hadriel | 004 [Text]

[Hopefully everyone has recovered from their hangovers and energy drink comas by now, but if not he's using text to be courteous. Also because it's really late, and because this message works better in text anyway.]

So this isn't exactly a huge important development or whatever, but if your usual texting back home involved emojis I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know that you can send them here now, too.

[There's a link to install a small program on the phones, which enables a smiling face, a scowling face, and a hand giving the finger.]

Options are kind of limited to happy, unhappy, and pissed off, but never fear. Any additional emoji requests can be submitted to Emily, who I'm sure will totally love fulfilling them for you since she's the master artist here; I just do the scripting. Definitely request as many inane emojis as you could possibly want. Make sure to ask her every time you talk to her if they're done yet, too.

[Sorry Emily. Harmless revenge is sweet.]

So yeah. Have fun.

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Half, yeah. I grew up there, only ever made it to the States when I was a teenager.

[ Miller's mother was Japanese and a prostitute, which is how he had come about, but that's not the sort of detail he needs to get into with someone he's only barely met over text message. Suffice to say, he's the last person that would fetishize someone Asian. ]

[That makes her feel the tiniest bit less alone. Emily isn't loud about her mixed heritage, but it still matters to her. It's just not worth bringing up all the time, in part because it attracts weebs, but mostly because she doesn't want to have to explain things to people who wouldn't get it anyway.]

what's your name? you already know mine

[Some part of her wants to have this conversation in Japanese now, just to fuck with everyone else, to have a public-private conversation. To be a little shit, basically.]

[ Kaz certainly wouldn't mind shifting into Japanese, seeing how little he gets to make use of his native tongue these days. He's taught himself how to speak English and sound completely American, but he still misses speaking Japanese at times. ]

Kazuhira Miller.

[ He writes it out using Japanese characters, a mix of kanji for the first half of his name and katakana for the second, Western half that comes from his father. ]

It's nice to meet you, Emily. If talking over text messages really counts as meeting, anyway.

ka zu hi ra?

[She writes that out in hiragana to confirm the reading of the kanji, because names can get confusing.]

my middle name is RIN (ri n)

[See, her name isn't completely Western.

She continues in Japanese.]

it counts, and we'll probably end up meeting in person at some point. this shithole city isn't exactly big

[ It looks like both of them have a need to use Japanese now that they have the chance. Miller doesn't know if it's Emily's first language or if she learned it alongside English, but it doesn't really matter.

Either way, he also continues on in Japanese. ]

Yeah, you got it right.

And it isn't big, but I think a lot of us also keep to ourselves instead of meeting in person. Where do you guys live, anyway?

[She'd learned them both together, but her English has outpaced her Japanese. It's only natural, growing up in the States. She's missed it, being here. It's the little things.]

we're in like the middle of the first spiral. i've kind of been exploring the city more lately, though. where are you living?

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