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loveauthority) wrote2025-09-05 07:38 pm
loveauthority) wrote2025-09-05 07:38 pm
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[r8] talking head: frieren
[ Frieren is led to a quiet room within the resort with a pair of hammocks to suit the scene, and upon one of them is where the overseer sits. She beams, shuffling her cards in hand (she will not use these), and motions for Frieren to take a seat already!!!
This is the Talking Heads room, and there are cameras. Prepare to loosen those lips! ]
arrival!
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jk anna's still pleased as plum to see her, even if frieren eternally looks like she'd... well. she looks like she might as well be anywhere else. ]
Frieren-san, how are you feeling? Are you excited for the month ahead?
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but, hmm, the not-so-lost-child across from her isn't exactly who frieren expected. though, she still isn't too sure what she expected or... even now, what she expects at all. the light bouncing off the camera lenses, the sheer novelty of the subject matter, and the not-so-novelty of walking into an interview when you know you're not likely to do particularly well.
not for the same reasons, of course. how does she feel about that?
it only takes a moment — a slight pause for those thoughts, where frieren looks at anna, the cameras, their surroundings — until she takes the invitation, and takes her place on the hammock. ]
You seem more excited than I do.
[ yes? no? no? ]
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[ anyway!!!! ]
It's a pretty good excuse to drag my sweetheart from his busy busy job, too. [ where is he? don't worry. ] And I get to help everyone find the love I found. I'm totally excited!
[ she's definitely not thinking of how bad tsukasa had it during his run ]
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it's a conclusion frieren comes to in the deadpan silence of her thoughts as she listens, anna's pace far exceeding her own. "the slow swing of the hammock is relaxing" is another, settling gently in her mind after that. ]
That's good. If we're lucky, your energy will rub off on the other contestants.
[ like it totally is on her.
anyway. swing, swing. ]
What does that love look like? The one you've found, that you're hoping others do?
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Oh, how do I talk about it? [ where does she start. swing, swing. ] It's a love... where I don't have to worry, or try too hard, a love that clicks and feels right in every way possible, a "same page" love, and... one that I can't imagine not having in my life.
[ even if she had to find it with someone across a whole different dimension. anna leans into the hammock, smiling a little softer. ]
A love where "the honeymoon phase" lasts forever. I would choose him again, and again, and again, and I know he'd do the same. I'm the only one he wants to walk with, and he's the only one that I wanna do that with too. So I'm really hoping that others can find someone they don't wanna imagine anyone else with -- even temporarily, or for the sake of some game.
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but, no, frieren was absolutely prepared for the flood of information that question was prompting. doesn't this feel a bit like she's the one doing the interviewing? observing the swing of anna's hammock, listening to the answer that she gets (anna found the words to talk about it just fine, which isn't a bad thing), but also doesn't quite get.
not that frieren minds. it's how she'd prefer it, honestly. ]
If it's as you say, it doesn't sound like you need an excuse to drag him away.
[ how nice. frieren comprehends it solely as a lifetime companion; those she's familiar with. beyond that, well... that's something with hazier edges, behind the frosted glass of the past. ]
Though, truthfully, I can't imagine everyone participating will find what you've described.
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[ down to certain details..... anyway. ]
But as long as they come out of it feeling loved, then that's enough.
week one!
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How'd you feel being called up? Pretty exciting, right?
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[ she's calling you out, bracket text. because that part's a little important.
but, sure, she'll put them aside. she'll recall in its stead: recall the outstretched hand, the call for her attention, and the warm smile... how did that make her feel? ]
... It was familiar.
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Familiar?
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Familiar.
[ frieren will confirm that first. so very familiar.
she'd leave it at that, but knowing anna likes answers (and for acknowledging her selfish request), she continues: ]
There was a fool who called out to me once, in a similar way. Even without a strong reason to feel that way, he seemed certain of his choice.
[ she knows the reason now for back then, of course, and the thought of it makes her think to make field of them for that reason. a simple, foolish field of flowers. ]
... Perhaps that should have been my first clue that it wasn't correct. There's no reliving those moments.
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... No, I don't think that's a bad thing to connect the past and the present like that. You can't relive the moments... but you can get pretty close, right?
[ things will always differ. that's fact. but that's cute, that she felt that with him... ]
Was that fool important to you?
[ her small smile says so, but. anna knows better than to assume. she's grown. ]
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... He was.
[ that follows, with certainty, as she takes in those words.
that she can understand anna's reassurance now is why she can say that so surely. it isn't a bad thing to remember, and that's yet another thing to relive. ]
There would be no present moments to connect to the past if it weren't for him.
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Old friend? Lover?
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himmel crying in the afterlife as frieren doesn't have the capacity to feel embarrassed about this question. ]
A companion. The Hero of my past party.
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Party, huh? Did you save the world?
week two!
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[ she's even got a popper! which she'll pull now. confetti... ]
How's the suite? Pretty good, right?