scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

[recession]

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[ablazement]

Yeah, well. Unlearn it, maybe.

[she teases, folding her arms on the edge of the bed, resting her chin on them. like she can say shit.]

Anyway, wow, did we scare you that bad? [SORRY ABOUT THE WORM LORE.........]

[recession]

Oh. No. Well...

I'd been thinking it for a little while ever since I slodged through those three days in Prehevil. Ever since I came back from the war, really.

...

[ He briefly thinks about saying something else, but decides against it. ]

Thought about my future. What I'd even do if I survived that city.

Supposed I could go back to Rondon. Get my license for real, open a private clinic... but then, it'd just be work, work, work. I really could use a break.

[ablazement]

You really could use a break.

[her tail swishes back and forth against the floor.]

I like that you're thinking about your future, even if you're not sure what to do with it. That makes me happy.

[recession]

...Maybe a bar.

[ He doesn't really address the last part because he doesn't know how, but hey. ]

[ablazement]

Hah, yeah? What kind of drinks?

That's like - alchemist shit, it transfers, right? [sure???]

[recession]

...Huh?

[ WHAT ]

I mean... I'd just make cosmos... martinis... I'm not doing anything that fancy.

[ablazement]

[HELP]

Yeah! I mean - I knew a guy in the Gate, right, who made health potions and all sorts of things, and then he got tired of that and went to work at the Elfsong, and he made the best drinks.

[recession]

Oh. Well... I'm not exactly an herbalist like Mr. Greengrass, and it'd be unwise for me to haphazardly mix together medicines. Really ill-advised, actually.

So...

They'd be completely separate.

[ablazement]

Eh. You could figure out drinks fine, is what I'm saying.

[don't give her that look]

[recession]

I don't know what I did to deserve encouragement, but I am actually pretty confident that I know how to make a drink.

[ablazement]

It's not encouragement! I - well, it is, but not patronizing. I'm agreeing with you. You should do a bar.

[recession]

I am considering it already.

...

Just tired of it all. Think a giant zweihander slash to the chest is enough justification to do a bit of early retirement.

[ Can he even consider that thing a zweihander anymore. Whatever, what the fuck Cloud. ]

[ablazement]

[tail swish...]

Honestly. Can't believe I turned around for five seconds to make sure Mathis didn't kill someone and you got nearly sliced in two.

[recession]

I wasn't expecting to be.

[ 'What did you expect stepping in-between Vin and a BUSTER SWORD held by an AXE-CRAZY WOMAN' that's the problem he didn't think that through. Sure he knows monster possession means people go batshit but damn, he didn't think Aqua would just go off that hard. ]

...Thank you, for stopping him. It could've ended worse if you hadn't.

[ablazement]

[huffs at the first part, but:]

... Yeah. I just - we can't all kill each other over and over, you know? It looked like a chain was going to set off and I needed to make sure.

That, and I love the little snot. I wanted him safe. [mathis is her sonboy boyson]

[recession]

[ God. He's back to that thousand-yard stare again. Everything is so awful all of the time. ]

I'm glad you're still here. And you're there for him.

[ablazement]

[it's very silly but this makes her very happy, and it's obvious.]

I'm glad I am too. That he's got people. [a sigh.] That's all I can do here. Can't rage, but I can give a mean hug.

[recession]

[ He doesn't know how berserkers work so this just sounds like a funny sentence to him. ]

Well... yeah.

I'd prefer you to not rage. That's scary.

[ He's not above admitting the obvious. Aqua was already so much, fucking 7' devil woman tiefling tank raging out would be horrific. ]

[ablazement]

[HELP she laughs at that.]

It is, actually! I'm a scary motherfucker. [she says sitting on the ground with her tail practically wagging like okay, you sure aren't right now] Maybe if we can figure out how to get free, you can unleash me on the cultists. They could use a good beatdown.

[recession]

[ YOU CAN BE TWO THINGS. In another world where I am playing Marcoh against Karlach... ]

Okay, well. That's fine... probably.

I'm beyond advising against violence towards them anymore.

[ablazement]

[looks him up like oh a boxer i'm a fan of punch wizards]

Serve 'em right for taking good people from us, over and over. [it's a little more somber, but.] Sometimes violence is the answer.

[i'm a good person but i'm about to start throwing rocks at people]

[recession]

[ I love him, he canonically loves frogs/toads? This is important to me. ]

Gonna be nice and not answer that. See no evil, as they say.

[ Closes his eye (again). ]

[ablazement]

[OUGH I ALSO LOVE HIM

snort. she sprawls a little further on her edge of the bed and the floor. famine called her "a dog that doesn't realize it's too big to sit in your lap" and i still think is the funniest thing in the world.]

It's not evil if you're getting rid of evil, but I appreciate you looking away from my various crimes.

[recession]

...

Hardly my place to judge others on grounds of crime and violence anymore...

[ablazement]

Sometimes you can't avoid it. You do what you've got to.

Really, though, I'd be screwed if you got mad about me ripping apart demons for ten years.