🍇 the fall is colder, but its warm all the same 🍇

[graftage]

WHO: Steinbeck and...you!
WHAT: Open prompts and closed starters for the fall!
WHEN: Fall time baby!
WHERE: Everywhere
WARNINGS: will update as needed, but its steinbeck, what do you expect

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[associative]

[ Not his bills? Then... ]

So you're helping out family?

[ It's the first thing that Gaku thinks of, what with his own family being a priority for him. ]

[graftage]

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[.........]

Come from a big family. So, a lot of bills.

[associative]

[ Ah... makes sense. ]

I hope what you do helps you make those bills. How many siblings do you have?

[graftage]

[Haha, well....does it?]

Two sisters and a brother. I'm the oldest. Got a lot of cousins, too.

[associative]

[ Gaku, at least, won't be questioning anything about family, that's for sure. ]

Ah, so you gotta take care of everyone, right? I don't have siblings, but that's how I've always imagined it.

[graftage]

[A nod.]

Yep. I gotta. Because the world is cruel. And people who work hard don't even get a fraction of what they're owed.

[associative]

[ He shakes his head. ]

I like to think that working hard is enough, but if you don't have someone with the right connections looking out for you, it can be impossible to move up.

[graftage]

Not even just impossible. The people up above push you down lower than ever before if they can.

[He's bitter.]

It's the worst.

[associative]

Or they hold you up just so they can use you to make money.

[ Gaku's bitter too, though for a different reason. ]