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simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
a thing; w/ ruinsprofessor & conductingresistance
canon
breached
confessed
dadly
future
grigori
mercenary
MEover
origin
reversal
titans
scenario list
canon: Kratos needs to stop running off
confessed: wing reflex
confessed: actual wingpull
confessed: turning Renegade
confessed: son meets father
dadliness: confrontation
dadliness: awakening
dadliness: illness
dadliness: a fundamental lack of understanding on the word 'abducted'
dadliness: updating parameters
dadliness: assassination assignation
mercenary: hiding in the library
mercenary: aftermath of librarian saviour
reversal: oracle destroyed
titans: storming the tower
titans: safety in the canyon
titans: night horrors
canon
- combo of Kratos and Zelos ending
- Zelos does the stupid thing, but not so far as his death, and is still the eighth member of the party to Derris-Kharlan.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan tracks Kratos down at Dirk's.
breached
- canon right up until after Botta’s death
- no one uses Yuan’s name around Mithos so Mithos walks right into the Triet base with them
- cue an epic OH SHIT in which Yuan gets a lil bit beat up while covering the evacuation of the rest of the base
- until Kratos appears to intervene and have the Chosen group get Yuan out of there
- Mithos gets Kratos tho and he’s a bit mad cos, yanno, traitor and all
- time to be locked up and punished and need to be rescued
- kind of puts a crimp in the creation of the Eternal Ring plans
- mostly cos Mithos turns Kratos lifeless, with some armour to regulate his mana so he remains a seraph. can't have the seal becoming less powerful, yo
- it does mean he can only obey orders tho
- the first rescue fails miserably but at least no one dies and they know they need to reforge his key-crest
- the second rescue attempt (circumstances of canon-point under percolation) goes a little better, though Yuan almost gets killed by Kratos trying to attach the key-crest
- luckily that and the first telepathy in a while gets through and Kratos manages to break out a la Colette, and heal Yuan enough for Raine to get there
- after which, angreh father-son beatdown on Mithos.
scenarios
None yet.
confessed
- almost successful assassination lands Kratos as an injured stranger in Iselia (1-2 years pre-canon)
- recuperation leads to accidental-on-purpose 'holiday' in Iselia
- doubts result in a request for Dirk to make a key-crest like Kratos' own
- oracle room undergoes some stealth sabotage
- regeneration journey is slightly delayed, prompted by Genis and Lloyd being discovered at the ranch
- Triet is awkward. so very awkward. for the Renegades -- whose side is Kratos even on these days and why was he vanished for two years?
- initial overall journey similar to canon, save that Kratos is a bit less circumspect about advising Colette on how to cope with angel transformations
- there are more overt Dun Wanna Feelings
- then Luin, wherein things happen and the group is in town during the Desian attack. the others naturally want to fight but tis a mite difficult against an army and building-destroying magitech. luckily, angel on their side. unluckily, wingpulls in order to muster the power to cover the townspeoples' retreat
- questions and confessions ensue
- Colette rejects the key crest (for the moment) so there's still hopefully maybe ambiguity about Kratos's position re the last seal
- it wouldn't fit anyway, it's modelled for the hand like Kratos's is because he was a derp and did not specify otherwise, so Lloyd needs to make a thing to make it fit
- slow protective retreat toward Asgard.
scenarios
scenario one: Kratos confesses before Salvation; Raine wants to follow up.
scenario two: Raine's examination of an angel; and also Kratos realises how far he's put his foot in it.
scenario three: Kratos goes to taunt Yuan a little, and also ask for his help.
scenario four: in which Raine makes Kratos tell the children all the things, and Yuan takes too much amusement from it.
