florescences | adolphe catchall

[ sorry, my syntax was not clear!! she took a picture of him and his phone wit her own phone, but she can also take a picture of him with his own phone. she'll do both since he'd let her.... ]

I'm going to take your silence as a yes. [ who else on the living side would send him a charm like that? ] We can figure it out together. I want to send some things with my feelings in them through the mail.

Why wouldn't I enjoy any time I spend with you?

[ I would not have been surprised if elysia did that ho estly. Adolphe is just always resigned lmao ]

I'm not sure. Let's get on with making them. How many did you want to make?

See? You know I enjoy being with you.

[ that's improvement. ]

Hmm... maybe I will make dumplings after all. I want to send a half dozen with some my letters. Six each... but I know they won't all be perfect... I'll divvy whatever passes inspections after we try to make... sixty or so?

[ she's expecting only half to be sendable. elysia places chocolate and molds on the counter before she starts setting up a double boiler to melt chocolate. ]

If we fry them with light oil, they should keep their shape... unless you don't want that? We can make one at a time until we get it right.

[ He wants most of them to be sendable....... ]

No, frying them is fine. If it'll help with sturdiness, I don't mind. It's not their healthiness I have in mind.

[ they're all technically dead right now anyway. ]

Can I trust you with that? I don't know how much cooking you do normally... but I've seen you do a lot here.

They're mostly basic dishes. Though I did live alone and grew vegetables to sell off at the marche. I'd like to think that I have some proficiency with food.

[ Just to let her know that he's not a super chef or anything. They did list "cooking" as a list of skills at Courrune before, but that really should have just gone to Adolphe because he could follow recipes and had common sense about the kitchen. ]

Frying them should be easy, so you can leave that to me.

[ the gazpacho makes more sense now. ]

Imagining you as a gardener is cute.... I enjoyed your gazpacho a lot.

[ elysia isn't an expert cook either but you have to spend idle time in a memory data realm for thousands of years somehow. ]

Thanks, Adolphe. Do you think we should prep everything or test bit by bit?

[ she's going to start getting ingredients out for dumplings now, too. flour for dough, meat for the filling, etc. ]

[ He huffs a little. ]

One by one.

[ He looks at the ingredients. ]

Though you'll have to tell me how to make these. I've never done it.

[ she puts on a cute apron and rolls back her sleeves. ]

I'm not an expert either. One of my friends taught me a long time ago.

[ but she'll show him how to make the dough and the filling and then show him how to stuff and fold and pleat. ]

[ Elysia makes it easy to understand, so Adolphe follows her directions well. He fries the ones they make and... they turn out decent! The shape seems to stay too. ]

Alright, it looks good. We can keep making them like this then, but first.

[ Is her mouth open? If it is, Adolphe will pop a dumpling in it when it's cooled down a little. If not, he holds one out to her. ]

Tell me how it tastes.

[ she lets him pop it into her mouth with a little noise of surprise before it turns into a sound of satisfaction. ]

It's good! You're doing great for your first time. We'll have more to send than I thought with your help.

Good.

[ Waste not, want not. Etc. He wants as much as to be sendable. ]

You'll handle most of the chocolate? I don't know what you'll need me for about that.

Uh-huh. If you can handle the dumplings, I'll do all the chocolate.

[ she goes about melting chocolate and attempting to temper it. ]

Do you like sweets at all, Adolphe?

I can eat them, but I got sick of candy in the first hour when that Halloween thing came up.

[ too many sweets... ]

I can taste test some, but not too many if that's what you wanted.

No, I was only curious. I don't want you to feel sick, but does that mean you get sick of me?

[ she's joking. ]

No.

[ He's surprisingly direct about that, but he answers so seriously... ]

Despite everything, no. If anything, I'm surprised it's not the other way around.

I'll tell you as many times as it takes. I won't get sick or tired of you. I won't ever want you to go away.

You won't ever be unworthy or undeserving of my affection or my attention.

[ Adolphe quietly makes the dumplings and frying them at the same time. He can multitask, it's fine. What did he do to deserve so much love, he asks himself every day. ]

[ it is not a direct answer to his silent question but it may answer some of his questions about elysia, and there are many reflective surfaces in a kitchen that he could ignore.

he should ignore these conversations without context.

because where he has no faith in humanity, she has so much of it, in him who is as human as anyone else (even if he's his own level of insane). ]

[ He could ignore the conversations without context, but he can't ignore what they say. It's difficult. It answers some questions, but it also raises many. He thinks back on Elysia wanting to be remembered—it's a common answer, but the context here really solidifies the weight of it. ]

Is it really different if Herrschers also look and act like humans? There's not many differences regarding that, is there?

[ He has no idea what a Herrscher is, but he's getting an idea that it sure is an Important thing and that Elysia was one of them. He continues to cook and doesn't look over at her. ]

[ she doesn't know if it's better or worse that he's not looking at her. She's putting her chocolate molds away to cool and starts cleaning some of the counter. ]

In terms of looks... no. All known Herrschers back then were all humans first before they weren't. They didn't all act like humans, after.

It was a surprise when they did.

The problem is once they lost their humanity, they wiped out most of the human population.

What's "humanity"?

[ Adolphe fully believes that humans can just wipe themselves out and still struggles to see the difference. ]

Compassion and all those nice things? Humans already have enough ego to attribute everything nice to themselves, but they still do horrible things against each other.

[ human ego...

if it weren't such a serious conversation, she might laugh a little. instead, she shakes her head with a smile. ]

It's all of it. The contradiction of how good and kind people can be along with all the horrible malice. It's when you have both, instead of all of one or the other.

They sure like to skew it one way for sure.

[ All "human" things were good sounding, at least from what Adolphe remembers. ]

And... you like that, right? That they can be both.

[ is it like? is it love? it is love. she does love humanity, but is it because they can be both? ]

I know you think humans don't change, but I think it's because they do have both that they can.

Not all that is beautiful is good.

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