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 Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:23 pm
Getting over to North End Park after pummeling the youma had not been one of Farbauti’s most very favorite things that he’d ever done. For one thing, relying on others for help always made him feel like he was being kind of a massive bother, even when the issue at hand was “Farbauti had rushed in to beat the s**t out of a youma so it couldn’t harm some Dark Mirror girl who had, as far as Farbauti knew only been minding her own business, and he needed help, like, walking.” Even issues like “The youma had nicked Farbauti pretty badly and apparently, he was not going to be allowed to just apply some antiseptic from the first aid kit stashed in his subspace and then bandage up the injuries to his stomach and arms.”
…………That really would’ve been better for everyone, though, he felt pretty sure. Maybe Eternal Kerberos’s healing magic cleaned up his injuries better than Farbauti could have done alone, and maybe that was good for him? But he also felt like Eternal Kerberos probably had so many better things to do.
The Dark Mirror girl probably had better things to do as well, a fact that made Farbauti slouch in on himself more than a bit as he trudged away from Kerberos’s bench. “I…… Sorry to make you go through all of this trouble,” he said quietly, head bowed as he rubbed at one of his arms. “And thank you? Y’know, for helping me over here? It…… That was really nice of you.”
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:01 pm
Belenos had worried all the way to this Special Guy that could heal Farbauti right up—she didn't want Farbauti to get even more hurt on her account, and the last thing she wanted was for the situation to be misinterpreted. She also didn't want to get hurt, especially because of someone who just shot first and asked questions later! Luckily, though, everything turned out okay, and that Kerberos dude was extremely chill about it all. Relief still only flooded her body as they walked away, with Farbauti all healed up, and no White Moon cops chasing her tail as they left. "Nah, man, it's fine," she assured, smiling widely at him. "You were hurt and you needed help; it's the least I could've done after you totally saved my butt from that crazy youma. You're welcome, anyway, though."
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:38 am
“Yeah, well, I……” Farbauti shrugged, and only after doing so remembered that he maybe, possibly needed to avoid moving too much? Of course, the question remained of what did or did not constitute “too much”—needing to bother a powerful eternal senshi for help certainly felt like “too much” to Farbauti, but he also felt like Bélénos and Kerberos would have disagreed—but……well, at least a cursory glance down at the injuries, all magically patched up if not completely healed, said that Farbauti would probably be okay.
So, he swallowed thickly and tried again at saying, “I probably wouldn’t even be here without this one other Mirror senshi helping me out, y’know? And I sort of get the sense that youma don’t really care what flavor senshi we are because we all taste delicious to them, so……” Trying not to risk too much further upset to his injuries—what if things seemed fine now but he let them spiral by not exercising enough vigilance and too many little incursions accumulated like the long, slow process of compromises involved in someone selling out?—Farbauti made a throaty little noise that accomplished more or less the same thing as shrugging would have.
“Plus, it’s not like you were hurting anybody and……I dunno? Better for Order senshi and Mirror senshi to stick together against the weird (derogatory) monsters that want to eat us, right?”
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:52 pm
Belenos watched him quietly as he struffled to say something, clearly not used to the idea of someone just... caring for him, just to care for him. That... God, she really hated this world. Why did such horrible things like that happen to such good people like Farbauti? He deserved better. He deserved to believe in himself better and to believe that he was (as Belenos thought) extremely deserving of good care and friendship. Then he said something about another Mirror Senshi helping him out and she grinned a bit, having a pretty good idea of who that was. Aww, Murikabushi! She loved that guy. Now, if anyone could convince Farbauti that he was Cool, Actually, it would be Murikabushi. Maybe she should talk him into making friends with the guy... Not that she would quit trying, but more people telling Farbauti that he was a damn good guy would only help, right? She did, however, wince a bit at the "not hurting anyone" bit, because, uh, ahaha, taking energy from people did kind of hurt them a little? But, like, it all worked out okay, right? It's not like it was really that big a deal—they didn't go around stealing starseeds like some of the Negaverse creeps. "Aww, you're so sweet! You're also right, yeah. Youma will eat any senshi, including their own, if they aren't well controlled by a general," she confirmed. "Sucks for them, but like, they are kinda sticking with that team, soooo... Anyway, yeah! You and I are totally cool now. I'll try to tell anyone I see to lay off you, if worst comes to worst. Do you think you'll be okay going home now, or are you gonna need to call someone on one of those fancy senshi phones you White Moon folk get?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:11 pm
Although Farbauti noticed the wince from Bélénos, he mentally chalked it up to the fact that they were talking about a pretty gruesome subject. Youma…… Farbauti didn’t entirely understand them, and he knew full well that he didn’t. But he knew enough to know that they were dangerous, and that the best approach to handling them was sticking together. Strength in numbers.
Maybe the numbers requiring solidarity with Dark Mirror senshi could end up being good for both factions, in the long run.… Sure, not all Dark Mirror senshi seemed to be as cool as Murikabushi and Bélénos, and some of them probably did hurt people and like, reassured themselves that it was okay since at least they weren’t the Negaverse? But at least it didn’t seem that Bélénos was like that, and Farbauti finally managed a small but genuine smile at her.
“Yeah, I……I have some friends I can call,” he affirmed, pulling his senshi phone out of his subspace. “And they’re all, like, super senshi or higher, for the most part? Plus, a Knight? So, I’ll be okay, and uh……” He wrinkled his nose bemusedly, and as he reached back into his subspace, he felt grateful that so many orders at Nagisa’s got saran-wrapped to prevent spills in the bag. Much less likely to seem nefarious, then. Taking out one of the orders he’d gotten to take home tonight, Farbauti held it out for her. “……D’you like tempura? I got it for free anyway, I’m happy to share?”
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:14 pm
Belenos sighed with relief as he pulled out his phone, grateful that he knew some higher level senshi who could hopefully get him home safely. That, and a Knight... He should be fine. At the offer of food, she bit her lip hesitantly and rubbed her arm. She really liked tempura... Okay, okay, yeah, she'd take some, that sounded good, and if he got it for free, then she didn't have to feel bad about taking it for free, too. "Thanks, yeah. Get home safe," she repeated with a toothy grin.
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