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[flowlikewater]

( GENJI IS WITH YOU )
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[flowlikewater]

[ Now if this isn't an interesting series of texts. There's a small part of him that's concerned but given the festivities around the city, he cannot blame him. (Honestly if Genji were capable of getting drunk anymore, he probably would be imbibing a bit as well.)

So he looks at the messages and finds himself laughing, a tinny little thing that will surely surprise anyone outside who hears a cyborg cackling from a balcony up above. ]

How the tables have turned, brother!

[kuyamu]

[ god, he knew this was coming. but it was a risk he had to take to spare himself tomorrow's agony. besides, he's pleasantly hazy right now, enough that bickering with Genji feels good; none of the usual matted clump of dark, conflicted feelings. ]

Yes yes, gloat if you must
As it is your friend that made the invitation, I blame your influence

[flowlikewater]

I am not gloating, I'm teasing! Very different.
>Jesse, you mean? I am not surprised

[ That makes Genji smile, honestly. Jesse always tried to get his attention, invite him to things, after he'd joined Blackwatch. It was good to know he was trying with his brother as well, despite everything. ]

I am glad you were enjoying yourself. It has been quite somber.

[kuyamu]

Mm
It is a good tradition, but not an easy one

[ speaking of— ]

I am going to light lanterns
At the end of the week. For sending down the river

[ he means to invite Genji to join him, but he doesn't know how to say it. he's not even sure that it would be welcome; the anger and bitterness that was supposed to be directed at Hanzo all seems to be for the family instead, as far as Genji showed him the night of their confrontation, and he doesn't know if Genji still honours them.

their mother seems like a safe middle ground, but — he isn't even sure what to say there. 'we never visited her grave together and we should at least talk to her now'? it already hurts. feels like volunteering to pry his own heart out of his ribcage. ]

[flowlikewater]

I would like to as well.
>Would you like to together?

[ They have lost many people, between the two of them. Genji still misses their mother, sometimes wonders what she would have to say about all of this. And their father... he no longer respects what the man was, but there were some good times when they were very young. And even if the clan decided to not remember him, he still did. He always tried to be the better person now.

And the Strike-Commander and Captain Amari... before, he would want to light one for Reyes. But. ]

[kuyamu]

[ it's a relief that Genji knew what he was trying to say. and although Hanzo is generally honest, sincerity in sentiment comes much more easily when he's drunk, when he thinks less about the words to use, because this time he adds— ]

Yes.
I wanted to talk to Mother
I think she would be cross if I showed up without you

[flowlikewater]

[ His chest squeezes a little at that, a bittersweet sort of ache. He's still smiling as he answers. ]

She absolutely would be
>I want to speak to her as well
>Now that we are together again

[kuyamu]

Then we will.

[ there's a pause, and then: ]

I mean it
If you wake me I will end you