They're more common on my world, I think. They had possessed my father for quite some time. My team and I took them down in battle -- had bound demi-gods that fought with us. It helped that this god had been disowned by his counsel.
( she never really learned to hide her expressions, them being mostly entombed behind a mask, so her face is twisted into quizzical empathy. for all that text is distance, it's hard not to react. )
( it takes her a moment to suss out what safe looks like for her. she's never really had much occasion to differentiate — she wasn't cooked up in granny helene's lab to be safe. clones are expected to fight and die so others don't have to, their experiences are preserved, their knowledge passed down.
she chews on her bottom lip. )
for today.
( it's really all she's got. the leviathans aren't her enemy anymore, that's all she knows. but if they aren't, others will be. )
I'm happy for mine to be boring at the moment. Stories I have in spades. Once I snuck into a chocobo race to avoid being captured by an assailant. Won second place and ended up doing three more races.
( very fantastical. a little bit of swashbuckling. she finds herself being wistful — not for the near-death experience, but for the whimsy of the world he paints with his words. she's hungry for anything that's not blood and death and war in a metal box you live in and perish on. )
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They're more common on my world, I think.
They had possessed my father for quite some time.
My team and I took them down in battle -- had bound demi-gods that fought with us.
It helped that this god had been disowned by his counsel.
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( she never really learned to hide her expressions, them being mostly entombed behind a mask, so her face is twisted into quizzical empathy. for all that text is distance, it's hard not to react. )
safe now?
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Yes on both accounts.
And you? Are you safe?
[ He's learned over the years that the worries and assumptions people express often betray what's closest to their own hearts</small. ]
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she chews on her bottom lip. )
for today.
( it's really all she's got. the leviathans aren't her enemy anymore, that's all she knows. but if they aren't, others will be. )
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[ He's been a pirate -- a wanted one -- long enough to know that. ]
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life's life.
boring though, mine. comparatively.
any other stories?
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Stories I have in spades.
Once I snuck into a chocobo race to avoid being captured by an assailant. Won second place and ended up doing three more races.
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means no one's getting shot.
ever get first?
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Threw off a betting con I didn't know about
Chased out of town, nearly killed
That was the end of that.
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( very fantastical. a little bit of swashbuckling. she finds herself being wistful — not for the near-death experience, but for the whimsy of the world he paints with his words. she's hungry for anything that's not blood and death and war in a metal box you live in and perish on. )
we used to race marbles. down hallways.
got pretty good.
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But he can't say he doesn't have fun when he can find it. ]
I did that as a boy. I was terrible at it. Any tips?
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Cheat.
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A scoundrel after my own heart.