november catchall

[paperceptive]

Who: Odile, quest partners, & OPEN
What: catchall for November
Where: around the Bay
When: throughout November
Warnings: none atm!

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[loopsiedaisy]

. . .

[They don't answer.]

[But that's kind of an answer in and of itself, isn't it? Especially for this Siffrin, who's usually more prone to covering things up by talking.]

[paperceptive]

[ Odile looks at them for a moment, then back down at her book. ]

...I think I've thought of that before several times. But I kept forgetting.

[ She should have been able to keep better track. She should have thought better than to complain about her own complicated feelings regarding her heritage to Siffrin. Ugh, what a mess. ]

I'm sorry.

[loopsiedaisy]

...

[They don't know what to...]

. . .

[...hee.]

You're apologizing to me for forgetting? Isn't that my role?

[Not that... they ever actually said "sorry" for it, just tried to awkwardly move along, but.]

[paperceptive]

Gems, Siffrin, you're really not going to share?

[ One corner of her mouth ticks up into a smile for a moment. ]

I'm sorry that happened to you, I mean. Though - yes, for that, too. I don't suppose that's been easy to deal with.

[loopsiedaisy]

Nope!!

[They take a slow breath in, and let it out.]

[They don't know that they're ready to talk about this yet. Won't it just be worse when she forgets again? A-and besides, it's stardust she offered to talk to sometime, not them. But.... their chest hurts, or maybe feels warm.]

...it's not like you had anything to do with it! Unless you've been keeping that secret this whole time!

[paperceptive]

Wouldn't that be something.

[ Sort of seems like that would be both of their luck, at this point! But of course Odile is joking. If she were to harness Wishcraft (it must have been that, right?), she likes to thinks that she'd do something a bit more useful with it.

(She could do it now, she supposes. But she's seen exactly how badly it can go. It's a last resort. ) ]

Was the King as well?

[ It's easy to connect with his raving there at the end. Odile probably would have wondered about that eventually; things just went so completely to hell afterwards that she hasn't really thought of it since. She's thinking about that, and not really catching on to any feelings Loop may or may not be having. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[In some ways the King is easier territory! They never ended up having a stretch of empathizing with him to the level stardust did, before it got so horribly turned on them. Probably something to do with stardust's loops eventually progressing past him, while theirs always ended with...]

[Well, either way, it means the feelings they have for him aren't complicated. Good riddance.]

He was! You know, I never realized until stardust started trying to ask him about Time Craft?

[His armor was covered in stars, for Universe's sake, and they just... never thought about it!! (Never needed to, while they were still convinced that all they needed to do to have it be over was defeat him... and as long as they couldn't, he was nothing but a sign of the end.)]

[paperceptive]

Hm. We should see if he had any interesting belongings tucked away in the house.

[ We killed him and now we get to steal his shit!!! ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[They're on board with this, as much as it feels more like a silly hypothetical right now than a real proposal.]

Why not! It's not like he's going to be using any of them!!

[Though on second thought... are they really going to want something that used to be the King's? They suppose they could keep it to gloat over it, and it would fit their "Loop" act, but they don't feel overly enthusiastic... and they'd have be ready to step foot in the House again to search? Could they even manage that...? Urgh.]

[Well, it's not like they have any way to the House right now! Still a hypothetical.]

[paperceptive]

They'd fetch a decent profit.

[ It's just a fun little hypothetical for Odile too, really. Even if she is probably the party member who'd go to such ideas first...well, she's got far more pressing concerns back in Dormont than looting. Her financial straits aren't that dire. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

What, like "buy a souvenir of the King's defeat from the Saviors of Vaugarde"...?

That's one way to fund your traveling!

[paperceptive]

He may as well be good for something.

[ Selfishly and pettily, she's glad the King being from the island hasn't conferred some sort of...sentimentality onto him in Siffrin's eyes. Of course, he's probably killed them a fair bit...let's not think about that right now actually!

(She's gonna think about it.) ]