"Collateral damage is to be expected with something like that. And you are? I already find your voice grating."
"...Is everything okay?"
"Are you two...are you a thing? Rennor found himself a girl, no wonder he's acting all awkward!"
"I have a few but go on."
Edited by Randomman5 on Aug 14th 2018 at 9:37:50 AM
Main Room
Val: (looks over at Piccolo) Well, I don't think having to fight your own kind would be very nice to go through...
Roof
Homura: ...(why did her head just twitch for a moment as she looked back at Risky?) Me? I- (stops and looks for a moment in bewilderment at Ariel suddenly crashing in)
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Athena is outside
under a cardboard box
eating candy like the mindless sloth she spiritually is
audreyborg! is by the main room
reading the Super Fucking Bill that nephew has (it probably reached that far)
"... hmrmm... waste of paper, those poor trees!"
she's now trying to gather up the whole thing
I— it's okay. Aven's nice.
Um... it's... it's, uh, a long story. But I guess I might as well go into it. Um...
-takes a deep breath and then sighs-
A few years back, I ...
-rubs the back of his head, tugging on his hat - this is clearly hard for him to go int-
That is to say, a good friend's universe was, um, frozen solid. And he — I felt hopeless, um, like I can't...
-he sighs-
I'm just a quarian. Was just a quarian. Um. But the point is — against, you know, existential threats like that, what am I to do?
But... there was this, I guess temple that showed up in the woods. For this demon god. Called Tzeentch. Um. Gosh I hope saying his name doesn't summon him or whatever. Anyways he uh I asked him to try and help fix it, my friend's, my friend's universe I mean. So — he needed payment, so I gave him... like... the rights, I guess, to a parallel universe of mine. There's infinite worlds, so... so...
-takes a deep breath-
I'm not going to justify it, I'm just going to say it, this isn't the important part. I let him have the rights to, like, enter there. And... in return, he would fix things in my friend's universe. Someone else stopped it from going through, um. But - also he made me into what's called a 'daemon prince', as, I guess, a reward for it. I guess. Um.
-rubs the back of his neck-
So I'm not a quarian. I look like one, minus the horns and the tail and all that, um, but I'm not. I'm this ... huge monster that eats souls. I've been able to ... I guess, disguise myself as a quarian, but that's been wearing off, because my horns and my tail - I can't make them go away.
Um. With regards to the souls thing, that is, um. A big reason why I went to that civil war. So I could, um.
-coughs, looking at Sagi but not really able to meet his eyes- Yeah, I, um, went to help in a civil war against these evil alien synth-organics called the Combine. As a side note.
I... I think that's basically it.
...Whew. That was a mouthful.
-sighs, looking a little worse for wear-
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI"Hm?"
-Risky looks up...just in time to see Ariell falling, and hops back out of the way, Ariel knocking Risky's hat off her head as she falls-
"And is this the mermaid cavalry? I'm not impressed."
-When Marno finally speaks, it's with a tone that...Rennor has never heard from the sarcastic ghost-
-One of...a surprising amount of empathy-
"That's...I get it. I'm sorry man."
-Sagi nods, knowing exactly what Marno's talking about-
"But I already have a job..."
Edited by Randomman5 on Aug 14th 2018 at 9:54:51 AM

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-feels bad, but thinks it's fair-
Oh, I've been, uh. Y'know.
Not great! Not great.
Um... s-she's a really good friend. Yeah. We have a— erm — that is to say — it's not like we — um... it's kind of unusual — but— it's like — it's, y'know?
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI