airlocked cmo post

[nightcure]

for between and during rounds and all kinds of junk!
r3s can use this for space pirate shenanigans

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[nightcure]

Between that and that pillowcase, I think I've suffered enough already.

[scourgingstars]

...I am so sorry for nearly everything he chooses to be at every waking second of every day.

[NO ONE NEEDED TO SEE THAT]

[nightcure]

Not even watching your season could have prepared me for that.

[ ..... ]

At least we got that thing out of the way.

[ But now he has to live with it f o r e v e r. ]

[scourgingstars]

I'm going to burn it if he tries that again. It was only funny once.

im absolutely tagging this again

[nightcure]

... Somehow, I'm not even a little surprised he's done that before.

[scourgingstars]

Welcome to life with Leonard Church, a man simultaneously more brilliant than he realizes and also the worst kind of imbecile.

[nightcure]

Yeah, I noticed. You picked a weird one, Ardyn.

[ but it, like, fits? Ardyn's weird too. ]

[scourgingstars]

Yes, well. Sometimes two vastly different broken pieces simply fit seamlessly together, and why question the logic when the end result simply works?

[He shrugged, brushing off the strange metaphor with a vague wave of his hand.]

He's only occasionally insufferable. One grows accustomed to it.

[nightcure]

Hey, you guys work well together. I don't think anyone's gonna deny that.

[ He shrugs as well. It seems pretty incredible, that such good things can come out of the network being a bunch of evil bastards. ]

I guess our Shields have that in common.

[scourgingstars]

...Let's just agree to never leave them in a room together, because I've no doubt Church would say something stupid and Gladiolus would snap him like a matchstick.

[nightcure]

Someone'd probably have to hold Gladio back. Or ten people.

[ He pauses. ]

... Man, how am I gonna explain to Gladio that I picked up a second Shield?

[ ... if he ever sees him again, that is. Noctis is still convinced that the network's gonna go after Gladio and Ignis next. ]

[scourgingstars]

Good luck. At least mine's been gone for millennia, that's a hypothetical conversation I certainly don't envy you for.

[it's fine this is fine]

[nightcure]

[ GROAN ]

I hope he's not gonna be too pissed off. Ignis'd probably be there to calm him down and be the rational one, at least.

[ he uh. hopes. ]

[scourgingstars]

Call me crazy, but I have the distinct impression 'Gladiolus Amicitia' and 'not too pissed off' do not fit into a sentence together.

And frankly, your adviser terrifies me and I'd not advise anyone get within stabbing range during an argument.

[nightcure]

Maybe we can get Iris to be a mediator. He doesn't get as worked up when she's around, usually.

Iggy can be pretty intense, but what'd he do to scare you that badly?

[ whatmakesyouhaha.mp3 ]

[scourgingstars]

...

[Ardyn opened his mouth to answer, then closed it as if something had briefly confused him.]

Now that you mention it, I can't say that I'm certain. That's strange.

[nightcure]

... Huh. Memory loss still messing you up?

[ ... weird. That shouldn't be possible. ]

[scourgingstars]

Well, it's... [Ardyn trailed off, thinking carefully.] 'Complicated' is a word I find myself using far too often, but it's the simplest way to summarize it.

Picture it as if trying to hold a handful of sand. No matter how one tries, some of it will obviously slip between their fingers. Keeping track of each and every single grain is beyond impossible, and trying to close one's hand around it will only result in more slipping away.

That, in the widest sort of description, is what two thousand years of memories feels like. Regaining what the network stole has only made it more difficult.

[nightcure]

[ He nods. It's a pretty good analogy, one he gets. ]

Yeah. There's just too much there. And with everything else you've seen and done...

[ .... yeah, he can understand, even if he can't really get it. ]

Sounds like a huge pain.

[scourgingstars]

I'd not recommend it by any means, no. [Ardyn shrugged, a hesitant smile working its way across his face.] It merely goes rather without saying there are a few things still in need of being sorted out, if ever they can be.