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Masquerade Mingle

[The night has finally come--the Gravity Rush is nearly upon us! What normally serves as a large performance hall has been gutted, emptied of its boring furniture and rigged up into a fantastical mismatch of technology and old culture. No matter where you go tonight, you're encouraged to move around, dance, play games, whatever helps you sleep in late tomorrow morning.

If you aren't one for scurrying around a ballroom all night, there's always plenty of people-watching to do. After all, so many people are wearing extravagant costumes and elaborate masks. How can you even tell who is who? Get lost in a crowd of sequins, chatter with a sun and a moon, or try to beat the guy in the monster-mask at a game of cards. Meet your friends or make some new ones--this masquerade party has begun!]

[[ooc: All sections are up now, have fun! A related ooc post is HERE for any questions or plotting you'd like to do.]]

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That is something of a stretch ... but I shall do my damndest. [He smiles in turn, spinning them around the floor as gracefully as he can.]

[He smiled a bit more at that.] She is easy to be liked, and she will look out for your best interests, no worries there.

[Now that was an interesting question, and he looked back at her.] Absolutely nothing. They are good, honorable family - brave to a fault. Stubborn, though, and oftentimes ... unwilling to bend where bending could have saved lives, including their own. [He sighed softly.] I am afraid politics is not a game that the Starks play well. They lack the duplicity for it.

[She stays close as they dance giving his arms less of a stretch and she smirks at his reference to imagining a happy family.]

Sounds like I'd be bad at politics too. [She would hesitate to call herself good. But brave, stubborn, and honest are things she can describe herself with freely. Of course, the reason she stops at good and honorable is because of the ways she's had to bend in order to save lives.] Good thing I also have no interest in it.

Many people are, and that is why many people should stay away from politics. I am glad you are one of the wiser ones. [Tyrion stated firmly, because by the Seven, he would never want to see Kitty mixed up in this sort of thing. She was too damned ... well. Everything.]

Not using any of that wisdom for yourself? [Though she wouldn't be too surprised if his options were limited where he's from given what he's said about it.]

I reserve my wisdom for the game itself, and mastering it. I am duplicitous enough to get away with it. [Tyrion all but purred, amusement flickering across his face, before his gaze became more serious.] It is how I have stayed alive, so long.

You seem like you've been straightforward with me. Is that just because you're good at what you do or because I don't have any political power so there's no need to dupe me?

[She can appreciate the survival tactic though. She had powers and her team. It's how she got through war until trusting someone she loved got her killed. He was alone and at a disadvantage in a physical fight.]

That is because I like you a great deal, Kitty Pryde, with that comes my respect. Respect demands that I treat you as honestly and honorably as you have treated me.

[Is his simple and grave response. Kitty had been nothing but kind to him, gracious, even warm. She had told him things that most would consider confidences. To use that in some clever game? Would be reprehensible.]

[She smiles softly. It's the answer she already believed so it's easy enough to accept even if part of her reminds herself she trusts too easily and fully and it's gotten her in trouble before. She meets his eyes. It's easy to do with him airdancing. She even has to lift her chin just a bit.] I like you too.

[Well, if there is one person alive who understands how much trust can be twisted against one ... it is Tyrion. Which is why it is so very important that Kitty not do the same. It's so fragile, this.]

Well ... there is a first time for everything. [He gave her a gentle smile.]

[She doesn't want to abuse the trust others have placed in her either—Tyrion's or Winn's.]

Now, that I don't believe. You have other friends here. [It may be poor pickings at home, but here he's already mentioned some.] And Margaery speaks as highly of you as you do of her. [But she does smile back.]

[Which is why they are both being very well behaved. For them.]

I do have other friends here - which still surprises the bollocks out of me. [He smirks again, before he looks pleased.] Does she now? Well, that is quite flattering, from the Queen of Love and Beauty

Sometimes I'm still surprised I have human friends. [Not that she was ever opposed so much as she was just hated and or feared at every encounter back home. And there was never any time or opportunity to work on building some kind of understanding. Always more lives to save. More forces to fight.]

Is that an official title? [Looking amused.] She told me she wasn't a queen yet. She's engaged to a king though?

Sometimes I am surprised I have friends at all. That I have not paid for, that is. [He gives her a smirk. In truth, he probably had more friends than he wanted to admit to - but that would make those poor bastards vulnerable.]

Where I come from ... she has been married and widowed, all in the space of a day.

Oh. [Surprised.] That's terrible. [Guess which lady of highgarden wasn't honest about what her finace was like?] She doesn't know?

No, she was engaged to my nephew - and my nephew was a vile abuser of women, dogs, and whatever else he could get his cowardly little shit hands on. She deserved much, much better. I hope when Tommen comes of age in the next few years, he'll appreciate her.

[She was clearly not expecting that and is at a momentary loss for words.] That is not how she described him. [Wondering if she lied or didn't see him for what he was.] Who is Tommen?

Oh really? [Now, he is curious.] How did she describe him? [The Tyrells did have a creative turn of phrase.] Tommen is my other nephew. A sweet young man, if there ever was one.

Handsome, which doesn't mean much. You can be handsome and terrible. And what was it...brave as a lion.

How old is Tommen? And she'd really just marry the other one's brother? [She doesn't seem to like these ideas even if free choice didn't exactly get her anywhere better.]

Yes, he was rather comely, that much was true. He was also terrible. And ... hah! Brave as a lion. More like brave like a milk sop.

[He shook his head a little, before he frowned and thought about that.] Seven Hells, how old is Tommen now? Fourteen - he would have just turned fourteen.

Maybe she's met some cowardly lions. I think she called him fair too. I assumed she meant just, but I guess that could have meant blond? Tricky. Unless you think she's not aware of it. [But that doesn't feel right to Kitty if for no other reason than because Margaery sees how sharp Tyrion is and he respects her in return. It doesn't make sense that she's just miss that she was engaged to a monster.]

That sounds so young. [Older than Tyrion at his first marriage though. Older than Kitty was when she lost her parents and fled. Not terribly much younger than her marriage.]

Oh, I more than believe that. And if she said fair ... she meant his hair. We Lannisters are all golden-haired. [He paused, then sighed softly.] I believe she is aware - but Margaery comes from a powerful family that can protect her from the worst of it. Beyond that, she is smart enough to know how to keep little boys on a leash. She won't need that with Tommen, though.

[Docile as a lamb, Tommen.] We were all that age, when marriages started to be planned - well for others more than some.

It sounds like someone did protect her, or was his death an accident? [She looks thoughtful a moment before letting him answer.] If you're okay to discuss it. I know he was your nephew. [He already called him vile, but...he is family? Then again he's Tyrion's family and that is not his favorite thing.]

At home, I was the exception for getting married so young. In fact, it wouldn't even have been legal back when we had laws and a civilization.

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