37TH ♫ | so i'll say “hello” again, “hello – just who have i become?”

[mytarget]

YUURI WAKSA CMO POST

BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE NICE TO YUURI EVEN WHEN CANON ISN'T!!!

you all know who rii-san is by now anyway this is just a fresh and spicy update to her usual CMO so i can throw it at people to make her play them with me. Like my usual CMOs, I'm totally happy to roll with assumed CR, AUs, setting transplants, BASICALLY ANYTHING YA LITTLE HEART MAY DESIRE, I'M HERE TO GET ON WITH IT

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[serrata]

[ Yuuri just laughs and shakes her head. ]

Oh? Even if it's my birthday, I can't let myself get away with being a bad hostess, can I?

[ Her smile makes it clear she's only teasing, though and she takes a seat herself. ]

Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to take you up on the offer. Would you mind bringing me whatever you're going to have as well, then?

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai stands up and, wordless, goes to the kitchen. She can be heard setting the kettle and rummaging around a little, and when she does bring out the tea, well. She clearly grabbed the first thing she could find. At least she can brew tea, unlike someone else I play who would have set the kitchen on fire.]

[serrata]

[ ... Oh goodness. Just what has Yuuri done to survive being surrounded by cinnamon rolls like this. ]

You could've grabbed a snack as well, you know. Or did you get something to eat before you came here?

[ She'll just be taking her cup and having a sip as Mai settles herself back down. ]

[nojohnyouare]

I didn't think of that.

[She pauses and looks at her own cup.]

Have you been well. How was school.

[serrata]

Oh, it's been wonderful.

[ Yuuri beams – her tone is effusive enough as it is, but there's something warm and unguarded about her smile that really speaks to the depths of her feelings. ]

You know, I was actually really nervous about going back– well, I suppose it's not really back, seeing as how I never made it to university in the first place... but it'd been so long since I'd been in a proper classroom, I was sure I was going to flounder and have an awful time of it. But really... it's been better than I could've hoped. I've been learning all sorts of new things and– well. It's just been wonderful being able to go at all.

[ Her smile turns a little bashful, like she's embarrassed to have gushed so bluntly but... well, Mai asked. She wouldn't have if she didn't want to know. ]

I'll be finishing sometime in the spring though. Can you believe it? It feels like hardly any time's gone by at all and here I am graduating from college.

[nojohnyouare]

...Good. You deserve something that makes you happy. To do what you want. Even if it feels strange to have any options.

[serrata]

Isn't it just? It's strange to think just how long we were just sitting around and waiting, not really able to do much of anything. Now we can do anything we like.

How about you, Mai-chan? How have things been going?

[nojohnyouare]

...

[Mai thinks about it a moment, staring at her tea.]

All right. Still studying. Sometimes things change, but being alive... I think it's good.

[serrata]

We definitely get more done than the alternative.

[ Black humor! It's how we cope. ]

Have you been settling in well enough? I bet it's funny adjusting to being back in your own time after how far ahead we were.

[nojohnyouare]

Sometimes. More pagers. And dial-up. But some places have high-speed now. What about you.

[serrata]

It's not been... too bad. I'm only a few years ahead of my own time, so I had a bit of a head start on getting used to things. So I've been settling in with that – it's just names and places I get mixed up on sometimes, out of habit. But no one's teased me for it too</i? badly.

[nojohnyouare]

Differences between worlds. It makes sense. ...I wonder. How many small ones we haven't noticed.

[serrata]

It really does make you wonder, doesn't it? It's a bit harder for me to tell since – well, it's not like I can go back to mine and check. But I bet we'll start noticing more and more things as you start catching up with our time.

[nojohnyouare]

Maybe. Most people from my world would say it was ordinary. So... Difficult.

[serrata]

Most places are ordinary until something out of the ordinary happens.

[ Not that Yuuri Wakasa, survivor of a zombie apocalypse, would know anything about that, of course. ]

I guess it's just a matter of hanging on and seeing what that something ends up being.

[nojohnyouare]

Some things even I don't know about. Time travel. And other worlds. Even for me, those are just rumours at home. So you're right.

[serrata]

You know, we're lucky we've been able to keep such a tight lid on it, aren't we? Being a celebrity in one universe is more than enough for me, I think. The last thing we need is a whole bunch of other ones heralding us for teaching them the secrets of time travel or whatever else we might've ended up letting slip.

[nojohnyouare]

Or saying we made it up. Also likely.

[serrata]

[ She huffs out a little laugh into her mug as she takes a sip of tea. ]

Oh, you're probably right there. Though I suppose if we really got it into our heads to prove it, we'd probably find some reckless way or another.

[nojohnyouare]

...Don't end up on the news.

[Is she trying to make light of what happened? Is she serious? It's honestly hard to tell with this one.]

[serrata]

[ That gets another laugh out of her. ]

Oh, don't you worry. I'm quite happy just being a normal everyday college student, thank you very much. I'll leave popping up on intergalactic TV to Dad and all the others.

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai gives a small nod of approval.]

He seems to be having fun.

[serrata]

That's certainly one way of putting it. You think by now everyone would've had their fill of being on TV, but I guess not...

I suppose acting isn't exactly the same as what happened to us, though.

[nojohnyouare]

Because he can control what happens now. Maybe that's good.

[serrata]

[ dryly: ]

Let's just say that "good" isn't exactly the first word I'd associate with his acting.