[WELL. After that insanity, Childe is mostly just out and about. Whenever they cross paths, he nods at Filbo; he's still got his drink from trial, which he's finishing off.]
Well, that was a new experience.
[Terrible! Awful. 10/10 for miserable hell torture. He's honestly kind of impressed]
[Filbo sure looks absolutely exhausted, and not even emotionally. It's like the trial drained him physically, which is not at all how he expected this to go]
This truly is hell! It's almost impressive how creative this place can get when it's about, uh, doing the whole--the whole torturing you forever, huh...
[He chuckles mirthlessly. That trial was a terrible time in general and truthfully he regrets a little not taking a drink while he was in there]
[Filbo sighs, passing a paw over his face, just...wondering how he even is going to deal with this all. So like usual, he's feeling so tempted to just shove it down and pretend it never happened]
At this rate maybe it would be better to just never mention any of it again. I mean, even if someone else is murdered...surely it won't reach the levels of nonsense that happened today!
In Liyue, they have a saying--乌鸦嘴, the mouth of a crow. [It's pronounced wū yā zuǐ but Childe's pronunciation isn't very good because 1. Genshin Chinese is probably not an exact match to real Chinese and 2. he's not from Liyue] It's what you call someone who speaks misfortune into reality.
[Basically if they have to do this again it's Filbo's fault for jinxing it!!!!]
[Filbo clears his throat, and says, a tad louder and with shaky voice, like he's trying to shape reality itself with his words:]
W-Well that won't happen again! We'll all stay alive, everything will be hunky-dory, and the worst thing we'll have to deal with is a headache or two from bad hangovers. Yes, that's it!
[He gives Childe an apologetic look]
S-Sorry about that one...
[thanks childe now he will blame himself when the inevitable happens. Well, truthfully, given how generally unlucky Filbo is, if the murdergame's events depended on his words and luck we'd be a total party kill in just a few days.]
I really think the big guy Satan himself is the one pulling the strings on the details. I mean, it all sure seems like the kinda thing that'd amuse him...!
[Not that the personal demons aren't onboard with it all, in Filbo's opinion. He just thinks the general details come from up in the ladder. What Bucky said is kind of what makes him think that, because the thing about only 20 people being allowed in sure sounds like it would be his work, intending to thin the numbers of people coming to challenge him]
Maybe. I think we're beneath his notice at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if the rules were passed down from him.
[Childe's got a lot of experience working in a big organization like this one seems to be, so he's fairly confident that he has an idea of how it works--but then again, they've already established that they should stop holding onto their expectations.]
Hahahah...I-I kinda doubt we're beneath his notice! What is it his profile says...? 'Seeing everything, hearing everything, knowing everything...' [After a pause he adds:] 'Micromanaging?' No way he doesn't hasn't taken notice of us and already knows how to poke at our weak points.
[Well, there's also the 'hurting the innocent' but who in hell is innocent, hah]
hey this is a formal apology for last week telling other people you are growing a second head nder the mask on your hair i dunno what came over me ball then sory aobut that
[Yeah, he thinks it's time to apologize, although it's marred from the typos that come from autocorrect and also having paws. Ah, last week's effect was quite something, eh?]
[If they really are dead and in hell, then honestly, it wouldn't matter whether Childe reveals the truth or not--but Childe doesn't necessarily believe that, so.]
It was a gift from Her Majesty when I moved up in her ranks.
[For a moment Filbo hesitates to reply. He doesn't know Childe that well, and he knows he's pretty...indifferent to a lot of things that would bring pause to others, at least judging from his behavior during the trials, but that doesn't mean he's indifferent to what he'll say no. It could bother him, he thinks to himself, but in the end he sends it:]
even now after you died
guess youre relly loyal to her
[Or maybe it's just habit, he doesn't know for sure. Filbo wears his pawmade mayoral sash only because it's literally the only thing he has left of his world other than, well, himself. Maybe it's that, instead of loyalty, he thinks]
It's alright. [He's not crazy about using it either, but enough people here do that he's getting used to it.] She's the goddess and ruler of our nation.
i thought gods were supposed to watch over everything frm far
[What's the state of religion in Filbo's world? Hell if I know, but surely not like anything in the real world...but I so don't want to think hard about this, hah]
...you know, I kinda have the impression you handle these trials better than most.
