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[ichimyatsu]

[You'd be surprised by how hard it is to set up a phone for a video post while sitting on a rebellious pre-teen who is a ten year old version of one of your five brothers-- but he won't tell you which. That, by the by, happens to be precisely what Ichimatsu Matsuno is doing at this particular moment, the feed kicking on to him frowning irritably at the screen with his hands clearly on either side of the device while he tries to make it stand upright.]

[When he sits back the scene gets a little stranger, because he is, in fact, sitting on a tiny version of what looks like himself if he ever brushed his hair and slept. He actually hisses at the boy beneath him and sits on him to prevent some of his wild flailing, and then glares back at the video feed.]

Can somebody tell me which Matsuno this little shit is? He's one of my brothers but inexplicably tiny and he won't tell me who he is.

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[maskerading]

—Does it? ... Well, I'm an only child, so I don't always know how that sibling thing goes.

[undeflective]

I'm sure I won't.

[There's an honest-to-god grin on his face. He's going to protect this boy with his life.]

[glitterkid]

... You mean like the time nobody would come and rescue me from the ocean tide..?
_{[ oops, looked like you tapped into a random adult memory! ]}

[glitterkid]

You're not allowed to get jealous about ow cool I am either. That's the rule!
_{[ and then he'll.. cut the feed? Yeah, maybe Dodger will hear from him later. ]}

[hellshot]

You're about three feet too short and thirty years too young for that.


[Heck, he's not even sure if this is the same Karamatsu.]


That's some spirit you got there, kid. [What the fuck happened.]

[hellshot]

If you ask me, he seems like a particularly fussed dog at this moment.

Mutt, specifically.

If Karamatsu there is the most 'annoying', the rest of your brothers must be particularly mild.

[ichimyatsu]

That was your own damn fault for getting kidnapped by Chibita. Who the fuck does that? None of us took it seriously, he's been our friend since we were your size.

[He won't look at him, regardless.]

[ichimyatsu]

[He barks a harsh laugh at that, rolling his eyes.]

"Mild" isn't the word, but he's the only one that grows up to wear sequins and prints of his own face.

[ichimyatsu]

Gee, what do you think a NEET does all day?

[ichimyatsu]

It's beyond even "that sibling thing", we're sextuplets. There are like four instances of a group of this many kids even surviving, and I'm pretty sure it's because they eat each other.

[ichimyatsu]

[His shoulders hunch inward and he frowns.]

I don't need a therapist. [Yes he does. Please befriend him, Tsumugi, please let him talk to you about cats.]

[glitterkid]

What if somebody else kidnapped me? Would it matter then? Hey, hey.. is it also my fault too that you threw stuff at me when I was tied to the stake?

I don't understand why nobody likes me anymore.
_{[ When he grows back up, he's going to hate he said all of this stuff. ]}

[maskerading]

... That makes sense. With that many kids just like you around, you have to assert your dominance somehow. [ And yet... ] But I do think it's telling when you and your brothers have decided to spare each other, too.

[exfine]

I'm not going to act as your therapist! Just someone you can vent all your troubles to when you need to. It's one of my few redeeming traits, you know.

[ If anything, Tsumugi needs a therapist more than he does, but that's a story for another day. ]

[glitterkid]

Doesn't matter my size, that just means I can punch you harder in the dick, then you really won't be able to do anything!
_{[ YIKES.
it looks like he's about to burst into laughter any second though. What happened to Karamatsu to get him to be so different? We just don't know. Maybe it'll be explained in season two. ]}

[ichimyatsu]

[He makes a face, but shrugs.]

Telling of what, that we're lazy as shit?

[ichimyatsu]

[A huffed sigh, and he shifts so he's not sitting on him anymore, scruffing him gently like a cat and hoisting him up to sit.]

Nobody else did. [He gently boffs him on the side of the head.] Stop thinking like that, you're too young for an existential crisis.

[maskerading]

[ Well OKAY. ]

You can't even muster the energy to become the one true Matsuno?

[glitterkid]

_{[ And here is where he reveals the secret in case Ichimatsu hadn't caught on just yet: ]}

I'm little, but I was big when I got here, I think..! So I have a lot of feelings that I have when I'm your age!
_{[ so yes, let him have his crisis. ]}

I also.. remember the space ship. Do you remember the space ship? It feels like a dream, but it was real, wasn't it?
_{[ oh dear god. NO. NOOOOO. ]}

[ichimyatsu]

Are you kidding? We're way more powerful as a unit.

[ichimyatsu]

[He wheezes in something that may be relief, which is pretty quickly choked off. He starts to sag forward only to sit straight up again, and both his hands cover Karamatsu's mouth.]

Don't. I don't want to hear it.

[ichimyatsu]

Is that not what a therapist does.

[hellshot]

Okay.

That's something I really have to question.

I get wearing your own clothes if yer in a band or some shit, but.

Prints of your own face, for the love of God, why.

[hellshot]

....


.............


[He's having a hard time deciding what he likes better, the sometimes-melancholy, sometimes-dramatic Karamatsu or...

This literal brat.]

I doubt a kid like you even knows how to throw a straight punch.

[exfine]

I won't take notes of your mental diagnoses, don't worry. I'm not that kind of person.

[ crosses his heart, hopes to die ]