text; @CURSE

[gimu]

hello.

i have several questions for the outsider populace and i require truthful answers.

1. what are your abilities in battle?
2. what is your estimation of your skill with your own abilities?
3. who are you?
4. what was your proudest moment?
5. what was your weakest?

answer as you see fit. i’m not your boss.

[ this isn’t how one goes about making work acquaintances but it’s direct, it’s simple, and choso can’t be bothered to care if it meets industry standard. ]

Comments

[gimu]

1. how many? which is your favorite?
2. what sort of support?
3. and i'm choso. now we're acquaintances despite everything.
4. congratulations.
5. secrets.

[picky]

1. A lot! And I wouldn't say I have a favorite... I just use whichever one I think is best for the situation.
2. My protection spells, for one thing. I know someone who's much better at those than I am. My healing spells aren't as good as hers either, but I can still cast them pretty well!
3. Despite everything? What's everything?
4. That was a while ago, but thanks anyway.


5. You can't say? Why not??

[ INSTANT REGRET ]

[gimu]

1. versatility is a virtue. good work.
2. also good. you'll probably get a lot of practice in.
3. all of this. life. giant monsters. our very different existences. everything.



5. because i haven't decided.

[picky]

[ this guy has a lot going on ]

You haven't decided what to use the answers for...?

[gimu]

oh i know with the first three. i wish to better understand how to mesh my abilities with the other members of the team

the last two are a mystery

[picky]

The first part makes sense but...
You know that sounds eerie, right? Like you might do something bad with those answers somehow?

[gimu]

like what?
are you perhaps insinuating
that i would do something
diabolical?

[picky]

[ why'd he space it out like that.... don't hurt me ]

I mean, I don't know you!
If you think about it, I could be doing something diabolical too, right?
You asked pretty personal questions and can't say why for some of them!

[gimu]

that is also true. you could be a nefarious felon extraordinaire for all anyone knows. the graduate genius might be a criminal. i am a criminal. there are many criminals out there and i do not doubt that LILITH has recruited most of them and worse for an arguably reasonable purpose: to destroy.

i am here to destroy kaiju.

why are you here, marcille?

[picky]

( ooc: hi quick question! are you okay with spoilers? )

[gimu]

[ hit me!!! ]

dungeon meshi spoilers let's go

[picky]

[ There's an immediate pang of terror through her body.

And then she thinks about it. Guilt follows, rolling over her like a cold wave of water.

This person is a total stranger who just admitted that they're a criminal and therefore (supposedly) dangerous, but Marcille is still deeply affected by what happened before she arrived. And she's had no one to talk to about it. It feels like a dam fit to burst. ]

I can tell you but
I don't know how to do it, but can you make it so no one else can see what I say?

private

[gimu]

[ what better way than to just slide into her dms? ]

this is better.

you know you don't have to.

[ it's only fair to offer an out, the helpful door held open. ]

[picky]

You were being honest though right?
When you said you were a criminal
What did you do?

[gimu]

i am.
i killed humans. people. for no good reason in the end.

[picky]

[ Her skin crawls.

She's no stranger to gore and death. People die all the time in dungeons, but the vast majority of them can be resurrected. It's a reality that adventurers are meant to contend with when they decide to dive in.

Considering the point in time she was pulled in from, though... ]

"In the end"?

[gimu]

i made the wrong choices. my chosen course nearly had me destroying my own family.

[picky]

So you regret it now.

[gimu]

yes. what i thought was an easy choice was paid for by too many, my brothers included.
this is my atonement.

dungeon meshi spoilers

[picky]

To be honest, I was thinking this place might be like that for me too
I tried to do something that I thought was good for everybody, but in reality I was being selfish.
I was forcing everyone to do what I wanted because I couldn't deal with how things actually were.

I killed someone too. We were in a place where they could be resurrected, but
It's not like anyone can just forget that I did that. I definitely won't.

[ Especially not after blowing someone's brains out, literally. ]

[gimu]

you have done a lot of thinking on this. i see.

it isn't easy to forget. i don't think we're meant to.
what will you do about it now that you are here?

[picky]

I don't know if I really was brought here as a punishment
But I want to learn how to accept things I can't really control.
Being brought here kind of forces me to deal with that


I think this place takes it to a crazy extreme though

[picky]

( ooc: just an fyi! this is absolutely my bad, but marcille wasn't a magic academy student! she went there only as a researcher. i got it mixed up because of manga translation errors. sorry about that! )

[gimu]

( honourary student... )

[picky]

( yeah...! 😭 )