Just that he accidentally spilled some coffee on you. He was really fussy about it - very worried about you. It was sweet.
[ he's also kind of a narc
it's fine. ] If it helps, you might want to avoid the blue and yellow lemon drink, in the bar, if you don't want to start confessing a bunch of things to people at random. It wasn't his fault.
[ but ok he plops down. ] Where's the worst of it?
Ah, did he volunteer to help you test it? That would follow. I would've offered myself up again, as well, but.
[He motions for emphasis at...sort of all of him, really.]
Fortunately, mostly on the legs — but you can imagine how that still makes mobility something of a challenge. One of the shops near the beach had aloe, which I recognized from home as being somewhat useful for burns, but I'd rather not take chances with field remedies and prayers alone.
He did - and don't worry, but thank you. Focus on healing all of this, first.
[ poor dude. but okay. he nods, looking around... ] Do you have the aloe, here? I have a little bit of burn cream left from when I hurt my arm, luckily for you. We can get you into some dry dressings and get you set up from there.
[ he gets a sympathetic look at it being kicked over. rip. ]
It's okay, either way. I'm not interested in any of your bits, I promise. [ he says this in a very joking manner, teasing as he goes to fetch the aloe and offers it to him. ] But, it's not very hard to treat, either, so.
You two seem to get along really well, you and Rynlan.
[ he seems amused, though, just laughing as he gestures with his free hand. go on, de trouser. ] Let me get anything outside of your underwear, and you can play by example for the rest. Sound good?
[ he'll get to work with that, though, making a noise as he starts talking. ]
Dogmatic, huh? [ this is cute... ] I've noticed, but I'm not sure how many other people have. Well - mostly.
[Goodbye, Fat Cat pajama pants. Once he's down to just his trim black smallclothes, it's apparent he's got some pretty severe first-degree burns, but that a lot of the residual discomfort is from the sensitivity of the location as opposed to depth of the damage. Fortunate — not that Thancred would really find it to be any consolation.]
i'm bullshitting about medical knowledge here. but there's some medical application of aloe and burn cream going on here that's very professional and definitely correct. relevant or not is that lu bixing has very nice, warm hands and is very careful not to hurt him in the process. ]
[You know the profound satisfaction of A Thing Being Hurty™ and then all of a sudden it gets actual proper medical treatment and some bandages and care and it's like it's still hurty but significantly less psychologically hurty as a result? That's the bliss Thancred is treated to as after several days of abject suffering his McNaldo's Coffee Lawsuit Disaster receives the palliative attention it needs.]
Nav has a remarkable knack for noticing the mote in everyone else's eyes while ignoring the logs in her own.
[YOU EVER JUST COPARENT SO HARD]
I've a comrade back home who's similar in temperament, among other things. If we get along well, it's more likely than not because it rings of familiarity to me.
and - okay, that makes him laugh, ducking his head briefly. ]
Very, very true. [ he sounds so fond. mostly because he also just recognizes his own idiot behavior in gideon's idiot courtship ritual. she would be absolutely horrified to know this. ] It might be willful ignorance, I think.
[ gonna work on the other leggy now. ] Is that so? Well, there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you know someone as their own person, but... it doesn't seem like you're the type of person to have that problem.
Oh, without a doubt. But she's a good girl; it's difficult to not want the world for her.
[Flurry, when you're finally reading this PC weeks from now after everything unlocks following game end, it's important to me that you know that I wrote this with full and conscious intention to hurt you specifically a month or so in the future, because that's the kind of long game I play.
He kind of coughs at that second bit though, because "the type of person who has a problem seeing someone as their own person" is. Hahahaha. Ahaha. Oh, memory week, we don't miss you.
Bixing's right, though, he doesn't have that problem anymore.]
I'm curious what you think of him, now that you've heard my own assessment. Enlighten me?
lu bixing looks soft, too, pausing briefly as his expression melts into something fond, because, yeah. ]
She is... and, yeah. I'd have to agree. [ love that girl
anyway. he very sweetly and nicely says nothing at the cough. like he didn't even notice. he will give thancred this kindness. ]
Of Rynlan, you mean? [ a hum, thoughtful. ] We have a lot in common - more than I really thought I might've with him, intially. He's as curious as I am, so we get along well, and he's good company. He's a nice guy! [ teasingly - ] Are you going to ask me about my opinion of you, next?
