I'm glad you understand why I'm annoyed. Someone else told me I should be charmed by how much he wants to see me that he'd follow me around and use a different name.
No. Nothing like that. Just following and pretending to be a small cute animal that needs help.
Sounds like someone who's never had a stalker I've dealt with people who think they're entitled to me before, I know the feeling and it sucks Using a different name just means he's lied to you for months to try and get his way
That makes it harder, I know dragons aren't common but I feel like banning every dragon from your house isn't ideal
At least you got petty revenge, paint seems like it'd be hard to get out of scales Think about all the inconvenience you probably caused him later
[Momo can also be quite petty sometimes, so he's here for this.]
I guess. They didn't seem to understand why I was annoyed they didn't tell me. I'd already noticed I was being followed, they confronted him directly and spoke.
I knew him from before here. For a long time. He said somethings when we last spoke. Then his followers locked us in a cell.
He said he wants to talk but [She just leaves that sentence there. Not sure how to finish it.]
Wow that Seems kind of shitty of them Like at least they confronted him but how the hell did they come out of that thinking it was charming?
[While Momo's messaging to Mr Lizard has at least netted him a better explanation of the fae eating thing, he's far from walking out of it with "charming" as an impression, and he still considers this situation stalking.]
If he wanted to talk he could've talked when you got here months ago I'm not really seeing a justification for the stalking and lying part and if he wants to talk he at least needs to bend a damn knee and beg your forgiveness for that That said if it makes it a tiny bit less horrifying, he claims the actual eating has only happened in dreams and honestly I can't really fault anyone for anything they did to the true fae from that one dream, they sucked
[Just casually. Momo can be surprisingly vicious about people who hurt people the way the true fae were in that dream.]
Rude of him He could at least have the decency to do it when he was out of sight
[If it had been someone else being followed. She'd have offered to scare the follower off, but her safety wasn't exactly her biggest concern. She could handle herself.]
I know. It's a bit of a sudden change from how he was when we last spoke back home. And he's already said he's from after that.
That's all fine here. What about the people he ate back home though? He can't say that was the dreams here.
[Yes, that was how the shifter powers worked. And the first time he'd had no control over it, but he'd made a choice to eat Willy and his sister.]
It was out of sight. He flew off and the next time I saw him the scales were clean and shiny. Like my arm is now.
[Momo kind of sheds most of the conversation when she says that middle thing, because he needs a second to just put his phone down and rub his face. He'd entirely assumed the issue was with what was happening here and not anything else.]
Okay can we backtrack for a second While you explain why this guy is eating people in your world too I kind of snap reacted to the first mention in the other chat because cannibalism is the near-exclusive territory of horror stories in my world and when it's not the people doing it go down in history as legendarily screwed up individuals But if you're going to say things like that I really need context Because otherwise you're making this guy sound like the worst serial killers my world has to offer in reality or fiction combined
[He's hoping that might help offer perspective on why he's having such a time wrapping his brain around this.]
And next round we're getting a tokyo ghoul to add to the vore!
[He remembers enough about the Titan conversation, so it does at least give him a tiny bit more context, if maybe not quite as much as he'd like.]
You said last time that people couldn't turn back after turning into titans Is he some kind of exception
I'm not using it to mean killing in general You've obviously killed people but that wasn't just because you felt like it or enjoyed it if you're in the military
Is this something to do with that last-ditch plan you talked about Where a ton of people were probably gonna die whether it worked or not
[There's a delayed response. It's technically common knowledge where she's from so it's okay to say, but actually explaining it is strange.]
There are nine titans that can turn back into a person at a time. If a normal titan eats one of these nine people they the ability to turn back is passed on.
Partly
[An unfinished sentence as she wavers and thinks on how to say it.]
He acted on his own. The higher-ups were trying to plan, but one day he just walked out and disappeared. A few months later we got a letter telling us where he'd be.
Once we got there he'd turned into a titan in the middle of a festival a lot of civilians died. His followers were the ones setting fire to houses. There were a lot of important figures there too.
While discussing what would happen next those followers killed our commander-in-chief. The same day he released a large number of titans.
[The turning back is probably the least confusing part of this whole thing, so he takes that at face value to focus on the disaster that follows.]
Okay yeah that's A lot Extremely generous interpretation is that he has information you don't but even then, why not tell you before now Unless he thought there was a mole in your ranks or something That's a whole lot of hell to unleash without telling anyone else what you're actually doing He can't possibly be surprised you're conflicted about it, especially if you've known each other for a while
[That would just make him going off the deep end more shocking.]
I've been here four months. I met him in the dream before I arrived and he'd said he'd been here a year. When we met in the city on the full moon. That's the meeting I told you about where he said he'd been thinking of me and licked me.
We've known each other more than ten years. He's the first person other than my parents I'd met.
So that dream in the past That's the same time I arrived Guess it makes sense that it came up just before we met then But four months is plenty of time to talk about something like that and a year is even longer to think about what he'd say on his end
Wow So you've got a history at least Doesn't make his behaviour any less weird but I can see why that would be a blindside or even feel like a betrayal when you've known each other that long Like, that'd be a colossal breach of trust either way but coming from someone you presumably trust a lot
It is. He wanted to talk in person and just gave me a meeting place.
He says it won't be like last time. But his followers held me at gunpoint and took me to a cell then.
I don't think he wants to hurt me. He knows where I live and has been in the house and nothing happened. I just don't know what to say. Especially with him using the fake name.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say he doesn't have followers with a jail here so that's one upside I'd be kind of dubious about him setting the meeting place but that depends on how public it is
If you think he's not going to hurt you and want to meet him then maybe hear what he has to say for himself when it's in person Even if it's not good enough it might give you more solid ground for what you're feeling and how to word your problems with how he handled everything Sometimes it takes talking it out a bit before the exact words click, you know?
But honestly the closest experience I've probably had to this was with Ryou-san And I knew he was a godawful person from not long after we met so it wasn't exactly a breach of trust when he turned on me More like a wake-up call that some people can't be reasoned with This guy at least sounds like he's making an attempt to reconcile which hopefully means he's aware he messed up If it goes badly and you want to spite him for it I can still try to ward your house
[Petty solidarity, and also Momo doesn't like his friends having to deal with stuff like this.]
Well yeah, even if you think he'd do something either way it'd be a sign of goodwill to let you set the location When he's the one who needs to earn trust back
No problem I'd have to do a little research since I haven't tried to ward a dwelling before But I've been practicing protective magic for a bit and I've definitely run across stuff on it before Seems to not be too different to casting other kinds of wards
I'll try and work out how the barriers I can make work as well. Though the fae I managed to ask couldn't help. Apparently I'm doing well for myself if I've been able to make one.
I doubt they'll have anything on that. The fae I spoke with
It was Sowilo. If anyone was going to know whose with the coven it'd be him wouldn't it. But I was planning on looking there soon anyway. It's just a pain.
I was thinking maybe a Mirrorbound since there's got to be more fae than just the newer ones you've met But either way it's probably going to take some messing around if the information's that obscure
Makes sense If you're more comfortable handling it through the library then that's how you should do it There's a chance you might get more information than just that, too
[Presumably if someone's writing extensive Fae lore, they're not just writing it about one power.]
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No. Nothing like that.
Just following and pretending to be a small cute animal that needs help.
I wish I'd dumped more than paint on him.
[Grumpy and petty fae is mad.]
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I've dealt with people who think they're entitled to me before, I know the feeling and it sucks
Using a different name just means he's lied to you for months to try and get his way
That makes it harder, I know dragons aren't common but I feel like banning every dragon from your house isn't ideal
At least you got petty revenge, paint seems like it'd be hard to get out of scales
Think about all the inconvenience you probably caused him later
[Momo can also be quite petty sometimes, so he's here for this.]
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I knew him from before here. For a long time.
He said somethings when we last spoke.
Then his followers locked us in a cell.
He said he wants to talk but [She just leaves that sentence there. Not sure how to finish it.]
Then I learn he finds fae tasty.
Annoyingly no.
He shed his scales right after.
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Seems kind of shitty of them
Like at least they confronted him but how the hell did they come out of that thinking it was charming?
[While Momo's messaging to Mr Lizard has at least netted him a better explanation of the fae eating thing, he's far from walking out of it with "charming" as an impression, and he still considers this situation stalking.]
If he wanted to talk he could've talked when you got here months ago
I'm not really seeing a justification for the stalking and lying part and if he wants to talk he at least needs to bend a damn knee and beg your forgiveness for that
That said if it makes it a tiny bit less horrifying, he claims the actual eating has only happened in dreams and honestly I can't really fault anyone for anything they did to the true fae from that one dream, they sucked
[Just casually. Momo can be surprisingly vicious about people who hurt people the way the true fae were in that dream.]
Rude of him
He could at least have the decency to do it when he was out of sight
suddenly vore talk
[If it had been someone else being followed. She'd have offered to scare the follower off, but her safety wasn't exactly her biggest concern. She could handle herself.]
I know.
It's a bit of a sudden change from how he was when we last spoke back home. And he's already said he's from after that.
That's all fine here.
What about the people he ate back home though? He can't say that was the dreams here.
[Yes, that was how the shifter powers worked. And the first time he'd had no control over it, but he'd made a choice to eat Willy and his sister.]
It was out of sight. He flew off and the next time I saw him the scales were clean and shiny.
Like my arm is now.
reset the days since vore was mentioned counter
Okay can we backtrack for a second
While you explain why this guy is eating people in your world too
I kind of snap reacted to the first mention in the other chat because cannibalism is the near-exclusive territory of horror stories in my world and when it's not the people doing it go down in history as legendarily screwed up individuals
But if you're going to say things like that I
really
need context
Because otherwise you're making this guy sound like the worst serial killers my world has to offer in reality or fiction combined
[He's hoping that might help offer perspective on why he's having such a time wrapping his brain around this.]
And next round we're getting a tokyo ghoul to add to the vore!
He could turn into a fifteen-meter tall one.
Ate two people not long before coming here.
Unsure if I can explain fully on here.
He's not a serial killer.
I don't think.
If you're going by the proper meaning of the word.
But he was about to cause a lot of deaths right before I was brought here.
Maybe mine.
[Unsure?? She was kind of in the titans' path. Jean had said she'd lived but???]
clearly more vore is what the game needs
You said last time that people couldn't turn back after turning into titans
Is he some kind of exception
I'm not using it to mean killing in general
You've obviously killed people but that wasn't just because you felt like it or enjoyed it if you're in the military
Is this something to do with that last-ditch plan you talked about
Where a ton of people were probably gonna die whether it worked or not
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There are nine titans that can turn back into a person at a time. If a normal titan eats one of these nine people they the ability to turn back is passed on.
Partly
[An unfinished sentence as she wavers and thinks on how to say it.]
He acted on his own.
The higher-ups were trying to plan, but one day he just walked out and disappeared.
A few months later we got a letter telling us where he'd be.
Once we got there he'd turned into a titan in the middle of a festival a lot of civilians died. His followers were the ones setting fire to houses.
There were a lot of important figures there too.
While discussing what would happen next those followers killed our commander-in-chief. The same day he released a large number of titans.
[It was a lot.]
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Okay yeah that's
A lot
Extremely generous interpretation is that he has information you don't but even then, why not tell you before now
Unless he thought there was a mole in your ranks or something
That's a whole lot of hell to unleash without telling anyone else what you're actually doing
He can't possibly be surprised you're conflicted about it, especially if you've known each other for a while
[That would just make him going off the deep end more shocking.]
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I met him in the dream before I arrived and he'd said he'd been here a year.
When we met in the city on the full moon.
That's the meeting I told you about where he said he'd been thinking of me and licked me.
We've known each other more than ten years.
He's the first person other than my parents I'd met.
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That's the same time I arrived
Guess it makes sense that it came up just before we met then
But four months is plenty of time to talk about something like that and a year is even longer to think about what he'd say on his end
Wow
So you've got a history at least
Doesn't make his behaviour any less weird but
I can see why that would be a blindside or even feel like a betrayal when you've known each other that long
Like, that'd be a colossal breach of trust either way but coming from someone you presumably trust a lot
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He wanted to talk in person and just gave me a meeting place.
He says it won't be like last time.
But his followers held me at gunpoint and took me to a cell then.
I don't think he wants to hurt me. He knows where I live and has been in the house and nothing happened.
I just don't know what to say.
Especially with him using the fake name.
Guess we both have these problems?
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I'd be kind of dubious about him setting the meeting place but that depends on how public it is
If you think he's not going to hurt you and want to meet him then maybe hear what he has to say for himself when it's in person
Even if it's not good enough it might give you more solid ground for what you're feeling and how to word your problems with how he handled everything
Sometimes it takes talking it out a bit before the exact words click, you know?
But honestly the closest experience I've probably had to this was with Ryou-san
And I knew he was a godawful person from not long after we met so it wasn't exactly a breach of trust when he turned on me
More like a wake-up call that some people can't be reasoned with
This guy at least sounds like he's making an attempt to reconcile which hopefully means he's aware he messed up
If it goes badly and you want to spite him for it I can still try to ward your house
[Petty solidarity, and also Momo doesn't like his friends having to deal with stuff like this.]
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If he was going to do something, how public the meeting place was wouldn't matter. He'd still do it.
But I'm not going to let him arrange things for me again.
[She was free to do what she wanted, even if he thought otherwise.]
Thank you.
It's good talking to someone who gets why I'm wary.
Even if it works out I might be asking you to do that. If that'd be alright?
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When he's the one who needs to earn trust back
No problem
I'd have to do a little research since I haven't tried to ward a dwelling before
But I've been practicing protective magic for a bit and I've definitely run across stuff on it before
Seems to not be too different to casting other kinds of wards
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Though the fae I managed to ask couldn't help. Apparently I'm doing well for myself if I've been able to make one.
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Next best thing to trying the Watches to see if anyone knows already
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It was Sowilo. If anyone was going to know whose with the coven it'd be him wouldn't it.
But I was planning on looking there soon anyway.
It's just a pain.
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But either way it's probably going to take some messing around if the information's that obscure
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I don't want to ask on the network either.
I asked about that, apparently it's a normal fae thing.
Hiding.
Cause of how often they were hunted.
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If you're more comfortable handling it through the library then that's how you should do it
There's a chance you might get more information than just that, too
[Presumably if someone's writing extensive Fae lore, they're not just writing it about one power.]
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[Joking?]