June catch-all (and also some of May lmao)

[predecir]

⭐ Who: Bruno & OPEN
⭐ When: post-event and also throughout July
⭐ Where: Around Yumemigaoka/the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: Sure did fight a big horrible Thing didn't we? It's cool though it's fine it's fine

Comments

[predecir]

Yeah.

[It's as good an excuse as any.]

But, uh, you know. It's - well, it's not fine, but - don't worry about it.

[rubykomachi]

Well...

[He says not to worry about it, but Ruby isn't sure she can completely just forget about it either.]

I hope you get to see them again really soon! What are your sisters like?

[predecir]

Uh, well...they're both older than me.

[Triplets aren't common, right? He shouldn't say that? Or is he just being crazy and paranoid??? No, it's fine, it's easy, there's no reason he has to give that much detail - ]

We're triplets, actually. [god DAMN it] So, uh, it doesn't really count, but they think it does. You know.

[rubykomachi]

[Ruby lets out a little gasp when she hears that Bruno is a triplet, and her eyes sparkle with enthusiasm.] Oh my god, you too?!

[Well, Bruno has twice as many siblings as Ruby does, but she does feel the instant kinship of being the baby only by two minutes.]

They’re older by barely anything and somehow that gives them big brother authority! Well, big sister for you, but still! It drives you nuts sometimes, right?!

[predecir]

I know! Suddenly they're so much wiser and more knowledgeable about everything! Ay, Brunito, why don't you just -

[Well. These are pretty old complaints, given how long it's been.]

- boy, I didn't know I still had that in me.

[rubykomachi]

[Ruby blinks in slight surprise when Bruno also goes off, and quickly breaks into an earnest giggle.]

Yeah, exactly! It's like, "Are you two minutes or two decades older?!" You'd think Aqua's a grandpa in the body of a teenage boy sometimes with how he acts.

Some stuff's the same no matter who you are, huh?

[predecir]

[Bruno chuckles in turn.]

Yeah - yeah, I guess that's true.

[rubykomachi]

Tell me more about your sisters! Do triplets get that weird sixth sense thing people talk about? Whenever I accuse Aqua of using it he's all "you're just easy to read, Ruby," but I'm pretty sure we've done some subconscious mind-reading or whatever before.

[Ruby leans in a little as if they're part of a secret club now. A fraternal-ity if you will.]

[predecir]

Oh! Uh - yeah, yeah, I think we do. Not that it's, uh....hard to tell how Pepa's feeling, ever.

[He's not so sure this is okay to really talk about. Names, specific details...but if him being here at all has been so safe thus far, then surely...?]

She always wore everything on her sleeve. Julieta, not so much.

[rubykomachi]

["Pepa" and "Julieta"...Ruby commits the names to memory with a few enthusiastic nods.]

See, that's what I mean-- Even if she's super emotional, you can like, tell tell. You know?

Aqua doesn't do that either, though. He's like a rock unless he's up to something. Blech, his fake smile is so gross, too. I'm always like "how can you none of you see this?!"

[predecir]

Mmm, yeah. Maybe it's, uh...an oldest one thing.

[An eldest daughter thing, maybe, except that Ruby has a brother. Ah well. Bruno does wonder how his own sisters are getting on, but - the answer's fine, no doubt, he knows they've all been better than ever this past decade.]

[rubykomachi]

Right, that big old "responsibility" thing. They kinda overdo it there, like it's their actual job to look out for you. [Ruby sighs, dismissive at first but then slightly reflective. She did disappear for a month, after all. Aqua's always been protective of her and her mother, but this has started to confirm a lot of his worries about being the only non-Dreamer in his family.]

Like I can't fully blame him now since I'm actually going into a magic world and fighting people's nightmares, but--I dunno.

[predecir]

Oh, he's not a Dreamer too?

[Bruno's only really familiar with himself and his sisters, as far as Dreamer multiples go. But, he guesses there's no actual reason they'd have to be all one way or the other.]

I mean...yeah, it sounds pretty scary to me. I kinda worry about the Dreamers I know here, and none of you are even related to me!