✨✨✨✨🪼FREE THERAPY 🪼✨✨✨✨

[mooninthewater]

Who: Mizuki & you
What: "Rubie, stop making logs for everything, idiot" make me. Anyway come get y'alls therapy.
When: Yeah
Where: The beach/Notebook
Warnings: Will be in titles when it comes up.

I. Notebook Post

Hello, friends!

I've set up a private tent on the beach away from all the festivities and such for any therapy sessions you might require while we're here, since the therapy building cannot be accessed currently. If you don't mind, I set up a little table with a mental health questionnaire on the table nearby. There's a lockbox I put inside the tent where you can leave them, or if you're not comfortable with that you can always turn them in to me personally. I can assure you I won't let anyone else read your answers.

If you have any questions that are personal, you can come see me, just let me know. Any general questions can be asked here, though!

II. Therapy tent

[ As Mizuki said, there's a tent! There's an eye catching "FREE THERAPY" sign above it. Anyone is welcome inside. Mizuki tries to be around as much as possible, and if he sees you going inside when he's out of it, he'll gladly wiggle into the tent himself and sit down with whoever is inside with a smile. ]

[ And Mizuki will be bothering specific people with posts below. This is a threat. :) ]

Comments

[livlaughlove]

[...]

I guess we don't agree. On either point. Learning someone's habits and patterns is easy. Taking care of them and keeping them happy is complicated.

Not just Vash. Anyone.

[mooninthewater]

Ehe, you think so??? [ He's literally giving you therapy right now to try and help make you happy, Livio. Does he think it's complicated? A little, sure, but... ] I like to think that it's not actually that complicated at all to make people happy. To alleviate their worries and make sure their emotional state is in check.

They just have to want that.

[ :)! ]

[livlaughlove]

I mean... Everybody has their own experiences and thoughts. What's fine for someone might upset someone else. Their other relationships might influence how they feel about you. You have to change yourself in small ways to fit with one person to the next. And sometimes, nothing you can do will alleviate those worries for them.

I'm not... saying it isn't worth it. Just that it's... a lot harder than just... turning off, I guess.

[yeah, that hint is flying right over his head.]

[mooninthewater]

[ Just up and right over his head, huh? An impressive feat, considering how tall Livio is. ]

Mmh… I guess so? I don’t… really know what “off” is like, though. Is it… dissociative? When do you most feel like turning “off”?

[livlaughlove]

[... ugh. well, mizuki is... maybe? unlikely to judge him?]

A large part of my training was -- emotional repression. I'm sure you can imagine, it makes for a more efficient assassin.

[mooninthewater]

[ More than just "unlikely to judge", he gets it. Assassin buddies, y'know? Or "mercenary", but for Mizuki's more assassin-like way of taking targets out, it was functionally the same thing.

That said, though, Mizuki ends up just looking up at Livio, from a slightly awkward angle given his position, but squeezes his hands, anyway. ]

That makes sense, yeah... But it can also really mess with someone's mental, too. If it's not something you wanted to do, then it's not something you should do, you know...? Like... when I kill people, it's 'cause I'm happy to be doing what my commander wants. I don't... "turn off".

[livlaughlove]

Like I said. I chose it.

[not that he ever got happiness from killing, but he understands wanting to please a superior. either way, he isn't here to judge mizuki, either.]

When I got here, it was the first time in years I'd let myself feel again. I think... maybe I'm still not used to it.