catchall; gideon

[toyska]

I want you to know that on my journey to find a shitpost I learned what "pumpkin pounder" means

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[toyska]

How'd you know I've got nefarious plans?

[Stop. No he will just guide her out of the house!!! And toward like. Hell Denny's or whatever.]

Come on, we both need food or we'll feel awful tomorrow.

[cavaliered]

You always do. [he does not

anyway, she follows easily enough.]

Fuck, I haven't eaten all day. Good thought.

[toyska]

Hey, sometimes they're good plans! Like right now!

[YEAH, SEE. But it's fine, he sounds amused.

He will lead them in, though!! And he will pick a booth that's tucked away in the corner, so that they can talk with no one paying attention to them. He'll order them some water and some hot tea, too, since coffee is probably a bad idea this late at night.

Though, after they order, he grins at her.]

Nostalgic, isn't it? [Of the last time he dragged her off to get food after being drunk, though she was more depressed than anxious that time.]

[cavaliered]

I am significantly less drunk, this time, but there is a nostalgic factor.

[she agrees, amused. her constitution isn't nerfed now she's a monster. anyway, she reaches for the tea when it's available, if only to warm her hands.]

Back before I had the room to myself.

[toyska]

[Childe :handshake: Gideon
Having an obnoxiously high tolerance]

Did you and Harrowhark move in over there, then?

[cavaliered]

Nah. I mean, she was there sometimes, but most times we didn't stay at the dorms at all.

[toyska]

Oh? Where'd you go?

[cavaliered]

Wherever the newest place had. If it didn't we stayed in the dorms in her room, but the onsen and the resort we kept to a lot.

[a little shrug.]

I don't really sleep a lot.

[toyska]

Mm, makes sense. We got access to the island with the cabins the day after Chandra, Scaramouche, and I woke up, so I only went back if I had to.

[Like to find hotspots to send voicemails and such.

He's quiet for a minute as their food arrives, waiting for the waiter to leave--once they're more-or-less left alone again, he props his chin in his hand, looking at her.]

So, what's your plan?

[cavaliered]

[nodding...

she picks at her food a bit, and then:]

What, if everything goes the way we want? [...] Bixing offered me and Harrow a place.

[toyska]

[He doesn't seem surprised to hear that, really. He just nods, taking a few bites of his own.]

Are you going to take it?

[cavaliered]

Yeah. [she watches him for a second.] Harrow keeps insisting that it's just for a bit, but if I've got my way it won't be.

We don't have to stay there, but we're not going back to the Ninth. [...] Why?

[toyska]

[He winks at her.]

Just making sure you weren't planning something stupid.

[More like making sure she didn't think he forgot their conversation at the start of Week 2--about considering alternatives to their circumstances.]

[cavaliered]

[she makes a face at him.

but, like... she takes a couple of bites, and then after that, she rubs at the back of her neck.]

No, I know - I know what I want. [...] For the first time in my fucking life I know.

[it's why she was so distressed, earlier.]

[toyska]

[Good!! He looks pleased to hear it.]

Just make sure you get a room far away from those two.

[IMAGINE BEING NEXT DOOR TO THE NEWLYWED SPACE DADS. PLEASE. SAVE YOURSELVES.]

[cavaliered]

[SHE LAUGHS fuck]

Augh. Yuck. Ew. No, I'm getting a different house, we're not living where they're about to be boning.

[toyska]

[HELP he's also laughing. Terrible.]

I'm sure they'll get you set up with something good. [One of the perks of your space dads being in charge of their planet or whatever]

[cavaliered]

Yeah.

[she peers at him.]

What about you? What's your plan?

[toyska]

To head home, of course.

[He figures that's pretty obvious; he hasn't been shy about how much he loves his family, and he's content serving the Tsaritsa.]

I have a few things to take care of first, but I don't anticipate any problems anymore. [Meaning: What caused his death the first time won't be an issue a second, now that he knows what'll happen.] After that, I'll catch the first ship home. I might need to track down Scaramouche again eventually, but I know where he'll be.

[So even though he has his doubts that this will work out, and they'll actually get out of here--he has his plans in place for if they do succeed.]

[cavaliered]

[obvious, sure, but she's glad to hear it anyway, just because don't do anything stupid goes both ways. she picks a bit more at her food.

she opens her mouth - and then closes it. and then opens it again.]

Try not to send him right back to hell. [she says, first, and then:] You're not going to be mysteriously unable to interact with me if I come looking, are you? Because if I hear that one more time I'm going to scream.

[toyska]

[LOOK... he died to soap this game but it's because I, Pixi, refuse to let him win for too long, okay. It's fine.

And he would make some playfully shitheaded comment but he's distracted by the rest of what she says. He frowns, confused.]

What? No, of course not. Not outside of being busy, that is. [Since he has a job and all, but ???] Who said that?

[cavaliered]

[she shoves food in her mouth.]

Scaramouche. [GRUMBLE.] Zagreus implied it, King too. Akira.

[LIKE, EVERYBODY]

[toyska]

[Oh, well. He sighs, taking a drink of his tea and leaning back in his seat.]

It's a little complicated with Scaramouche. [Sometimes... you have god things to do...] I can't speak for the others, though, since I don't really know them. But no, as far as I'm aware, I'll be myself.

[Who knows maybe he gets kidnapped and body-swapped or something in the future??? But he has no weird plans to Become As Gods or Die Again or whatever else people are doing.]

[cavaliered]

[she has heard some things about scaramouche and she's so grouchy about it.]

Why are you the only normal person in hell? Serious question. [like he's not, but he kind of is.]

[toyska]

[THIS IS SO SAD. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!!!!]

Because we'd make a horribly boring show if there were more normal people around, probably.