Day 267 [Open] Magical Jerky Cows and shuffling booties

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Who: Ibuki and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 267, noon-ish or so?
Where: In front of the new music venue: iBooty Shuffle
What: Ibuki wastes a whole bunch of shards on silly stuff...
Format: Action but will match
Warnings: Ibuki weirdness, and sudden heavy bad feels in the Colin thread.

UKYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[It was just another day in the Bastion, helping make preparations for assisting the Ura that were in dire straits. But then, during lunch, Ibuki's cry of disbelief and amusement rang out loud and clear]

[Because she used the monument to create "magical jerky cows", and renovated one of the new buildings on the Bastion into a music venue.]

[... after her initial cry, Ibuki can be found in front of iBooty Shuffle, leaning against one of the chocolate jerky cows and...]

[... just... laughing. That's all she's doing. Laughing]

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[Ibuki manages a weak laugh his comment about his reputation.]

A... alright, alright...

Don't leave Ibuki, then... okay? Okay?

Promise Ibuki. Promise!

...

[She pulls back from the hug so that she can extend her pinky towards the engineer]

Pinky swear!

[freedom_engineer]

I can't make that promise.

[Colin smiles sadly.]

The odds of my survival here are lower than most peoples'. That said, I can promise that I'm not about to roll over and die, or purposely leave you hanging.

[There's a pinky.]

1/2

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...

...

[Ibuki's pinky droops a little bit at that, her expression falling.]

Y... yeah... at... at least... promise you'll...

...

2/2

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[... and here comes the tears again]

COLIN-SAMA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!

YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY IT LIKE THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!

[freedom_engineer]

Sorry, Ibuki...

[Yep, still a sad smile.]

I can lie about a lot, easily, but I'm not gonna make a promise that important and make it a lie. You deserve friends who treat you right.

[Colin retrieves a handkerchief from one of his pockets and starts to dab at her cheeks. While hugging her. With pretty darn good aim. Yeah, he's done this before. A LOT.]

I can promise I'm not gonna go out of my way to hurt you or desert you. But I'm not gonna set you up to be hurt if the universe decides it's had enough of my shit.

[Or any of the people in the Bastion. Which... is honestly what Colin's projections have him most worried about, but he won't go admitting THAT to a tearful girl.]

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Nnn...

[She sniffles a bit]

S-still, still, you could've worded that better! Or, or just say that... that you're going to do your best, or... or something. The thing about your s... survival odds... that's... that's bad form, Colin-sama-chan! Bad form! Shameful!

[freedom_engineer]

...

[Colin smirks at her, that cocky veneer of his shining through.]

I said I have lower odds than most people. I didn't say I was gonna die.

You haven't known me long enough.

[He gives her a wink.]

I've been beating bad odds for centuries. For fun.

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E-eheheh...

[She manages another laugh at that]

See, see... you should've said that to begin with... you shouldn't have left it at just the bad odds!

You just like seeing Ibuki cry, don't you? How awful...

[Though despite the accusation, she laughs again]

[freedom_engineer]

I like making Ibuki think.

Colin's a bad, bad man.

[Yep, not at all repentant about that.]

You gonna be okay?

[Yep, still hugging her.]

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Y-yeah, yeah...

... Ibuki's... been through worse than this...

[... like... seeing friends get murdered and executed worse]

Don't worry, don't worry, even if Colin-sama-chan is bad and stealing Ibuki's character trait with the third person talking, she'll be okay...

[freedom_engineer]

Colin's been stealing things since before Ibuki was born. But he usually gives them back.

[He smiles, and squeezes her in his arms.]

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Oooh, Colin-sama-chan, Colin-sama-chan, stop, stop, terrible! Give it back already, come on, come on! It's Ibuki's endearing character trait, not yours!

[freedom_engineer]

Colin thinks that it is an endearing trait, and he's borrowing it for a little while.

But don't worry, I get bored easily, so I'll probably give it back soon enough.

Oh, look, there it is.

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[And she laughs]

Yeah, yeah, there we go, now it's Ibuki's again.

Having more than one person with the trait makes it not as endearing! Now Ibuki can be a hundred percent endearing again!

[freedom_engineer]

Endearment is like love, little Ibuki. There is no limit to it.

[He gives her a beaming grin then.]

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[Ibuki laughs again]

That's a good line, Colin-sama-chan... Ibuki approves.