Video -|- un: nunya

[assholic]

[The video starts with a shot of the invitation that she'd received, the writing bold and clear before she tosses the invite down and directs the camera up to her face, which looks entirely unimpressed.]

Tell me I'm not the only one that feels like this is some lame attempt to gather certain people into a specific area for an unknown reason, aka, a fucking trap?

[Someone was feeling especially incapable of trusting anyone from this world or any of the Orbiters. She held up the ring she'd gotten, not wearing it, but showing it.]

And as far as some kind of... compensation for the shit some people went through, this feels pretty weak to me. An invite to a trap-party, a gold coin, and a pretty little bauble, because clearly I'm that easily distracted and easy to appease. They realize that people died during this, don't they? And we're all supposed to just slap a smile on, pull out a dress, and go along with this like this isn't a giant fucking joke?

[There was a look on her face like she was really, really hoping someone would be as salty as she was over this.]

Maybe it's just in my nature to think everyone's out to screw me over, but when I've already been screwed over, and not in the fun way, I'm not exactly feeling inclined to bend over for round two. There have to be other people that think this is shady shit...

[Please tell her there were other people out there that thought this was shady shit.]

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[panzersoldat]

[ This is your life now. Jessica's home for big dumb heroes. ]

I realize that. I was there. I am too much a gentleman to kiss and tell, but I remember what happened in that gala. So I won't be eating anything.

[ That, and he'd have to take off the helmet and why do that? ] But we shouldn't let the what ifs and the fear of the unknown stop us from doing what is right. In this case, being there to make sure no one decides to suddenly attack those present.

[assholic]

[Someone was playing a weird joke on her. Clearly.]

It wasn't all in the food...

[Glitter bombs, Rein. Glitter bombs.]

Do you ever try to just... not be you? For like, five minutes?

[panzersoldat]

[ Clearly. ]

Be that as it may...I still won't let fear slow me down. Not now. And maybe the presence of a knight in his armor will make people feel safer as well.

[ probably still picking glitter out of places she didn't know she has. ]

No. Why would I? A knight should be honest and forthright. That means not hiding who you are. I've come a long way from the vainglorious braggart of my youth. To be anyone else would be a discredit to myself and to those that once looked up to me.

[assholic]

Or you might just make a giant golden target of yourself.

[Don't bring that up, Rein. There were stories.]

Is it really worth it anymore? It's all gone. All that shit... where we came from. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

[panzersoldat]

Better me than someone else.

[ A pause and then a very serious tone. ]

Yes. It doesn't matter that it's all gone. I've lost everything before. More times than I care to count. But that doesn't mean that I should just give it up and throw away everything I am. I made a promise. My promises mean something. It doesn't matter where I am. It doesn't matter who I'm with. I made a vow, likely before you were born. I promised a dying man who meant everything to me. I will keep it until I join him at last.

So yes, it's worth it. Because when I join him, I want to be able to look into his eyes proudly and tell him that I lived with honor, just like he asked.

[assholic]

[She was torn, because if it had been anyone else, she would have brought up that Rein likely wouldn't be seeing anyone when he died. That he'd either wind up back in his pod, or he'd find out that this universe's version of the afterlife didn't have whoever he was holding himself steady for. If it had been anyone else, she wouldn't have minded shattering that illusion.

But damn him for actually making her not want to see him more hurt than she's already seen him.]

You know, being a noble dumbass might not be so bad if you were actually getting respected for it instead of this... lying bullshit.

[panzersoldat]

[ Thing is, he had though. Maybe it had been the poison in his system, making him see things, but in the end, before the fire claimed him, he had sworn he could see them coming for him. His fallen friends, his fellow Crusaders. His King. Even if it had been nothing more than a false vision, a hallucination, he will hold onto it. ]

Lying bullshit? Well, I'm used to that. And that's all the more reason to keep my path. Even if all the world is rotten, there is no reason that I should be as well. Tell me that you've never done a foolish thing because it was the right thing to do.

[assholic]

[If he had told her that, she would have hit him, hard, and told him he deserved more than false fever dreams. All the good people in her life did, and yet there they were, dredging in the shit like they didn't need to be. Idiots.]

I try to keep myself out of other people's shit. Every time I stick my nose in--

[A quiet pause, her glance darting down, thinking of the worst of the worst times.]

It doesn't work out well. And not just for me.