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[loveandduty]

Hey~

[Minako gives a smile and a wink.]

It's your beautiful and oh so charming idol of love and beauty, Minako Aino here~

Today is the day I get back into doing something I have done previously and with the weather being hot, hot, hot you know that love itself should be smoking~!

[She couldn't help but laugh at that for whatever reason.]

Even with the month being what it is, I think we should not ignore love and all it stands for, so I am here today as the love guru to help you all.

Are you single and lonely and want advice? Are you having issues in a relationship and don't understand what to do or struggle? Do you want to be more of a romantic?

I can help with that and more, so ask me today and I will give you advice.

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[imaglyphwitch]

Hey Minkao-chan! It's me, Luz!

Uh, I recently just DID get in a relationship with a super special girl, and we are doing well! You got any advice or tips?

[loveandduty]

Congratulations~

I do have some tips. First is every now and again to do a sweet gesture that suits them perfectly. Do something that interests the both of you and make it special.

Sometimes after all it is just the little things that mean a lot.

[imaglyphwitch]

That's a good idea! I do know a little bit about her already, I could totally get her something nice to enjoy.

That's true. That's SO true!

[loveandduty]

See that is a very good start. A small gesture that if done correctly could be something deeply meaningful and a story to tell later down the line.

[Like how she got her red bow. There was a story behind that one from her first crush... who turned out to be evil... that was a thing that Minako did now and again. Either taken or evil.]

Also couples tend to go back to those moment slater down the line for important events too, so always keep that in mind. Like Vira and I. Our first date was a picnic so I used that idea for how I proposed to her.

[There were slight differences but the idea and though process had been there.]

[imaglyphwitch]

I have a few ideas I can come up with!

[Luz would love to know the story there]!

Aw, that's so...wait, WHAT?! Proposed?! When did THAT happen??

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[survivalthroughhate]

I've been in my relationship with my boyfriend for over a year now. Recently, we went through a rough patch because I betrayed his trust. We'd never fought before and this one was bad. While we were able to eventually make up, I know that betrayal I made still hurts him. Any advice on how to make things right between us?

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[loveandduty]

Time is sometimes the only thing one can use. So long as you don't try and force things and work on it with them. Rebuild that trust so to speak it should work out.

... So long as you work on the actual problems that need to be worked on.

[survivalthroughhate]

Yes. Part of the problem is that I did something that hurt him and didn't apologize for it. I kept making excuses. So I had to face up to what I'd done. Admitting I was wrong helped a lot but I know he still is mad at me to a degree and feels like he can't trust me anymore.

[loveandduty]

Then it's really a time situation. Things cannot be fixed overnight. It's also a good time to work on things yourself to get to a point where they can see that you are trying to do better.

Because it's one thing to say sorry, but it's another to say sorry and then actually work to avoid what happened to happen again. The latter at least would help rebuild trust more than the former.

[onerthes]

[Someone had such an impish look on her face as she grinned at her fiance through the feed. She was pleased to see she was doing this. Why? Because she was feeling moody about what was coming, and it was just...]

I do love that you can always be you. We probably need a bit of a lightening of the mood.

So... since we've been dating, what do you think makes the best kind of places and things to do for dating. You know, since Trench is such a different place.

[loveandduty]

I mean even I have my moments where I'm not me, but considering what the worlds have been like I finally decided to try and be that person who tries to do the positives.

[Will she do well? Who knows, she just wants to at least try.]

[onerthes]

I think it's important that we have someone to uplift and occasionally to distract us from the thoughts this world breeds. It's kind of easy to get completely lost in the whole "Oh no, not again" sort of atmosphere. A little diversion keeps it from all being drudgery.

[loveandduty]

It is, I might even look into seeing if there are others who might have the same thoughts and think of things to do.

I mean others are doing things, but maybe seeing if those who might not come forward can if they have an ear.

