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[bakudan_bambino]

Aurora and Zuko are no longer here in Avalon.

[Gokudera will not be attending his classes, showing up to work, or training at the dojo for several days. He just lost his boyfriend and girlfriend and he’s tired from fighting wraiths. Mostly, he’s just being an angsty teenager.

Feel free to blow up his IC inbox. Messages on this post will likely get delayed responses.]

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[reloves]

it's okay. you don't have to say anything you're not comfortable with.

[ Is Minako curious? Of course. Is she nosy as all heck? Even moreso.

But she's also mature enough to respect people's boundaries when it really comes down to it. ]

seriously though. i can't imagine they wouldn't be happy to see you again. don't think so little of yourself! [ She imagines that's part of what's going on here, anyway, especially with what Gokudera says at first. ] take it from the goddess of love and beauty herself!

even if it hurts now, just think of how nice it'd be when one day you guys can have a reunion. or who knows, maybe you might find someone else to love in the meantime. don't close off your heart!

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera doesn’t even know if Omertà applies in this world. Does the Tenth care?]

I think I’d just like to go home and forget everything that’s happened over the last four years more than I’d like to pursue love.

[He’ll take blowing himself over this heartache any day, thanks.]

[reloves]

and forget all that you've learned? all that you've experienced? all that you've become?

[ After all, Minako fiercely believes that she wouldn't be the person she was now without all of her heartbreak.

For better or worse.

Would he just throw that away? ]

[bakudan_bambino]

…

[When he goes home and doesn’t remember any of it, only to wake up again a few weeks later in a different world with the scars reappearing, the haunting loss, the idea that he would need to supply a world with more energy via sex, magic, murder? He’s tired, and aged beyond his body.

Realistically, with how long he’s been gone from home, when the time hits him only mentally and the damage creeps, it’s hard to feel significant. But… he knows and hopes he meant something. If he forgot it all…

A do-over would be nice. A chance to be himself again, before he felt like he had to cut himself into small pieces and leave nothing left for himself…

He says none of this, and there is some pause to indicate him typing, even the floating ellipsis.]

Yes.

I don’t have a choice, though, so it does not matter.

[reloves]

be careful what you wish for.

[ Minako's reply doesn't take as long to reply, though it perhaps sounds a little ominous.. Not that she's planning anything, or even suspecting anything, it's just - these things happen to become reality more often than you'd think, in her opinion.

And she's not sure if it'll turn out quite the way he expected it to. ]

good luck with everything for now though. if you end up wanting to talk more later, just send me a message. [ Because it doesn't sound like there's much more she can do or say for him right now. ]

[bakudan_bambino]

You really think something like that could happen?

[Why not, Gokudera? You made a wish last year and it came true, albeit a bit mangled and misconstrued, but it came true.

What if this wish just yeets him to some other world? What if he gets some permanent amnesia? What if everyone forgets him? That’d suck.

But he would expect something worse to happen to him. It usually does.]

Alright.