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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I can understand wanting to cling to the very few people you have, but... not like that. Not by making them change." She says, having tied herself in knots trying to win Kasumi's understanding - but at least Sumire was doing that to herself. It's not really better, but it is different.

Sumire sighs, her breath finally catching like she might start crying. "I felt like I was for so long. Sometimes I still do."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Futaba-senpai did say it's actually harder to stop putting yourself down, once you have a handle on making it to the next day. She also said bad days would still happen." And Sumire's trying to keep that in mind, she really is, but... sometimes the demons win out.

She leans into the hug. "It hurts, of course, it hurts, but - we can't just leave him like that. Him or Midnight-san or anyone else."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
That's finally enough for Sumire to start crying. She's not even worried about making a mess of Hamuko's shirt; she knows she needs it.

"I don't - I might need to back off from this one. Trying to directly help Morning-san, I mean. Whenever Midnight-san's Palace becomes something we're digging into, I feel like I have to be there for that, and... I can only take so much of this at once."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Afterward. Afterward, I could still talk to him about it. But - I don't think I can be part of freeing him."

Afterward, he's going to need people who can sympathise.

"Of course we would. The whole point of being here is that we don't have to handle things alone, isn't it?"
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
"If he hurt you, then you shouldn't have to deal with him." Sumire doesn't recognise the name - it's not one Aragaki-san's mentioned, but then, he's pretty quiet about his own history - but for something like that, she doesn't need to. Whoever that guy is, he hurt Hamuko. If she doesn't want to see his face again, she shouldn't have to.
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Just make sure we have the information we need, and I'm sure some of us can take care of the rest." Someone that deceptively nice would probably ping in the Nav, even.

"...I think I could eat, yeah."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Sumire squeaks when Hamuko leans them both over in pursuit of the plate, but she doesn't try to squirm away. Among other things, that'd just end with the food on the floor, and then what good does it do?

"...A movie sounds nice." She grabs the pillow she was clinging to before Hamuko came in, the better to use it as a makeshift lap table. "And - if you need to tell Aragaki-san I'm eating something, go ahead. He sounded worried when he asked if I wanted lunch, but that whole thing just... wrecked my appetite for a while."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
It'll get polished off and then she'll want to go look for dinner, by the end of whatever movie they settle on.

"Well, you can't just eat nothing but instant food or protein powder. Sooner or later the missing nutrients will catch up with you." Sumire sighs. "I'd ask how he can't see his own worth, but that's pot-kettle territory for sure."
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I - I don't know if I'll ever see it. But I'm trying." And that's a damn sight better than where she was at the beginning of the school year.
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[personal profile] shakenit 2025-06-25 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll - think about it?" Gods, what did she do to deserve Hamuko.

What kind of movie does she want to watch... nothing with a sad ending, that's for sure. And not her sister's favorite version of Cinderella, not when she's trying to stop moping.