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[alienation]

Aside from the occasional horrific trial set upon us here, I do spend a lot of my days here being happy. Largely due to you.

[ wild how it works. ]

[markofkaine]

Nice knowing I'm doing something right. Horrific trials aside.

[alienation]

[ Just gazes at him for a long moment. ]

You're doing wonderfully. Thank you, Kaine.

[markofkaine]

...



It's probably too weird to kiss you like this, isn't it.

[alienation]

[ It's going to be SO weird. But he kisses his decaying face already, so it's just a different flavour of weird.

... no it's still weirder. ]

Come here.

[markofkaine]

[I MEAN OK... he looks unsure as he leans in]

[alienation]

[ He moves his cute breakfast aside and leans in, closing his eyes. And when he presses his lips to him, the difference, the weirdness, is immediately apparent.

For one, his (which his? yes) lips are softer. It doesn't so much feel like he's kissing himself, when he isn't looking himself in the eye, but it feels like he's kissing someone else and that someone else, he unfortunately knows, is his own face. At least at first. It's only been a hot second. ]

[markofkaine]

[On Kaine's end, he's kissing anyone different, but - he's not using his own mouth to do it. It's like puppeting a mouth that he's unused to. This alien tongue, these teeth-- POINTY teeth! What kind of fresh disassociation is this

The kiss only lasts a beat before he pulls away, trying not to cringe and failing.]

Nope! That's-- too ☠️☠️☠️☠️ weird!

[alienation]

[ I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT MY POINTY TEETH!!!!

Kaine's reaction is, at least, enough to stifle the weirdness enough for him to chuckle. ]

I vastly prefer your own face, also.

[markofkaine]

I wonder...

[HRM. Thinking face.]

Changing into someone who's not here should be possible, right? I just-- can't figure it out.

[alienation]

[ ... oh. He's a clone. Surely his face is exactly the same as his brother's?? That must be what he's getting at. ]

You wouldn't happen to have a photograph of him, would you?

[markofkaine]

Why would I keep a photograph of him.

[alienation]

My darling, it would not surprise me to hear you say "I have a photograph of him, and I sometimes brood over it, or throw knives at it, and sometimes both at once."

[markofkaine]

...Okay, I deserved that.

[alienation]

[ He's going to continue eating his breakfast now. ]

My other thought is that perhaps you'd have to buy that specific power as well. It does seem like the "next level".

[markofkaine]

Hmgh.

Well, there's no harm in trying the suggestion box anyway.

[alienation]

No, I suppose not for this.

[ taps his claws against the table. ]

I wish it were easier to speak to the creatures within us. I asked a member of Echidna and he suggested via dreams, but I still have failed to find mine.

[markofkaine]

[Dryly,]

There's always being executed. Then your gargoyle can come out and terrorize us all while we give him a questionnaire.

[pls don't do this.]

[alienation]

A questionnaire is too kind for how I feel about him.

[ it needs to be an INTERROGATION. ]

[markofkaine]

Well I can't exactly beat him up. Not without punching a few holes in you.

[alienation]

[ frowns. ]

I've run through similar scenarios in my mind. There's no telling how worth it would be except to attempt it if I ever do receive an execution punishment.

[markofkaine]

I'm not exactly thrilled about that scenario ever happening, but. Better to have a contingency plan to get something out of it, if things go wrong.

[If Lotor can ever forgive him for failing to protect Yatagarasu.]

[alienation]

[ A nod, and then he's... maybe halfway done his food. ]

That's what I believe, as well. [ ... ] And even if our alliance holds true and strong, I have to imagine it will simply be a matter of time.

[ look he's petty but yata's killed you already. once or twice is warden blameable. ]

[markofkaine]

I keep... feeling nervous 'bout how she might pit us against each other in the future.

What if we can't tell who we're hitting? Or the only way to survive is with a threeway alliance? Every time, it's always something different... it'd be too easy otherwise.

[And Tsuchi has proven... Very Bad at interpreting what they're supposed to do]

[alienation]

I've considered these things as well, and have been wondering if she's watching us.

[ that was one of the concerns he let the baby have. oops. ]

It's one thing to prepare for any scenario, which I would vastly prefer to be, and another to prepare as much as we can while we're being overseen by a being who can remove us from this reality at her whim.