"Oh? ... good ones? Presumably?"

"Yeah. Just... I don't really know just what."

"You're out of practice with the good ones."

"Ha. Yeah. I am."

"Better experience some more of 'em and get the hang of it!"

So long as he's with Haru everything is good.

"—I meant to tell you and forgot. The thing you suggested, about asking if people were comfortable being pinged by my powers, that went over well. And I didn't really feel tempted to do anything more."

"That's good!"

"Mmhm. I'm still not entirely sure what to tell people that I've worked with a lot before, though; your suggestion was a good fallback but it does leave the impression that I'm kind of incompetent for not having noticed it in all these years..." The ways in which Jaeha is incompetent are unrelated to that.

"I don't think it's necessarily going to be hugely alarm-raising for most people if they realize that you were doing it all along and just decided to start being more conscientious about asking. It is a risk, I'll grant."

"Yeah. Mm. There's maybe a line to be walked about how having you as a partner might've changed things. In a mechanistic way, I mean, not in a 'it turns out I was evil but I'm not evil anymore' way."

"Feel free to blame me for things as expedient, naturally."

"Now I just need to come up with something to blame you for."

"Blame parenthesis laudatory end parenthesis."

Haru is extremely cute and should be kissed.

He is and he should.

🔔traceless: guess who got the sweetest fanmail from Malaysia

🍸nomu?: was it you
🍸nomu?: I bet it was you

🐠nemo: coulda been @KangJaeha instead

🍸nomu?: when are you going to change your screenname

🐠nemo: I was here first! get your own

🔔traceless: it was me, though I did also forward it to him.

🍉melonmelon: traceless you're relevantly multilingual, should one of them change their name

🔔traceless: it's only confusing in Latin characters, nomu could spell it in Japanese and it wouldn't be at all. I think "nemo" is literally Latin so nomu is the one who has to change though if either does

nomu? has changed their nickname to 飲むか

🚫do-not-jin: I am so glad this platform has nickname histories, if I had to track down the choices you all make I'd go insane

🍸飲むか: unlike your normal self, who is very sane

🚫do-not-jin: yes.

yoo-min-max: what'd the email say?

🔔traceless: just that it meant a lot to see me & Jaeha not caring about what country we are in when we kiss in public, I don't want to paste the whole thing because I don't think it was intended for public consumption

yoo-min-max: awwww
yoo-min-max: that is really sweet!

🔔traceless: it was heartwarming! I also got a less heartwarming taste of Korean celebrity culture but really all those people were doing me a favor, giving me reading material for when I'm backlashed

yoo-min-max: ohhhh did you get fanmail
yoo-min-max: what flavour was it?
yoo-min-max: I'm glad @SenSoJoo and I are not famous enough to get it too often

SenSoJoo: yeah

🔔traceless: I got some fanmail and also some hatemail! I'm not that famous but Jaeha is.