...You know the whole party thing? Even if I did believe it and miraculously won against Satan, it still wouldn't save me. I need more than just my life back to escape what happened to me.
there's a stutter where she's like, surprised, and then she just rolls with it because you can't get embarrassed about people saying nice things to you if you simply do not think about them!]
It's the face paint. Adds about fifty cool points.
[she's not very good at keeping a straight face which is why she's grinning when she answers:]
Yeah. You have to pledge your eternal soul to your necromancer. It's a whole thing. [this isn't like. untrue? but she is very clearly pulling lavi's leg in some respects.]
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I wouldn't know. I haven't been. [in a war, she means.] It's a little bit a war, now. With those parameters? It's a bit a war.
[and then, genuinely:] ... Sorry that you can't even escape it when you're dead.
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[quietly, with an exhaustion that's both pained and full of relief.]
And I'm sorry too, that you have to be dragged into this bullshit.
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[... she'll take it. her shoulders come down a little from her ears.]
You believe the twenty person bull?
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...I don't know. I don't want to, but... I think if he were lying, then he'd pick a number closer to one.
'Course, someone could have always fed him that number. Not that there's evidence to prove that right now either.
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[she agrees. when he nudges her, her lips twitch. she nudges him back just a bit. solidarity.]
But even if we don't believe it, it might not matter. Someone will.
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...And even if they don't fully believe it, they'll still take a chance anyway.
[scrubs at his face]
If we can believe that Satan will let us go if we kick his ass, then I guess we can believe this shit too.
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[she agrees, quieter.]
Should I be expecting you to stab a motherfucker next week, then? [this is the worst joke, but it's clear that it's a joke.]
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Nah, well...
[LAVI IT WAS A JOKE??]
...You know the whole party thing? Even if I did believe it and miraculously won against Satan, it still wouldn't save me. I need more than just my life back to escape what happened to me.
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That fucked up?
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he shakes his head]
Just a hostage situation. Needed me to get my Gramps to talk, and he won't ever talk, so.
[he leans back on his hands and shrugs]
There's not really a point.
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That's spectacularly vague.
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Does it make me look cool and mysterious?
[no....]
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I don't think it's possible for you to look cool and mysterious. [BE NICE]
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I think you look cool and mysterious. [take THAT]
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there's a stutter where she's like, surprised, and then she just rolls with it because you can't get embarrassed about people saying nice things to you if you simply do not think about them!]
It's the face paint. Adds about fifty cool points.
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It is pretty cool. [this score of 150, wow] What's it for?
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wait,]
-- Right, you mentioned that before... Why are you a nun? Do you have to be one to be a cavalier?
[(mean girls voice) you can't just ask people why they're nuns lavi]
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Yeah. You have to pledge your eternal soul to your necromancer. It's a whole thing. [this isn't like. untrue? but she is very clearly pulling lavi's leg in some respects.]
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...
...WAIT,]
...So you and Harrow...? You exchanged vows...?
[HE'S GONNA JUST THINK OF MISCONCEPTIONS]
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she splutters, and then:]
No. Yuck. Yikes. I'm fucking with you, stop the jokes.
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Hey, I'm young and impressionable. Plus, everyone's got such interesting stories that I'm starting to take them at face-value.
[why is EVERYONE so weird and why is that COOL]