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Hotaru - Remi - 11-01-2024
Hotaru,
How are you? Still on cloud nine after your engagement party? I didn't want to spoil your evening with bad news, nor do I want to do the same to your day, so perhaps I'll soften the blow with a game?
_ _ _ _ _ is dating a man named _ _ _ _ who is an absolute _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Care to plan his untimely _ _ _ _ _ _ ?
Ronin, your fiance and I had talked about having a dinner between the four of us, though I'm not sure this season is the best for Ronin. That said, perhaps the three of us could?
Best,
Remi.
RE: Hotaru - Hotaru - 11-01-2024
Remi,
I'm without a doubt on cloud ten by now, and I pity any of the cloud nine club because they have no idea what they're missing.
I suspect your bad news will demote me back to their ranks, but considering your game mentions dating, I can't rightly ignore it can I? Frey duties and all that, or so I'll claim. I will also claim the letter A if you will.
If Ronin is feeling particularly fresh, is his exclusion any better? I will let you be the judge, though I will also use your next letter as my defense against any repercussions if you judge wrongly, capisci? (I still remember that one!) Just know my answer is a resounding yes.
Platonic hand kisses (Ronin),
Ru
RE: Hotaru - Remi - 11-01-2024
Ru,
Well, all I can tell you is that I look forward to seeing you on cloud thirteen once you're married. The view is lovely from up here.
You know, I nearly forgot about you being a Frey demim, in which case I feel all the better for having brought this matter to your attention. No doubt your particular set of skills will come in quite handy.
_ _ _ _ A is dating a man named _ A _ _ who is an absolute A _ _ _ _ _ _ . Care to plan his untimely _ _ _ _ _ _ ?
As for Ronin, that is a good point. If I come home smelling of you he won't be happy, and if I try and shower before hand, that will only be worse. I'll think on it.
The most platonic of winks.
-R
RE: Hotaru - Hotaru - 11-01-2024
R,
I don't doubt it, and as Ronin has shared a cloud with me before as I will hold onto forever, surely there will be no problem fitting all of us up there someday so we may peer down and laugh at the pitiable fools below on lower levels.
Letters are painfully slow for the burning curiosity you've given me. Though you risk offending me with your forgetfulness - I can zap the reminder back into you next I see you as I have seemingly gotten my lightning back. I haven't told anyone else yet actually, so nobody will believe the mark I'll leave on your ass. (Platonically. Again.)
S?
- Ru
RE: Hotaru - Remi - 11-01-2024
Ru,
In order to assuage your curiosity and mitigate some of the sting of my forgetfulness (my memory has been wiped several times now, I'd like it to be known), we can forgo the game and get right into the thick of it.
Flora is dating a man named Jack, one of Torchline's most notorious criminals and smugglers. Not only is he our age, but to say that he is a terrible man (asshole, I had put into our game), is like saying that the Arclight is big. I knew him from before when I was governor of Torchline, and have since encountered him twice since he and Flora got together. Each time was worse than the last. He parades her around like some prize to rub our faces in, and when I asked him what his intentions with her were in the long run, not only did he seem entirely uninterested in the fact that he is no good for her, but never once said anything about actually having feelings for her.
Of course she's fallen in love with him, and now Ronin and I are public enemy #1 for having said anything about him.
Please help? And by help I mean help me find a way to make him disappear?
Platonically on my hands and knees, begging.
-R
RE: Hotaru - Hotaru - 11-01-2024
Remi,
You owe me for the stack of paper I've crumpled for this response.
Reticence to admit something like love to you is hardly indictment, especially if you approached him as I suspect you might have. That doesn't mean he doesn't, he may simply be an asshole - and falling for assholes runs in the family on both sides for Flora.
The age gap alone is concerning, but Flora has wielded her Freyging as a weapon before and given the ease of dying or becoming immortal in Caido, there's few arguments we can make that she won't diminish or weasel out of. Regardless of my personal feelings (which are...impassioned), we have little ground to intervene based on the background you've shared.
So -
I need you to tell me straight if you think he is a danger to her. You wouldn't have penned me about this on disapproval alone. Certainly not after courting Flora's ire. I need to know what you're feeling. Plainly.
Do you think this is more of a threat to her than heartbreak? One that will not naturally resolve itself if he is as deplorable as you say?
We cannot spare her from every learning moment, no matter the pain it might save her. Or the disgust we must suffer to let it happen naturally.
- Ru
RE: Hotaru - Remi - 11-07-2024
Ru,
I will plant a hundred trees to compensate you for the paper.
Apologies for the delay in my reply. Yours was far too reasonable-sounding and if I'm being honest, I'd been hoping for you to instantly share my outrage. The fact that you don't is exactly what I needed to hear, though it took me a few days to realize it.
In the big scheme of things, there is likely nothing Jack has done that is any worse than what I have, or Ronin has. Assholes, as you correctly point out, seem to be who we're largely drawn to (and Ronin if you're reading this, I mean you to me, not me to you).
I am worried about her heart being broken, but I take it that isn't a reason to plot Jack's demise. On that we might have to agree to disagree, but when it comes to Flora's safety? I think he views her as something to protect insofar as maintaining his own interests, so I don't think he'd let harm directly befall her or hurt her himself, but I do think the person she'll become at his side is not one we'll recognize in the long run.
Maybe you and Sunjata could meet them together? See if your instincts are better than mine? (Undoubtedly they are, who am I kidding.)
-R
RE: Hotaru - Hotaru - 11-27-2024
Remi,
Your outrage is shared, but I know you don't want to strain your relationship with Flora any more than I do. I am quite willing to despise any lackluster man, but unfortunately I'm less willing to court our daughter's ire.
However, I am willing to entertain options for intervention to ensure he doesn't change her irreparably. First I will discuss with Sunjata as I'm sure he has insight on the man given he also led there. Then we can coordinate a potential meeting - rather disappointing he hasn't tried to meet her mother, wouldn't you say? Terrible luck, to start off on the wrong foot with yet another parent. Pity.
And I admit, I may bend Frey's ear on some...hypothetical options somewhere in that timeline. Completely unrelated, would you say memory and/or emotional alteration was too terribly traumatic for you? He sounds like the type to hardly notice such a change as opposed to you. Simply a scholarly curiosity.
- R2
RE: Hotaru - Remi - 12-03-2024
Hotaru—
Flora died. Ronin and I brought her back. I'm worried that the Family is hunting her. They killed Jack too, and yes, he's alive now too so I suppose everything from before is moot in light of this.
We should talk—let me know where you'll be and I'll come to you.
-R
RE: Hotaru - Hotaru - 12-18-2024
The letter comes at dusk, the same evening Hotaru arrives in Torchline.
Remi,
I'm with Flora. I had to see her and be close to her. I can't convince her to leave. You have to see why she should, right? I'm not far - she won't leave without Jack, so I'm hoping you can help me convince her.
Please come quickly.
- R