The World Overflow

[justonezero]

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[deto]

Were we one then?

[ was it awkward at first? not enough to keep them from talking and talking. or from him reaching out and brushing yoshi’s hair aside to see his startling eyes better ]

I did meet a cute.

[justonezero]

You know... I guess we were?

[Huh!]

[deto]

So we’re a trope.

[justonezero]

...I guess we are, huh...

[Kind of paused like this is a Big Realization.]

[deto]

I dunno if we would make a good video game, though. Not even a dating… what, sim? I think? A dating sim.

[ early stages mean it only takes him the slightest bit of concentration to play and chat ]

[justonezero]

[Nanase's played this enough times that he's barely paying attention and moving almost entirely on muscle memory. He'd be a great streamer, honestly.]

Dating sims usually have more than one target, anyway.

[deto]

[ (streamer bun… deto would be the first to subscribe and follow- )

he makes a face at yoshi ]

It’ll be a beat-’em-up if game me has competition.

[ (and if he were made a mod, he’d auto-ban anyone who flirts with bun) ]

[justonezero]

[He cannot have an audience based in thirst...]

Haha! Maybe if it combined the visual novel stuff with the beat 'em up stuff?

[deto]

Can it still be visual novel if the only true ending is you with me?

[ a beat ]

There’s no bad end because you should get everything that you want.

[justonezero]

I guess there's some visual novels where it's just a story with pictures, music, and voice acting.

[deto]

Glorified picture book? - We’re losing track of this plot, though.

So. Meet cute. [ he nods at the pixels on the screen ] How many more chapters before my character can convince yours to ditch the other guy and run off with me.

[ no one likes a rushed plot ]

[justonezero]

A glorified picture book... for adults!

[And/or teens.]

Oh. Um... I think it might break the story if they got too close too fast. So... probably a lot?

[deto]

Well, if we gotta fight a hundred assassin ninjas in this slowburn, then that’s what we’ll do.

[ … ]

… For adults?

[ oh right technically they are legal adults, but also ]

[justonezero]

Oh- I mean, sometimes it's because it's got sex scenes but... There's also ones that are just really dark.

For these two, though... Maybe they realize their love of each other in the last stages, but they agree to take out the big bad anyway so they can get closure before they elope?

[deto]

There’s that thing, right? Like if you try to leave the yakuza, they hunt you down? I thought ninjas were the same. Do they keep fighting after?

I think we’d have sex scenes, but I dunno how dark it’d get.

[justonezero]

Oh, that's true. Hmm... Fall in love, and then elope and reappear as regular villagers?

S-Sex scenes, though... I guess we would, huh?

[deto]

Or travel the world together. Unless one of them really wants to settle down.

[ thinking hard about the rating… ]

I guess I could live without sex, but I don’t think I could live without kissing you or holding you. Does that bump our rating down at all?

[justonezero]

If you take out the sex scenes, that definitely bumps it down a bunch! Unless it got really dark?

[deto]

Uh - it’s definitely more likely for us to have a bunch of sex or go on a kama sutra spree than for things to get dark.

[justonezero]

Some pretty dark stuff happened in Fragment, though...

[deto]

[ deto’s pretty much written it off as a one-time thing, which is very different from sex - that is: an all-time thing his brain and sometimes dreams bring up, a most-times thing once they’re living together and/or married, a forever thing

but, ]

Is some of that inside you still? The dark stuff?

[justonezero]

Hm? What do you mean?

[deto]

Like… the grief. The people that didn’t… make it.

[justonezero]

[...Oh.

This much does distract him from playing a little - not enough to die in the game, but rather take down enemies before pausing.]

...I still think of them, every so often. Wondering what Hien would think if he saw how much I was going out now... Even if I didn't end up going into medicine.

[deto]

He’d be proud. I think he had a big soft spot for kids.