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[ He's getting a photo, then an accompanying text message.

The photo is of a clear plastic water bottle, still full and sealed. It's balanced on some dark, velvety bedding—clearly the inside of a ☆zrael bedroom, even though Wataru has taken the efforts to light up the inside of his room as much as possible.

Speaking of, Wataru is also half in the picture. His bottom half, in his sleepwear—being a lacy black robe. It would probably be sexy (to people not Eichi) if he was sitting in a way that accentuated his pajamas, but he's not, he's sitting cross-legged so the only scandalous thing visible is his feet. I guess this is technically a foot pic. Also there's a random water bottle in front of him, which doesn't add much to the aesthetic.

He's pointing at it with the stem of a black rose. ]

Eichi!

Please give me your best guess. Why would I send you such a picture?

[It is Eichi, so like. It is sexy, but also he has a Wataru problem, probably.

That said, Eichi is dumb so he is sitting here trying to decipher what Wataru means by the whole picture. Water bottle... Wataru sitting cross-legged... black rose stem.... Oh geez, what is the symbolism here?

Eichi could say something wrong but if he did would he be disappointing Wataru?]

Are you... offering me a drink?

[ He's not going to say it but every wrong answer is just going to make him happier, actually. ]

Fufu, no~

But that could be relevant. Or maybe it's not at all...

Try again, try again!

[Sweats. That was his best guess, probably!]

If you need a vase for your rose, I would imagine that you wouldn't feel a need to send me a photo, unless you wanted for me to buy you one. I can, if that is the case.

[Tenn sent him photos before too but he was so much more blunt, and Eichi is almost certain he is just projecting his thirst on Wataru, but.]

...Are you

asking me to bed?

[ He really should just move smoothly past that but like, not even Hibiki Wataru can stop himself from asking: ]

With a water bottle...?

I suppose that would be creative...............

[Help]

Wataru I don't think I'm very good at this game

Edited (with the right icon this time) 2020-04-19 03:07 (UTC)

Don't get disheartened so quickly. I might have to apologize profusely to you if that's the case.

Hmmm...

It's going to sound like a riddle, but it isn't meant to be.

My question was certainly a trick. There are no wrong answers. Every answer you give only adds up to the right answer in the end. So if that's what you want me to ask... well, I think I'd prefer to do it in a different way another time, maybe.

Onward! Perhaps this will help.

[ There's a second photo now.

Nothing has changed except there is a second Wataru even farther in the background, past the first one which is still sitting there, kind of blurring out but leaned as if he's looking out a window or something.

Also the answer is literally just he wants to talk to him. There's a little more that he will eventually get to because he's not just sending him random crap for no reason but THAT IS THE GIST OF IT!!!!!!! ]

[This is really odd, but Wataru is really odd so Eichi like? Isn't worried, though the second Wataru in the room is a little weird. Is this an edited photo? Is there something going on?]

Do you have something on your mind, my Wataru? You know you can tell me anything, and I will love you still. Nothing will make my heart waver.

[He doesn't get it still, but if Wataru is sending him photos and texting him, certainly it is for a reason? Even if it is a small reason.]

[ Somewhere in zrael he is laughing very hard

he is going to count that as busted or something. ]

Don't steal my lines! That's naughty to do, even for someone in theatre!

[ There's an attached picture. And another. And another. They're all pictures of different angles now, each including a new Wataru to the previous, eachone moving slightly more to the right—eventually one is... very obviously a cardboard cutout. Extremely realistic, but still.

They all are.

Even the water bottle.

Actually his bedroom is kind of stuffed full of them. At least some of them are sexy-ish looking. There's a positive to this.

The last one is a selfie of a cardboard Wataru handing the more-obviously-real Wataru a... book? He's spamming him now but there's one more text message in this giant haul of notifs. ]

I have asked quite a lot of you lately, and still have failed to invite you over for a slumber party... actually the reasoning behind that is that I am unimpressed with every single movie available to me here and would not have terrible acting ruin a party. Nothing is satisfying and I end up criticizing each and every one...

But your live reminded me of something, so I must be greedy and ask one more thing of you. If I am speaking honestly, this set-up was really just to prolong this conversation. Your Hibiki Wataru enjoys talking to you, after all.

My request is similar in nature to this.

Even now I am tempted to end this message here and make you ask me for my request specifically... ♪ I won't do that this time. Do you remember our exchange diary?

[This is a really weird image, but also like kind of Eichi's dream? Why doesn't HE have a bunch of sexy Wataru standees...?!]

I enjoy talking to you too, Wataru. Though I prefer it more when I get to hear your lovely voice and see your beautiful face, fufufu~

Of course I remember it. We did say we wanted to write in it even if we were old, right? But it's back home now. Should we start another?

[ He could have them if he wants, he probably isn't going to use his pajama ones for anything else without altering them a lot.......... ]

Fufu, yes.

In fact, I have already bought one. When I watched you, I was filled with a great many thoughts and feelings that couldn't be contained in this body for even another second, so I immediately went and bought one.

Please keep your eyes open for its delivery to you sometime soon. [ Because he will DIE before delivering it in a boring way. ]

[Time to break into Zrael dorms to steal cardboard Watarus.]

Ahah, I'll keep my eyes peeled! I look forward to seeing it, to getting to read your thoughts and feelings made tangible.

And Wataru

You can feel free to talk to me any time. You don't need to have a reason, or make any grand gestures. If it's only us... I'm always impressed by your entrances.

[ when he disappears to film his movie you can come get them. bring a flashlight. ]

If you ever receive a normal message from me, you'll know it's not me messaging you.

[ HE CAN'T IT'S HARD HE HAS TO PILE ON THE NONSENSE!! ]

[I'm sure he'll only get stabbed a little bit!!!]

