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HEY NERDS I'm horribly indecisive over which character(s) to play from this cute game, so call out a character out of these three in the subject line and let's thread! You can choose a prompt or I can come up with one. Cross-Tales/cross-canon CR is totally fine too. (As a note, I'm also still clearing out sidequest content beyond the main story/future arc, so apologies in advance if there's still gaps in my canon knowledge!)

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suuuure she doesn't

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[Asbel's timekeeping might leave something to be desired compared to Cheria, but he'd finally got it through his head (well, with a little prompting from Sophie) that Cheria was really looking forward to this from the hints she'd dropped in her letters, and that he absolutely needed to come and spend time with her. He's nervous, but he wants to stop disappointing her, too, so he has to push down the butterflies in his stomach and head down to the harbour where they agreed to meet.

He's turning over and over in his head the best way to say hi to her or what to do or how to act, and truth be told, he... can't really think of anything. Maybe he should have given more thought to this instead of showing up and expecting to act like his usual self when things are -- different, now? This stuff is hard.

Either way, that particular worry is cast aside when he sees her looking dejected. Oh no... Did something happen? He hurries over.]

Um... Cheria? Is everything okay?

[He blurts it out before he can think of anything better to say, and feels himself blushing a little already. So smooth.]

lies

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[Look at her life. Look at her choices.

Cheria has no time for blushing, since her steady decline into despair is interrupted by Asbel's arrival. His late arrival. She looks up - she could say it was fine, he's here now, it doesn't matter, but-]

Yes! No! [Everything is not okay!!] Where have you been?!

[One second, dejected. The next, loud enough to scare a flock of birds. And attract the attention of everyone else on the dock, who cease their activities. Now she's wrongly accusing him and embarassed by the attention. Why does this always happen? Why can't she be straight with him?! Way to go, Cheria!]

I mean! Um! It's just... [mumble mumble] ...I've been here a while - [wait] n-not for ages! Just a while! [wait that was loud back to private conversation voice] And you weren't here, and I thought you'd forgotten...

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[Asbel's expression falls. Then Cheria raising her voice, and people stopping to stare, makes him wince with embarrassment. An elderly woman nearby starts to complain that young men these days have no idea how to treat girls, and how dare he stand her up like that, and don't they have any shame?

Asbel's blushing as red as his hair at this point, rubbing the back of his neck nervously and looking back at Cheria. Telling her to calm down would just make things worse, so he's relieved when she quietens down a little.]

I-I'm really sorry I kept you waiting, but I promise I didn't forget.

[Augh, maybe he should have gotten her a gift or something to make up for it? Why is he so bad at this!]

And I'm here now, so um... [He swallows, and tries to clamp down on his nerves.] Thanks for waiting for me.