007 ☀ Stahn Aileron, Kashuu Kiyomitsu

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I think a lot of things might be able to make you sick, but... I don't know.

[stahn's not a doctor. he's not even anything resembling that, he wouldn't even recognize a lot of illnesses if he saw them beyond common colds and flus.]

Nobody in my village ever did, though. So I've never seen anything like that... It always sounded like something grownups would say to make us stop asking for them though...

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Huh... Why would they lie just to get you to stop eating sweets, though? Unless they really are bad for you... Or more expensive than vegetables, I guess.

[That seems pretty legit, he can still remember drooling over the displays of fresh baked goods and the cute pouches of candy that were sold back home...]

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Mm... maybe both? I think Gramps just didn't want us to spoil supper all the time, especially in the summer.

[when there were kids playing all over town and someone's parents or a shopkeep would treat them to something sweet and refreshing.]

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Why? What happened in summer? Is it harder to eat food then or something?

[HE IS STILL very much learning how this whole human body thing works, okay... It's a work in progress and a lot of things continue to confuse the heck out of him.]

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Eh? No, nothing like that! That's when we got a break from school—summer vacation, so instead of studying, we could just play all day! Well... after we finished our chores and stuff.

[they did still have a farm to run, after all. but his grandfather was pretty good about making sure he and lilith got to play like all the other kids and have fun, too.]

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Oooh. ...So you'd just eat too much during vacation. Is that what you're saying?

[Wording it that way is not exactly inaccurate, but also not elegant in the least...

Also give him a second as he, on a whim, decides to start mixing some of the rocky road ice cream into his chocolate ice cream. Nothing will change but dang he just suddenly wants to give it a go.]

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I guess. Maybe so we didn't spoil our supper, I think?

[he thinks it's really more something like that than not eating too much at all, but what does stahn know? this isn't exactly something he ever thought too hard about in the past.

either way, he watches what kashuu's doing—but stahn's not going to imitate that, instead just contentedly eating his own ice cream for the time being.]

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[As predicted, it doesn't do anything but add more chocolate to the chocolate. It's not bad! But it's not what he was going for, either. ...Even if he's honestly not sure what he was going for.]

...I should've gotten two flavors that were a little more different.

[So he can be five years old and mix them together, apparently.]

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Well... now you know for next time! Or... I could share some of mine, if you want!

[look at this good bean, always willing to share, even if for probably the dumbest and worst reasons.]

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Really? You wouldn't mind if I had a little more? You're the best!

[THE ACTUAL BEST. Everyone else clearly needs to take a page out of Stahn's book and learn to share for dumb and awful reasons.]

I can trade you something else, okay? That's fair.

[Is it really, though.]

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Yeah, that's fair! But even if you didn't have anything to trade... I'd still share.

[he's grinning pretty brightly—stahn is, as ever, a generous and thoughtful beam of sunshine.] That's what friends do!

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[What the heck, HE'S TOO MUCH. Even Kashuu feels a little humbled by how dang good Stahn is sometimes.]

You're the kind of friend everyone wishes they had, y'know? Or the kind people wish they were, I guess.

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[be the friend stahn would be, kashuu!]

Eh? Do you really think so? I thought it was pretty normal to be like this!

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That just goes to show what a good person you are. Maybe your friends are like you, too... Like, good attracts good or something?

[Is Stahn a magnet for sunshines?? On the other hand, look at all the sourpusses he somehow draws to himself...]

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Maybe? I don't really think the others are that much like me, though...

[all his friends at home, people like leon—not that he sure doesn't have a good time befriending other sunshines though, of course.]

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Hm... Maybe it's just the law of opposites attracting, then. Well! Whatever. As long as they'd share their ice cream with you too, that's fine.

[And he will FIGHT THEM if they don't.]

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Mmm, I think they probably would!

[except maybe leon and rutee, those punk katreas are always so stubborn, why this.]

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[It's the rule of Stahn's sunny existence that he's gotta be surrounded by punks at all times to balance out his intense sun...]

Good, good! [And since he's probably already mowed his way through most of his own ice cream--] Let's go back, okay? The sun's been out long enough that the shallows shouldn't be cold anymore.

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[that seems pretty legit, honestly.]

Mm, that sounds like a good idea! Getting in the water should be refreshing after everything else!

[this mullet is a disaster after all the running, even if ice cream definitely helped.]

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I wanna see if I can find a nice shell or two...

[Because Kashuu doesn't actually swim at beaches OH NO. He just picks up pretty things and floats around on a little raft, completely covered in clothes and sunscreen.]

Hey, you're not gonna cramp up ad die, right?

[THAT... is out of nowhere, but he's looking at the ice cream. Something something, humans waiting half an hour after eating before swimming, blah blah...]

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Oh, shells!

[that sounds like a cute idea. and, well... really? just like kashuu to chase after. something about aesthetic means that actually makes a whole lot of sense to him.

not that he has a chance to ask what kind of shells, or what else kashuu might actually want to do.

because kashuu asks that question and stahn is immediately baffled by it.]

Cramp up and die? [that. sounds dramatic?] I don't think so...?

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[He would be more than willing to gush about shells for ages!

But instead, the conversation takes a turn for the DECIDEDLY MORBID as Kashuu just glances over toward Stahn, picking up on the confused tone, and answers quite simply.]

I heard that happens to humans who swim after they eat. Or maybe it's just eating too much...? Like the extra weight of food makes people sink or something?

[He tries so hard to understand these things and yet here's where he ends up.]

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Really? I've never heard anything like that before! I wonder if that's really true...

[he didn't live near the ocean, so he's never really heard things like that. it was never necessary, since is hometown's only water is a stream and a pond, neither of which are suitable for swimming.

which means that for all kashuu may be trying to understand this...

stahn's definitely the wrong person to ask, because he hasn't a clue at all.]

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[THIS IS LIKE THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND.]

Well, there'd be way more drowning cases if it was really true, right?

[Where does his logic even come from. Where does it come from, where does it go... Once he's close enough to the water's edge, he'll pause to dip his toes in, but--]

Maybe you should get some water wingies just in case.

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[the worst part is? stahn won't even argue that logic. he can't, because it seems pretty sound to him...

which is why he's kind of a dummy.]

I don't think I need water wings! I'm not going to drown...