video: un; apparition (characters 18+ please for the first portion)

[unphase]

[Tinya lounges back wearing a little black dress in her sunroom with her batkitten, her kittens, and her Omen, Moonlight sitting at attention on the armrest of her chair]

So! This may seem like an unusual request, but I'm looking for friends. Friends with benefits, actually. I know that may sound strange, but I miss being close to someone. All are invited to apply, if that makes sense. I want to know whom I'm dealing with before I say yes to anything.

[and a Mona Lisa smile] And is it strange to spend more than five years bouncing between worlds? Who else has been through this? [a teasing smile] You don't necessarily have to be auditioning for the first role to answer, I promise.

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video; un: taka

[retsuden]

[ He's squinting a little as he tries to figure this out. He barely knew what sex was before last February okay. ]

Do most friendships not come with the benefit of being close? Isn't that what bonds are about?

(CW: underage sex, coerced sex)

[unphase]

[she was far more precocious than that, having a serious relationship when she was fifteen]

They do. The Mistress knows that you're my dearest friend here and I platonically love you. But...the other place...conditioned me, I guess. It had requirements, ones I couldn't not do unless I wanted something terrible to happen.

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[retsuden]

[ People forget to give you The Talk when you lose your whole family at 7 and let's face it. He's not the most... primal of people in the world.

Which is why he's not following this at all until he remembers them having talked about her other world before. Give him two seconds for it to click. ]

[retsuden]

Oh.

[ OH. ]

I see.

I don't know how you endured such a thing. I don't know that I would have had the same strength. My family was much more... strict on their beliefs about who to do those sorts of acts with. It would have been difficult to overcome.

[unphase]

[dryly] I very nearly didn't. It tried everything it could think of to break me. But it couldn't.

And my mother was terribly strict about it as well. She made the mistake of running away to marry my father when she'd had a husband 'arranged' for her. She regrets it, I can tell.