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This Will Be My Monument by @sister-dear is one of my #1 go to fics when I am sad. It’s a little more popular so y’all’ve probably read this one already but I think after contributing 25% of the page views I owed a lil piece of art.
#like seriously though#this fic is like a hug except it’s made out of words#thank you so much for writing this#I’m so glad to have found it#it’s like a little life jacket#it helps me to start floating again#<3 <3 <3#can’t really go wrong with any of sister dears fics tbh#linkeduniverse#linked universe#fan joy july#FanJoyJuly#fic rec#my art
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sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.
#there is a direct throughline from the boy we meet in robin 121 all the way to man tim reconnects with in urban legends 4#like maybe you guys have other interpretations of it but to me this is *the* defining moment in his life#and that's not to say that he perpetually bound to this traumatic event but it impacted him sooo much that his life is now divided#before shooting and after shooting#like you cannot tell me him falling into the cult was just something that happened to him#it happened bc he was in such a bad place from watching his friend die and then on top of that he loses contact with tim!!!!#this is his canon event!!!!#if you took it away from him if you made it so that he never had to go through it#the bernard we would get would not be the same bernard we got in urb leg4 and tdr#does it not make you want to chew on drywall that to get to the bear we love he has watch his darla die first????#head in hands head in hands#and it wasnt like batman came immediately after darls died!!! iirc they had to wait a little before he came#which means!!!!! alll those kids but bear esp had to sit in that room with darls' dead body until batman came!!!!!#do you think he cried and held her hand until batman came??? do you think he begged her not to go??? or do you think he told her#stories and made promises of all the things they were gonna do after they got out??? do you think he put pressure on the wound and#watched as the blood soaked through the jacket they were using as a towel??? and when she finally passed do you think he bit his lip#clean through to stop himself from wailing? bc if he's too loud the gunmen will hear them and he cannot be the reason jay from#history dies#auuuugh i cant fucking do this anymore#bernard dowd#timbern#darla aquista#louis grieve trio
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who else up haunted by the spirit of venture bros season 8
#i have been fighting for my life for like an hour plus trying to figure out future hank designs#i like to think that ventech is just back at the compound for a while after the movie#thus hank is hanging out with dermott more again and his whole military vibe#and he Must have a cool jacket. come on there's a whole song abt it#and d's whole thing is being a little bit more s1 hank-coded in clothing after wearing his neckerchief in the movie#+ them connecting again after the movie and maybe being stupid best friends again. getting there at least.#this is the beginning of the dawn era too. but only in private. she will get there.#anyways#hank venture#dean venture#vbros#dawn venture
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id jump for the beef
#parkour civilization#evbo#minecraft#minecraft art#i am SO not used to little tags#i am so unsure if theres other tags i gotta put bruh...#i only finished the first movie so far and its 1 am rn#ill probably watch the second one tomorrow if im not busy!!!!!!!!!!!#yes evbo lets dismantle the upper class#drew this while i was watching at teh same time ough i felt like i awas hving the time of my life#I thought he was wearing a jacket. im so sorry evbo fans#theres just something up with me and giving everybody stubbles too
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Industrial Grade Back Massage
#toontown#chip revvington#chainsaw consultant#corporateclash#corporate clash#toontown corporate clash#toontowncorporateclash#ttcc#perry winkles#my art#“they are so roger and jessica to me but traumatized” ~ one of my friends#also sorry for shirtless chip he didn't want to get his jacket or undershirt messed up#he clearly likes it!#in all seriousness this only works because of the context its being used for massaging#cartoon logic baybee!!!#also yeah he's very scratched up. lotsa little nicks in his shell. gotta buff them out for him <3#he's absolutely blissed out btw. lost in the sauce. having the time of his life.#perry could be doing better though. ey will do anything for eir zucchini but the world is rapidly vibrating at the moment#cherry
