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<IBUKI> hello!! ibuki mioda here!!! ﾟ.+:｡(≧∇≦)ﾉﾟ.+:｡
<IBUKI> if you're here to talk to ibuki, leave her a message!! okay?
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let's say this reply is after our dumb thread on lady's post
After that, she supposes she should see him, because he's obviously mad. So... into the shop she'll trudge, claws scuffing a little as she does.
And she peeks into the back room, ears flat.]
Rohan-chan? Ibuki's here, like you asked - even though you're on friendship probation, so technically she should be ignoring you...!
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There she is. ]
Mmhm. I'm not approaching you as your friend today, Mioda. [ As reflected in his icy voice. ]
I'm sorry that these two things have to come together. [ He takes his needle into his teeth and reaches for the book to flip through it. He produces a pink sheet of paper with some clear words written on it:
Temporary Dismissal Until Further Notice. ]
I'm letting you go.
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[Ibuki looks up at his face for a moment, ears perked up in confusion like they're trying to understand the ice in his voice, the use of her family name -
Only for them to lay flat against her hair, and she holds up her hands palms-first at the slip, waving them a little.
And she even looks serious, too! Because, well. That's upsetting.]
A-ahhh, no, no - is this because of what Ibuki said!? She - she can take it back!
I was mostly playing anyway, 'cause you know I'd forget about it by tomorrow...!
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[ He shakes his head. ]
I can't have an absentee employee. You work with Dandy; you'll survive without my pay. I need someone who will be around full time rather than on their own terms.
[ He isn't pleased with what she said to him on the network either. ]
I... I need you to shape up before I let you work for me again. That means treating me like a superior rather than someone you pal around with. You know that isn't what I am here for, nor is it my MO.
Karamatsu, Lorna, Anna, and even the new guy and girl have passion for doing this line of work. I'm not saying that you are bad at it but I do need consistency. That and, frankly, a little more respect than you presently show to me.
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Oh.
[And with that, everything about Ibuki just kind of... sags.
That's... all very harsh, but at the same time, she can understand it. Her memory's not good enough to actually remember her hours, so of course she's just been floating by on her own terms, hoping he wouldn't mind.
And, well, clearly he does.
That's not the part that's getting to her, though. It's the whole "treating him like a superior rather than someone she pals around with" thing.
And the whole "I need more respect from you" thing. Both of those read a lot more...
Well, childishly to Ibuki, because that all sounds like he just plain doesn't want to pal around with her anymore. And just needed an excuse to say it.
It's fair, she supposes. He's like, mentally forty - and she's this never ending ball of energy that talks like a thirteen year old from deviantArt. They couldn't be more different, right?
So she lets her arms fall and takes the slip, even giving him a little bow with it.]
... Right - you're right, sorry... Ibuki - um. I'll, uh, go get all my stuff...
[Starting to pad back toward the door, she stops, and turns back to look at him.]
- Do you want me to nab my stuff from the castle, too...?
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Only if you want. I'm not barring you from the castle.
Please understand that I'm not faulting you personally. I just need to take a professional grasp on things for the sake of my business. My friction with Dandy and the split between the two workplaces is taxing.
Frankly, I don't want any of that energy associated with this place. I'm not punishing you. I'm telling you to rein it in before you can work for me again.
i dont have sad enough icons for this wtf
He's not doing a very good job at making it not seem personal.
But she does seem like she's taking it that way, considering she looks away from him again and starts fiddling with her claws.]
Um - that's... that's asking a lot, y'know, 'cause... well - Ibuki is full of all kinds of energy, and she doesn't really know how to "rein it in", and -
... M-maybe the break'll be good, anyway. Ibuki was kinda spreading herself all sorts of thin, trying to work at both places at once...
what is with me and your icons
All I ask is for professionalism. I'm not exiling you from being around me. I'm...
[ having to stop a lot
SIGH. ]
Ibuki, I am a highly-respected man back at home. I have not seen my home in well over a year and a half. I know it looks like I don't miss it there because I have the Fog God and whatnot but I do. I pride myself in my professionalism and the things I have accomplished in my craft. Nobody there addresses me as anything short of Rohan-sensei because that isn't only my brand but it's a mark of what my life revolves around. Being a master at what I do.
I don't require such a thing here because nobody knows who I am there. I have worked tirelessly to become that person again. I have made a lot of colleagues here. You are included in that. JUst... The thing is that I want to clean it up a little more. Make it crisp. Return the dignified energy that I miss having around myself.
I'm sorry.
you keep making her feel things NO ONE ELSE MAKES HER FEEL
[She completely stops moving, then, as if she hadn't been planning on leaving the room in the first place -
And actually turns to face him completely. Something about what he just said is making her hair stand on end.
There's... a whole lot she wants to say, here. She misses her home, too - but her home is dead. At her own hands.
Not only that, but trotting out how he's a master at what he does, how his life revolves around it, as if that's not exactly how her own life was back in her dead world -
And how she's being fired for impeding on it, almost. He misses being treated like a master, so he's firing her because she doesn't.
... And yet, Ibuki's not the kind of person to try and start a fight with people she likes. Thinks she likes.
She's pretty sure she likes him.
No, instead - despite the way her mane has doubled in size and her ears are pointed, showing her irritation - she isn't going to voice any of her problems, instead just raising a hand and shaking her head a bit in a dismissive manner.
Even kind of smiling a bit, though it's hard to tell if it's forced or not with the rest of her body language.]
No, it's fine, Ibuki gets it. It's cool!
You want the shop to be more professional, and Ibuki's really, really bad at that, so it's okay.
I'll clean out my junk from the shop, and you can make it up all nice and stuff.
[That hand raise turns into a little wave, and she turns again - but stops, a foot out the door, before looking over her shoulder.]
Oh, but, um -
You're the one who said Ibuki could call you Rohan-chan. If you didn't like it, you could'a just told me, y'know...
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You are a brilliant artist, Ibuki. Never stop creating.
[ Beat. ]
And don't be afraid of me.
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Ibuki's not gonna stop over something like this.
[That...
Just gets followed with a passive shrug.]
... And she never was afraid of you.
[As if this would make her afraid of him now, somehow...? She doesn't understand why he'd tack something like that on the end, but it all it gets is a small tilt of her head before she shakes it a bit and gives him another little wave, intending to finally slip out that door.
Unless he has something else he wants to add, but... it'd probably be best to let her go do whatever it is she plans on doing next.]