thebastion | Pre-Day 61: pre-game threading

I bet your blood is red.

[And then a flinch, looking back over one thin shoulder.]

No, you can't find out.

[He might be tensing up a bit at that. He's starting to think there will be a fight.]

If this 'black blood' does anything special, why not show me?

[He's trying to figure out how a demon could have gotten into the Bastion. All the other monsters seemed to stay far away, one slipping in doesn't seem possible. Unless maybe possessing a human would let them in?]

You said you didn't want to see it, now you do want to see it. You can't make up your mind. People who can't make up their mind aren't strong, you know?

I didn't say I didn't want to see it, I just said that I believed you.

[He's grumpy now, he doesn't like being indirectly called weak.]

I said I can show you. You said no. That means you didn't want to see it. Now you do.

Next time someone asks you something, you can just say "pass". That means you don't have to answer.

[Okay he's scowling at Chrona now. He's tried to be patient, but he's got a short temper and he can't put up with the condescending attitude anymore.]

If you've got a problem with it, then you can figure this crap out for yourself!

[Oh look, he's walking away now.]

[Bon can walk off, but he's gained a pink-haired shadow.]

[NO GO AWAY

When he notices Chrona following him, he'll turn around to yell at him.]

What do you want?!

[Crona flinches, stepping away, terrified and wide-eyed. It's like the kid thinks Bon's yelling is going to be accompanied by a physical attack.]

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

[Fortunately Bon won't hit anyone who he isn't on good terms with, so it's just yelling for now. But he's mad and doesn't notice the flinching or the stepping away.]

I don't care if you're sorry! You can't go acting all high and mighty like that!

[Crona whimpers, curling up slightly, still afraid.]

I'm sorry. [Enough apologies, and maybe this person won't stay angry.]

Bon, who're you yellin' at... ?

[Rin doesn't see the person that's getting this verbal assault, Crona dwarfed behind Bon to the point of near invisibility from the half-demon's point of view. He's been fairly non-confrontational since arriving (probably for a variety of reasons, least of all being that he's still dealing with her being a female version of his male friend) so hearing his raised voice is cause enough for concern.]

[Bon was about to yell at Chrona some more, but when he hears Rin's voice he immediately whirls around and sees Rin standing there. Somehow that makes all the anger rush out of him in a second.

But as quickly as he calms down, he gets irritated again, and he frowns as he looks down at the ground and shoves his hands in his pockets.]

It's nothin'.

[Somehow he feels more mad at himself for losing his temper so quickly. Chrona had been abrasive, but the kid must have been traumatized by the world ending and such. Bon really needed to keep a cool head, his temper was not helpful at all here.

Speaking of Chrona, Bon realizes a second later that he's between Rin and Chrona, so he steps to the side so Rin can see who it is.]

Just some new...guy.

[Whoops pronoun trouble!]

[Crona doesn't look like a person who would draw Bon's ire. The pink-haired teen is still cowering, and the sight of a second stranger brings that stutter back, sound catching in Crona's throat, tripping over the first word in the statement.]

I-I-I-I'm sorry.

... oh.

[That explains--

... well. Absolutely nothing. Because 'new guy' doesn't exactly detail why Bon was getting so angry, and Crona looks like they couldn't hurt a fly.

Hell they might have been more afraid of the fly.

Rin looks to Crona, then to Bon, tail giving a twitch behind her back and low to the ground.]

You sure nothing's wrong? You were bein' pretty loud.

Everything's fine.

[That irritation is sneaking back in. He doesn't want to explain why he got mad in the first place. Nobody would understand anyway.]

Just- You've been here longer, you explain this stuff to him.

[Crona's gaze flicks between Rin and Bon, then finally settles on the girl.

...]

You have a tail.

Eh--?!

[What?! You found him, don't push your responsibility off on--

wait tail what

Or right people here can see her tail for some reason.

Rin sputters a bit and shoves her tail behind her back, trying to stuff it up her shirt.]

I... ignore that!

Edited 2013-04-17 02:10 (UTC)

[Bon is pretty surprised to hear that too, normal people shouldn't be able to see Rin's tail.

Then again, Chrona isn't normal. Chrona has black blood, whatever that means.]

How can you see that?

... should I not see her tail? It's right there. It's not hidden.

Y-yeah people here can see it, mashou or not...

[That was to Bon, since he deserved an explanation. Broken world, broken world physics. Rin was pretty shocked to hear it when some one mentioned her tail on her third or fourth day there. She damn near choked on her soup.]

Uhm. See... where Bon and I are from, most people can't see it. He explained that people are from different worlds here, right?

[He's looking awayyyyy right there.]

I didn't get that far.

It exploded. The world did. That's what he said.

I can't deal with the world exploding.

[Bon might not have picked the right way of introducing Crona to this world.]

[Bon you are so getting a Look right now.

But it softens when she looks back at Crona, coming closer to the two of them.]

That's what they've been sayin', yeah... I'm sorry we don't know more than that...

[Bon shoots Rin one of those 'whaaaaat?' looks. He's not to blame here he was being honest!]

It's still out there, we go and explore it sometimes, looking for survivors 'n stuff.

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