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[ She could come up with a bunch of excuses for why she’s avoided making contact with Wash again after that whole… let’s call it the incident, with the fake them. Time, other drama, forgetting, whatever—they’d all be a little bit true, but really, it’s mostly about how goddamned messy and awkward this is gonna be.
She’s pretty sure he’s been avoiding bumping into her in the hallway as much as she’s been avoiding bumping into him, they’re starting from a hell of a baseline of awkwardness here. And that’s before even touching what actually happened that night, where she felt like her worst self and probably looked that way from the outside, too.
So it takes a bit of a nudge from York to convince her she should reach out first, try and see where they actually stand after the incident. ]
so hey uh
scale of 1-10 how likely are you to put a knife to my throat if i came over there or something
[ …look, she never said she was good at starting these kinds of conversations. ]
I spoke with Jon, and if you were interested, he has positions open.
He did let me know to bring something up though in case you are uncomfortable with it.
1. Not everyone that works there is human or may have some sort of ability.
2. He has an ability that can compel the truth from you, or just know things - which the latter he has less control over. It's a proximity thing, and we're not usually in that close proximity with him.
I can't say I've run into any issues with him over it, and I wasn't aware of them until I brought York over to meet with him.
He did let me know to bring something up though in case you are uncomfortable with it.
1. Not everyone that works there is human or may have some sort of ability.
2. He has an ability that can compel the truth from you, or just know things - which the latter he has less control over. It's a proximity thing, and we're not usually in that close proximity with him.
I can't say I've run into any issues with him over it, and I wasn't aware of them until I brought York over to meet with him.
There's a lot of non-human going on in this place, isn't there.
[ not like he has an issue. it's just, you know. weird. non-human in their world meant alien, more or less. ]
It seems like kind of a big thing to not warn people about. I'm glad I'm getting a warning now, don't get me wrong, but how long have you been working for the guy?
[ not like he has an issue. it's just, you know. weird. non-human in their world meant alien, more or less. ]
It seems like kind of a big thing to not warn people about. I'm glad I'm getting a warning now, don't get me wrong, but how long have you been working for the guy?
[ wash has been absolutely reeling in the aftermath. he's incredibly well practiced and looking and sounding like he's entirely okay, so it's a little hard to tell unless he decides to tell you about it, but the emotional fallout and everything else from that whole adventure is something he's still struggling with. he'd maybe killed someone he cared about that he really shouldn't have cared about, and he absolutely did pull a gun on south. he'd gotten up to plenty in his fake-life, but those things still ring the most in his mind.
clearing the air is probably a good idea. wash would've probably gotten around to it eventually, but here they are now. ]
Normally I'd say it's unlikely, but who knows.
[ not comforting. he doesn't mean it as a threat. just for all he knows she could turn up and the city might turn another switch and something terrible might happen all over again. he doesn't trust himself usually, let alone now. ]
But we should probably talk.
clearing the air is probably a good idea. wash would've probably gotten around to it eventually, but here they are now. ]
Normally I'd say it's unlikely, but who knows.
[ not comforting. he doesn't mean it as a threat. just for all he knows she could turn up and the city might turn another switch and something terrible might happen all over again. he doesn't trust himself usually, let alone now. ]
But we should probably talk.
yeah no that's about what i expected. that was sure
well it was a fuckin thing
[ 'A thing' doesn't even begin to cover it. The version of her that had the gun pulled on her didn't realise how close to repeating history (history? the future? Whatever, the multiverse really can go fuck itself sometimes, it's confusing) they'd come, but she sure does now. It's fucking uncanny, really. From the fake her mimicking her at her worst, being prepared to throw her brother under the bus, to her ending up face to face with a gun-wielding Washington. ]
i swear, that was not like, the city making me reveal my ~true nature~ or some shit, i meant everything i said when we first arrived
It's fine.
[ it's not really fine but he doesn't really know what else to say about it. he doesn't put anything on south, doesn't think she even really did anything wrong -- she was kind of obnoxious, yeah, but that's hardly worth shooting someone over. he remembers clearly, too clearly. there's no ambiguity for him there. ]
How much do you even remember of it?
[ he nearly calls her anja there. manages to not. it's. weird. ]
[ it's not really fine but he doesn't really know what else to say about it. he doesn't put anything on south, doesn't think she even really did anything wrong -- she was kind of obnoxious, yeah, but that's hardly worth shooting someone over. he remembers clearly, too clearly. there's no ambiguity for him there. ]
How much do you even remember of it?
[ he nearly calls her anja there. manages to not. it's. weird. ]
I'm making myself available. You wanted to know who fixed Felix's armor. I did.
[ ah. wary, now -- he had wanted to find out, that's why he'd been asking around, but he'd definitely rather be the one approaching on his own grounds. he must've heard from ephemera, which must mean. ]
Fixing something like that isn't trivial. I wanted to know who was out there.
Fixing something like that isn't trivial. I wanted to know who was out there.
