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[keybearing]

[Sora seems as happy as ever, probably excited about something or other again going by his usual timing of using the bracelet like this.....]

Hey guys! So, if I'm still figuring the timing about right, Valentines is coming up! I'm gonna make chocolates!

[No. Not just for his friends from home, either. Knowing Sora he probably faces that same thing with Christmas with wanting to do this for Everyone.......

Someone should really tell him to learn to calm it down. If that's even possible for him.]

Oh, right. Not everyone might get it. But, uh, Valentines is like a celebration of friends! Or more. If you have someone special! You get them flowers or chocolate and show you appreciate them! It's not as huge a thing as Christmas or anything, but. I still like it! And if I make too much chocolate, just means I can save some for later!

[So this is clearly just a win all around, right? Obviously.]

On the other hand, with my training lately, I figured I can do something else too! I don't think Riku was too thrilled though.... but I can help in fights by taking hits for others!

[......this is decidedly probably not something he should seem as thrilled about? But he is anyway. Because of course he is if it means he can help keep his friends safe.]

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[5thchild]

Human holidays seem to involve food quite a lot.

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[keybearing]

I never really thought about it but. You're not wrong. But I guess it makes sense since you know, we gotta eat!

[This is not even weird that Kaworu specifies human holidays. Sora's met enough friends that are not human that he doesn't care either way.]

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[beefaroni]

... You are training... to take hits?

[A touch of miscommunication here.]

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[keybearing]

Yeah! So like, when I got a hit on Riku, I was the one that was hurt, instead of him!

[In a roundabout way this is a good thing? To Sora? If he can use this to help protect his friends?

But also. Yeah probably concerning.....]

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[beefaroni]

[Oh, even better, Asterios was right. And by better we mean worse.]

Must be careful. Getting hurt, twice as much, in battle. Will weaken you... quicker.

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[tealeafs]

.. "Or more"?

[ She thinks it's pretty obvious what he's implying there, but she just wants to make sure. Sora is still pretty young, after all, he should be meaning a more innocent kind of special like family. ]

Do you mean like love?

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[keybearing]

Yeah. You know, girlfriend or boyfriend, or fiance or husbands and wives.

[For all that Sora could be dense and oblivious, naive at times and for all that he is young. He's not so young to be that oblivious with seeing some of the older teenagers and adults around back home with celebrating Valentines.]

People without someone like that can still give chocolates to friends and family though!

[madcuriosity]

Some day I hope to receive a Valentine. I've never gotten one before. My sister gets oodles.

[keybearing]

I can make you some, Alice! I was going to anyway....

[Telling her now might. Ruin the surprise? But still.]

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[skittering]

❰ loooooooooooong pause. then: ❱

Which day?

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[keybearing]

14th. on Friday.

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[amongfriends]

[Wow this sounds like something she should do huh...... :'(] How do you make chocolates?

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[keybearing]

Well, I was gonna make some anyway so I guess I can help if you wanted to learn? It's easy enough to ask for recipes and we have dairy now so we'll have milk for it.

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[mindseer]

... this is the human day about blood pushers, right? Where they give treats to the person that they have the most affection and pit... errr, love for or something like that?

[She fussed a little.]

They do it for friends too?

[Fuss fuss fuss fuss. Did moirails count?]

[keybearing]

Right! I mean, everyone thinks of their girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever, but. People make chocolate for their friends too.

[Even if they save the biggest for their special someone, perhaps but still.]

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[lethechained]

[ Now, see, you know she's been caught off-guard by the whole holiday thing because she doesn't immediately zero in on that last part of his message. First off she starts with the puzzled surprise, then the belated realization, and then comes the curiosity. ]

Do you need help making chocolate, Sora? [ It doesn't even occur to her that she might possibly receive any, really. ] I've never tried before, but I'd be happy to learn, if you can teach me.

[ … But that doesn't mean she's forgotten the end of what he said. It's in her mind, waiting there on the backburner for the right moment. ]

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[keybearing]

You can come help if you want! Sure.

[Just don't wear the usual white? That'd likely take more effort to wash the chocolate out of if so. Sora wouldn't mind her coming over to help though. He likes introducing her to new experiences.]

[hikikomori_king]

[ He is... not keen on that second part of the post ]

I am sure there are... other options for helping in fights...

[keybearing]

Like what?

[This is helping! In his own idiotic self-sacrificial way?]

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[miragesplitkey]

( And Riku wasn't thrilled. At all. And by the way his eyebrows are furrowed and how he is petting the Komory bat -not so gentle- anyone would know he is still pretty unhappy. )

No chocolates nor flowers from me to you.

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[keybearing]

What? I'm gonna make you some! Ri~ku~!

[He pouts, complaining like him doing this won't leave him with plenty of extra chocolates anyway in planning to make some for most all the Wanderers.

Because of course the chocolate is clearly the priority here.]

[vagabone]

[Wooow, what a way to end that video. Wow.]

Wha--kid, I'm literally dead and I still wouldn't do something like that. That is the worst idea. It's only going to stress everyone out more.

[keybearing]

Only going to -- I don't mean to! But I figure, it's better if I take the hits and the others can keep fighting, right?

[In theory? It'd mean that others could keep fighting for longer than they should be able to. At least until Sora ends up passing out or something from it perhaps. From overdoing it on his end trying to help.

Which is....probably exactly the point that Héctor and the others are trying to make.]

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[ragnarsson]

Chocolates, I have found, are a luxury beyond compare. You are a good friend to make them for others.

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[keybearing]

Some are more expensive or better quality. Yeah. It's not that hard to come by it back home at least but. I guess depending on where or when you're from it might be rarer. I just wanna try share something nice with everyone!

[Cue Sora teaching Asgard about all the holidays. Jack would be proud.]