audience: cloud

[mygod]

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[mygod]

[ brings a hand up to their chin in thought ]

You can say... they have a special, people-oriented skillset.

[residentmerc]

... People-oriented skillset...?

[ what does that even MEAN im STUPID ]

[mygod]

A specialized one.

[ that's on me i typo'd ]

To be any clearer would become too specific.

[residentmerc]

Fair enough. Guess I'll be looking more closely at that noticeboard.

[ hmmm. head tilt ]

They tell you if they were interested in the match thing? [ he's not! so sucks if they are!!! but this doesn't feel like a hint to him because. as far as he is aware. 99% of people aren't interested or are lying about not being interested that is how it be ]

[mygod]

[ shakes head ]

You're awfully curious about my conversations with others. But that is again something I am not able to share.

[residentmerc]

Fair enough. Just makes it easier if we're both not seeking each other out.

[mygod]

Someone else did put it as "not feeling like a charity", to give in just to grant someone their wish...

I suppose you are in the same mindset?

[residentmerc]

Nope. Just... Don't want to tie my life down with anyone else's.

[mygod]

I would make a jest about commitment issues if I didn't find this to be a reasonable response.

[residentmerc]

Isn't that just a roundabout way of making the joke anyway?

[mygod]

[ the corner of their mouth lifts slightly ]

Seemed worth saying.

[residentmerc]

It wasn't. I don't have commitment issues.

[mygod]

If you insist.

[ zia!! give mem!!! ]

[residentmerc]

I do.

[ i think you got the aerith version of this so wow until 5:01 !!!! memory!!! ]

[mygod]

[ I DON'T KNOW WHAT I GOT

but wow talk about brain problems. famine turns to cloud and though their expression isn't clear, they do seem to be appraising him from behind the mask ]

... care to explain?

[residentmerc]

[ WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW ]

...Not really. [ looking away because actually he hates this memory thank you. ] I'm... sick, I guess. It's something called the degradation.

[mygod]

[ I DON'T UNDERSTAND FF7 AND NEITHER DOES FAMINE ]

And the degradation makes you easily influenced enough to harm your companions?

[residentmerc]

[ to be fair! who does ]

That's not... It's not like that. [ DEFENSIVE. ] It messes with my mind. Sephiroth... He wasn't actually there.

[mygod]

[ totally fair to be defensive given the fact that famine is a rudeass

tilts head ]

So you hallucinate him even when he's not around?

[ toxic yaoi ]

[residentmerc]

... I guess. [ dana you have no idea how toxic this yaoi is. i shouldve given you the memshare where sephiroth hugs him. but hes frowning because he does not want to be seeing sephiroths thank you ] It's... things he's said before. Or implied.

[mygod]

[ hELLOOOOOO TOXIC YAOI!!!!! ]

And they linger with you, to the point that your body listens before your mind?

[residentmerc]

[ shaking his head. he can't even explain it to himself so explain the toxic yaoiness of this to famine is hard ]

... I don't think my mind was present at all. I just... blank out.

[mygod]

[ hmmm ]

... but you clearly still remember. And you're certain this is part of an illness? Not systematic brainwashing over a period of time?

[residentmerc]

After, yeah. [ remember is a strong word but he'll let that go. the question just. makes him frown ] Brainwashing?

[ excuse you just because sephiroth likes to call him his puppet. no he's like thinking of the logistics before dismissing it with a shake of his head. if it was brainwashing sephiroth is real bad at it cloud has stabbed him so many times ]

I don't even know if illness is the right word. It's ... a side effect from the enhancements I got in the military.

[ he took radiation steroids ]

[mygod]

I see.

[ and they bring their hand up to their chin, curious ]

And you would decline a brain scan? Or looking to see if this side effect could be managed?