video | un; quickfish

[kisha]

It has come to my attention that some of you are weak.

[Audentes, you've probably not been able to overlook... the centaur lady in your midst, but enjoy her rare and potentially very rude network appearance that... by all appearances is being filmed in the Oska stables.]

Should you wish to be wise and correct this failing on your part, I am willing to instruct in archery those who show promise.

But do not mistake this offer for kindness. I am not a gentle teacher.

That is all.

Comments

un: wtfwhocares

[sadgay]

I don't think anyone could mistake anything you do for kindness jsyk

[kisha]

If you are going to use written word, use actual words.

[pummelling]

*just so you know

[this isnt your thread, know it all]

[kisha]

... such a short phrase.

[ONLY A FOOL WOULD ABBREVIATE IT]

[sadgay]

so is there anything about me that DOESN'T offend you...?

[kisha]

It seems the standards of behavior in your world are far different than my own.

[... that's an attempt at niceness.]

[sadgay]

ok there's something we can agree on.

we're practically on our way to being besties.

[kisha]

I asked you to speak plainly.

[so nicely, she demanded asked.]

[sadgay]

right. sorry.

besties = best friends forever

[kisha]

[There.]

Then no. We are not even the most casual of friends.

[sadgay]

yeah I was kinda being facetious

[kisha]

If you intend to speak so, then use your actual tone and not written word.

[sadgay]

[He switches to video then, and with the switch in medium comes a change in demeanor too as he sheds the blasé skin of his sarcasm.]

Look, I know this announcement was directed at me. Unless there's some other poor sucker you bitched out that I just don't know about. I'm not all that worried about disappointing you, since you already seem to think I'm lower than dirt, so I'll just tell you straight out. I'm not going to learn how to fight. I'm not going to try to be a warrior or whatever it is you think I should be. You wanna know why that is? Because there is absolutely no way that I'm putting my life on the line for some stupid cause I don't even believe in.

1/2

[kisha]

Better.

[kisha]

How selfish you are, or how petty you think me. If it were only you I felt needed improvement, nothing would need be said.

If there were only one weak link in this "team", they would die, and that would be it.

I owe these bastards nothing, and I do not fight for them.

But those who cannot fight endanger my life as well as their own, and I must return alive to my world to fulfill my duties.

Do not mistake me.

[sadgay]

I dunno, your whole vibe kinda screams "petty bitch" to me.

[Connor...that's you...you're the petty bitch...]

But okay, I got it. I'll just try to stay out of your way, so you at least have one less reason to be pissed off at me.

[kisha]

The only bitch here is you, who snivels as a dog underfoot.

[yeah no that's u

and also Hayame for not knowing that slang]

If you plan to continue on as a weakling, do any you wouldn't see hobbled on your behalf the same favor.

[sadgay]

[He tries not to let it show how her words cut him. He must convince her that he doesn't care, that he is impervious, but even via the video feed the way his jaw tightens and his brow sinks just a few degrees lower over his eyes is telling.]

Here's one last tip. When someone calls you a bitch, and they probably will, they're not calling you a dog. They mean you're putting other people down for no good reason. Just because someone can't fight doesn't mean that they're worthless - not here, not anywhere. So try opening your mind more than a few inches, and get it through your head that your world's crusty old values aren't everybody's.

[kisha]

[USE WORDS RIGHT]

Then I shall generously impart advice to you as well.

If you plan on remaining weak, you would do well to learn an actual skill that will make you worth protecting.

And I do not mean utilizing your gag reflex.

[sadgay]

[There rises in him the distinct memory of Annalise berating him, asking if he only knows how to do his job when he's screwing evidence out of someone. Whatever pretense of indifference he had managed to hold onto slips away from him.]

I don't have to take that crap from you, Boxer.

[When you learn how to read, Hayame, go find a little book called Animal Farm.]

Maybe it doesn't mean jack to you, because you must be from a time when illiteracy is as rampant as smallpox, but I am smart. Smarter than the musclehead idiots who make up most of this team. And maybe I can't fight, but so what? Pit this team against an alien monster or an army, and sure, your bow will be more useful than anything I've got. But in any other situation? My smarts, not to mention my people skills - which you seem to be sorely lacking, by the way - will give me way more leverage than a flimsy bow.

1/2

[kisha]

[who. the fuck. is boxer.

(Tho if pressed I would say she's earlier more akin to the pigs' guard dogs and later more of a Clover BUT ANYWAY)]

[kisha]

Then take your people skills, lawyer, and pray to whatever gods your people have that our next mission delivers you far from the battlefield or any actual danger.