probe | Audience: Gojou Satoru

Then you're better than most. [there's a soft huff.] Mr. Michaelis is pretty petty that way so it could've been way worse, too. At least he went easy on you guys...

[she takes the music sheet though, glancing it over one more time before grinning at him in thanks. thanks for your support!]

I would have taken something harsher if that meant Mahito also suffered the same fate.

[ Sometimes you’re just twins on opposite sides of the moral line.

He pats her head! Because aww she looks happy. ]

And another Iris original has been boooooornnnn.

[not the solution, gojou! but she knows he could probably handle it is the thing, so instead she just laughs. she is happy, considering the amount of bullshit they've all gone through.]

All thanks to you. This is gonna be great! I'm excited to finish the lyrics. [sometimes you get hit with a bolt of creative energy.] I was still trying to promote my first single back home, but nothing says I can't have new content to share.

[ Does do nothing about it and just stay in his room count as handling it. It's fine! Everything is over!! ]

You can always use pieces of it as teasers for your fans and release it later! It should give you more padding to work on some more things since I heard content creation is a difficult job?

[ HE HAS NO FUCKING CLUE BUT HE IS ASSUMING ]

[absolutely. it's a valid strategy in the hunger games and it's valid here.]

Ooh true...it is really hard. You want to create enough to keep people interested, but when I was still making videos for my channel each week it was a ton of work to come up with enough to talk about and edit everything to upload. Little clips isn't a bad idea.

Editing your own videos sounds like a nightmare... I hope you trend a lot so you can hire someone to do it.

[ Which reminds him. ]

I miss the internet.

I've gotten pretty good at it! The graphics are hard sometimes but I try to keep them simple. I showed Mahito a few of my videos and he seemed to think they weren't too bad...

[this should not be the baseline, but it is what it is.] I could probably get someone at the agency to do it, but I've been doing it for so long myself from when I started out. It's not bad.

...I guess it would be hard to get a WiFi signal inside a box. Do you have anything in there with you?

Mahito might be a curse, but he’s knowledgeable, so your videos must have been pretty good.

[ Unfortunate. Gojou wishes Mahito was illiterate and also an olde. ]

... I have my cellphone? And the pocket dimension has a bunch of skeletons.

That's kinda what I thought, too. [she's pleased by that but also it's mahito being essentially an alien and liking her content that's nice.]

...okay so...can you call for help at all? Send a message? Anything? And whose skeletons are those!?

[ Me looking into the camera as Iris is like yeah I’m glad to know my content is universal and human-hating curses love it. ]

It’s unsettling, actually. [ But Gojou will leave Mahito alone for now? ] No signal! And I don’t know anything about the skeletons! They’re just there and they surround me, kind of like a cradle?

[not my fault she really just is out here like "i love urban legends and ufo hunting!!!" and mahito fits the weirdness bill. it's fine, she will leave mahito out of this conversation and focus on other things.]

...they're like. Just bones, right? They don't move on their own or have personalities or cook spaghetti or anything?

Just bones that all face me. I don’t know if they’re from anyone? Maybe they are, but time flows differently in there.

[ SHRUGS. ]

Don’t cause too much trouble or you’ll end up like me, okay?

So creepy...[but gojou doesn't seem too bothered. so that's. good? hm.]

I'll do my best! Things are...kind of a mess back where I'm from, but I think with my wish everything will work itself out better than I'd hoped.

[ skeletons can’t hurt you, okay... ]

In regular Tokyo?

[ Hm. Well he supposes there’s more than meets the eye. Maybe something weird arrived like Mahito. ]

That’s good to hear! Just be prepared for anything to happen afterwards unless you worded your wish very specifically.

Not the whole city but...just for us, I guess? [and with a little casual shrug:] Murders can happen anywhere.

I have the exact perfect wording though, don't worry! I've...been thinking about this for a very long time.

... Yes, but they shouldn’t be happening around idols such as yourself, Iris?

[ what the fuck is happening you should just be running to school with toast in your mouth. He snorts. ]

Hence the wish. I hope you and yours will find happiness. [ He randomly plays some keys. ] Don’t let me keep you! Unless you want to be carried to the Tip.

It's...complicated. [haha. it's fine!] But thanks. I think...we will. After all of this.

[there's a pause though because wow he shouldn't have said that.]

Are you offering? [yeah, carry her. the fuck is she gonna do, say no? she's more than okay with being an opportunist.]

[ IT’S NOT FINE, but he guesses It Will Be Fine, so he nods in understanding. ]

I guess it is now?! I can’t even say you don’t get to choose how I carry you since the past couple of weeks have been awful for you in particular.

[ HE HAS A CONSCIENCE AND ITS NOT TO BULLY. AWFUL. Though she could have saved herself By Not Liking Childe. ]

[so much would have maybe been for the better if she didn't like childe, but here we are. she gets up from the piano bench...and turns her finger in a circle. piggyback will suffice, apparently. gojou's tall and she is not. let her be tall.]

As long as that's comfortable for you.

[ What the hecc she using her hands to order him around. He does as she asks and kneels so she can hop on. Yes, he's tall. He's taller than Childe. Take that, fake Russian. ]

You probably weigh like a feather?

Why do people always ask me that? [she makes a face as she jumps on his back. she is very light, like a little over 100 pounds according to the game dialogue where she has almost this exact conversation.]

Ready when you are.

It's not a jab at you, just to remind you I'm strong.

[ SO WHAT IS UNCOMFORTABLE? It's fine. He stands up and makes sure to pop her up higher so she's even TALLER. ]

Did you want to zoom?

I believe it. [no questioning here? gojou strong. she drapes her arms over his neck and shoulders so she doesn't fall, very pleased with this new height. it takes all of three seconds to answer.]

Let's do it.

[ Okay, hold on, but don't strangle him. They are going to shuffle so fast, so quickly, there is fake wind hitting her face and eventually they reach the Tip and i still hate that it's called this.

If they have to elevator, then that's the silence of a few seconds, before running again. ]

Did I miss your room?

[ HE IS JUST... RUNNING AROUND HERE and doesn't stop. ]

[she won't strangle him wow. also thanks we thought it was hilarious. once they're in the elevator and once they're up to the tip, she pauses to gesture to the pink door ahead.]

Nope, it's that one! Everything's color-coded up here.

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