We're all in this train-gether 🚂

[adregem]

Who: OTA. If you’re a passenger with a ticket on this train, then you are most welcome here!
Where: Upper Music Car
When: Imagination 18, at around brunch.
What: Welcome to the train’s first ever community open forum. Come for the food, stay for the best discussions ever.
Warnings: Lots of top-levels for easy access to relevant topics to your characters, but apart from that, nothing right now! (Not a warning but a heads-up that one TL will be dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of the bonus trek during the last mission. For your OOC reference, please see here.)



Someway through the 18th of Imagination, an announcement for the already spoken for meeting is shared by the ICPs, giving people twenty minutes to come to the upper Music Carriage for the gathering. While the chairs mostly face the stage, they’ve been curved to allow people to face their fellow passengers too, so not to put the sole focus in one place.

This is a meeting for all, and everyone will have their chance to speak and be heard.

The promised snack table sits to one side of the room, and on the stage, the white board from the standard coach has been brought in, written on it bullet points for the planned topics. To assist in the flow of discussion, familiar moderators stand in place to help jot things down, carry conversation further should one idea end while another is ready to begin, among other such administrative tasks to organize the forum. Plus, the ICP’s are in constant use all throughout the meeting, with basic announcements about what’s being discussed now, and how more people are still welcome to catch up to the Music Car if they hear something that interests them.

Grab a plate, settle down, and let’s get to work.

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[longforgottenpromise]

[He was certain he would, after all Roland had been so enthusiastic about it and he cared about Inigo a lot, it would be the sort of thing he would want to make with him.

At the question though he looked a bit embarrassed.] No I... I fear he would think it childish of me.

[flatteries]

[ .. oh, Taiki. The worry is so very much like the other that it softens Inigo's expression even more. It kind of makes him want to wrap Taiki up in his arms and take him out of here for cuddles, but he guesses the meeting is a little more important than that.

So instead he just does his best to smile. ]

Do you think Roland would find me childish if I'd ask him? [ No, right? So don't act like it's different with Taiki and Gyousou, okay! It may not exactly be father-son for them, but there's a similar closeness and Inigo knows it. ]

[longforgottenpromise]

No, of course not. [He shook his head.] But it was his idea in the first place and it's... different.

[He looked embarrassed for a moment, stuck on how to explain it.]

[flatteries]

But lord Gyousou loves you.

[ That much is true. So true. Even if Inigo wouldn't have been literally connected to the man, feeling his emotions, he would have known as much. Just how much Gyousou adores Taiki. It's the sweetest thing, and Inigo is so, so glad for it, because it's exactly what Taiki deserves. Having someone care for him that much. ]

No matter what you did, he couldn't think badly of you. You have nothing to worry about around him. [ Inigo's tone sounds entirely devoid of hesitation or doubt for once. Instead he just smiles, warmly. ]

[longforgottenpromise]

[His eyes flicker up to Inigo, surprise written on his face. Because for Inigo to say such a thing, so confidently, it's a surprise.

Lord Gyousou loved him? Perhaps... He was his kirin after all and Lord Gyousou was a great king. He loved his citizens, loved the people of Tai. That much was so obvious and so it wasn't such a stretch to believe that he would love Taiki too.

But Inigo doesn't know... Lord Gyousou doesn't know. What Taiki has done. What he is capable of. If Lord Gyousou knew... Would he still love him? Surely he would think badly of him then? If he knew...

Taiki looked down, not able to look Inigo in the eye either because Inigo didn't know... He thought Taiki to be one way when really there was so much Taiki kept hidden from him.]

Perhaps...

[flatteries]

[ Maybe it's since Inigo knows Taiki so well by now. Knows that when he goes quiet like that, only to release a single word from his lips, the whole thought machine in Taiki's brain is whirring like crazy. And most of the time when Taiki is thinking that hard, it isn't a whole lot of positive thoughts about himself.

Which means Inigo will just have to provide the counterweight to it.

If not just by leaning over to press a quick, but gentle kiss against the other's cheek, before moving back and smiling at him. ]

Hey, and even if he didn't love you, I do! [ There's almost a hint of something joking to it, like a dumb attempt to cheer the other up, but with how Inigo's heart is, his genuinity can't help but shine through in his smile, his slightly rosey cheeks. ] But I promise you, nothing bad will happen if you ask lord Gyousou if he'd like to. Do you need my help asking him? I could come with you!

[longforgottenpromise]

[He looks surprised at the kiss but then smiles softly, knowing what Inigo is trying to do. Feeling bad that Inigo felt the need to do it at all.]

That would be nice, we can both ask him. [It would feel less weird that way, after all Lord Gyousou cared for Inigo as well.]

[flatteries]

Great, then let's do it that way.

[ If his presence or his help can make it even the slightest bit easier on Taiki, then Inigo will gladly provide it. As much as Taiki needs. Besides, if he happens to get entangled with the plan because of it, Inigo figures he can just sneak out at a convenient time to give those two some alone time.. ]

Though it's probably better to do it after the meeting is over, huh? Just call me over whenever you think you're ready for it. I'll be there.

[longforgottenpromise]

Yes... After the meeting would be best. [It's a frivolous enough thing at best, never mind interrupting Lord Gyousou from this meeting about actual important things.] But thank you... I will.