disingenuous | scaramouche catchall

[ his expectations are met. she is seated on the bed, looking unruffled. ]

Pea side? Were you sent peas? [ she seems faintly amused. ] If none of you are sure, you may stay uncertain.

[Sasuga Roxana. He'll move over to stand by the bars, just barely within arm's reach, and sets a hand on his hip.]

The boy with the dragon was. I came across him when he was trying to figure out what to do with them earlier.

[But there's a little shrug at that. He doesn't mind the uncertainty unlike some people probably, because he does not care about finding killers.]

[ whoa... so cautious, but it's also a little unexpected that he would move closer at all. ]

I think Childe was sent some, too. He seemed quite baffled.

[ she figured he wouldn't care about finding the culprits. ]

[Is it caution... He just looks faintly entertained about that.]

Who knows why they're doing what they're doing over there? Boredom, maybe, or maybe just for the sport of it - just to bully. The mood is always better on the other side. ...Well. Maybe not for the boy who ended up trapped in a single manor with every other dead person.

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[ if it's not... he can come closer.

she tilts her head curiously. ]

Was that how it was in Hell? The other side had an easier time of things? Which boy?

[He stands where he is for now, but he does not seem anxious or ill at ease, at least.]

It was, by far. [He pines for the other side.] The one with the dragon again; his second game, I believe.

It sounds like he's told you his life story at this point.

[ the way crau2 was one of the few graveyards i wasn't in so i didn't remember what it was.

she's faintly amused. ]

And yet you won't call him by his name.

[ONE OF THE FEW ONES grips you like a grape again]

He's hardly told me much. I only know of the two games he was in before, and I happened to come across him while he was standing with a handful of peas like an idiot.

[ YOU HAVE BEEN IN MORE THAN I HAVE LET GO ]

You know more about him than I do. I assume he's trying to become friends with you.

He isn't, actually. He very clearly finds me grating; we only speak when we end up in the same place for too long.

[ELI AND I JUST CONTINUING TO TRAP THEM TOGETHER IN STUPID SITUATIONS.]

He's not like the girl with the bun.

[ that makes her smile a little. it's amusing. ]

Is that so? He extends so much good will towards me.... Bun? Maya?

It's not surprising. You may needle, but your personality is still less caustic than mine.

[HE KNOWS HIS PERSONALITY IS SO BAD!!!]

But yes, that one.

I miss Kabukimono.

[ SHE IS JUST SAYING EVEN IF HE WAS AN ALIEN FREAK WHO DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING he was cute as an alien freak who didn't know anything. ]

She can be a little too insistent sometimes.

[His lip curls a little at that, the smile mean and viperous but also kind of reflexively disgusted. Not toward Roxana but toward his ALIEN FREAK WHO DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING PAST SELF.

He'll just leave any words unsaid.]

You're being too generous in your assessment of her.

[ she figured it'd get that kind of reaction. you don't become someone who didn't want to cause discomfort to someone who wants to cause all discomfort without some of those feelings. roxana would prefer to be able to do good, but she will no longer choose to do that anymore. it gets her nowhere. ]

Perhaps I am, perhaps I'm not, but I like keeping my words subtle. Needling, as you put it.

[It got her nowhere! It also got him nowhere. He does not prefer to be able to do good about it, though, so he does not have to deal with that conflict.]

You do have a way of weaving your words so they're quite soft at first glance and rather cutting if you look for a second longer.

[ that makes her smile a little. ]

How kind of you to notice. It suits my approach to most things.

I've known a person or two like that in my time.

[In his many hundreds of years of blaspheming the human race in general. Being a diplomat in (pixi voice) Genshin's version of a cult exposes you to all kinds of personalities.]

Those people were often well-liked and well-suited to diplomatic engagements.

I'd say I'm more well-admired than anything else.

[ objectively, she is beautiful. this is not ego. it's what she considers fact because her mother is considered and known to be one of the most beautiful women of her world. ]

[SHE IS BEAUTIFUL OBJECTIVELY EVEN IF (HEI VOICE) HIS EYES DON'T WORK LIKE THAT. It's the curse of the divine all naturally being beautiful, you just get used to be surrounded by people who don't look like npcs.]

Unfortunate that being well-admired doesn't save you from having to undergo the same idiotic trials we've all been burdened with.

[ again, it's fine to roxana if eyes don't work like that. ]

If it did, I'd be free of many other things as well. Being divine doesn't save you from having to undergo these trials as well.

[IT MAY BE FINE TO ROXANA BUT IT'S NOT FINE TO MEEEEEEEEE]

No, it doesn't. [Said with a little rise of his shoulders. It is a nightmare out here.] There is always something with grander power out there.

[ you choose the characters you play ]

Does it irk you?

[maybe so......]

If things like that didn't irritate me, perhaps I would have been comfortable staying under the thumb of the existing gods in my own home.

Are you trying to tear down the gods in your world?

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