I was thinkin' conversation! I got to talk to ya a little before, but there's still a lot I wanna ask ya.
[SOMEONE took the CARD DECK... tch. he will sit on this bale of hay though, rearranging his scarf as he does so because you gotta cover up when ink tattoos start showing up everywhere.
the words "disappointing Gramps" show up on his chest anyway,]
anyway, boothill isn't going to say no when he asks like that. he's about to take a seat on the floor when those words seep out from under lavi's scarf.
ah. boothill nods at him. ]
You, uh, all right if I ask my own? Seems like you got a conversation starter right there.
In the Rangers? [ PSH ] Nah. Closest thing I got to a Mentor was back in my homestead. Taught me all 'bout plants 'n animals, fishin' and huntin', how best to be what I wanted to be.
[ boothill seems wistful, but he comes down from this quickly. he nods at lavi's scarf. ]
[boothill..... i really understand why we're all in love with him... and why you are nat....]
Yeah. I left home when I was six to travel the world with him. He's a Bookman -- a historian, and I'm his apprentice. He's also real old, so if I mess up... then he probably won't have time to find someone else.
...But he's also so energetic that sometimes I think he'll live for another fifty years....
Stuff like siding with one person over the other, or letting your feelings show on the page. It's not true history if the person who's telling it has a bias.
'Fraid not. Like I said, learned all I know 'bout bein' a cowboy from Graey and Nick back on my own planet. Bein' a Ranger... That ain't somethin' you learn. It's the path you take when you got no other choice. Ya' can't start again, but still wanna make evil pay.
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[ chuckles... ]
Ain't been asked in quite some time. Depends on what ya' mean by that. What you got in mind?
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[SOMEONE took the CARD DECK... tch. he will sit on this bale of hay though, rearranging his scarf as he does so because you gotta cover up when ink tattoos start showing up everywhere.
the words "disappointing Gramps" show up on his chest anyway,]
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anyway, boothill isn't going to say no when he asks like that. he's about to take a seat on the floor when those words seep out from under lavi's scarf.
ah. boothill nods at him. ]
You, uh, all right if I ask my own? Seems like you got a conversation starter right there.
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Lavi blinks down at his scarf, oh. hm. this is a new one.... ]
Guess I can't say no after all that....
[imagine barging in on boothill to hang out and then going 'no :3c'... he fiddles with the end of his scarf, then]
Do you have a mentor in the Rangers? Someone who trained you?
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boothill takes a sit ]
In the Rangers? [ PSH ] Nah. Closest thing I got to a Mentor was back in my homestead. Taught me all 'bout plants 'n animals, fishin' and huntin', how best to be what I wanted to be.
[ boothill seems wistful, but he comes down from this quickly. he nods at lavi's scarf. ]
Guessin' that was yer pappy, then?
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Yeah. I left home when I was six to travel the world with him. He's a Bookman -- a historian, and I'm his apprentice. He's also real old, so if I mess up... then he probably won't have time to find someone else.
...But he's also so energetic that sometimes I think he'll live for another fifty years....
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anyway, this sounds very straightforward? ]
How do ya' "mess up" bein' a historian?
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Stuff like siding with one person over the other, or letting your feelings show on the page. It's not true history if the person who's telling it has a bias.
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Y'dont go to school for that kinda thing?
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he shakes his head]
Nope! Gramps is my only teacher, so I learn on the job with him.
Is that how you learned to be a Ranger?
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'Fraid not. Like I said, learned all I know 'bout bein' a cowboy from Graey and Nick back on my own planet. Bein' a Ranger... That ain't somethin' you learn. It's the path you take when you got no other choice. Ya' can't start again, but still wanna make evil pay.
[ he knocks his fist on his chest. ]
S'why I got this here body in the first place.