[Week 11] [Day 5] Some boys take a beautiful girl / and hide her away from the rest of the world

[in_starvation]

Who: Jessica Hamby, Dokuro Chrome, Asano Rin, Lenalee Lee
Status: Closed
Style: Action
Where: Raisato
When: Week 11, Day 5, After Dark [Backdated]
Rating: Who the hell knows in this log.
Warnings: None. I think.

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[fakeorgans]

[ Alternatively, Chrome has never been what you could call a social butterfly, to say the least. Thirteen years and her mother condemned her to death for failing to make a single meaningful connection with another human being? Yes, one could call that a failure at being social. The trouble with being social is that opening yourself to others opens yourself to the possibility of rejection. And it's a vicious cycle: the less you socialize, the more poorly socialized you are, which in turn leads to clumsy attempts, which lead to strange looks, which make you recoil again. So this was Chrome's life. At least the first half.

You might say that the next ten years had been a gradual de-thaw. Mukuro's unwavering, non-judgmental and absolute acceptance (whether he had been doing it to serve his own ends or not, and she's not naive enough to suppose that hadn't been a factor), Boss's kindness, the girls -- the boys, eventually, in their own different, awkward, dorky ways. Each little piece has meant something to her. Has emboldened her a little.

But it's still. Difficult. She still feels like a stranger in her skin at times like this. As if there are little nuggets of personality within the shell of herself which Chrome does not quite feel free enough to express. She can't talk about her past, and she is in no mood to dwell on her future. So: small talk. The bane of Nagi's existence.

Or at least it used to be.

Maybe it's not so bad. Not anymore. ]

Lenalee-san and Rin-san should be here, soon.

Do you know what you want to buy?