Inbox for thefarshore

[young_oldman]

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[young_oldman]

What else is there to it? I hope this satisfies your concerns on my ability to type out messages in times of urgency and danger.

[Sorry, emojis were not included in your shinki-kit. No refunds allowed either.]

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[miraculo]

[ It's okay, it's okay, Sanae. He's just a beginner. He just needs to be taught! ] Maybe for an emergency, but what if it's just casual texting?

[ Okay, maybe it does. But he needs-- ] --You're going to need more for that! When you text someone with a "good day" you need to convey the mood properly, too! Like--

[miraculo]

˭̡̞(◞⁎˃ᆺ˂)◞*✰ good day, lu meng-san!!

i hope you had a good breakfast! o(^∀^*)o

[ She texts this to him in less than 3 seconds. ] ....See?

[young_oldman]

[Wow, all that from just a few taps? These must be part of the "short-cuts" she'd tried to teach him earlier.

Still, not impressed.]

If written words were good enough for my time, then they'll be good enough for yours. There's hardly any need for all these unnecessary embellishments.

[Squints.]

What on earth are they anyway? I see a comma, a full stop, open and close brackets around two arrows pointing at each other, an asterisk and a star.

[miraculo]

Dun-dun! [ She makes a noise to signal that he's getting it wrong again! ] Look again!

The open and closed brackets form the sides of the face. The two arrows pointing in at each other are eyes. The first face is throwing out a star and sparkles to you through the text! The second face is raises her arms up in the air because she's excited to be talking!

These are just two faces you can make. But there are over ten thousand of them you can rearrange and customize and-- and make any emotion you can ever think of....!

[young_oldman]

[Squuuuiiiiinnnnttttss.]

That's not a face. A drawn face looks like this.

[And his thumb goes over to the built-in draw app on his phone. One circle, two dots and a flat line for a mouth later, and he saves the image and uploads it to Sanae in his next text to her.]

Now I'm not an artist, but I know that's how it should look like. None of these star and sparkles nonsense.

[Funny how the face looks like it's carrying the exact same expression that he's wearing right now, huh?

[miraculo]

[ She doesn't know whether to praise him for knowing how to send an image through a text message or to correct him on how it is important to have emoticons! ] Mm-mm. you have to lean how to text these faces. But even if you want to draw them, they should be like--

[ She's going to take that same image, and then using her image editor, she adds more sparkles to it. And turns the flat line of the mouth into a smile. After this is done, she sends it back to him. ] That.