Texts: i'm a prince i do diplomacy

Texts: i'm a prince i do diplomacy
Date of Scene:	17 April 2024
Location:	Texts
Synopsis:	Kyouka and Mamoru text about Bow.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Kyouka Inai

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(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: hey did you get that kid home alright

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: well not home but we talked a bunch

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: he'll be okay i think

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: he does have a backseat driver AI though that took him over, that was the glowing green eyes thing

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: good. thanks. sorry about that whole thing.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i tried to convince him it was a bad idea

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: what, ditching me? XD

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: interesting. not my area of expertise but good to know. well ditching you and then forcing you to play counselor to a kid with trust issues. that's supposed to be my job

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i'm a prince i do diplomacy its my job too :D

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: plus he's a friend of mine, i dont mind at all

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: ditching me was bullshit though dont do that

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: great, now i have to think of you as competition. for the job, not the friendship. i'm joking anyway.. i never claimed i was any good at this, haha

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: sorry, i didnt mean for it to be an actual ditching, but when i get a text like that i tend to react on instinct. people calling me for help and all. i was planning to come back

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: not that fuyuko called for help exactly but i can read between the lines with her

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i gotcha. if you do it again i'll just assume you mean for me to follow, and not take it personally

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: honestly if i randomly teleport away after getting a text its unlikely there's any situation in which i wouldn't want you to follow me. having a healer around is almost always a bonus

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: okay cool. i cant follow you if you teleport into another dimension jsyk

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: good to know but to my knowledge i cant do that, at least on purpose

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i mean for example i couldnt find the guys if they were in the dusk zone

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: not that the dusk zone is a problem here but yeah

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: still good to know. anyway, sorry again. hope talking to the kid wasnt too much hassle. its kind of hard to justify defending a murderer, and its not a position i like to find myself in often, but

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: family is family

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i like your friend. i think she's cool. i know she's a murderer. i also know she's not sorry. i also still consider myself close to riventon

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: ok shes not cool, lets get that out of the way right off the bat. not as cool as me, anyway, i guess shes cool taken in a vacuum

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i didnt so much defend her as just keep pointing out that loyalties are a complicated thing

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: lmao

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i know you didnt, i meant me. i was defending her. i dont like doing it because i dont think she should have gotten away with it, such as it is, but i also dont want some kid shooting her full of arrows

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: she actually made it easier with her supervillain line about might makes right

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: bc bow doesnt want to be like that

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: its such bullshit bc shes right but wrong at the same time and i dont know how to argue about it

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: he believes in a lot of gods like justice and i love that for him

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: the truth of the matter is in this world might often does make right. but i believe that if you have the might to make your own right you owe it to people to have that right be something that improves the world

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: or at least defends it

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: doesnt make it worse, lets say

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: fair

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i also really didnt want her to kill him. i know she hates it that i worry about that bc she claims she doesnt want to kill anybody and i belive her

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i believe she doesnt want to

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i seriously dont think she would have killed him

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i dont think she would have either but i dont /know for sure/ and thats really scary to me

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i dont want to kill anybody except for one person

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: bc if she does something like that again at a certain point im not going to be able to forgive her. and thats scarier to me than the death itself. which is selfish i know but i never claimed to be a saint

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: no i get it

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: its not killing itself i have a problem with, you know that. its killing people who dont deserve it. im pretty sure i know who youre talking about and im pretty sure i wont have any issues with that

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: lol yeah no secret there

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i wonder if its because i didnt know aurora that i'm not as bothered by her having killed him as i probably ought to be

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i wasn't a very nice 8yo

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: she was also out of her head. her boyfriend had just died and she was crazy with grief and also we were powerful and used to that power. its a dangerous combination.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: and if i felt someone had caused the death of the only person i loved at that time, i probably would have tried to kill them

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: to be frank killing aurora was the thing which bothered me the least about what she attempted to do that day. just because i stopped the other part doesnt meant that her trying to do it wasnt awful, and thats mostly what our beef was about over the next few years

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: it doesnt surprise me that corona is on about aurora though. he was one of her people after all, so it makes sense shes upset about that

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: yeah but she wasnt 8 and she also had the power to make good on that threat

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: maybe they were friends, who knows

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: maybe they were. and im sorry about it either way. but i dont need this shit being dragged into the open now. i have bigger problems. /we/ have bigger problems then some space-wolf's decade-old grudge.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: no, for real

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: its hideously inconvenient

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i really need to talk to some people about the Fade. bc this would all be so much less of a pain in the ass if people remembered things

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yes pls i dont want to forget literally everything that makes me myself

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: if people knew fuyuko killed aurora it wouldnt be like gasp some big secret revealed every time. if people remembered how scary she is they wouldnt hare off trying to attack her.

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: yeah welcome to my reality. at least you have time. im one whim of an arbitrary god away from.. i dont even know what. lobotomy, or at least thats what it feels like

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i mean otoh she would probably get attacked MORE often because risk vs reward + teenagers

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: and im not trying to minimize your concerns, just saying. i am more than with you

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yeah i have what two years

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: if balance didnt need me id already be gone... the problem is i dont even really understand why he needs me. like whats the point of all this, really? what am i doing thats making such a difference, and why is it so important? i have no fucking clue

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: thats one of the things that makes me nuts about riventon, like, he made that point so many times. 'what, you're just gonna be a normal boring adult who doesnt know anything about anything? i'm still going to have magic'

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: but stepping too far out of line is like asking for him to revoke my fade-immunity. its too risky while the fade is there like a sword of damocles

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: well let me be clear- id still rather be a boring adult than be a crazy dark-energy-using psychopath

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: well i mean i wasn't THAT bad but i also had wasps and fire ants under my skin and it was slowly eating me alive

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i'd rather not die miserable and hurting other people

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: you lose yourself either way. pick your poison. the result is the same with a different coat of paint

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: it benefits everyone if the fade is a problem we can solve. but i dont know if it is and i dont really know where to start finding out

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: i'm not the researchy type

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i want to punch something to make it stop too XD

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: you have smart friends. tell them to tell us who to punch

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i will but you should also just tell everyone to find a way to beat the Fade

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: DID I TELL YOU>????

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: I CAN SHOOT A PUNCHY LASER NOW???

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: you didnt tell me, but congrats!! punchy lasers are sweet

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i mean we ran out the door

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: but it was me and zoi and mercury who took down the gym wall in the barrier the other day

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: you dont need to run away, its in the barrier. and even if it wasnt, its not like its my gym. i dont have to pay to fix it

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: it was fun to feel like we were getting away with something ig

(PHONE) Kyouka Inai texts: well, as long as everyone had fun. but no, thats great. offense is good.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yesssss