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[incorrigibles]

hey, boss

fandaniel, huh? no, don't know him, but i'll make sure to talk to him.

right, so, recap: when new people come in, give them coins and help them out. i mean, i was gonna do that anyway, minus the coins part, so... it's all good.

[ and it is all good, up until this point!! except then he reads the next line, and then stops. reads it again. stops. reads it again — ]

wait, richard did what???

oh bloody hell

yeah, i've got a question: are you okay, jinx?

[opheliac]

im ok. pops said the injury isnt TOO serious. just have to stay off my leg for a few days.

[incorrigibles]

oh jesus fuck, okay, that's... that's good then.

if you're okay then that's what matters



what happened?

[opheliac]

[ it's a shame out of the whole ordeal, she didn't quite catch what richard preferred to be called so she can bitch about him properly. but she decides, until otherwise, she will continue to refer richard as "he". everyone else seem to be using that pronoun, and he hasn't corrected them as far as she can tell. ]

u know at water holes, rivers, or streams that kids like to shove other kids in the water? u know as a joke? a game? a laugh?

thats what i did. something SO VERY HARMLESS compared what i USUALLY do to people that i hate. some people arent that lucky. some people had a brick tied to their feet and they just, oh u know, sink and never come back up for air.

something i really could have done instead and even thought about once or twice. but i thought, nah. im going to be a NICE GIRL. and what did i get out of being on my best behavior?

a freaking STABBED TO THE LEG. and people ask me "jinx why are u so violent? why do u strap bombs to people's back? why do u shoot and explode stuff? why do u tie people up in abandon places and leave them for dead?"

oh GEE, I DONT KNOW. i guess im just A SUPER DOOFUS who just do WACKY things.

[incorrigibles]

[ oh bloody hell. that is a lot of....... everything. alright, let him — try, at least, ]

right, so you shoved him in the water and he... snapped?

i mean, he shouldn't have done that, there's no doubt about that. nothing excuses hurting you. but maybe he was surprised and overreacted? i know he's got... you know, issues? with stuff. and i'm not trying to make excuses for him or anything, even if you get why it happened doesn't make it okay that it happened

but i've seen it when he snaps, and maybe it was under different circumstances, but... he definitely didn't even recognise me at the time.

[opheliac]

ure right, u shouldnt make excuses for him.
so hes a lot like me then. thats gross to know and wish i could throw my eyes in acid to never read that again.

but i dont care. hes WAY older than me, he should know how to handle his "the others" better. and talk about a lousy job of a stab. didnt anyone teach him to go for the throat? and all of u trust him to lead some kind of army? u're good as dead already before u stepped onto the battlefield.

[incorrigibles]

oh. uh, sorry about that, then. and i told you, i wasn't. he shouldn't have hurt you and that's the long and short of it.

but um, not for nothing, i for one am real glad he didn't go for the throat. and i'm not involved in any kind of army stuff, so...

[opheliac]

yeah, u've told me ure not a fighter and thats fine. ure good at poofing in and out of jams, and that alone is good and pretty helpful for stealth missions.

but anyway. we need to discuss as a nation (u, me, and fanny) where richard stands. because unless i get a mega apology for stabbing me AND MORE, i dont think we should keep an alliance.

[incorrigibles]

[ he's not a fighter? well, not entirely accurate — he's not a soldier, but a fighter he certainly is... only when he needs to defend those he loves, though. he doesn't like to hurt people unless he absolutely has to. ]

right, sure. i mean, you're the boss, so your word goes.

but what has the alliance included so far? or what does it mean if we don't keep it, i guess

[opheliac]

the alliance included that WE work together. he uses our resources and we use theirs.

without it, he wont have access to our tech or whatever we decide to build to help advance our new home. and if he's in trouble, he's on his own. u snooze, u lose. if u want save him, fine. but it'll be because U saved him, not that because the INX decided to lend a hand.

[incorrigibles]

i get it. well, like i said, i'm cool with whatever decision you make.

guess you just need to ask that fan guy about it

[opheliac]

ok, but i want ur thoughts too, u know. what my people think is just as important. aaannnd i have to admit, sometimes my brain goes a little WHOOSH and i miss the real big picture. but thats only sometimes.

[incorrigibles]

[ sometimes it still catches him off guard that people, you know, actually value his opinion. anyway, ]

right. well, for what it's worth... i'm not a fan of making decisions when you're angry. makes it real easy to choose something for the wrong reasons, yeah? so i think it comes down to whether it's gonna be more harm than not, to cut the alliance... and if you think you can keep it up.

i mean, if you guys are gonna explode at each other when you talk, and you're gonna have to talk for the alliance to work, then that's not great, is it? just more trouble. and i'd rather not see you two fight.

[opheliac]

hmm. i guess u have a point. at the beginning, he WAS ok. he was just an ordinary nobody, but then he became more repulsive every time i saw that mug of his.