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bestfriendsforever
#every second of my life i try to draw kyles jacket like its made of puffy windbreaker material and stans like its soft & knit#and then by the time im coloring and shading i giiiiiiive up ^_^ fuck different fabric textures#south park#sp style#stan marsh#kyle broflovski#a cat can draw#yea btw little known fact abt me is i have to draw style constantly or ill die real bad. i was cursed by a wizard
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the pivotal points in bat’s past 🤔
kuukou
age ????- his best friend moved away
age 14: attained a higher level of asceticism than his father, met hitoya who helped clear an assault charge on some good will that went awry
age 15: left home to flex his talent, got humbled quick lol but met ichiro and vowed to grow stronger
jyushi:
age ???? (presumably 6)- received amanda from his grandmother
age 13- started middle school where he ‘befriends’ iyogi
age 14- has been a victim of bullying for a year and the bullying escalated to the point his grandmother was killed. met hitoya who made sure iyogi ain’t seeing the light ever again and a little later helped jyushi find the will to keep living
hitoya
age 14- loses his brother
age 23- upon receiving a tip, he decided to change majors from being a doctor to a lawyer in order to jail the guy that bullied his brother. broke up with jakurai after a disagreement
age 31- meets kuukou and jyushi for the first time and we see the fruits of his lawyer efforts
#vee queued to fill the void#i was thinking about how to define kuukou’s periods thru his jackets again lol and while thinking about that earliest dragon sukajan#decided to see bat all had three pivotal moments in their lives that led to the present lol#it’s something i like to think all the characters have but i haven’t put much thought into lol#(i also think the leaders have four points but that’s not what this is about lol)#*head in hands* but i desperately want to talk about kuukou’s clothes and the eras of his life it represents lol#i can’t remember if i actually did that yet or not (surely i didn’t think of the entire post just to not make it lmao………)#but i wouldn’t be surprised if the dragon and the darker colours were very symbolic of kuukou’s violence#and that earliest sukajan we see him with is a scene that’s just the tip of the iceberg lol#ichiro ‘lost’ his parents (esp his mom) around that age it looks like and nemu lost her parents (her mom the actual parent) at 7#so my guess is that he was 7 when whatever went down with mama harai for the sake of parallels lol#bat all have important events at the age of 14 so coincidental stuff like that are a thing lol#it’s by that logic i think jyushi was 6 when he received amanda lol jyushi and kuukou have pivotal moments in the same year#but just have their age gap#but in reality lmao jyushi was nervous about starting school hence the gift#and you start elementary school in jp at 6 LOL#jyushi’s bday being so early in the school year makes it a little difficult to gauge how long he’d been bullied for#but i’ll trust hypmic means he rly did get bullied for a year by his intro chapter lol
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some rapo girlies 💖
#digital art#dtl#drawn to life#dtl:iolani#dtl:constance#i thiiink... iolanis dad was the main engineer on the gj's space elevator project. she maintains it now and keeps it running#and constance is one of those gals who struggles a little in social situations so she buries herself in books#she got frustrated with bad lit so she started writing her own and is fairly popular#i think most raposa dont wear pants unless its like ppe for things like mining or biohazard work#the gj is a little innovative in that way. this is the equivalent of wearing a cropped firemans jacket but w/o the cancer risk#something similar is going on in watersong with the long frilly dresses. most dresses dont usually go much further below the knees#but watersong residents like the length bc the dresses are fluffier with it and theyre all about that#fine and good au
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Aren't Draluc's suits like, canonically custom-tailored? Why tf does he wear sleeve garters when he's not cooking?
Just for the drama???