dadliness
- Kratos retires in Iselia under the name Irving to raise Lloyd after the death of his wife
- no exsphere. ageing occurs! so does a beard and a braid
- teaches Lloyd swordplay, but on the sly, to avoid the other villagers noticing. his daytime job is weaving
- Lloyd finds the box of their exspheres and wants details. after some prodding by Dirk, Kratos explains how exspheres are made and that one is Anna's life. Lloyd is too young yet, but when Lloyd comes of age (~15) Kratos lets him make his own decision re wearing it
- Lloyd chooses not to wear the exsphere
- Genis befriends Marble and Lloyd meets her, as in canon; this happens before the journey begins, with the fallout
- difference being that Colette is still in the village so they can't be too horrible, so they just demand Lloyd be turned over for a flogging
- Kratos stands in his stead because natch. luckily, they're only mooks and don't recognise the bearded weaver as anyone important
- gives Lloyd his guilt complex early tho
- the oracle happens much the same way except Botta doesn't quite recognise the weirdly familiar bearded swordsman
- he does when he's reporting to Yuan tho
'there was an exceptionally skilled human'
/brief physical description/
/did x other faintly recognizable thing/
and both he and Yuan are aware that Kratos has been awol for a while, so there's a moment of pure silence and dawning 'no, it couldn't be'
- but then obviously one of them has to go make sure
- cue an interruption just out of Triet.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan feels the need to investigate; this results in Kratos injured and abducted.
scenario two: Yuan realises he can't kill Kratos with his own two hands; Kratos gets mothered.
scenario three: Kratos gets sick on the heels of his recovery. Yuan mothers him some more. Botta disapproves.
scenario four: Kratos recovers and makes an escape attempt. Sort-of.
scenario five: Kratos recovers more and talks to Botta, when not needling Yuan about his lack of preparedness.
scenario six: Sheena's contract takes a slight shift into undercover instead of assassination work.
future
- Aselia is Earth ~10,000 years in the past
- all is peachy-keen except the tree is now underground and the elvens/half-elves/some humans are in hiding in the centre of the planet, hidden thanks to the summon spirits
- Colette is working with humanitarian aid in various impoverished nations
- Zelos is a diplomat in West Asia / Middle East trying to keep the peace
- Yuan is a crotchety lecturer at Cambridge who's also HUGE into environmentalism
- Lloyd and Kratos are having family time in space
- occasionally the trio on Earth meet reincarnations of people they used to know
- but rarely at the same time and almost never in a position where they meet
- but then they start meeting them
- lots of them
- all in the same span of years
- they're starting to think something's hinky
- until the space-elves attack
- and then they know something is hinky.
scenarios
None yet.
grigori
- at some point significantly before canon, Kratos actually calls it quits
- the Church's institution calls him a fallen angel of vengeance
- really he's just going around trying to help people and avoiding being taken back to Cruxis
- assigns himself to the Chosen parties whenever he can, up to Colette
- ????? idk some kind of profit somewhere
scenarios
None yet.
mercenary
- when Yuan visits Kratos at the beach when Lloyd is 3 months old, he does not manage to escape before Anna and Lloyd return
- accidental attachment to this kidlet who likes pulling his hair
- three years later, Yuan can't stand to hold back while Kratos fights Kvar, so he throws caution to the wind to help
- Anna is still killed but they rescue Lloyd and Noishe and both are branded as traitors
- Lloyd is raised as a Renegade with Dad, Uncle Yuan and the extremely reticent Uncle Botta (how dare)
- meanwhile in Tethe'alla Yuan infiltrates the castle as the library archivist
- stays out of sight, mostly, but has a good ear around the politics thanks to recruiting Princess Hilda
- also happens to stumble on Zelos hiding in the library right after his mother's death
- look he's got a 'nephew' he can't just do nothing (even if all he meant was to recommend a book)
- unwittingly accidentally 'adopts' the Tethe'allan Chosen by virtue of being the only one who doesn't treat him like the Chosen
- sometimes Kratos brings Lloyd to visit and basically they're all separate pairs of exasperated bros
- by canon Lloyd and Kratos are wandering mercenaries, helping people on the sly while gathering intel to send back to the Renegades
- Yuan and Zelos are actively building resistance to the Church using inside knowledge
- the ninja are all Renegades
- Colette is escorted by Raine and by the priests
- yes the 'chain up the Chosen and drag her to every seal if necessary' priests
- she meets Lloyd randomly in Triet but Lloyd doesn't know her as the Chosen. they're a bit out of touch on the Journey of Regen timeline
- stuff happens and they keep missing each other up until Palmacosta, which is a warzone between the Desians (and Dorr as their figurehead) and the Renegades (with Neil as their leader)
- Colette wants to help; priests say no
- out come the chains
- Raine objects, but she has no exsphere so what can she do
- btw Genis got caught in the Iselian ranch and tossed in as a traitor to be made a host
- he gets sent to the Palmacosta ranch
- right after Neil manages to take the city, after Colette and Raine leave it, Botta takes the Palmacosta ranch and rescues Genis, among others
- Genis becomes his little shadow and is much preferable to Lloyd, in Botta's opinion
- Lloyd and Kratos are still trying to catch up to Colette to rescue her when they drop by
- Genis hears what they're trying to do and insists on coming along.
