pc catchall for scaramouche

[agleam]

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[agleam]

...All she'd ever seen when she looked down before was people acquiescing to it. Running, or giving up. Which isn't a surprise - that's what it was designed for. But... Every time she saw that, she didn't think it was worth stepping in.

[her just living her immortal life and checking her phone every few years like nope still trash]

But this time... Well, that did happen. You saw it. [people giving up, crying out in surrender, begging for mercy. fun stuff.] But a lot of them...

[okay as much as he doesn't want to do this in front of scaramouche still, his voice does break here. trauma! yay! he kind of blinks a few times and forces himself to keep going.]

This time when she looked, she saw other people fighting - other people dying to protect me. And when it had run its course and it was only me and him left... I didn't run away either. Because, like - what more could it do? So... She changed her mind. Not for him, but for us. And we didn't do it for her. We had no reason to think she'd been paying any attention, or intended to step in again. I think that's part of why, too.

[nascens]

[THIS IMMORTAL IS SO FUNNY and honestly so relatable except Scaramouche probably wouldn't be moved to step in even in all his mercurial moods. Or maybe he would be! Gods are fucking weird and wild! They really just do whatever the hell at any given time!

At the very least, he doesn't immediately start needling Rupert about his emotional voice crack.]

So you just happened to catch her eye and be doing something she didn't necessarily expect to see, all without any of you knowing you had done so.

[There's a little, neutral-sounding hum.]

Very like a god, or god-adjacent beings.

[agleam]

I am... not a huge fan of her! But I'm less of a fan of him. At least she did us a solid, I guess, in the end.

[nascens]

A mercurial favor, but a favor nonetheless, I suppose.

[DERISIVE. He hates all gods (he is one) HE HATES ALL GODS. God-like immortal beings also count.]

What happened to that man, then.

[agleam]

He left.

[typical!!!!!!]

[nascens]

Should have killed him after the curse was lifted.

[agleam]

No. He stayed and was like, hey you can totally execute me if you want to, and then it's like... Weird.

[nascens]

Oh. Well. It isn't as satisfying to kill someone when they're already putting their neck on display.

[agleam]

It wouldn't have been satisfying anyways. Sometimes you just... want to move on, you know?

[nascens]

[HE DOESN'T, ACTUALLY! Well he kind of does never mind. this tag sent me on such a journey]

So it's all done and dealt with, then.

[agleam]

Yeah. Until the next thing happens.

[nascens]

Is your home regularly beset by calamities.

[agleam]

Dealing with apocalyptic threats, remember...?

[nascens]

Is it something about you. You've been through this three times, too; you must have cosmically horrible fortune.

[agleam]

Yeah, no, that's not wrong.

[BUT ALSO]

I think it's more that... It's not that things back home are happening to me specifically, they're just happening in general. But I'm supposed to fix them when they do.

[nascens]

[He just gives Rupert a look at that.]

What, all of them? Why.

[agleam]

Because rulers are supposed to protect their kingdoms...?

[nascens]

And you're saying that's what you are?

[DON'T BE RUDE.]

[agleam]

Do I need to speak more slowly?

[BE NICE!!!!]

[nascens]

I just find it hard to believe.

[THEY ARE BOTH JUST ON THE ATTACK.]

[agleam]

Why?

[nascens]

People like you usually die quickly in positions of leadership.

[agleam]

Aw, are you worried? I'm flattered.

[nascens]

[WAVING A HAND.]

So it's your lands that are cursed rather than you specifically.

[agleam]

Not anymore, no.

[WHAT]