leekspins: (But whyyyyyy?)
Orihime Inoue ([personal profile] leekspins) wrote2018-01-20 02:54 pm

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Orihime Inoue
UN: MegaRobo3000
STATUS: Student, Year 10

ACCOLADES: Academic Top 3%

BIO: Member of the Arts & Crafts club, native Japanese speakers, speaks French and English fluently, adventurous culinary tastes, aspiring healer, loves comedy and sweet potatoes.

© TESSISAMESS



Oh noooooooo, I wasn't able to answer the phone in time! ...Or scroll. Or mirror. Whatever you were using, I completely missed out! Leave a message, please, I'll get right back to you!

*robot beeps*
liveandforgive: (didn't see you there)

[personal profile] liveandforgive 2018-02-27 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[if she winced at his dry pun humor, it was lost on him in that moment so he didn't question it.]

Festival? [blinks] Oh, right. That's today... Valentine's Day...right?

[he calmly shakes his head, a little smile still on his face as he reaches out to accept the custom cupcake]

I'm almost done anyway.
liveandforgive: (here's to looking at you)

[personal profile] liveandforgive 2018-06-05 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
[with a click of his pen, Cloud turns away after taking the cupcake to review the forms before filing them away. it isn't until his back is turned to Orihime that she picks up her voice again to ask him something seemingly out of the blue. something she'd been meaning to ask? her co-worker didn't have the faintest clue as to what she could be eluding to, even as he innocently blinked over his shoulder to her. but she didn't even wave her hands around like she would whenever she rambled or talked in circles.]

What?

[she was facing him. she wasn't looking away. that fleeting curiosity of his soon became grounded as Cloud left his pen loosely in his fingertips, turning to face her as he leaned against his desk in kind.]



[the waves of teal and orange returned to that otherwise faintly glowing gaze of his as the gravity of Orihime's words settled in. a familiar deep sinking feeling in his heart. even if Cloud could lie...right now? his eyes told the entire truth. the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as he found words betraying him, that brief twinge of tension on full display in his eyes while they briefly went wild with vibrating yellow and black polkadots.]

... [until he sighs through his nose, closing his eyes while placing the cupcake down behind him and the pen.]

I just... [he opens his eyes, raising his tanned gaze to look her in the eye and finally answer her] Maybe...mm. [he nods this time] That's part of it.
liveandforgive: (the planet is with me)

[personal profile] liveandforgive 2018-06-06 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
... I like it here.

[that's not a good enough answer. he knows it isn't. because this feels like deja vu for him when it came to concealing how he really felt. Cloud kept his feelings guarded, despite his good intentions and making good on fighting for a better tomorrow. for his family, his friends, everything he held dear to him.

there's a softness to those eyes of his before gently breathing out. he'd seen a side of her, be it real or not, that she didn't want anybody to have to see. this person who became a god in her world, in another tragic reality... they could still come here. they could come after her. she had her companions and allies, and many would band together in the face of such adversity.

including him, he realized.]


Mm. I really do. Back home, all it seemed like I did was fight. Even when I was doing my job. I used to run a delivery business of my own, so this felt like a good fit for me.

That, and...

[they were his honest thoughts. he didn't think he had it in him to repeat himself, so Cloud was glad that it was just the two of them]

Even if that wasn't the real you... You helped me. Even when you were afraid of what could happen. [he never truly thanked her for that, even if she wasn't her own self. yet it stuck with him all the same. he remembered waking up only to shake his head with mingling concern and weariness.]

Maybe you don't need me to protect you, but I'll still do whatever I can.

[working here was a bonus]
liveandforgive: (you're watching over me right?)

[personal profile] liveandforgive 2018-06-09 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Cloud wasn't about to try and change her mind about what she could have done for him when he was injured. many reasons came to mind, but it also came down to one simple fact. that wasn't truly her. just like Yang wasn't truly herself when this all happened in the first place. Cloud knew a thing or two about not being his true self...and what it did to the people that he loved. but that was a conversation for another day. for another time.

this was now. and as Cloud intently listened, everything that she said made perfect sense. so he dealt in illusions... it struck a chord with the swordsman, perhaps a little too deeply. and when she speaks of Aizen in how they altered people's perception of reality, a light frown may have marred his lips. but it doesn't linger for very long when he finds his voice again]


Well, if not Aizen... [his mind was made up already. there's a small, confident smile from her employee] I'll just look out for you because we're friends.