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan accidentally adopts a Chosen instead of a book from a library.
scenario two: in which Yuan is accidentally-deliberately adopted by the Meltokio Castle Knights.
MEover
- Mass Effect crossover someplace in the realm of 15,000 years after TOS canon
- except started before then, cos elves are really from Feros, planet of the cranky telepathic plant
- got decimated by the protheans trying to assimilate them into their empire
- elves objected, got killed a lot, fled Feros and got stuck in Aselia's orbit
- kinda forgot a few things but planted a seed from the Ferosian mother plant on Aselia
- Origin hasn't forgotten tho, kinda has a grudge against grumblegrumbleprotheansgrumble
- the entirety of TOS happened, and then some
- Kratos, Yuan, Lloyd, Colette and Zelos are the only ones left, but tis okay, they have each other
- somethingsomething natural space disaster, Aselia is destroyed but they manage to move Yggdrasill onto Derris-Kharlan and do a quarian by becoming a roaming ship
- mana is a variant of eezo lbr
- Derris-Kharlan's too big to use the mass relays, but c'mon it generates its own mass effect field so they develop tech to do hops on their own
- they're in no hurry tho, i mean lbr primarily angelic, elf and half-elf population
- so they're just bumming around their local clusters doing thorough investigations on all the things
- so much eezo on their ship
- so much
- suddenly the Normandy running from a reapers comes along to hide behind them
- reapers start shooting
- everyone on Derris-Kharlan objects
- JUDGEMENT IN SPACE
- so much profit and judging of reapers.
scenarios
None yet.
origin
- Kratos tells Lloyd the dad thing in Triet
- dad and son feelings ensue
- they culminate at the Tower of Salvation in Kratos stabbing Yggdrasill in the back
- unfortunately he does not quite die but impales Kratos against a wall and goes berserk on the Chosen party to the point of Yuan stepping in to help
- that is, by threatening to stab Kratos in the back while he's vulnerable (with Kratos's permission)
- Yggdrasill calls his bluff and fails, and Yuan does the thing
- while Yggdrasill is distracted the Chosen's group nail him but good and he retreats
- luckily while heart-stabbing happened, Kratos's cruxis crystal is still intact, and between Raine's healing and Yuan's mana transfusion he survives long enough to be taken to the Triet base and a refresher
- stuff happens in some fashion or other up until opening Origin's seal
- as it turns out, the mana tranfusion has fused the lock, so to speak, and Kratos can't unlock the seal even voluntarily
- only way to get Origin out at this point is to let him fuse with Kratos, so Kratos becomes Origin
- stipulation of this: Kratos refuses to let go of his humanity
- luckily Yuan already has a literal bond with him thanks to the mana transfusion, so with him as his summoner Kratos can keep his humanity, and only use Origin's powers when Yuan summons them
- commitment like woah for a literal eternity
- but hey, they messed up but good and it's the only way they can reunite the worlds.
scenarios
none yet.
