rupert

[unrecked]

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[unrecked]

I can't believe you would come to a beat-up and frail man [jason] to get on his last nerve.

[This is all delivered so dryly.]

My trauma. My injuries. My mental health. I'm being bullied.

[agleam]

Do you want to talk about it, then?

[which part is he referring to]

[unrecked]

[Yeah?]

Which part?

[agleam]

...Well, I meant the bullying, but all of it now that you mention it.

[unrecked]

You mean after I was a sexy, beach-running lifeguard who got taken out by a shark?

[agleam]

Jason...

[unrecked]

[His turn to be amused.]

I woke up on a dating game show and had three opportunities to figure out which three bachelor contestants behind the curtains were brain scrambled or fake before they got beheaded.

[agleam]

...That's horrible.

[concern once again!!]

[unrecked]

Not as horrible than if I hadn't been able to figure out Yuri wasn't the fake when the other two were Cloud and Sylvain.

[agleam]

I'm glad he didn't get beheaded, but... It must have been hard to go through. That's all I mean.

[unrecked]

[He sort of shrugs. Has he ALREADY compartmentalized all this so he doesn't have to think about it? Maybe...]

We had a lightning round because the skeleton audience didn't like our answer to go back to the hotel.

[agleam]

Lightning round...?

[unrecked]

They dropped the floor out from under us and put us in... dunno, somewhere underground. We ran into an injured girl, someone Yuri knew.

Apparently, when she sighs, it draws monsters to her. So that's how the underground portion went.

[agleam]

...I'm guessing this place made her sigh somehow no matter the logic involved?

[unrecked]

Yeah. It brought out some kind of big lizard-looking monster. I grabbed her, we ran. The only way down was a dead-end tunnel, but there were two doors waiting for us. One back here, one to some... mansion. We could see Harrow and Hua Cheng.

I gave the girl to Yuri and told him to go to the hotel, but he followed me when I went through the other door. The monster had been charging something in it. Turns out? Thing had a nice beam cannon. It got our backs as we went through.

[agleam]

[frowning as he listens]

I'm... going to guess a beam cannon is really bad.

[unrecked]

[He peers at Rupert.

Then he turns carefully around and hikes the back of his shirt up from the shoulder to show him his entire blistered backside. It at least only looks like first degree right now…!]

[agleam]

[i read backside and thought you meant his butt for a second and i got so concerned

he's making a face, though.]

Jeez... That's what it looks like after it's been healed?

[unrecked]

[STOP PEOPLE ALWAYS TELL ME THIS my southernisms

also don’t tag me like you didn’t let rupert get murdered in front of jason’s salad tch]

Yeah.

[He lowers the shirt and carefully turns back around.]

[agleam]

[chortles softly]

...I know I said this before, but I'm really glad you made it out. That looks like it must've been bad.

[unrecked]

[shoots you]

Says the guy sporting the single eye from one straight out the gate.

[agleam]

Well, yeah, but just because something bad happened to me doesn't mean I can't be worried about you. That was, like, weeks ago.

[unrecked]

I know. You don't have to worry about me. I'm a big boy. I can take it.

[agleam]

It has nothing to do with your age or maturity level.

[unrecked]

[He starts to chuckle, but then winces, forgetting to hurts to laugh.]

You're so hard to please. [He's teasing.] Is that a prince thing, or just a Rupert thing?