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[thehungman]

The next time I end up shitfaced without any trousers on, I'd rather it be because I tried to drink a dwarf under the table, not... whatever happened there.

What happened, anyway? I've been asleep for days. Not the fun kind of sleep with naughty dreams, either.

Oh, well. Classes will resume. I hope you kids thought of a good drinking game by now.

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[swordofzero]

A cat? [Poor cat! Suzaku went to the window to see if he could find it. Isabela why]

[thehungman]

[ Did he just... stop responding? You're kidding. Did he actually went out to see if there was a cat stuck up a tree. ]

[ rivalry + 5 ]

This is why I don't take you seriously.

[swordofzero]

I see no cat.

[He frowned as he read the next part.] Was that a joke?

[thehungman]

Look who's catching on! It must be hard, not being able to have fun when you're too busy saving burning orphanages.

[swordofzero]

[Okay that one stung, mainly because as much as Suzaku would like to save a burning orphanage, knowing himself he would probably fail to save anyone, or have been the one to doom it to start with.] Do you dislike me?

[thehungman]

I dislike your type! Nothing personal.

[swordofzero]

My type? [He really should just... walk away from this conversation.]

[thehungman]

The whole sanctimonious, heroic act.

I knew someone like you back in Kirkwall. She would punch down a merchant for charging a little extra than is appropriate, and take down a group of slavers out of the kindness of her heart.

It was always about following the law to the letter and helping people. Apparently, that also gave her the right to judge them and determine their worth.

She loathed people like me, especially. Troublemakers weren't people to her. They were criminals, ne'er-do-wells. Locked up and left to rot.

I've seen you look at me the way she looked at me, you know. Don't think I haven't.

[swordofzero]

[His frown deepened as he read, because it did sound like him. Once.] I do not judge you, I am not as heroic as you believe me to be. I have done much more wrong than good in my life.

[thehungman]

[ She chuckles from where she's sitting, mocking. Rivalry + 10, you're on a roll. ]

So now you're wracked in guilt? Oh, you poor, bleeding heart!

I honestly feel sorry for you. Because in the end? The only life we're responsible for is our own.

[swordofzero]

[Lucky him, apparently making rivals is something he is good at.] Do you truly believe that?

[Did she truly believe she had no responsibilities to others? At all?]

[thehungman]

[ Pause. ]

[ "Well. No. I freed a hundred slaves and came back for Hawke, even though I had no obligation to help and all it got me was knee deep in trouble. But somehow running away wasn't an option." ]

The world -- Rakuen or Thedas or wherever you came from -- is full of awful people.

Kindness does not beget kindness. Kindness begets a knife in the back. The easiest way to make the most in life is to stop having good intentions altogether.

I don't want to talk about this anymore. It's your life. Ruin it yourself.

[swordofzero]

[If he stopped having good intentions he would truly become the monster everyone perceived him as. He didn't really want to talk about this anymore either.]

Fine.