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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:23 am
Before was still shaken up over the recent mission. More dying. Never not dying. Sure the North Pole trip involved corpses and dead bodies but they were dead when they got there, right? It's not like they died protecting and saving him and his fellow trainees, right? There was a part of him that was slowly wondering whether or not it was worth to keep training and getting better if it seemed all the Hunters ever did whenever trainees were around was die.
But didn't you confess to me that you once had no qualms in dying, silly Before?
The Misty grew quiet as he reached the training grounds. Yeah, I totes did. But then I got a purpose, and I got you and iun wanna lose you.
A face wrought from metal smiled. I am glad for that, silly Before. Just listen to what I tell you and follow the plan. You'll make it through and if your only concern for death is my well-being, you were not my first bonded and you will not be my last.
Whether that comforted or upset Before, Vanna suddenly couldn't tell because the Misty's mind was suddenly abuzz with panic.
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:26 am
Ariane knew that being a hunter was an occupational hazard; she had kept to herself, mostly anyway, for her stay on the island and even despite that... Ugh, she was only human, after all. Somehow, that made her both a little disgusted and frustrated to admin... Then again, if she was void of feelings such as these, she might as well be a monster in Halloween, right?
'You still are, Kintama, you still are,' She chuckled softly to herself as she continued on her way, not really heading anywhere; perhaps she could go poke some people to go on another external mission with her...
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:02 am
Teal eyes had grown saucer-wide at the sight of the Deather. What was she doing here? Wait, duh this was the training grounds, Ariane was obvs here to train.
Then LET her train, silly Before. It's a large field, you needn't concern yourse-where are you going?!
The Misty had turned sharply around, visibly pretending he hadn't seen her. Even if it was clearly obvious there was no way he couldn't have.
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:44 am
"What have we here?"
Sadly for Before, Ariane had spotted him, even if she took a second to recognize his back view after he had turned away; he was right, the place was a training ground, and she didn't really like training on immobile objects. It makes for a better workout when there's someone to go against...
"Are you leaving already, or would you like to be my sparring partner?" She asked with a grin, stretching her limbs as she waited for an answer.
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:08 am
Before kept his back turned to her, not even deigning to face the Deather. "Oh? I thought you wanted nothing of me. Or do you mean you want to reduce me to nothing?" Before's tone was casual, conversational, like he was merely talking about the weather. But there was a tension in his shoulders and it had nothing to do with the fact he already had his weapon summoned.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:38 am
Alright, that hurt. Just a teeny, tiny little bit, not that it showed in her words or actions. That's the way she's always been anyway.
"Wow... You hold a grudge like a girl murdered and turned into a ghost," She sighed, summoning her weapon before turning around to strike at the dummy, "I guess I was a terrible person for trying to get you off those tainted cookies. My bad. If you wish for me to treat you that was so much, then sure... I'll just practice on these then."
'I really don't want to hear that coming from you...'
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:07 pm
If situations in Deus had ambient background music playing and scenery changes, this one would have involved bamboo flutes and icy wind. You can just feel the lack of love between these two, folks!
"This ain't a grudge. You cut our friendship over cookies. I just got the message," Before shrugged, suddenly charging towards one of the free training dummies and striking it with Vanna's broadside.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:18 am
"Cookies with the potency of drugs. My bad, my bad. I'll make sure if any of my friends get addicted to something bad, I'll let them continuing abusing it, because that's the right thing to do, rather than try to get them out of it," She kicked the training dummy, and whacked its side with Kintama, her expression pretty neutral.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:10 am
"And you managed that by making it so I wasn't your friend anymore," Before countered, suddenly giving the dummy a swift kick and cringing as he ended up stubbing his toe. Mental note: Get steel-toed boots next time xAx "That's some savvy business sense you got there."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:50 am
"Well, I'm not exactly the social fairy, am I?" She might had whacked her dummy a little too forcefully that time, her own doubts about 'being alone is better' coming back as she tried to force those thoughts back into her brain, "Sorry I don't fit into what most people would want a friend to do."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:02 am
"You mean actually stick around to stop me from further binging?" Before snorted, his mouth curling into a bitter sneer. "Or was that just too hard?" he mocked.
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:23 am
"Yeah, like that," She couldn't keep the bitterness and mild frustration of of her voice, although most of the frustration went into hitting the dummy in front of her; ugh, feelings. She would be so much happier - ironically - without them; life would probably be a lot simpler too. If she didn't care about Before, she wouldn't have blown up at him.
There, everyone's happy!
"You know what? Think whatever you want," She continued, her tone even as she stopped hitting the dummies to turn around and stare at Before's back, "Do whatever you want. Hold a grudge, be bitter and upset and angry forever. It just means that you've proven my theory right. Caring is too hard for someone like me."
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:16 am
Before still kept his back turned to Ariane, however he'd stopped attacking his dummy. One hand was by his side, bouncing Vanna lightly against his leg, the other was holding the training dummy to steady it. Or trying to steady the dummy with the training equipment, whichever was more flattering an interpretation.
"Grudge? Bitter? Nah, this is almost nostalgic," he spat out, "You're not the first person to drop me off their social calendar over something iunno totally ******** trivial like, say, wearing the wrong sweater to a party (I so did not mean to wear that same argyle sweater as the host) or buying someone the wrong brand of chocolates for their birthday. And-" it is at this point Before had raised Vanna overhead "-I'm totes sure you aren't-" with a grunt, he swung down with a hammer blow, "Going to be the last. So no, I'm not really holding a grudge," he insisted as he turned to face her, his cheeks red with an anger that seemed to have been suppressed all this time.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:57 am
"Trivial?" She had stopped hitting the dummy; all her energy was going into being bitter and frustrated and angry rather than the 'training' at hand. Placing an arm on the dummy to support herself, she continued, "Trivial? Sorry if Joy cookie-drugs were trivial to you, and comparable to chocolates and sweaters. But thank you for teaching me that caring really doesn't pay off and that it's best to be alone, because then you won't make any mistakes."
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:58 am
If Ariane had been making any amount of sense in her arguments, the Misty would have found some way to twist the situation around so that he was indeed entirely to blame. He'd tried to do that. Several times. Since the ******** incident happened actually.
Except. No. He wasn't the one who cut off all ties. He wasn't the one who decided they weren't friends anymore over ******** COOKIES. Had she been trying to perform reverse psychology? Was that an attempt to use negative enforcement? The former Lifer couldn't figure it out.
And the frustration got to him.
Before threw his head back in one loud, mirthless, vicious "HA!" He set teal eyes on Ariane, "Jesus ******** Christ, way to miss the point entirely and play the blame game. All in one breath." He adjusted his hold on Vanna to have the large wheel against his chest, while he performed a golf clap. A very mocking golf clap at that. "Bravo, just. Bravo."
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