Argenti's Palace

[beautifulknight]

The stage is set they say;
They don their masks and shields,
Shadows creep and cover their minds;
Now, what beautiful role shall they play?

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮


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[vogelfrei]

[ Well, if Izou is styling himself leader of this mission, then he can't complain if McGillis speaks to him. ]

Celeste and I can corroborate that he's highly revered among Idrila's followers - they believe he even heard Idrila's voice.

Argenti himself is waiting for us upstairs, according to the shadows attending this ball.

[cirquedesang]

[And McGillis can't complain about speaking to Izou, because there were two of them there and yet he's the one taking initiative to share the information gathered.

Thank you for being peaceful. Ish.]

[vogelfrei]

[ He's being the bigger person not just literally but metaphorically. This, too, is pettiness. ]

[goei]

[Hey guess who's not being the bigger person.]

Here I figured you'd find out something we didn't already know with all that time you were wastin' dancing.

[vogelfrei]

[ Okay, if you're going to talk to him more, then he'll talk back. He'll even smile! ]

You might recall that we knew exactly nothing when we set out to persuade the shadows. And corroborating your results through different lines of question is just part of any thorough investigation.

[goei]

[TCH.]

... Whatever. Yer lucky you know how to smooth talk, bastard.

[vogelfrei]

It's a skill you can train, you know?

[ Hit the books, Izou. ]

[goei]

Yeah sure, but some people are better at it naturally too. Like you and Ryouma.

[vogelfrei]

[ Careful, that almost sounded like a compliment. ]

You still don't know a lot about me.

[ He practiced his speech so much and so long, until it made him feel sick and disgusted at himself. That it comes naturally now is the result of years of hard work.

If Izou applied himself he could also pull a My Fair Lady, McGillis is pretty sure of that. ]

[goei]

[I mean if you consider being compared to someone Izou had until very recently, sworn up and down he was going to kill, sure!!]

... I might know more than ya might think. I don't compare people to Ryouma lightly, y'know.
[He's not willing to actively change his behavior based on what he saw in that dreamscape... not yet anyway. But he is certainly Thinking About Things.]

[vogelfrei]

[ Izou says he's going to kill Ryouma and McGillis hears that he's desperately in love with him, because he's projecting his own situation onto all this :) So yeah, being compared to Ryouma is definitely a compliment - betrayal commonality aside. ]

I'm honored to have earned that category then.

[ And by category he means 'this specific flavor of bastard' . ]

[goei]

[The amount of projecting happening on both sides of this. Both of these men need to get help.]

Tch. Take it however you fucking want.

[YOU WIN THIS ROUND YOU BLOND BASTARD.]