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[siesinddasessen]

Who: Blaine, Killian, Akito, Gabriel, Julien, Soren, Skyler, Magdalene, Sho, Neku, Gerald, more tba
What: Log for Children Are Dumb, The Plot. A few NPC children have gone to search for Karate Bugman in the underground. Cue a numbered rescue mission, since the unnumbered authorities are unfit...
Where: The underground & the outskirts of the dead district.
When: January 15th

Please thread freely with each other and NPC the children and the Blood Keys yourselves. There are short descriptions of the children at the bottom of the the plot post.

Please don't reply to the post itself, reply to the thread starters that will be up in a moment.

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[siesinddasessen]

She's watching you.

If this doesn't stop in a moment...

"What." Stalking after him, brows furrowed. Seriously, boy, with that attitude she'll leave you with Julien and if you come with them anyway you're going to be ignored.

[strikeraid]

He shakes his head hard when he hears her call after him and her approaching footsteps. God damn it, can he not ruin one thing for himself for once? This is serious. He's annoyed, he has no control over it, and he's trying to rein it in and he doesn't really know how. Honest to god. Does he really have to be the type to wear his emotions on his sleeve now?

"I'm ok. I just gotta... hm." She doesn't care. He tells this to himself, then looks back at her, collecting himself as best as he can. "I'm good. I'm in your group. Got it."

[siesinddasessen]

"No, you're not." She crosses her arms over her chest, obvious sign of not going to attack him physically and not wishing such a confrontation either, but her arms are only loosely resting over each other. She's not slowing herself down much from a defensive reaction, should it be necessary. "If I said that you grab a kid instead and stick with it, what would you say?"

This is as much of a test as it is anything else - she's definitely not gonna have a potential deviant on her own team, and she doesn't want such a person with the kids, too. But at the same time it is impossible to read for her what the fuck the actual problem is, and depending... she also wants to keep an eye on him for as long as possible. From what she noticed, he seemed to have no issues with the underground part of the whole thing, so she sees no problem with taking him along there.

[strikeraid]

-- Well, that question knocks him out of his head pretty fast. He blinks and turns to face her properly, his hand slipping out of his pocket to scratch at the back of his head. He now looks a little abashed, and feels it too. Of course. That's what he's here for, nothing else.

"I'd grab that kid and stick with them. No question."

[siesinddasessen]

"'kay. Do that then." It looks like she should be able to trust him with that. ...Huh. The problem can't have been fighting - was it the projected killing? Well, whatever. As long as he doesn't endanger the mission, she isn't really interested in his sensibilities. She'll take note of this, but at the moment it's not important enough to spend more thoughts on.

[strikeraid]

... Or maybe she does care? More than his teachers, at least. He's got this insane urge to thank her for the change - she didn't even ask why, and he's sincerely grateful for that - but he swallows it down. At least has the decency to a little bashful about it as he scratches the back of his head, looking off to the side as he moves to rejoin the rest of the group. "Cool. Good."

[siesinddasessen]

She nods at him curtly and then heads back to the others.

There will be more attention on him than on the others in the group over the course of the operation, but not enough to seem odd - there really will be other things to think about. Just enough to know that he's not starting anything weird.