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She's like - just got outta school, initiate nihilistic monologue.
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Kek, think of this like a sort of culmination (as implied in her reasoning for actually accepting Mu's offer to eat out) of her acknowledging some the brewing tension in the village. She's picking up on it in a broader sense, and it's been wearing at her mood all day. She's not always stuck internally brooding [s][i]only most of the time[/i][/s]. But I suppose you could say my opening posts for characters usually consist of me better fleshing out what drives them the way the CS usually doesn't quite cover in my mind. It's one thing to say a character acts a certain way; it's quite another to really dig into [i]why[/i]. So, now, we have the why for Kasumi. Call Lin's nearby (and therefore more notable/grating) pettiness something of a "straw that broke the camel's back" in terms of really tanking her mood and sending her on an inner spiral. XD

Also for this post, I actually needed to really work to find a reason for Kasumi to accept Mu's offer to eat (because OOCly, that feels like a plot hook), because ICly speaking, she absolutely would have blown him off normally. That's why I asked if they were already assigned Genin teams, because then she could have justified to herself intervening with Lin as "team cohesion", which didn't end up being an option.