[ christ. as he's putting a bandage on, though, he will give his thoughtful answer, in the way that teacher lu always does - thorough and honest. ] I think you're very interesting, Thancred. You've got a big heart, and you really care about the people that matter to you. I think you're very brave, and a little reckless, in the way that many very brave, big hearted people tend to be. I like talking to you quite a bit, and I'm glad we've become friends. At least - I hope we're friends. I guess I shouldn't just presume.
I'd be hard-pressed to consider you anything else, given the kindness you're rendering me at present.
[Friends help friends move, real friends help move bodies, but it takes a very significant kind of friend to help bandage your coffee-burned lap area after a mishap of epic proportions.]
As for you...
[He, too, takes a minute, seeming to carefully choose the words he wants.]
I've witnessed firsthand the things hope is capable of, when wielded by someone willing to stake their all on it. Hope doesn't mean never doubting. It doesn't mean never faltering or even falling to one's knees. Hope is what gives one the strength to take one step more, and another beyond that, and beyond that.
I think you're a man who understands the importance of being a light of hope to the people around him, even when that light doesn't reach inward. Sometimes especially when it doesn't reach inward. What I don't think you always realize is that you would still be that beacon even without trying to make yourself so. 'Tis one of the many reasons I find you admirable.
[ THIS IS SO SWEET??? he looks visibly surprised, pausing in his work, and then very, very touched - flushing a little and letting out a half laugh, ducking his head. ]
...That's incredibly kind of you, Thancred.
[ hope, huh? it's a little ironic, in ways that thancred couldn't know, but... in a way, it's settling, too. that's what he's always tried to be, for the eighth. even when it was falling to pieces, he had to be their way forward and pick up all the parts. even when he was falling to pieces.
weh. he finishes the bandage he was working on, very carefully smoothing it in place, and then sits back on his heels, giving him a smile. ] Thank you. I think you're very admirable, too.
[The jokes about the fact that he is standing around in his smallclothes with bandaged thighs after hideous coffee burns that were apparently not as secret as he might otherwise have thought because SOMEONE went on a hella cursed booze cruise and blurted out all the sordid details in front of gods and everyone —
Well, they'll continue until further notice, is the thing. Anyway, he shifts around a little, testing the bandages, before finally nodding slowly.]
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[RYNLAN YOU FILTHY NARC]
Ugh. 'Twas an accident, at least, but — just what did he tell you, precisely?
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[ he's also kind of a narc
it's fine. ] If it helps, you might want to avoid the blue and yellow lemon drink, in the bar, if you don't want to start confessing a bunch of things to people at random. It wasn't his fault.
[ but ok he plops down. ] Where's the worst of it?
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[He motions for emphasis at...sort of all of him, really.]
Fortunately, mostly on the legs — but you can imagine how that still makes mobility something of a challenge. One of the shops near the beach had aloe, which I recognized from home as being somewhat useful for burns, but I'd rather not take chances with field remedies and prayers alone.
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[ poor dude. but okay. he nods, looking around... ] Do you have the aloe, here? I have a little bit of burn cream left from when I hurt my arm, luckily for you. We can get you into some dry dressings and get you set up from there.
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[So it wound up under the cot and he didn't want to go after it without a lot of psychological fortitude, is the rest of that explanation, probably.]
You can talk me through it, if you'd rather not take a firsthand role in all this. I've patched myself up before, in a pinch.
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It's okay, either way. I'm not interested in any of your bits, I promise. [ he says this in a very joking manner, teasing as he goes to fetch the aloe and offers it to him. ] But, it's not very hard to treat, either, so.
You two seem to get along really well, you and Rynlan.
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[APPARENTLY HE GOT ALL HIS INSECURITY OUT EARLIER WITH THE BICKER POST UHHHHHHHH]
...But. Whichever would be quicker, I suppose. I'd very much like to be mobile again.
[Of course, then there's that last bit.]
Do we? He's certainly interesting. Smug. Dogmatic. ...Fascinating ears.
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[ he seems amused, though, just laughing as he gestures with his free hand. go on, de trouser. ] Let me get anything outside of your underwear, and you can play by example for the rest. Sound good?
[ he'll get to work with that, though, making a noise as he starts talking. ]
Dogmatic, huh? [ this is cute... ] I've noticed, but I'm not sure how many other people have. Well - mostly.
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Well, mostly?
[Curious...]
