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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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[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.

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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?

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Yeah? What is it?

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

[ It only took SO LONG FOR HIM TO ASK ]

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

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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.

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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...

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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. ]

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[ Hm. ]

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

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

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[ 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. ]

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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. ]

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...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. ]

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

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

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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. ]

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[ ...

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.

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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. ]

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[ 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.

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[ 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?

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... 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.

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Weirdo...

[ As long as it's a good thing, though, she supposes it's fine. It's whatever. ]

Try not to give me reasons to punch you in the future, then, okay? I'm going to head back inside.

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I don't think I've gotten punched from you in a while... so I'll try.

[ Terry goes to open the door for Kido, because he wants to go inside too. ]

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That's because you keep catching my fist.

[ The reasons are still there. She definitely remembers being angry enough to actually throw a punch. That was how they reunited. It wasn't even that far back, and thinking about it now is tiring.

Time to go home... ]