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[devilsinthedetails]

Who: Cole Turner
Broadcast: network-wide video
Action: on the Marsiva
When: Around 1/13

[There's a Darth Maul cosplayer tall and annoyed demon pacing back and forth, playing almost nervously with his hands like there's a ring that should be there but isn't.]

Another reality show? I thought the last one was bad enough.

[He stops his pacing to look up at the ceiling, seeming to direct his anger at that.]

Leo! Leo Wyatt! Orb your whitelighter ass down here and do something useful for once!

[He waits a moment before he throws up his hands in frustration and goes back to pacing.]

Great, fine. Alright, you've got me here. Point me at whoever or whatever you want me to kill so we can get this over with.

Comments

[misconceived]

[ He's about to make a point about how that's not possible because it's been almost two weeks since then unless there's even more time travel involved, but he stops short. ]

What? You can't do that.

[devilsinthedetails]

[...Chris, out of all the things to claim as not possible, you pick time discrepancies?]

Last I checked, I was still your dad, so yeah, I can and I am.

[misconceived]

[ It's been a weird few weeks. Give him a break! ]

No way. What did I even do?!

[devilsinthedetails]

[His life is already weird. That's not an excuse.]

It's more what you didn't do. You forgot to mention just how vulnerable you are in your human form.

[misconceived]

[ shut up dad it totally is ]

That is not a grounding-worthy offense. I heal just fine, and it's never been an issue before!

[devilsinthedetails]

[omg no it's not]

It is when you don't tell me when we get involved in a dangerous situation like that, Christopher! [...oh, he's definitely not pleased by this.] You put not only yourself but me into danger by not telling me your faults so we can work around them.

[misconceived]

[ you did not just call him Christopher ]

Excuse me? My faults? You can't just—

[ He stops. Completely cuts off, then crosses his arms and closes himself off. ]

No. We're not doing this. This whole network thing is public and I'm not having this conversation with you where everyone is going to see it.

[devilsinthedetails]

[yeah he totally did. deal with it.]

Would you rather I call it a weakness because that's exactly what it is.

[Well, if Chris doesn't want to talk over this, then there's always another option.]

Then we can talk in person instead.

[misconceived]

That's not what it is. I am not—

[ He has to stop himself again. Weakness is a sore spot, whether it be a physical failing or a mental one or one pertaining to his alignment. ]

Yeah? Give it a try.

[devilsinthedetails]

[You know what? Fine, he's not discussing this right now and instead has a familiar expression on his face as he's trying to sense Chris.]

There you are.

[He shimmers away to go talk to Chris in person

...and right into a wall. There's a loud thunk and even louder swearing and Cole has an energy ball out because this wall has personally offended him. And then growls at it and gets rid of the energy ball before acting like it never happened.]

I think we'll talk about this later.

[misconceived]

[ Yep. Chris knew this would happen so he ducks his head and grins to himself and that helps a lot. Seeing his dad hit a magical wall face first is exactly what he needs right now with tensions running high. ]

Yeah, I thought so.

[ Ahem. ]

You know you've still got your game face on, right?

[devilsinthedetails]

[If Cole was anyone else, he'd pout and be annoyed by this, but he's not so he's just pretending nothing happened because he totally didn't shimmer into a wall, okay.]

I thought I was still in something like Witch Wars.

[And he shifts back into his human form and rolls his shoulders as if to fit himself back into it.]

I can tell now that this isn't the case.

[misconceived]

No. I mean, it's another reality show, but no. They're more like competitions over stupid things than killing people.

Except this one doesn't even seem to have competitions going for it. [ Which is weird. ] Just... ratings.

[devilsinthedetails]

That doesn't make any sense. What are we supposed to do to win if there aren't killings or competitions?

[misconceived]

No one knows. No one that I've spoken to, anyway. Apparently we just have to please the crowd while we're here and maybe that will do something.

[devilsinthedetails]

All we have to do is please the crowd? Well, that's really open-ended, don't you think? I could do plenty of things that would be considered crowd pleasing.

[misconceived]

[ He frowns, squints at the screen. ]

Such as?

[ladiesss]

[...a quiet voice comes in over audio. guess who.]

Dude, did you just get grounded by your demon dad?

[misconceived]

No! No, he is not grounding me.

[ Yes he is, Chris. Accept it. ]

... he is my dad, though. There a problem with that?

[ladiesss]

What? No, no, of course not. I'm still on the grounding thing, calm down.

[I MEAN the demon dad thing does kind of explain a couple of things, but...]

[misconceived]

[ Look, he's very sensitive about people jumping to conclusions with his dad, okay? ]

There is no grounding thing.

[ladiesss]

...I think there was a thing. A little bit of a thing.

[smiiiles.]

[misconceived]

[ Beat. ]

Maybe a little bit of one, but it's not going to be a thing thing. Okay?

[ladiesss]

Okay. Not a thing thing.

[if you say so, chris...]

[misconceived]

Exactly. Now you get it.

[ HE SAYS SO. He still doesn't believe Cole is totally serious, the poor fool. ]