reversal
~ 2000 years in, Kratos and Yuan conspire to kill Mithos and succeed, sorta
- he's stuck inside his exsphere, possessing people
- but he manages to survive and while Kratos and Yuan claim Derris-Kharlan for their base, he takes most of the angels as 'fallen', as well as the Eternal Sword
- most of his bases are hidden behind dimensional slips created by the sword - Iselia included
- Origin refuses to trust either Kratos or Yuan with the job, anyhow, and they don't have a summoner
- instead they're forced to fight Cruxis, embroiling the worlds in an angelic war between Cruxis and the new organisation of Chayim
- the Chosen bloodlines are more important to Cruxis than Chayim, but Mithos seals the seals so only the Chosen bloodline can flip the mana switch. Kratos and Yuan need someone to do that until they can reunite them, so the Journey remains an institution, just without compulsory death at the end
- there is angelification tho, if only so Chayim gets more soldiers and so the Chosen can defend themselves against Cruxis
- Kratos sends Anna and Lloyd to Iselia, because even though enemy territory, it's the safest place there is for them
- Anna get word to Kratos that the Desians are using Iselia as a long-term cruxis crystal cultivation location, and that the sword is held there
- her spy succeeds but is intercepted, and Mithos locks down the dimensional slip to prevent exit and access by angels for ~15 years
- Lloyd grows up in a town with a heavy half-elf population and believing he's training to help the good guys
- he has his own cruxis crystal as a host, but doesn't tell his mother due to the faith-based propaganda encouraging hosts not to bring it up or risk the powers not taking
- he wants to help though, so he steals a key-crest to ensure he can fight
- Yuan and Kratos plan to assault the town and shrine but Mithos uses the sword to interrupt travel between worlds, keeping Yuan in Tethe'alla and forcing Kratos to attack Iselia alone.
scenarios
scenario one: Iselia is attacked by Chayim to claim the sword, with the sword already gone
titans
- Yggdrasill captures Kratos before Kvar finds Anna and Lloyd, but after Kratos makes an Eternal Ring
- Yuan figures hell no and raises the Renegades to try and take Derris-Kharlan, rescue Kratos and solve the split-world problem
- the attack fails. a lot.
- Renegades are wiped out, Kratos is still in Cruxis's hands, but Yuan manages to escape with the Eternal Ring
- Cruxis follows him to Triet base, which gets destroyed and the few remaining Renegades scatter
- Botta is still around tho, helping out how he can
- mostly Yuan just goes searching for Lloyd and Anna
- doesn't manage to find them before Kvar does tho, and Kratos hears from Yggdrasill that they're dead
- this is slightly inaccurate, cos Lloyd still winds up rescued by Dirk in Iselia
- where Yuan eventually finds him, not knowing that he's 'supposed' to be dead
- so Yuan settles in Iselia for a bit to watch Lloyd and the Chosen
- cuts and dyes his hair, the whole shebang
- learns how to carpentry, invents a new use of magic
- winds up being Genis's role model just because scholar and magic-user and half-elf who can pass but also takes no shit from people
- is one of Colette's companions on the Journey when it starts
- he's been challenging their understanding of the Church's institution this whole time lbr
- Sheena is still a thing because the ninja have taken over the Tethe'allan base, which has survived, somewhat
- a grilling ensues
- sometime just after the Asgard Ranch Yuan does have to drop the bombshell
- about how the Journey is just a front, he and his bestie are angels, btw his bestie is Lloyd's dad
- how they're out to topple the institution of religion
- forget sacrificing Colette for the Regeneration, when they get to the seal they can do that without anyone dying
- and then move straight on to rescuing Kratos in Derris-Kharlan
- then they get to the Tower and realise Yggdrasill has Kratos under a Prometheusesque punishment a la 'impaled on the Eternal Sword to suffer the Seed's pain and watch the Chosen get murdered'
- luckily this does not happen, as they manage to rescue him and escape Yggdrasill instead, barely
- retreat to Botta's hiding-place in Asgard so Kratos can recover
- and also find out that Lloyd is actually alive
- the Chosen group goes around to make as many pacts as they can while in Sylvarant
- they get up to Aska when Yggdrasill sends his angels to attack Asgard
- cue Yuan and Kratos being unstoppable battle gods together
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan leads the Chosen's party to the Tower of Salvation to dismantle all the traditions ever, and find Kratos waiting for them in serious need of a rescue.
scenario two: in which being in safety reveals that Kratos is not precisely unscathed, but he's doing his best.
scenario three: in which Kratos is emphatically not okay, but with Yuan's help, could be.
