vrdantwind: (If I'm right here with you)
Claude von Riegan ([personal profile] vrdantwind) wrote2020-12-14 02:58 am

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"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."
fingersandteeth: (on his way)

The Monday after the Cow Race

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-04-23 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
The sign on Fight Club's door says CLOSED and it is closed until seven, like it is most nights. The door is locked. But if Claude peers through the window, past the painted logo and illustrations of Fighting-type pokemon that covers so much of it, he'll be able to see the unreasonably tall shape of Thace sitting in a booth at the back, as well as Steven walking towards the door, so that he can let him in.

"Right," Steven says, as he ushers Claude through the door. "I've got a couple of takeout menus we can order from. I figured that would be the better choice, rather than us making you anything."

Thace might think Claude had the potential to be an ally, despite everything, but Steven wasn't so sure about that.
insidegalra: (Wait. What?)

[personal profile] insidegalra 2021-04-23 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Thace raises one eyebrow from where he's sitting in the booth near the back. He's not surprised that Claude chose to bring backup, but he does have some concerns about who. Concerns that are vanishingly unlikely to matter in the long run, but concerns nonetheless.

They'll deal with it if it becomes a complication later, he supposes. With any cooperation from forces beyond their control, this talk will go smoothly. Still he gestures to Vrig, so she can bring Dimitri out a chair in case things go long. Let Claude deal with any questions that might arouse.
fingersandteeth: (really now)

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-04-23 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
While Vrig brings Dimitri out his barstool, Steven shrugs, though he waits until the door is closed again to reply to Claude. "Sure. I just-- didn't know how long this would take and figured we might get hungry. If you rather, we can talk first and then decide if we want anything to eat."

He's walking now, back towards the booth, but watching Claude via the mirrored wall behind the bar.

"After all, I think we all know what this is about. Your-- shall we say theories about myself?"

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2021-04-27 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Big words for the bloke capable of evaluating even the tiniest twitch of his boyfriends' eyebrows.

[A sigh.] Yes, you do keep your promises. You also like to play with fire, to walk as close to the edge as possible without falling. [Like a true politician!] What happened then?
bestswordmaster: (postskip felix explains it all)

[personal profile] bestswordmaster 2021-04-30 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
I don't run headlong anywhere.
if I fight it will be for good reason.
and dimitri cries at the drop of a hat.
obviously I don't plan to break any bones.
I do expect you to dance with me though.

😼
insidegalra: (Crooked smile)

[personal profile] insidegalra 2021-05-01 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
"If we're going to be laying things out on the table, theories is coy, isn't it?" Thace begins softly, "Given that you have had more than enough information to put two and two together since nearly Christmas."
fingersandteeth: (business)

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-05-01 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Steven will wait until Claude takes a seat before he slides into the booth next to Thace. He sighs heavily. "Honestly, I'd rather just get it all over with anyway. Thace knew about stealing Christmas, because I told him that Team Rocket was going to go after... well, every single major shopping location in the two regions that night, honestly, but in particular the Goldenrod Christmas Market, because if we made a big show of attacking that one, we'd more easily get away with stealing more from all the others. And I knew that because I'm a ranking member of Team Rocket.

"I was press-ganged," he adds, spreading his hands out in front of him on the table. "As far as I know, all the otherworlders on the Team were. Instead of waking up with Fake Mom, we wake up in the Rocket dormitories and they put us through a week-long larceny boot camp before releasing us into the wilds of Goldenrod City. We have a biweekly quota we have to fill of stolen pokemon. In return we get room, board, medical care, all mission expenses paid, and a weekly stipend that increases with rank. And if we do extra missions, we get rewarded accordingly.

"And given that by the time they release us, we've already stolen pokemon in our training exercises? I think you can see why none of us bother to turn ourselves in to the Jennies."
Edited 2021-05-01 02:06 (UTC)
bestswordmaster: (postskip really)

[personal profile] bestswordmaster 2021-05-01 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
😾

😸
fingersandteeth: (harmless)

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-05-01 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I've only got nine hunts to my name since I've taken up the position, so I'm only a moderately experienced one.

And... well, I suppose I meant for you to make the inferences you did. It's easier for people to assume I'm talking about a traditional monarchy, rather than an underground community, and it saves so much explaining if I just let people make assumptions. But then you told me about yourself and... well. I felt like I ought to give you the full explanation, since you told me things you didn't have to.
insidegalra: (Look upon it and have hope.)

[personal profile] insidegalra 2021-05-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Thace appreciates a fellow information-gatherer who does solid homework, so he just nods at first.

Finally he speaks. "Steven does so like to talk about me."

A kiss on Steven's cheek after he says it, but then he's more serious. "The changes I would like to see regarding Rocket's existence or operation may not be possible, but I would be interested in at least hearing about what you would do with that information if you acquired it."
fingersandteeth: (inform)

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-05-03 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Steven's face heats up. "Yeah, I've been told I talk too much about my boyfriends when I have them. And-- my exes, even when they're long gone. I'm trying to work on being less obnoxious about it."

He sighs and shoves a hand back through his hair, a nervous, impatient gesture. "He's told me about what he'd like to see from the Team and I really don't think the Admins would buy it, unfortunately--much less the Boss, who is basically incommunicado with most of us and probably actually missing. And even if I manage to squeeze one final promotion out, they don't let people like us be Admins. Alpha's the highest we can shoot for and we don't even have one of those anymore now that--" He catches himself, then shakes his head.

"It doesn't matter now. The point is, I'm one of the three highest ranked Rockets in our little community and there's not a lot I can do to alter how the Team works on a macro level. There's only so much I can do when it comes to my fellow press-ganged."
Edited 2021-05-03 05:01 (UTC)
bestswordmaster: (postskip concerned)

some nebulous post-prom time

[personal profile] bestswordmaster 2021-05-05 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Ever since Felix's conversation with Greg about his wife and her battles, he's been turning over in his mind what to do about it. Maybe nothing. Maybe he should just keep this knowledge to himself. It would only cause pain and worry to tell Dimitri or Sylvain about it, and he's had enough of watching them suffer.

Claude, though, would be upset if it became relevant later and Felix hadn't told him. And Claude can obviously be trusted with it.

So Felix knocks on Claude's door one evening, without sending a message first.]


Are you there? It's Felix.
fingersandteeth: (consider)

[personal profile] fingersandteeth 2021-05-10 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Technically one of them was a Mage and two were merely powerful mortals, but point taken. And I suppose you could count them as consecutive? Not all of them went down on my first attempt, but I got all of them *eventually*.

We do have monarchies, but they're mostly constitutional monarchies these days, where the bulk of the governance is done by a Parliament or something like that and the actual monarchy itself is more for show. And my own country was always a republic, more or less.


[It is nice to know he managed to pull one over Claude, who is a very tricky customer.]
Edited 2021-05-10 03:33 (UTC)
bestswordmaster: (postskip look away)

[personal profile] bestswordmaster 2021-05-10 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Felix closes the door behind him and heads for the bed without being invited, giving Voir a nod of greeting before he sits down near Claude and pulls his feet up onto the bed.

There's no preamble before he says,]


Did you know that dead people can show up here, alive?

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