Flowey's Friendly February (& March) Catch-All

[friendlyflower]

Who: Flowey & Bigby, Eleanor, Nico Robin, others to be added
What: Quests (Bounty: Frightening Freeze; Light Construction; Tough Luv; others TBA) and more?
Where: Icefall Lake, Heavy Downmoor, the coast
When: February through March
Warnings: Violence (canon-typical, including battling, and maybe beyond), Flowey's warnings (child injury & past death, disassociation, angst)

Comments

[friendlyflower]

[Fine, then. Keep your secrets.

... Just kidding. His nosy ass isn't about to let up that easily when she clearly thinks he was born yesterday.]

I guess you must've had to do something to keep those precious artifacts from being swiped by those lousy museums! Or do you want me to believe you were snapping mummies' necks?

[voidcentury]

Usually Marines, actually. [Robin explains vaguely.] Or bounty hunters.

[She's clearly having fun with this. It has been a long time since she was in a place where she wasn't notorious.]

[friendlyflower]

Golly! An archaeologist with a bounty? They really didn't like whatever you found! [He continues fighting the Luvdisc as he talks, as if it's second nature to him.] I like your style. This place has plenty of secrets I'm sure you're dying to uncover.

... No pun intended! [Ugh. Kill him.]

[voidcentury]

[Robin pauses, Luvdisc clutched in one of her hands ready to be thrown back into the ocean.]

I haven't found it yet, that's what they're afraid of.

[Robin hopes that the secrets of this world aren't being intentionally hidden in the same way as her own. It does seem like the guild leaders don't know any more than they're saying, except maybe Polteageist. She hurls the terrified Luvdisc, skipping it like a stone across the water.]

[friendlyflower]

[Interesting. Too bad she's never going to find it now. It must be hard for people with 'lives' and 'goals' and things to wind up here. (As if he gives a shit.)]

You should talk to Akechi if you haven't already! He's dead set on solving the mysteries of this place. [He has a conspiracy wall and everything! Flowey's also interested because he hates feeling out of control and not knowing things, but it's not like he's trying to get home or anything.] Though most of the stuff he knows are things found by yours truly, hee hee.

[voidcentury]

Akechi. I will make sure to speak with him, thank you.

[Robin has spent enough time with Usopp to know when someone is bluffing to sound impressive, so she is careful not to stroke or deflate his ego.]

What kinds of secrets have you found?

[friendlyflower]

[Finally, someone who takes him seriously.]

Reality breaking up. A long-destroyed guild with archives identical to our own, but in a far-off region. Hints about some kind of cycle of destruction. It's second nature, really.

[voidcentury]

It sounds like secrets are being kept here for similar reasons to my own world. The World Government's excuse for outlawing research is that they don't want anyone to uncover the Ancient Weapons. Something terrible and destructive is being hidden from us here.

[friendlyflower]

[As the last Luvdisc retreats for the time being, Flowey can't help but feel like he lost their little bet on who could wrack up more kills KOs. But it was worth it to see what this newcomer could really do-- and the conversation has been pretty interesting. Maybe she won't be like the others who just give up.]

And unless we find it, we're all going to succumb to it! But no pressure or anything! [He sure sounds chipper.]

... Ribombee is the shadiest one of the guild leaders. The other two are just as clueless as we are. [That's potentially even scarier than if they were malicious and trying to stop them from figuring out how to break the cycle.] But that doesn't mean we don't have some fierce opposition! But you've definitely shown me that you're more than able to handle yourself. I think you'll do just fine.

[voidcentury]

You think Ribombee knows more than he lets on?

[It is not Robin's first time working for someone shady, but she would have assumed it was the haunted teapot who lives in comparative opulence. But if all of the guilds in actuality do have similar resources, the Cheris are the ones where it is least obvious where those resources are going. The Archives are obvious, but the mining operation in the Spire requires resources too.]

[friendlyflower]

I don't think. I know. [... he just can't prove it.] He does have the city in mind, I'll give him that, but he seems to think the ends justify the means. He doesn't hesitate to play favorites and leave the rest of us behind. That's why I've been trying to earn his trust. [Right now, the best evidence he has is "takes one to know one."]

[voidcentury]

Perhaps we should be looking outside of guild leadership.

[Hiding information for the greater good is a lie told by leaders to stay in power.]

Thank you, Flowey. I appreciate you trusting me with this.

wrap?

[friendlyflower]

[That's what he's been saying! But Akechi thinks he's too paranoid. He's just a big guildmaster's pet for Mightyena, though.

... He'll keep that tidbit to himself for now, though. He doesn't want to color her impressions of the others just yet.]

Thank you for helping keep our beach clean, hee hee!