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driftfleet2017-03-25 05:32 pm
searingedgelord) wrote in driftfleet2017-03-25 05:32 pm
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Who: Velvet Crowe and You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: aboard the SS Red Fish
When: right after the Shuffle
[Velvet had woken up in one strange tin can and had only just started to get her bearings when she was suddenly transported to another strange tin can. This isn't how she was expecting today to go.
She stumbles a little but manages to catch herself, oblivious to the fanfare that signals her arrival.]
Where--?
[She takes a moment to steady herself, shaking her head to clear it. She blinks, focusing on her surroundings, trying to make sense of things.]
...Is that pudding?
[Where does pudding fit into all this? And that's not even mentioning the confetti. Actually she hasn't even noticed that yet, or the fact that a lot of it has fluttered into her hair. She looks pretty festive for someone so cranky.]
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: aboard the SS Red Fish
When: right after the Shuffle
[Velvet had woken up in one strange tin can and had only just started to get her bearings when she was suddenly transported to another strange tin can. This isn't how she was expecting today to go.
She stumbles a little but manages to catch herself, oblivious to the fanfare that signals her arrival.]
Where--?
[She takes a moment to steady herself, shaking her head to clear it. She blinks, focusing on her surroundings, trying to make sense of things.]
...Is that pudding?
[Where does pudding fit into all this? And that's not even mentioning the confetti. Actually she hasn't even noticed that yet, or the fact that a lot of it has fluttered into her hair. She looks pretty festive for someone so cranky.]
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Still.
And the second she enters his domain -or he enters hers, maybe, he's not sure- Sorey can feel it. Malevolence, seething, seeping, powerful and heady. It's not like Heldalf's domain, or even like that of a dragon but it's powerful and it makes him feel a little sick, sinking down into a crouch with his head hung as he swallows and breathes deep. He hasn't felt something quite like this since Greed, like the malevolence of a hundred souls all piled on top of each other, like the venomization crucibles back home. It's sickening.
Even when he hears her boots clicking down the hall, even when he can feel her as the source moving closer, Sorey doesn't quite get up. Maybe his reaction is a little more...visceral than usual. The last time he remembers being so close to so much malevolence, he was generating it himself.]
...H...hello, [he croaks, head still down, though he holds up a shaking hand in case she's the hand-shaking type.]
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You're Sorey? [She frowns a little, placing a hand on her hip rather than accepting the hand he's offering.] You didn't have to come if you were sick, you know.
[Her tone is wry, and holds just a hint of scolding. She's never had anyone react to her quite like this, so it doesn't occur to her immediately she's the cause of his reaction.]
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[Again with the vaguely scolding tone. This is Zaveid's friend and vessel she doesn't really want him to push himself if he feels bad. And it's not like he can tell her anything if he's unconscious or something, right.]
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So, did you want to ask me anything in particular?
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What happens to Eizen?
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...he turns into a dragon. I don't know when. [Edna almost never talks about Eizen except to deliver pointed barbs or harsh warnings, and Zaveid won't talk about his past unless it's been pried forcibly out of him. Between the two of them Sorey hardly knows anything about the seraph Eizen before he became...that.] Zaveid and I- we kill him. All of us lend our strength to the task. ...at least, I think so; it hasn't happened for me yet, but that's what Zaveid's told me.
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He really is such an idiot.
[It's really said more to herself than Sorey, though she definitely says it loud enough for him to hear.]
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Humans and, sometimes, daemons. He's stubborn and does what he wants.
[She's the same, though, so it's not really a criticism. They all made questionable choices didn't they, that's how they ended up traveling together.]
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[But that's a little sad to think about.]
Are you and he pretty close friends?
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[Her crew is important to her, Eizen and his pirates included. Eizen trusts her and the rest of the party enough to tell them about his sister. But she's reluctant to use the word "friend", given what she is and how she is.]
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[Last time she had someone she called a friend she sort of ate her, so. It's awkward, okay.]
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Still, Maltran was always pretty calm when she was hiding her true self, except Velvet isn't trying to hide any of her malevolence. It's kind of throwing him off, how calm she is when giving off so much of it. He can tell Mikleo's thrown by it too, just by the way he's silently tense inside of his soul.]
...I'm sorry I can't tell you anything else about what happens to him. When I first met him, he'd already been a dragon for a long, long time.
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[She sighs. Eizen's gonna Eizen. At least he's himself here.]
How did Zaveid take it? He wasn't much for killing when I knew him.
[She expects Zaveid takes it badly, though, given how different he seems now compared to before.]
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That so? I guess his hair isn't the only thing that changed.
[She's not actually judging. She's killed enough people herself, she's not in any position to judge. It's just a little surprising. Though it does make sense. She doesn't know how much time has passed for Zaveid, but she knows the world must have changed when Artorius was defeated. That would lead to the people in it changing too, for better or worse.]
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Still.]
What...was he like before?
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Kind of...idealistic, I guess. He didn't like the abbey any more than we did, but he refused to kill the guards and exorcist he fought. He yelled at us a few times for being too willing to kill. [She shrugs.] He still helped us out when we needed it, though.
[She pauses and then adds:]
And he wore a shirt.
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When I first met Zaveid, he was going around killing hellions, because he couldn't purify them. But then again, there hadn't been a Shepherd for quite a while.
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Shepherd, huh. [She says it like a curse.] They're still using that word.
[Honestly her anger isn't really directed at Sorey specifically. It's just a sort of restless freeform rage borne from her hatred of Artorius and the concept he created.]
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Ah. Right, the Shepherd- he's not a good person, in your time. Right?
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I guess that depends on what you consider good. The needs of the many, right? He's good at that.
[She speaks of him in present tense because to her he's still alive, still an enemy, still the brother-in-law she loved who betrayed her.]
He's also good at human sacrifice, enslaving malakhim and forcing people to turn into daemons. Anything for his Utopia of Reason.
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And that bit about Utopia of Reason...that's worrying. Even with Mikleo hissing don't you dare tell her, Sorey!, he has to- he has to know more, at least.]
What do you mean, his 'Utopia of Reason?'
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