[closed] with natto........ 2!!!

[ohthehumanities]

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I'd like to know that myself. These look like gifts, not deliveries.
For some reason that's beyond me, they couldn't give them to you directly.

1/2

[ohthehumanities]

That doesn't explain why they'd leave it with you! [UGH] Never mind, let me check my messages...

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[ohthehumanities]

[WELL. Guess who has been awake for at least 48 hours and lost track of the days and now this is awkward and embarrassing

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..........there's no reply]

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[ he mercifully gives it five minutes. ]

Did you remember what day it is?

[ohthehumanities]

[HE HATES THIS]

If you knew it why didn't you just say it!!!!

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I assumed you knew.
You're a connoisseur of beauty and romance, after all.
Or so I've heard.

[ from kaveh. ]

[ohthehumanities]

Yes, and it's your utter nescience that threw me off.

[He's sulking]

For all I know, you could be making this whole thing up to annoy me!

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[ someone in this convo was nescient and it sure wasn't him ]

There are better ways to waste my time. I have no reason to lie about this.
The gifts are blocking my door. If you don't find something to do with these, I'll throw them out.

[ohthehumanities]

You have no reason to waste your mora on hideous wooden figurines, either, and yet here I am, forced to perceive them every single day.

[WHICH HE KNOWS YOU DO ON PURPOSE HE'S NOT THAT STUPID!!! ALHAITHAM!!!!!]

Don't throw them out! I swear you have less emotional grace than a sumpter beast in a glassware studio. Just give me a few minutes to clean up and I'll come pick them up.

[He is absolutely positive that there's like. Maybe 3 small boxes of obligation chocolates and maybe some flowers from Collei at most and that they are not in Alhaitham's way in the slightest.]

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[ :3 HEHE

collei would try to give it in person or at least send it off with tighnari. maybe there are some obligation chocolates, but haitham can tell by appearance alone that these are from students with crushes on the kshahrewar's prodigy. probably freshmen.

and yes they are blocking his door!! chocolates wrapped in parchment paper, heavy cards, a lion plush with red eyes, etc. they went all out. ]

If you dislike other people's decor so much, you shouldn't have agreed to move in with someone else.

Were you working?

[ohthehumanities]

[Yes, but consider: What if he continues to not believe any of this.]

Or, you could choose humility for once in your life and listen to the only one between the two of us with an eye for design.

[INTERIOR DESIGN ISN'T EVEN HIS SPECIALTY but he is very confident that he knows more about it than Alhaitham does.]

And not that it's any of your business, but yes, I was. Your--that is, something else put me off-schedule.

[Did he, perhaps, make Alhaitham a nice present for Valentine's Day, which pushed his actual project schedules back a little further than anticipated and caused him to pull some all-nighters to catch up? Maybe]

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[ did alhaitham put that much care and thought into kaveh's valentine's day gift? stay tuned and find out ]

You act like I don't give you jurisdiction over how the rest of the house is decorated.
You didn't even ask for that before taking it.

You could have backspaced, you know.

[ohthehumanities]

shut up

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that's the entire response apparently]

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[ HEHE ]

It's a moot point when it comes to you, but I'll say it anyway.
You didn't need to do anything for me. You should have prioritized your work and gotten some sleep.

[ohthehumanities]

Who said anything about doing something for you? [Kaveh. Five seconds later--] If you don't want it I'll throw it away.

[He would not do that, he would repurpose the materials. But he will be very upset if Alhaitham doesn't pick the exceedingly obvious correct dialogue choice here]

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That depends on what it is.

[ picks the true neutral dialogue option ]

[ohthehumanities]

[WRONG ANSWER

The reply is a very sulky silence]

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[ wow a mini tantrum how surprising ]

Is it something you know I'd dislike?

[ohthehumanities]

[Alhaitham brought this upon himself]

Of course not! As you said, there are better ways to waste my time than that.

[But now he's remembering that his stupid boyfriend doesn't give a shit about romantic holidays and he's second-guessing his own decisions because he's gonna feel like an idiot if Alhaitham actually doesn't like his gift... but he already made it...]

Ugh... it's for your office anyway, so I might as well just bring it now.