[There's Filbo by the dock. He sure is included himself in the 'most' in that sentence, because although he managed to do things like investigating a very much bloody place and listened to things like Eto being torn into pieces and Eto being a ghoul, but then a cake exploded and his mood and willingness to continue with the trial plummeted. Oh well]
[Honestly, fair and valid!!! Childe also just sat down and drank toward the end there tbh. He seems calm enough as the trial wraps up, albeit tired; but then, a cake did indeed explode and his roommate psychotically murdered a cannibal, so. Who wouldn't be tired!
The comment makes him laugh, but it's not an unkind sound.]
I suppose so. I'm used to people who hide who they are. [AMONG OTHER THINGS.]
It's too bad the world and everyone in it isn't ever like it seems, eh...?
[Maybe that's part of the reason why Filbo tries to be like he is. If he can be just a little bit of solace from the difficulties of the world, then great. In hell he probably can't ever make others feel like he'll never harm them, but hey, he sure still will try to]
Then again, it's twice that after a little bit of prodding they show their worst sides...
[Bucky and Four didn't need much to begin getting confrontational and spiteful, really. It can't be fully chalked to the stress of the situation, as he sees it, those probably are big parts of how they both were]
[Whatever Childe thinks about that doesn't show on his face; he shrugs, more-or-less nonchalant.]
Well, we are in a place meant for eternal punishment, aren't we? That would imply we all deserve to be here for one reason or another, if you believe that it's true.
Yeah, guess so, huh. Still...sure makes me wonder what a few of the others did to end up here. I mean, not everyone is a rough person willing to just stab someone to death. Not that, uh, not that that's the only way to end up here...
[From his wording it seems to be implied -- 'a few of the others' -- that he doesn't wonder why Filbo himself is here, despite being, well, transparently someone with generally good morality. He's pretty sure he himself deserves to be here, really]
Especially some that probably didn't even have time to do anything. I mean, the--the one who didn't even have a name? He wasn't even a day old! It's not like just existing means ending here is guaranteed...
[........]
...possibly.
[At this point he can't say it's not possible hell is just the destination after death!]
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Well, that was a new experience.
[Terrible! Awful. 10/10 for miserable hell torture. He's honestly kind of impressed]
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This truly is hell! It's almost impressive how creative this place can get when it's about, uh, doing the whole--the whole torturing you forever, huh...
[He chuckles mirthlessly. That trial was a terrible time in general and truthfully he regrets a little not taking a drink while he was in there]
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I knew it would be more than bad food and alcohol, but I really didn't expect it to be this.
[Honestly his organization could take notes]
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[Filbo sighs, passing a paw over his face, just...wondering how he even is going to deal with this all. So like usual, he's feeling so tempted to just shove it down and pretend it never happened]
At this rate maybe it would be better to just never mention any of it again. I mean, even if someone else is murdered...surely it won't reach the levels of nonsense that happened today!
[Ha ha ha filbo dont count on it]
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In Liyue, they have a saying--乌鸦嘴, the mouth of a crow. [It's pronounced wū yā zuǐ but Childe's pronunciation isn't very good because 1. Genshin Chinese is probably not an exact match to real Chinese and 2. he's not from Liyue] It's what you call someone who speaks misfortune into reality.
[Basically if they have to do this again it's Filbo's fault for jinxing it!!!!]
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[Filbo clears his throat, and says, a tad louder and with shaky voice, like he's trying to shape reality itself with his words:]
W-Well that won't happen again! We'll all stay alive, everything will be hunky-dory, and the worst thing we'll have to deal with is a headache or two from bad hangovers. Yes, that's it!
[He gives Childe an apologetic look]
S-Sorry about that one...
