zerotohiro | Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

...thanks Baymax.

I dont know!! I didnt do anything but it looks so disappointed in me and i didnt do anything!!

Maybe that's why it's disappointed. Sometimes Aunt Cass gives me that look when I don't help with the dishes.

[In this thread Hiro doesn't realize he's actually somewhat close to what the masks actually means.] You didn't tell me you went to see the fortune teller at the carnival. Did you get a fortune, too?

i did my chores :((( naoki is good at looking disapproving too

and yeah it was kind of an accident but i ended up in there. the cookie was good at least. hold on.

[a few minutes later, he'll get a picture sent of her fortune, "It takes more than good memory to have good memories."]

Remind me never to make him upset then. How do you accidentally end up in a fortune teller's tent? I didn't even know about it until Yu told me and when I went to find her she was gone. The fortune cookies were still there though.

[He's taking a look at the next picture.] What do you think that really means? I mean normally it'd just be a stupid piece of paper but it's Cerealia. Nothing's normal.

Ok. dont make naoki upset.

but i was trying to avoid people seeing me in that outfit and so i ducked into a tent and then there was the creepy fortune teller.

but i dunno i guess i sort of thought it meant that we should remember what happens here

...thanks Ruby. That's not exactly what I meant. Yeah...remembering everything here is a really important thing, especially if we don't know when they're gonna decide our code isn't compatible with the colony. Hey. What masks do Yang and Naoki have? Same ones?

ill remind you later too

naokis got bloody fingerprints on his, its really creepy. like really really creepy. and yangs has a barcode on it??? less creepy but also really weird

You're the best. Fingerprints??? Whose blood? Wait maybe I don't wanna know but that's...something.

[Give it a sec. Incoming photo of Hiro's mask with its own barcode starting to appear.]

You mean something like this?

beats me

its creepy but like... its not getting all over the house so????

maybe not real blood.

but yeah like that!! you two are mask twins!

What made you think it was blood anyway? As much as I like being mask twins with your sister we still don't really know what it means. I'll keep it in mind though. ...Ruby I need to tell you something kinda important about the mask though.

uh. huntress???

[she....definitely knows what blood looks like, Hiro, no matter how Disney pure their relationship is.]

but ok! whats up?

…oh yeah. That. That would do it. So…uh. Yu and I sort of dissected his mask the other day. Right after the carnival, he brought it to my shop and we cut it apart because we were looking for something. Didn't find what we were looking for but the thing put itself back together the next day. Looks pretty flawless except for one single crack. What do you make of that?

oh

that they dont like it when you break them???

the ghosts possessing the masks i mean. or. whatever it is thats possessing them. non-ghosts. whatever. they probably dont like it when you break their homes

Something like that. But I don't think it's ghosts possessing the masks. That'd be too easy after everything that just happened...I need to test some stuff. You think maybe this is like the library books?

i dunno.

when i think about it, dont those effects usually happen really fast??? but i havent seen anyone acting all weird or anything...

i wonder if its something else. but i dont really know what either so its kinda just a hunch

I need to talk to Yu. I'll let you know what I find out about anything but this is I'm not We're going to be prepared this time for whatever's going on. But I think you might be right.

breathe

its okay

even if its kind of creepy scary. we will handle it. really. promise.

weve got this, hiro!

[He doesn't answer for a few moments because he's taking her advice and just breathing to chill out for a sec.]

...we've totally got this <3

[A few minutes later:]

Ignore that, my hand slipped.

[...]

no

<3

i like it too much its cute

so i dont wanna ignore it

also you cant slip and hit the <3 keys i tried!!!

but they stack too so thats even better

<3333

...thats not too much is it

[.../INTERNAL SCREAMING.

Okay. Okay um. So. Yeah. Uh. He sort of took a chance with that one but she reciprocated just fine (and he thinks that maybe he shouldn't have worried so much about it) but there's a few moments of "Hiro Hamada is typing..." before he responds.]

...nah. Kinda seems like the right amount to me. And anyway there's this too <3 <33 <333 <3333 Kinda like a pyramid, and those things are solid. Did you know that in our world there's a pyramid that's like the oldest and largest in the whole world? It's one of the seven wonders and it's the only one that's still standing in pretty good shape.

[...Hiro what the fuck are you talking about. Maybe the point is just...that Ruby's a solid thing in his life and he appreciates that. But no. Let's just talk about pyramids instead.]

Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

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