002; video

[vanto]

[The room behind Eli is decorated with a few Christmas lights and ornaments: a candy cane or two, some crystal stars, mistletoe. It's minimalistic but adequately festive for the Imperial household; at the edge of the room is a box and wrappings — this room has clearly just been decorated.

Eli runs a hand through his hair, nervous but content. There is a smear of red lipstick on his cheek that he has been trying to wipe off for forty minutes. This is his life now.]

I can't remember the last —week and a half? Two weeks?— very well. But I know that I caused some trouble as a, uh, glowing horse. With eight legs.

[Eli looks away from the camera, mouth pressed into a thin line.]

I'm sorry, and if you want me to pay or help fix anything please contact me. I don't know how else to make up for all the garden destruction.

[...]

And how do you fix cravings from being a horse? I walked by a flower shop and the roses looked really appetising.

Comments

[vanto]

Yes, I confess. I'm part of those guys who are always fighting here.

[exceptionalthief]

I'm surprised no one has locked the lot of you in a room yet.

[vanto]

No, no, no we don't want that to happen ever because killing is bad.

[exceptionalthief]

The general idea being, you can't come out until you all get along. Not... slaughter each other repeatedly.

[vanto]

Have you met the people in my galaxy?

[exceptionalthief]

One or two, yes.

[Chief among them being Count Dooku, who is a perfectly reasonable person and would never kill anyone, right?

lol.]

[vanto]

And you think we'd last in the same room without murder?

[.....Oh Hans.

TBF, Eli doesn't know Dooku well. He seems perfectly reasonable in his posts thought...]

[exceptionalthief]

I think you might get tired of it eventually. The nanites would keep resurrecting you, you know.

[TBH, Hans doesn't know everything about Dooku either (Sith Lord, no... Constellation big bad, yes. Not that he'd be telling anyone about that).]

[vanto]

I wish they'd just start a snowball fight or something instead, tucker themselves out and relax, but maybe you're right.

Although, you've not met everyone and some are very good at killing and very determined.

[He's thinking of Hux and Poe right now, haha.]

[exceptionalthief]

In this particular setting, 'determined' would seem synonymous with 'pig-headed.'

[vanto]

Isn't that a usual setting though?

[exceptionalthief]

Being able to kill someone over and over again is generally reserved for video games.

[vanto]

Are you someone who enjoys those? Because that sounds like a violent sort of pastime.

[exceptionalthief]

Not so much. [Because-] That's more of an American thing. [Violence, on the other hand, is not a problem.]

[vanto]

Ah, cultural differences.