[PCs] team trust no bitch aka team hat aka chuuya & caren

[doublesmall]

[but is it really team hat if only caren has one, though? that's the real question here.

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(there is age difference ship content here but nothing nsfw)]

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[sexorcism]

[Caren drops her arm.]

It's so uncouth! Walking around exposed like that. [Caren you don't wear pants.] What are those markings all over his body supposed to be but a distraction? They aren't even all that alluring.

[Well, not that tattoos themselves are particularly alluring to her... of course... but...]

He's a complete brute. Yet you keep picking fights with him, expecting the results to change.

[doublesmall]

I don't know, they're not that bad. Looks like they're done well, at least...

[wait. no they're talking about assassin being a dick not assassin looking good. redirect.]

--but the results are going to change at some point, alright? I just-- I just have to figure out how to get the upper hand.

Do you think he'd be worse at fighting if we put a shirt on him...

[sexorcism]

... I don't believe that's where his power comes from, no.

[Slowly, long-limbed like a cat, Caren stretches out onto her side on the floor, where she continues to eat nuggets.

Looking very smug again, she looks up sideways at her partner.]

Any difference in ability would surely come from less distraction on your part.

[doublesmall]

What are you talking about, distraction? I'm not distracted by anything.

[chuuya huffs as he takes another nugget, biting it in half just because he can, honestly.]

[sexorcism]

Then you don't believe his shirtlessness provides him with some innate power over you?

[That would be...a distraction, Chuuya Nakahara.]

[doublesmall]

Not over me specifically-! I'm just saying, we can't count anything out.

[it has nothing to do with being distracted. it's Fine.]

[sexorcism]

It'll all right if you find yourself arguing with people you find attractive.

[She lies there for a while, wishing she'd gotten some honey mustard or something.]

What a shame Assassin isn't as much of a brute as his namesake would suggest... [Sigh.]

[doublesmall]

I never said I thought he was attractive!

[STUPID SEXY ASSASSIN

he raises a brow at that last comment, though.]

How's it a shame though, huh--? Don't tell me you're accusing me of being attracted to him to cover it up for yourself!

[sexorcism]

Of course it isn't anything like that.

[Folding her hands over her stomach, Caren makes a (slightly blushy) face at him.]

But if he demanded free access, I would be troubled to turn him away.

[doublesmall]

... what do you mean, 'free access'.

[he's saying that with his mouth a little full, honestly. it's nugget time again.]

cw caren

[sexorcism]

[Blandly.]

To my body, of course.

[doublesmall]

Caren, for fuck's sake--

[he drags a hand over his face. it's less coordinated a movement than he probably wanted it to be.]

Don't do that just because someone demands it.

[sexorcism]

Hmmm? [She rolls over onto her back and places one hand protectively over the nuggies box.]

Are you concerned about that? I would consent, of course.

[doublesmall]

Then you are into him.

[sexorcism]

I don't know what that's like.

[She's possibly shitting him, but it's also possible that she's never sat down and thought about it, even before, when she had someone to think about like that.]

[doublesmall]

You're at least, like... teenaged at minimum, right? You really have no idea?

[guess they're having this talk now!! he watches her curiously.]

[sexorcism]

It's less that I have no idea and more that my life has been placed in the service of others. It should not matter what I feel about others for that reason. [That might interfere with performing good works, she thinks, in retrospect.

She rarely thought to remove herself from those rails before, in life. It had made him so angry, hadn't it? That her rage against the machine had only ever been subtle tapping.]

Besides, who would want to admit an infatuation with Assassin?

[doublesmall]

-yeah, that's fair. I think I must have stayed pretty busy, I didn't have all that much time for it either. We probably don't have time now.

[but he was a teenage boy once so like. gestures.]

You didn't have any feelings about who you served, though?

[sexorcism]

Obviously, I was willing to apologize for their transgressions and for my own. I'm sure that came from a love of humanity, of other people.

[It's so hard to explain why her life unfolded a certain way, now that she can't rationalize using beliefs that feel sour and false to her. But she knows she had, without a doubt, desired to serve others.]

But in the end, I believe there was only one other who understood me beyond that. Of course, he was a monster.

[doublesmall]

One can be enough, as long as you've at least got that.

[and as long as they don't leave you like people do-

but anyway.]

What do you mean by monster though-- literally, or just a terrible fucking person?

[sexorcism]

[Of course he's gone. That was the only way the story could have ended.]

Oh, a little of both. [Strangely enough, she seems inordinately fond when she speaks about this terrible person.]

[doublesmall]

Is that your type, then?

[normally he might have more of a filter than that, but here we are, I guess.]

[sexorcism]

Who can say? [It's a fairly cagey answer, but it's not like Caren hasn't given him an evasive response before.]

Most would say it was the right thing, for him to protect the world that so wholly condemned him.

[doublesmall]

Mm. It might be, or it might just be kind of masochistic...

[it kind of sounds like the latter, to chuuya.]

-you wanna tell me about him?

[sexorcism]

What is there to say? [This response, on the other hand, isn't cagey. It's as if she really doesn't know what Chuuya would want to hear about or why it would be important. Her voices is actually small, more emotive than normal.]

I could tell you whatever you'd like, but I am not sure it matters any longer here.