CANDLE CALL POST

[forthefonofit]

[FOR YOUR CANDLE CALLING NEEDS idk]

Comments

[forthefonofit]

Aren't you preaching to the choir so to speak?

[cerealpunner]

I guess.

[forthefonofit]

What prompted you to say that?

[cerealpunner]

... even if you think you're an outlier, you're still someone who was on Emerald.

[it's sounds more than a bit naive but no less blatantly honest, evident by how he shrugs his shoulders afterwards]

[forthefonofit]

[oh hell, you're one of those types]

[cerealpunner]

[guilty as charged and totally shameless about it]

[forthefonofit]

In any case, going against the Personae for the sake of it isn't something Emerald can afford now, what with how many of us have connections to other teams.

[cerealpunner]

... I think Itachi's the only other one with people on another team, and he wasn't at the last games.

But you're right... I've got three people on other teams from home. And they already got to see me dead once.

[forthefonofit]

It used to be that Viridian had someone on Coral that put him in the same situation. Although I've heard he's hanging around here now.

[cerealpunner]

Yeah... Coral has a thirteen year-old me from an alternate timeline-universe thing.

Amethyst has one of my little brothers.

Onyx has a girl that's in my family's... uh. "Business."

Heliodor has another little brother on mine, but he got back all his memories.

Peridot had another girl that's in the family business, but she got back all her memories and left with a Persona.

[ticking off fingers, looking a bit tired as he does so]

[forthefonofit]

[whistles]

Sounds like your "family business" is pretty popular.

[cerealpunner]

Fighting crime. It has that effect.

[forthefonofit]

Police or military?

[cerealpunner]

Neither.

Vigilante.

[forthefonofit]

Interesting.

[cerealpunner]

--you're right that we can't just. Go the route Emerald's gone before.

That's part of why I need a different perspective.

[forthefonofit]

It seems like you already have a path in mind. Are you looking for the branch offs?

[cerealpunner]

Plan what you can plan for, wing it with the things you can't. I try to avoid the winging it thing as frequently when I'm with a team.

So yeah, more or less.

[forthefonofit]

Have you taken the "know your opponent" approach?

[cerealpunner]

... I've gotten to know some Personae.

And a knight I know from home was doing a quest to learn more about Pandora. I helped out with that as much as I could.

[but are you seriously saying I should get to know Mira?]

[forthefonofit]

[your reluctance is so obvious]

Knowing is different from being friendly with.

[cerealpunner]

I know that. Just like I know the more effective, if more dangerous, strategy is keep your friends close and your enemies closer--I pulled it back home by joining the mob and then working under an assassin I don't have the best of relationships with.

[forthefonofit]

But you find it distasteful.

[cerealpunner]

Ask me how I feel about working with an assassin.

Mira doesn't even get the "it's her job" excuse. She slaughtered entire teams for fun.

[forthefonofit]

If what you're looking for are ways around her ways, you'll need to know the pattern behind her ways. And "she enjoys killing people" won't cut it.