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Who: Inigo, Tidus (aka the two shared braincells duo) and you!
Where: The standard coach
When: Horseshoe 17
What: Inigo and Tidus are handing out free stuff because Tidus is the train's official sugar daddy.
Warnings: Probably nothing, will edit if necessary.

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Hey guys, forget about that public breakdown the other day. Today Inigo is on the ICP with a big smile, seeming as cheerful as ever. It's fine. It's cool.

"Good day, everyone! Tidus and I brought some things back with us from Irivar to share with everyone. So why not come over to the standard coach and see if there's anything you'd like to take with you, hm? We have quite the selection! Oh, and.. erm, Taiki, Roland, Bryn and Della.. If you could make sure to come see us, we'd appreciate it! Otherwise I might have to send Ti--"

Before Inigo can even finish the sentence, there's an offscreen obviously very Tidus-y voice calling out, "Inigo! Ask for Sakura too!"

Inigo huffs, turning his gaze to the off screen source. "I was getting to that!" (No he wasn't.) Apparently he accidentally pulled his ticket off the ICP as he starts moving away from it too, because the feed just cuts out. Just come get some sweet stuff.

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Their set-up in the standard car is a simple, if messy, one. They have a few of their offered freebies on the same table they occupy, each guy facing the other, sat by the wall. From the immediate front, fragrant bags sit no bigger than a palm, a variety of scents better to tell when held to the nose. Whetstones sit stacked mostly on top of one another, and then a cluster of hair ribbons and circular hair ties behind them. Behind the bags are a few scent oils--basically, perfumes, if not very big. There's a few to choose from, but...

...not as many as there are the soaps, which take up a half of the table in their choice. It's like a lush shop here of choice, different colours and sizes.

And Inigo and Tidus? Sit there, either playing cards or fiddling through the paper craft book available from the art supplies where the old library used to be.

A chalkboard sits balanced, with the words 'FREE 2 TAKE' written in big letters. In case you missed the public announcement.

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Come up, and have a look. Ask about what they've got.

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Or while you're here, maybe you can help Tidus, who pipes up to ask-

"Hey, quick question. How long 'til you're comfortable hugging someone?"

(ooc: as a note, all threads on this will be threeways! please enjoy trying to handle both teens at once. you can't seperate them.)

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Cassie is currently sampling some of the scented oils to see what's most pleasing. She turns her head at Tidus's question, her brow furrowed in thought for a moment.

"That really depends on the person. And the kind of hug we're talking about."

Whew, boy. Is this ever awkward, considering the literal only other time Inigo and Cassie have spoken. He doesn't even want to breach the subject of hugs with her before she may just crush him under her feet for it or something.

So Inigo is going to do the smart thing here. He's just going to stay entirely quiet, seemingly very, very focused on his cards here. Like he may somehow not get noticed by her that way.

"Just a...normal hug? I'm trying to see how normal or--common, usual? That- how often people hug! Like, it's not weird if you don't hug all your pals, right?"

He may be answering Cassie, but he doesn't miss the way Inigo seems to shrink into his seat there, attempting to disappear. Huh, never seen that before. Tidus knows why he's doing it, and he doesn't want to call him out on it...

So he nudges his foot under the table, just meaning to be a show of support. Who knows how it actually translates.

"You wouldn't see a guy hugging all his other guy friends, would you?"

"I mean, some people are huggers, some people aren't," Cassie says. "I mean, you seem like the hugging type, Tidus, but it depends on what your friends are comfortable with."

Meanwhile, her eyes continue to pay more attention to the bottle of sorta-perfume she's sampling. Because there's clearly something going on with these two she's not getting into.

"You know if there's a bigger container I could put this into? I'm thinking of watering this down a little."

Edited 2020-10-06 18:15 (UTC)

That nudge against his foot is what seems to get Inigo to snap out of it for a moment. Though it's hard to tell whether or not he understood the intention behind it. Sure, it makes him look up at Tidus, but the look he gives him is more confused than anything else, like it's a 'what do you want from me?' kind of look. Please don't force him to talk to Cassie, bro, she's terrifying..

"I'm not sure we brought along bottles," Inigo says, compromising. See, he's answering Cassie! Happy now! He's just not going to look at her and instead keep on going with his cards over here, that's all. "Or did we, Tidus?"

Tidus is trying to throw an encouraging look at the puzzled one he receives back, like this silent communication between them that they usually do ever results in anything getting through. It's a short thing though, there a few seconds before they're back to Cassie.

"There's jars in the kitchen," he helps. "Depends how big you want them? But I saw some when we put the tea in there."

Since there's no reason to offer tea by the person than just shove it all into the kitchen.

"But yeah, I don't mind hugs. I guess I'm just..." His brow furrows, and for a second his expression might look more sheepish than confused. "Unused to them, is all."

(Read: Shy.)

"A hug's not something you really want to overthink," Cassie says. "If both people feel like hugging, then hug. Otherwise don't."

She sniffs the fragrance again.

"Probably going to need a few jars for this one."

It wasn't particularly strong for her, but Trunks is another story entirely.

.. Inigo really doesn't feel bold enough to remark anything about hugging around Cassie. So at first he's still quiet, trying to figure out what to do.

