Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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Comments

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[do not perceive their method of getting around. thank you.]

Oh, perhaps. You did not specify.

[aubins]

[ 👀 ]

I didn't! Pesky limitations on that messaging service you've got here. Who was in charge of that?

[probe]

I am afraid we have no control over the system's limited use of messaging.

We can remove it if you would like? If it is too inconvenient for you.

[aubins]

[ imagine how badly punching sebastian michaelis would go. ]

Hardly. Imagine the uproar.

Alright then, what's a crest to you?

[probe]

We would have to say it had been your request.

[imagine people killing yuri over thinking he got rid of the texting.]

Every noble family has a house crest. It is extremely important to the dichotomy of nobility and commoners.

[aubins]

I'd really rather not. Despair's already sulking because Gu Yun and I didn't like his portals. Wouldn't want to rattle the cage too much.

[ stop you're playing sebastian in a sexy game. ]

... And it's just that? A symbol and nothing else?

[probe]

Ah. I see.

[the hood nods.]

Certainly. Is it more to you? [it sounds less like they are curious and more they are seeing what yuri will say.] Surely most family crests hold some means of power.

[aubins]

[ .... ]

Literally, or metaphorically speaking?

[probe]

Both.

[aubins]

I suppose both is true for what I know, as well. A crest gives a house power -- in weight, and name only, and an individual power literally.

You said Tetragrammaton. What house does it belong to?

[probe]

[the glowing orange eyes slit a bit, like they're smiling.]

The house of the Devil.

[aubins]

[ .... cheerfully: ]

Now that is definitely not one of the noble houses of Fódlan. Literally, or are you just doing that thing where you say something just on the wrong side of unnerving again?

[probe]

You asked, and I am simply answering your question.

[aubins]

No, you're slithering around it. [ hm. ] But I've got the context, thanks. Suddenly I'm glad I didn't agree to a legitimate deal with you.

[probe]

Perhaps you are simply not asking the right questions.

I make rather exceptional deals.

[aubins]

[ alright then, back to basics. ]

What does your crest do then?

Oh, I'm sure you do. [ maybe just a little dryly. ]

[probe]

[excuse, they DO make good deals, thanks.]

Which one, the family crest, or the other one?

[aubins]

[ he likes his soul where it is ]

... Let's start with the other one.

[probe]

The other one is a binding contract.

[aubins]

To what end?

[probe]

Until the one I am bound to completes their goal. It is not much different than what you have being here.

[aubins]

Except you're in the position of being the one holding the contract, and we're in the position of the person you're bound to, signing it.

[ presumably. ]

So they... had a wish and you're the means by which they can fulfil it?

[probe]

[yuri can't tell if they're smiling but they're probably smiling pleasantly.]

Something like that, yes.

[aubins]

[ hate that sebaschan. ]

How, exactly? As much as you love proving you can do everything, depending on the wish that could be... nearly impossible.

[probe]

On the contrary: there is no point in making such a contract if they will fail so quickly. The stimulation is they do it on their own. I am merely an assistant.

A means to an end.