Dream Post XI

[wotanon]

[ sometimes NSFW is the post-bad game therapy that's needed. ]

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[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ idk man everything feels perfectly normal for Aster. ]

You also don't have to look so tired at the thought- you can just think of it as loyalty.

[ Quickly said as if he didn't just half-confess. ]

[at_heart]

[ And after months of working really hard not to accidentally get into any relationships in Imeeji, he somehow still finds himself in one of these conversations, thanks a lot Yvette. ]

—Aster...

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ rip Lupine. ]

[ Standing up again, offering a hand out. ]

Come on, you've still got breakfast to eat.

[at_heart]

[ ...gazes at that hand for a few seconds before taking it. ]

Yeah. Okay.

[ It would probably be slightly ridiculous to say anything anyway, right? If he's supposed to be someone else, what he feels super doesn't matter. If he's somehow not, doing the let's-just-be-friends speech in someone's dream has got to be worse than doing it through texts. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Automatically reaching out to straighten his clothes once he's up. ]

At least I've got an idea of how to make sure you get up in the morning.

[at_heart]

[ what why ] [ Jumping again a little, because if he's ever had anyone straighten his clothes for him he doesn't remember it and it must've been a long time. ]

...heh. It definitely did — work.

[ Not like it's bad, kind of domestic and cute. Or. It would be, if you weren't his employee. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Because showing off your chest the entire time is not actually how you're supposed to wear a yukata neatly Lupine. ]

And... you're sure you're totally awake, right? You seem a bit out of it.

[at_heart]

[ Look, he's worn worse. ]

I mean, I'm really not sure about that at all. [ 'Dream' or 'game' are definitely his guesses here, and he'd be way more sure if he'd done the dream-walking thing more than once. ] But I'm sure you, uh — did your job right.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Chuckles, stepping back once he's done straightening Lupine's appearance. ]

If you really do need a few more minutes, I can help get them for you.

[at_heart]

[ Blank. ]

Them?

[ Breakfast? Is breakfast a them? ...Are there other people in this dream? ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Snorts and nudges him. ]

The minutes. I can bring breakfast in here.

[at_heart]

[ oh thank god ] [ ...........ugh, that sounds like office work. Is he going to wind up doing work in your dream just to avoid having a more awkward conversation? ]

Breakfast in bed, huh? You're gonna spoil me.

[ Evidently: yes. ] [ Also, if this sly comment as he turns away to tighten his obi in any way hits a weird note, sorry?? Flirt is an idle action, he absolutely said it without thinking. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

I wonder if you'll still feel the same way if I brought you paperwork in bed too.

[ Apparently dream Aster is totally fine with flirty banter, countering with his own more playful words. ]

[at_heart]

[ Oh, well, if it's gonna be like that, but Lupine's nose still wrinkles at the mention of paperwork. ]

It'd have to be really good breakfast to make up for the paperwork.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Sorry but going to chuckle at that face. ]

I can guarantee the best.

[at_heart]

[ The chuckle — is fine, maybe even sort of nice. He wasn't expecting it. Lupine regards Aster for a few more seconds, then settles right back down on the bed, light. ]

Prove it.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Raising a brow at the response but he grins back all the same. ]

Sure, alright. No taking back your words.

[at_heart]

[ Immediately, with confidence, ]

Yeah, I'm not a guy who does that a whole lot.

[ The opener for this dream was so warm and lazy and comfortable, and then immediately jarring in a way that knocked him completely out of it, but the longer it goes on, the more that initial sense of lazy comfort is creeping back in — and with it, Lupine is definitely losing some of his conscious awareness that this isn't right, this isn't his room, this shouldn't be happening. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Then I'll have you eating them shortly.

[ He moves to step away, but via the laws of fuzzy dream logic he's back almost right away with a full tray that he sets down on a low table that now sits next to Lupine. Lupine's preferred foods based on any observations that could've been made over the course of their time in Lilis laid out and balanced with traditional Inazuman (ie fantasy Japan) breakfast foods. ]

How's this?

[at_heart]

[ A little surprised by the speed, but that's all that really registers about it, and then he's just grinning at the spread. Honestly, crepes and omurice are the identifiable 'breakfast' foods he knows in his own canon, so. It would not be hard to cover him pretty well. ]

I mean, the fact that you didn't bring paperwork with it is definitely a plus.

[ Sorry about the tsun compliments, Aster. It smells great. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

That's one of your dessert options.

[ Still at ease with teasing, apparently, pulling a second tray in through the door to start preparing tea. ]

[at_heart]

[ Eyebrows lift, but he shifts on the bed to better reach the tray. If Aster had actually taken any time to come back, he probably would've, like, managed to loosen the yukata back up again significantly, but it's still a little looser for having been worn carelessly in bed for a couple of minutes. ]

Sullying the good name of dessert right there.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ There is in fact a moment when Aster's gaze flicks to the yukata that's starting to slip, but he doesn't say a thing about it so far. ]

I'd been under the impression that you like being teased from time to time.

[at_heart]

[ ...Doesn't entirely miss it, and his smile goes a little more languid. ]

Oh, [ breezy, ] I like a lot of things... from time to time.

[ He didn't mess up the yukata on purpose, but now he's going to. It's not even difficult, when the obi's already a little loose, to shuck up one of his sleeves — getting it out of the way of the food, ofc — while simultaneously shrugging his shoulder in a way that makes the neck of the yukata... slip. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ His attention is briefly on the tea he's preparing, as a good servant's should be, so his response isn't quite as affected as it could be when he responds. ]

So I've been discovering.

[ There's a second part to that quip that gets cut off when he does finally look up and catches the way Lupine's yukata has slipped, nearly letting the tea pot slip from his hands in response to the sight. There's a light flush to his face now, but unlike the Aster that Lupine might see him to be outside of this dream, inside it there's a level of comfort with both Lupine and himself that leads to... ]

But I am always willing to learn more about the exact things you enjoy.