✏️ Brier’s first date with Jess and becoming mates with Tamatoa and Jess?
Heck yeah! Alright, a separate entry for each in the order you said it in, here you go~
The handwriting on these pages was… Sloppy. Like, barely legible. Brier hadn’t really gotten the hang of writing with vines instead of hands by that point.
Well, things have been… Interesting lately. But today was good. Great, in fact.
May have been a little strange at first, but I’m actually kind of glad that magic penguin came along and married Jess and I to each other for a few days. (Wow, that was one weird sentence.)
Today, I figured I may as well make her a little gift, so I scavenged up some shiny bits and pieces of jewelry and put together a necklace for her. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself, considering I don’t have hands right now. Jess came in when I was just about finished… And she asked me on a date!
So, we went out and I took her to my little secret patch of Lalotai… She’s the first I’ve actually shown it to. Can’t have EVERYONE in my peaceful place. She seemed to love it just as much as I do. We wandered, checked out the tide pools, sifted through some shipwrecks and found some cool stuff… It may not sound like much, but it was actually great. Jess is so sweet… Not to mention absolutely adorable. I had a really good time spending the day with her.
(Becoming mates with Tama)
The writing on this page seemed to drift from barely there to Brier’s usual in how faint the lines were - much as Brier herself had been at the time, trying her best to maintain solid form.
Well… I did it. I wonder, since I’m a ghost and that was the only unfinished business I really had I can think of, am I supposed to move on now? …No, no, I couldn’t leave.
I told Jay first, talked with her a while… She came with me to talk to Tama. I was nervous… I’m dead, I shouldn’t have been, because I suppose I really have nothing to lose now.
He was… Angry, when we showed up. Rightfully so, I guess. I still hate to see just how much suffering I caused with this one dumb mistake.
So I finally got to talk with him. Told him how I’ve been keeping an eye on the kingdom… And he asked exactly what I thought he might. And of course, I answered him.
He knows I’m in love with him now.
This isn’t at all how I wanted it to go… But, I’m already dead, so at this point it couldn’t have gone any other way. At least I wasn’t rejected…
I hope we find a way to bring me back soon. It’s happened before, there must be a way.
(Becoming mates with Jess)
The writing on this page seemed fairly normal, if not written a little fast as Brier tried to jot down her feelings all at once.
Well, I’m two for two on least romantic possible confessions of love now.
Seriously, what was my plan here, stumbling in and just blurting everything out like that? To be fair, I was nervous…
But… Somehow, it actually did work out. She likes me too, I can hardly believe it!
Neither of us have any idea what we’re doing… But we’ll figure it out. We agreed to take things slow, and if it doesn’t work out we’ll still be good friends.
Heh, maybe I’ll be able to do something the slightest bit romantic without it being an awkward disaster after a while… Whether I can or not, for some reason I can barely begin to understand, Jess already thinks I’m cool, and strong, and the kind of person she’d want to be with… Gah, I’m still shaking, but like, in a good way, the best way.
It’s Tamatoa all over again… Yet at the same time, completely different. Well, they are very different as people, of course it would be. But, one thing’s definitely true for both… I’m in love.