[To pick up these "probably nonexistent but if they do exist Alhaitham is exaggerating" chocolates]

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[ kaveh: mentally spirals
haitham: i'm hungies ]

If you put effort into it, I'm keeping it no matter what.
I'll be outside my door.

[ he'll be propped against a wall and reading from a small book. a large paper bag is folded under his arm. beside him is the small circle of gifts for kaveh, kept perfectly in tact despite haitham's warning. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[YEAH. LISTEN. It's not his fault Alhaitham doesn't have enough imagination to fall into a pity of anxiety like a normal human being

He doesn't reply to this message either but this time it's because that was kind of cute and it's embarrassing... TRULY THERE'S NO WINNING. But it doesn't take long for Kaveh to show up, striding down the hall with, a bag full of ???? something slung over his arm. Alhaitham will probably hear him coming even before he sees him... but as soon as he's close enough, he points directly at Alhaitham.]

Stay there! Don't come in while I'm working.

[And then he just sails past Alhaitham into the office and slams the door, either not noticing or ignoring the gifts... WHAT IS HE DOING IN THERE.]

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[ HELLO? somehow haitham didn't expect this? when kaveh shoves him out of rooms, it's usually somewhere in the house and not from his own office!!

alhaitham (carefully) pushes the gifts aside with his foot and sets his hand on the doorknob. he narrows his eyes at the wood. ]

You're not locking me outside of my own office. I'm coming in.

[ kaveh is likely putting together his gift, but he's not gonna be disrespected in the process!!! ]

[ohthehumanities]

I SAID STAY OUT THERE!

[Kaveh is. So loud. My god. I'm making up his Vision powers purely for the sake of this thread; there is suddenly the sound of something very heavy landing on the ground just on the other side of the door, meaning that Kaveh probably summoned a construct to block it. This is probably not the first time he has done this, though it's typically at home.

Shortly after that, though, Alhaitham will probably be able to hear the sound of a hammer; if he really wants to, he'll be able to get into the office, since Kaveh usually pours all his concentration into whatever he's doing which means the construct probably won't last if Alhaitham forces it. Or, he could be a good boy and be patient... which will he choose...]

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[ LSDJWKJFDJ he has to be heard over alhaitham's headphones somehow!! right now, haitham doesn't have the voice cancelling function on. the yelling startles him a little bit, and when he hears that weight drop in front of the door, he knows exactly what's happened. blocking the door is usually the next step.

alhaitham puts his head in his hand. yes, kaveh has done this before—even on the day he moved in. at some point, haitham had decided that stopping him wasn't worth the effort. for all kaveh complained about haitham doing what he wanted, kaveh does whatever he wants just as much.

if kaveh is doing some horrible redesign of his office, haitham would just take the reconstruction costs out of his rent make him change it back. simple.

also, it's valentine's day. letting kaveh do as he pleases was a gift to him in itself. hopefully he's not opening any drawers or armoires, though...

haitham turns on his headphones, leans back against the wall, and reads while he waits. any passing students are disregarded or told to come back during office hours. if someone asks him what's happening, he'll say there's a fungi running rampant in his office and he's waiting for a forest ranger to show up. kaveh will get as much time as he needs. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[Yeah that's exactly what happens, Kaveh redecorates the whole place in the ugliest patterns he can find. Happy V-Day binch

No just kidding. It's surprisingly quiet in there, as far as his construction projects go; there's some hammering, some shuffling and quiet thumping, and some muttering that's inaudible through the door, but it doesn't sound like he's tearing the entire place down scrap by scrap. It also goes by more quickly than Alhaitham might've expected; when Kaveh finally opens the door again, he looks mollified and quite pleased with himself.

Whenever Alhaitham re-enters the office, he'll notice that many of the books strewn around have been cleaned up; his desk is much cleaner than it was. Instead, a few floating shelves have been installed along the walls; additionally, two small shelves sit on either side of Alhaitham's desk. They are obviously much prettier than this, designed to match the general Aesthetique of the Akademiya's decor; if Alhaitham ever clears the books off and looks closely, though, he'll notice a faint pattern engraved in the wood, one that resembles the cover of his favorite book.



...Anyway that's all well and good but Kaveh's finally noticing the pile of presents--]

...You were actually telling the truth... [HE ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH, KAVEH.]