But before he can even figure that out, Cassie says that last part, and that gets Inigo to speak up before his brain has really thought that action through.

"How much are you going to water it down?"

He sounds so confused. A few jars? You'd hardly be able to smell anything anymore! Might as well put on some plain water!

Ugh, but it's so hard not to overthink hugging! Even if Tidus is just keeping it to a frown for a second there.

But he looks over to the pair, and looks over at the fragrant bottle Cassie already has.

"Is it that strong?" He didn't actually smell of them himself. Plus, you know, what's he supposed to do about the more flowery smells? "I think you're just meant to dab a little bit on."

"It's not too strong for me," Cassie says. "This'd be for my boyfriend's sake."

It's a small miracle that Inigo manages to surpress an extremely shocked outcry of 'boyfriend?!' before it leaves his mouth.

Though there's the tiniest half-choked noise coming from him all the same. Cassie has a boyfriend? On the train? Surely he has to be here, or she wouldn't be trying to take some of it for him. But considering how hard and fast she knocked down his fake flirting, who even..

"You're together with someone on the train?"

As Inigo voices his surprise, Tidus hits an open palm with his fist.

"It's Trunks! Right? --wait." Wait. "Orrr, he's just a guy from your world? He got all shy-sounding when he mentioned getting you a mini-fridge."

...he thinks. He talked a lot about baskets and tea and all that, that day. And big appetites. But he remembers meaning to bring it up again with the guy.

Cassie's eyes widen briefly in surprise before she starts to chuckle.

"Yeah, that sounds like him alright," she says.

She shuffles her feet where she stands, staring to the side a little.

"Anyway, he's half-Saiyan. So his nose is a lot stronger than most."

He's on the verge of asking Tidus where he suddenly gets all this hot gossip, but thankfully the other guy explains where he got the idea from right after. That makes sense enough, if Inigo had talked to this Trunks guy he feels like he would've gotten the same impression.

Though what Cassie says makes it a little more complicated again.

"Saiyan?" He parrots the word, obviously saying it for the first time. "Are those.. um, some kind of people with special abilities?"

Well, either that, or maybe he's like Yarne and half-beast and that's why his nose is stronger, but he feels like he should probably got with the safe assumption around Cassie of all people.

Edited 2020-10-10 20:42 (UTC)

maybe you should hang out on the ICP more dude!!!

But he's pretty interested in Cassie's answer about saiyans, so he's not about to interrupt that.

"Something like that, yeah," Cassie says. "They're from another world, but similar enough to humans that they can have kids."

She'll leave out the depressing detail that he's the last of his kind in his timeline.

Sweet Naga, why is she mentioning the having kids thing? Is she already planning on having kids with Trunks? That sure is the first thought that comes to Inigo's mind - perhaps since it's sappy and therefore oriented towards that sort of stuff - and he has to quickly try to surpress a blush. It only half works, so he speaks up right after to try and distract his mind.

"I-- I suppose it makes sense then that he couldn't really endure smells meant for regular people.."

Bro come on, it was part of the half-Saiyan thing, keep up! Stop thinking about family making over there!

"Wasn't there someone onboard like that? I think it came up in the pamphlet." He's sure he's heard something about it before. "Not a lot you can do though about smells and all that in a trapped space like a train though... well, 'less you're dating and know what your guy can handle." In Cassie's case, heheh.

"You two got chummy quick! He hit all your right buttons?"

Cassie remains unflustered. Instead, she smirks. "I like to think I hit his, too."

She collects a few of the jars and settles them under her arm.

"Don't suppose either of you could do me a solid next time you see him?"

Sheesh, talk about moving fast! Not to mention Cassie doesn't even deny any of it - maybe she just moves quickly if she sees a guy she really likes? It's the one thing Inigo can figure at that kind of reaction.

Not that he mentions anything out of that out loud, of course. He knows better than that, at least. He doesn't want to get crushed, not today, thanks...

"Hm? Sure?"

Inigo doesn't mind doing favours even for people he doesn't know all that well like Cassie, after all.. Or people who crushed his selfconfidence before, apparently. He's not the type to carry a grudge?

"Tidus, you know what that guy looks like, right?" Because Inigo sure doesn't, so he'll need some help with that.

"Yeah, we met," he says to Inigo first before looking at Cassie. "What's up?"

Not that he thinks they were likely to bump into the guy before she did, but...?

"Just make sure he doesn't get wind of me picking these up," Cassie says. "I'd like to surprise him."

"Oh." Inigo answers, looking a little relieved. "Ooooh."

That sure isn't a difficult request for him to follow through on. Like he just said, he doesn't even know the guy! Not like he's going to just hit up some stranger to tell him his girlfriend picked him up a gift.

"Sure, of course. These lips are sealed. I hope he ends up enjoying it!"

"Suuuuure," Tidus says with more cheek, a grin to go with it. "You two have fun. Don't tease him too much."

Does he know enough about Trunks to think he's the easily flustered type? Nope. But who knows how he gets around Cassie.

Either way, Cassie is definitely tugging around the leash in this relationship.

"Not sure I can keep that promise," Cassie says. "I'll do my best."

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