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Come on, Leon! Don't go—there's nowhere else you have to be today anyway!

[this totally not a festival date is not being brought to an end so easily.]

[Despite Leon's best efforts to make this as unromantic as possible.]

We are not playing any more games here!

[Take it or leave it.....]

[leon is just naturally unromantic. of course, the kid with the pillow shaped like a literal shitface isn't a paragon of romance either.]

Okay, but let's find something else, then! [—he really just doesn't want leon to leave.]

[................................ He slows, but he doesn't completely stop.]

If it is going to continue to waste my time like everything else, I'm not interested.

[But he's...listening, at least.]

If you weren't going to be doing anything else, then it's not wasting time. It's okay to do things for yourself sometimes, Leon...

[he can't help but utter with a small sigh. every attempt to do something a little less stressful and focused on getting out of cerealia ends up like this, so it's just getting harder for stahn to sweep it under the rug.

leon may not know how to have fun, but all the same, it seems like he refuses to even let himself try.]

Let's just... see what else is here. There's more than just the games and food, I think... Everyone worked really hard, so I want to see as much as we can.

[It's hard to argue that he has anywhere else to be, since...well, he doesn't. Instead, he just sighs, crossing his arms vaguely, and nods after a long moment. No more games is a good start, and even if he's still feeling rather sulky from the last, he supposes he can come along with Stahn.

It does seem to mean a lot to him, for some reason.]

...Hmph. If I was doing this for myself, I would not be here at all. [Then who are you here for, Leon.............. do you even realize how that sounds.]

Regardless--just do what you want. I suppose we may as well stay for a short period of time longer, though I do not intend to stay any longer than that.

[if it helps, stahn doesn't really quite catch how that sounds either. he just takes it as what he thinks it to be—that leon really only came along because stahn didn't give him a choice. nothing about leon's actual wants or the fact that it does make stahn pretty happy to have the company.]

I don't know what else is here, so we'll just have to walk around a bit more. If there isn't anything else, then we can go.

[though they'll miss the fireworks that way, huh...]

[...... well. At least he got that acknowledgement from Stahn, at least.

If they don't find anything else, then they can leave, and that's a relief. He's pretty ready to go--even aside from his general dislike of this sort of thing, he's getting pretty exhausted from the crowd (and his own sour mood, let's be real here).

So he just makes an acknowledging noise.]

... Fine.

[it's... a step forward, kind of. he doesn't mind leaving once he's seen everything, but he really wanted for leon to enjoy himself and have a better time.]

Hey, Leon? [so of course, he's going to bring it up.] Has it really been that bad?

Of course it has!

[A beat, and he amends--]

It isn't as though it wasn't anything I could not handle, naturally.

[But...still...]

... I am not interested in this sort of celebration in the least.

[stahn tilts his head a little; sometimes leon's words betray him. sometimes they contradict each other and it leaves stahn... not entirely sure what to think.

it seems like he doesn't hate it as much as he claimed, but he also doesn't seem to be enjoying it, either.]

Right... I thought maybe there'd be something here you could have fun with. [maybe he thought wrong? he really did just want to share the experience with leon because it seemed like it would be fun.]

[He didn't think entirely wrong, but he may have been expecting a bit too much from Leon--this sort of thing is still entirely foreign to him, and feeling like he's stuck there against his will certainly isn't helping. There have been parts he's enjoyed, nonetheless.

It'll just take him some time to realize it.]

Concern yourself with yourself, instead of with me. You should know that I am not interested in this sort of thing.

I don't need to be concerned with myself... I know how to enjoy myself and what I like to do.

[stahn will protest this, because as much as he likes this stuff, he wants leon to be able to enjoy things in life too.] I wanted to find something you liked too, since you don't get to have fun too often!

Besides... things like this are better with a friend anyway. [even if he could have met up with someone else, leon is his best friend!! so of course he wants to hang out and do fun things.]

[Rude, don't act like he doesn't know how to do that!!! (Though he doesn't.)]

I don't require you looking after me as though I'm a child. I don't need to go out of my way to have fun.

[Jeeze.]

And I do not recall agreeing to be your friend.

[stahn's not even going to acknowledge the fact that leon is protesting their friendship. that's just stupid at this point and they both know it.]

I'm not... I'm not trying to look after you like you're a child. That's not what I think at all. [that part? that part, still will absolutely argue with conviction.] I'm trying because... you're my friend.

[tough shit, leon. you're stahn's friend. his best friend, even.]

[It is pretty silly, but he'll always make that token protest, we all know this.]

And as I just said, I fail to remember becoming your friend.

[A huff!!

This is proceeding about as expected really.]

I don't care if you say we're not... I don't care if you don't call me your friend, either.

[it doesn't change anything.] But you're my friend. That's not going to change, Leon.

[Ughhhhh...]

... I am not having this conversation with you here.

[Or ever again if he had his way but alas, they must rehash this every few days probably.]

[who is the one who started this conversation, leon? who is the one who had to argue the friendship merits!!

...whatever. stahn will just stahn.]

I still meant what I said. [about wanting leon to enjoy himself, and that he's not trying to treat him like a child in any way.]

[... He knows that Stahn does. Stahn's always meant every single word that he says.

It's what makes Stahn Stahn.

But in response, all Leon can do is scoff, shaking his head shortly.]

... What else are you so insistent on seeing here? [When can they go?]

I don't know.

[he can admit that, but he has a reason for it, at least.]

I don't really know what else is here to see, that's why I wanted to look. If everyone worked so hard to put this together... I want to at least take the time to see it all. [soon, you impatient baby.]

[He doesn't get it... but what else is new?]

It makes no difference if you see it all or not to those people. It is not as though they'll know. [??? He doesn't really get...the sentiment.]

Still... they worked hard. They deserve to have their work appreciated like everyone else, don't they?

[leon doesn't have to get it; to stahn, it's about the effort involved. if other people worked hard, they deserve to have their work appreciated.]

Their work is being appreciated by more than enough people. Your patronage will make no difference whatsoever.

[This is his sticking point, really...what difference does it make in a crowd like this if Leon and Stahn visit this place or not?]

It makes a difference to me.

[stahn protests, mostly because he can't just ignore it.] If everyone said that, then there really would be people who don't get that appreciation. The places towards the back, they probably don't see as many people as what's near the entrance.

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discard - 2016-04-25 20:58 (UTC) - Expand