week 2; tuesday w/ fane

[alchemenace]

[ well varian has had quite The Day and he wants to just go die under the covers now thanks. partially because of pain, partially from guilt, but mostly because wow boy is he really embarrassed.

unfortunately for him, his partner never sleeps, so. he awkwardly waves with his one good arm when he sees Fane ]

... Heyyyyyy.

[ smooth. ]

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[alchemenace]

[ that's also what varian thinks. shittalking it is. ]

Ha, heh, guess it's time to start looking into new form of governments.

[faceripper]

[ He sighs heavily ]

Apparently so. When your king becomes a despot, then the entire system is much less charming.

[ Not that this is at all what happened to the Eternals, but Fane is 1) bitter 2) overdramatic ]

Hopefully some mortal has a better idea. Still all I've seen is monarchy, somehow!

[alchemenace]

That's definitely not all there is. Some people here don't have monarchies where they're from. I haven't asked much about it, but that could be something to keep in mind for later.

[faceripper]

...Hm. You know, that may not be a bad idea.

[ He'd gotten that impression from his conversation about justice with Rebecca, at least. ]

If I'm to ascend to Divinity, well. It may be worthwhile to offer a suggestion to the mortals I rule over for something a little less fragile.

[alchemenace]

Right. It's that or you have to personally overthrow their monarchy whenever they make a bad decision, and, heh, that's going to be pretty constant.

[faceripper]

[ He sighs ]

And that I would like to avoid. Divinity is one matter, but I hardly want to become some kind of God-King myself.

[ He groans in short displeasure, but shrugs ]

...Well. I suppose if there's such things to learn, then this place isn't a complete dearth of information.

[alchemenace]

I agree. Murdercastle isn't so bad if we can at least get something out of it.

[ which is part of why he got himself injured i remembered the context of this thread. he shrugs back at Fane ]

[faceripper]

[ ok. but. ]

...Did I just hear you correctly? "Murdercastle"?

[alchemenace]

[ ....... nyeh :3? ]

That's what Stephie calls it. I mean, it's, it's accurate?

[faceripper]

It is accurate, yes, but it is—

[ He pauses, since when he tries to think of a word for what this makes him feel, he truly can't find one. So. He'll just truly speak his mind. ]

I don't know. It irritates me, for some reason. It's quite a bit of levity for this place.

[alchemenace]

[ oh. hm. for varian, the levity is what makes it appealing. if he gave everything the appropriate gravitas it deserved, he wouldn't be able to handle it. it also became so much easier to deal with the things he did in corona when he was flippant about them, but he was downplaying issues a long time before that.

still, it's not like he's particularly attached to the term, so: ]

O-oh. Um. I can just not use it if you prefer?