Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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[...........] -- Pride has a daughter?

[bonetiddies]

. . . Ah. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything.

[She feels bad now!!]

Clearly, he values his privacy.

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Oh - I'm not telling them I know, I uh, I don't do well with being stabbed. I won't tell them you said anything. [... wow.] Wow, someone slept with them. That is... a revelation.

[bonetiddies]

Be nice.

[Pride is actually valid.]

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[she makes a face. but she will, only because it's harrow.] Well, uh. I'm glad you didn't accidentally eat Pride's daughter. For sure. Whatever happened to the other four... I don't know, I haven't asked. It seems like a real dick move to grab them by the shoulders and be like, tell me about your traumas!

[bonetiddies]

Agreed. It is a real dick move. But they might not know they ought to tell you. Molly was fairly willing to discuss it. Grace perhaps less so.

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I'll ask Molly about it but uh. I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I say the wrong thing around him a lot. Which I am very unused to, actually!

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Really? [This. Baffles her.] As in, he was offended? Are you sure?

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Not... offended, but maybe uncomfortable. I try to talk about his feelings and he gets squirmy about it. Which I'm not unused to, that's, uh. That's pretty fucking familiar, but I just didn't anticipate it with him.

[bonetiddies]

Oh. That makes more sense. I say almost exclusively terrible things to him and he's never minded, but that I don't think he cares for.

[Hmm. Which is a problem, if she needs to know.]

. . . You are rather forward sometimes, you know. The second time we spoke, you were telling me that you "liked me." I didn't come see you right after, either, because I was afraid of what you'd say. That you would be nice, and I would be unequipped for it. As you've seen, I don't - always know what to do with that.

I don't think he's entirely dissimilar.

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[she makes a FART SOUND with her mouth.] You antiheroes and your constipation. [like she isn't just as bad about being honest about hers but this isn't about her!!] Or I guess not antihero. It's not tsundere either... maybe Lust knows a better term. Anyway. I know I'm forward. And I'm probably going to not stop that, because I think you guys need a safety net if you want one. I just think, uh, I'm maybe not so great at predicting when to toss it, I guess.

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I suspect I'm the last person who should be giving advice on how to talk to people, but. . . maybe you should just ask?

[Hmm. And a little less rudely -]

. . . I agree. It's good that someone like you is here.

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[well. that makes her smile a little.] You know, I've heard the, uh - the leave something better than you found it thing from Molly a few times. [...] I really like that. If I give off even a little bit of that energy, I'm happy.

[bonetiddies]

[Sappy. . .

No, it's sweet. But she's embarrassed now, that she said something that made her smile and say something sappy.

Abrupt topic change!]

. . . Might I ask about something I'm curious about?

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[what a tsun] Sure. Hit me.

[bonetiddies]

At the trial, Aoi and Shi Qingxuan were cursed, but I can't see exactly how it came to be that they were.

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It wasn't me. [she lifts her hands.] I didn't do it.

[bonetiddies]

I didn't think you did. It doesn't fit any of the task prizes we're aware of, but there might be a task prize we're not aware of.

But let me ask you this - how likely do you think it is the source was something other than a task prize?

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Pretty likely? Don't quote me on that, though. I am making so many guesses.

[bonetiddies]

I see. Is it the kind of ability the Avatars would give someone if they asked?

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Theoretically none of us really like it when people just walk up to us and ask us for superpowers.

[bonetiddies]

I have made so many requests for such little gain. [Her bones] It would be very irritating to me if others were getting them. But apparently it is possible to swap powers?

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What, do you mean like with each other or with us? With us you can probably swap them out, I guess.

[bonetiddies]

With you. If I wanted to swap mine - which I unfortunately don't, because I did something extremely ill advised with mine - could I just choose any of them from the menu?

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Ehhh, maybe, but I think it's more likely that one of us would just be like hey, you want this? Get rid of one of your other ones.