( crau ) lili

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[haw]

[ he just nods. he doesn't pick up on her lack of knowledge. this is fine. ]

Hah, right? Punkass bitch.

[ LIKE YOU EXPECTED MAJIMA TO BE ANY BETTER? ]

[coastal]

Oh, I haven't heard that curse before.

[SHE

MIGHT BORROW IT]

[haw]

"Punkass" or "bitch"?

[ NO!!!!!!!! ]

[coastal]

Punkass!

[JUST

A VERY EAGER LITTLE EXCLAMATION COMING FROM A LITTLE GIRL]

I've been called a bitch before. It's pretty uninspired.

[haw]

[ this makes him so excited you have no idea ]

Ahh, "punkass" is more or less a filler word—kinda like when ya wanna double down on both stupidity and jackassery. "Bitch," on the other hand, is a tough one—it's all comes down to the context ya use it in. If your good friend calls you a bitch, they probably mean it endearingly! But if some fuckhead—or even someone who's tryin' to be your friend when that just ain't how yer relationship is—calls you one, that's when you start gettin' ready to throw hands.

[coastal]

I'm always willing to - what did you say? Throw hands.

[she is like 5 feet tall]

But I'll keep that in mind. I don't know if I can call my friends 'bitch' endearingly - the royal guard might have my head for that, even if it'd be satisfying. [because soo-won IS a bitch]

I'll take note of it. So would you say we're dealing with a punkass situation?

[haw]

[ AND SHE'S VALID! ]

Yeah, that's fair. It's definitely somethin' everyone's gotta be comfortable with when you actually like the people.

But...hm. Nah. You use it more to describe people directly. Like, "ugh, that punkass kid is always comin' around here and startin' shit," or "punkass nerd shoulda kept his mouth shut instead of remindin' the teacher she forgot to collect the homework." Yer already insultin' the person, you're just addin' "punkass" for emphasis.

[coastal]

Oh!

"Punkass info dealer mulling about uselessly instead of doing his job!"

[THAT'S SPECIFIC]

[haw]

[ he just blinks a couple of times, before: ] Huh. Weirdly specific, but yeah, that's basically exactly how to use it. Good job.

[ beat ]

Oh, uh. Majima, by the way. My name. Can't believe I taught ya how to cuss before ya even knew who I was.

[coastal]

It's alright, I don't like giving out my name to people unless they've earned it.

[to which she follows:]

An Lili - but Lili is fine.

[haw]

Well, don't I feel special.

[ he gives her another cheeky grin, but it's much more sincere than the first one. ]

So, Lili-chan, got any juicy fun facts to share about people from your game?

[coastal]

[sometimes a weird friendship is a giant yakuza and a small girl he taught how to say 'punkass']

They're both idiots?

[okay no, she seems to actually think for a second]

... it's just me, Ookurikara, and Tsurumaru. We're all.... friends. [dumb tsun] They're morons, that wasn't a lie, but they would never kill an innocent person without an extremely good reason. 'They'll become corrupted if we let them live' or 'we all need to die in order to get out of here' reasons.

So you don't have to worry about them.

[haw]

Wow, that's... surprisingly sincere. Heh. I'll keep all'a that in mind.

[ he blinks, though, at one of those names. ]

This Tsurumaru—he another sword?

[coastal]

Don't call it sincere - that's embarrassing.

[dumbass

that said she's going to pause at that]

... what are you asking me?

[tsuru and kara were the only swords who tried to keep it a secret]

[haw]

Is he... y'know...

[ mimes swinging a sword ]

A sword?

[coastal]

[she

blinks]

Why would you think that?

[look man, she's an honest person and she's not denying anything but it's also not her secret]

[haw]

Seems like a whole lotta sword people have been floatin' around, an' he wouldn't the first -maru sword I've heard of.

[ beat ]

I mean, does he at least have a sword?

[coastal]

[ . . . a beat]

Sorry - are people just really commonly introducing themselves as sword people now? Is that something they are openly doing without a care in the world?

[haw]

The one in my competition was pretty open about it, and, uh, that one kid—[ give him a sec ]—Yasu-kun straight up told me he was, too.

[coastal]

[this icon]

Oh my gods.

[haw]

Soooo I'm gonna go ahead an' take that as a yes.

[coastal]

[she just... sighs....]

... I can't confirm or deny that for you. That's something that you'd have to ask him yourself. Even if other people were open about something like that, it's not really right for me to reveal something about my friend. [oh, to be both honest and loyal]

Anyway, that guy is ridiculously friendly - so I doubt he'd mind if you asked.

[haw]

[ smash cut to monday morning when majima punches tsuru in the face and they get stuck like that for an hour

but all of that seems to get at him, and his expression softens considerably. like, he's definitely obviously still a giant and somewhat intimidating one-eyed man, but the traits that earned him the ogou-san nickname are starting to shine through. ]

...heh. I respect that. Ya got a good head on yer shoulders, Lili-chan.

[coastal]

I don't know what you're calling me, but Lili is fine.

[what's a lilichan

anyway after the immediate bluster she's just going to... frown a little. she looks confused? it's weird, people seem to actually be responding to her positively here and she doesn't get it.]

It's just doing what's right....

[haw]

—If yer sure. S'what we tack onto girls' names where I'm from.

[ for what it's worth, he looks the teensiest bit sheepish. she did just say she didn't want to deal with niceties... the sass is strong, and again, he can legitimately respect it. ]

Either way... people can say one and turn on it as soon as shit starts lookin' bleak or if it's not what someone wants to hear. It takes balls—or, uh, guts—to stick to yer morals and do the right thing, even if ya end up lookin' like an ass afterward.