[video - filtered from Kaworu Nagisa]

[likethelight]

[ While Allen is perhaps not one to bother the network at large himself about much of anything personal -- this is a little different. And straightforward (simple) enough. ]

When someone wants to get a camera --

How do you go about it?

An actual one [ not this ] with film. [ Or -- chips. Or... whatever they use. Because the ones from his era of technomagical bullshit are kind of different.

Aha...

As if by means of explanation: ] They're not quite like the ones I'm used to. [ Or he's gotten unlucky in not stumbling across more traditional ones.

So there's a sheepish but polite smile, and a smart nod. ] Thank you.



[ Though after he's turned the feed off --

He'll be leaning against the kitchen counter (Odin 102) to flip through a few photographs in front of him. Four, to be precise, and (presumably a fifth) face down a little to the side. Softer at the edges already, but only a little. Like he's kept them in a breast pocket for a couple days. Not smiling, but not unhappy, either.

(Timcanpy too, on one shoulder and leaning forward as well.)

If anything, just a little distracted and pensive. ]

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[Action]

[5thchild]

[ Kaworu arrives home with some food on his hands; he grabbed fruit and vegetables, mostly the kind of things he eats because of his diet. Once home, he whispers a small “I’m home”, a Japanese custom that he has heard of but only started to apply once he got a home and a family.

He heads to the kitchen after, noticing Allen. ] Hello, Allen. [ he comes closer with a smile ]

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[extradite]

Ah... you can't use the one on your device at all? Even if it's not like the usual sort, I think - it should work, shouldn't it?

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[likethelight]

[ Even if it's more a Japanese style of greeting and Allen's hardly Japanese or even that familiar with the culture as such... he pauses, and perks a little at that.

And smiles, straightening a little when Kaworu enters. ] Kaworu --

Welcome back.

[ Ah. Setting the photographs down. ]

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[likethelight]

[ Shinji -- ]

Ah, no. It's fine for that.

But I mean, something that can make actual photographs. That you can frame.

[audio]

[linkedtogod]

What is it for? [ Admittedly a little curious. ]

[audio]

[likethelight]

[ Ah... ]

No reason.

I was thinking of getting one. [ Just -- not for himself. He's a selfless tightwad, he gets nothing for himself. ]

[audio]

[linkedtogod]

I didn't know you were interested in them. [ Link has no idea and is attempting to coax some sort of explanation out. ]

[audio]

[likethelight]

Aah --

[   n o n c h a l a n c e   ]

It sort of came up the other day.

Remember how Johnny used to take a lot of pictures? [ Even ones of you, Link. Even if you never did learn to smile properly for one... ]

[audio]

[linkedtogod]

I remember. [ He's caught glimpses of them before and inwardly grimaced at his own face. Pictures of him, he feels, were always unflattering. ] What of it?

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[extradite]

Mmmmm. Sorry. I don't think... Norman had some actual photography, but they were from home. As for the technology needed to take your own pictures, I don't think that's something you're in enough luck to find.

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[likethelight]

[ "Luck"...

-- hesitating for a second. ] Ah?

I see. [ Pausing, but -- ] Thank you, I suppose I'll just keep looking.

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[extradite]

You need it that badly?

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[likethelight]

It's not for me.

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[extradite]

...oh. Birthday gift? Sorry. Miss Euri and Miss Samantha have... good ideas for tokens of appreciation, usually. If you need the alternatives.

[audio]

[likethelight]

I didn't really think about it at the time, but it was a nice sentiment, you know?

[ Because Kaworu said something the other day that struck him so very, very sharply, even if so very simply, and reminded Allen of that. ]

Like it made it a little more real, I guess.

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[likethelight]

Something like that. [ nnno ]

It's okay, I just thought I'd seen something like them around. [ Or. Smaller devices that, well. Did the same thing. Ish. He only half notices these things and headtilts slightly before moving on. ] It's not like there aren't stranger things.

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[extradite]

That kill. Usually, there are stranger things around - that kill.

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[doomfire]

There might be a shop that sells them.

[ O'Brien's not the type to ask why unless it pertains to him. Good guy ]

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[likethelight]

[ ...Shinji.


You.


Um. ]

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[likethelight]

[ That's a very morbid way of thinking, jumping to it like that... ]

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[likethelight]

[ ...

(But.)

Even if it's not video... there is a way a smile can get into his tone a little like that after a pause. A little wry but certain. ]

Those aren't things I can think about like that.

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[extradite]

...right. Sorry. I should have realized.

Well - good luck with finding a camera, in any case.

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[likethelight]

[ PRAISE BE TO YOU, SIR, he wasn't imagining them, then. ]

Ah -- thank you.

In Utgard? [ It would have been his guess. ]

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[likethelight]

[ ...? ] No, it's fine.

Thank you.

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[likethelight]

[ ... ]

Sometime --

If you'd like, sometime, you should feel free to come by. I could show you some tricks now. [ Before, when he said he used to be a clown. That he'd show Shinji sometime, too. ]

Kaworu would like to see you too, I'm sure.