I dunno. Some adults can be like that too. Which makes it all the more humiliating if you compare those kinds of people to children who don't know better.
At least you seem to be having fun. The job hunt's just as dire over here as it is back home.
Hm? Well, plenty of things. Mostly looking around this City, see where my feet take me. LILITH gave me a hoverboard and I've been using it a lot more often.
Apart from that, there's poledancing practice with Malkuth. [ thank god she doesn't have to hide that from him anymore but he just HAD to find out......... ] Sometimes I eat out with Rodya too if we have the cash. And sometimes I still go out to the bay and check if the waters have cleared up. It's become a habit at this point.
[ look, he is/will be dancing with her, there were worse outcomes ]
Just wondering what you're up to. I usually don't have this much free time on my hands so it's been interesting trying to figure out what to fill it with.
Probably not. I don't like it when people are hiding these things from me. I guess it's fine if it's you, but I don't want people like Han Sooyoung finding out, for example.
And are you sure it's fine? It feels as though I keep imposing myself onto you lately. Besides, if I want to gossip, I'd rather do it IRL in case the AI's gleaning through our messages.
[ irl...........what the hell. siri, what does irl mean? ]
It's hardly an imposition if I'm the one inviting you to do it. But sure, we can meet up [ ........ ] IRL if that's what you're more comfortable with. Did you have a place in mind?
Oh, that means "in real life". Face-to-face, basically. That is, if you're not too busy right now? I don't have a specific place in mind, but we could go walk and have some fresh air while we talk.
[ it doesn't take her too long to prepare; she only needs to put on a red hoodie and sneakers before heading out. she'd thought meeting up with wriothesley after the... very strange things that were said and done during the infiltration mission would've been a daunting affair, but upon setting her eyes on the guy at the designating meeting place -- ]
[ SOMETHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED.........YOU NEVER KNOW........... But they did and now Kia has to app Gebura. Which has nothing to do with this tag but I needed to put it in writing anyway in case she reads this thread too.
But off they go then, the two of them keeping pace with each other. He's not usually one for gossip, but he can make an exception when it comes to Han Sooyoung. ]
Oh I don't know, it's always nice to find someone who shares your common interests.
[ In this case, it's bitching about Han Sooyoung. ]
[ kia if you're out there, we're doing this for you.............. and for us too lbr ]
Hopefully she's not the only one we have in common. That'd be the worst.
[ imagine hsy bringing people together. yuck. ]
I was just thinking of how she promised me to a date at the amusement park last month thanks to that app. An abandoned amusement park, mind you. Which is fine, but then she struck a chord in me on the way there. So I said that I don't want to go anymore, so she dropped at the side of the road! I was so exhausted by the time I got back to the base...
[ it was simply awful, and she clearly needed to let that out of her system before she explodes. ]
You're her teammate in Revelation, right? Surely you can tell her to piss off.
[ the way i forgot hsy was in revelation until i read your tag
There's a lot to unpack here, most of which is really just typical Sooyoung behavior, but Ishmael will have to forgive him for taking a brief detour to nitpick at one small fact. ]
A date, huh? I didn't know the two of you were like that.
[ He's kidding, a fact made very clear by his tone of voice, but also should he be cheering on the toxic yuri??? ]
That does sound like quite the hassle though. I'm surprised you agreed to go along with her to begin with.
[ Then again he probably would have too, so it's not like he has any room to talk. ]
And if you think my being her teammate gives me any sort of leverage against her, you're sorely mistaken. At least you can avoid being paired up with her when it comes to team-specific activities. [ He just has to suck it. ]
Good point. That does suck on your part. [ lmao ] I could always stop going along with her every whim, but even if she doesn't get all up in your face about it... I can tell she's lonely too.
[ it's probably one of the few things they have in common. she hates that fact, btw. when will she get her wholesome yuri in this game, huh, ]
But that's a topic for another day. [ she stretches her arms up with a yawn. ] I wanted to apologize to you for that night anyway, before I forget.
