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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~."
vrdantwind"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~."
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Date: 2020-12-26 07:27 am (UTC)... except now i just feel like ive set the wrong tone. oops.
just wanted to check on you.
well. you and sturm.
i still feel really guilty over how that battle ended.
are you both okay?
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Date: 2020-12-26 07:46 am (UTC)[Congratulations, Sylvain, you get to introduce Claude to emoticons.]
And hey, you've got nothing to be guilty for. I'm the one who messed up there. That was a really unfair fight for me to send Sturm into, just for the sake of my cover.
My thinking was that Rockets apparently tend to use poison and dark type pokémon. Sturm's a poison type, so he'd look like a reasonable thing for one of their members to have. And it seems like everyone helping Santa got the same two pretty obvious pokémon, so I didn't want to break out Obstagoon or Jynx...even though they would've been way better matched to yours in level.
But I let Sturm get hurt for the sake of my plan. A plan I didn't really accomplish a whole lot with, in the end. Those calls were mine to make, and any fault is mine, too. All you did was battle the way any normal trainer would have under the circumstances - and you warned me you weren't going to go easy on us, too. You didn't do a single thing wrong, or even unexpected - and in fact, you battled really well. You kept your team safe, you didn't put them through undue suffering, and you managed to overcome all the hurdles I threw in your path. You should feel proud, not guilty.
As for me and Sturm, we'll be fine. He's a little down that he lost, but I told him he did the best job I could've asked for.
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Date: 2020-12-26 07:54 am (UTC)cute right?
anyway, i really respect what you did. it took a lot of on the fly thinking to be able to pull that off. i'm sorry it didn't pan out for much, but it definitely reminded me why i was so wary of you in the beginning.
not that i am anymore.
sturm did really good, though. he almost had jynx in the end -- another hit and she would have fallen. you've raised a really good pokemon already. but still, i hurt sturm -- i looked it up afterward, and that was a vicious move to use on him. especially with her being so much stronger. and i didn't really stop to check on either of you either.
you say all of that, but it has been weighing on my mind pretty heavily. i get the same way about horses in battle, though. i hate when they have to die, even if my enemy is on them. it's not like they had any choice in which army they fought for, right?
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Date: 2020-12-26 08:35 am (UTC)I mean, you couldn't really afford to check on us without blowing my cover, could you? And after I'd let Sturm get knocked out for the sake of it...you would've made his pain meaningless if you had. So no need to beat yourself up for that. You did what you could for us - thanks for the potion, by the way.
But yeah, I know what you mean. Horses, wyverns, pegasi...the ones that go mounted into battle are raised and cared for by humans. It feels wrong to turn around and hurt them when we're to some degree responsible for them, and just because some of them might be ridden by our enemies, or taking them out is the right move strategically, doesn't change that feeling. It's miserable. As an archer especially...
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Date: 2020-12-26 05:09 pm (UTC)pretty clever right.
[Shut up, Sylvain.]
it just doesn't feel good.
would either of you mind if i swung by with some of those poke-puffs?
as an apology.
you're telling me
sometimes i feel like i'm made to destroy mounted knights.
a lance positioned just right can do awful damage
so i get how you feel being the one to send a flying creature from the sky.
doesn't sit right.
never will
Claude's going to see other people use emotes and find out Sylvain's full of shit
Date: 2020-12-26 05:16 pm (UTC)And you're always welcome to come by, especially if you bring treats. I think it'll help us all feel better, honestly.
We really are similar, aren't we? It feels like we even think about the same sorts of things, and have the same kinds of feelings about them.
as it should be, lmf
Date: 2020-12-26 05:20 pm (UTC)deal, then. any preferences for you and yours? i've seen all kinds of stuff around town. they put bacon on pastries sometimes even.
also you left out the fact that we're both heartbreakingly beautiful.
[Sorry, Claude, serious talk is over.]
Re: as it should be, lmf
Date: 2020-12-26 06:02 pm (UTC)As for Poképuffs, I don't think any of my little guys have ever met a Poképuff they disliked, so any kinds of flavors will make them happy. And for me, well...I tend to like bold and experimental flavors. I assume you're asking what I want because I've never seen a Poképuff with bacon on it...
Also, of course we're both heartbreakingly beautiful, but I don't go around saying it all the time for the same reason I don't go around saying "the sun is warm" at random intervals. Stating the obvious gets kind of old after awhile.
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Date: 2020-12-27 09:33 am (UTC)that's really not fair.
not necessarily a poke-puff in your case. Like a hum-e-puff? allia-puff? let me think about it. but i'll be sure to find something real special
sometimes it's nice to hear the obvious. like how you've got a smile that could light up a dark cave -- and did! or what about how your eyes are sharp enough to pierce my tender soul?
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Date: 2020-12-27 10:35 am (UTC)I've got faith in your taste, Sylvain. I mean, you've flirted with me often enough.
