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Who: Mituna Captor & anyone
Where: Plaza-ish
When: 07/25
What: Mituna being Mituna. Trolling around. Breaking one of his teeth. The usual.
Style: I'll match

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[Morning]

[He's quiet in the morning. It's sunk in by now that Sola, someone who had come to be a good friend to him, isn't around anymore. The troll is sitting by the coral, cross legged with his skateboard on the ground in front of him, moving it idly back and forth with one hand.

It bumps over the same dip in the stone each time, and each time he rocks forwards slightly as if the small disturbance in equilibrium is about to topple him. A lot of things about this place are good, and he prefers it greatly to the dream bubbles.. but he doesn't like how it keeps taking his friends away.]

[Afternoon]

[Later on in the day he's actually using the skateboard, rolling down one of the quieter streets in the bubble (and a good thing too, with his habit of bumping into people). When he comes to a short flight of steps leading to a street on a lower level, he barely hesitates. Most people would stop and dismount. A skater sure of themselves would no doubt jump the steps.

Mituna does neither of those things, but it seems he's attempting the latter as he bumps the board down the first step and promptly loses his balance, falling forwards and crashing face-first into the ground with a dull cracking sound. Rather than his usual stream of curses he only lets out a stunted, winded grunt and slowly rolls onto his side, one arm curled around his chest. He spits out a bit of yellow blood and half a chipped tooth.

Ah, maybe he's actually hurt himself this time.]

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[His silence and the quiet staring that follows makes it pretty clear that he has no idea what Fai is talking about, but that doesn't really matter. It's an effort to get him to concentrate on one thing for long, but the last thing that's said prompts a question.]

... Why?

[Yeah he knows it's pretty confusing. He's trying to keep things as simple as possible, he swears.]

I didn't know he was using my name, and everyone that knew him here had never heard of me. We look a lot like each other too so I think people thought that I was a younger him. I didn't understand why everybody already knew my name.

[That gets a little sound out of Mituna that sounded as if it was trying to be a laugh. He pulls his board towards him, setting it upside down on his lap and toying with one of the wheels.]

There'th thomeone here who lookth like an older me too. [And a younger one, but Sollux resembles him a little less.] Why doethn't he uthe hith own name if you're here. That'th weird.

[Fai just watches Mituna fiddle with his skateboard for a moment before he answers. He had talked about it with his brother before, but it's still a complicated topic.]

It is a little weird, but he's gone by that name for a long time. Everybody's used to calling him that. I don't really mind, it's pretty easy to tell which one of us people are talking about.

[He thinks so, at least. Probably because he's convinced nobody ever talks about him. They didn't need to be as reliant on names as they were when they were the same age. At this point so long as Fai could call his brother 'Yuui' and get a response, he really didn't care what others called him.]

But you thaid people got you confuthed.

[And now this whole conversation is just getting him more confused. He shifts agitatedly, his teeth denting his lower lip.]

I don't get it.

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Now that people know there's two of us, they don't mix us up anymore.

[Sounds like it might be a good time for a subject change... Not that he really knows what else to talk about. He is doing a terrible job at this. After an awkward silence he just sort of lets the words stumble out.]

Are you waiting for Sola?

[The subject change works, but Mituna starts a little at the question, staring at Fai for a long moment.]

... No. Yeth-- I mean.. I don't know. My matethprit came back, tho.. maybe..

[Maybe he'll come back too?]

[Fai smiles reassuringly, although it's really only half-hearted. But then his eyes are starting to water and he's scared to look at Mituna in case he begins to cry, so he stares ahead at nothing. His voice is shaky and already quieter than before.]

I want him to come back too. He's part of my family here and I know he didn't want to leave.

[The troll simply looks at him for a while, but he nods, albeit hesitantly, and makes a soft sound.]

He'th a good friend.. I mith him. [He plays with a lock of his hair.] Fai.. can we be friendth too?

I think a lot of people miss him. [Sola was one of those people who seemed difficult to dislike and quick to make friends. And even if there weren't a lot of people feeling a loss at the Hylian's leaving, there were enough that missed him terribly to make up for it.]

Yeah, we can be friends. I'm sure Sola would be happy to see his friends getting to know each other.

[At the confirmation, he seems to brighten. Mituna's made a lot of new friends here, though some of them aren't here anymore, and it's gone a long way to leveling him out. Having people around who won't constantly mock him has definitely worked out well.]

Do you know how to thkate? [He taps the board lightly.]

[Making friends has been good for Fai as well. It reminds him of how far he's come since he arrived a year ago, frightened of almost everything and everybody.

He shakes his head, looking at the skateboard curiously.]

I barely know what it is. It's not something you can do on my home world.

You wanna try?

[He perks up even further. Vatheon can always use more people who know how to skateboard, in his opinion.]

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