[Oh yeah. Wait, what if you are a cyoa. Shit. Well, anyway, just don't respond until later, we'll move it to FRIDAY. They can't have dinner when people are dead. SHIT. This is why I meant to do this another day. Why does so much happen during the week?
Anyway it is a good thing they are texting because the emotions are a big fat squiggle of Complicated, since once again, he did not actually expect this to happen. How can a man be so self-confident and yet so convinced that the guy he indirectly asked out did not actually want a date with him. Incredible.]
Okay, if you're sure But I'm telling you now this new kitchen is unpredictable so I can't promise I won't be a little late
[Imagine showing up with a home-cooked meal and being like "sorry I'm late a car drove through the kitchen and knocked me out." Just Graveyard Things]
[The way Aventurine was on cyoa and now Rosamund is dead and Essek is trying to have dinner with Childe is taking me out. I SHOULD HAVE PLANNED THIS WAY BETTER.]
Please don't get hurt trying to make dinner.
We can always get something from one of the places.
[THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY HELP MEEEE it's okay Essek sent this in the morning... he didn't know... Childe can be the asshole who drags him off to dinner once he's done fussing]
Is this your way of telling me you actually like the swimsuit lobsters
[STOP]
It'll be fine, I'll be there. Let's say the mansion, it's fixed Since we know what the cage in the garden does now, ahaha
We weren't on a date!! Do you really think I would've insisted you tell Anders about our dinner and then not tell you if I was going to have one with someone else Come on, what kind of heartbreaker do I look like...
[Actually the kitchen was so chaotic and dangerous that he's permadead now this thread is over goodbye
IMAGINE. That would be so funny. It's like that radio show clip where the girl said she got ghosted after a first date and then it turned out the guy was hospitalized because he got hit by a car while he was trying to find her lost cat
Anyway
HE'S NOT DEAD and he's also not late... mostly! Despite the size of the mansion, it's easy enough to tell where to go, since the lights in the other open rooms have been turned off. There's nothing overly dramatic like candles or rose petals, but the dining table does have a good number of dishes on it--warm bread and pickled vegetables and a few pastries that are decidedly less home-cooked, but still quite tasty-looking.
Childe himself is not immediately visible, but that's because he walks in right behind him, carrying a covered pot. He is not in a bloody apron anymore, thankfully; unfortunately he has been rich for long enough that he's also used to dressing decently well, even if he's not as fancy about it as Essek is.]
The way he actually jumps slightly when Childe just APPEARS behind him like that despite usually having this extremely aloof and cool sort of way he carries himself. When the cool dark wizard ends up really being a giant ball of anxiety. So funny.
He exhales quietly, but is interested in the covered pot......... Actually, the whole set up is so much. Impressive... He looks it over.]
You didn't have to go quite this far, you know. But thank you.
[I wish I could be like "Childe never thought he was cool anyway" but unfortunately that is not true in the slightest... damn
At least he doesn't laugh, though--actually that's not true either, but it's a friendly laugh as he slips past him to put the pot on the table.]
This is nothing when you come from a family as big as mine! It's harder for me to cook for just two people, really.
[TAKES THE LID OFF TO REVEAL... THE MAIN DISH. Incredible.
Continues like this is a perfectly normal meal to serve--]
I'm just glad the ghosts didn't knock the table over while I was gone...
[He figured the mansion suited Essek's aesthetics and it was also less personal than a hotel room date, but this place IS still haunted, so it's a risk...]
[Curious, he follows Childe and then peers into the pot when the kid comes off........... This has tentacles in it? Goodness gracious. But not the worst thing drow have made a delicacy really.
He glances from it to Childe.]
You made this...?
[He will ask about the big family in a moment. The ghosts he knows about, and he is as equally surprised to find that so.]
[I think about how this has tentacles in it but genshin hasn't introduced octopi as an ingredient so you have to make it with crabs. How did he give crabs tentacles. A mystery]
I did! It's not quite authentic, since we can't get the same ingredients here that I have back home, but it should be close enough.
Looking over this soup and the rest. Well, he does like soups and stews. What blooms out from him is the strange fuzzy warmth of being touched by a kind gesture.]
I'll try it.
[He isn't afraid of the tentacles really. Very well. He will sit.]
I know the team missed you terribly after you were gone if this is the kind of food you made for them.
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w5, thurs
Anyway, I will murder you.]
We may have dinner now.
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Really??
[WHY IS HE STILL SURPRISED]
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Why is he surprised........ Why did I pick such a sad icon for that last tag? I don't remember.]
Yes.
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Anyway it is a good thing they are texting because the emotions are a big fat squiggle of Complicated, since once again, he did not actually expect this to happen. How can a man be so self-confident and yet so convinced that the guy he indirectly asked out did not actually want a date with him. Incredible.]
