July Catch All - Closed

[nastyboy]

Who: Team Femblemtroika and friends
What: Riding bikes, battling gyms, throwing away cheese packets... Options!
Where: Kanto
When: July

Comments

[donoteattheweeds]

"One year, two months, and ten days."

Which, if Grant has a particularly good memory, he might recognize as right about the same amount of time that they've been living in the house that Dimitri built. It's almost as though Dedue has taken advantage of the fact that the kitchen was practically tailor-made to him, including things like his room having easy access to it and the height of shelving being conducive to hiding things from shorter cohabitants. But surely Dedue would never actually do such a thing.

"You will find the tea in the third cabinet to the right."

oh god three months oops

[woofdad]

"Jesus--" Grant pauses so he won't fumble his mug, and looks over at Dedue. "So, the whole time we've lived here, then. And he hasn't noticed? And, uh-- right, thanks."

[donoteattheweeds]

"It is not precisely that he hasn't noticed-- he certainly has been aware that his boxes have lacked cheese packets. But I was, at first, only removing them occasionally, to reduce his intake."

A box here, a box there. Slowly increasing the number that he removed, to gradually lower Dimitri's consumption of powdered cheese product. Also, technically, steadily increasing his reliance on Dedue to provide the substitute for his meals, but Dedue has long been preparing his liege's meals. It's fine, probably.

"I am certain that he will eventually become suspicious. But there is a saying in Faerghus... how does it go? 'It is easier to beg forgiveness than to seek permission', I believe."

[woofdad]

"Aaand he just... figured that was a manufacturing error, didn't he. And kept buying the same brand, anyway."

Grant just... sighs, and takes a moment to rub between his brows. "I... yeah, that's a saying where I'm from too, but I dunno if I'd call it a good idea to live by."

[donoteattheweeds]

“He has made no attempt to change the brand.”

He just. Like that kind? Except that he hasn’t been eating the cheese out of them for months, so really it’s just the amusingly shaped noodles that he enjoys. It would perhaps be easier to just find those noodles sold on their own, but here they all are.

“I did not originally intend for things to go so far,” he says. “But I am concerned for his health. I have read a number of books and articles on the subject of nutrition and how it impacts the body and mind, and Dimitri has never been... discerning in that arena.”

Dimitri needs every advantage he can get in the ‘mind’ part of that equation.

[woofdad]

"None... I guess that tracks." If Dimitri really likes that pasta, of course he'd want to stick with it, even if the boxes keep mysteriously missing their cheese packets.

That gets another quiet sigh. "That is... a fair concern, yeah; he really doesn't seem to think much about what it is he's eating. But I'm not sure how much harm this cheese powder is really gonna do - I mean, as long as he's not consuming huge amounts of it. ...Which, I guess keeping him from doing that would be the difficult part."