[ help me not the polar opposite brothers ]

Right. I feel like the comparisons are bad enough when you're just normal siblings, but all being identical must make it way worse.

[ people not being able to tell them apart, or identifying them only by their differences. she feels like either of those would be annoying. ]

... He was, yeah.

Do you feel like talking about him? I'd kind of like to hear what it was like to have that kind of brother.

[ she slightly better at talking about things these days so. she nods... ]

Like having a best friend, I guess? Our parents weren't around a lot, so he'd babysit me, but it was like—even when he didn't have to, we wanted to hang out. It was fun.

Sounds like you were both pretty lucky to have each other, then. What kind of stuff did you do together?

We'd go to the beach, mostly? Or the theater when there was anything good playing. There wasn't a lot to do in town, but we'd wander. Or we used to do game night and play board games or cards.

Haha, my brothers and I play mahjong together sometimes and everyone gets super serious and competitive about it.

You know, we could probably get a couple of board games with our points, if you felt like doing that here. Could be kind of a fun team thing.

[ she visibly perks up. ]

I already made us spend points on something I wanted. We don't have to.

I mean, I think it'd be fun too, so I can be the one to suggest it.

... If you want. I'd play games.

Okay! I'll run it by everyone this week.

[ hehes. ]

Thanks, Todomatsu.

No problem!