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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-12 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He is somewhat prepared - he can tell when she's approaching. He straightens up at her voice, turning away from the vegetables he was examining to look at her.]

Wrath, hello. How are you?
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-12 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm walking!

[AND SHE GOES IN FOR THE HUG. Very happy to see you, Lineface Buddy.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-13 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, he can see that, and was about to comment on it. But then she latches onto him and he just stiffens with surprise. He knew Wrath was friendly, yet this was unexpected for him.]

What--?
pain_train: (facepalm)

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-13 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoops. Probably should not have done that. She quickly lets go and backs off.]

Sorry. I should have asked first. I'm too fucking excited for my own good.

[Because... walking.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-15 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He steps back as well once she's released him. Sudden displays of physical affection are not things he enjoys from most people. Once he's certain she won't lunge again, he grunts.]

You are certainly that. [Excited.]
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-15 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, now she feels like a total asshole, and stupid to boot. Really, she's lucky he didn't punch her in the face like Maine would have. Wrath drops her gaze to the ground, though she keeps her back straight out of habit and her hands still.]

I'm very sorry. Won't happen again.

[Automatic reaction. Though she thankfully doesn't have the urge to append a sir to the end of those statements at least, since she's well aware that Erik doesn't outrank her.

Okay, so how do actual people deal with situations like this?]


It's really nice here?

[Yes, that's right. Talk about the weather.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-17 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. [With that, it's no longer of concern to him. The difference in Wrath's posture and body is now more apparent.]

It's much nicer than the last world. You seem to be doing better as well.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-17 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Being able to go outside is... great. [Natural light. She's never going to be over that.] Beverly removed the ports, and then the nanobots rebuilt my bones. Everything's functional now. My captain's started tuning up all my synthetics. It's going to take a while, but... I might be back to full speed eventually.

[She still doesn't look up. Erik's shoe? Very interesting.] And it doesn't hurt anymore. It's weird.
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-17 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you felt different. [Now that he thinks about the difference in structure, how the fields curve and where the metal lies.]

It can take a while to adjust to change, even if it's for the better. Learning to live with something makes you adapt to it. Also, please stop looking at the ground.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-17 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
It feels different to you? [Weird. Very weird.]

Yeah, I know. I just... forgot what it feels like, when it doesn't hurt.

[Argh. Well, she can and prefers to be just as frank about things.]

I'm looking at your shoes because I feel like a total asshole and dumber than normal right now, and your shoes don't care if I'm an asshole.
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-17 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I can sense all the magnetic components in your body. The ports were part of that, but I haven't typically focused on that level of detail until now.

That may be so, but the rest of me cares that I'm having a conversation with someone who won't look me in the eye.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-17 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fucking glad they're gone. [That might not make complete sense in the context, but it feels good to say. And kind of... not good. Because there is still part of her that's convinced it's now only a matter of time before the disease gets her and one of her friends will have to shoot her in the head.

...well, it's a well-established fact that Erik is an asshole. And (to Wrath) that he's the same flavor of asshole as Octavian was. And she has a vague notion that she spent a lot of time feeling off-balance around him until she had enough and broke his nose.

This is not, however, a strategy she's going to use again. Probably. At least now she's feeling cranky enough to get past feeling so damn stupid.

So fine. She looks him in the eye.]
The rest of you is kind of a dick sometimes, Erik.
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-17 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He isn't going to argue this point, because it's one he knows well. The fact that people continue to try and be friends with him despite it usually ends with them realising it later than they should. There are some things that need to be addressed though. He crosses his arms, shifting his weight on his feet.]

Why, because I didn't immediately dissuade you from feeling bad? You apologised and I accepted it. That should be the end of the matter.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-17 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She actually appreciates this. This is a level she knows how to communicate on, and if Erik is willing to talk like that, she doesn't have to worry about if she should try to figure out how to sound like a normal person.]

I don't need or want you to pat me on the ass. But give me a fucking minute to get over it. I don't know how to switch off my feelings if no one's shooting at me. I'm not that smart.
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-17 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Then let's get over it. I'm not upset. No, I don't like being touched like that without warning. [Or at all, barring some exceptions.] Especially on this planet. So you don't need to concern yourself over it more than that.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-17 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's not just about you. I should've known better. The planet whatever really doesn't matter. It's selfish and dumb to touch people without asking first because you don't know what shit they have going.

[She shrugs.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-19 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
[It's an awareness he appreciates, much as he won't confirm it.]

I accept that you feel badly about it, but I wasn't going to ignore the fact that you weren't looking at me. [Maybe if she had been one of his followers in days gone by, and he'd given her a dressing down that way. That particular leadership slant will never entirely leave him.]
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-20 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Then you get to deal with me being upset. [Choice is yours, Erik. Her lips quirk.] Or I guess you could shoot at me and then I'd be fine because I'd know what to do.

[How the fuck does this social interaction stuff work, and... why is she asking Erik? Hoo boy.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-22 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
I don't use guns.

[Too much history there, between too many people now.]
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-23 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Since when do you have to use guns to shoot at people? [Or are Erik's powers way less awesome than she was led to believe? But anyway, she knows there are way more projectile weapons out there than regular guns.

She shrugs.]


Or whatever. I can't shoot for shit. But it's more an expression that encompasses all the myriad ways people could try to murder my ass. [Because ultimately, those are the kind of conditions she knows how to deal with best.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-23 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's what's typically meant in my world. [Other than missiles. Mutant firepower is too poorly understood by the majority to factor into the expression.]

None of which I'm going to use in a conversation, I would think. [Unless it went extremely south. Unlikely, but always a possibility with the various people he could encounter here.]
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-23 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay. Huh. Now I know!

Yeah, I didn't like actually mean you would. Just I'm shitty at talking like a normal person but I'm a lot better at dodging bullets so that's easier.

...but I guess that was a dumb joke and it didn't work. [Hm. Mental note. But she feels a lot less awkward than she did, so that's probably an improvement?]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-23 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
[It says a lot about him that his first reaction was to take it seriously.]

I don't have the best sense of humour.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-23 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
You don't? I think you're pretty funny. [This is a serious statement on her part. Despair, everyone.]

My favorite joke in M.I. used to be headbutting people. It doesn't work very well in regular conversations. So. [She's pretty sure the problem here is her and not you, Erik. Because Erik is awesome as far as she's concerned.]
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[personal profile] grandstanding 2016-07-24 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well, thank you. [His sense of humour doesn't tend to connect with most people he knows.]

Humour is... subjective.

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