#i got high and realized 'wait wtf are those things for' and fell down a little wikepedia rabbit hole don't worry about it#apparently in the 19th century sleeves were just all made on the longer side so sleeve garters were used to hold them up at the right lengt#meaning. practical use for rolling up sleeves when cooking but not for. daily life#so like. for the drama right?#but now i'm also wondering like. if they were introduced in the late 1800s when did the dragon clan all adopt them into their fashion sense#somehow i doubt a bunch of immortal vampires are super on top of fashion trends#unless grandpa one day was like 'hey i think these things are cool. let's all wear them.'#it's kinda hard to tell if anyone else wears them tho bc (as far as i can remember) draluc's the only one we see take off his jacket 🤔#he could just be a dramatic bitch. because i mean. he is#no one is gonna read these autistic fucking ramblings in the notes of this post lmaoooo there's a reason i tag my texts posts the way i do#tvdint#stacky ramblings#the vampire dies in no time
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Thought I’d just remind you what I looked like
#me#self#selfie#this is a little old tbf#the blonde is now pink#I took some photos at the pumpkin patch#but I look like a drowned rat#it absolutely pissed it down on us#never in my life have I felt so beytrayed by the weather forecast#was wearing a denim jacket and all
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Gonna be hard to complete the Zodiac without this guy, ey, Sixer?
#( more of the evil stan au... except i decided that there are two routes this could take.#( either stan is actually evil or he is playing the long game. and is like hey im going to finish what this idiot brother of mine started#( and pretends to be will bill just for the satisfaction of punching stanford in the face one time.#( i think its the least that he deserves yknow?#( i mean 'getting rid of bill' as 'finishing what ford started'#( is it an elaborate plan that might not even work? yes.#( also the zodiac on the eyepatch thing wasnt my idea but i thought it was cool so i am using it too. but i didnt come up with it#( stan with facial hair.... hey bb#( jk#( anyway. little brother's plan to sock you in the face and save the world at the same time is a go :-)#( also the burn on the back is like. on his jacket too. as a reminder#(bc life is cruel ig
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Nico being meow meow about the height difference 😂
#enjoy this little gif as I comb through the vlog to see what I’m actually giffing 😂#electric callboy#nico sallach#kevin ratajczak#kevnico#kevnicogifs#ecgifs#mine#fuck#Kevin looks so fucking hot 😩😩😩😩😩#Nico heightened the meow meow factor with his tiger jacket 😂😂😂😂#Nico: I don’t like cats#also Nico: lives a themed feline life 😂
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Snoopy #33
3/11/2024
#peanuts#snoopy#art#33#music#PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG THE CHORUS IS SOOO GOOD!!!!#the visual composition of this piece is kinda ass ngl. like it's just random stuff all over the place but oh well!#wired headphones because i'm a HATER of the wireless headphones revolution that has been going on for the last like 6-8 years or so#anyway i'm obsessed with this song#and it's maybeeee lowkey relevant to my life rn 👀#guy offering me a ride home despite me living out of his way = one of many dominoes in a chain of events that will probably lead to a crush#eventually... if not right now#idk i'm insane and a loser so i could slow burn for years but i am trying not to waste other people's time with my shenanigans anymore#so into another outlet these feelings must go!#how did CRJ manage to capture so perfectly how i felt in the car in 4 simple little lines... megabrained genius behaviour i have to say!#also that car ride home was a few months ago and i didn't discover this song until afterwards (despite this album being 9 years old lol)#so how i felt in the car was Not at all influenced by any pre-existing knowledge of this song#or any desire to shape the events of my life to fit the emotions of the song for the Plot or the Aesthetic or the Narrative or whatever#it just came into my life like a perfectly tailored jacket from a thrift store
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sometimes in the occasional verse leland is trans to me i hope that helps
#i will still never forget our friend pointing to the details on his midnight shirt pockets and going ‘his top scars!’#his silly little wrestling jackets give him dweeby tboy swag and i don’t need to elaborate#what is more important to me w him is just like. exploration of ~feminine associated empathy and sensitivity#his closeness w the women in his life and dealing w masculinity expectations while being just the prettiest dude in the room#anyway rae talking about small mean bf connie just making me go (: about the friends all being chill about sexuality and gender#his gender is prettyboy and babygirl and girlboyfriend and also malewife
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Oliver Warner┊HE IS THE GUY EVER
#animaniacs#animaniacs au#older warners#sharedinkau#the idea of Ollie being confused while pulling a mallet out of a gag bag amused me so much 💀🫶🏼#ALSO YAY!!! FELIX IS HERE!!! He was originally made to replace Felix the Cat but they decided to scrape the reboot so now hes just here 😒#LOOK AT THE LITTLE WARNER BROTHERS LOGO ON HIS JACKET OMG!!!! 💃💃✨️#Yakko gifted him the jacket a few days after he came to life#since Ollie was looking like a carbon copy of him 💀✌🏽 heres a jacket buddy ‼️‼️
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Me again! I am once again humbly requesting more of the family law au. Anything you wanna do with the story, I know anything you write will be amazing
Thena looked up as a small body plunked down onto the bench next to her. She looked back at the courtroom door, but the child had appeared from elsewhere. "Hello."
