Hey, edible's the important part. I don't even know that I can manage that.
( Well, maybe. She can just pull out a piece of bread or something, but that's not really a meal at all. Emilia did leave the kitchen with all kinds of fresh ingredients so mostly Red's been snacking like that, taking a piece of fruit there or a vegetable there or bread. All the bread. )
So what advice would you give the newbie version of yourself if you could? You're freshly arrived and experiencing the insanity of this world for the first time.
[She starts setting out ingredients before holding up a finger.]
Don't put all your faith in the Merchant, always make sure you're dressed on theme, and always hoard your resources, because you don't know when you're going to have to pack up and leave and what the next location will have available.
[She goes to grab a pot, and then comes back.]
Also, always be prepared for things to go to shit. But that's more of a general life rule.
I'm not going to say we haven't ... blown things up on occasion.
[Just ... look at Taravast.]
In Taravast we staged a coup - a well-deserved coup, but still a coup - and from what my brother tells me, we didn't exactly leave Sa-Hareth better than we found it. But the Merchant isn't exactly forthcoming with information about his own goals. He just releases us into the wild and expects us to serve his means. Then proceeds to get pissed at us when we didn't divine his end goal out of the ether.
[And the group doesn't always agree on what the best course of action is.]
But we actually didn't do that bad with the House of Ravens. We mostly saved the town from this culty volcano ritual and we took out one of the undead pieces on the chess board.
...yeah, that sounds like a guy who is a giant dick, yeah. I mean, he is bringing people in from all kinds of worlds and all kinds of experiences, and then to expect the whole group to know what he wants out of you...
And also to follow it without question? Asshole.
( One hundred percent. )
But yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. So Diego was here for Sa-Hareth? ( She doesn't realize that she has another brother running around. )
Seems like he's just steeped in mystery. He's definitely got his own goals in all of this. ( So she's glad most people seem to know to be cautious when it comes to him, to not believe him on all that he says. ) Oh, right. Emilia mentioned there was another brother here too.
Is it nice having like your family here, or does that make it harder? ( Given it's such a dangerous place, it can probably be worrying, but at least she doesn't have to miss them. )
[Allison shrugs, shifting some of their prep work to the stove to cook.]
We were kind of raised for worst case scenarios. So for me, it's comforting. I know they can handle themselves, and I don't have to be alone. And my being here means they're not alone, which is really not great for some of us.
That does sound pretty comforting. ( It would probably be harder if she felt like she had to watch out for them all the time, but since she can be confident they can handle themselves, it's less of a worry and more company.
Red's gaze follows Allison to the stove with curiosity. )
...but woah, hold the phone, raised for worst case scenarios? Okay, you can't just say that without throwing out an example of one of those worst case scenarios.
Well, my sister almost ended the world once. And we tried to get around it through time travel, accidentally got stuck in the sixties, and then the world almost ended again.
[Though that one wasn't hundred percent Viktor's fault.]
And then we landed here.
But I don't know if that's the thing that Dad was trying to prepare us for.
( Red stares as she processes and processes and then some more processing. )
...holy shit.
That's a lot.
Your Dad was preparing you for the apocalypse, or like this place? Is that what dads are supposed to do? ( Cause she thought they're supposed to like raise children, which means like discipline and teaching them things but not apocalypse preparation generally. )
I don't think we ever got to what our dad was preparing us for before he died.
[If she had to pin down when something shifted, it was after they lost Five. But she never cared enough to dig into why things changed. She was too busy mourning her brother.]
But he had us be superheroes. We were actually pretty effective in the field when we were kids.
( Red's expression is twisted into one of confusion, one of understanding that this wasn't okay. Her knowledge of what it should be like to be mortal is better than her experiences. )
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( Well, maybe. She can just pull out a piece of bread or something, but that's not really a meal at all. Emilia did leave the kitchen with all kinds of fresh ingredients so mostly Red's been snacking like that, taking a piece of fruit there or a vegetable there or bread. All the bread. )
So what advice would you give the newbie version of yourself if you could? You're freshly arrived and experiencing the insanity of this world for the first time.
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[She starts setting out ingredients before holding up a finger.]
Don't put all your faith in the Merchant, always make sure you're dressed on theme, and always hoard your resources, because you don't know when you're going to have to pack up and leave and what the next location will have available.
[She goes to grab a pot, and then comes back.]
Also, always be prepared for things to go to shit. But that's more of a general life rule.
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( She leans forward against the counter, watching and studying each ingredient as Allison sets it out so hopefully she'll remember this for later. )
Definitely never bought what the Merchant was selling entirely, but he has to have an aim in all this, right? Otherwise why... bother with us.
Seems like this group is trouble from what other people I've talked to have said.
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[Just ... look at Taravast.]
In Taravast we staged a coup - a well-deserved coup, but still a coup - and from what my brother tells me, we didn't exactly leave Sa-Hareth better than we found it. But the Merchant isn't exactly forthcoming with information about his own goals. He just releases us into the wild and expects us to serve his means. Then proceeds to get pissed at us when we didn't divine his end goal out of the ether.
[And the group doesn't always agree on what the best course of action is.]
But we actually didn't do that bad with the House of Ravens. We mostly saved the town from this culty volcano ritual and we took out one of the undead pieces on the chess board.
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And also to follow it without question? Asshole.
( One hundred percent. )
But yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. So Diego was here for Sa-Hareth? ( She doesn't realize that she has another brother running around. )
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[Either way, he's not doing a very good job of managing them. Then she blinks when Red mentions Diego.]
Oh, no. Sorry, we have another brother, Five. He's the one who was in Sa-Hareth.
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Is it nice having like your family here, or does that make it harder? ( Given it's such a dangerous place, it can probably be worrying, but at least she doesn't have to miss them. )
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We were kind of raised for worst case scenarios. So for me, it's comforting. I know they can handle themselves, and I don't have to be alone. And my being here means they're not alone, which is really not great for some of us.
[And by some of us she means Five.]
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Red's gaze follows Allison to the stove with curiosity. )
...but woah, hold the phone, raised for worst case scenarios? Okay, you can't just say that without throwing out an example of one of those worst case scenarios.
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[Though that one wasn't hundred percent Viktor's fault.]
And then we landed here.
But I don't know if that's the thing that Dad was trying to prepare us for.
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...holy shit.
That's a lot.
Your Dad was preparing you for the apocalypse, or like this place? Is that what dads are supposed to do? ( Cause she thought they're supposed to like raise children, which means like discipline and teaching them things but not apocalypse preparation generally. )
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[If she had to pin down when something shifted, it was after they lost Five. But she never cared enough to dig into why things changed. She was too busy mourning her brother.]
But he had us be superheroes. We were actually pretty effective in the field when we were kids.
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( Red's expression is twisted into one of confusion, one of understanding that this wasn't okay. Her knowledge of what it should be like to be mortal is better than her experiences. )
Sounds like your childhood was fucked up.
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[In more ways than one. When they weren't being forced to fight crime, they were being pitted against each other for supremacy.]
But I think we all turned out okay in the end. Not great, but okay.