audience: karlach

[mygod]

Comments

[ablazement]

[no he's valid she's also going to accuse stinky boy of freak shit fantasies]

I absolutely do not want to think about Suguru's subconscious. Mine's fucked up enough. [makes a face, while laughing.] What kind of drink d'you want? Sweet? Spicy? Haven't got anything that tastes exactly like bread, unfortunately.

[egodist]

I normally drink whatever other people have... Just nothing that'll make me want to gag?

[ is that enough,, ]

[ablazement]

Very specific.

[teases.]

I can give you what I've got, but it's going to burn.

[imagine she handed him a fireball whiskey. she doesn't, she gives him... idk i don't drink help!!! something that tastes sweet.]

[egodist]

[ help!!!! he'll take something sweet. he takes a little sippy and tilts his head ]

You assumed I couldn't handle whatever you're drinking...

[ she's right she's saving his ass ]

[ablazement]

Yeah, because I honestly think it might kill you. Again.

[offers him a sippy. it's strong as shit.]

[egodist]

[ he takes a sippy....

he doesn't DIE but my gOD does he make a face ]

Is this an act of self-destruction?

[ WHY WOULD YOU WILLINGLY DRINK THAT ]

[ablazement]

[help laughing!!!]

Just because you're a lightweight! [takes it back to take a drink.] What else have we got to do here, really.

[egodist]

Throw parties, apparently? You do have cats.... and puzzles.

[ he really likes the puzzles ]

[ablazement]

Parties mean we're too drunk to get upset about the living side shambling along like corpses.

[she says idly.]

Finish your drink and I'll give you a puzzle. [this sounds like the funniest thing in the world to her and it'll be more funny when she realizes he's got low tolerance]

[egodist]

The living could always get drunk too. [ there's too many children over there

but he drinks.... ]

I could still solve a puzzle while drinking...

[ oh the confidence ]

[ablazement]

I bet.

[also drinks.]

I'm surprised you agreed, actually. You don't seem like a big drinker in general?

[egodist]

Lucas drinks plenty. When he forced me out of the lab at home, we'd end a few evenings at a bar.

[ has he mentioned to her that they know each other well

it all comes together ]

[ablazement]

[the way i don't think he has mentioned this and neither has lucas

also did you get healed don't make me audience you at 9 pm on a thursday (threat)]

... Wait, you know each other well enough for drinks?

[egodist]

[ what's a few cracked ribs when you're picking up your dog

but he tilts his head ]

He's my bodyguard.

[ a beat ]

Not this version of him. But mine.

[ablazement]

[:ben:]

He's - your what. [HELP.] Lucas?

[idk why she's surprised, she got society'd and she knows he's murdered, but wow]

[egodist]

[ HELP scien looks amused at this ]

Funny, isn't it? With a face like that but a grip that can crush a grown man's windpipe in half a second.

[ WHAT A FREAK (FOND) ]

[ablazement]

Ugh. It's always the unfairly pretty ones.

[frowns but like, affectionately]

I'm going to challenge him to an arm wrestling contest.

[egodist]

[ nods approvingly ]

I would like to see the results of that.

[ francy and i talked about who has even a chance to be as strong as lucas in the whole game and we said karlach. perhaps also boothill ]

[ablazement]

[

the way he followed this up with I CAN BENCH BOOTHILL, also ]

Wait, you said not this version of him? So you've got the alternate timelines thing going on too.

[egodist]

[ HELP YEA THIS IS WHAT WE'VE ALL DECIDED!!!!!

scien just nods, yawning ]

We do. I'm three years ahead of both him and the Claude brat.

[ablazement]

Okay, that, I feel like I knew? Vaguely. I think you did mention that.

[squints.]

Are you friends? Or is it less nice than that?

[egodist]

[ nods at the first question

but looks thoughtful at the other ]

.... I don't think we were. The Claude brat and I aren't, though I was working on fixing him, too.

Lucas and I... [ hmmm ] Perhaps it's simpler to say I'm his master...? Though the leash is pretty loose since I left him behind... I saw him everyday and didn't hate it, so that's something.

[ takes another sippy of his drink ]

[ablazement]

I sort of got the idea that Mathis is more your responsibility than your friend.

[she says, slightly amused by that. she loves that kid, but also.

she gives scien a vaguely scandalized look.]

His master? Really? Okay. [she's like, wow, that's kinky]

[egodist]

[ has another sippy of his drink.... ]

The Claude brat to me is like... when your dog... has its own dog... So you still have to make sure it's alive, but it's not your dog...

[ oh no he's such a lightweight

anyway he's not fazed by the scandalized look because it is kind of kinky there's nothing normal about it ]

He gave his life to me, so what else is it...

[ablazement]

[WHEN YOUR DOG HAS ITS OWN DOG

i'm sorry she fucking snortlaughs like a dumbass when he says that, trying to hide it in her drink]

That's... wow, that's something. If he wasn't so holy I'd ask if you'd kissed.