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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-10-26 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Isabeau puffs out his chest, a fist lightly tapping against it. ]

You know me! I bounce back quickly! [ Which is Isabeau's way of making light of it. Very convincing with his reassuring smile and confidence, right? ] But you know, if you're in ever need of another huuug~ I'm riiight here.
jouvente: game. (glee 👊 the things I've lived for)

[personal profile] jouvente 2024-10-26 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's alright, he knows the limits when it comes to Odile, and other ways they can adapt to some of that bonding. Which she so conveniently brings up and ]

Crab yes! It feels like it's been forever since we've managed to sit down and have a drink together! Let's do it!
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-10-26 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Absolutely the answer to escape the horrors. And honestly, it's one way to wind down. ]

At least that means we'll have some breathing room... [ A nod. Yeah, the catch-up he was expecting, especially sooner rather than later. ] Right, yeah. There's a lot to fill in, which I can do on the way, while we're still capable of perfectly good conversation!

[ A joke. But also Isabeau well known for being a big drinker. So when she's ready, he's happy to fill everything that's gone down in her "absence" - minus the important detail about Loop's identity, no he leaves that important part completely out, as they make their way to the Watchtower Bar. He's... obviously going to downplay a lot of the intensity and more harsher results of what happened, because it's Isabeau. Doesn't want to cause conflict. Doesn't want to cause trouble. Doesn't want to make it seem as bad as it obviously was. ]

..In the end, even when I realized the two of you guys were fakes, I couldn't really..

[ Do anything about it. A coward as he is. Couldn't raise a hand to harm them. ]

So I'm sorry, M'dame.
jouvente: game. (awkward 👊 don't want to sound foolish)

[personal profile] jouvente 2024-10-28 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Admittedly, Isabeau kinda misses the boisterous loud energy that a bar usually is but the town really is small. No crowd from travel or a heavily populated town to bring constant chatter and company within. Either way, he tries not to focus too much on it, moving to go and seat them both at the bar where they'll be provided with their drink of choice. ]

Even so, it feels like I didn't.. do anything for you, for Sif.

[ He wasn't able to protect them. Couldn't even find any sign of their... bodies... and ugh, that thought makes him shudder, shaking his head. His expression pinches, feeling that bubble of nausea that he is more than eager to chase away with a drink. It won't help, not permanently, but it'll help to distract him. ]

..I. I guess not.

[ No, it wouldn't have done or changed anything but he still feels like he's failed them. He fiddles with his glass, before he decides to continue the conversation along. ] So what was it like in the house? You guys were just essentially ghosts, right?
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-10-30 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ His fingers tap the counter idly, thinking it over while their drinks are refilled and he hums with thought. ]

Less yourself... I think that makes sense. As "ghosts", you're just drifting in a space that was basically a sorta limbo? Nothing to attach yourselves to, and with each passing day you'd lose more of yourself and I'd bet any longer you'd have been completely a husk of what you once were, if not just disappear entirely. [ ... ]

Haha, that's a pretty dark thought, isn't it?? I'm glad we got you guys out before then!
jouvente: game. (haha 👊 I'll be the only dream you seek)

[personal profile] jouvente 2024-11-03 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just glad we got you guys out before it was too late then!

[ Even if he's doing his best not to think about how they already were too late. They still died in the end. ..Ugh, keep talking Isabeau. ]

Once we realized it was you, I wasn't worried though. I knew you wouldn't hurt us, M'dame.
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-11-03 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ehhh, that wasn't your fault, M'dame. Logically, it just makes sense to try and go the fastest way! And I think... eventually, Loop and I definitely would have tried to just go through just as we did anyways.

[ With their loved ones on the line? Sometimes taking it slow and easy just goes out the window. But still, all of that is something he'd be happy to take a step away from thinking about for a good while, swallowing it down along with his drink. ]

Oh!!! Right! The house. That's good we'll have some help, but is there something you're specifically worried about? [ To see where he can come in and hopefully help. Arms cross, tapping at his arm with a hum. ] If we wanted, I could help set up a Vaugardian lock with it? I know we aren't in Vaugarde but.. on the chance we want to use an openphrase with us. For some extra safety?
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-11-05 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Glass? ...Oooohh.

[ Confusion if because he actually has no idea what Loop went and requested for their room but. If they don't really like being cooped up in places, having glass for most of.. say the walls, or even the roof? Does make some sense! Even a lot. ]

Yeah, who knows what else can happen here. And glass isn't exactly the sturdiest of materials without any protection. Is that something we could potentially ask? Not sure what we can do with Craft..
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-11-10 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Magically isn't always bad, after all in their own universe they do make use of Craft with a lot of things. Outside and in battle. But he can understand wanting some sense of stability. The bit of doubt in trusting in something they don't really understand. ]

Normal dangers is at least somewhere. If it lists correct formulas, I can try a hand to doublecheck once everything is done though.
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[personal profile] jouvente 2024-11-17 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ It seems to hit him as much at that eyebrow raise, sheepishly laughing it off as he pokes at his glass. Right. Not really a part of him he shares but he's.. trying. ]

Yeah! I can give it a look over! [ ... ] Sooo... things going well with Loop then??