turbo heaven 🌼 marcoh

[outdistanced]

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[boxcar]

I do think so.

[ If Venere is his only family, then his entire world is family. ]

Someone takes care of you too, do they not?

[outdistanced]

That’s a little different, though. It’s mostly teachers and Tower staff. I never knew my family.

[boxcar]

...

Do you wish you knew them?

[outdistanced]

I don't know. Maybe sometimes? But I can't miss something I never knew.

[boxcar]

... Family does not always have to be blood. It's whoever looks after you, and you look after them.

[outdistanced]

[ hm. he shakes his head. ]

No, I don't think there's anyone like that besides the instructors. And it's not like we're close - it's just part of their job.

[boxcar]

Doesn't have to be your teachers. Could just be people you like and trust.

[outdistanced]

There's really no one like that. I have friends, but I can't tell them everything. Maybe Ms. Needle, but she and I only started working together recently... I don't know her that well.

[boxcar]

Working together on what?

[ Your school lessons? What do you even learn in there. ]

[outdistanced]

She's been teaching me how to get better at making portals. She's the only other Daphne demiflora I've met.

[boxcar]

Uh...

[ Right, you guys have superpowers...? ]

It is teleportation, right? Daphne is, rare?

[outdistanced]

That's right. I don't know if we're rare, exactly - but if there are others in the Tower, I haven't met them.

[boxcar]

Do the demiflora only live inside the Tower?

[ Or are there more... out there... ]

[outdistanced]

[ this is such an innocent question but it makes him laugh just a tiny bit. ]

No, there's supposed to be a lot more demiflora outside. If I remember right, the Tower's only got like... thirty thousand of us? I don't know, but not every demiflora wants to live there.

[boxcar]

So then, it is kind of like a city specifically for you.

[ Maybe? ]

But if everything is provided, why would you not want to live there?

[outdistanced]

I guess so.

[ shrugs. ]

Who knows? I've never spoken to a demiflora from outside... except maybe Ms. Needle.

[boxcar]

Are you ever curious about the outside?

[outdistanced]

The Tower's always had everything I needed, so I never really thought much about it.

[boxcar]

...That is also how I felt about the Vatican, at least until I had to leave.

Hearing about the kinds of places everyone else is from, though. That has been interesting.

[outdistanced]

Really? I thought it was all a little overwhelming. Everything is so different.

[boxcar]

It was new, and strange, but it is what it is.

[ Aka he doesn't try to think too hard about it... damn if you dropped him in his own world's Russia he'd be like what's happening then potentially have to fight a bear, and he's sure that wouldn't be too different of an experience compared to going to Teyvat. ]