[open] What a way to start...

[heir_to_ruin]

[Well... okay. Dead. That kinda sucks, sure, but he's been down here long enough to kinda know how things go. Some cute little girl thinks she can just wrap everyone around her finger because they don't know any better. Just using everyone around her. It's disgusting. He's absolutely horrified that he's spent who knows how long practically worshipping this girl.

But that's okay. The man is nothing if not confident.

Which is why anyone that's been keeping an eye on the rooftop stage may find an unfamiliar redhead chatting up the specter guards, all bright smiles and casual charm. Insisting, of course, that he knows a guy.

After getting insistently removed from the area enough times the mask drops a little, amber eyes going hard as he stares at the nearest screen. What the hell makes her so special, anyway? Like she's entitled to everyone's adoration. All he needed was one chance and he could ruin her. All this desperate need to be seen and adored at all times meant one little slip was all he needed.

A moment later the smile is firmly back in place and he's strolling out of the mall proper, heading for the housing district. If she's not at work... then she's gotta be at home, right?]

Comments

As you do

[heir_to_ruin]

Some poisons just... put you to sleep though. That'd be nice.

[He actually sounds a tiny bit wistful there.]

I'm relatively sure that, horrible as all that sounds, it's a bit of an exaggeration.

[No, Ruin, you were just never told about the horrific shit your leader came up with.]

[callbacks]

Bro, are you trying to insinuate that TV would tell me untruths.

[heir_to_ruin]

[Gestures towards the nearest screen with Esme's smiling face~]

[callbacks]

You know what.

I was JKing but that's completely fair and I accept this small but clownish ownage of my person. This round goes to you, morbid adulty guy.

[heir_to_ruin]

[Wow?!? Okay he looks simultaneous slightly offended and... confused?]

I'm not that old and I'm damn well not responsible enough to be considered an "adult".

But... why morbid?

[That just makes no sense, clearly.]

[callbacks]

[Dude.]

You just sighed wistfully over being poisoned to death. I was right here, bro. I witnessed that take place.

[heir_to_ruin]

Oh...

[So that's not just... a thing that people do, huh? Okay. Maybe he should not? Say things like that?

Sounds fake.]

I guess that's... kinda weird, huh?

[callbacks]

[God, this keeps happening. First saying that poor Lion was smelly, now informing Ruin that longing for the sweet embrace of death is a little ghoulish...]

It's kinda grimdark and woegothy, anyway. Not to say our premise here isn't, I'm just saying.

[heir_to_ruin]

I'll uh... keep that in mind, thanks.

[That's awkward. Okay time to keep his thoughts to himself from now on. ]