Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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I don't know if I'd call it a hobby, but I have an image to maintain. So I learned how to do this myself.

[hello!] It was kinda both though. But everything's okay now.

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Image is important.

[ he understands. ] ... I'm going to pretend that was reassuring. [ he wants to boop them on the forehead, but not while they're painting his nails. ] But I'm glad it was okay in the end?

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Somehow I thought you'd understand. [thank you, leave their forehead alone :(]

But it was! Everyone's okay and everything turned out the way it was supposed to, so...can't really complain.

[aubins]

There's nothing wrong with wanting to look good.

[ he leaves the forehead alone :c ]

Were they your friends? The people who were solving the case.

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[there's a nod and it seems to be both for wanting to look good and an answer to the question.]

Yeah. They didn't really want me involved at first, but I talked them into it.

[aubins]

... Sounds like they care a lot about you. [ and that lust is stubborn as fuck. ]

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I think when we first met they just thought I'd get in the way. [the silver should be dry, so they begin to work on the purple carefully.] But I like to think we care about each other now.

[also. yeah. lust is absolutely stubborn as fuck.]

[aubins]

[ the star of the nail show ]

Sometimes it just happens when you get stuck with people long enough.

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Do you have people like that, too?

[aubins]

... A few, I guess. Yeah.

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Do you miss them?

[aubins]

...

[ hm ]

I guess I do. It's a little weird not having them tagging along.

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What're they like?

[aubins]

In general? A good bunch. The ones I spend the most time with...? Exhausting. But they're good people. Had some terrible luck along the way, but they're all pretty reliable.

[probe]

That sounds like my friends, too. [they seem pleased with that.] You're lucky. I think having those kind of people is a really, really good thing.

[aubins]

Yeah? Maybe. [ he laughs. ]

They can be annoying, but they all deserve better than they got. I know that much.

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How'd you meet 'em anyway? That academy? [is lust just asking because they're nosy? yes. what kind of people does yuri attract himself to?]

[aubins]

In a... roundabout way, I guess. [ haha, abyss. ] We were all at the academy, technically, so yes.

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Are they the people you want to keep safe? Or are they different people?

[aubins]

... Them, and then some.

You're all aware of what we want, then?

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Yes and no? You belong to Wrath, so I'm kinda only sort of aware. Like...the idea but not all the deets? So that's why I like to ask and hear what you have to say.

[aubins]

Oh, so you know your own people's wishes, but everyone else is a mystery to solve. [ interesting. ]

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Yes and no! [lust...] Some of us know everything because some of us are boring and like doing a lot of research. Some of us don't know anything at all because they didn't wanna pay attention to the info we got on you guys. And some of us are in the middle.

So...we know the wishes but the extent that we know about varies between all of us.

[aubins]

[ ... he grins. ]

So some of you got lazy and now you're in the dark? [ t e a s i n g ]

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Hey! [wow!!] We had other things to do too, y'know!

[yuri no bully :(]