A Circle of Flowers

[wotanon]

Who: LiliS & Guests
Where: LiliS Dorm
When: Day 449, Evening (Backdated)

[It's evening time for flowers to turn in for the day.]

Comments

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[syckophant]

They certainly can be both, but we can't assume.

[Obviously BiT is not their allies, after all.]

I'm happy to hear them out. I'm just hard to impress, is all.

[It's probably obvious enough that Eichi is less being "hard to impress" and more "once bitten, twice shy". He seems very outgoing, and he's come to trust his own unit, but... people who aren't in his unit activate the wounded animal in him. Wary, whether he's being helped or harmed.]

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[at_heart]

[ Right, 'obviously'. ] [ And yeah, between this and the last conversation they had on the subject. Lupine rubs the back of his neck. ]

—Rene made it sound like we allied up because both our units got the short end of the stick a lot, and we wanted there to be at least one other unit we could count on not to write us off as an acceptable loss.

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[syckophant]

I understand, of course. It is a practical thing for certain, being able to know we will be favored by another unit.

The hardest part of an alliance is not only trusting them to pick us first, but also committing to picking them first, as a unit, always. Regardless of the members that are there during any given game, regardless of feelings for the members of other units that may develop.

If we choose to ally with Bad End, it means that if the choice comes down to a stranger on Bad End or someone I consider closer than family on BARiTONES, I will have to choose the Bad End, every time. So... I just want to know they will commit to doing the same.

Unfortunately that isn't very nice-sounding. A terrible way to start a partnership, but it's more important that we discuss those hard parts before we agree.

Would you like to take point on that serious discussion, or should I?

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[at_heart]

[ ...Frowns. ]

I'd be fine with being a second priority. [ Mildly. ] But yeah, that's probably what we're looking at.

[ Doesn't immediately answer the question, though. He doesn't love putting all the difficult, ugly parts of this on Eichi. Maybe especially if Eichi doesn't find them all that difficult. ]

—We could start by asking Rene what the alliance has been like historically. A basis for comparison.

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[syckophant]

If you want to be second priority, you might as well just rely on the friendships you have.

Sure. We can ask whoever knew of the alliance beforehand what it was like before. We are a different unit than LiliS of the past, but there is no reason not to look into it.

Re: Day 449: Bad End Dinner(???) Party

[at_heart]

[ Well, he currently expects to be no priority at all, so second sounds great to him, but also: he knows he'd be comfortable with an infinitely less formal arrangement than the one Eichi wants. He's trying not to let his own distaste of red tape screw that up. Finally answering that question: ]

...I don't mind doing the talking.

[ But he's definitely going to start with an apology about the Kiri Situation. ]