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camppetoskey2018-06-24 12:15 am
diesifkilled) wrote in camppetoskey2018-06-24 12:15 am
After...party...?
[SO THAT SURE WAS AN EXECUTION, HUH
Shirou's just been kind of staring off into space, still holding on to Usagi's hand, ever since Kon and Natsume's deaths. Just when it starts to look like he might stay like that all hecking night, he suddenly blinks and looks around.]
I'm going to go get some food.
[And indeed, he disappears off to the lodge and returns a little later with a huge pile of beautifully made sandwiches and other snacks. Did he have them prepared, or did he just make them really fast somehow? Who knows.
Anyway, there are now sandwiches. And the shack might still be on fire. This is fine.]
Shirou's just been kind of staring off into space, still holding on to Usagi's hand, ever since Kon and Natsume's deaths. Just when it starts to look like he might stay like that all hecking night, he suddenly blinks and looks around.]
I'm going to go get some food.
[And indeed, he disappears off to the lodge and returns a little later with a huge pile of beautifully made sandwiches and other snacks. Did he have them prepared, or did he just make them really fast somehow? Who knows.
Anyway, there are now sandwiches. And the shack might still be on fire. This is fine.]
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At least he can now retrieve sandwiches without contaminating the entire supply. Eventually he comes back with a dish of them, since you apparently cannot go to this campfire for just one sandwich at a time. Cielo will likely be eating most of them, though. He had cake earlier for no good reason, and he's spent most of the night staring at food.]
Here. [...] Is bread really confusing...
[That's half to himself but also half like, do you need help with sandwiches??]
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It's a good question, but how to answer it... ]
... Ja, bro. It's like... not powdery ration stuff. But soft? I dunno, it's weird to me. All'a dis stuff is weird to me except de meat.
[ Awkward. Laugh... just, taking a sandwich now. ]
It's good, though. Shirou makes de good stuff.
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[Like, I have no idea what bioengineered bread tastes or is textured like but there's probably something vaguely off about it. Also, just the general life of military cafeteria food is -- technically it's way better than what he started out with -- well, it's something else. He's probably never had anything as luxurious as camp food, especially the handmade stuff. He hasn't gotten over that yet.
Now he's just contemplating the sandwiches, because having a not-too-philosophical debate over all of it has made him rethink not having one. Hmm.]
But I still didn't know you could do this with sandwiches. [it's a thoughtful, absent comment as he finally gives in to the sandwiches] Shirou said his magic is swords... but maybe not.
[Maybe his actual element is FOOD FOOD.]
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... I didn't even know what one was before all'a dis.
[ Thinking, as he stuffs one in his face. He at least chews it! And has enough manners to wait before speaking again. ]
Maybe he is jus' really special in de kitchen. I dunno, we should ask him if, like, food magic is a thing?
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[Demon world still confuses him considerably, but maybe Cielo not knowing anything about food at least makes sense; he's definitely missing knowledge in other areas, too, but this is one of those where the camp is more educational than not. He has no idea what regular camp kitchens look like, but theirs has seen plenty of excitement.
Lenka is just taking small, absent nibbles. He's still not sure if he's hungry or not -- his appetite goes mysteriously missing after executions, along with everything else.]
I feel like... food magic should be a thing.
[It's mumbled around the bread, his heart not really in it, but nevertheless there's a faint thread of appreciation for the food. He always will appreciate it, on some level: having enough to eat, being able to pick from so many different types of food.]
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Well... ja. It sure is. We mostly eatin' demons. An' de taste varies from demon to demon, but... in de end, it all meat. Mostly. Metal occasionally.
[ A shrug. ]
We kinda jus' go wid it. At first, we weren't dat good at it, but... we mastered de skills necessary to become better at devourin'. So for us, food was jus'... part of battle. It's weird for me dat it ain't like dat here.
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[He has no idea what most demons look like, apart from Dyaus, so he doesn't really have a point of reference; but maybe some demons do have metal in their makeup, or like Cielo had mentioned before, they just gobbled up the weapons they tended to carry in human form along with everything else. He wouldn't know and doesn't particularly want to know.
