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“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”

— Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

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Oh no, he’s nagging her again. She is sulking, but stops poking him because she doesn’t want to risk Pupbo’s safety. A cute puppy shouldn’t have to suffer for Meebo’s wrongdoings. ❛  It’s like you want to shove responsibility of him onto me,  ❜ she accuses petulantly, frowning at his grin. So impertinent of him! Meebo will rue the day he messes with her, dammit! 

❛  If he does end up finding me, I’m going to convince him to hate you for being such a killjoy,  ❜ she threatens, feeling grumpy. She would’ve poked him a few more times if only he weren’t still holding Pupbo. ❛  Pupbo and I can bond while you’re there just to take up space, Spacebo.  ❜

Now he’s even calling her ‘lazy!’ He’s being impertinent to the max! She sulks even more, squinting at him suspiciously. ❛  So you’re saying we should take turns watching him?  ❜ She has the best healing artes range-wise while he has the best healing for single targets, so it wouldn’t really be smart to have both of them out fighting at once in case both healers go down. It makes sense, but ... ❛  Are you sure? After all, wouldn’t want you to be lazy too,  ❜ she says spitefully on purpose. She is sooo not lazy! Meebo’s just being a dummy, like usual!

"Ow, will you stop poking me with your umbrella. If you keep doing that you're going to wake him up, and I don't need a grumpy puppy right now." Mostly because the fact was, anytime Edna poked him with her umbrella he moved his arms slightly.

Of course Pupbo was tiny, but who said he was just going to keep the door closed to his room. Maybe if Mikleo just left it open a tiny crack and the puppy just happened to wake up and wander. It wouldn't be his fault if he found his way to Edna. "For poking me again, i'll just leave my room door open a crack. Pupbo knows both our scents so it won't be hard to find you." He grinned.

Huh, now that was an idea. Except for one thing. "Sure, yeah you can just sit back and be lazy. Don't forget though Edna. Sorey is the shepherd, and he relies on all of us to aid him in battle. So if i'm not busy on the front lines, i'll hang back and take care of Pupbo. But, only if either Rose or Sorey need your aid in any way. How about that?"

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Ah, childhood friends just like Sorey and Meebo then? Having no childhood friends of her own, Edna doesn’t quite understand, but whatever. It’s not really her business. However, she’ll admit that Ludger’s grinning is starting to creep her out. Is he just fond of Nova or … ❛  From the look on your face, it seems that you don’t mind helping clean up her messes.  ❜

Most likely, if Edna had met him before meeting Sorey, she would’ve shrugged off his woes and called him stupid for taking on such an Oath after a mistake like that. After all, you need your voice to actually communicate and talk. Ludger’s just making it way harder than it should be——but since she met Sorey first, her entire journey with him has taught her that humans do stupid things when they have something they want to protect. Sorey chose a path of self-sacrifice and eternal slumber just so that the world can continue to live on, and Ludger is trying to protect the same world with his clan. To Edna, she sincerely wants to support Sorey for all he’s done for her, and so, she feels the need to give Ludger a little encouraging nudge of some kind. Can’t exactly accomplish anything by being depressed, right? 

❛  At least you won’t sound like a squeaky 10 year-old mouse.  ❜ He’s obviously an adult, so he can’t sound like he’s still reaching puberty. Not that she’s curious about his voice or anything. Nope. Not at all. ❛  As long as your hands and legs can still move, you’re being useful enough. As they say: less talking, more working.  ❜ He’s doing way better than some people with fully functional arms, legs, and mouths: they use their mouths so much, it borderlines annoying. Peace and quiet is way better. 

The question makes her squint at him with suspicion in her eyes. He’s obviously referring to himself, but exposing her true home is so … personal and intimate. It’s a place only for her and Onii-chan, because they’re family. Ludger isn’t family. True he’s been nothing but nice and civil thus far, but home is a place that's embedded with memories. All of Onii-chan’s gifts and letters are there … All of the things she shared with him … Maybe Edna is just not ready to let someone else know that yet. 

❛  You brought a whole kitchen with you, so I hope you also brought comfortable camping gear,  ❜ she says finally, using her umbrella to point up ahead. ❛  There’s a short tunnel a little further up the mountain if you want shelter for the night. There aren’t that many hellions lurking here anymore, so it should be safe.  ❜

'I dunno! Been friends since we were little. There’sa million good AND bad things I can say.' To boil Nova, the uncompromising constant in his life, down into "she's great" or "she's annoying" was a huge disservice to her. There’s a second reason as well, but damn if he’d write it. Although his constant grinning as he thinks of her might give it away. ‘But Nova IS effective on field. She bopped a hellion so hard, it gave up fighting after one blow. Had to carry the guy home once he was normal though.’

