[Konoha stands her ground at first. Manages to keep herself from crying, red-faced still in combination of embarrassment and frustration, tail sticking straight up beneath her wet skirt, knees trembling beneath the water with the desire to move, both sets of lungs heaving despite the lack of actual physical exertion.
Thinks of the metal world, where, still new and afraid and panicked by being plucked from her world and everything she'd ever known... Nier had offered her his hand with a smile.
She just wanted him to understand. Wanted him not to feel so alright with dying. Wanted him to feel what she felt, what Emil felt and surely others felt- That he could be a good person. That he has friends. That he should be able to exist... even if she doesn't understand and maybe can't understand the world he came from.]
Nier...
[Up until the point he calls her his friend... when she can't help but actually start crying, surging forward to wrap her arms around him and hug him tight, (maybe a bit too tight oops), lifting him right off the pool floor so that she can bury her face in his shoulder while she blubbers.]
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Thinks of the metal world, where, still new and afraid and panicked by being plucked from her world and everything she'd ever known... Nier had offered her his hand with a smile.
She just wanted him to understand. Wanted him not to feel so alright with dying. Wanted him to feel what she felt, what Emil felt and surely others felt- That he could be a good person. That he has friends. That he should be able to exist... even if she doesn't understand and maybe can't understand the world he came from.]
Nier...
[Up until the point he calls her his friend... when she can't help but actually start crying, surging forward to wrap her arms around him and hug him tight, (maybe a bit too tight oops), lifting him right off the pool floor so that she can bury her face in his shoulder while she blubbers.]