I designed a neural interface that connected me to my ship. It isn't trivial but isn't, what's the human expression, rocket science? either.
Not even a little.
[ Playing that up because of Felix's natural reactions and stories he's heard? A little. ]
I don't do manners. Did you kill Felix?
[ Playing that up because of Felix's natural reactions and stories he's heard? A little. ]
I don't do manners. Did you kill Felix?
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I hate you people and the absolutely nonsensical categorization of types of caring about someone. 'Romantic' 'familial' 'friendly' 'paternal'. As if 'I care' isn't sufficent.
He's a frelling feral cat who has occasional spats of apparent rabidity that I fed long enough to get attached to and occasionally chooses to trust me.
Did. You. Kill. Him.
He's a frelling feral cat who has occasional spats of apparent rabidity that I fed long enough to get attached to and occasionally chooses to trust me.
Did. You. Kill. Him.
Edited 2021-10-19 11:44 (UTC)
[ wow, buddy. you're a lot. ]
Probably.
[ it's really not that he's trying to be cagey. he genuinely doesn't know. he thinks its more likely he did that he didn't, and the fact that he isn't sure is gnawing away at him almost as much as the idea that he might've killed him in the first place. ]
Ever strike you to find out a little more about where the feral cat came from before adopting it?
Probably.
[ it's really not that he's trying to be cagey. he genuinely doesn't know. he thinks its more likely he did that he didn't, and the fact that he isn't sure is gnawing away at him almost as much as the idea that he might've killed him in the first place. ]
Ever strike you to find out a little more about where the feral cat came from before adopting it?
I'd known Ephemera for a while. I built Ephemera's armor. I knew enough, and I didn't adopt it.
What do you mean probably. It's a yes or no question.
What do you mean probably. It's a yes or no question.
[ building armor. now that's fucking different from repairing it, too. ]
Alright, maybe you didn't get any adoption papers, but you still fed them long enough for them to stick around. Ephemera and Felix both. Might be worth looking into the pedigree, don't you think?
[ and well, uh. ]
Probably means probably. Nothing else to it.
Alright, maybe you didn't get any adoption papers, but you still fed them long enough for them to stick around. Ephemera and Felix both. Might be worth looking into the pedigree, don't you think?
[ and well, uh. ]
Probably means probably. Nothing else to it.
You have no idea how much I know.
[ Dammit, Man, he was much happier when he got to be enraged and offended, but given what he knows about these people and their world and lives-]
You don't know. Flashback, alcohol abuse or City induced nonsense?
[ Dammit, Man, he was much happier when he got to be enraged and offended, but given what he knows about these people and their world and lives-]
You don't know. Flashback, alcohol abuse or City induced nonsense?
You don't know how much I know, either.
[ enough to think that anyone who's managed to get attached to felix of all people doesn't really know what they're getting into. ]
What, are you looking for some plausible deniability, now? It was the city, but if I killed him then I'm still the one to blame.
[ enough to think that anyone who's managed to get attached to felix of all people doesn't really know what they're getting into. ]
What, are you looking for some plausible deniability, now? It was the city, but if I killed him then I'm still the one to blame.
The ship I was interfaced to once wiped out an unarmed hospital ship and tried to murder his mother. My morals are flexible when it comes to mentally damaged beings primed to be weapons, especially you fucks and your frequently malfunctioning interfaces.
[ you're talking to the guy who got the most fucked by the malfunctioning interfaces out of all of them, by far. congrats crais. wash takes longer to respond to this one, mostly processing what he's saying, including the part where the ship apparently has a mother or something. AI, probably. okay. ]
You don't draw the line anywhere? People can do fucked up things and that's fine as long as they were also kind of fucked up?
Or are you specifically sympathetic to the primed to be weapons thing.
You don't draw the line anywhere? People can do fucked up things and that's fine as long as they were also kind of fucked up?
Or are you specifically sympathetic to the primed to be weapons thing.
[ Nope, living species but at least they're not going to have to get into that shit, again. ]
I don't recall claiming to be particularly moral or consistent.
The line is where I feel like it. I hunted a man down for more than a year for an accident that killed someone I cared about. I also killed my ship and myself when we ran out of options to prevent him endangering others.
Primed and used as a weapon certainly influences my sympathy level.
I don't recall claiming to be particularly moral or consistent.
The line is where I feel like it. I hunted a man down for more than a year for an accident that killed someone I cared about. I also killed my ship and myself when we ran out of options to prevent him endangering others.
Primed and used as a weapon certainly influences my sympathy level.
[ LETS TALK ABOUT YOU THEN, because while wash is very bewildered by how much information you're willing to share he's happy to keep making use of it. you're still a potential threat, more information is only good. lets talk about this and not about the killing felix thing, he's good with that. ]
Were you the same, then?
Were you the same, then?
The same then as when?
And which bit of City bullshit was behind you not knowing if you killed Felix or not?
And which bit of City bullshit was behind you not knowing if you killed Felix or not?
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