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Hardly vague. The more food you can manage, the faster your body will fight off the illness. Less, and fighting it will take longer.
[Besides which, the stronger Ka-Fai is, the fewer resources Kratos will have to assign to him, and the less likely it is Nike will have his head.]
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[He knows his limits. At least in this case. If he wants the broth, he's going to need help.]
[The quality if his silence becomes somewhat more sullen. Eventually:]
This can't be something you want to do.
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And yet, here I am.
[Kratos recognises the tone of that objection quite well; the tone of a grudging admission to self, with a potential admission to Kratos soon to follow, so long as Kratos doesn't tip his hand.]
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[Sullen grumbling is the order of the day. But Yuan doesn't withdraw into the cocoon, only sits there and continues to eye the broth and Kratos in turn.]
[It's going to get cold. Yuan is still deciding if he cares.]
What are you reading?
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[This is an idle response. Now they're into deflection. Meanwhile, the broth sits there practically in front of Yuan's nose, hot and scentfully enticing. That's harder to deflect.]
Reminds me of the comedies in the playhouses.
[Not that he's been to one in a while, but they were at least fun.]
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[There are Stories, about Mizuho. None of them make Yuan think of comedy. This does, however, tell him that Kratos has spent some time observing plays.]
[The broth does smell good. Damn. The pinch in his stomach is finally making itself known, despite the fact he's still faintly shivering.]
[Not enough to cave. Enough to consider that he probably will, and see it coming, and hate that too.]
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[Nearly everything out of Mizuho is a comedy. Of course, Kratos has noticed that not everyone realises that fact; but it's deliberately badly written in a way Kratos recognises as meant to be poking fun at self as much as anything else. It's probably also a cover for whatever goes on in that village, but Kratos can count on one hand the number of Mizuhan codes the Tethe'allan military has managed to crack.
[Kratos eyes Yuan sideways, observing the faint shiver and withholding the urge to point out that the hot broth will warm him up.]
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[Damn it. Yuan pulls himself a little more out of the blankets, sitting up with some effort. He tugs one of them around to rest across his shoulders, grimacing as it tugs the still-healing wound, and regards the broth again.]
[He doesn't look entirely well, now that he's free of some of the obscuring blankets; the usual rigidly correct braid has utterly failed him, and there's a faint sheen of sweat to his forehead despite the fact he's still, occasionally, visibly shivering.]
The books don't often make it that far.
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No. They're good easy reading for soldiers on the move, and therefore well-used.
[He's about to offer to read it to him, since it's not in a language Yuan will understand, when Yuan pulls himself upright. Kratos says nothing about the foolishness of testing his wound -- which, thankfully, at least seems to be healing well -- and also resists the urge to tweak the loose ends spiking Yuan's braid. Instead he simply asks mildly:]
Hungry?
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[This is an instinctive response. Yuan's shoulders hike up as he hunches under the blanket and scowls.]
Yes.
[Can he fall lower? Who knows. He doesn't feel like it, but he supposes he hasn't yet managed to throw up with Kratos watching. Or worse.]
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[He holds out the bowl so Yuan can hold it himself, with Kratos's support; it's something of a concession to Yuan's pride, even if Kratos is prepared to steady him with an arm around his back if necessary.]
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[He spends a little time considering his options with regards to how to handle the food. At least it doesn't entirely feel like Kratos is pitying him, though Yuan couldn't say right now what makes the difference.]
[He chances reaching to hold the bowl, but it jeopardizes his stability. Yuan's determined to try to stay upright, but like this he's wavering.]
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[Kratos shifts a touch closer, but remains on the crate so as to provide some degree of distance between them. Still, it means he's close enough now to put his arm around Yuan's back, hopefully without damaging Yuan's pride too much.
