CAPTIVE GAME: avante en garde & Valour

[idolpro]

[ You're in a room with no doors or windows, about the size of a living room. Depending on how many of you are around, it might feel a little cramped. The walls and ceiling are draped with fabrics, the floor covered in colorful rugs and piles of sitting cushions, but you can see the dirt ground and untreated wood walls peeking through in places. There are three or so oil lamps to light the space, each placed on a stump-like round little table that isn't big enough to hold much else. It's kind of cozy, but...

Most of the cushions are embroidered with an array of colors, but there's one pillow in particular, set aside from the rest, that's one solid color – Nemesis's position color. ]

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Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

[ he falls quiet for a moment at that ]

... I know.

You're right, of course. She'll still be there.

And even if it were her—

[ he can't say it'd be preferable to Kohime dying pointlessly, because that's not quite IT, but— ]

Well. I'm aware she isn't alive.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

. . .

[Okay well. She shifts back a little and then curls up, ears flat and her back pressed against him.]

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

[ that's cute and he smiles a little at that, though obviously she can't see it ]

Don't do anything this stupid again.

[ and he's going to just take off the scarf of his outfit so he can pass it over to her ]

Wrap that around your arm. Do you know how to stop the blood?

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

We'll have to see if it was worth it.

[She says, even though Nem is back and in one piece???]



Of course I do. We all had basic field training.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

It wasn't worth it, but it was effective. I don't think you could have done anything worse.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

. . .I know, okay? But it's not really her, what else do you want me to say?

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

Honestly I don't know.

[ he sighs ]

I just wanted you to know you did all you could? I'm not good at this.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

No one here is good at this, so you fit right in.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

[ there's a scoff at that ]

Do I? Maybe this was a good match up for me then.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

Well you're a weird fit for Taisho, but they could use someone with sense.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

I like to think of Taisho as my babysitting job.

So you're not wrong.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

[She rolls a bit to look up at him, but she's still mostly on the ground because she's 80% cat.]

A what? Because it sounds like you sit on babies which is really weird.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

[ why is your world so weird ]

No, it's just — you know when you're watching over a bunch of toddlers to make sure they don't do something stupid or kill themselves?

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

. . .

No, the goal for us was pretty much how to fight and kill effectively, and everyone just kind of let Kyle happen to himself.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

—Who's Kyle?

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

He's, uh.

So, like, was one of your siblings the kind of person to set a snare trap and then catch themselves in it under five minutes later. . .?

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

[ he thinks about it and well— ]

Probably Diego.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

Okay. So, Eggo.

Only he can't shoot, run, jump, dodge, or last in hand-to-hand either.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

That's just depressing.

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

Actually it was kinda funny.

Re: 2/2

[time5kip]

Aren't you all child soldiers? How did he even survive?

Re: 2/2

[purrrnicious]

Cadets don't leave the Fright Zone, and it's not like they used live ammo in training. I was promoted to Force Captain before our squad ever got sent on a mission, so I don't know how he dealt with fighting the rebels for real.

Probably Rogelio covered for him.