Okay, if you're sure
But I'm telling you now this new kitchen is unpredictable so I can't promise I won't be a little late
[Imagine showing up with a home-cooked meal and being like "sorry I'm late a car drove through the kitchen and knocked me out." Just Graveyard Things]
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Please don't get hurt trying to make dinner.
We can always get something from one of the places.
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Is this your way of telling me you actually like the swimsuit lobsters
[STOP]
It'll be fine, I'll be there. Let's say the mansion, it's fixed
Since we know what the cage in the garden does now, ahaha
[DON'T JUST LAUGH ABOUT IT]
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Absolutely not.
[STOP. AND QUIT LAUGHING ABOUT IT.]
That isn't funny. Why did the two of you even think to go in there?
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A better place to talk than all these wild restaurants and bars
And people are always spending time in the fort
[Listen everyone was ragging on Anders for inviting Essek to Chilly's, and they weren't wrong, but the options are not great.]
Anyway, why did you go in there!!
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Why did you invite everyone in if the two of you were on a date?
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We weren't on a date!!
Do you really think I would've insisted you tell Anders about our dinner and then not tell you if I was going to have one with someone else
Come on, what kind of heartbreaker do I look like...
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Perhaps you were attempting to soothe me with a bit of trickery like you did with your little brother by making toys.
Did you ever find out if she was alright?
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[Imagine if he made a dick joke right now. Thank god he's not horny enough or stupid enough to do that]
I assume she's fine
Why, did she say something?
[He is stupid enough to say this though]
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He stares at his phone for a long moment.]
Childe.
Did you not feel how badly she reacted to what happened?
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[What the fuck is a Pie-Man.]
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I hope someone checked on her at this rate.
[MEN ARE SO USELESS!!!]
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I feel like she'd prefer it if we just pretended we never saw it...
But I can send her a message after dinner if you think I should
As a
[...
Are they friends? They're not really friends. But it is very difficult to define
Hm]
As people who are not in a relationship
[GOOD ENOUGH]
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Those are called friends.
[lol]
And friends do check on each other. But if she doesn't want to talk about it, that's fine.
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Alright, alright, tease all you want
I'll check in later
Mansion at 7pm
[I don't remember if we have the time on our phones but we probably do it's fine]
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[He will be at the mansion at 7, and hopefully Childe hasn't been hit by too many cars.
He doesn't dress up, but only because he is always dressed up already. 🫩 He is never not dressed in something somewhat nice.]
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IMAGINE. That would be so funny. It's like that radio show clip where the girl said she got ghosted after a first date and then it turned out the guy was hospitalized because he got hit by a car while he was trying to find her lost cat
Anyway
HE'S NOT DEAD and he's also not late... mostly! Despite the size of the mansion, it's easy enough to tell where to go, since the lights in the other open rooms have been turned off. There's nothing overly dramatic like candles or rose petals, but the dining table does have a good number of dishes on it--warm bread and pickled vegetables and a few pastries that are decidedly less home-cooked, but still quite tasty-looking.
Childe himself is not immediately visible, but that's because he walks in right behind him, carrying a covered pot. He is not in a bloody apron anymore, thankfully; unfortunately he has been rich for long enough that he's also used to dressing decently well, even if he's not as fancy about it as Essek is.]
Oh, you're right on time!
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The way he actually jumps slightly when Childe just APPEARS behind him like that despite usually having this extremely aloof and cool sort of way he carries himself. When the cool dark wizard ends up really being a giant ball of anxiety. So funny.
He exhales quietly, but is interested in the covered pot......... Actually, the whole set up is so much. Impressive... He looks it over.]
You didn't have to go quite this far, you know. But thank you.
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At least he doesn't laugh, though--actually that's not true either, but it's a friendly laugh as he slips past him to put the pot on the table.]
This is nothing when you come from a family as big as mine! It's harder for me to cook for just two people, really.
[TAKES THE LID OFF TO REVEAL... THE MAIN DISH. Incredible.
Continues like this is a perfectly normal meal to serve--]
I'm just glad the ghosts didn't knock the table over while I was gone...
[He figured the mansion suited Essek's aesthetics and it was also less personal than a hotel room date, but this place IS still haunted, so it's a risk...]
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He glances from it to Childe.]
You made this...?
[He will ask about the big family in a moment. The
ghosts he knows about, and he is as equally surprised to find that so.]
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I did! It's not quite authentic, since we can't get the same ingredients here that I have back home, but it should be close enough.
[This is why he asked about seafood]
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Looking over this soup and the rest. Well, he does like soups and stews. What blooms out from him is the strange fuzzy warmth of being touched by a kind gesture.]
I'll try it.
[He isn't afraid of the tentacles really. Very well. He will sit.]
I know the team missed you terribly after you were gone if this is the kind of food you made for them.
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