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[hearuthinking]

[Now, Jason is not one to talk about certain things. He'd rather just shove them down and pretend they don't bother him. But he's also lived in Trench for half a year now and has suffered a lot thanks to all the denial.

So here it goes]

I had kind of an epiphany recently.

I have these feelings for someone. But he's not here, he's home.

So what do I do?

[Bearing Update: Jason confessed his feelings for Salim (indirectly)]

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[loveandduty]

That's a hard one because they aren't here. But sometimes writing things down might help. Like writing a letter. That way you are expressing how they feel and if they ever do arrive you have at least one way of letting them know.

[hearuthinking]

Wouldn't have thought about doing that.
I can give it a try.
Thanks.

[loveandduty]

Your welcome.

I used that example because it was something I tried myself and it helped in expressing my feelings but I never gave it to the person for reasons. But that was a turns out they weren't great reasons.

Would have been able to give it to them otherwise.

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[tealeafs]

[ Well.. technically Chizuru has no love or relationship going on to ask about, but..

There's something she can't help but worry about in the face of everything Minako is rambling on about here. Maybe it's just that she's not experienced with love enough yet herself, but she can't help but wonder.. ]

.. Love should be.. smoking? Um, what should it be smoking?

[ Perhaps she's taking it a little bit too literally here. But then again, it's not like slang like 'smoking' existed in the time Chizuru comes from.. ]

[loveandduty]

[Sometimes Minako forgets that people might come from different time periods, so assumed people would know ad understand what she was on about... In general that was questionable at best.]

It's basically a saying that love should be hot. Like it should be alive and kicking for the most part. Alive like a fire, not sizzling like a put out fire.

[tealeafs]

Oh...

[ Does Chizuru fully understand? It's hard to say. The tiny noise she lets out does have a bit of understanding in it, but at the same time she sounds a little dazed as she tries to process that metaphor..

Is that how people in other worlds truly talk about love? Or is Minako also a poet, aside from being a goddess? ]

But if love isn't alive, then there's no love in the first place, right..? [ She's trying to test her own understanding here now! ]

[loveandduty]

Exactly. That's why it has to be hot or smoking~ Or else it just won't work out, which can happen sometimes.

If if that happens it's either a work on it or go your separate ways.

[Which Minako knew and understood very well with the number of crushes she had and the number of times she has had to let go because usually they were either evil or had a love interest already.]</small?

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[subject_013]

Advice for a person who's loved and lost and doubts they can find love again, after they were changed to the core of their being?

There is one person I would approach, but I've wondered if I'm worthy of her attentions.

[loveandduty]

I think everyone deserves love if I am being honest. There might be reasons why some might now, I was once one of those people. I was always told that it would never happen for me and I believed them for years.

But when you find that someone who can see you for your positives and negatives and still care then I find that is worth it.

So I have to ask this? You seem to question if you are worthy but ask yourself this? Is that someone who has seen perhaps the most of you or parts of you that most might run away from, but still is perfectly okay being around you regardless?

[CW: Blue and Orange Morality]

[subject_013]

If it changes anything, I suppose I should add that the change which took place made me something greater than human, though I've continually found, there are still parts of me which have remained, stubbornly perhaps, still human.

I think she can see me as someone worthy of kindness: she saved me from a literal tight place. I've been striving to return the kindness, though this place has made that difficult. She hasn't seen me at my utmost worst, by most people's standards. I am not a kind person, however, I do strive to use that unkindness in ways that benefit the Sleepers and Trench-dwellers. One has to be hard, in order to handle many of the horrors this world throws at us. I am concerned she may not be able to see past that hardness.

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[loveandduty]

To the answer is yes they have seen you at your worst but is still there for you.

That's a good thing. Be you not human anymore or not. They seem to at least care about you, so that is something. To her you are worthy of her kindness. That is a guess on my part but that's just the way it comes across to me because if someone has seen you at their worst most would just leave if they can't or won't want to handle it.