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Togusa

This is Togusa. Feel free to message me at any time.

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4/27

[darkinferno]

i just realized i can text you while drinking and you can't lecture me about being underage anymore

Re: 4/27

[standalonehuman]

Congratulations, you found the loophole. Learning from Ardyn well, I see.

Happy Birthday, by the way. Sorry I was out of town and under a curse for the date of.

[darkinferno]

like i wouldn't have come up with that on my own

i didn't evne know you knew when my birthday WAS, what sort of curse was it?

[standalonehuman]

I wrote it enough times on certain forms. You know, when I arrested you.

And, a weird curse. Progressive curse mark, sapped my strength, made me hear voices.

[darkinferno]

[...oh. Oh yeah. That sure was a thing that happened, no matter how much he'd like to pretend otherwise.]

were you the one who read me my rights

besides, don't you fill out enough of those every year? why remember mine?

[LET'S CHANGE THE TOPIC HE DOESN'T LIKE TALKING ABOUT HIS BIRTHDAY ANYWAYS.]

wish i could say that sounded unfamiliar

how'd you break it?

[standalonehuman]

I remember yours because you're my friend, Dante. That was just where I picked it up.

[But okay we'll move on.]

It wanted a confession, admitting a regret. Ardyn helped me out. I needed somebody to talk to.

icon SO FUCKING RELEVANT LMF

[darkinferno]

[WHY THAT TOGUSA. WHY DO YOU SAY THOSE WORDS

"Which words, Dante?" ALL OF THEM

It's gonna be a moment.]

why do these conversations always go this way

ahahahahaha

[standalonehuman]

Because Retrospec?

[Togusa is cracking one open on his end, now, too.]

[darkinferno]

oh no you don't get to blame retrospec for this one

retrospec is responsible for stuff like my texts splitting at the worst possible place and sending to the wrong person

not the way these conversatoins always circle back to "hey dante you should talk about things"

do you do this intentionally

[standalonehuman]

Not..every time?

I mean, hey Dante you should talk about things. Generally, yeah, that's my opinion. Talking is better than not talking.

I can still blame Retrospec for forcing the issue on everything, though.

[darkinferno]

[IGNORING THAT. Talking about things is the worst!]

then i'll just have to make sure not to get cursed

where were you when you got it?

[standalonehuman]

Magatus, actually. I really wanted to see that magic forest.

It was beautiful, great view of that aurora effect before I passed out, woke up with a curse mark.

[darkinferno]

auroras?

oh yeah, i think i saw something like that when i met up with alison there. neither of us got any curse marks though

[Still, this is sounding oddly familiar... even if he doesn't think it's the same.]

what'd it look like?

[standalonehuman]

I've got footage if you want pictures of it! I had to get the shots for Koutarou.

The mark, it started out as just a dark spot on my arm, but it started spreading like a disease, like liquid metal covering my skin.

[darkinferno]

maybe, pictures never do them justice

what is it with this place and weird growing tattoos

[standalonehuman]

Wait, do you have a tattoo, let alone a weird growing one?

[darkinferno]

i can't let you in on ALL my secrets can i

[standalonehuman]

I honestly don't know which I'd believe more, if you do or don't.

That was one of those pieces of culture shock, coming here. Tattoos and motorcycles, turns out they're okay over here.

[darkinferno]

[What a crazy strange happenstance! Has Togusa seen yet the ridiculous motorcycle that Vera got him for Christmas?]

when did you come over anyways, i don't think you ever told me

[standalonehuman]

[That is fantastically ridiculous, Vera is the best.]

Geez, it's over ten years now. 2007. Came for college, met Koutarou and Mariko. Met Ardyn the year after when I had his classes.

[darkinferno]

and aggressively befriending people ever since

[standalonehuman]

Aggressively. You make it sound like I go tackle people and decide they're my friend now.

..Closer to Mariko's strategy than mine.

[darkinferno]

oh really

you're really gonna have to explain to me why you keep warning me away from her as crazy if you keep this up

[standalonehuman]

Because she would eat you alive!

Okay, so a little after we'd met, all of us are hanging out with the Japanese Student's Association, and there's just this group of people orbiting Mariko, hanging on her every word, you know the kind. She tells this terrible joke, and I don't even remember it, and all the guys trying to get in her pants laugh, and I just rolled my eyes.

So she punches me in the arm and that's how I realized we were friends now.

[darkinferno]

and this is a bad thing

[Honestly by this point he doesn't even actually care, he just finds it amusing to watch Togusa's reactions.]