[Look, he totally makes up for the bad color scheme by carrying it all with utter confidence anyway....!! Though just reveling in being able to choose whatever he wants at all is already rendering him pretty immune to any kind of self-consciousness on the whole, it's true. And maybe he did hear distant snippets of a scolding Mash once or twice at some point in the past, yes, which might be the reason Ritsuka's admission of enough relaxation is earning another small laugh. But at least the topic's shifting before he can quite get the chance to properly rib her about this--]
Yeah, when I got invited I kind of figured it was going to be a more private sort of trip? It's pretty fun like this too, though! Everybody's just kind of, doing whatever they want...but I guess that is kind of the point in a place like this, right?
[It reminds him....of that one amusement park area back home, honestly, though the parallels feel a little weird to draw when he thinks on it too much. The machines there sure were messing around in kind of the same way a lot of the people here are now...but 9S much prefers this place by comparison, he thinks. Loud energetic people that aren't machines--it's not necessarily a bad thing? And very entertaining to watch, at the very least...especially when you can avoid the more intense and ridiculous scenarios by sticking to the water!!
9S is definitely nodding in knowing agreement, anyway, as he draws up properly next to Ritsuka.]
Man, I can't even blame you there, though--it's kind of a shame to think about having to leave eventually... [He puffs out a highly overdramatic sigh, and then grins.] But if you become one with the water then they'll have to let you stay for longer. Sounds like a pretty foolproof plan to me! Are you headed to the baths right now too?
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Yeah, when I got invited I kind of figured it was going to be a more private sort of trip? It's pretty fun like this too, though! Everybody's just kind of, doing whatever they want...but I guess that is kind of the point in a place like this, right?
[It reminds him....of that one amusement park area back home, honestly, though the parallels feel a little weird to draw when he thinks on it too much. The machines there sure were messing around in kind of the same way a lot of the people here are now...but 9S much prefers this place by comparison, he thinks. Loud energetic people that aren't machines--it's not necessarily a bad thing? And very entertaining to watch, at the very least...especially when you can avoid the more intense and ridiculous scenarios by sticking to the water!!
9S is definitely nodding in knowing agreement, anyway, as he draws up properly next to Ritsuka.]
Man, I can't even blame you there, though--it's kind of a shame to think about having to leave eventually... [He puffs out a highly overdramatic sigh, and then grins.] But if you become one with the water then they'll have to let you stay for longer. Sounds like a pretty foolproof plan to me! Are you headed to the baths right now too?