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[disingenuous]

caw caw motherfucker

make a group of you

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w3, tuesday

[disingenuous]

[ Bubbles are the worst, but Roxana refuses to let that cow her and make her isolate herself. Fuck you, bubbles.

Whatever fallout comes from her villainy or not villainy is something she'll just have to deal with.

She looks Crow head on the moment they're trapped and doesn't waste a moment to touch it. ]

[disingenuous]

[ you already know the vampire lore.

(cw: blood, gore)

You have finally pulled off a plan that has been in the making for months. You have freed the son of your father's greatest enemy from the prison of your family's home. You have revealed enough of the cards up your sleeves that it should be fine. Your father won't suspect a thing.

You are alone now, and you can longer ignore the pain. Your insides are on fire, poison surging through your veins, and you know you have overtaxed yourself.

The price to pay for your butterflies is lofty, but it is worth it.

Even as you cough up blood and struggle to stay upright, you know you wouldn't have chosen differently.

Everything you do is for your own survival. ]

[chevaliered]

[ it has been very funny to see everyone going "VAMPIRE? VAMPIRE QUEEN?" and it's like no the truth is wilder.

well. it's not like crow gets a moment to take it all in and respond to any of this, because... well. it's not like he doesn't know a couple of things (30:39 - 33:40) about waiting, and planning and seeing a plan come into fruition.

it had taken years. he had waited so long -- and no one had found him. sure, there had been suspicions. times people had sniffed a little too closely, tried to look a little too deep, too far where they weren't wanted or welcome.

but who suspects the joker? blithe and silly, not serious about anything. he's failing his classes. he might have to repeat a year. always there with a smile and a few flippant, teasing words when it's least required. who looks at someone like that and sees a leader of a terrorist organisation?

no one. that's who. at least, not in time, they don't. ]

[disingenuous]

[ well, it's not like she doesn't know her own feelings of revenge, of hatred, of hiding out while she waits, the act of a perfect daughter of a perfectly evil family. she's about to lead her family to ruin, after all.

it's both not unlike and unlike his memory. ]

Did you escape?

[ you bet she's pretending her memory just didn't happen. ]

[chevaliered]

[ unfortunately for her, he’s not. ]

Did you survive?

[disingenuous]

[ asshole. ]

It was three years ago. Don't avoid my question.

[chevaliered]

[ he shrugs. ]

Good to hear. That looked nasty.

I escaped.

[disingenuous]

I didn't know what to expect back then. It's better now.

[ Depending on how you look at it. ]

Was that for revenge or another purpose? He seemed like someone important.

[chevaliered]

That kinda implies it still happens from time to time, Ro. Hacking up blood and poison’s kind of a bad thing.

[ which, y’know. she knows? but girl. ]

Oh, revenge. There were other purposes and reasons I’m sure other people had, but I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t want anything other than his head.

[disingenuous]

There's no need for your concern.

[ this is the one thing roxana won't change even if she could. Her army of butterflies back home is her insurance.

Anyway she's got no room to judge too much about revenge. Not her world, not her circus, not her monkeys. ]

Revenge is always best served with success.

[ looks away from my canon knowledge ]

[chevaliered]

Wanted or not, it's a valid observation.

[ her butterflies..... ]

Mm. The payoff's the point, after planning and waiting for as long as you do.

[disingenuous]

Thank you, Crow.

[ She is not going strongly argue against what he's saying. It's not like she doesn't know what's happening to her own body. It's her body. It also won't change the choices she's made. ]

Was this what Class VII forgave you for?

[chevaliered]

Oh, there was a lot more to forgive me for. I'm not looking for forgiveness for going after the guy. But I can acknowledge my methods caused a lot of trouble for them, indirectly at first, and then directly.

[disingenuous]

Political upheaval?

[ it's just a guess. she doesn't quite know the position of power the guy crow sniped was, but it seemed up there. ]

[chevaliered]

… That was the spark finally catching something that had been burning dangerously close to exploding for a long, long time. So, yeah. Political upheaval’s not a bad way of putting it.

[ sometimes you trigger a civil war, y’know? ]

[disingenuous]

Did you try to do damage control after?

[ She helped cause a revolt in her own family, so it's not like she doesn't know how that works. ]

[chevaliered]

[ crow 🤝 roxana
cause a little chaos as a treat ]

Maybe a little. When I think about how peaceful some places were under the Empire, it was only fair I tried to mitigate some of the damage from what I did.

[disingenuous]

You really want to seem less caring than you are, don't you>

[chevaliered]

I’m as caring as I make myself out to be. There’s no smoke and mirrors here.

[disingenuous]

[ She just looks at him.

His entire memory shows how much hot air that is. ]

[chevaliered]

[ he just looks back. YEAH? ]

... Who was the guy, by the way? The one you faked the death of.

[disingenuous]

The son of another noble family. The son of my father's enemy.

[chevaliered]

[ he whistles, impressed. ]

You take your teenage rebellion very seriously, huh?

[ crow approves. ]

[disingenuous]

This was political upheaval I didn't want to see come to life.

[ or death. since cassis dying would have led to a war and her death. ]

[chevaliered]

And faking a death was one way around it?

[ good for her, avoid that death. ]