The truth of his lost voice doesn’t shock Lady Edna. Though while he tried to artificially revive his zest and smile through any jabs at his stupid mistakes, Lady Edna instead encouraged him not to wallow in regrets. There’s still many people suffering because of malevolence; as a Kresnik, it’s his duty to bring the world a tranquility only achievable by his family or the Shepherd. His high cost Oath just meant he had a promising legacy that could surpass his brother’s or even Victor’s one day. Although he could do without hunting dragons.

'You’re right.Just sometimes miss saying how I feel. Or curious what I sound like since I was 10 when I swore my Oath.’ Ludger’s smile’s a bit pensive, yet it’s nonetheless genuine. ‘But I know if I help just one person live a better life, my mistake wasn’t for nothing. Plus with writing, people can frame nice things I said forever! Not that anyone has yet.’ Although if Lady Edna ever wanted to thank him… That’s a little too much hopeful thinking.

‘Nono I’m okay!! Just tend to cut corners to finish tasks on-time. But food and company are off limits!I’ll stay as long as you’ll have me.’ That said, Ludger would say the nuts soaked long enough for a non-overnight version. Now the final step: setting these little guys onto a tiny tray and setting it into his pot with lid ready to act as a dutch oven. Once they hardened, they’d be ready to serve!

‘Though did remind me! Say someone wanted to rest overnight here because it’s such a long climb down. What’s a good spot for that?’ He’s not suggesting a sleepover, but there is a chance it’ll be too dark to make it all the way down....

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I JUSTWANTED TO SAY I LOVE THAT YOU SHIP MIKUEDO!!! I love love love it so much!! I wish I could read more mikuedo things from you but am I right to assume your mikleo isn't active anymore? and if not, would you be opened to writing with another one in that way?

AAA THANK YOU !! they are my ultimate super otp that i love with the burning passion of 80 trillion suns 🥹 my heart is instantly super happy and warm when i think of them 🥹🥹🩵💛

and pertaining to the other part of your message: rinni ( my m.ikleo you speak of ) is still around, very busy with school and her life, but she is still around. we talk often on discord, and i would still very much would like to ship with her meebo, as we have already talked about so many ideas we want to write together and i just plain love her meebo a lot 💛 ;; my edna is forever single-ship with her meebo, and her meebo will be the only m.ikleo i will ship with. i normally do want to be as open as i can when it comes to roleplay, including shipping, but i truly just want to ship my edna with rinni's m.ikleo and no one else's. it's my favorite otp ever and rinni shares the same passion as i do, and i value that the most when it comes to shipping; that we are able to write so much together and easily bounce ideas off each other without fear. i'm sorry if my answer sounds very biased because i think it is lol, but yeah, i think i will only ship my edna with rinni's m.ikleo. even if she isn't active on him anymore, my edna has a lot of ties to her meebo that i've worked into my headcanons and i really like how they turned out. her meebo is my OTM ( One True Meebo ) 🩵

thank you for sending me this message ! i'm happy that you enjoy reading our stuff together, anon 💛

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Edna isn’t good with cooking anything that’s not stew, even worse with baking except palmiers being her only saving grace, so she thinks about declining the offer——but in retrospect, it’s just some milk pudding. Surely, she can’t accidentally make pudding explode, right? Or accidentally make the kitchen catch on fire, right? Right … ? 

In the end, she simply nods and hopes that her good fortune will continue to carry her in the near, hopefully fire-less and nonexplosive future. 

They’re already outside, so she is now looking around, then she uses her umbrella to gesture towards somewhere in the distance. ❛  How about over there? I can see pink flowers. Pink is a cute ladylike color.  ❜ After all, Alisha is the pinkest princess she knows——and pink will really help Edna’s graceful and lovely yellows stand out even more. Win-win. ❛  And the flowers will complement the pink food you brought.  ❜

✿. ❝If you end up liking it, I wrote down the recipe so you can have it too!❞ she's blinded by the nostalgia of when she'd watch her mother bake it so if it is actually a delicious desert is beyond her.

