Minseo

these boys are a disaster

are you sure you want to touch any of this with a twenty-foot pole

are you joking

do you know how boring my off time gets during a confluence

try closing your eyes and leaving them that way for four hours

then do that, every single day, for the next several months.

well I'm compatible with both of them so idk what that says about your compatibility with either

one of them has a huge crush on the other, and it's unclear if it's reciprocated

Russia is even more homophobic than Korea

the one with the crush has a tendency for frivolous power use and an impulsivity backlash

which combines just as badly as you'd expect

the other one probably has a ton of trauma from doing the job of a professional partner without the actual respect you need to give a fellow human being

is frivolous power guy the one Da-eun was grumbling about?

don't answer that I expect the answer is yes

I can probably tolerate either tbh, though Da-eun might make faces about the impulsive one being near me

but otherwise whichever you think is more likely to be compatible with me, not like my backlash is secret.

bored esper reporting for duty, sir, deploy at your discretion! o7

my guess would be Dasol

that's the other one, not the frivolous power use one

his backlash is allodynia

I think I'll probably be both his and Misha's Buddy btw

ooo, two for one deal! you're becoming a proper mother hen

sitting on all your lil baby espers

anyway I expect the ace girl who just wants to play video games might be nice for your other guy?

I literally want nothing from him!

okay I do want him to generally be mentally okay and not like, attempting to sex me or w/e, but

you get me right

yeah

uh

he might be expecting to need to sexually pleasure you to be worth keeping alive 

fyi

generally mentally okay does not describe either of these boys 

came from a hell of a place, huh

I will be firm and gentle and channel unnie in all but the yelling

stuffed body pillow for snuggling away the trauma, that's me

one hell of a place sounds just right, yeah 

good luck 

you'll need it

luck is for scrubs

I will bring my elite skills to the table!

bwuahahaha

Yun Dasol had been told to await requests to meet, which he does by huddling on the couch staring into the comm screen readout of

0 New Messages

until his eyes start to hurt. Quasar HR had said that it would probably take a few days to get him a list, but he didn't really have anything else to do in the meantime. He had music on, sure, and he had found the learn Korean tab for practicing the language, but it was weird. He was in one of the temporary silos, for the moment, as they didn't want him returning to the last location where he had used his old identity, and there wasn't really anything else to do—okay, actually, there was lots to do, he just didn't want to do any of it. He couldn't focus, not even on the soothing pop music he had absolutely blasting. He gets himself a glass of water and tries not to experience thought for the ten seconds it takes to down it. When he opens his eyes, though

1 New Message!

he suddenly wonders why he wished for this. He opens the message boards after a few failed tries. These hand signals aren't as intuitive as they seemed!

Hey, heard you were a new professional partner looking for someone to guide? I could use a co-sleeper during the confluence, if that isn't out of your area of expertise

Oh, boy. 'Co-sleeper.' That's a new euphemism. But yes! The answer is yes. He can do whatever!

Best not to write that, however.

It's nice to meet you! I'm open to whatever would serve my partner's needs best! Would you like to tell me a little about your guiding needs?

That sounds professional. Right?

Nice to meet you, too! I'm Yun Minseo, I'm a sensor. My backlash causes me to lose my senses, starting with sight. I tend to spend confluences almost entirely blind. That being said, I am really not into the wet and sticky parts of 'efficient' guiding, and when I say co-sleeping, I do just mean overnight cuddles. Though the frequently-made-blind does mean I have some other needs, like, please do not leave anything on the floor where it might be tripped on, please do not move any of my stuff to a different place, that sort of thing? I gotta navigate the silo blind, and for that, I need to know where everything is.

Oh, no, she thinks I wanted to have sex with her. I mean, I thought she wanted to, I didn't necessarily want—I just want what she wants!

This is so much more confusing than in Russia.

Thank you for being so clear! Nothing wet, nothing sticky, sleep with maximal skin contact, don't move anything or leave anything lying about. That seems like a pretty simple set of instructions to me!

My Korean is not quite as fluent as I would like, but I will work extra-hard at it. Please let me know if there are better ways than the comm-screen to translate for you if I forget a word, though.

Would you like to test for compatibility?

Is that too eager? It's probably too eager. He deletes it and tries again.

Let me know if you would like—

Mmm, nope. Delete, restart.

I hope that you find exactly what you need.

Comm-screen is fine, I've got a special set up to let me read and write while backlashed. I'm down to help you practice Korean though, my non sleeping hours get kinda boring, and I've helped people learn Korean before.

I'm up for testing for compatibility if you are, though you'll need to come to me. I'm currently backlashing; I'd just hurt myself if I went wandering around unescorted.

Eeeeeeee maybe this is it!

Of course, sunbae-nim. Where can I find you? I'll come over right away.

She sends over directions. If it weren't a confluence, she would just offer him a teleport, but since it is, there's a little Ji-woo on her shoulder grumbling about necessity of resource use. Yes, little shoulder Ji-woo, she will be good, and walking off some of the nervous energy might do the poor new guy some good.

"Hey, I'm seeing if I'm compatible with one of the new hires, see if you can go spend some actual time with your family."

This is, of course, directed at the partner she's currently sitting on the couch with.

"... which one?" she asks, delicately.

"The one that has not bounced off of your shield like a sad and stupid mosquito."

Shit she wasn't supposed to let on that that time she was shielding was for - augh she's so bad at information security of this kind!!!!

"Oh. Okay. Cool."

On one hand: Minseo is her own person, and can make her own choices. On the other hand: but she's so vulnerable when she's backlashing, and it is Da-eun's personal responsibility to keep her safe! On the anatomically improbable third hand: Okay but her babies miss her!!!!!!

They might not even be compatible. She's probably worrying over nothing.

"Are you going to have a responsibility hernia if I tell you to shoo so as not to spook him? I hear he's extra spookable."

"Nnnnnnoooo. Maybe. ... yes."

"I'll let him know you're here," sighs Minseo, who now has to figure out a non-threatening way to say to the guy worried he's about to get tossed aside like trash that, oh, by the way, her current partner is right here available for snuggling.