yanagiya

[souhajin]

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[souhajin]

[like father, like son.]

Mm! Let's go then, Miss Yanagiya, lead the way!

[mombastic]

You can just call me Otome! You'll make me feel old!

[ with a laugh; she clearly doesn't mind. ]

[souhajin]

Oh... well, if you're sure... then, Otome!

[he grins brightly at her, very much so the spitting image of his dad, whether or not he realizes it.]

I don't want you to feel old—you're definitely not old at all!

[mombastic]

[ There's a pause, as though she's trying to remember something important-- before she laughs. ]

That's very sweet of you, Kyle!

[souhajin]

[he thinks she's probably just trying to find the hotel, or whatever.]

Sweet? Ah... I was just telling the truth. You're nowhere near as old as my mom or anything!

[kyle pls, your mom is only 36.]

[mombastic]

For the sake of your mother, I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

[souhajin]

I don't really see the big deal...

[even though rutee would definitely smack him upside the head if she heard him say she was old.]

[mombastic]

No woman ever really wants to be called old.

[ Simply that. ]

[souhajin]

Well, it's not like I just go "HEY MOM, YOU'RE REALLY OLD," or something like that...

[other ways that he is as dumb as dad: his logic.]

[mombastic]

No, even as a passing comment... you have to be careful.

[ ... how did her day end up like this? ]

[souhajin]

[because today happened to be the day she met sunshine jr.]

Huh... okay. I'll try to remember that, then! [somehow, it's more impactful when she says it than when loni does.

though maybe that's because loni was the one always trying to drill it in, all the while talking about her like she was someone worth dating. which... for kyle, clearly had the opposite effect of drilling in how Not Good that way.

whoops. at least he'll explain himself pretty earnestly.]

Loni always says stuff like that, but he also tries to date every woman he meets. He even talks about Mom and her friends like that. "Oh, Miss Philia is such a beauty! Miss Mary was a vision when she came to visit!" It's kind of hard to take him seriously...

[mombastic]

So it comes across as not taking a woman seriously...

[ Well, she knows the type. Daichi had gotten slightly better, and Joe was a married man now and knew better. But Otome stops, suddenly. It's not as though she knows the people he's talking about.

... But something about those names-- ]

Your mother-- what's her name?

[souhajin]

[it honestly doesn't strike kyle as strange. philia was one of the great heroes, after all, and mary was practically as well known.

so for someone to ask who his mom is when he says he knows those people is pretty normal.]

Rutee Katrea! Eheheh.... [he's proud, okay. his mom may be old, but she's still a hero, even if he's seen her much less heroic side.]

[mombastic]

...

[ She's heard those names before, and as she takes a closer look at Kyle, considering-- her eyes suddenly widen. ]

Stahn...

[souhajin]

[oh! she does recognize rutee's name if "stahn" is her reaction, right? kyle brighten a bit hear her say his dad's name.]

Uh-huh! That's... my dad.

[he won't think about the worst parts of this, because he figures she doesn't know. nobody really does, after all.]

[mombastic]

I thought so! You look just like him!

[ SHE IS NOT GOING TO THINK ABOUT HER SON HAVING A SON AND WHAT THAT MAKES HER, NOPE. ]

[souhajin]

People say that a lot... Even people who know him say I'm just like him. Ehehe, it's pretty cool, I want to be as great as Dad is one day!

[that's what he's fighting for in a sense, though he obviously isn't going to say that.]

[mombastic]

You will. You've got that air about you.

[ Really, why hadn't she noticed the resemblance sooner? ]

[souhajin]

Air?

[that seems like a strange thing to say. not that he doesn't know what it means, but that implies—]

Eh?! Do you... know Dad? [that's the kind of thing his friends would say when they met him, people like Philia and Woodrow.]

[mombastic]

... Yes. Stahn is a very important friend of mine, but it's definitely been awhile since I've seen him.

[ Not like... years, though???? ]

[souhajin]

An important friend...

[this is the first time he's met someone that was like that. the friends of stahn's kyle had met before were swordian masters, or people from his hometown in leane.

it makes him wonder if maybe this could be a clue to when he is, though.]

When was the last time you saw my dad?

[mombastic]

Mm... about two years ago?

[ ... And unless he'd already had a kid, which should technically be impossible-- ]

[souhajin]

Two years ago...

[kyle frowns for a moment, because that really doesn't answer too much about when he's from—aside from the fact that it had to be at least eight years ago.

and probably more, if she didn't know who he was, since she seemed surprised to know that stahn had a son at all.]

This might sound weird, but... [it's definitely going to sound weird, but kyle is not the brains of the party, and without judas to nudge him to shut the hell up? he just goes with his gut here.] How old was he the last time you saw him?

[mombastic]

[ That's... not a question she hears often, and Otome carefully tilts her head, pondering it and what it means before she answers him. ]

Nineteen?

[souhajin]

Nineteen...

[kyle needs a minute to do math, counting on his fingers—of course, it doesn't take long for kyle to figure out that it was eighteen years before his time...

which is also how old he was when he became a hero.]

Eeeeeh?! [he's so, so much like stahn sometimes that it's uncanny.] You knew Dad then? That's when he became a hero!

[and she's treating it so casually? otome, what kind of person are you!!]