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[rnjr]

Then you don't need to prove it.

[schmisse]

W- Well!! I just want you to know that I am. So there!

[rnjr]

And... now I know.

[ :| :| :| ]

[schmisse]

Great!

[ She stands up straight, hands behind her back. ]

Then... I'll be going now.

[rnjr]

... Do you have any other jokes?

[ he can try and actually react like a normal person, maybe ]

[kaboop]

[Nora giggles. She was probably hanging from a shelf or a wall fixture, but anyway she drops down in front of him almost as nimbly as a cat with a sunny smile.]

I can't believe it's been months since I last booped you.

[Time to reset the "days without boops" counter to 0.]

[rnjr]

Just don't try to make up for lost time. I think my nose can only handle so much.

[ His tone is clearly not serious. She knows she's free to boop him anytime, anywhere. ]

[schmisse]

Yes!

[ oh thank god ren asked because WEISS HAS A LOT MORE ]

What would bears be without the bees?

[rnjr]

... I don't know.

[ Hungry? No, bears don't eat bees... ]

[schmisse]

Ears!

[ HAHH!!!!! Weiss snorts and turns away so she can laugh without looking like an idiot in front of Ren. ]

[rnjr]

[ Okay, that was funny. Not the kind of funny he'd normally chuckle at, but funny! Now he just has to show it!! ]

HAH!

[ ... he tried too hard... and got too far...... ]

[schmisse]

That was so forced!

[ WHY THIS!! She hates him now. ]

[rnjr]

It was funny! I'm just... really not a big laugher, normally.

[ he told you!! ]

[schmisse]

Have you... Have you ever laughed before?

[ May as well ask this because who knows what Ren might say!! ]

[rnjr]

Of course.

[ ren that is so not obvious given the current situation ]

But usually it's just at circumstances that happen naturally.

[schmisse]

What does that mean? This is unnatural for you?

[rnjr]

It's... I'm not sure I'm explaining this right.

[ probably not ]

Things are funny when they're unexpected, to me. So I guess because starting a joke obviously leads to a punchline, it loses that element. Does that make sense?

[schmisse]

Okay, so if you're not expecting a punchline and something is funny, you're going to laugh.

Am I getting this correctly?

[ Weiss is going to come up with elaborate jokes and pranks from now on ]

[rnjr]

Exactly.

[ Whew! She gets it. He was starting to think he was making no sense whatsoever. ]

[schmisse]

[ She gets it! This just does not bode well for future Ren. ]

Duly noted. Then... I'm off.

[rnjr]

Okay. Have a good day, then.

[ what has he wrought ]

11/5-ish; Action

[nailed_it]

[After being in the jungle for a couple of weeks and with all the warm welcome backs she's received, the thing Yang wants to do most is take a long, hot shower and then maybe sleep in a warm bed forever.

But before she does that, she has one extra thing to take care of. She's already given Ruby a cool jade stone from the center of Aiada's Temple as a souvenir, but there's somebody else in the house that she got something for and after stuff has quieted down a little, she goes looking for him.]

Hey Ren. Got a minute?

[rnjr]

[ He's folding laundry! Somehow people always seem to find him when he's either reading or doing some kind of work around the house. Probably because when he's home, he's either doing one of those activities or... well, sleeping. ]

Of course. What do you need?

[yielded]

[ That's a tricky question! How do you give advice on something that comes so naturally? Pyrrha never had to struggle with dunamis, much like everything else in her life. (Except swimming. Swimming is the worst.) ]

Um. [ A thoughtful pause... ]

Well, why don't you show me what you can do so far?

[ Nailed it. ]

[rnjr]

... It's not much.

[ Surprise, the master(?) of emotional suppression isn't good at letting his feelings out. ]

Honestly, it usually happens on accident.