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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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Inigo laughs a little at Tidus's expected protest. Though he doesn't seem to think what comes after - the caution - is unwarranted, since Inigo himself grows more serious for a moment too, glancing between the other two.

"Usually.. does that mean there are times when it hasn't been?"

Which isn't really Inigo angling to get all details about it. That's not important. It's more about making sure it absolutely wouldn't bother Taiki, because the last thing they need is Taiki growing weak or ill because of the content of his Arms Band.

"Sounds like Taiki's got a radar for how well done meat is." It's a little dry, even though it's partially a joke. At a same time- "Doesn't sound good for the rest of us. But then, how many people know how to cook here? The food's not always... well."

He huffs that 'well', looks at Inigo--you know what I mean, right bro?? Tidus isn't a food snob, but not everyone should be in a kitchen just because it's their chore!

"But maybe it's to do with the 'meaty' smell? That's stronger with some foods than others."

He smiles slightly at Tidus though he can't say if it is true or not, he makes his own food for the most part so he's not sure what other peoples cooking is like on a whole.

"I guess... It's to do with the smell of blood. So I guess... How much it has been cooked." He shook his head, "It's alright though, it won't make me really sick. It's more like a... restlessness, something I am aware of. I can carry whichever supplies you wish."

It should be fine inside the arms band.

Inigo gives Tidus a Look that indicates that yes, bro, he's very much on the same wavelength as you here. And while Inigo may not be amazing at cooking, he's at least decent enough with meat that he feels like he's allowed to judge others when it comes to that, at least.

Though his agreement with Tidus quickly loses priority the moment Taiki starts talking. Oh, nope. Nope, nope, nope. He's sure Tidus will agree with him on this one.

"Hey, there are plenty of people who can carry stuff! You don't have to be uncomfortable when there's other options." Even if it's restlessness, that still can't be good if he's constantly around it. "If anything, we can see if we can't have some meals that don't involve meat to put in there. Surely you aren't the only one around here who doesn't eat it."

As weird as that concept still is to Inigo, who's very much a meat eater and practically had to be to survive for years.. but at least it's easier to understand it with Taiki, considering his condition.

Tidus is in agreement with Inigo here, and even nods, following after him. "We had vegetarian meals-- still have them 'cause I got to asking Uta about all the difference what he could make when we started. So not everything that needs carrying is meat. But."

But. "--It's up to you, Taiki. To be honest," he waves a hand, sighing, "I don't know how any of the teams decide who's carrying what. I know Minako was carrying for Blue, but I just took some food with me anyway in Irivar... I might ask Piccolo if he can make some more lunchboxes, and I give you guys your own supplies. It's easier way of doing it. Then you can cover whoever you need to."

It's still so soon after the mission anyway, and Tidus doesn't want to think about it that deeply. Ugh. Plus, in the end-

"Main thing is, as long as you have everything you need for you and Saku, that's all you need to think about right now."

"Okay. Well I can carry food, or anything really and if Lord Gyousou will be carrying it it probably doesn't matter, about the meat I mean."

He had never been able to smell blood or even felt uncomfortable around Tidus or Inigo when they were wearing the arm bands, so he doubted it would be a problem.

"But... I guess we should get back, I disturbed you both when you were in the middle of something."

"Disturbed?"

Inigo sounds offended, but so dramatically to the point that no one could take it seriously. His mouth is open, gasping, hand on his chest, the whole deal.

And if that wasn't obvious enough, then the way he steps over to Taiki to hug the other says enough. He wraps his arms around him, briefly squeezes him, and then smiles as he lets go.

"You're just about the one person who could never disturb us, no matter what we're doing! You know you're always welcome with us, right?"

"Yeah! Plus, we called you down!" And he's about to continue along the same lines as Inigo, that there's always room for Taiki in whatever they're doing, until the words catch in his throat.

"--Wait! We didn't even give you any of your presents! Inigo! You got the bracelets?"

But straight after that Tidus is distracted, closing his eyes and with a squeeze and- poof! Folded blankets appear with a dusting of gold, out from his arms band. Different varieties, and Tidus picks up one, looking from Taiki and the blankets.

"You can pick one for you and Saku! Whichever ones you like!"

Taiki looked down, he knew that but it was still hard to believe. He so often felt like he was in the way, annoying the two of them. After all they were both more energetic than him and he feared he slowed them down.

