Catchall for Domestic Post-Airlocked AU Shenanigans w/Mini

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 wtf am I doing

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tw: suicide mention

[tenimuho]

[He looks fondly at Aria for a second, putting his thoughts together.]

Dazai Osamu... Was the youngest executive in the history of the Port Mafia. He's a genius, almost never wrong about anything. He takes heavy things lightly and makes jokes about serious things, and he was always looking for a way to die.

...But he was too smart, and couldn't find anything that meant anything to him. There's an emptiness in him that I couldn't fix, and neither could anyone else.

He called me a friend. When I died the first time, he was holding me, and he listened to my last wish. 'Go to the side that helps people.'

When I came back, he'd already left the Port Mafia. Because I asked him to.

I mean

[heartswapped]

[Elaine listens, for as long as she needs to. Aria stirs and groans a little, and it's enough to make Elaine need to adjust her position in the middle of Oda's story, but she's right: that kid does like the sound of Dad's voice.

But it does make her say one thing:]

...so you were dead there, too.

I can't imagine what it must have been like for him to see you again.

[tenimuho]

Difficult. But I didn't want him to not know I was alive again. He deserved to know.

[Despite everything they were - that both of them still are - Dazai is his friend.]

[heartswapped]

I'm just glad he got to see you again.

...did he at least know where you were going?

[Now she feels bad for separating them.]

[tenimuho]

I told him a few things. He wished us luck, and said you sounded like a wonderful woman.

[He doesn't think Dazai was just being his usual flirtatious self there.]