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Anna Amarande ([personal profile] hauntedsavior) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-05-07 10:53 am

you can keep on getting better [open]

Who: Anna Amarande and you!
What: May catchall
When: May
Where: A bar in Cellar Door, other locations to come

Content Warnings: Light alcohol use, conversations about humanity and murder, blood, vampirism

a. if you want, you can buy yourself a drink [at the bar]

[anna's made plans with a couple people to hang out this month. it's not a tense environment at all, and sometimes she can even be seen on the tiny little stage playing some chilled out bass grooves for the patrons. no concrete songs, really, mostly just improv for vibes. when she's not on stage, and most of the time she's not, she's nestled herself down into a booth down near the end. it's quiet, well-lit but not obtrusively so. people around here know her and know that that's basically her seat, so any conversations that happen there are as private as they're gonna get.]

[she's expecting a few people to show up as she nurses a beer that's so weak she might as well not be drinking anything at all. probably for the best that she's sober for these talks, whatever they end up bringing with them.]


Hey. Glad you could make it. [she tilts her drink at her guest.]

b. no you'll never drink like me [for kainé]

[there's always been a few problems with going out and hunting beasts, no matter how confident and comfortable it makes anna feel. no matter how many lives she saves, she's always putting herself at risk of corruption or injury or beasthood or all three, and one of these days it's gonna sneak up on her. all at once, extremely loudly and incredibly close.]

[anyway, when she comes back home this time, it's clear that she's been in better shape. she limps her way into the house, and she's at least cognizant enough to fix her roommate/girlfriend with a sheepish little look as she holds her side. the cloth there isn't dripping yet, but it's clear that it didn't start as red as it is now.]


Motherfucker out there got the best of me. [she's talking like she's not in pain, or like she's trying very hard to pretend she isn't.] I think I stopped most of the bleeding myself. Don't suppose we've got anything here that can help seal it up before I go to the doctor?
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-18 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pause. Hold your horses. Did she say fireworks? Neopolitan's eyes lit up like sparklers and she leaned in a little. See, they hadn't had fireworks since the last fourth of july celebration at Deerington, when Ashe had still been running the parties. And those had been...]

Oh that's going to be awesome!
It's been a while since I saw a good fireworks show!
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-20 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Fireworks period would be a nice change of pace.
We used to have big shows like that in the nightmare sometimes because of one person.
Apparently it's this big festival in America or something?


[She snickered with a silent smile and shrugged.]

What can I say but that I'm a pyromaniac at heart.
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-23 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[So, she'd been thinking about commentating on how all empires are alike, so of course they had to have big, impressive displays on their founding days, or some shit like that, because just on general principle that was the sort of excuse they used. But it really didn't come out because she caught the tonal shift and she cocked her head and frowned for a second before nodding.]

This sort of thing happens now and again doesn't it?
Little pieces of the 'other you' burble to the surface sometimes when you don't expect it?
It's not such a bad thing, though, right?
Sounds like a good memory.
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-27 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Be careful with things that mess with your head.
I don't know how they'd do it, but powers and stuff around here are already wonky.
And we wouldn't want your head getting fried.


[She sighed and shook her head. Still, she could understand why.]

Who were you going to ask?
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-28 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[It took her a moment to place the Emperor. They had definitely met once or twice, though she hadn't kept up with the imposing figure since his arrival. He was the one with the dark magics, wasn't he?]

Met him when he arrived, and that's a good description.
The little I can recall? I'm not entirely surprised you might have a few concerns.
Kind of sounded like he dabbled in some dark stuff.
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-05-30 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She made a Pfffft sound and snickered, shaking her head as she did so. Look, that statement about trusting the ones with jet black eyes just amused her. When the giggles settled, she nodded once and typed. Deep down, when she'd met him, he'd been performing necromancy pretty openly so she had never had an illusion that he was a great person.]

He seems like a guy with some seriously shady power.
And you don't get power like that without doing the shady things to get it.
That doesn't mean he can't be useful in the process.

Just gotta be careful.
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-04 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
So, if I understand what you're saying correctly?
It's not so much that he's done shady things and has creepy, dangerous powers and iffy ethics.
It's the fact that it really sounds a lot like he's one of the creepy, dangerous ones from home?
The sort who made your world the way it is?


[she thought she had an idea of what was being said here. And... oof, that was a thing.]
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-06 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[She was just looking at her for a moment, frowning and then finally nodding. Just once. Only once. Yeah. that was ... that was a thing.]

Are you deciding if you care enough to do something about it?
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-08 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well... considering she'd lived her life seeking vengeance, yeah. She thought it was a possible way someone might have responded.]

So. I don't think that anyone can do that here.
I'm actually pretty sure that that level of power doesn't exist in Trench.
Otherwise, there's people that they would have tried that on already like Salem.
But I definitely get why you're cautious.

Besides, even if he couldn't make you not come back?
You don't want to risk dying, not when you have to actually get your vengeance.
And you want to be dead sure it's him that needs the vengeance.

You want help?
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-11 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[A quick nod and she waved the concern away.]

I appreciate you worrying about me.
But just remember I've been in the revenge business for years.
So, I do know the risks if this ever happens, ok?
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-14 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I get it, I think.
And besides, you're being a good friend who doesn't want friends hurt.

Is it maybe that you're less interested in getting vengeance for this situation.
And that you're looking for a chance to find some of that peace one way or another.
And make dead sure he doesn't do the same thing here?


[It was a shot in the dark, but she tried it. Anna didn't sound full of wrath and spite, but deep caution and concern.]
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[personal profile] threelayers 2022-06-16 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[It probably helped a lot that Neopolitan was just basically full tilt on the vengeance wavelength. She was just kind of used to thinking in this sort of way at times. Also helped that Anna'd opened up to her in the past. She nodded.]

So, I don't know with him, but you're not crazy, not really.
Some folks, like say Maul, occasionally just try to re-open their old wounds and plans.
I know I was pretty damned guilty of that from day one when I got here, for a while.
So, if he thinks this "plan" of his is something worth having wherever he is?
He might be crazy enough to try it.

But if, say, it really would have only mattered to him over there?
Most of the time, those sorts? They kind of just shelve their plans for later.
Most of the time.

And then there's Salem.
Who just couldn't take a hint that this place isn't Remnant and her pissing match?
It wouldn't do any good for her.

So maybe we just have to find out if he's seriously crazy, or just dangerous.

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