IC Inbox: Daybreak

[shockingblue]

GUSTAV "GV" GUNVOLT
UN: AZURESTRIKER

STATUS: Student, Grade 9

ACCOLADES: 4 Year Member of the Rune Guild QUILL, active field agent and runic inscriptionist. Designed and implemented runic equipment for field use. Destroyed a small army of invading undead.

BIO: New to Daybreak Academy. I speak Japanese, German, French, and English. Japanese is a little rusty though. Interests include runic inscription, athletics, physics, and history. I like video games and computers too.

© TESSISAMESS

You've reached GV. If you need me for something, leave me a message, and I'll return it as soon as possible.

Comments

[unlogic]

That was GV. [There's a brief pause before she quickly adds:] He's fine, he's fine, it's just— [She cuts herself off abruptly.]

He just told me that one of the other students I've been tutoring—

[She pauses again.]

She has the tattoo. The same one that I had. [And Monarch knows what that would mean.]

[shockingblue]

[When she reveals it was Gunvolt who messaged her, that was more the red flag. She drifted closer, looking more concerned, but not totally worried. After all, right now, there wouldn't be any real reason he would be in danger, right?

But then she continues, and the hologram's eyes widened.]

...She's part of your old extended family.

...Are you okay? Did you need to talk about it?

[unlogic]

I don't know. [She lifts the phone back up and re-reads the message.

The whole thing might just be coincidence; Marise wouldn't have told anyone that Desidera was here at the academy, not with the both of them being aware of how some of the family felt about her in the first place.

After a few moments of awkward silence, she types out a response and sends it.]

[shockingblue]

I'm always here to listen if you need it. You know that.

[She floats beside her, giving her as reassuring a smile as her hologram can manage.]

Though, you know? Just because what your extended family might be like about things doesn't mean everyone in it's going to agree about it either. If you've been tutoring her already, she already knows the kind of person you are. She'll have seen the truth with her own eyes.

If that's not good enough for her, then it's her loss, and you still have the family you chose. And even if she accepts you, you don't have to go back to that family in full either.

[unlogic]

[Desi remains quiet while the phone buzzes with another message. She looks it over before turning a bit and responding to the AI.]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. She's had time to get to know me.

[She then looks at the phone again for another moment, before typing out another short message and sending it off.]

[shockingblue]

She has. And you've gotten time to get to know her too. And she hasn't turned away from you based on your looks either. If she wasn't put off by first impression and she trusts you enough to teach her... then she might have a different outlook than the others.

But either way, you don't have to make any calls you're not comfortable with either, y'know?

[unlogic]

Maybe.

[She rereads the last message that she sent, wondering if she should reconsider what she had typed, but ultimately she decides against changing her response. They've both had plenty of time to get to know each other without the potential complications of each knowing who the other really is; maybe that will help make things easier.]

Maybe this will change some things, but she's trusted me so far, so...I think I'll try to trust her, too.