[That means he only has one hand for the bowl, but that's fine. He's not the one who's weak as a kitten right now.]
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...so you do.
[Yuan doesn't relax. But he does feel stabler, confident enough to lift the bowl up. ...with Kratos's assistance.]
[He is, however, resolving silently to never speak of this again. His hand shakes slightly, and his grip is not the strongest it's been, but because of Kratos's help he experiences some success.]
[And the broth, he may admit with some ill grace, is apparently needed enough that it tastes good even through the sickness, and the warmth eases some of the chills. At least for now.]
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[Then he picks up his book again, letting Yuan situate himself without an audience.]
So you've never read a Mizuhan book. Would you like me to read to you?
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[He opts, for the moment, to hunch into his blankets again while sitting up. That avoids the problem for now.]
...why not. It's not as if I'm getting any less invalid.
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[Kratos eyes him out of the corner of his vision while he leafs through to find the actual beginning of the book. Is Yuan staying upright because he wants to, or because it's too much trouble to get down? Hm.
[Better leave it for now. Kratos finds the first page to start reading, his voice customarily even, but with a lilt and intonation which has the suggestion of an understanding of mood.]
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[Yuan eyes him right back, wondering if Kratos is going to try to force the issue of lying down and resting, but in the end he doesn't. That's a pleasant surprise.]
[So, too, is Kratos's voice when he's reading; it's lighter than Yuan would have thought. Then again, they've mostly spoken about grave matters, when it wasn't things barked across a battlefield.]
[...Translating on the fly, with an eye to phrasing and mood, is also fairly impressive. Yuan will find something about Kratos that isn't impressive eventually.]
[As Kratos goes on, Yuan grows slightly softer in attitude. Kratos reading means he isn't entirely watching Yuan; he's free of the weight of observation and scrutiny for now, and can give a little more time to just appreciating.]
[Eventually, carefully, Yuan lowers himself to horizontal again, grimacing all the while.]
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[It's the sort of romance which is slapstick, run on the basis of the ridiculousness of people and their emotions, more than any real drama or tension. Kratos's deadpan makes it seem even more ridiculous than it is.
[He keeps an eye out when Yuan stirs. He's read this book a few times already; it isn't much to keep reading and make sure Yuan doesn't pull his stitches. Fortunately, that does not happen, and Kratos isn't obliged to pause to argue with Yuan over the merits of receiving aid.]
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[This is said with a little waspishness. Yuan isn't sure if he's imagining the extra watchful eye when he moves or not; well, if he is, Kratos can just chalk it up to him being sick and foolish, see if Yuan cares.]
This is ridiculous. Do you translate so rapidly often?
[Once he's horizontal, Yuan pulls the blankets up again, as though he's building himself a nest in them.]
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[For a Tethe'allan, calling Mizuhan literature 'ridiculous' is like saying water is wet. That's part of the charm, of course, but it's so obvious it shouldn't need to be stated.]
Something like that.
[This is a rather vague response as Kratos turns the page and folds back one side again. He entirely ignores that first pointed remark. 'Fine' is not even close to the word Kratos would have used.]
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[And Yuan isn't convinced he wants that much more exposure yet. Although listening to Kratos is better entertainment than he's had in weeks.]
[He seems like he might be about to say something more; then he subsides, ducking a little further into blankets, and only watching Kratos while he has the opportunity. It's still both strange and fascinating, seeing Kratos at rest. Yuan estimates that'll take another few months to wear off.]
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[He keeps reading. Finishes the page. Side-glances -- and Yuan is still watching. Kratos reaches the end of the page and then tips his head at Yuan.]
Am I so compelling?
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Did you expect me not to pay attention?
[He can start ignoring Kratos, if Kratos really prefers, but honestly that seems pointless.]
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[Or maybe they do. Kratos honestly isn't sure about that; he usually ignores people looking at him. That's a bit more difficult with Ka-Fai, though Kratos isn't entirely sure why. Maybe it's just him having been in Ka-Fai's sights so often in the past leading to injury.]
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finis