week 6; thursday

[scythegun]

[Watching movies with Top Dollar is always an enjoyable experience (especially when they're Die Hard and the villain is basically Yeager) but there's actually a damn good reason behind movie night tonight, mostly in the form of a note Yeager passed Top Dollar about ten minutes before the end of the movie.

Our gunners are Yukino and Yuri. I've spoken with both of them and confirmed it. Yukino believes there may be a third one.

He's certainly not going to draw any attention to that note or what was written there, but once the movie's over he doesn't seem interested in leaving immediately.]

You certainly do have amazing taste in entertainment! I'm a bit disappointed we don't have anything so wonderful back home!

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[devilsnight]

Told you that you'd fuckin' love Hans Gruber, didn't I?

[You know, he's still kind of weirded out by the fact that you don't have to rewind DVDs? He'll go over and get it out of the machine while Yeager talks, the note he'd been passed long since glanced idly at and slipped into his pocket.

The DVD is easily reinserted back into the case; meanwhile, though, he's got a notepad on the coffee table along with the stack of them, and he'll grab that and the pen that goes with it along with the DVD cases in the event that they need to write anything else down.

Here's hoping Sheepy's vision is limited to what the cameras can see; their writing can't be picked up for shit, he's spent enough time looking over the USB files to know that, but the sheep...

Anyway, for the time being - ]

That city the movie was set in's kinda like Detroit. It's better kept-up, but the way it's set up - with all the towers and the industrial buildings and shit? Detroit's like that too. It's just that the area of town I live in is a lot less fancy and a lot more of the big warehouse things.

[scythegun]

Oh, really? It's much larger than most of the cities where I'm from. The capitol is impressive in scale, but even that isn't similar at all! You're going to have quite the bit of culture shock when you return home with me.

[When not if because he needs to convince himself that everything is fine and it will be fine. His usual cheery persona starts slipping a bit the later in the day it gets.]

Don't cities like that feel cramped, though? I can't imagine living with so many buildings so close together!

[devilsnight]

[...No, he gets it. Besides, Thursday nights are kind of a reason to be on edge.]

Maybe they would if you're not used to it, but I've spent my whole life in Detroit. If I'm gonna be honest with you, friend, I'm not really gonna know what to do with myself living somewhere else, especially without having that much activity around.

I'll figure it out, though. Always do.

[scythegun]

Oh no, I figured as much! Dahngrest is where the majority of the guilds have a headquarters; it's the largest city on the Tolbyccia continent! Though I suppose that isn't all that impressive given what Detroit apparently looks like. My manor is a decent way away, but I can promise you I'll find some sort of activity to keep you busy!

[He is very good at finding busywork for his employees...]

[devilsnight]

Eh, like I said, I'll figure it out.

[He settles back against the couch a bit, crossing his legs idly and tipping his head back a little.]

You've got monsters everywhere, yeah? And a lot of open space and woods and shit.

[scythegun]

Ja, that's right! My manor is in the woods, so you can't go anywhere without running into at least a few monsters! Most of them are very weak, however!

[...WEAK FOR HIM, ANYWAY]

[devilsnight]

[That seems to amuse him, anyway.]

I'll be okay, then. I've always liked stuff like that - it's not anything real, where I come from, but stories about that kind of shit are popular. Hell, best time I've had in a while involved finding out that magic and zombies are real and getting to fight it.

So yeah, that sounds fine.

[scythegun]

Thankfully, zombies aren't something you'll have to worry about!

[...UNLESS YEAGER COUNTS HAHAHAHAHA]

There's certainly plenty to entertain you, even if we don't have movies quite like that or large, cramped cities! Terca Lumireis is a wonderful world.

[And for a moment he sounds genuine and not, you know, aggressively himself.]

...But it did also spawn Yuri Lowell, so I suppose it does have some faults!

[RIGHT THERE WE GO, THAT'S BETTER]

[devilsnight]

[...YOU KNOW, HE'S BEEN TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO SAY IT, REGARDING YEAGER AND ZOMBIES...]

