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[fessus]

Who's the worst person you've met here and why? Pref an Outsider but if they've all been cool I'll open it up to whoever

I'm making a list



Bonus: if you guess a number between 1 and 100 and get closest to the one I'm thinking of I've got smth for you

Comments

[gyve]

I know you can
So let's see it

[fessus]

[ Okay... thirty-nine. Tens place below, ones above, three below the nine...

Give it a few seconds before a picture comes, taken not of any apps but actually of good old-fashioned pen and paper on a desk. ]

1/3

[gyve]

That looks great Noctis

2/3

[gyve]

3/3

[gyve]

( ... )

It's correct I mean
Good work
You learn quickly

[fessus]

Yeah

Thanks I think it looks great too

[ If you in any way think you're walking that compliment back, you are Wrong. ]

Do I get to push you to write it in my language now? [ He'll even let you choose which one. ]

[gyve]

( DAMN IT................ )

I don't know how

You said it'd be easier for you to learn glyphs
That it made more sense than me learning to write your languages

[fessus]

Dw yk I'm just messing with you

You've been learning my shorthand anyway, you haven't had to ask what something meant in a while

[gyve]

( rrrrrRRRRRR— )

You have a knack for that too

It's easy to pick up on your peculiarities when they're in everything you do

[fessus]

Thanks

Ig that means I don't have to hold back anymore right? Tbh there's ways we can set it to read certain letters as full words but that'd take a couple minutes for me to set up next time

[gyve]

It's as I said before
I hear the letters and usually ignore them
It's still easy to understand what you're saying without them
Most of the time

The implant has so many functions
I shouldn't be surprised there's one that'd do that for me
You can really set that up

[fessus]

Yeah I can really set that up

Now that ik you're not picking up anything new and are just ignoring big chunks of what I'm saying [ and yet he persists ]

We'll trade

I'll set it up if you teach me to write your name

[gyve]

Alright
Though the trade might be uneven
I can tell you my name means born unto eternity Noctis but I can't teach you how to write it
It comes from Kalak one of the Heralds and the suffix din

Does yours have a meaning

[fessus]

No one showed you any glyphs for your own name?

[ That's... bothersome, for a reason he can't quite pin down. It feels like something crucial that Kaladin is being barred from, like he's missing access to some part of his identity. ]

Then we make you some. If you refuse I'm doing it anyway so you might as well agree with me, it'll be easier

Anyway my name's a lot longer than yours, you want the whole thing?

1/2

[gyve]

( what the............ )

My mother Hesina often wrote it for me in women's script
The majority of glyphs I learned were related to surgery
Body parts
Brief procedure
That sort of thing

Noctis you

2/2

[gyve]

You're stubborn
It's not like I can stop you

( HE'S LEARNING. )

I'll see what you come up with
In the meantime yes I'd like the whole thing

[fessus]

[ He takes a moment to feel a sense of satisfaction that Kaladin has accepted his fate. ]

Fine I'll make sure it feels like you

Idk following "born unto eternity" is pretty hard since that's a lot cooler

Noctis means night
Lucis means light
Caelum means sky/heaven

So light of the night sky is how you're supposed to put it together

[gyve]

( Light of the night sky. Recalling Noctis, a bright spot in a dark storm during their battle with the Imugi, Kaladin decides the name couldn't suit him better. )

You think born unto eternity is cooler than light of the night sky
No way
You're essentially the moons

[fessus]

I wish

My friend/fiancee's name is Luna, which means moon. So she's already got that covered

I'll settle for star if you're going to be timeless and eternal, I have to at least match

[gyve]

( Shock forces the words from his mouth before he's able to guard them. )

You're getting married

( For once, his lack of punctuation suits what's transcribed by his implant. Any would work to describe how he's feeling, and the sentence is both a question and a statement.

There's a sinking in his gut, and Kaladin recognizes it because he's felt it before—for a woman. For Shallan, when she was pursuing Adolin instead of him. When they became engaged to be married. When he stared actionlessly after her for several months. When his affection finally built into something Syl encouraged him to pursue—something he'd almost destroyed a friendship for—only for her to recommit herself to her first—and best—choice.

He's disappointed.

Shaken, Kaladin cuts their conversation short. )

Congratulations
You deserve to be happy Noctis

If anything comes up that you feel I should be made aware of send that list over
I want to keep an eye on the people reported there

[fessus]

[ Those three words cut through another relaxed bit of banter and Noctis suddenly realizes his mistake... even if he doesn't yet understand why it was a mistake. It's still too hard to fathom that a fraction of his own intrusive, confusing thoughts might be shared by his friend, after all. ]

I was

[ Kaladin's shutting their conversation down. He can feel it, and yet he still feels the need to defend a statement that doesn't require a defense. To mitigate it somehow. ]

But yeah I'll get the list together

You have to go?

[gyve]

Yes

( No elaboration. No lie. No... nothing. )

I'll talk to you later

🔒 locking this down hard

[fessus]

[ He's ready to accept the goodbye... but he doesn't. Can't, more accurately, because all it will do is eat at him. ]

Kaladin hold on

🔒 gay panic lock

[gyve]

( Hearing the message come in makes him tense as if he were bracing against a blow. )

Yes what is it

🔒 1/2

[fessus]

[ How does he say it? What does he say? ]