He was even more overwhelmed when Tidus made the blanket appear. "Oh!" He gasped, "They are beautiful." Had they gotten them from Irrivar? He looked through them, they were as soft as they were beautiful.

He took a moment, trying to decide which one he thought Lord Gyousou would prefer.

"Oh, right--"

At least that gives Taiki a bit more space to pick a blanket, considering Inigo has to move away, thinking about where he left the bracelets. He thinks it's actually somewhere here in the pile of stuff they brought along for specific people..

So don't mind him for a second as he noses through that to look for the bracelets they got for those two!

Though he can't help but cast a slightly amused glance back at the other two while he's at it.

"Having a hard time picking?" It's just cute! Taiki does everything he does for Gyousou with so much care.

Tidus smiles happily, thinking to give Taiki all room to browse at his own leisure; but also, he wants to help, lowers to move out the blankets so they're not stacked and Taiki can go through them better.

"Nice, huh? We couldn't get them for everyone, but we wanted to treat our friends." A laugh as he admits, "We went wild spending everything we had left."

That was just the kind of mood they were in that day, trying to ignore the train and everything else.

"We wanted to get you some new shoes too, but buying shoes for someone when they aren't around's no good! Next planet we end up with shops," he says looking at Taiki, "we're taking you with us!"

He nodded it was hard to chose and also they were nice. It was so nice of them both to have bought things for all their friends, he blinked, not sure even what to say. Especially when Tidus told him he would have to go with them next time.

It was a little when he had first arrived on Mount Hou, all those years ago. Just like them Taiki felt strange, that people were being so kind to him. A worry that they were being kind to him for something he couldn't deliver. Worse in many ways because he had understood on Mount Hou that they were being so kind because he was a kirin, even if he hadn't know what a kirin was or how to be one.

But now he didn't know why Inigo and Tidus liked him so much, they weren't sages, they weren't from Tai. He wasn't the hope of their land and so there was no reason for them to be so kind to a person like him, who couldn't even repay them or fight for them or really help them in any way.

It was so strange and he's not sure how to answer. So he focuses on Inigo's question.

"Yes. I don't even know Lord Gyousou's favourite colour..."

Having found and grabbed the bracelets, Inigo returns back over to the other two's sides. He's not quite handing the bracelets over yet, since he doesn't want to overwhelm Taiki when the other already seems to be having a hard time picking a blanket. It can wait a few moments.

Instead he just smiles at Taiki. Encouragingly.

"You know, I think lord Gyousou likes whatever you like." Or at the very least, he would appreciate anything that would make Taiki happy. That is something Inigo is very much sure of, with how connected his heart now is to Gyousou's own.

"Right, Tidus? I'm completely right, aren't I?"

"Wow Taiki, Inigo's coming for your job. I think he's right!"

A light teasing, hopefully one that Taiki wouldn't mind. Would he be defensive suddenly, in the way he can get in regards to Saku? Tidus almost wants to make a suggestion, but at the same time, looking back at the blankets.

"I think you should choose what calls out to you. So it can be a gift from us all that way. Yeah - I like that."

He blinks for a moment but then doesn't seem to mind the light teasing, smiling nervously again. Inigo was perhaps right. Lord Gyousou wouldn't mind whichever he chose, he was a very practical person and he would be more impressed by the weight and warmth of the blanket, rather than how it looked.

He looked at them again before reaching out to one in orange and gold. "I think this one."

He looked at them both, to see if they approved.

"Oh, it's pretty."

Inigo apparently approves, judging by that smile on his face. But let's be real, Inigo is so soft for Taiki that he would have said the very same thing no matter what the other had chosen. Anything Taiki does it is great.

"I think that would be great for it him too!" It's kind of.. fire-y, right? That does suit Gyousou in Inigo's mind, especially since it matches the way Gyousou's feelings feel whenever they enter his mind in comparison to his own.

"And here, this is for the two of you too." He hands over the pair of bracelets to Taiki. "One for each of you. Tidus deserves most of the credit though for all of this!"

It was his idea to go shopping together, after all, even though they made the decisions on what to get together.

'wow tidus why would you ever think i would have a crush on taiki for'.

"Reminds me of a beach," is what Tidus remarks near after Inigo's own assessment, inspecting the blanket. Really, they were all nice, but those colours did suit Saku. Would it go with his eyes? That blood-red.

