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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:35 pm
Shifting Blossoms.
Mot smiled. He'd always hoped Xiu would seriously consider opening a cafe. And now two of his favorite ghouls were involved. "You can bet I'll be a regular when it opens up." He said with a chuckle.
Mot hated to see a ghoul look so sad. One thing above all others in this world that could make him do just about anything was the tears of a female. Even if in this case said female was not yet at the tears stage. Frowning, he reached a hand over to lightly squeeze her own. "She's going to be okay, Gene. I know it." Mot insisted, trying to give her a confident smile. "A lot of terrible stuff happens here, but in the end, some way or another we pull through." Still.. he had to wonder when and how this happened to her.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:49 pm
She gave his hand a light squeeze back, giving out a little ripple of sad laughter. "Mot, if you weren't a regular customer - I think we'd both be offended." She was joking, of course, but really now; who made better coffee than Gene?
Well, besides the people who'd done it for up to thirty years of their lives. They didn't count.
She hated unloading on people the way she was on Mot, but... well, Gideon couldn't exactly counsel her could he? Mot was a nice guy, with insight and a chipper attitude. He could see the positives. "I know she will...but why Xiu? Of all people, why Xiu? Couldn't some a** like Mac get put in a coma?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:55 pm
Mot laughed. Loudly. Right from the belly laugh. "Aaaah Gene, you're good people. I like you." Mot rubbed an eye and sighed happily after his little burst of laughter. "Yeah, if we had the power to witch Xiu's predicament with someone else, I'd choose Mac too."
He knew a lot of people hated Mac, but it was always nice to bond about it.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:11 pm
Gene had to laugh too, pealing ripples of soft laughter from her throat. It was good to laugh at a shared familiarity with someone like Mac. After they'd both calmed down a bit, Gene had to pry just a tad.
"How do you know our resident jerk?" She asked, leaning forward just a tad. Did that boil go around the whole school terrorizing whatever hapless victims he could find? Honestly, how did Lizzy even see anything in the boil?
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:53 pm
"Ah, well his dorm room is right beside mine." Mot admitted, jabbing a thumb at the wall. "He was the first person I met when I first came to Amity. He helped me find my room and stuff. Somehow that was the first and only time he was civil with me." Mot's smile went wry for a moment. Honestly, it felt like Mac hated Mot for something... Mot didn't like being hated.
"And a few months ago I discovered that he is my cousin. Beat that."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:57 pm
Well - Gene certainly couldn't beat that. Not by a long shot. Being related to such a scumbag really had to be awful, what with family dinners at holidays and the like. Sometimes, Gene was glad she didn't have FEAR related family.
"Hm, what a crappy cousin." She remarked, sipping her coffee. "He shoved me in a lake one day, just because I was standing on the shore. I didn't get wet - but the gesture was certainly rude enough."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:04 pm
"He shoved you in a lake!?" Mot gawked for a moment before sighing with a judgemental expression. "I don't understand that guy. Sometimes he acts so self righteous and then just goes and shoves a random ghoul into the lake." Some reapers just wanted to see the world burn, he supposed.
"It isn't as if I have to deal with him much, anyway. Other than him being right next door, my immediate family doesn't ever speak of him. Apparently our families aren't on speaking terms. I didn't ask for details, since Mother broke a wooden spoon in half when I mentioned him."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:08 pm
Gene's face turned into a bit of a scowl now that she thought about the encounter with the red headed Reaper - he did have a bit of pompousness to him, and even went so far as to defend himself when she confronted him about something so blatantly rude. Honestly, it was probably a good thing Mot and Mac's families didn't speak. "Well, if Mac is a representation of the rest of his family, I'm sure your mother had good reason to snap said spoon."
She let herself calm down a little, shoving Mac from her mind. He wasn't allowed to mess with her emotions.
"What's your immediate family like? Any brothers or sisters?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:21 pm
"Nope. Just me. My mother is a very strict and straight faced sort of woman. I like making jokes around her but I'd be lucky to ever get any sort of smile out of her. Father is... uh.." Mot made a face like someone spat in his coffee. "He's.. odd. Not the good odd, either. The less I have to speak of him the better. Mother says I take after him a lot, but aside from appearance I just don't see it. He is a lunatic Mad Scientist with an ego the size of a mountain."
Mot scratched his head and chuckled. "Ah, sorry. I rambled.. What about you? Do ghosts have anything like a family? Sorry if that sounds ignorant, but I grew up around mainly reapers."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:30 pm
Well that sounded like an interesting dynamic. Gene's heart went out for Mot a little when he made that face. Apparently, from what Gene could gather, Mot never saw much of his father; the man was too caught up in his work.
She cracked a smile at his question, shaking her head. "It's not ignorant, don't worry. All Ghosts are different, so it can be hard to tell if we have families or not." She'd come to terms with her situation, and was in the process of adopting Amity as her family. "Personally, I don't have any relatives. I sort of...just happened, like a lot of Ghosts. Some because of a Reaper making a blunder," she poked him teasingly at that point "Or some just because of...other reasons. Some Ghosts are born though, and have parents and such. We're quite the diverse bunch."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:38 pm
The teasing poke was met with a sassy, almost indignant brow raise from Mot. Oh you went there, didn't you? "When I was younger I had the notion that reaper's who failed in their tasks that generated a ghost were the lowest caliber. But I was a different person before Amity." To think he used to think ghosts were second class citizens. It was a short and fleeting time in his life, mostly influenced by peers in his school days prior to Amityville.
"I feel like family isn't a Fear based thing anyway. Its a relationship that goes deeper than just being related. Here at Amity, I've never felt more at home. Is it the same for you?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:51 pm
"Good to hear." Gene understood a little of Reaper culture - enough to know that a lot of old school Reapers took pride in their jobs and did just as Mot said; looked down on the Reapers who'd made a blunder, and Ghosts by association. She was glad that those days were behind, and that Mot wasn't that kind of person any more.
She thought on his question, but nodded. Yes, Amity was like a her home - all her friends and loved ones were here, she'd found herself here, had helped defend this place a few times. Amity was definitely home. "Well, I've never had a proper home before; but Amity is definitely home."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:04 pm
"I guess that's why we don't mind putting our lives on the line for it, right?" Not they they could really die, but their general safety was always at risk.
Mot was finished his coffee that Gene had brought him, and now he needed to get back to his work. That is, he really wanted to try out this sign for Gene and Xiu. And maybe school work and training or something but who did that stuff? Well... he did but BLEH!
"I'm about to get back to what I was doing before you dropped by. You're welcome to stick around if you'd like, but I feel I won't be much of a host during. Did you need n escort home at all, though?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:12 pm
"Yes, I suppose so." She smiled, getting up from her seat. It had been a good talk, but they both needed to get things done.
She had to tease him, still. Always poking. "I'll be fine, don't worry. And if you mean you're going back to sleep, I might just have to tell Shun to come visit you." She smiled, floating towards the door.
"Catch you later, cowboil~"
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