The child sniffled.
She looked around them, but court was in recess, currently. "Where is your guardian?"
The kid shrugged.
She could simply ignore the child. She wasn't a bailiff or authority, she was only in court to close a case of her own, it was signatures in front of the judge. But she recognised the deep hunch in her shoulders and the way her feet kicked idly hanging off the edge of the bench. "I know you have one. Kids aren't allowed to just walk into courtrooms alone."
The kid looked around; she couldn't have been older than twelve. "My parents are talking to a lawyer, but I left."
How did a kid walk out and no one noticed? Thena frowned, "who was watching you?"
"My dad's new wife."
Ah, an unwanted stepmother; Thena angled herself toward the young girl. "Hm, the lawyer speaking with your parents, is he...big?"
She looked up at Thena, her face betraying the vulnerability her body language was trying to hide. "Really big."
Thena couldn't help but smile. There was no more way effective way to describe Gil. "Trust me, he looks scary, but he's actually quite nice."
The girl looked back down at her lap again. "I dunno."
If her parents were speaking with Gil, it was some sort of family issue. Divorce - and to some extent, custody - was her specialty, but Gil handled plenty to do with family settlements and custody issues. He didn't always get to see families on their best day.
Thena rethought her approach. She undid her suit jacket and put her arm up on the back of the bench. "My youngest sister is around your age. She also hates talking."
The girl giggled, just a little. "I don't hate talking."
"Well," Thena paused and shrugged strategically. "Tell me why you're here today."
The kid sighed, seeming even more like Sprite. "My dad's new wife wants us to stay at their new house for his weekends with us. But it's really far away, and they only have one bedroom for me and my sister to share."
As much as she was listening to the child, her mind couldn't help but think that - professionally speaking - it didn't sound suitable for at least one preteen, if not two. "Are you parents discussing this now?--where you and your sister should go, that is?"
She nodded, sniffling again. "They got a little nicer with each other after the divorce. But now all they're doing is yelling again."
Thena bobbed her head slowly to show her understanding. The poor child had been through this already and was now reliving the struggle of an ugly custody hearing. "And do you remember what they were saying?"
The girl made a face, scrunching her small features. "I had to go with my dad's new wife when they started yelling. My sister is still in there, though. They were talking about 'confidence' or something."
So, the sister was older. Even more of a reason that the girls sharing a room would be unfavourable. "Competence--it means they want to know who's the better parent."
She looked up at Thena again, even sadder than before. "I like both my parents. I just don't wanna live an hour away every weekend!"
"Okay, okay, all right, sh," Thena attempted to comfort the girl (which had never been her specialty). She patted her back as the poor thing loudly hiccuped and sniffled up her excess snot. "Can I tell you something?"
Children enjoyed knowing secrets.
The girl nodded.
Thena sighed. It went against all her personal rules against disclosing her personal life, family situation, getting close with people in a professional setting. But she sucked it up, as Sprite would say. "I've had to prove my competence before, when I signed up to take care of my sisters."
