Seasons: IC Contact/Overflow

[happydreamed]

"Hello, you've reached Kantera. If this is a medical emergency, please hang up and call a hospital. Otherwise, please leave your message after the tone."

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[kingside]

[the sad thing is that even when You Are Suzaku, it uh... anyway] [That's a relief, he thinks, not knowing any better. See, Kantera gets him.]

Good.

I'd also wager he either has or will reach out to you for advice again. Kindly do not mention that I've done the same or what our conversation has held.

[happydreamed]

As you wish. Though it's no shameful thing to ask for advice from your elders, you know.

[kingside]

[... Really. Although, well.]

Are you much older than you look?

[Is this another "secretly 500 years old" situation, do tell.]

[happydreamed]

Not exactly, no.

[If you only count the time in the dream and then Tokyo-F and Ellipsa as being 'alive', then he's much younger than he looks, actually. Though he thinks of himself as 27.]

[kingside]

Then you're my elder on a technicality.

[He has half-siblings older than you.]

[happydreamed]

Ten years is not an insignificant amount of time.

[kingside]

[He also has subordinates older than you. Or... well, anyway.]

If you insist.

[happydreamed]

At least in the avenue of romance, I think we can both agree that I have somewhat more experience than you, as a married man.

[kingside]

[................. okay, just because you're right doesn't mean he has to be happy about it.]

As you say.

[Kantera still isn't old, though. So there.]

[happydreamed]

[Kantera suspects Lelouch is sulking a little at the reminder. Honestly, some young people need to pretend that they know everything.]

Have you any other questions?

[kingside]

[Sort of sulking. Maybe. Just a little bit of sulking, as a treat.] [Lelouch sighs to himself, fortunately where Kantera can't see or hear it.]

General advice?

[Like, say, how do you ask someone on a date. As a totally random example.]

[happydreamed]

Discuss issues that arise rather than allowing them to fester unspoken. Tailor dates and gifts to your partner's interests rather than what you've heard is 'traditionally romantic'. None of us truly know how much time we have with our loved ones, so make the most of it.

[kingside]

[... To say the least.]

And if your partner's interests differ wildly from your own?

[happydreamed]

Learn about them. Ask him questions and listen to the answers. You don't have to like them yourself, but 'tis worth learning to sit through a sports game now and then. Without rolling your eyes or complaining, mind.

[kingside]

[But sports, Kantera. Suzaku literally compared chess to soccer the other day and he thought he'd have a stroke on the spot.

Another sigh.]

Do you discuss sports with Saya?

[happydreamed]

She tells me about her spars and I congratulate her on her matches, even though the idea of fighting someone for fun is exhausting for me to even think about.

[kingside]

[... Well. That doesn't sound too terrible.]

I'll work on it, then.

[happydreamed]

I'll be rooting for you two.

[kingside]

[—Ah, right, he sees they have arrived at the part where Kantera is going to be embarrassing about it, AKA the reason why he was having those second thoughts earlier, cool cool cool. Maybe it won't be that bad? However Milly-adjacent he can be at times.]

Yes, thank you. I appreciate it.

[... and. After a somewhat longer pause.]

For the rest as well.

wrapup probably

[happydreamed]

[Listen, he has to be a shipper, it's one of the joys of being surrounded by people younger than you.]

Any time. Do take care, now.

[kingside]

And you as well.

[Another pause, if a shorter one.]

You know where to reach me.

[It isn't an offer to assist Kantera in the future if he needs it, but it's not not an offer. Lelouch doesn't know what he might need, of course, but... well. They'd see.]