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[ you ever just coparent so hard.
i'm bullshitting about medical knowledge here. but there's some medical application of aloe and burn cream going on here that's very professional and definitely correct. relevant or not is that lu bixing has very nice, warm hands and is very careful not to hurt him in the process. ]
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Nav has a remarkable knack for noticing the mote in everyone else's eyes while ignoring the logs in her own.
[YOU EVER JUST COPARENT SO HARD]
I've a comrade back home who's similar in temperament, among other things. If we get along well, it's more likely than not because it rings of familiarity to me.
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and - okay, that makes him laugh, ducking his head briefly. ]
Very, very true. [ he sounds so fond. mostly because he also just recognizes his own idiot behavior in gideon's idiot courtship ritual. she would be absolutely horrified to know this. ] It might be willful ignorance, I think.
[ gonna work on the other leggy now. ] Is that so? Well, there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you know someone as their own person, but... it doesn't seem like you're the type of person to have that problem.
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[Flurry, when you're finally reading this PC weeks from now after everything unlocks following game end, it's important to me that you know that I wrote this with full and conscious intention to hurt you specifically a month or so in the future, because that's the kind of long game I play.
He kind of coughs at that second bit though, because "the type of person who has a problem seeing someone as their own person" is. Hahahaha. Ahaha. Oh, memory week, we don't miss you.
Bixing's right, though, he doesn't have that problem anymore.]
I'm curious what you think of him, now that you've heard my own assessment. Enlighten me?
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lu bixing looks soft, too, pausing briefly as his expression melts into something fond, because, yeah. ]
She is... and, yeah. I'd have to agree. [ love that girl
anyway. he very sweetly and nicely says nothing at the cough. like he didn't even notice. he will give thancred this kindness. ]
Of Rynlan, you mean? [ a hum, thoughtful. ] We have a lot in common - more than I really thought I might've with him, intially. He's as curious as I am, so we get along well, and he's good company. He's a nice guy! [ teasingly - ] Are you going to ask me about my opinion of you, next?
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[Look how much better he's feeling, that he's actually managing to start to make light of it a little.]
Though I'd be willing to proffer a trade, perhaps. My reflections on you as well, an even exchange.
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Haha! Lucky for you, I'm not easily offended.
[ christ. as he's putting a bandage on, though, he will give his thoughtful answer, in the way that teacher lu always does - thorough and honest. ] I think you're very interesting, Thancred. You've got a big heart, and you really care about the people that matter to you. I think you're very brave, and a little reckless, in the way that many very brave, big hearted people tend to be. I like talking to you quite a bit, and I'm glad we've become friends. At least - I hope we're friends. I guess I shouldn't just presume.
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I'd be hard-pressed to consider you anything else, given the kindness you're rendering me at present.
[Friends help friends move, real friends help move bodies, but it takes a very significant kind of friend to help bandage your coffee-burned lap area after a mishap of epic proportions.]
As for you...
[He, too, takes a minute, seeming to carefully choose the words he wants.]
I've witnessed firsthand the things hope is capable of, when wielded by someone willing to stake their all on it. Hope doesn't mean never doubting. It doesn't mean never faltering or even falling to one's knees. Hope is what gives one the strength to take one step more, and another beyond that, and beyond that.
I think you're a man who understands the importance of being a light of hope to the people around him, even when that light doesn't reach inward. Sometimes especially when it doesn't reach inward. What I don't think you always realize is that you would still be that beacon even without trying to make yourself so. 'Tis one of the many reasons I find you admirable.
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...That's incredibly kind of you, Thancred.
[ hope, huh? it's a little ironic, in ways that thancred couldn't know, but... in a way, it's settling, too. that's what he's always tried to be, for the eighth. even when it was falling to pieces, he had to be their way forward and pick up all the parts. even when he was falling to pieces.
weh. he finishes the bandage he was working on, very carefully smoothing it in place, and then sits back on his heels, giving him a smile. ] Thank you. I think you're very admirable, too.
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[The jokes about the fact that he is standing around in his smallclothes with bandaged thighs after hideous coffee burns that were apparently not as secret as he might otherwise have thought because SOMEONE went on a hella cursed booze cruise and blurted out all the sordid details in front of gods and everyone —
Well, they'll continue until further notice, is the thing. Anyway, he shifts around a little, testing the bandages, before finally nodding slowly.]
That's much better already. I'm in your debt.