scawwy ✦ lucas proust

[recession]

maybe ill find a shitpost later

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[faithkept]

[Thanks Daan you're a true friend saving him from having to try to explain.]

He's both of those things, yes.

[recession]

That's good. Prior stances aside, he does appear to be our best bet for rebuilding and escape of this place right now.

[ Sux he died but oh well. It sorta worked out anyway. ]

[faithkept]

[Sometimes NPCs gotta die it's fine...]

I would agree with that, as well. He's got a fine mastery over technology and he's been studying the makeup of this world, apparently... The next machine oughtn't go exploding on us.

[recession]

I wouldn't even know where to begin with something like that.

[ Y'all just STUDY the fabric of reality like that? ]

People think I'm well-equipped to deal with this sort of situation, but I'm always just one quick reminder away that I'm really not.

[faithkept]

[HE DOESN'T!!!! HE'S JUST A SCHOOL TEACHER he can't stand all these genius fucks running around.]

Neither would I... It's all quite beyond me. [:handshake:] Though you do seem like the sort who everyone would turn to regardless of how well-equipped you were to deal with a given situation, to be honest.

[recession]

[ It's time for Lucas to get a PhD!!! Get tenured idiot.

Anyway he slowly shakes his head. ]

I recall Lavi insisted on that too early on. I don't really get it, to be honest...

[ He's a disaster. ]

[faithkept]

[HELL YEAAAAAH invents college.

This is so funny though. He is a disaster, and yet.]

It's because you have the air of someone who is relatively collected and quite calm, even - or perhaps especially - in the sort of situations where others would need someone stable-seeming.

[recession]

I don't think I'm that rare of a person, most everyone has been pretty good at remaining level-headed.

[ Or is it because he's so calm to begin with that people don't tend to panic around him. Hmm. Good for thought question mark. ]

I'd be a terrible doctor if I was the first to panic though, I'll tell you that much. [ Nods at Lucas's stash. ] But even shaking hands, nothing a quick mouthful of whiskey first can't help...

[faithkept]

[It is perhaps the latter... And that makes it even funnier when Daan loses it and just starts pacing around talking about bald religious men.]

I think that's also due in part to how people act around you in particular... Though many people are too tired to do anything but seem level-headed, these days. [WHEN YOU'RE SO DEAD INSIDE YOU JUST SEEM OKAY WITH EVERYTHING actually maybe that's the energy he's picking up from Daan.]

Very true, though. Certainly one wouldn't wish to see their doctor looking more nervous than they are.

[recession]

[ Insert that one calm down Dave it's just a minor surgery meme here. Also listen sometimes you get cursed and you're so stressed out. ]

Overly emotional people don't tend to make for good doctors, no. They're all usually just a little bit strange.

[faithkept]

[HELP. It happens... Daan is truly out here suffering on this the day of final pardi.]

The people who do make for good doctors, or the overly emotional people?

[recession]

Doctors.

It takes a certain kind to feel alright looking at half the things doctors do. Sometimes feels like I've seen more insides than actual soldiers.

[faithkept]

Oh... That's true, isn't it? And in much greater detail.

[Actually having to do extensive work instead of just looking at a smear...]

[recession]

No one knows how to cut through flesh and bone cleaner than a surgeon after all.

[faithkept]

[Gazing into the middle distance and nodding. He is so unfortunately familiar with guts.]

...Well. In any case... I suppose it does prepare one for a certain level of chaos and gore.

[recession]

[ Is there a single person who's like, normal in Virche?

Anyway he looks distant. ]

A certain level. I'm definitely a bit of an extreme example.

[faithkept]

[Lucas's sister is the most normal person in Virche who is actually for real normal.]

...It feels cruel to say that it might have done you well here. [BUT IT MIGHT HAVE. He'll hold the bottle out just in case Daan would like another drinky.]

[recession]

[ He tries to imagine an alternate universe where he didn't end up in Prehevil first. Or maybe an AU where he had a different childhood entirely. ]

It's really not a lot of "experience" to matter anyway.

[ You know what, yeah, let's take it. ]

It's just... tiring. The typical person can only take so much data before their brain starts shutting down as a safety measure.

[faithkept]

Are you ever concerned that you may be getting close?

[Daan deals with so much. He is normally so calm, but my god does he deal with so much.]

[recession]

Oh... already been there.

[ If anything it just comes and goes. It's like 90% of the reason why he's sorta okay on some weeks and then just suddenly loses it out of nowhere.

*Tuesday morning incident is an outlier he was cursed. He doesn't normally just start yelling about bald men. ]

[faithkept]

[NOT THE CURSED DAAN YELLING ABOUT BALD MEN.]

Oh. ...Well. [WELL!!!] ...As in, you've already been concerned, or you've already had your brain shut down a bit?

[recession]

The second one.

[ Well it's worse actually but you can only say so much without it being way too much baggage. ]

[faithkept]

[SIR YOUR BAGGAGE. He's radiating gentle concern...]

...Something like that sounds difficult to recover from.

[recession]

It's not like I've exactly had any moment to recover at all.

[ Really. Cannot emphasise enough how recent so much of everything in his life is. ]

[faithkept]

[Daan also needs a therapy arc. Come with him to therapy for the next 3-5 years.]

At the very least, that ought to change soon enough.

[One way or another because they'll either succeed and go home or they'll all die.]