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[Eyes don't unstick from Prompto, grin stays engraved on his expression, like a permanent feature.]
No? Then I'm not at all impressed, nor am I at all dissuaded from doing what I want, and when I want to.
[The vendor is coming from around his spot behind the counter, heading towards the both of them with a frown and more words of stark disapproval. Only when Ardyn hears the padding of quickened footsteps behind him does he let go, fingers releasing like a bear trap snapping in reverse.
The blue at their chests fade. Nothing to see here.]
No? Then I'm not at all impressed, nor am I at all dissuaded from doing what I want, and when I want to.
[The vendor is coming from around his spot behind the counter, heading towards the both of them with a frown and more words of stark disapproval. Only when Ardyn hears the padding of quickened footsteps behind him does he let go, fingers releasing like a bear trap snapping in reverse.
The blue at their chests fade. Nothing to see here.]
[and immediately, upon being released, prompto holds steadfast to his arm and brings it close to his chest, stumbling back up to his feet and keeping his eyes trained on ardyn. and yet he moves back, put some distance between the two of them.]
[ardyn is a terrifying man, and even without having whatever he had at eos to help his bigger sense of grandeur, he is calculating enough to know how much to give without getting himself into any explicit trouble.]
[this was a bad idea and prompto should've known better.]
[the vendor is saying something about not allowing fighting in the premises, saying something about getting their pictures from their id's, and prompto's simply biting his tongue at this point.]
Whatever, I'm leaving anyway.
[and that's that.]
[ardyn is a terrifying man, and even without having whatever he had at eos to help his bigger sense of grandeur, he is calculating enough to know how much to give without getting himself into any explicit trouble.]
[this was a bad idea and prompto should've known better.]
[the vendor is saying something about not allowing fighting in the premises, saying something about getting their pictures from their id's, and prompto's simply biting his tongue at this point.]
Whatever, I'm leaving anyway.
[and that's that.]
no offense clarke, but i wonder how many things you haven't seen until new amsterdam
lucis works pretty strangely i guess
even if it's 'lucis' everything but its capital city was under the nif empire's control for about 100some years
war took away a lot of territory and people just tried to exist financially however they could best...
restaurants sure didn't work like that in insomnia
lucis works pretty strangely i guess
even if it's 'lucis' everything but its capital city was under the nif empire's control for about 100some years
war took away a lot of territory and people just tried to exist financially however they could best...
restaurants sure didn't work like that in insomnia
uh... it's complicated
long story short? the war pushed the king into a corner. the empire had a bigger army since they didn't use humans technically but robots so man power wasn't an issue, but in lucis magic had to be used by humans and the army's efforts were harder to accomplish
there was a peace treaty on the works but the empire lied and didn't keep their end of the deal
[...]
insomnia got attacked and destroyed, king regis was killed
[clarke has offered quite a bit about her experiences, and prompto's been mostly farting about chocobos and nonsensical things about his own world.]
it's not the same but i get a bit of what you mean
when you say there wasn't a civilization to experience
long story short? the war pushed the king into a corner. the empire had a bigger army since they didn't use humans technically but robots so man power wasn't an issue, but in lucis magic had to be used by humans and the army's efforts were harder to accomplish
there was a peace treaty on the works but the empire lied and didn't keep their end of the deal
[...]
insomnia got attacked and destroyed, king regis was killed
[clarke has offered quite a bit about her experiences, and prompto's been mostly farting about chocobos and nonsensical things about his own world.]
it's not the same but i get a bit of what you mean
when you say there wasn't a civilization to experience
Everything you've said is something I understand more than riding birds and going to restaurants.
[War. Kings dying. People breaking treaties as soon as they can. Clarke is all too aware of those things.]
A hundred years before I hit the ground, the world was destroyed. Nuclear bombs were set off. Not because of war, not because anyone wanted it. It just happened. Most of humanity died. But what remained was still prone to strife. To being at war. There were kings, and leaders without such names. There were people who tried to maintain power by passing on beliefs to the people they used to survive.
Nothing I knew before this was good. It's just that it was all I knew.
[War. Kings dying. People breaking treaties as soon as they can. Clarke is all too aware of those things.]
A hundred years before I hit the ground, the world was destroyed. Nuclear bombs were set off. Not because of war, not because anyone wanted it. It just happened. Most of humanity died. But what remained was still prone to strife. To being at war. There were kings, and leaders without such names. There were people who tried to maintain power by passing on beliefs to the people they used to survive.
