Also While We're At It, My Muse For Albedo Is Sky High Right Now. Please Follow Me @marchingasone If

also while we're at it, my muse for albedo is sky high right now. please follow me @marchingasone if you haven't, and i will happily give you all the albedo, all the time. (and other muses!)

It had been an instinctive reaction for the traveler to seek the closest form of shelter as a sudden downpour began to fall from dark clouds that had appeared with little warning. Unfortunately for Kaminari, said 'shelter' had been the wide hat that the puppet so loved to wear. As Aether practically stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the wanderer, he gave Kami a sheepish grin, golden eyes somewhat pleading.

"I don't suppose I could convince you to share?" He knows what he's requesting is akin to asking Paimon to share her favorite food, but he can't help but hope that Kami might take some pity on him in the midst of this bit of bad weather.

If not - well, Aether would just have to make a run for it and hope he could find an alternative before he got TOO soaked.

he's not sure why the traveler enjoys his hat so much. for that matter, kami can't understand why ANYONE finds his hat so fascinating. surely they've all seen equally decorated hats? humans. they have strange fascinations with even stranger trinkets.

well, aether isn't exactly a human, but he still mingles among them well enough to PASS for one. kami offers himself no such similar luxuries. THOUGH, it's also probably why he feels a little more comfortable around aether. kami can relate to him just a touch more. not that kami feels comfortable overall ― the traveler is still a cautionary tale, a living reminder that kami still has a lot of amends to make. aether is wholly GOOD, someone kami could never fully be, or even WANTS to be.

the strange companionship they formed is nice though. if only that annoying floating creature calling herself paimon didn't try to insult him every two words. her lack of presence would make aether even more tolerable.

"you have the audacity," kami chides, no actual scorn in his words. "to try and cozy up to me, JUST to use my hat." TSK. with anyone else, the answer would be a hard no, and he'd get some mild amusement in watching them run for shelter. but perhaps because aether's been kind enough to him in the past, there's no real harm in returning the favor, even just a tiny one.

"fine, but only until it stops raining."

kaminari takes the hat off his head, and rests it atop aether's head. "also, if you even look like you're about to take off with it, i am revoking all hat privileges forever."

@kushtibokt: If it's to cool down my fancy cocktail, then by all means.

"sounds like you're offering to have a drink with me. i could probably get behind this. if you buy."

you bitch you didn’t follow me >:[ (i love u spank)

BITCH I WAS TALKING ABOUT REMAKING IN YOUR SERVER

(i love you too gem)

kami's crush on aventurine is waking back up.

talking to a couple people on discord and i was talking about kami's one sided crush on him. and HONESTLY, kami's general type is also people who are traumatized and shaken up by life in general. i explained it as like attracts like, but it's really how kaminari operates from verse to verse.

he's such a broken ball of misery that it's hard for him to get into genuine healthy relationships. aside from a very few cases, kami almost doesn't even WANT them, he doesn't want to be seen as fixable or moldable. so any crush or partner he acquires will probably also be just as broken as him.

and like i said, there are few exceptions to the rule, there are people who can win kami over and help him better himself. but in general? if he's miserable, he wants miserable company. it's a very unhealthy mindset and so so toxic. and kami even knows it, but, and it's especially apparent in h.sr!verse, that he's not comfortable with improving his situation, and he's going to be attracted to someone who is just as much of a pain as he is.

Tonia holds out a bucket full of ice to Kami. She doesn't say anything, just staring right at him, turning to glance at a certain gambler for a second, then looking right back.

Hopefully he gets what she means...? (Does she have to say pretty please also? Hopefully no right)

he takes the bucket of ice and peers down into it. see, he KNOWS what she wants. once upon a time in a land far away, he had considered the idea too. it would have been FUNNY, a glorious spectable of epicness...or something along those lines.

"once upon a time," kami says dramatically. "i would have done the very thing you wanted. but i am a man now. i have desires, you see. and those free drinks are calling my name. they have become my very destiny."