yogen | npc contact.2

[ Ghosts... are lonely. There is no npc here that is actually not lonely, but being a rarely seen ghost is at least an obvious reason why Haruka is so eager to come up to Subaru and take his pinky, which immediately goes ice cold when she wraps her fingers around his one.

She's going to tug him towards the stairs instead of the elevator, though. It's something she's never seen before in her life and she doesn't quite trust something that can move on its own. ]

[the pinky chill is something he expects, since she's a ghost, but it still surprises him a little; the tug catches him more, but he doesn't have an issue with the stairs at all... he's a jock ☆

but he will ask her about something as they go up the stairs.]

Has anyone tried picking you up, Harupyon? I don't mind carrying you if you want a free ride.

Not since I died... It won't be very comfy for you.

[ There's still that glance up at him like she can't hide her eagerness, and if he picks her up she'll let that happen instead of ghost-phasing through him. But also if he's going to sit her on his shoulders or something he'd better have high tolerance for brain freeze. ]

I have a higher body temperature than most people, so I don't mind.

[he'd pick her up, but honestly piggyback is probably better... so she can freeze his back.]

What's your favorite color?

[ Hmmmmm... okay! It'll be his choice how he wants to carry her, though if it's piggyback she keeps her hands on his shoulders instead of wrapped around his chest, wary of her presence being too much because that's how it always is. ]

I like red! And yellow, and pink...

[ Warm sunset colors... It's hard to choose just one. ]

[UGH mood... everyone tells subaru he's too much and to stop touching them because he's too hot... they can balance each out. she's welcome to his back. he can support her with one arm]

Good colors~. We'll use 'em to make your shrine look nice. Favorite plants?

[not just flowers... plants]

[ She hums cold air against the back of his neck, trying to pick her... top five. ]

Tulips! And honeysuckle and sunflowers and strawberries and daisies!

[ There's just something about tulips though ]

[brr]

You've got taste! I like sunflowers and daisies myself~. Did you know that every flower has a meaning? Natsume knows 'em well, but I looked up a couple of them myself once.

Ooh... What do tulips mean? Do you know that one?

[ Also honeysuckle and sunflowers and—- ]

Uh... If I remember right, it's something good~.

[so no he.... does not....... not really.]

But sunflowers are for happiness, and daisies are for friendship! That's why you make bracelets and crowns and stuff with them~.

[ It's something good... is good enough for Haruka, honestly. ]

Can I have sunflowers on my shrine?

[ Not daisies... she wouldn't know if anybody would consider her a friend. ]

Sure! Sunflowers and honeysuckles and daisies... Colored just the way you'd like 'em, and we'll spruce it up with some more official looking things...

[...]

Oh, do you have a picture of yourself somewhere?

[ All the flowers are going to be pink and yellow, and maybe they can stick some spider lilies around for the red to make up for the lack of red paint. ]

No, I don't think so... Is that important?

[ No yearbooks, and she hardly looks old enough to be a properly enrolled student here, and any pictures they try to talk posthumously won't show. ]

[oh, that'd be pretty... subaru'll have to bring over fresh ones every now and then to make sure they're vibrant until he gets around to asking someone how to dry them out for better preservation.]

It's used to tell people who's shrine it is, so I think as long as we've got something that people're gonna know represents you we'll be fine.

[hmmm... no pictures...]

Harupyon, Harupyon... We'll make a little carving with your name in it or something.

[he can probably do that much, engraving into a piece of wood-wise. the rest of the shrine'll be easy to piece together as a simple thing after all!!!]

Okay! I'll show you how to write it. It's the character for bright and sunny, and then the character for song!

[ 晴歌
lots of straight lines makes for easy wood carving, you're welcome ]

[thanks but i'm looking at these kanji and tearing up]

Ooh, that's pretty unique~. Most girls your age just use hiragana.

[or katakana... like his... he'll be happy to carve it for her though!!!! cannot wait for him to see these kanji and think how terrible it was to make a six year old having to write these kanji for her name.]

That sure is a nice name, though... Your parents must've wanted you to always to shine brightly and warm everyone around you~.

[ There's a sense of accomplishment for being able to write your full name, it's like in elementary school with those kids whose names were more than five letters long, they suffered but that one moment of accomplishment... ]

Hehe... Do you think so? I hope I was able to do that!

[ She's dead so all she can do is the opposite now, but if she had warmed onii-chan up then it would have been worth it. ]

[thinkin how i wrote my name "autum" for a while]

I'm sure you did! You're such a cheery kid already, so I'm positive you managed that~.

[what else does he need... name plaque, flowers, colors... that's pretty much it personal info wise... up to the third floor they go.]

Where would you wanna put it? On a bookshelf? Or maybe I can see if the librarian'll keep it on the front desk.

[ Just one more letter... real grateful I haven't had to write my full name all year, at work I just initial everything ]

Oh! Umm... I don't want it to fall by accident, or be in the way... There's a window in the very back corner though that's sunny in the afternoon. What about there?

[ It's a very comfortable place. It's also where she died. But Subaru doesn't need to know that. ]

Oh, that'd be perfect! Maybe I can even get one of your flowers potted so it can enjoy the sunshine too.

[a little shrine in the sun... he can do that. maybe he'll see if the shopkeep'll let him have a piece of glass to make a pretty prism with too.]

That would look so pretty! When it's spring again, maybe we can have all sorts of flowers!

[ Even better than a funeral bouquet that'll simply dry out or rot after a week, but potted flowers that can bloom and grow sounds wonderful. ]

I didn't know shrines could be so amazing... I'm so lucky!

[she's such a smart girl!!!! yes queen we can have all the flowers!!!!]

Ahaha! Shrines can be as simple or complex as you want 'em to be -- the one we have for my dad's just his picture and some incense, but that's because that's how Mom remembered him... not the way others did, just as her husband. Yours oughta be fun though!

[because she's a kid!!!]

[ She tries to think of what Subaru's dad's shrine might've looked like— honestly just Subaru with slightly duller orange hair and a beard— but can't get the smell of smoke out of her mind, hot and choking in the midst of blood and burnt flesh. ]

Incense makes my nose tickle... But I liked strawberry pocky!

[ It looks like incense sticks, it's good enough ]

[AND A BEARD.......................................]

Pocky it is! We'll have to make sure everyone knows not to take a bite out of it, then.

[... okay workshop it is. he'll set her down on a table, you can sit here and be tall with the bowl of pudding while he regains warmth in his arm and back in getting some wood pieces to work into a small leaning to the beginnings of medium, open-faced birdhouse-like shrine.

she is welcome to sit and watch him or go mess around with anything that interests her. realizing i said third floor earlier i meant second thanks for sticking with me thus far we will have to go up another one in time but that time is not right now!!!]

Do you wanna grow tulips or daisies around your shrine, Harupyon?

[ IT'S HOW YOU MAKE SOMEBODY OLD YOU GIVE THEM A BEARD ]

Hmm... mm....

[ It's hard to choose, and she pulls herself up onto a chair to sit and stare at Subaru making the shrine as if trying to imagine which one would look better. It's hard... ]

Both?

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