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futurology2017-07-23 02:04 pm
ex_mettacrusher33) wrote in futurology2017-07-23 02:04 pm
[voice; un: METTATON]
Morning, darlings. No, this isn't a call to share, not quite yet.
There wouldn't happen to be any healers capable of mending broken bones on the team, would there? Dearest George has hurt himself and, instead of doing the reasonable thing and seeking help from his team, he's decided it's much more effective to lumber around with the enemy.
This won't do. You all know why.
So. If anyone would please do him a favor and take care of that? And take HIM away from his current company. Thank you.
Just as an interesting little side-note, it seems our blue friend hasn't the foggiest about her own team's exploits when it comes to ALASTAIR. Just thought that was fascinating.
There wouldn't happen to be any healers capable of mending broken bones on the team, would there? Dearest George has hurt himself and, instead of doing the reasonable thing and seeking help from his team, he's decided it's much more effective to lumber around with the enemy.
This won't do. You all know why.
So. If anyone would please do him a favor and take care of that? And take HIM away from his current company. Thank you.
Just as an interesting little side-note, it seems our blue friend hasn't the foggiest about her own team's exploits when it comes to ALASTAIR. Just thought that was fascinating.
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Would you like me to put the fear of God into him while I'm at it? Just to have a counterpoint. I can be very delicate.
[His tone literally has not changed at all.]
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Neither has Mettaton's.]
Good cop, bad cop? I'd be curious to see how that goes. I've already played shame cop, but that didn't particularly have the desired effect.
SIGH. Isn't this mission terrible enough without the lurking danger of a traitor falling into the hands of the villains? It's wrong to hope for a rock to fall and take care of this problem for us, isn't it?
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Shame cop requires some recognition on the subject's part that what they are doing is wrong.
Is it?
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[For a moment, there's only silence and the ambient background noise of rain.
Then:]
Of course it is, Giorno.
We'd have to hope for a tree. There aren't really any rocks around.
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Well, the trees here all have deep roots, I think. Maybe a lizard will knock one over.
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I'm not sure they'll turn on their own kind like tha--
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Wait a second.....]
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Wasn't Percy also the same type of being as George is?
...you wouldn't happen to think there would be a... connection there, would you?
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It's something to keep an eye on all the same. Even if I, personally, don't see George as the Zymandis type. He doesn't have the spine for it, nor the taste for effective planning.
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For now.
Anyway.]
True. But he's also spineless enough to go along with them if he's tempted enough. Peer pressure, and all that.
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I don't trust him because he's incompetent, but I also don't trust him because he's weak and desperate for approval. Easy to manipulate, in other words. [He would know.]
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That falling tree is looking better and better.
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[He's pretty sure Mettaton already knows this. But just to be clear.]
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[Of course Mettaton knows what Giorno is talking about. It's a vague knowledge, one that Mettaton purposefully kept himself from learning, but that shiny blue number doesn't like.
...it's not fair, is it? Giorno's so young. Humans' lives - they're so short. Too short to have to go through that much sadness; that's what's supposed to make them BEAUTIFUL...]
Well. Let's be glad you're not. No need getting those pretty little hands dirty, hm?
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[They have been since. Well--since the gangster, technically. He hid a man from danger, but that put the men hunting him in danger, probably. They were punished because they couldn't find him, maybe killed. Giorno's hands are bloodred.]
[And he'd rather be home than here, but that'd be an awful thing to say to Mettaton. So he doesn't.]
What if dirty hands are the only things standing between us and more deaths? [Fuck, but he misses Kaz. It hurts.]
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Hey.
[The feed switches to video. Mettaton's smiling, as reassuringly as he can.]
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. Alright?
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[He's uncomfortable. But he accepts it. It's the right choice, for the time being. What he's worried about is not realizing the tide's turned--if it does--before it's too late.]
[But he trusts Mettaton. So he nods.]
If you're sure.
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Not the first time I've had put on an explosive show for the greater good.
[And, unlike Frisk, George isn't a human.
With what's up Mettaton's sleeve? He wouldn't stand a change.]
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What is under your gloves, though?
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You asked.
[Are you ready? Are you ready??
He yanks the glove off of his hand in one swift motion, a rain of stolen petals arching into the air and out of the glove as he does so.
...it also. You know. Leaves a metal, skeletal hand in its wake with hard, ridged fingers that look nothing like the curves the gloves give him. It's the "magic" part of being made of "metal and magic."]
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Not bad. But I've seen weirder. My adviser lives inside a turtle.
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That is strange.
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Anyway, my point is, I think he'd like to have a cool metal hand instead of living in a turtle.