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Who: BARiTONES and... ??? visitors???
Where: BARiTONES
When: Day 130, post-game

[two cats drag home a bird--that is to say, Crown Royal and Kohime help Eichi get home and into bed.

what's everyone doing after that horror show?]

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. . .I think there was a little more to it than that.

Nnnno that's about it? I mean, I guess I also used a bow instead of a knife but I'm actually like, way better at archery, soooo...

Okay, just add pretty much everything else to the list and you've got it.

[Flicks an ear and shifts to the time-honoured one hand on hip sassy hip thrust pose.]

I mean, there was tech and some grimy city in the first one, and suddenly armour and weird monster guys and magic?

I mean, maybe it was tech armour? And like, it's not like magic and tech can't exist in the same place, that's literally what magitech is. Besides, what's your explanation for me remembering that if it's not me?

I didn't say it wasn't you, just that it's weird. You probably need more than, like, two memories to figure it out?

Ehhhh. It's easy to figure out, I totally bet it's like, reincarnation or something.

...Hey, how come every time I do something cool you get all stuck on how it's weird?

Eh, everything here kind of is?

[Handwaves]

This world and preeeetty much everyone else's is about as different from mine as it can get. Except maybe Amaranth and Shrike, theirs sounds kinda similar.

Wait, what? You like, do all that cool stuff Amaranth does? What the fuck, how come I never get to see?

Uh, I don't even know what she does? I just said our worlds were supposed to be similar.

She like, kung fu'd a demon to death once? It was super cool.

Uh huh. Pretty sure I've never kun-fooed.

Oh. Okay.

...

Aaaaanyways, Lord Commander, I'm like, super glad you and his majesty get along so well? You both really need a super close friend like that. Plus, it's cute.

. . .Where are you going with this?

Uh, nowhere? It's just an observation, dude. Too hard to believe I might be happy you're happy with someone?

Yeah, pretty much.

Dude, I might be dumb and greedy and incapable of not screaming my ass off angrily for like ten seconds? But I'm still pretty invested in my unitmate's wellbeing and happiness? Like, you're all...

[ ,

no. he can't say important, that's bad, ]

...

You're just good, okay?

[Laughs –– honestly amused, not mocking.]

Oh man, you've gotta be the first to ever call me that –– not even Adora ever did. Sure you're not just a bad judge of character?

[ hufff ]

I mean, you're not like, morally good or whatever? I mean, you mostly are honestly, more than like, half of this unit? But I don't think being like, a good person has anything to do with morals anyway. Look at fucking all the "moral" idiots here who'd rather watch people die than have any backbone at all. Being good's more about like, conviction and justice and stuff. You know?

Edited 2019-06-25 21:58 (UTC)

Mmm. . .

[Swishing her tail.]

You know, I don't really think there's such a thing as "justice". That's just a fantasy that little glitter princesses in their tall marble towers have the luxury of playing out.

That's not tr...

[ hm. ]

Guilty as charged, I guess? But I dunno, I think everyone's got some idea of justice. Like, what do you fight for?

What, here? Or before?

...Both, actually. I'm curious.

The Horde, and BARiTONES.

. . .

[Pauses, then amends that to:]

To survive. And to prove I'm stronger than anyone thought.

[ he tilts his head a bit, thinking ]

Actually, aren't those kinda the same thing?

. . .What are the same?