🔥 astarion

[ablazement]

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[haematocritical]

Oh goody. I feel so excited for my first attempt at regular food in two hundred years.

[ deadpan. ]

I doubt we'll be stumbling across a high end restaurant any time soon.

[ablazement]

We'll find you something good. Actually - actually, maybe I can ask one of the culties if they've got good food hidden somewhere? They can't be eating this slop.

[haematocritical]

I doubt they'd be willing to share, if they had their own secret stash of food that doesn't suck.

[ he wouldn't. ]

[ablazement]

But I've been nice to them and you haven't, so I might have an in.

[the way she just assumes this]

[haematocritical]

I’ve been perfectly nice to them!

[ no he hasn’t ]

[ablazement]

Really? Really really?

[haematocritical]

There was only minimal yelling. At one of them.

[ablazement]

Well, there you go. [lmao] I don't mind doing the talking.

[she likes talking!!]

[haematocritical]

How many of them are wrapped around your finger already?

[ablazement]

[that makes her laugh.]

Don't say it like that. [god.] I like all four of them. Famine especially, but we all had good chats.

[haematocritical]

Famine.

[ lmao. ]

They're so... [ so maybe famine was the one who got full stressedangry astarion. ]

[ablazement]

[see it's funny because she likes famine so much because they're a jackass like her friends]

They remind me so much of Lae'zel.

[haematocritical]

[ WELL. ]





... You're right.

[ oh my god. ]

[ablazement]

Yeah! See!

Not so bad when you get used to them. Not that I'm supposed to tell you that.

[haematocritical]

[ unsure how he feels about this. ]

Who do the others remind you of then?

[ablazement]

Hmm.

War's a bit like if Gale was way more serious? And less happy to blab. Death reminds me a bit of Jaheria, but none of the humor. Pesto's unique, I don't think they're like any of our ragtag team. Too easily impressed.

[haematocritical]

[ thinking about it. ]

I don't mind War. They seem quite serious, but not difficult to talk to. I suppose the easiest thing would be to ask Gale if he likes them and then we'd know for sure.

[ hmmm. ]

Pestilence tried to make a joke, but I'm not sure it was a particularly good one.

[ablazement]

Oh, he likes War, they're both wizards. It's like two ferocious bunnies circling each other. Adorable, really.

[lmao]

What was the joke?

[haematocritical]

[ oh god. ]

There's two of them.

[ help him. ]

Something about there being 25 monster pairings, and then saying there was only 20 and then they got all grumpy I didn't get the joke. Because apparently there was one.

[ablazement]

[squints...]

I guess I'm missing the joke too, because that doesn't sound funny?

[haematocritical]

Exactly!

But they didn't seem happy that I didn't get it? [ he's just ???? ]

[ablazement]

[help]

Well, Pesto's a weirdo as it is. Maybe I'll ask 'em about it next time I see them.

Good to know all of us have got a pairing, though, I guess.

[haematocritical]

If they give an explanation, I'd be interested in hearing it. [ DON'T EXPLAIN THE JOKE. ]

... Do you still plan on keeping to yourself?

[ablazement]

Yeah.

[absolutely no hesitation there.]

I'm not linking my fate with someone else, fangs. That's a death sentence for them.

[haematocritical]

[ he nods. ]

I have no interest in dying because someone else can't keep themselves alive. But I'm not opposed to keeping my ear to the ground for who they could be, without them knowing.

[ maybe he'd reassess. maybe not. but he IS curious. ]