"You take care of your sisters?" she asked, although she didn't seem so incredibly astounded.
"One is 16, although it feels like she's turning 20," Thena laughed faintly, and at least the girl smiled. It was the kind of thing a parent would say, much to her dread. But she continued. "I told you the other is around your age, she just turned 13 in the spring."
"How old are you?"
She ignored that question. "I had to prove I could take care of them, like a parent would, although I didn't really know how. But do you know what helped?"
She shook her head.
"Hearing from them," Thena said more gently. It seemed a revelation to the girl that someone might listen to her. "They said they wanted to stay with me. That I would take good care of them, and I swore I would. And I've tried my best, even if I'm not perfect. I get things wrong sometimes, like getting them to school late or forgetting about projects they have."
"What do you do?"
"I try again," she shrugged, and if anything the girl seemed to appreciate her honesty. "Because someone who's going to look after you only wants what's best for you. What's important is if you're safe, and taken care of and comfortable. If you're happy, and doing well in school, or with your friends. The person who's going to take care of you will care about that even if it means you're far away."
Something seemed to dawn on the girl. Although Thena didn't want to sway her opinion any, it would seem her assumption that the husband was not doing his due diligence was correct. Or perhaps the wife was pushing too hard for her new role in his children's lives. Either way, if the girls were best off with their mother, it was more than clear to the client, now.
"Thanks," she smiled at Thena, her shoulders un-hunching faintly. "I'll tell my sister that."
Perhaps the older one could communicate that to the parents. It sounded like the parents were a few precarious steps away from hiring individual lawyers for each of their sides as opposed to using one. But Thena regarded the girl, labelling her 'her client' in her mind. And it was her job to keep her client's best interest at heart.
"There you are!"
Thena looked up, catching Gil jogging over to them. She stood out of habit, holding her coat over her arm. "Mister Gilgamesh."
"Hey," he smiled at her before looking down at the girl. "What's the deal, we turned around and you were gone."
The mother and father immediately began berating the daughter for running off. Thena caught Gil's eye aside from the family. She leaned closer, "my client has some concerns about the pending custody battle."
"Oh," Gil blinked, looking from the girl and back to her. He smiled, showing off the charming and warm temperament that made him so popular, especially with families. "She does, does she?"
They drifted further from the family having their own discussion. Thena eyed Gil, who looked both exhausted and also a whole pot of coffee deep. "How is it?"
He angled himself closer to her and away from the family. "It's getting ugly, and I don't know what I can do to stop it. They're ready to hire their own custody lawyers."
Thena also peeked over at them cautiously. The girl was accepting her berating, although when the father's wife appeared over his shoulder she looked away, taking on a more defensive stance again. She really did remind her of Sprite. "Let the girls talk."
"What?"
She shifted on her feet. It was Gil's case, and she had no real right to get involved, even if it did cross into her expertise. She whispered, "let the girls speak. If nothing else, it should sway the parents enough for them to come to a decision."
Gil made a face, crossing his arms. It pulled his suit jacket to the point of strain; ridiculously thick arms, he had. "Or it could be the drop that makes the dam burst."
Thena shook her head though. "It won't. Those girls know the best place for themselves, and I believe the parents do too. Let the girls state what they want. The parents will respond to their needs and settle."
He gave her a peculiar look, and she couldn't fault him for it. She usually didn't offer personal perspectives on cases. She worked solely and completely on evidence, maybe sometimes on how a judge might regard something. But she didn't give personal opinions. "How do you know?"
Thena looked at the family again. The father patted both his daughters on the shoulder as the bailiff ushered them back to where they had been discussing things during the recess. She looked at Gil. "I just do."
Gil didn't look at the family again. He focused entirely on her, unfolding his arms, slipping his hands into his pockets and raising an eyebrow slightly. But he nodded, "okay."
"That's it?"