"But it looks good! You know, Saku should wear orange more. Not that team Orange but-- like this." Don't they think so too? A kind of autumn orange. (In this thread we dress up Gyousou in our minds.)

The bracelets that passes over are a matching pair: simple looking at first, wooden polished bands of dart oak, then two rings of thin silver set near the centre but a space apart to compliment it. Tidus watches as they're passed over, huffing as Inigo also tries to pass over all the hard work to him, too. A humoured tilt to his mouth.

"Yeah, well, I wouldn't have picked up half this stuff without you. Stop leaving yourself out! We had a fun day, didn't we?"

Taiki is glad they agree on the colour, it did suit Gyousou and he hoped that his king approved.

"He should," He nodded at Tidus. It was still strange to see Lord Gyousou in earth style clothing, in combat trousers and a hoodie when all his strongest memories of him are of him in armour or complex robes.

But he is soon distracted by the bracelets, "Oh..." These are beautiful too and he looks up at the two of them, tears prickling his eyes, though they are tears of gratitude, not sadness.

He reached out to pull them both towards him in a hug.

"Thank you, both of you. I'm glad you had a fun day."

Hey, what is this sudden callout! It's not like Inigo has a bad habit of attributing anything good that happens to other people's actions rather than his own or anything, please don't mind it..

But before Inigo can even say anything in reply, there are those tears in Taiki's eyes that absolutely kill any word that could come from Inigo's throat. And before he can fuss about that, there's the hug.

He's quiet for a moment, just moving his arms so he can make sure there's an arm wrapped around Taiki in return too.

".. we did have a fun day together." There's some very genuine sentiment in that sentence. The mission had been terrible, but that last day.. Somewhere between Taiki's attempt to comfort him and making up with Tidus, it got a lot better. "And if it can make you happy now, Taiki, then it was an even more fun day in hindsight."

Should Tidus have expected the hug? He didn't, but he welcomes it anyway, an arm coming around Taiki to share in it. At least when it came to hugs, Taiki was all about indulging in those.

"But I still want a day out with Taiki!" Tidus proclaims, or whines, or whichever you like. What a shame they couldn't go out for one now. Calling those few hours before they had to return to the train a 'day out' made it out to be more than it was, but he'd take another one of those with their other friend. Without anything awkward and dumb between them. Without Tidus's emotions to get in the way.

--ah. But this does remind Tidus, pulling his head back. "Hey, we can't go out anywhere, but I still need to show you two the music in the music car. The playlists! You two need more tunes on you!"

Like, for example: Any.

Taiki would like that as well, a day out with them. Anything to keep his friends from worrying about everything that they had to worry about on the train.

He smiled though, "We can go to the music carriage if you want." He glanced at Inigo to guage how he felt about that. Taiki didn't mind.

"You can show us what music you like."

Inigo notices the way Taiki glances over at him, and he already knows what it means. He's trying to make sure Inigo is down for this plan as well, huh.

Well, it's not like he's going to be the factor here that keeps them from having fun, so he quickly smiles, squeezing Taiki a bit before throwing an eyeroll in Tidus's direction.

"Be careful, Taiki, he loves showing you the kind of music that makes your ears feel like they're going to fall off."

IT'S JUST A JOKE, OKAY. Mostly. He's still not quite recovered from the Skrillex from the other day.

"Wha? What's that mean?"

Excuse you, what joke?? Do you mean this offended reply and a stern look thrown back at you, Inigo? Because that's what you're going to get!

"You could have told me to turn it down if it was too loud." That's not the issue here... "Anyway, it's not about my kind of music. It's about finding what Taiki likes!" which, speaking of!, and actually looking at the guy. "Do you have an instrument you like most?"

Taiki looks like.. a strings guy, doesn't he! Soft music!

"I..." He shook his head, "I guess not. The harp is very pretty though."

He likes how it sounds but he hasn't heard a lot of different music. There were some pop stars his brother enjoyed and had cassettes of, but music hadn't been a large part of his life on earth and music was one of the old kings excesses and not something Tai could afford.

He's definitely making a 'you know what you did!!' kind of face at Tidus. Because Tidus knows what he did! PAH!! (As Tidus would say.)

"Well, I guess that means you'll just have to try listening to some things." Calm things, thank you very much.

Also yes, Inigo isn't sure what music he likes either, but he will always put Taiki first! Especially since Taiki deserves to have something nice for once. Like finding music he enjoys.

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