Ah, shameless flattery! I'll never turn it down. Though do I detect a bit of bait, fishing for compliments of your own? Well, I suppose I can oblige. A man with eyes like warm honey, and the sweet words to match...someone like that is worth indulging.
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Date: 2020-12-28 05:49 am (UTC)cruel, too cruel.
don't worry, i have got you covered though. a pile of treats, coming your way.
listen sometimes a guy just really likes to be told he's pretty in an extended metaphor
i appreciate you hearing me out
such a sweetheart~
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Date: 2020-12-29 08:29 am (UTC)[The fact that Claude's suggesting he takes people and not with his mouth makes it even worse for Sylvain is a Sylvain problem. One Claude is fully aware of and grinning over. He's not even really trying to make any innuendo, so Sylvain's reading it in doesn't make him feel the least bit guilty.]
And as flattered as I am, Sylvain, I don't need an actual pile! Don't let your guilt drive you into going overboard, okay? We're fine.
Ah, what can I say? The fiery red of your hair ignites the smoldering passion in my soul~. Sometimes I just can't repress it. At least I have to say things to tease you as a taken man - your being taken is a cruelty in itself to us single folk.
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Date: 2020-12-29 09:44 pm (UTC)you wanted me to think about it :(
anyways you're too late -- i already bought an entire bucket worth of poke-puffs and claude kolach's alike. you're welcome!
ah, but do not lament your loss, dear friend. there are plenty of beautiful souls in the world.
such as... grant?
he's real cute. good kisser, too.
i think you'd like each other.
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Date: 2020-12-30 05:42 am (UTC)Hah! Well, I guess I'll just have to resign myself to gluttony, then. You're definitely going to spoil my team, though.
Grant? I'll have to take your word on the good kisser thing. I tried it once to make up for missing the mistletoe opportunity, but he wasn't too receptive. Which was entirely my own fault, mind. I did it kind of out of nowhere, and also he'd just found out we're a handful of years younger than him and he was having a minor personal crisis over it. The kiss was meant to reassure him the age difference didn't mean anything to me - or you, as the other guy he'd kissed - but it didn't go over too well. Let it never be said I don't make miscalculations.
We're fine, mind you. I apologized and there's no hard feelings anywhere. But I'm not about to kiss him again unless he explicitly asks, and I don't think he'd ever ask!
That said, and all of that notwithstanding, he's not really my type. I tend to like more assertive guys~.
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Date: 2020-12-31 09:15 am (UTC)we're not that young, are we?
... i mean i guess you are.
huh.
i really am your type, huh? what ever will you do without me? would you write me a ballad? poetry?
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Date: 2021-01-01 07:50 am (UTC)But no, we're not that young. Frankly we haven't had the luxury to be, any of us. Maybe if we'd been through less, the differences in our ages might matter more, but...as it is, I think Grant's just being overly conscientious. Which seems like a thing he already leans into pretty hard, so that would track. But standards in his world might be a lot different than ours, too, to be fair.
It just seems silly for him to worry over that sort of thing for our sakes, as though we're not well and capable of looking after ourselves...wait, no, I take back everything I just said, I just remembered what group this is and talked myself out of my own conclusion. It'd be silly for him to worry over that sort of thing if it were for my sake. It makes perfect sense he'd worry about whether the rest of you know what's good for you.
Ah, could such a simple tongue as mine ever capture your ruinous beauty in words? Could any words in any language convey the depths of my grief that you're forever beyond my reach? Too little, too late! The messenger that arrives after the battle's already lost! I'll just sob your name into a pillow at night, though, it's fine.
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Date: 2021-01-02 08:21 am (UTC)usually
... most of the time.
look i'm getting better. way better than i was back at the academy!
and just so we're clear, you have your problems too.
i haven't figured them out yet, but they exist!
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Date: 2021-01-02 08:55 am (UTC)a half-feral man leading a rat army, because he was at the moment doing better than you were. Maybe sometimes you can take care of yourself, but I think it needs to be acknowledged that when you can't, you really can't.
Ah, Sylvain...I may seem perfect to you now, but unbeknownst to you, beneath this perfect veneer...simply lies more perfection. Sorry, it's flawlessness all the way down.
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Date: 2021-01-02 07:06 pm (UTC)my poor sensitive soul.
hmmm. yea i can believe that.
truly you are a gift to fodlan with all this perfection.
i dont know how to cope.
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Date: 2021-01-03 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-03 11:24 am (UTC)or use him as an example
ever.
how could you
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Date: 2021-01-03 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-03 11:33 am (UTC)it's just not saying much
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Date: 2021-01-03 11:40 am (UTC)Honestly, I'd thought I was making some real progress on broadening his narrow mind from all the self-serving nonsense Count Gloucester spoon-fed him, too. But I guess I couldn't compete in the end.
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Date: 2021-01-04 09:32 pm (UTC)u wanted what was best for him
im sorry he never came around.
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