Nothing I knew before this was good. It's just that it was all I knew.
yeah
[ It's a response to his question, but also reflects her opinion on his following texts. ]
you don't remember what a good team we made
but if anyone can reconstruct insomnia, it's us
[ She probably won't say anything quite so nice to him for a little while again. Not because she doesn't believe it, but because of her own retiring tendencies - a bizarre display of shyness, masked in brusque comments and an easy manner. ]
[ It's a response to his question, but also reflects her opinion on his following texts. ]
you don't remember what a good team we made
but if anyone can reconstruct insomnia, it's us
[ She probably won't say anything quite so nice to him for a little while again. Not because she doesn't believe it, but because of her own retiring tendencies - a bizarre display of shyness, masked in brusque comments and an easy manner. ]
yeah you're right
[he gets it though, more than aranea might want to give him credit for.]
i'll get you an ac robot whether you move into a new place or not
i hope you're okay with it playing a short tune when it's turned on or off
[prompto thinks it adds personality to it...]
and if you need anything [he knows you're injured, noct told him] just lmk
i'll be happy to play errand boy for a bit
[he gets it though, more than aranea might want to give him credit for.]
i'll get you an ac robot whether you move into a new place or not
i hope you're okay with it playing a short tune when it's turned on or off
[prompto thinks it adds personality to it...]
and if you need anything [he knows you're injured, noct told him] just lmk
i'll be happy to play errand boy for a bit
[he has no understanding of what nuclear bombs are, but he assumes that 'most of humanity died' means that it was something cataclysmic; world ending.]
it doesn't sound like a lot of good to be honest
you were raised in space, right? does that mean that you and several others escaped the nuclear bombs?
[a lot of what she says would explain why she is kind but suspicious despite her best intentions. new amsterdam isn't just new in terms of civilization, but the intentions of the people, too. a world this calm, perhaps she never experienced it so.]
it doesn't sound like a lot of good to be honest
you were raised in space, right? does that mean that you and several others escaped the nuclear bombs?
[a lot of what she says would explain why she is kind but suspicious despite her best intentions. new amsterdam isn't just new in terms of civilization, but the intentions of the people, too. a world this calm, perhaps she never experienced it so.]
My great grandparents were astronauts. Unlike here, it's something that was hard to accomplish. There was only one case of "undesirables" going off into space. They were prisoners sent out to mine. Everyone else was a scientist, trying to help advance humanity. When the bombs went off, they were already living in space stations off the ground.
[So, that's that. It's why it's not glamorous or unique, or something that she fully understands giving the weight that other people give it.]
Does it bother you that I sugarcoated this before?
[So, that's that. It's why it's not glamorous or unique, or something that she fully understands giving the weight that other people give it.]
Does it bother you that I sugarcoated this before?
it doesn't bother me
i can understand not wanting to mention it or skipping on worse details
i've done the same too and it's not because i want to trick others or whatever
so... i get it
i'm glad your family was living in space when things went south
cuz then i got to meet you and i can tell you're a survivor and you think smart about things
we're all trying our best while here, right?
[well. some of us. glances pointedly at ardyn]
i can understand not wanting to mention it or skipping on worse details
i've done the same too and it's not because i want to trick others or whatever
so... i get it
i'm glad your family was living in space when things went south
cuz then i got to meet you and i can tell you're a survivor and you think smart about things
we're all trying our best while here, right?
[well. some of us. glances pointedly at ardyn]
Edited 2019-02-18 13:26 (UTC)
Part of it is that you did seem so excited about where I came from. I didn't want to show you what that meant. It wasn't easy up in the Ark.
[But had she returned there, Clarke knows she wouldn't be where she is now. Wanting to stay here. Dreading that there is the chance she won't have a choice about returning. Clarke's people don't need her anymore. She's certain about that.]
I can say that I'm confident that it won't always be about getting by here. I know that's not reassuring to everyone.
[But had she returned there, Clarke knows she wouldn't be where she is now. Wanting to stay here. Dreading that there is the chance she won't have a choice about returning. Clarke's people don't need her anymore. She's certain about that.]
I can say that I'm confident that it won't always be about getting by here. I know that's not reassuring to everyone.
the prospect of space is still exciting
you'd probably think the same about parts of lucis i've been to, even if it's not all that peachy and great
[he wants her to know that his excitement isn't in any way diluted despite her own experiences.]
...well, we gotta try, right? walk tall, do what's right
[it's what the king told noctis; it's what cor would tell them with a blunt look, back straight as a rod; it's what noctis would come to tell them, ten years into the future, before he sacrificed his life for everyone else's. besides, he knows of too many who have died for a cause and faced death without fear of it.]
[even if all the odds are against them, he wants to thrive among the thorns. he wants all of them to thrive.]
you'd probably think the same about parts of lucis i've been to, even if it's not all that peachy and great
[he wants her to know that his excitement isn't in any way diluted despite her own experiences.]
...well, we gotta try, right? walk tall, do what's right
[it's what the king told noctis; it's what cor would tell them with a blunt look, back straight as a rod; it's what noctis would come to tell them, ten years into the future, before he sacrificed his life for everyone else's. besides, he knows of too many who have died for a cause and faced death without fear of it.]
[even if all the odds are against them, he wants to thrive among the thorns. he wants all of them to thrive.]
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