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[ looks at the women in this game....good luck with that one
What a short-lived gossip session though. But that's fine, he doesn't hold enough actual ire towards Sooyoung to put her on blast for more than a couple of minutes. They've all got problems here, both on a persona level and on a broader level, and pointless bitching usually doesn't solve any of those.
Even if he's not inclined to show Sooyoung as much sympathy as Ishmael does.
Not that there's time to ponder that either when she's already steamrolling ahead with an apology he doesn't expect. ]
Did you already forget? We failed the infiltration mission. Hell, we didn't even step a single foot in the auction. I got a little carried away, and... I might have said something weird and off-putting while drunk...
[ she's usually not that cringe, okay. on one hand, at least she wasn't black-out drunk. on the other... well. she may or may not be aware of what she said and heard that fateful night. ]
I don't know. I'm not that good at keeping up pretenses, as you can probably tell by now.
[ More like he wasn't actually that bothered by their mission failure. Sure, he takes his work seriously, but it's not like they were the only two sent on this mission and it's also not as though she threw a big enough fit to get them turned away at the door.
But he will accept her apology nonetheless, because not doing so would be discourteous to the effort she's putting in now. ]
So what I'm hearing is that I should pick a different partner the next time anything undercover rolls around. [ He sounds more amused than offended. ] It's fine, though I appreciate the apology. From the sounds of things, the mission was an overall success by the end even without us.
[ And no one got (severely) injured so really, it all turned out okay. ]
Buuuuut if you really want to make it up to me, we can go drinking again off company time and you can show me what you're like when you really get carried away.
[ show him what you're like when you're white girl wasted 👁️👁️ ]
You just wanted to see me in a whole different light, huh. Don't think I forgot that you know about my poledancing hobby now too.
[ she's still so mad!! about that!!!!! she'd strangle malkuth if she could. ]
But no, it's not just being undercover. It's about playing those stupid roles where we have to pretend that we're in love when we're not.
[ if she hears from other people one more time that they want to take her to bed that night she's going to scream. are they all that repressed in LILITH?
(yes. yes they are.) ]
I just-- want us to be us, you know? As... friends. [ there, she said it. ] There's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I dunno. Some adults can be like that too. Which makes it all the more humiliating if you compare those kinds of people to children who don't know better.
At least you seem to be having fun. The job hunt's just as dire over here as it is back home.
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It certainly keeps me busy. Though I never did ask what you do when you're off-base.
[ too busy interrogating her about the City.... ]
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Apart from that, there's poledancing practice with Malkuth. [ thank god she doesn't have to hide that from him anymore but he just HAD to find out......... ] Sometimes I eat out with Rodya too if we have the cash. And sometimes I still go out to the bay and check if the waters have cleared up. It's become a habit at this point.
Why do you ask?
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Just wondering what you're up to. I usually don't have this much free time on my hands so it's been interesting trying to figure out what to fill it with.
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I get it. I'm not too used to this much free time either.
I still can't believe you found out about me and Malkuth doing that, though. Ugh...
MY PERFECT SETUP
Would it make you feel better if I pretended to forget about it?
LOOK they can go out in a couple of tags, dw
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[ she does, though. she can tell hsy is just as lonely despite intentionally pushing people away. ishmael was like that, too. ]
I could go on and on, but you already get the idea so I won't talk your ear off about it. Er, text, I mean.
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[ whether that's good or bad....eh. he's still figuring that one out. ]
You can talk all you want though. [ text?? whatever. ] I don't mind listening. Or reading, as the case may be.
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And are you sure it's fine? It feels as though I keep imposing myself onto you lately. Besides, if I want to gossip, I'd rather do it IRL in case the AI's gleaning through our messages.
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It's hardly an imposition if I'm the one inviting you to do it. But sure, we can meet up [ ........ ] IRL if that's what you're more comfortable with. Did you have a place in mind?
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I'll meet you by the front entrance then.
> action!
[ it doesn't take her too long to prepare; she only needs to put on a red hoodie and sneakers before heading out. she'd thought meeting up with wriothesley after the... very strange things that were said and done during the infiltration mission would've been a daunting affair, but upon setting her eyes on the guy at the designating meeting place -- ]
Hey.
