Bookman Junior | "lavi" (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bookpapers) wrote2024-06-08 07:15 pm
bookpapers) wrote2024-06-08 07:15 pmKARLACHHHHH
one day ill have images prepared
bookpapers) wrote2024-06-08 07:15 pm
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He's never been the social type -- [this understatement] but talking's also dangerous in a fight. Doesn't take long for Akuma to transform and start shootin' at us.
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I'm assuming it's demonic.
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Yeah! Well -- Akuma are machines, but they're powered by human souls. They blend in by pretending to be human, which makes it easier for 'em to kill people. So we have to be on our guard all the time.
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a pause, and then:]
... Well, I'm not looking to kill people, and I'm not human, but that doesn't mean I'm not a person.
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Yeah, you're a person and a tiefling, right? I remember. Are all tieflings as tall as you?
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But we're not demons. Or devils. [insistent!!!]
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[HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE CALLED KARLACH THE DEVIL...]
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It's not just here, it's back home, too.
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[she... hesitates. it might not be smart to tell a demon hunter this, but she's got an intelligence of like eight, so you know.]
I look like what most people expect a devil would, 'cause we've got the ancestry. They just assume I'm there to eat their babies or whatever.
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at that, he grimaces, sympathetic]
...Sorry, that's total bullshit. I've met way too many people like that -- the kind who think you're responsible for everything your dead ancestors did or didn't do.
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Yeah, as if it's my fault some human in my family tree fucked a demon. [huff.] Anyway - I'm not ashamed of it. It's just what I am. And who I am is more than that.
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...Think I already called you impressive before, but I'll say it again for a different reason this time.
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Thanks. That's nice, from a mostly-stranger. [her tails wriggles back and forth.] But hey - let's be not strangers, yeah? You said your name's Lavi, right?
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[kanda doesn't call him lavi listen it's fine]
Which works out, cause I wanna be friends with you too.
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[genuinely says yay like a dork]
Friends it is! That's easy. I gotta tell you, you seem way more fun than your buddy.
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That's cause I am! [thanks lavi] I like talking to people and getting to know 'em. But Yuu's always kept to himself since the moment I met him.
He's not a bad guy though. He's been a soldier for way longer.
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Oof, I get that, though. It's rough to turn it off. [she rubs at her chest, absently. where the glow is.] I had my fill of that in the Hells. So I guess I'm more like you.
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Hells? [WHAT a name....] Did ya have to fight in a war there?
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also, congrats to lavi for being the only one who knows this so far:]
Yeah. Got conscripted for ten years.
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...Long time to fight a war you didn't get a choice in.
[he knows there's longer but that doesn't mean ten years isn't long]
How long's it been since you got out?
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I don't know, a month, maybe? Maybe two. Recent.
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[that is recent... and then he nudges her, playful]
Got any plans for your two month anniversary?
[is it an anniversary...]
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I'll tell you right now it wasn't this! [a beat.] It's alright. I'm breathing and talking and can touch people. What else could I ask for?
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Well, I was gonna say a birthday cake, or whatever your favorite food is -- but they feel kinda silly now that you've said that.
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