[thanks childe now he will blame himself when the inevitable happens. Well, truthfully, given how generally unlucky Filbo is, if the murdergame's events depended on his words and luck we'd be a total party kill in just a few days.]
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Don't worry, it's just a saying. I'm sure our hosts are going to make sure something like that does happen again, regardless of what we say.
[Because boy howdy was that the most effective form of torture so far]
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[Not that the personal demons aren't onboard with it all, in Filbo's opinion. He just thinks the general details come from up in the ladder. What Bucky said is kind of what makes him think that, because the thing about only 20 people being allowed in sure sounds like it would be his work, intending to thin the numbers of people coming to challenge him]
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[Childe's got a lot of experience working in a big organization like this one seems to be, so he's fairly confident that he has an idea of how it works--but then again, they've already established that they should stop holding onto their expectations.]
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[Well, there's also the 'hurting the innocent' but who in hell is innocent, hah]
Week 1 -- Tuesday -- Text
[Yeah, he thinks it's time to apologize, although it's marred from the typos that come from autocorrect and also having paws. Ah, last week's effect was quite something, eh?]
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It's fine, don't worry about it.
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[...it makes him wonder, though...
whats the mask for though is it a fashion statement
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It was a gift from Her Majesty when I moved up in her ranks.
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[...nooooot exactly, Filbo, but close enough]
does it represent anything
[He's referring to the shape, pretty much, if it's supposed to look like anything specific]
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The design, you mean? I'm not sure, I never asked.
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if its something HER MAJESTY GAVE YOU IT PROBABLY I SOMETHING SHE LIKES I MEAN WHY ELSE WOULD SHE MAKE YOU WEAR ON YOUR HEAD THIS
[Whoops, capslock got on when he tried to use capitals for Her Majesty. Oh well]
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Oh, she doesn't make me wear it anywhere. I just like to keep it there.
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even now after you died
guess youre relly loyal to her
[Or maybe it's just habit, he doesn't know for sure. Filbo wears his pawmade mayoral sash only because it's literally the only thing he has left of his world other than, well, himself. Maybe it's that, instead of loyalty, he thinks]
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Well, she is the archon of my homeland, after all. It's a bit soon to abandon my fealty.
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what is an archery
[......]
sorry archon this phone device really doesnt like using the words i want
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i thought gods were supposed to watch over everything frm far
[What's the state of religion in Filbo's world? Hell if I know, but surely not like anything in the real world...but I so don't want to think hard about this, hah]
Week 1 -- After Trial
[There's Filbo by the dock. He sure is included himself in the 'most' in that sentence, because although he managed to do things like investigating a very much bloody place and listened to things like Eto being torn into pieces and Eto being a ghoul, but then a cake exploded and his mood and willingness to continue with the trial plummeted. Oh well]
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The comment makes him laugh, but it's not an unkind sound.]
I suppose so. I'm used to people who hide who they are. [AMONG OTHER THINGS.]
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[Maybe that's part of the reason why Filbo tries to be like he is. If he can be just a little bit of solace from the difficulties of the world, then great. In hell he probably can't ever make others feel like he'll never harm them, but hey, he sure still will try to]
Then again, it's twice that after a little bit of prodding they show their worst sides...
[Bucky and Four didn't need much to begin getting confrontational and spiteful, really. It can't be fully chalked to the stress of the situation, as he sees it, those probably are big parts of how they both were]
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Well, we are in a place meant for eternal punishment, aren't we? That would imply we all deserve to be here for one reason or another, if you believe that it's true.
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[From his wording it seems to be implied -- 'a few of the others' -- that he doesn't wonder why Filbo himself is here, despite being, well, transparently someone with generally good morality. He's pretty sure he himself deserves to be here, really]
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Honestly, I agree. While it's true that we're all still strangers, it's difficult to imagine that some people truly belong here with the rest of us.
[Which is partly why he doubts the whole set-up.]
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[........]
...possibly.
[At this point he can't say it's not possible hell is just the destination after death!]