So outside was the best place to have tea parties? Maybe when she gets home she'll set up a garden sitting are for better tea parties?

✿. ❝Lets find the prettiest spot! With pretty flowers and a nice breeze!❞ She can make a flower crown while they party too. Placing the pudding cup back into the basket her eyes begin to scan the nearby surroundings. She wants this to be perfect for Edna!

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Edna shrugs. ❛  You all may look the same, but maybe your personalities differ slightly. If she knows you, then she’ll eventually catch onto those differences long enough to recognize you over whichever replica came along after you.  ❜ He said that Sync was a replica of his, and he certainly had lots to complain about Sync’s personality. They’re cut from the same cloth, but who’s to say their personalities are perfectly copied too? Fate can’t control that, right? Then again, she doesn’t really know how replicas are made, nor does she want to know either.

A part of her is actually happy that Ion decides to go see Arietta. Edna knows how suffocating loneliness can be. She may not have Onii-chan anymore, but if Ion still has someone of his own to be with, then Edna can at least hope that it works out for him. After all, what’s the point of living if you don’t have even one person to share it with? 

❛  That’s the spirit. Yay, yay,  ❜ she flatly cheers. She might feel happy for his decision, but she’s definitely not going to show it. Not even over her dead body. ❛  They say talking about idiots is therapeutic,  ❜ she wisely replies, as if it’s the world’s greatest advice. ❛  Being surrounded by too much idiocy is unhealthy, so we should let it out before it bubbles up inside of us and it explodes like kaboom!  ❜ 

Was it really fine? Ion hadn't been the best person even when he was the Fon master. Always having to put on a fake smile, read the score for all those desperate people in the crowd. He had to make sure that the mask he wore didn't get cracked. To appease the masses and make everyone happy. Oh Arietta. He would love to see her, have her by his side again.

To tell her he had been sorry, and never meant to leave her behind. "You could be right. She could be waiting for me, though it might cause confusion since she mistook my replica as me." And was pushed off to the side, like he had just abandoned her for another guardian. But.

"I think you're right. I will try to see her again, and explain to her I never left. That I had to go away for awhile. Take her away with me, and leave all those fools behind. Because only with me can she feel safe, and happy." And Arietta was precious to him, and he wanted her by his side again. "I gotta say talking about the idiots in our lives makes me feel so relaxed after."

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           “I guess by now I should know enough about loss                to realize that you never really stop missing             someone - you just learn to live around the huge                          gaping hole of their absence.”

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She looks skeptically at him, then at Pupbo, then at him again. ❛  No, I’m pretty sure you’re his favorite.  ❜ Pupbo is cute and all, but Edna originally just wanted to use him to tease Meebo for a bit about his fear of dogs, not … practically adopting Pupbo themselves? How did one little prank go wrong? She just wanted to call Meebo out on being a wimp! But still … 

Edna peeks at Pupbo again, then pets his head. He’s still asleep, but he whimpers and curls up even more into Meebo’s arms, tail twitching. That’s cute; she wouldn’t mind playing with him again if he does wander to her—— 

No! She cannot let Meebo’s words get to her! ❛  Whatever. I doubt he can just wake up and open the door to find me since he’s so tiny,  ❜ she stubbornly insists, poking him one more time with her umbrella. ❛  It should be fine as long as one person stays back to watch over him when there are enemies.  ❜ Mischievously, she adds, ❛  So, I volunteer myself since it’s tiring for a lady to fight all the time anyway. Pupbo and I can be on standby while you guys are on the front lines protecting us, and then I’ll give him back to you once the battle is over. Problem solved again.  ❜

Honestly, he hadn't expected to bond with a puppy today. It really wasn't on his list of things either. It just sort of.......happened. Ow. Again, poking him with her parasol. Sheesh. Mikleo wasn't a genius on feeding puppies, or dogs so how the heck did he know what they ate. Hence the reason he was asking. But, yeah. The stores were closed and well, humans would think some evil spirit or something was carrying money.

"Okay we'll ask Rose. And that's fine with me, but hey if he decides to oh I don't know. Wander off in the middle of the night, wanting to see you. Don't complain to me." After all she had played with him earlier too, even if Pupbo and him had formed some sort of bond. He glanced up to see the shine of the lights in the distance from the inn. Almost there and then finally he could relax.

"I would hate to just leave him behind. But they journey we're on, is dangerous. I don't want Pupbo to get hurt. At the same time I really do want to bring him with us."

