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TERRENCE NOWELL

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(Note: Terry gave Kido his phone. Bought his own flipphone on 8/26!)

He has a stall set up in the market street for locating things. Feel free to thread it out with an inbox action thread or handwave it!

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[overstrain]

Thinking of ways to get you to catch me so I can swoon.

[ ... ]

No, I just wanted fresh air and think about stuff. The roof is a nice place for that.

[reveilation]

[ Kido pulls back and Terry gets a forehead flick. ]

Don't orchestrate stuff like that. You nearly gave me a heart attack. [ So, yeah, that had better be a joke. ]

You can always just take a walk around the block if you wanted air. I can keep you company too, unless you wanted to be alone.

[overstrain]

You looked like you were the one who wanted to be alone...

[ And the fact that Kido was sleeping. Yeah. ]

[reveilation]

I did, but I would go with you if you ask.

[ She still wants to sleep, but she'll go with him if he asks... yeah. ]

[overstrain]

[ terry, waking kido up at four in the morning: i wanna go on a walk with you
kido, smothering him with a pillow: shhh go back to sleep

Terry meant that Kido looked like she didn't even want to look at him, which was pretty understandable, considering what they talked about, so... He finds it hard to reply, which reflects on his face as some sort of struggle of not knowing what to say. ]

[reveilation]

[ lmfao yeah, Terry, do your thinking at more reasonable hours.

Kido takes the silence and the complicated expression on Terry's face the wrong way, like she always does, and frowns a little herself. ]

If you wanted to be alone, you can just say that too. And I'll leave you alone.

[ He can tell her to fuck off if he wants to!! But she'll get mad at him. He could say it, though. ]

[overstrain]

No, it's not that... it looked like you didn't want to talk to me, so I was really surprised when you suddenly came running out of the house.

[ Also for the fact that he thought Terrence was around, until remembering that, yeah, Kido still calls him by that name. ]

[reveilation]

[ When will Haki free me by getting Terry to tell Kido to call him Terry... even though by this point she never will because she's too used to it. I played myself. ]

Well, yeah, I was trying to sleep. But then you were making a ruckus up there, so of course I'd come out and see if you're okay.

[overstrain]

I didn't think I was that loud... Sorry for bothering you.

[ Though even having some tree branches scrape on your roof makes the sound unnaturally loud when you're inside the house... It gets spooky. And funny that you say that Card because.......... ]

Kido, can I ask for a favor?

[reveilation]

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Yeah? What is it?

[overstrain]

... Can you call me by "Terry"?

[ It only took SO LONG FOR HIM TO ASK ]

My original is here, so... it probably gets confusing.

[reveilation]

No.

[ I've been thinking of how she would respond if he ever asked and it'd be like this... ]

It feels weird. It'd be like you calling me Tsubomi all of the sudden.

[overstrain]

I can do that.

[ He says it so easily while looking over at her. ]

But you don't like being called that, so I don't...

[reveilation]

It's... not like I'd hate it if you do. But it's weird on my end. Nobody's called me Tsubomi in a long time, so it doesn't feel like me.

[ And Terry doesn't feel like himself when he's called Terrence but that is besides the point. From her perspective it's weird. ]

[overstrain]

[ Hm. ]

... You and the Attendants are the only ones who call me that too.

[ Do you want to be lumped in with them. ]

[reveilation]

[ That's a low blow... But no, she doesn't want to be lumped in with them. ]

You can get them to stop. Souji was calling me Tsubomi until I told him to quit it.

[ She was probably holding a broken glass bottle in her hand at the moment, though. And Minato still calls her that. ]

[overstrain]

I bet that was when you held a broken bottle within range.

[ Souji told him about that... he had dokis, but that's not important. ]

[reveilation]

...Yeah. But he's some super powerful Persona user, right? That shouldn't have intimidated him.

[ Broken bottles still hurt, though... Kido likes to think of that entire encounter as self-defense. ]

[overstrain]

... It does if he doesn't like pain.

[ Terry isn't some super powerful Persona user, but he gets it.......... ]

[reveilation]

If he were so strong, he wouldn't have let it hit in the first place. ...How come you always let me hit you, before?

[ The Shadow had said that. Terry mentioned it once, too, that it had been a while, at the time, since she punched him. She yells a lot more, though, maybe to compensate. ]

[overstrain]

[ ...

Okay, that has Terry thinking. Why did he do that again... ]

... I think it was because I used to be paranoid and letting you hit me was a way to show that I let my guard down around you? Or something... it's been so long, so I could be wrong.

[reveilation]

You were paranoid, so you let your guard down. That's the opposite of paranoid, Terr— ...Terry.

[ IT FEELS WEIRD. But fuck it, I'm going to take the out. ]

[overstrain]

[ I'm glad you succumbed to this... I hope Kido doesn't go zombie so she can keep calling him Terry. Terry smiles when hearing her call him that too. It's a win-win. ]

That was me trying to get over my paranoia.

[reveilation]

[ Haha, I sure hope she doesn't go zombie either. We'll see. ]

By letting me hit you... [ She doesn't get it. It doesn't make sense in the first place, so she lets it go. ]

Did it work?

[overstrain]

... I guess so? I don't remember feeling as paranoid as I did before.

[ Yeah... that's all he can think of. ]

I'll take that as a good thing.