week four - thursday (lief)
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eisenundblutHow you feeling today, kid? Yesterday was...
[It sure was a thing. Not to mention searching for Raven earlier... Yikes.]
[It sure was a thing. Not to mention searching for Raven earlier... Yikes.]
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Date: 2017-09-01 03:44 am (UTC)[She just nods. She gets it? She's also better than most people. Well, she's better than everyone at everything, obviously, when she wants to be!! But she gets being better off than most.]
First Ruby, then Raven... I wonder if someone's just going to disappear every week like this...?
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Date: 2017-09-01 03:51 am (UTC)[His voice is pained, as he's sick with worry. Someone had to be the calm one between him, Akira, and Bellamy, but the fact of the matter is that Raven is (was?) one of his closest friends here.]
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Date: 2017-09-01 03:57 am (UTC)[She frowns. Something like that... She looks like she wants to continue, but Lief sounds pained, and even if Prussia is loud and obnoxious and generally an annoyance, she's not
Americacompletely oblivious.]We done all we could for now. If we chase our tails about "why" for something we don't have a hope of understanding right now, we're gonna just make ourselves sick and get nowhere.
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Date: 2017-09-01 03:58 am (UTC)Chin up, kid. You and me, we'll figure it out. We'll win this game together.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:11 am (UTC)[If Raven doesn't turn up before then. If he's still alive by that day.
When Prussia pokes his cheek, he blinks, before he manages a weak smile.]
I truly hope for that, Prussia.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:17 am (UTC)[She smiles at his smile, weak as it is. That's all she was looking for, and she sits back with a satisfied nod.]
Tonight, it okay if I bring Erhard around? He's a good kid, quiet, probably won't cause much of a fuss. His partner, too, unless she has somewhere else she wants to go.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:25 am (UTC)I do not know Erhard well, but we got along when we did talk.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:28 am (UTC)Erhard's great! He's a doctor, he's really smart, even if he can't remember a lot of things that happened in the past. He's one of my-- one of West's awesome citizens, too. But he's quiet and shy like a little bird. I think getting to spend some time with more people when we're not all yelling at each other is gonna be good for him, ja?
'Sides...
Can't lose him and Newt at once. Can't do it, won't do it! Not when I can at least try to keep him safe with me.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:39 am (UTC)I understand. [He smiles wryly.] It will be a tight fit in here, but comfort for the night is a small sacrifice if it keeps him alive.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:46 am (UTC)[Hm. Nope, she's going to make herself sad if she continues in that vein.]
Well, anyway!! [She claps her hands briskly.] Now that's settled, I got more new info from the Chiefs. And presents, too. Most important bit is two things, though.
[She holds up one finger to count them off as usual.]
Eins! Hal won't write shit down in front of me. Tried to do the handwriting thing like you asked, but apparently it's in his programming that he won't let a player see him write anything down. Said he'd update my rulebook, but I wasn't allowed to watch him write. So I think you're onto something with the handwriting thing we were talking about the other day.
Zwei! Hal said somethin' real weird to me. Made a point of specifically asking if I was gonna use my role to break apart a partnership of somebody I thought was a Siren. Like he expected me to use it to kill people I suspected without risking their partner. He seemed kinda surprised when I told him I wasn't gonna do that 'cause I didn't know which side was the good guys.
Like... he thought it was funny that I'd be thinking of taking a side at all, since my role's supposed to be a neutral one. And I told him, I said if you wanted a neutral country, you should've picked Switzerland, 'cause I don't do neutral!! On anything!! And the way he said "I know!" was like... like that was the point of picking me. That I'm not a neutral person for a neutral role. So I think we're onto somethin', that it's people who wouldn't be suited for this shit who've been given roles.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-09-01 04:52 am (UTC)That is good to know. [...] If I may ask, whose partnership did you break this week?
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:54 am (UTC)[:/]
Think even if I tried to do anything with the robots for Raven, they wouldn't let me. It has to be me figuring shit out before things happen.
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:02 am (UTC)... If she is still missing by next week and Akira is alive, then perhaps you could reassign him and Zuko together?
[As much as he doesn't want to think about that.]
Speaking of Magilou, though... [He pauses, as this is a bit awkward.] ... Would you allow me to tell her about your role? Not that you have it—I will not reveal your identity—but that I am acquainted with it and its rules.
She is clever. Perhaps she can think of ways to use your role to end the game that we cannot. However, if you will not permit it, then of course I will say nothing, as I have always done.
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:07 am (UTC)[She hesitates and presses her lips together. She really doesn't trust Magilou, lack of a role or not. But in the interest of trying to move forward...]
Ja. Anybody you trust, I'll trust, kid. We're in this together, after all. I already told Bellamy... Newt knew, too. That was it. Maybe... if we work together, we can use this bullshit "neutral" role to mean something good in the end.
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:09 am (UTC)But, also—]
... When did you tell Bellamy?
[It's not alarming to hear (maybe), but it's a bit awkward.]
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:13 am (UTC)... Should I not've?
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-09-01 05:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-09-01 05:23 am (UTC)I have been feigning a lack of knowledge—and have blatantly lied in regards to knowing nothing about the role that "reassigns partners"—to him, even when I knew he desired more information.
... I fear that, if he knows I have purposely withheld this from him, it may damage his faith in me. [...] But now that he is aware of your role, perhaps this is a conversation he and I need to have. Better to have me admit it than for him to hear it from another source.
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Date: 2017-09-01 05:28 am (UTC)[Prussia's categories for trustworthiness? Good kid? Yes it's all fine.]
Or tell him I told you just this week, after tryin' to shoot the Chiefs. Or tell him the truth.
Anybody else I should know about? Wasn't planning on telling anyone else right now, but...
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Date: 2017-09-01 06:06 pm (UTC)[Even if the purpose of Prussia's role should align with what the Sirens hope to achieve, Lief isn't entirely assured.]