Yeah, and Detroit spawned Eric Draven, so I can't really say that it's all that perfect either.

[scythegun]

[DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE!!!!!!]

I was going to say "there's always someone like that", but Yuri isn't that bad, I suppose. I've dealt with worse. Unfortunately.

[devilsnight]

[THERE'S A REASON HE HASN'T SAID IT, DON'T WORRY

i mean you're kind of weird and sad about your zombie...ism

whereas eric was just kind of bugfuck]

If you want more bandages because the fuckhead can't stay still, I've got some.

[scythegun]

[IT'S NOT ZOMBIEISM it absolutely is zombieism and the first time he realized that he kind of wanted to die again it was t e r r i b l e]

Ah, do you? I'd appreciate that. I'm a little concerned he won't bother changing them and he'll manage to get it infected. We don't usually have to worry about anything like that and he's stupid enough to leave the injury exposed...

[YURI YOU WERE A KNIGHT DON'T YOU KNOW BASIC FIRST AID FOR WHEN THERE'S NO MAGIC PEOPLE OR GELS AROUND]

[devilsnight]

[well, for what it's worth it's not like he thinks there's anything wrong with you or anything? ...he also just doesn't get why you're weird and sad about it because he's got all the empathy of a rock.]

I've got something like twelve of the fuckers. Six of those first aid kits.

[...]

They're not anything I ordered, I stole 'em from Kevin.

[scythegun]

[WOULDN'T YOU BE UPSET IF YOU WERE A ZOMBIE]

My, he really was prepared, wasn't he? Well, I'll take some of them off your hands! I sincerely hope I won't need them all since Yuri can get his own bandages.

[devilsnight]

[...No, but that's because the idea of being dead kind of terrifies him on some visceral level and he'd quite like to put off being dead at all costs, thank you?? Like holy shit son if he dies you'd better find some way to bring him back he doesn't give a single fuck if he's a lich after you do it]

...I think he was trying to see who had sugar in their system. All of those blood sugar testers were gone; probably seeing who had frosting-induced healing when Estelle died.

[Which is...kind of ironic given what happened with Kevin later, but.]

[scythegun]

[OH MY GOD, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS]

Oh, that makes sense.

[THAT'S SO FUNNY?? HOLY FUCK HE'S TRYING NOT TO LAUGH.]

Well, I definitely appreciate it! The last thing I need is for Yuri to die on me. I don't really trust Duke with saving the world all on his own.

[...Or even just all of Yuri's friends. Some of them are okayish but they're mostly kids or Raven AND ALSO THERE'S A DOG WITH A KNIFE, so uh...]

[devilsnight]

Well, that and you're doing that weird nurturing thing again.

[JUST SAYING, YEAGER.]

[scythegun]

I am not. As I said, I just need him alive to save the world!

[OH MY GOD?? OH MY GOD NO.]

[devilsnight]

It's okay if you like the guy, you know. It's not like I give a fuck.

Besides, he's fucking hilarious.

[...somebody let them talk at one point, this was probably a Mistake.]

[scythegun]

[...this was absolutely a Mistake.]

He was a constant thorn in my side for a long time! He also broke into my house, which was very rude. Oh, and he killed quite a few of my men!

[yeager your fucking priorities]

[devilsnight]

[...]

Yeah, and?

[scythegun]

...And I dislike him?

[THIS IS THE MOST ???????? RESPONSE HE'S EVER GIVEN ANYONE, FEEL PROUD]

[devilsnight]

The things you just threw out there don't always add up to that, is all.

[...his relationship with eric is kind of Complicated on his end, all right]

[scythegun]

Well, I'm not sure how anyone would draw any other conclusion! He certainly knows I'm not fond of him!

[this is so Difficult, why couldn't it have been the dog, he legitimately hates the dog]

[devilsnight]

Well, I didn't appreciate Eric Draven breaking into my house and killing my guys, either. But I sure as shit do appreciate him as a person, let's put it that way.

[...that ring he's been wearing on the cord since christmas and generally doesn't take off is eric's goddamn wedding ring]