Futureverse

[oneblackcat]

PSL with Athena. AKA That Game With Insane Amounts of Worldbuilding.

More here later, yada yada yada.

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[cyberfly]

"Right." Weeks ago, as if dating someone for any longer would be unthinkable. Nagi snorts softly.

"Do I look like I'm interested?"

When was the last time Nagi showed any interest in anybody? He's too busy with his career.

[bomberman]

"Can you know for certain that you're not interested when you've never met her?" Naru countered.

Really, he knows that Nagi is focused on his career, but that's sort of exactly the dilemma to Naru. It doesn't seem healthy for career to be the only important thing in a person's life. And he knows Nagi isn't as much of a social butterfly as he is. That's why as his friend it only makes sense for him to use his own charm to help Nagi meet more people.

[cyberfly]

He snorts softly. Naru never really changes. Even back in school, it was always Naru who was getting him into all the extracurricular activities (some of them not always permitted by the teachers, but Nagi didn't really mind).

"You weren't interested."

If that's a prompt for Naru to discuss why he wasn't, he can take it as such. Generally though, Nagi doesn't quite understand Naru's thought process in his dating life. Maybe because for Nagi, becoming interested in anyone at all is such a rare occasion. How can one become disinterested so quickly?

[bomberman]

"I was interested!" Naru protests. Sure, not long-term interested, but he'd known that going in. Long-term wasn't the intention and he didn't mean it as the intention for Nagi (though if the cards fell that way, he'd be happy for him).

"Anyway, why does that matter? We're different people."

[cyberfly]

"Exactly."

Point being, Naru can be interested and disinterested in lots of people. Nagi isn't the same. He's always been slow to make connections with people. Maybe that means he doesn't date around much, or at all, but that suits him just fine. It's probably better this way. The last time he had a real interest in someone, they were interested in someone else.

"Your target is on the move."

[bomberman]

That was totally a subject change! Maybe a fair one, though. Naru probably shouldn't expect Nagi to humor discussion about his love life (or lack thereof) for long. Still, he doesn't like the thought of Nagi spending his whole life alone. Deep down, he doesn't think Nagi likes that thought either.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm watching," he says as a rounds a corner in pursuit.

"You down for a game tourney in a few weeks? Thought it'd be fun to get a big group of gamers together, order pizza and watch each other get pulverized."

[cyberfly]

"Sure," he says. Nagi isn't all that great in big groups, but gamers at least speak the same language as he does. And in a tournament, they'll be more focused on talking about the game than small talk.

"Are you going to be on my team, or the losing team?"

[bomberman]

"Hey, you know I'm going to be on the winning team," Naru banters back. "I haven't hashed out all the details yet. We'll all have to network and figure out who's available when-- I'll send out a calendar for everyone to block in."