But he listens anyway, trying to imagine a world more forbidding than the one he already lives in. It sounds like the fighting and -- the devouring there was even more relentless than those seen by the God Eaters back home. But a place where everyone fights... he's not sure how he feels about it, completely.]
Back home... food was for survival. [so that explains at least a little about why they're here in the aftermath, staring down sandwiches when two of their number just died terribly] It got a little better, once I joined Fenrir. They had more. Of everything.
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[ A small, forced laugh escapes him. ]
Was dat your group or somethin'?
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[Or at least, that's as far as he understands all the logos and designs that the organization likes to slap all over everything.]
It’s the organization I work for. They’re the ones who created God Eaters.
[Also one of the most powerful in the world, currently, but that’s somewhat too political for him to really grasp completely at the moment.]
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[ He's quiet for a moment, trying to reach for some memory he doesn't have somewhere in the deep recesses of his mind. ]
Big cats? Bitier cats? I feel like dat's right...
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They're bigger than cats. But I think they're more like dogs.
[He does not sound completely certain about this. He's not sure if there are Aragami related to wolves, either, so that doesn't help.]
They're hunters, I think? Maybe that's why.
[Slightly shady international organizations need to stop randomly co-opting Norse myth, is what we're getting at here.]
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[ A frustrated sigh as he takes another sandwich and begins to eat it. After a bite, he just adds: ]
I mean, dey all animals, right? Like de cat? How dey all so different? Since I got here, I seen all dis different stuff, it ain't like demons! Demons all... people-y.
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[This is the part where they're really going to need pictures to fix this, since it seems like words are just going to lead to further problems... Lenka thinks it over for a moment while Cielo chews his way through the most of the sandwiches, and then reaches over for a rock.
He does a quick sketch in the dirt, which, even if he's not really an artist... is still at least recognizable as a creature of some kind that is definitely not a cat. Hopefully.]
I guess Dyaus looks more like people. But... [not really?] This is what the wolf pictures look like, back home.
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[ He says, staring at it. ]
Dis big huuuuge demon, three heads... I wonder if dat's why de Wolves were called de Wolves? We had a rival Tribe, dat joined up wid us eventually, dat was deir name, I never did figure out what it meant, but it always felt familiar.
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[He hasn't seen any in the archives with three heads, but it's possible that there's an Aragami version out there somewhere like that? Aragami do tend to be new and improved and deadlier versions of literally anything, so adding a few heads sounds pretty legit.
It might be the same for demons, come to think of it. Though Dyaus is still his only point of reference, and Dyaus is nothing like a Dyaus Pita
chip, apart from the lightning.]Did the other Tribe's demon forms... look like wolves?
[Or is it like Fenrir. Did they just think wolves sounded cool.]
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[ He is unhelpful on this front, unfortunately. ]
I knew dey was demons, but not what dey looked like. Jus' deir leader, 'cause we had to fight him, since he got hit by de hunger...
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[That makes a curious sort of sense; even if Cielo spent most of his time back home fighting, there would have had to be alliances -- devour your enemies and spend human time with your allies. It's a funny sort of dichotomy, but not that strange, to him.
Speaking of hunger, the sandwiches are probably gone by now, huh. He debates washing it in the lake water, but that might be counter-productive. He still isn't done with his own, actually. This is probably the slowest he's ever eaten, minus this last week when he was literally dropping everything. Thanks, sense of touch.]
The hunger... what happened to him?
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[ He makes a face. He hates that man. That man that put so much confusion into their identities, that caused them so much hurt, that made Sera so obviously upset-- ]
Varin Omega happened to 'em.
[ It's a name said with about as much venom as Cielo can muster. ]
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He's an enemy. What did he do?
[It's a general invite to vent, but also a specific sort of question, since whatever the hunger is it doesn't sound like a normal sort of attack.]
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[ He scowls. ]
He got dis power from somewhere... Angel, I'm guessin'. He was able to make people crazy wid de Hunger. If Sera hadn't been wid us, we prolly woulda eaten one another.
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[He remembers Cielo describing that scene, his expression and reactions. To have that repeated would probably... not end well, regardless of whether or not anyone had been eaten. No wonder he spoke so reverently of Sera all the time, if she was that important to them. He digests this for a few moments, and not just because I accidentally made an eating pun there.]
That's what Sera saves you from...