shamelesshookery | (no subject)

... Oh, that's right, you were made too! I'm sorry, I forgot - I kind of assume anyone who's not actually a robot is human, sorry...

[trails off blushing. aaaa why dumb ._.]

I-It's all right, I'm sort of— I'm in between, so...

Right, right, I remember you're metal inside...

A-anyway, yeah, you're right. It's different for me than for biological people.

[bumps gently against his shoulder before falling silent, worrying at his lower lip in thought]

—What if we tuned your voice like a stringed instrument? I could play the right note, and you could sing over it and go up or down in small increments until your voice and the recorder matched.

... Oh, good idea! That'd probably work.

[scooping the recorder back up]

Then, in that case...

[blowing a few tentative notes before launching into the main melody, playing for about a measure before hitting the problematic note and holding it]

[sings it the way he did before]

[blinks a little. the dissonance and how to correct it is pretty obvious, at least to him; but if there's anything that being Rin's older brother has taught him, it's that there are things robots can't do, just as there are things humans can't do. that's fine— that's what he's there for.

...unfortunately, he'd forgotten that his hands and mouth would be full while he was playing. dithering for a moment, and then jerking his chin up sharply. higher!]

[higher?

...right, higher! it seems so obvious, once he lifts his voice a little and finds the sound coming neatly into harmony with Kaito's recorder. he holds the new pitch for a few moments, fixing it in his memory, and fiddling with a few internal instructions.

he envies human brains, sometimes.]

[there it went. lowering his recorder]

Good, you got it. You did the same thing in the same place in this other verse, [indicating another section of sheet music] so if you can just... copy the change over, I suppose...?

Ah, okay. Give me a second...

[his eyes take on a glassy, unfocused look for a few seconds, before he blinks it away and looks at Kaito again]

Okay, let's try it.

[nods, lifting the recorder back up and starting to play the problematic section again]

[sings with! it's much smoother now]

[perfect. grinning at him around the mouthpiece and... oh, what the hell, why not. continuing to play, but switching away from the main melody into an improvised harmonization]

[...oh. oh hey. something about that improvisation makes something click and as he comes up on the problem spot, where the transition is so rough...

... perfect. that's perfect - that's what the song needed.]

[he almost drops the recorder in surprise; he hadn't expected that particular issue to correct itself so easily. more than corrected itself— it's easy to hear why the other Kaito is suddenly grinning like that.

he plays through the rest of the song with him, beaming]

I think that did it. ...Good job.

[so happy. it is an interesting warm fuzzy combo of music achievement and that secret little itch being scratched]

Thank you, Master!

I'll try and remember that harmony you did so I can write it down later. It's just what the song needed!

[...]

[...headpats]

I'm glad that I could help.

[he's frowning slightly, though, and after a pause he sighs in resignation]

...I'm sorry, but... could you not call me that?

[what but I]

Ah, I... o-of course. W-whatever you want. Sorry...

[looks down at the recorder, and then over to the box still sitting off to the side

heaving a HUGE SIGH and putting the instrument down, reaching for the chains again]

... It's all right. I'm just... somewhat picky, I suppose...?

...Would you mind if I asked Miku to tell you a few things? I would do it myself, but... it's something difficult for me to talk about, and I'd probably end up upsetting one or the both of us. ...She knows some of it better than I do, anyway.

[leans on :( tell me you don't hate me]

...Okay. I-if there's something I need to know, then...

[sighs a little. absently reaches out to toy with the chain]

[shifts to accommodate him. letting him play with the chain a little, and then starting to wrap it around both wrists]

"Need" probably isn't quite the right word, but... you deserve an explanation for some of my behavior.

All right.

[nuzzles at]

... This is a nice chain. Is this what Miku got you?

Mmm. ...Can you shift behind me a little bit? I don't want you to get hit if I do manage to snap this.

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