Relationship Meme: Live From the Barns at Wolf Trap

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A small, intimate relationship meme, not intended for your bigger arena-level relationship meme audiences. One not advertised on the comm (yet), in other words--I'm ripping off Tomo's format here a little, though in my case the motivation is mainly laziness. |D HIMEKO-FOCUSED RELATIONSHIP MEME though yeah if anything of note's happened with any

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Hay hay~ SO as I was just saying over at your post, Himeko really likes Tomo. Part of this, of course, is because Himeko pretty much defaults to liking EVERYBODY. XD She's incredibly friendly and positive by nature. But another part of it is--Tomo doesn't question a lot of things that Himeko takes much for granted, like...randomly transforming and having red letters floating above her head and stuff like that. XD That's just reality where Himeko comes from, and when people look at her funny about it, she's not sure how to react because, WTF, that's all she knows. So Tomo being able to swallow all of that makes her easier for Himeko to deal with (not that people not swallowing it ever bothers Himeko for long, but still).

The fact that Tomo does question some of Himeko's, er, habits doesn't really bother her, because, again, it's familiar--Becky yells at her for getting inappropriate all the time, and I think almost all her friends back home (especially Miyako and Rei) have commented on/been weirded out by the crab obsession. So when Tomo does that, it helps Himeko file her away as...well, I hate to say it, but Someone From Home. XD Himeko's grasp of alternate reality is VERY thin. She's probably come across it in manga, but she doesn't have the mental capacity to really apply the concept to her life and her world. These other people (especially the ones she recognizes as manga characters) don't really hit her as being from other universes or anything because she just doesn't understand how those universes could exist. This is all compounded by the fact that Himeko is at least semi-aware (probably more subconsciously than anything else) that she herself is fictional. PPD! breaks the fourth wall a LOT. You know, I should really essay on that someday.