He shrugged, furthering the rumpling of his suit, entirely by his own doing. "I trust you. If you say the family will settle, I believe you. I'll ask for the kids to talk."
She smiled, genuinely relieved at the idea of the young girl's feelings being heard. Maybe there was something to how Gil made all of his cases personal. "I think it will be best for everyone."
"So, uh," Gil finally did just barely glance over his shoulder as they started walking back as well. "What'd you say to her?"
Thena pursed her lips. "Not much of anything, truly. The girl is quite competent for her age. All she needs is to be heard."
Gil chuckled.
"What?"
"Nothing," he laughed now, furthering her scrutiny. He shrugged, "you're great with kids, which I guess I should have expected."
"I would not say that."
"You just demonstrated it."
"You didn't see it happen."
"You literally have kids."
"I am not a mother," she argued, and it was true, even as a defense of herself. "She's around Sprite's age, and I recall when Sprite first got into her phase of wanting to shout at the world but not wanting anyone to look at her, either."
"See?" Gil gesticulated with his hand before rolling his shoulders to correct his suit jacket (it did not). "You're a natural."
That was not what the courts thought when she was going through her own proceedings a matter of years ago. But she smiled, giving his poor suit jacket a tug here and there to get it to sit right on him again. Why was he so ridiculously well built for a family lawyer? "Your clients await."
He gave her a more grateful smile as she brushed her hand over his lapel. "Thanks--hey, I'll make sure your client gets her fair say."
She waved him off as he went back to his meeting, and then the proceeding hearing. Technically she didn't have any reason to linger--it wasn't her case. But she sat herself down on the bench outside of the main courtroom doors again, pulling out her phone.
Can I go see that new gangster movie with sersi and her friends?
She would never understand Sprite's obsession with foreign, violent gangster action comedies. But she sighed. She had been poised to say no, that she would pick them up from their free roaming at the mall (which she only allowed them when she had court dates anyway). But she resigned herself to her decision.
That's fine, I'm still at court anyway. But don't stuff yourself on movie snacks, you still have to eat at home
With that, she slipped her phone away again, staring ahead at the elevators opposite her bench of solitude. It was silly to wait. She could ask Gil about it later if she was so concerned. It was inappropriate. It wasn't her case.
Then she would think of how Sprite had tearily asked if she and Sersi would be put in some stranger's house. She would think of that little girl who had sat right down next to her, and she thought of Gil, nervously pacing outside before even she had arrived for her earlier hearing time. He had been poring over this case all week.
Maybe she should do something for him if the case went well--and if it didn't go well, in all honesty.
Thanks thee btw can gil come and cook again it was soooo good
Thena swiped the notification away, decidedly ignoring the leading question. It was nothing but entrapment; as sweet as it was that her sisters had grown a fondness for Gilgamesh, she didn't need them reading too much into her relationship with her colleague.
No matter how amazing his lasagne was, and how often she had thought about it in the past week.
#Thenamesh Family Law AU#thank you so much honey!#I love this au!!!!#Thena opening up a little#showing a soft side#helping out Gil before she even knows it#she does not like talking about her personal life#she does not mention that she literally has two kids at home#she always denies that she's a parent in any way#still says she had no maternal instinct whatsoever#also Thena: *sees an unattended child*#Thena: this isn't right#and she noticed Gil and gave him a little smile#she actually notices Gil a lot#he doesn't think she does but#when you read through the first instalment all her descriptions of him kind of state#like she's not noticing him for the first time#she knows he looks big and tough#btu he's a sweetie#she knows he gets really personally invested in cases because he has a big heart#and she knows that weighs on him sometimes#anyway she does wait there and feels foolish for it#but the family leaves the courtroom smiling and even laughing#and she's relieved#y'know for her client of course#Gil breathes a huge sigh of relief#he rips his suit jacket off and thanks her as they walk out together#Thena once again wonders how this man buys suits but says it's nothing
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