1st (video)

[zippo]

Uh... hi.

[ there's a frown etched a little too deeply into his face. he'd tried rehearsing what to say earlier, but now that he's recording... he's forgotten everything he'd wanted to say. ]

My name is Tatsuya Suou. My... father... is Apollo? Is my mother still...? I mean, is my family really my family? [ he makes a face at that, but keeps going: ] This place doesn't even look like a camp.

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[zippo]

...

[ of course, tatsuya's first reaction is silence. stunned silence. he didn't know if he'd be here alone, or with friends, but the confirmation of seeing jun - in person, no less - is enough to give him some small degree of comfort. ]

Hi... Sorry I made you wait.

[watch]

[ is it that obvious jun had been waiting for awhile? in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't very long, but maybe that doesn't matter when you'd been so convinced you'd never have to be apart again. ]

That's okay. When did you get here? Are you alright?

[zippo]

[ tatsuya just figured that since jun got here first, then... no matter how long it was, he'd been waiting for tatsuya. even if it was only five minutes. ]

I'm fine... I got here today.

[ and then, after looking at jun's shirt: ]

I like the t-shirts.

[watch]

[ jun cracks a small smile and inches closer to him as he's wont to do. ]

They're... comfortable, at least. [ jun thinks they're tacky, of course, but. ] I'm sure they'll suit you just fine.

[ since they don't have much choice in the matter... ]

[zippo]

I thought...

[ he stops himself mid-sentence and makes one of his little half-expressions. it's almost a wince. ]

I was going to be alone.

[watch]

[ he shakes his head. ]

Only Lisa is missing now... and I'm sure she'll come along soon if the rest of us are here, right?

[ right? it doesn't seem like a leap in logic, even if it's a little overly hopeful. ]

Welcome to camp, Tatsuya. It's a little strange here... but I'm sure things will be better now.

[ by that he means tatsuya makes his experiences better by being near, of course ]

[zippo]

... Thanks.

[ he wants to ask about this weird new situation with their... fathers, but it can wait for another time. ]

Could I get the tour?

[watch]

[ jun nods and takes a deep breath. maya and eikichi will be happy too, of course! maybe they'll run into them while they're out for a walk. right now, jun isn't going to complain about getting a few minutes to themselves. because when has that happened, like, ever, in the past ten years? ]

You said your parent is Apollo? [ not surprising, but ] That means we're in separate cabins. Yours is over there. [ he points in the direction of apollo's cabin... ] And mine is that way.

[ it... is a lot less fancy than apollo's. bummer. ]

[zippo]

[ tatsuya looks in the direction of jun's cabin and feels a brief pang of disappointment. it would have been good to have his closest friend... closer. or something. sharing a cabin would have been fun. ]

Who's your, uh... parent?

[ and the followup look he gives jun silently asks if this situation is as weird - or weirder, he's guessing - for jun as it is for him. ]

[watch]

Hermes. No surprise there, I suppose...

[ he fidgets nervously. he probably doesn't have to tell tatsuya how much he doesn't like this, how much it bothers him that everything he knows has been repeatedly turned upside down over and over throughout his life and this time it seems like too much. no, his dad apparently becoming a megalomaniac god wasn't the last straw, but this totally is. ]

I don't think I believe it, actually. What proof is there...? It could all be a trick.

[zippo]

Hermes and Apollo...

[ would that make the two of them distantly related? he isn't sure how all the gods are connected to one another. ]

I don't know what I think. It's easier to keep doing things... meeting people... than to think about that stuff.

[watch]

[ jun gives that a minute of thought. of course he had always known hermes and apollo were half-brothers... but he'd never thought until now about what that meant for them. does that make them half-cousins?

...

oh come on, universe, you have to be fucking with him right now—is he seriously supposed to believe that the guy he has a big ol' crush on is now also his actual blood relative? that isn't fair. that's ridiculous! ]

That would make us cousins. Half-cousins. If it's true, anyway.

[ which it's obviously not, so he'll try to keep ignoring this for the sake of his sanity. there's no way this place is going to take away one of the few things he has left to make him happy—he doesn't have much else other than his beloved friends and his paltry awkward romance. ]

[zippo]

...

[ this is dumb. jun is kind of like a brother to him already... only not. he's not sure what the right word is to describe the one person that knows him best out of all his closest, dearest friends. ]

Forget it for now. Do you know your way around?

[ he's asking only partially because he's interested in a tour. what he's actually hoping is that the subject change will stop jun from thinking too hard about things. ]

[watch]

[ thanks for that, tatsuya. jun figures he should probably be more bothered by how little he cares about this revelation with respect to their strange relationship, but he doesn't really have time for that. he folds his hands in front of him and nods. ]

I don't think I've seen everything yet, but I do know where the important stuff is.

[ like food... ]

[zippo]

Like food?

[ tatsuya picks up on jun's meaning immediately. ]

That's good... I am hungry.

[watch]

I thought you might be.

I'll show you around.

[zippo]

[ that gets a real smile out of tatsuya. ]

Okay. Lead the way. And... tell me things.

[ such as what jun's been up to lately. ]

[watch]

[ jun leads the way, but gently steers them from tatsuya's side rather than actually walking ahead. it fits him better this way. ]

I've been trying to adjust to life here... and wondering when you and Lisa would arrive. I guess there's not much to tell... I don't make a very good "demigod".