I know this too. Haha, and yet foolishly and selfishly, sometimes I just want you to be here with me.

[ Just distract them all with food and make a break for it. It might not work with Raven but it's probably fine. He's also an anime sick boy.

Anyway! He is leaving him on read for a minute. ]

Sometimes it feels like there is a vast ocean between the Hibiki Wataru of yesterday and the one of today. And tomorrow, that distance will be wider. By now, there are dozens of oceans between this me and that me of Dance Macabre, and even more between that one and fine.

But then I talk to you just once and I feel like it's not quite like that. I am not casting off shells of myself to leave behind. Things that I love so much will be with me forever.

Do you feel more like 'yourself' now? Whether it is old or forged anew... I suppose I could have just asked if you feel better now, if I was capable of simple wording.

I feel that way too, sometimes. Especially now... The Eichi that danced and sang with the fine that crushed dreams is so far removed from where I have come now, and the Eichi who arrived into this Production isn't who I am today. There are times in my life I've felt such rage, such despair, such hatred and sorrow, and none of it sits on my breast today. I am lighter than a feather...

But those Eichi's of the past are not cast off, left discarded on the side of the read; they exist in my chest, next to my heart. I am capable still of those feelings, and those thoughts, but I have burned to ash and risen again, like a phoenix. And as I rise, those old selves of mine mix with the new selves, and I get ever closer to whoever Tenshouin Eichi truly is.

So today, I feel the most 'myself' I have ever felt! And tomorrow, I will feel more 'myself', and eventually maybe I will spiral around until I get to my core, perhaps.

And yes, I do feel better, too.

[ While Eichi has been responding, Wataru has been busy. His first response is just a video—he said he wanted to see and hear him so!!

It's still the same room, except the giant pile of various Watarus are now along the wall behind the real one, who is sitting on the floor, kneeling so that he's using the bed as a table of sorts. There's also probably a bunch of faint, muffled background noise coming from the rest of the dorm uhhh just ignore that.

He's got the cardboard water bottle in one hand and the cardboard rose in the other. He's obviously ripped the rose off of the first fake-Wataru because it's still got his cardboard fingers on it.

"Fufu, I was going to do this too, but you caught me too quickly~! So I will show you this trick I have been practicing. You shouldn't trust magic tricks on video, but I promise I haven't edited it in any way ♪

Seeeee? They are both cardboard. They certainly cannot merge and become one, even if they wanted to. Ahhh, what a tragic romance that would be... well, perhaps a bottle does not have feelings, but we will pretend that it does. Anyway! Such things cannot be stood for! If there is true love, your Hibiki Wataru must do his best to make sure that it is fulfilled, even though it may be doomed—"

Video-Wataru is tapping the fake-rose to the top of the fake-bottle as he talks, and then is crushing them both together like a pancake between both of his hands when he gets to "doomed".

"—but such things are so sad, really. Sometimes a story like this is meant to be unsatisfying, but perhaps not today..."

Video-Wataru is now opening his hands, to show that the smashed up cardboard is just gone. Completely. He looks around as if to see where it may have gone before clearing his throat; he sticks two fingers into his mouth, hums, and then pulls something out—and pulls. And pulls. It's a long, black cloth and it just keeps coming out? Eventually he's sighing as if this is annoying (dramatized, part of an act, and he's obvious about it) and yanks the rest of the cloth out, and then reaches back into his mouth and begins pulling something else out... revealing a piece of cardboard in the shape of a water bottle. It's kind of big to have just been in there comfortably??? Also... the rose is now inside of the bottle. It's also not wet or anything from saliva because Wataru doesn't DROOL ON MAGIC TRICKS!!!!!!!!

There's a pause and he's laughing a little bit. "Aaaah, but they are still not 'real' so did I truly grant all of their wishes...? Even for a water bottle, surely it would not be acceptable to stay like this..."

He flicks the back of the back of the fake-water-bottle-reunited-with-it's-lover-the-fake-rose three times and then snaps his fingers. It's now a real water bottle with a real black rose inside of it.

He's waving the cloth he pulled out once before cutting the video. It has silver writing on it that says "Hello ♪ Eichi ☆"

Listen it's all very basic magic tricks so don't you dare show anyone else Eichi!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, now he's responding properly. ]

Good. I am excited to meet each and every Eichi in the future ♪

Edited 2020-04-19 23:01 (UTC)

[You fool. This is all Real Magic to Eichi. He's as enthralled as ever, as if Wataru were here in his room, weaving this tale of a rose and water bottle that so wish to be together.

The sad part about sending it as a video is that Wataru doesn't get to watch Eichi's face as he watches him closely, never hoping to dispel the magic but always wanting to see more of it. He doesn't get to see the fall of his expression when it seems the trick was over with a cardboard water bottle and rose, nor the childlike delight when the trick finished, or the tears well in his eyes a little at the simple message on the cloth.

It's not as good as what he was given, it never is with Wataru- Eichi simply can't measure up- but he sends back a video of himself smiling brightly and clapping.]

Amazing~☆

[ IMAGINE BEING EICHI WHO THINKS HE DOESN'T MEASURE UP WHEN JUST A CUTE RESPONSE LIKE THAT HAS EVERY WORRY WATARU HAS EVER HAD IN HIS LIFE VANISH INTO THIN AIR!!!!!!!!!!!

real magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

♪ ♪ ♪ Amazing ♪

[ He is extremely pleased with this answer. ]

I am excited to make the future Eichis say AMAZING ☆ as well ♪

I can't wait... I know you will! You are always amazing, My Wataru ♥

Sometimes I think you say that too easily? Won't it go to my head? I wonder if I've become a mediocre person in reality, who can only wow a single person... I suppose that wouldn't be a terrible ending, really.

But since you're doing well, I now have what I've come for.

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