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Cross Effects 3.0-It was good while it lasted / Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? In Character Game Thread
« on: February 16, 2015, 03:15:15 PM »"I'm sorry, Yukina," Michael says, "But it's less a matter of your forgiveness at this point and more a matter of a...code of honor, if you will. Now call me as backwards as you wish, but, until a few millennia ago, I was from a place where chivalry was still very much part of that code. Now, I'm not sure about our sea-faring pyromancer friend, here, but I most certainly have a few grievances with this person that can't be settled by mere apology. First of all, he made an excuse for refusing a fight. Now, if he'd simply refused me straight out, that would have been fine, but instead he made some excuse about being busy with some sort of cure-all. A cure-all isn't going to be made in one day, so discovering this cure-all quickly isn't nearly as important as ensuring that it's an actual cure-all, which you seem to be lacking, seeing as it's causing such deformities in your test subjects."
"Also," Michael continues, "You might not want to be insulting the person whose charity you seem to be dependent on to survive those who wish to pay you back for insults against her. Of course, this lesson seems to have come a bit late, for which I truly pity you."
With that, Michael realizes that he's actually drawn his weapon, though not turned it into a useable form yet.
"My, my, this is rather excessive," Michael mutters, shoving the stick back into his pocket, "I won't need a staff to properly educate one who isn't worthy to be thought of as a man, and you should be sobering up by now. Adrenaline does such wonderful things to the system."
"Well, fuck you too." Neo snapped back. "You know what killed your so-called chivalry back in our fuckin' world? Itself, you assface. Motha'fuckahs who don't pay any fucking attention to it outlived the dipshits who still believe in that shit, so there ain't no people who believe in it anymo'. I mean, seriously, I served the United States of Fucking 'Merica in the three fucking wars it crashed into within the span of the century, and we were considered as one of the good guys." Neo chuckled and snorted after the last sentence. "You won't fuckin' believe what we did to kick Kraut, Jap and Gook ass and win, sir. Not the most chivalrous shit you've evah seen. I can't lecture you about how wars should be fought, because that field is best explained by Ratt himself, so let's leave it at that and ask him about it when you see him face-to-fucking-face."
"And fuck you too, because I already said that I can't fight. I refused already, because I was high, asshole. But you fuckin' insisted. I even offered you to level down the playin' field, you dumbass!"
"And fuck you one more time, because you're talking like you know what alchemy can do, man. I'm the alchemist here, I know there's going to be a cure-all one day. And what, your fight is mo' important than the potential lives that can be saved by my cure-all, huh, you literal knucklehead?" Neo let some air out and looked away for a second. "You're stupider than I thought. That's why you'll get fucked in this city, buddy. There's always someone smarter and mo' likely to kick your ass back to last fuckin' week. And, given how you still believe in chivalry, my boss can kill you easily. Now, that guy isn't a warrior. He doesn't give a fuck if people think he's cowardly. He's a soldier. He gets shit done, by hook, line, sinker or by booby trapping your damn crib. And the best part is, he ain't no magi, he's just a gun-runner, a fucking arms dealer."
"And Yukina!" Neo called her attention, which startled her. "What do you think about all of this? The shit-talking, you know?"
"Um..." Yukina began to speak. "My mother said..." Her voice began to shake. "My mother said, before she died on that day, that we should forgive people..." Her tears were welling up on her eyes. "Even if it hurts, and even if it kills..." She bit her lip to hold back her tears, but one drop fell down her cheek. "If I did not heed her last words, I..." She then wiped her cheek with her sleeve. "I would not be a good person for her." She then began to sob as she cover her face with her hands. "Because I know to myself that she has forgiven those who killed everyone of us on that day!"
"...Yeah." Neo began to become somber. "This is why Yukina doesn't suck as much as the rest of you asshats. She's retarded, but I like her. Sticks and stones, motherfucker. Sticks and stones, but not words."