video // open

[kill_switch]

Who: Furiosa and you?
Broadcast: Video
Action: First Breath
When: A couple days after the masquerade

I've been here ... two hundred and seventy-nine days, I guess about nine months. It was easier to count days in my world, because you were lucky if you made it to tomorrow. So, you end up fighting for tomorrow.

It's a prison here, but I haven't had to fight. There's no one to fight. I've spent the last seven thousand days before arriving here fighting someone for something. It's been ... strange, here. I think sometimes I miss it, the action, but I wonder if it's just because I was used to it.

I find sometimes an impromptu sparring session helps, but I was wondering if there would be interest in something a little more ... organized? It'd keep us honed, busy between stops. [And, well. A sense of camaraderie.]

Comments

[kickingand]

Anyone's welcome, long as they keep to sparing. Leave anything else out of the ring.

[kill_switch]

I would think that went for everyone involved.

[kickingand]

That'd be the goal, sure. After that- [ let it be a goddamn freeforall. ]

[kill_switch]

[Her look hardens slightly, sliding slightly into Imperator.]

There is no after that. If you're so quick to judge it might be better if you form your own club.

[kickingand]

[ Welp. Even when he's not outright judging, he's getting slammed for judging. Them's the hard knocks. ]

Don't worry, you can keep the idea.

[kill_switch]

[She can smell the implication, and that's more than enough.]

Word of advice, say what you mean. You sound like a coward when you dance around your meaning.

[kickingand]

[ Just. So much staring.

This is what he gets for trying to be not outright offensive. Wonderful. Fuck even attempting social skills from now on, who needs 'em. ]

If I was looking for advice, I would've asked for it.

[kill_switch]

[Social skills are for those who are well adjusted, Dean. Not for people like yourself and Furiosa. Silly Hunter.]

Then don't start telling people who to include. I've had enough of that bullshit in my life, I won't tolerate it on my ship.

[kickingand]

[ It's true, Dean wouldn't know proper social skills if they bit him in the ass. Downside of the goddamn apocalypse. ]

Include who you want. Just keep your eyes out for the first person who can throw a punch with something other than their fists.

[kill_switch]

[Man, fuck the apocalypse and it's ability to mess up what should be simple interpersonal relationships!]

You sound like you've got a chip on your shoulder.

[She's calling you out, bro.]

[kickingand]

[ Never have more true facts been spoken. ]

Just one? [ ... at least he's being honest now ok. ]

[kill_switch]

[Okay color her surprised that she's getting a straight answer out of him.]

What are you going to do, let them sit there? [Here she is, willing to listen.]

[kickingand]

That was the plan.

[ Because, for the most part, he is tremendously good at being set in his ways. ]

[kill_switch]

And how is that turning out for you?

[Judging by this conversation? Not so well ...]

[kickingand]

[ Uh. Wow. This sure went somewhere he didn't want it to. ]

I'm alive, aren't I?

[ That's not even remotely sarcastic. Because it's so obviously the definitive test to see if you plan is working. According to Dean. ]

[kill_switch]

I wonder who you've had to step on along the way.

[You're not impressing her.]

[kickingand]

[ Depending on the day, there's a lot of stepping over Croats......... ]

On the road to what? The high life?

[kill_switch]

Wherever you're trying to get to, it's not here.

[kickingand]

Can't leave everything back home.

[kill_switch]

Prejudice should be one thing you should. [Tiny bit of a hypocrite because she's wary with Tyrion based on her own world ... on the other hand, she's at least giving him a chance, and she doesn't see that from Dean.]

[kickingand]

[ The thing is, he's doing better than he could have thought he would, and it's rather hard to be struck down in that regard. He hasn't gone after anyone for being different, even accepted the idea of mutants straight away without issue.

But how the hell do you say that when you don't like saying anything to begin with? ]

It's a work in progress.

[kill_switch]

[Furiosa is quiet for a beat, appreciating his honesty and the vulnerability it took to admit. She eases up slightly.]

Well, this might be a chance to work on it.

[kickingand]

[ Exhaling a sigh, Dean can at least appreciate some of the pressure being lightened. ]

I'm starting to get that. [ Doesn't mean he'll be all that good at it (old habits die ridiculously hard in Dean's case) but at the very least he figures he can make something of an attempt. For the sake of the community at large because Dean knows how to get behind that, at least. ]

[kill_switch]

So, we'll see you there?

[She's not a complete hardass, Dead, don't worry. But she's got a short tolerance for bullshit.]

[kickingand]

[ He's getting that. ]

Yeah, i'll be there.