[incorrigibles]

right. and there's probably a reason for that, yeah?

so i guess the question is... can you separate what that reason is from the potential good sides that there are to working with him?

[opheliac]

not until i get an apology from everyone was involved with the issue that's been going on for MONTHS.

AND

if someone starts repairing some damages around here.

[incorrigibles]

well, that's the answer then, innit? we'll wait for that to happen, and until then, the alliance's on ice, yeah? no point trying to keep it up if shit needs to be fixed before it can even hope to work.

for what it's worth though... i hope you do get it. the apology, i mean. not just for the stabbing but the rest of it, too

[opheliac]

im going to take a wild guess u know the WHOLE story about everything thats been going on, huh? besides what ive told u before?

[incorrigibles]

... not the whole story.

but turns out i know your old man. i mean, i didn’t know who he was when i talked to you, but i met him during that week everyone was going crazy, and when i talked to him after, well, he said he had a kid here and i asked who it was, and, yeah.

he really cares about you, though. i mean i know you know that, just, not always the case with dads, is it? and i'm glad you have a good one

[opheliac]

yea. yea, I know I have a good dad. I just wish he trusted me, but I guess old habits die hard.

[incorrigibles]

yeah, i get that.

must not give you much goodwill towards richard either, if they're both keeping stuff from you.

[opheliac]

its not. listen, between u and me:

i dont care at all if my dad wants to be intimate with someone or get married one day or whatever! he deserves to be happy, and to have someone to take care of him when i go off on my own. but this whole... secrecy and hiding who they are is... not a great look OR a great sign. then to keep it up when i figured it all out, and gaslighting me, as you call it?

of course im not going to like the guy even MORE and think hes up to no good. my old man used to lie to me about junk back home and i thought, with us being here now... we've moved past the whole lying shtick and keeping things from each other. so for him to... fall back into that, and hes doing it because richard is probably MAKING him do it? it. it hurts.

if they wanted to keep everything SOOOOO hush-hushed, they could have told me and just tell me to keep it quiet until they were ready to tell other people or whatever and i would have!

but this whole thing went sooooooo off the rails that now i dont CARE to keep my mouth shut about them. theyve BOTH hurt me, and i shouldnt have to sit here by myself and not be able to tell ANYBODY how im feeling.

i cant talk to my dad about it, its like a broken record with that man. i cant talk to my sister, i cant talk to my brother, or any of my friends. i can only talk to u and THATS because ure not a moron and u shoved all the puzzle pieces together the same way i did.

[incorrigibles]

... you're not wrong. i mean, at least when they knew that you know, well — they should've just owned up to it then. lying's not great any day, anyway, but you care about your dad, and he cares about you, so it sucks that he wasn't honest with you about this, whatever the reason.

but for what it's worth, you know you can talk to me anytime, about anything, yeah? this included. and i'm gonna keep this between us, but you ever want me to talk to either of them for you, and i will, yeah? just tell me to do it.

... and you're right. neither of them told me, but it wasn't hard to piece together the whole thing.

[opheliac]

thanks chuck. really.

UUUGHGHHHHHHHHHHH, MAN does it feel good to FINALLY get it out of my chest! i couldnt decide if i was going to explode OR implode with this whole thing. and i thought i had the insane love life.

i just dont see the big deal. who gives a flying crap if someone is dating whoever? arent we all kind of strangers to each other in a way? not everyone is from the same realm and junk. unless ure public enemy #1, ure pretty much an average joe, and i dont think either of them have someone who wants them so dead that they can not be together.

well. i mean. some people dont like my dad, but hes still breathing, the last time ive checked. and someone already killed him here. so. been there, done that.

and u know, im trying to cut my dad some slack because i dont think he had a lot of experience in the love department. not that i know of. but richard? whats his excuse in failing this so hard?

take it from me? this just goes to show richard is waaaaay too young and immature for my dad. he needs someone who knows how to...u know. date. but what can u do, huh? kids will do whatever they want to do. my chompers, especially. i tell them to not do something, and they'll just do the opposite.

[incorrigibles]

hey, always.

holding all that in, well. can't have felt great. and i'm sorry to hear that about your dad — i don't know him super well but i like him.

as for richard, well, not my thing to talk about, but... i know a little about the time he comes from. we're from the same world, same country, even. he's just centuries in the past for me. and i can't tell if it's something else, but back then, two blokes being together? meant death, and eternal damnation for your soul, and whatnot. dunno if he believes in that, but i reckon he might. and we know that's stupid but when you've grown up believing that then it's not that easy to just shed all of that.

but i guess in the end... if your dad's happy with him, then that's what counts, innit? they still owe you an apology or ten, but after that... you don't have to like richard, but if he makes your dad happy, isn't that at least a good thing?