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Ah, so he is human. That’s kind of disappointing, but not surprising in the slightest for her. His talk about the Abyss is new, though. ❛  Depends on what the ‘Abyss’ is. From the name alone, it’s obvious that it’s not your average happy, sunshine-y place. If you’re ‘more than human,’ then I guess you’ve ranked up to ‘superhuman’ or something.  ❜ Well, being a seraph, it’s not like she can talk anyway. 

She rolls her eyes again. Making a remark about how he was the one who started it first with that offending ‘mad’ comment would only prove his ( stupid ) point, so Edna decidedly stays quiet for a bit, listening to the lull of the fire burning. She’s not a conversationalist at heart, but a conversation would’ve been nicer than listening to the crickets chirping in such a dreary location like this. It’s not the first time she’s stumbled across abandoned towns when she still journeyed with Sorey, but at least it was tolerable because of the company. 

❛  You look like you’re using your brain way too hard,  ❜ she eventually says in the silence, stretching her legs. Yep, this is getting boring. Taking her umbrella, she idly pokes the tip into the ground a few times to entertain herself. ❛  The opposite of ‘resting.’ You’re the first human I’ve seen who can sit perfectly still like a statue. What’s even worth thinking so hard about anyway?  ❜

Humans and their overthinking, really. She’s seen too much of it by now——but unlike Sorey and Alisha who overthink out of worry, or even Rose who overthinks because thinking is hard to do for her, this guy is just … thinking. 

It almost seemed like, at this point, he was growing used to the accusation.

"Unfortunately for you, I wasn't born anything other than human. So maybe your former guess is more on point." But, at the very least, he knew now what she was. A seraph? All he can figure is it must be something spiritual, or otherwise supernatural. A sight that he's more than familiar with at this point in his life.

"But, I've managed to destroy enough creatures of the Abyss. Maybe I am more than human at this point? I can't say I care all that much." At the very least, that's not his actual interest. At least, it hasn't become his interest, anyway.

"...You know what? Forget it. This argument isn't meaningful for either of us." It seems he's fallen silent, just looking to restore the peace that was woefully interrupted by his provocation. It's the best he can do diplomatically.

It's very clear something else was on his mind, anyway. Mainly, what happened that caused this house (and the entire town, for that matter) to become abandoned.

If he hadn't have been late...

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“I’m here. I wouldn’t go away. I’m always here.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

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His answer was immediate, so that’s how she knows she made the right choice to recruit him. ❛  Okay, this one then.  ❜ The white one is already discarded back on its rack. It was certainly cute to her, but it’d be too heavy to wear the whole day. Besides, yellow is the key to success in her completely unbiased-but-is-actually-very-biased-but-no-one-needs-to-know-that opinion. 

Edna is perking up at the mention of lace. ❛  It definitely needs something green, so let’s go with that too. I was thinking about wearing a green hairband, but I don’t want to be too green.  ❜ Oh, but a lace shawl … Lace is a must-have for her, so she can sacrifice a hairband for a cute shawl. Wrist cuffs seem cute too, but … 

She eyes a shelf nearby. There are hairbands, bracelets, and even hair bows with flowers or lace that she sort of likes because they remind her of ribbons—— 

Wait. That’s it! 

❛  Sure, but do you have anything with ribbons? I like ribbons the most. They’re the number one accessory a lady should have that automatically makes everything 50% cuter.  ❜ Perhaps something like a ribbon hairband? Or even a ribbon bracelet? Surely he must have a lot of this stuff already.

"In that case, go for the cute yellow one!" Ramuda points to the dress in Edna's right hand without hesitation, mind clearly made up. "It'll suit you super well, and you can pair it with loooots of cute clothes and accessories!"

The white dress is also charming, but that amount of pure white? The vibes just scream special occasions, and it's more limited in accessory pairing exactly because of that!

But more importantly, he has a feeling that Edna will enjoy wearing the yellow dress more. Call that his fashion designer instincts!

"If dresses is what you want, I've got a bunch with shorter skirts! But for this dress... we can try accessorizing it with a lace shawl! Maybe a green one if you want more color in your outfit? Wrist cuffs can be another option too! Hats or headbands too, if you like wearing those. And that's not even talking about any jewelry, but any that I've got that I don't mind giving away are the handmade ones..."

Whoops, he's rambling! "Tell you what, I can get some of my extra stuff to see what you like!"