Pantry.  Oreo.

...Yeah, huh, he's never been great at identifying tastes, but there's definitely something more going on here.  Probably Bug'll get something out of it if he starts to learn cooking.

And return for cuddles.

Mmmmmcozy. Haru was a pretty businesslike cuddler while Not Being Weird About It but he is now willing to do things like put his face on Julien's neck and let his hands wander in case any of the places they go or ways they get there prove interesting.

Julien makes noises about some of these places!  Collarbones hips face chest haaaaaair.

And yeah, sure, if they're doing this what about Haru?  What about Julien's hands and all over Haru.

Back of his neck's a good bet, and the ribs and the right shoulder in particular where he picks up twinges from gun kickback.

"You're really cute.  'N hot 'n stuff."

"You're adorable, I kept thinking it and being like, next week, next week."

"- Wow.  I... was not thinking about that at all, I guess for reasons already established.  Bug maybe thought about it some, but not very much because he knew it would embarrass me."

"He didn't think it to avoid embarrassing you?"

"I felt, like, very bad, about.  Everything."

"Awakening's a bitch." Kiss. "...if Bug is a routine occurrence is that going to be weird from the possible relationshipping angle."

"I... thiiiiiiink... not.  I think it will just be fine probably.  For us.  Hopefully."  Kisssss.  "I'm not immediately not fine with it."

"I will probably need to have a conversation with him about it too but if he is a routine occurrence then that won't be too hard."

"Yeah please do.  .....Unless, like, the first time he shows up is when we're horribly backlashed, and the situation is dire and he's like 'I think we should just do whatever you normally do with Julien,' in which case I think you should believe him."

"...can you elaborate on that at all, I'm prepared to believe you but I'd like to understand the reasoning?"

"...By default it's smart to talk things out, but I think he's likely to be fine with this, so if someone's courting organ damage the conversation maybe only needs to contain a thumbs-up emoji."

"Is courting organ damage the actual threshold here?"

"It's - the level at which I'm like, if my future self got into a pickle and I hadn't disclaimed it, I would be going, 'oh my god it was so stupid not to have foreseen this'.  ....'Selves'; 'we would be going', et cetera.  Other things could come up and we'll just have to try and be smart about it, I think."

"Okay. Your agent should know all this sort of thing too when you've got one."

"Good to know.  Got any recs for finding one?  Also I should go take a bunch of notes in a minute."

"I'm with Maple and that's been fine for me, it's fine to share an agency and just usually you don't share a specific agent. But there's others if you don't find anybody you like with Maple. I'm good to let go of you for notetaking whenver you want."

"Cool."  Extraction and handkiss and laptopping.

To-do list:  ☐ Meet a dungeon  ☐ Get an agent  ☐ Tell agent safety protocols.  Notes notes notes on the powers so far.  It will be really really terrible and horrible if he can't get a handle on controlling this stuff, but he's kind of hopeful about the being less curious about other people angle.  Just based on how it feels so far.

And he might as well do some preliminary agent-looking, while he's over here?  Hello Maple who y'got.

Maple Esper Agency has four agents who are presently accepting new clients in regions that include Toronto. One of them specializes in sensors, if Julien wants to go with that rather than trying to extract vibes from their photos and copy about how they are committed to getting their clients the most out of their careers.

That's enough to send an email on, at least.  Hello he's Julien he just awoke and he has this kinda environmental awareness stuff and also some other things going on.  He will probably want to do dungeons if he can and also stuff in hospitals maybe.  He's already met someone compatible, also at this agency.  Professional speak professional speak.  He's vaguely interested in this person but definitely not trying to look like he's at all committed to them.  Regards.

....Actually that might only be enough to draft an email on; what does Haru think should be included here.

"Are you planning to keep your backlash secret? If you're not it's probably worth including, it's one of the things you have to find best fit on - I picked my agent mostly because she has very good phone response time."

"I don't know that I want it public public, but probably agents are fine at keeping the secrets even of people who don't go on to hire them?"