Ranma CMO Post

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Stupid 90s aesthetic romance central.

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[fluidgender]

If you're gonna apologize for sleeping, ya might as well apologize for breathing air or drinking water.

[hououji]

It's hardly polite to sleep through company.

Are you feeling well?

[fluidgender]

I'm a servant of the house now, I think that means I don't gotta be considered "company" if I essentially live here.

[Even if she... hasn't really been in the main house before.]

P'alright. Longer than I planned to. [Nightmares kept waking her up. Images of marching through a village, with horrified faces crumbling. Some of them had Fuu or the queen's face.]

[hououji]

And to sleep through someone helping feels a bit cruel.

If you need more rest, that's fine! [She's getting up and pulling on her glasses.] I don't plan on doing much today.

[fluidgender]

Technically, someone is always working while we're asleep. Are you gonna worry about people across the sea?

I got a full nine hours, I'm in great condition.

[Well, it was a lot of hours. They went to a bed pretty early last night, even if they kept waking up.]

[hououji]

Have you eaten?

[fluidgender]

An apple, jerky, and some bread.

[Its what she's used to, from eating rations on the battlefield.]

[hououji]

... It's around lunch time, would you like to join me?

[fluidgender]

...Food sounds pretty good any day of the week.

[hououji]

Are you all right with eating in here? I'm not sure I'm ready to socialize much.

[fluidgender]

[Her shoulders relax a lot.]

I don't know how to talk to those guys without stepping on toes. In here sounds great.

[hououji]

[She giggles a little.]

My mother said you spoke in the carriage. She seems to like you.

[fluidgender]

[oh god she impressed the queen.]

I-I didn't say nothing too bad, right?

[hououji]

She mostly thought you were very nervous. She let me know you were a firstborn... There's a lot I've yet to learn about you, isn't there?

[fluidgender]

[She closes into herself. Its like a gate going down on a castle gate.]

That's a good thing.

[hououji]

Everyone has secrets they don't want others to know about. I can respect that.

But I hope one day, you'll trust me with that, too.

[fluidgender]

[Ack.]

My secrets aren't the kind that I worry about trusting others with.

[She just worries about anyone trusting her again.]

[hououji]

Then why would it be a good thing I know so little about you?

[fluidgender]

My record isn't impressive with the fates of people who've gotten to know me.

[hououji]

That’s was under a different house. We do our best to keep everyone safe…

[fluidgender]

S'why its better that I'm a new person here. The Curse of the Saotome House can't follow.

[hououji]

You aren’t cursed from that household. You’re free from them. You don’t have to be afraid of that anymore.

[fluidgender]

I'm not afraid. [Its automatic, trained.] Its just strategic.

[hououji]

The wheel of fortune is always spinning. You could be you and bring all of us great luck. Nothing is set.

[fluidgender]

If nothing is set, you'd have any choice for the future, right? So what's yours?