[after the disaster that was the bonfire incident, kaeya is in a bad mood. it seems he truly just can't have a normal conversation with diluc without it turning into hurt feelings and trying to rub salt into each others' wounds. he doesn't show that he's upset, sort of. his normally placid and friendly expression is replaced with a carefully neutral expression instead, which is more of a tip-off to something being wrong than he thinks it is.
he pulls up his messages with roman, typing out a quick: heading home early, have fun at the festival ♥
with that, ensuring that roman won't get worried when he can't find him and doesn't cut his own fun on kaeya's account, kaeya stomps toward their shared home (he'd insist that he's walking very normally, thank you very much!) he mulls over what was said, how such an evening full of happy memories new and old could have turned out so poorly. why can't they just talk? kaeya knows he sometimes has a tendency to bring up bad memories, to pick at diluc until he snaps, but this time, he'd just wanted to reminisce on something happy.
why didn't diluc want to as well? did he want to erase their memories together that badly? forget that kaeya was ever part of their family?
well, kaeya can't blame him either way if he did.
he rubs a hand over his face. yeah, kaeya assumes this is just one of the ways his own actions like to remind him of the consequences of said actions. he kicks a rock along the path, trying to empty his mind by focusing on just moving it along. like a little friend accompanying him on his sad journey home.]
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he pulls up his messages with roman, typing out a quick: heading home early, have fun at the festival ♥
with that, ensuring that roman won't get worried when he can't find him and doesn't cut his own fun on kaeya's account, kaeya stomps toward their shared home (he'd insist that he's walking very normally, thank you very much!) he mulls over what was said, how such an evening full of happy memories new and old could have turned out so poorly. why can't they just talk? kaeya knows he sometimes has a tendency to bring up bad memories, to pick at diluc until he snaps, but this time, he'd just wanted to reminisce on something happy.
why didn't diluc want to as well? did he want to erase their memories together that badly? forget that kaeya was ever part of their family?
well, kaeya can't blame him either way if he did.
he rubs a hand over his face. yeah, kaeya assumes this is just one of the ways his own actions like to remind him of the consequences of said actions. he kicks a rock along the path, trying to empty his mind by focusing on just moving it along. like a little friend accompanying him on his sad journey home.]