catch-all: jonas.

[rewriter]

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[westedge]

[ considering it was her whole-ass team, he would not be offended. his changes were much more subtle than mizuki's given he was already in his later teens. but now here they are.

he does offer a tiny grin at the joke though. ]

Let's just say it was very, very stressful after a while. [ equally light. ] ...this should wear off eventually. It's already starting to work its way backwards.

[ which. makes him feel a certain weird way that he's not getting into. ]

[rewriter]

... I see. [she makes a face.] Are you going to be okay in the meantime? The idea of aging backwards seems a little...

[freaky? wild? yikes, my dude.]

[westedge]

I feel like...after everything, this is actually more on the lower end of terrible things that've happened recently. Aging backwards is freaking me out a little, but so did aging forward so far.

[rewriter]

Ah, that's fair. Well, if you want to look at the bright side... at least you got a sneak peak at what you'll look like when you're older?

[westedge]

[ hah. ]

I'm deciding if that's good or bad, really. We sort of capped out after a few decades, but I think by the time we finished everything we'd just celebrated our 150th birthday. Still looked similar. Still alive despite everything.

[ the horrors of living, mostly. ]

[rewriter]

... Huh?

I'm sorry, did you say 150th birthday?

[westedge]

That is in fact what I said, yeah. That's how long it was.

[rewriter]

...

You look pretty good for someone who's old enough to be my great grandfather?

[help.]

[westedge]

[ MONIKA HELP.

okay but the thing is that the comment at least, like, jars him out of his weird lil funk and he actually blinks a little, coming back to himself and remembering a little more about the current situation. ]

After everything, the least life could give me is good genes. [ ah. there he is. ] I think it had to do with how we were born and everything. A type of existence where you stop aging, even as you live for all those years.

[rewriter]

[ah... she smiles a little. there he is.]

So... you guys had some type of immortality? Functionally, anyway.

[westedge]

[ he takes a moment to think of how to phrase this. ]

Something like that? To be honest, I'm not even entirely sure how it worked. [ ... ] How much do you know about Vash, Monika?

[rewriter]

... To be honest, not a lot. We don't talk very often.

[westedge]

Makes sense. We talk...a decent amount, I think. We're friends. [ ... ] It made it a little easier to realize right away that we were on a mission inspired by his memories. That's the shittiest part of it all. Knowing he had to live through all of this, too.