broke: (pray when you shoot it's a homicide)
zhongli ([personal profile] broke) wrote 2021-07-29 10:05 pm (UTC)

[ the word he might be looking for is 'family-having', if that even counts as an adjective that even makes sense, maybe it doesn't. and maybe it kind of brings up the question of whether zhongli himself had family (though he likely won't ask hu tao this) and if he were a god, maybe that meant he didn't.

but let's shelve that idea for now, because this hadn't actually occurred to him-- ]
I didn't know you had family. [ but once the words leave his mouth they seem terribly... crude, or oblivious. childe is human regardless of his mercenery job. human like most everyone else here--presumably. he might have questionable morals or perhaps few at all, but this is kind of a paradigm shift in zhongli's head, that childe cares for his siblings and parents.

he seems about ready to say something further, then actually changes his mind and simply reaches to take the toy, or several of childe's packages. he seems to have his arms pretty full. ]


Did it occur to you just now that it would be a good idea to go shopping for them, after midnight? [ a wry question; he could speculate that perhaps drinking made childe lonely or nostalgic. come to think of it, he doesn't even think he's personally gotten drunk or tipsy since he's lost his memory, but at least he had the vague knowledge of how it should feel. maybe even gods could be susceptible to alcohol. ] Let's head back, if you don't have any last-minute items to pick up for them. And even if you do, I'm sure it could wait until morning.

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