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[fessus]

You're doing that thing again where you get hung up on a few words and purposefully ignore the obvious point.

Ah, whatever... I'm just gonna' assume you're secretly having a good time.

[batricide]

[ get out of here with your recognizing his habits, noct. get out of here and never return.

he doesn't resist the urge to roll his eyes. ]

When do you plan on having people play this game?

[fessus]

[ Listen, he didn't ask to be brought to a foreign planet but he's here and you are going to eat your strudel while he watches. ]

You mean a raid? 'Cause people have already been playing... or they better have been. Otherwise they're gonna' be underleveled and way behind everyone else. Which would be pretty embarrassing for them.

[batricide]

[ what is this terminology. what do you want from him. he'll eat his strudel and he'll tolerate you watching but it's weird look away. ]

Some people have responsibilities.

[fessus]

[ No, fuck you, it takes more than this to make you miserable. ]

We've been over that five times. Six times? Can't remember.

... tell me something else from your world that you like.

[batricide]

[ STOP WATCHING ME YOU FREAK.

Ugh. Whatever. ]

Being a hero.

[fessus]

[ HOW AM I THE FREAK BETWEEN THE TWO OF US ]

So helping people.

[batricide]

I like making a difference.

[ BECAUSE WHO WATCHES SOMEONE ELSE EAT ]

[fessus]

[ This is proving that you're human and you can put a sugary treat before working out and being stubborn, okay. ]

Me too.

[batricide]

[ he's not just going to throw it in a potted plant GOD. ]

You're a hero?

[fessus]

... I never really thought about it like that, I guess. Maybe to some people.

But I make a difference, and I help people. You said you fought in wars, right?

[batricide]

[ He'll pause to order whatever passes for fake terrible coffee in the future. ]

I have. [ kind of caused some too. ] I protect people who can't protect themselves. [ from themselves more often than not. ] And sometimes that means fighting.

[fessus]

[ Somehow, he almost hears the pauses that make room for internal commentary. And he gets it.

But now that Damian's ordering a coffee? Noctis has to too. ]

Yeah. I know.

I'm in the middle of one back home... a war, I mean. Right now it's more fighting than protecting, but when I get to do more of the latter it feels good.

[batricide]

[ hm.

coffee is also gross and he's adding sugar to that. ]

They're one in the same. Every battle you fight is a battle someone else doesn't have to.

[fessus]

I dunno about that. Maybe before... With things how they are now, though, I'm the only one that can fight these.

[ A more cowardly side of himself wishes that weren't the case, but every day he accepts his fate more and more. ]

What about you? Who protects you?

[batricide]

That's how it often goes.

[ Sip.

It's not entirely true - Clark does. But Clark's in prison now. He's on his own, back with his mother's family. Which means its survival of the fittest. ]

No one.

[fessus]

I guess sometimes it's just-- nah, forget it.

[ "No one". He doesn't believe for a second that that could be the case here, not if he's so concerned for specific other people, but. ]

Fine, I'll watch your back.

[batricide]

I watch my own back.

[ :/ ;/ ;/ ]

[fessus]

Good for you. I still said what I said.

And you can watch mine.