[ nope. normal so far. that's good. ]
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Ishmael offers up a hey and Wriothesley responds in kind by tipping one raised hand in a small wave. Totally normal so far. ]
Thought of any place you wanted to go? If not, there's a new bakery that opened up recently I was hoping to visit.
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yeah, probably. it's all a drunken dream. people dream of kissing their friends all the time, obviously. ]
Mm, sounds good. Like I said, I needed some fresh air.
[ she leads the way towards the gate, making sure to match his strides. ]
And maybe bitch more about Han Sooyoung, but I doubt that you're really here for that. [ is he?? ]
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But off they go then, the two of them keeping pace with each other. He's not usually one for gossip, but he can make an exception when it comes to Han Sooyoung. ]
Oh I don't know, it's always nice to find someone who shares your common interests.
[ In this case, it's bitching about Han Sooyoung. ]
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Hopefully she's not the only one we have in common. That'd be the worst.
[ imagine hsy bringing people together. yuck. ]
I was just thinking of how she promised me to a date at the amusement park last month thanks to that app. An abandoned amusement park, mind you. Which is fine, but then she struck a chord in me on the way there. So I said that I don't want to go anymore, so she dropped at the side of the road! I was so exhausted by the time I got back to the base...
[ it was simply awful, and she clearly needed to let that out of her system before she explodes. ]
You're her teammate in Revelation, right? Surely you can tell her to piss off.
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There's a lot to unpack here, most of which is really just typical Sooyoung behavior, but Ishmael will have to forgive him for taking a brief detour to nitpick at one small fact. ]
A date, huh? I didn't know the two of you were like that.
[ He's kidding, a fact made very clear by his tone of voice, but also should he be cheering on the toxic yuri??? ]
That does sound like quite the hassle though. I'm surprised you agreed to go along with her to begin with.
[ Then again he probably would have too, so it's not like he has any room to talk. ]
And if you think my being her teammate gives me any sort of leverage against her, you're sorely mistaken. At least you can avoid being paired up with her when it comes to team-specific activities. [ He just has to suck it. ]
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Good point. That does suck on your part. [ lmao ] I could always stop going along with her every whim, but even if she doesn't get all up in your face about it... I can tell she's lonely too.
[ it's probably one of the few things they have in common. she hates that fact, btw. when will she get her wholesome yuri in this game, huh, ]
But that's a topic for another day. [ she stretches her arms up with a yawn. ] I wanted to apologize to you for that night anyway, before I forget.
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What a short-lived gossip session though. But that's fine, he doesn't hold enough actual ire towards Sooyoung to put her on blast for more than a couple of minutes. They've all got problems here, both on a persona level and on a broader level, and pointless bitching usually doesn't solve any of those.
Even if he's not inclined to show Sooyoung as much sympathy as Ishmael does.
Not that there's time to ponder that either when she's already steamrolling ahead with an apology he doesn't expect. ]
Apologize? For what?
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[ she's usually not that cringe, okay. on one hand, at least she wasn't black-out drunk. on the other... well. she may or may not be aware of what she said and heard that fateful night. ]
I don't know. I'm not that good at keeping up pretenses, as you can probably tell by now.
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But he will accept her apology nonetheless, because not doing so would be discourteous to the effort she's putting in now. ]
So what I'm hearing is that I should pick a different partner the next time anything undercover rolls around. [ He sounds more amused than offended. ] It's fine, though I appreciate the apology. From the sounds of things, the mission was an overall success by the end even without us.
[ And no one got (severely) injured so really, it all turned out okay. ]
Buuuuut if you really want to make it up to me, we can go drinking again off company time and you can show me what you're like when you really get carried away.
[ show him what you're like when you're white girl wasted 👁️👁️ ]
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[ she's still so mad!! about that!!!!! she'd strangle malkuth if she could. ]
But no, it's not just being undercover. It's about playing those stupid roles where we have to pretend that we're in love when we're not.
[ if she hears from other people one more time that they want to take her to bed that night she's going to scream. are they all that repressed in LILITH?
(yes. yes they are.) ]
I just-- want us to be us, you know? As... friends. [ there, she said it. ] There's nothing wrong with that, right?
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