[If Hijikata knew exactly what's going through Rosen's mind, he'd have some words for him - not of advice, just of commiseration. Love is goddamn complicated, and it seems to him like whether one embraces it or rejects it, neither is entirely the right choice.
When Rosen opens the door he puts on a faint smile (and pets Ciaran after letting him sniff him - he gets along well with dogs, generally; he kind of is one too after all, partly, sometimes).]
Yeah. I wanted to see how you're holding up. How come you're here and not at the Flower Yard?
[He'd have expected Rosen there, waiting under Saya's larger-than-life rose. But he's far from reproaching him. Witnessing her death - or bringing it about; he doesn't know the details - can't have been an easy thing to stomach at all, if the Saya doppelgänger he encountered and immolated/beheaded alongside the real Saya is any indication.]
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Date: 2023-07-01 11:15 pm (UTC)When Rosen opens the door he puts on a faint smile (and pets Ciaran after letting him sniff him - he gets along well with dogs, generally; he kind of is one too after all, partly, sometimes).]
Yeah. I wanted to see how you're holding up. How come you're here and not at the Flower Yard?
[He'd have expected Rosen there, waiting under Saya's larger-than-life rose. But he's far from reproaching him. Witnessing her death - or bringing it about; he doesn't know the details - can't have been an easy thing to stomach at all, if the Saya doppelgänger he encountered and immolated/beheaded alongside the real Saya is any indication.]