The turn of phrase makes him chuckle. “Medical cuddles coming up! Still want, er, bigger spoon?”

"Hmmmmm, nah I can be little spoon this time, it'll be hilarious if you say you were dressed by a blind woman for more of your clothes. Let's do more clothes shopping, with less of a time crunch!"

“Hey! I helped!” Soup spoon is a much more efficient position to get into as the sighted party. “Alright, what’s the next brilliant sartorial choice we’re making?” She’s made blind jokes now a few times so he’s probably in safe territory. “Show me your non-vision.”

She snorts. "You did, but it's so much funnier if we tell people my way! I figure you need like - practical stuff? Socks, underwear, pants and shorts and shirts for everyday. Maybe pajamas? I dunno what your usual sleeping situation is like. I don't really have a vision this time - any more than my confluence usual anyway - it just kinda seems like the sort of thing you need?"

“I’m actually doing alright on the essentials. I packed knowing I’d be here to stay, at least a while. My outerwear is more the issue: I only had clothes that were anonymous in Russia, but I think they might stick out as obviously foreign around here. Korea uses color and cut very… differently that my hometown or even Vladivostok. There’s also a lot more formalwear here.”

"Hm! Okay. Do you have a vibe you're going for?"

That candelabra from Beauty and the Beast. "No, I don't really... I'd like to seem open and comforting? But professional?" Be! Our! Guest!

"Professional but open and comforting. Hmmm. I think I can do that. You'll probably want a lot of business casual looking jackets, paired with nice but not too nice shirts? So you can easily do a thing where you can drop the professional pretty easily to be one-on-one open and comforting. Layering's going to be your friend. That'll need to be paired with tighter pants for visual balance reasons, probably..."

Does he want to have a good portion of a wardrobe set up by the time he has to go? Because this is how he gets a wardrobe set up before he has to depart. All in 100% cotton (though she does still think he should try out satin and silk at some point), and all arriving at Quasar in the next week.

Dasol is watching from deep within the back of his own mind. She didn't mention an impulsivity backlash, and she seemed happy enough. Was he obliged to stop this because it was reckless spending, or to gently encourage it because it's relatively harmless and good enrichment for real espers? It is difficult to say, and the lawyers had not really gone into the finer points of Korean esper-care doctrine. In Russia, he'd be expected to meekly put up with being dressed like a doll, though, so he figures after a while, he probably ought to go with that. "Oh," he offers after a moment. "Those look nice." And not horribly expensive, so he wouldn't feel too guilty about them after.

"Really overwhelming me with your enthusiasm, there," she says, drily. "You know you don't need to humor me with stuff, right?"

Don’t say of course I do, sunbae. Guide duties! She clearly doesn’t like that. “Of course not, sunbae. I just am still getting used to local fashion. There’s no model in the image, just the shirt, so I’m a little unsure how it will look. But I think it probably nice?”

"Probably! Though you are taking fashion advice from a blind woman who mostly doesn't follow fashion trends personally. ...Da-eun would probably be better, actually, she has a whole husband and everything."

“Are half-husbands popular in Korea? Does one cut them in two or enter a timeshare?”

Snort. "Timeshare, probably, but I really wouldn't know. Probably some espers have arrangements that shake out to it."

“Maybe every husband is unit length, but some part of the husband is just projected onto the imaginary axis. Negative husband being of course a husband with depression.”

"I think some people would argue strongly against negative husbands being a thing at all, especially associating them with depression," says Minseo, a little wryly.

“I’ve definitely met husbands who were generally negative. Though the idea that they cancel out when multiplied does defy logic.”

"Yeah, I just think the correlation with someone being a negative person and with being a negative unit of husband is a false correlation. Lots of people are negative without being husbands at all."

"Sure, but they wouldn't show up in the set of husbands, anyway. That's like noting that the point -2+4i doesn't show up on a unit circle. Still has a negative component, but definitionally isn't included in our set."

"Hmmmmm I think this has gotten too math heavy for me, I dropped out of school when I awakened like a terrible delinquent."

"Yeah. Same. I just had a book of Martin Gardner puzzles for when I was bored at the compound."

"Legit." She reaches a hand back to give him a pat on the head. It's a little bit fumbly, but she does have a general idea of where his head is to manage it blind. "So I'm taking all that as a 'no thank you for more meddling in my life.' Which: also legit. I'll give you some space there."

“No, no, I appreciate the help. I certainly have no idea what I’m doing. I just—it’s hard to have strong opinions when you have no idea about stuff unless you’re a political commentator. ‘That looks nice to me who knows nothing,’ is just honesty, not a complaint.”

"Fair, just. Trying to shake opinions out of you is kind of tough, and I'd rather err on the side of caution?"

“I’m just not very opinionated!” It’s true! In the old Soviet sense of we will make it be true.