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[drewthetower]

WHO: August and you
WHERE: Libra
WHEN: Good Friday
WHAT: Guess who's back
WARNINGS: August's mouth

[Hello Kaisou! Everyone's favorite tailor-tarot bird boy is back in Kaisou!

He looks so tired. Also his hair isn't really white right now, it's more blond. This was his coloring before the nonsense started, so he might have just died it back for a bit.]

I'm back, bitches.

[Miss him?]

For anyone who I didn't meet: August Villareal. Local tarot-reader, tailor, half-demon, and one half behind Cygnus before I went back to my hometown last year. For everyone I did meet: guess you can't get rid of me that easy.

[He runs a hand through his hair.]

I'm back, like I said, but I'm under several advisories to uh. Not do half as much as I did before. I'm still doing tarot, obviously, and tailoring but I probably won't be doing much at Cygnus for a while. Turns out I was burnt the fuck out and I'm still sort of recovering.

[Okay. On to the next thing.]

And if anyone has any ability to sense magic or whatever and you get weird pings from me, that is not the half-demon thing. Probably. [He sighs.] That would be the actual demon that took up residence when my powers backfired a few months ago. It's fine, we're chill, it's like having a dad living in my head which is weird but only because I didn't have a dad growing up.

[Anything else...

A shadow familiar in the shape of a raven lands on August's head.]

Oh yeah. If anyone wants to make a raven-sized knife and sheath, Julian lost his and he's been sulking since.

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[whiteshroud]

Let's see.... [Counting with his fingers] Ana, Haru, Ash, Luke, and Zephyr showed up this week.

So five.

[drewthetower]

...Jun, I think you're collecting siblings like I collect cousins.

[whiteshroud]

[He snorts]

Please, it's not that bad yet.

[The waiter will come by, and Jun will order himself a salmon burger with fries and a soda. Once they're gone...]

Honestly, at first I thought Zeph might've been a cousin of yours, since he was looking for family and was more French than I remembered him.

[drewthetower]

[Regular burger for August and double the fries since Julian.]

Hey, are you implying I'm related to every French person in the city--

[whiteshroud]

[He snorts]

Aren't you?

[drewthetower]

I have zero relation to Furina or Wriothesley, if they're still around.

[whiteshroud]

Ah, but they're Fontainian! It's French-like, but not french.

[drewthetower]

I'm just saying! They're French enough!

[whiteshroud]

The fact that you had to use isekais as your counterpoint speaks volumes.

[drewthetower]

They're just the only ones I know in the city anymore.

[Their drinks arrive and August takes a sip of his.]

Besides, Marianne has like, two or three ways I could have cousins. Cat has a lot more, and two of them are, actually, on the damn app.

[whiteshroud]

Still.

[He'll take his own drink with a polite smile, taking a sip]

Two? Rika and...?

[drewthetower]

He said to call him Lighter. Honestly, he might just be Rika's cousin, technically, I didn't ask for the family tree, but if he's Rika's cousin he's my cousin.

[Adoption papers are already signed and everything.]

[whiteshroud]

... Lighter? Really?

[He blinks]

First my brother and now this. My old camp counselor gets around.

[drewthetower]

...huh?

[Jun what are you talking about?]

[whiteshroud]

[He shrugs]

Lighter worked at a summer camp my dad sent me to when I was a kid. Then it turned out he shares a past life with one of my siblings. And now he's your cousin.

Just a little weird how often his name is popping up.

[drewthetower]

Oh. You made it sound like he was, y'know, sleeping his way around the city and I was very confused.

[whiteshroud]

Oh- no I don't know anything about his sexual activity. That's not really my business to ask, you know?

Though... I did hear an interesting theory. Have you noticed how similar he looks to Wolfwood?

[drewthetower]

[. . .

August pulls out his phone, navigating to Wolfwood's account and looking at his icon.

Then he goes to Lighter's.]

What the fuck, yeah.

[whiteshroud]

[Jun will nod]

It's uncanny. And not only that, he's got some similarities to Wriothesley too. They're even both boxers.

What if... Lighter's parents are versions of those two born in this world?

[drewthetower]

[August, for a moment, debates pointing out that they're both guys.

And then he remembers the fucking WoLs and decides that probably does not matter.]

I need to ask Rika if she knows his parents. Or ask him about them, I guess.

[whiteshroud]

[Thats' right. The WoLs are proof that reincarnation sometimes does some crazy shit. Like change your gender.... or make you cat person. ]

Haha, let me know what you find out.