7rings- PCs with Yuri

[notaccurate]

something something shitpost later

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[notaccurate]

You don't seem like a man who does anything he doesn't want to.

I would offer a trade, but I cannot demonstrate my specialties currently. Beyond the ones you already know about.

[Luca don't brag about sex that's rude.]

[aubins]

You'd be surprised.

[ and that's all that's said on that. ]

You can probably recreate your... uh. Version of magic? Maybe? I'm not quite sure how it works but I managed to use some the other day.

[ luca that confidence. ] I'm sure you're a man with a wealth of talents, Luca. Even if dancing isn't one of them?

[notaccurate]

I'm a wealth of scientific talents, but I can't even count to ten this week. You'll have to wait until my math-mind comes back to me for any of those demonstrations.

What about your other talents from your profile? I can already see your charm and sass, but 'underground knowledge'?

[aubins]

[ he just. pats his cheek. ]

Man, this week is really out for all of us, isn't it? Don't worry, maybe it'll shake things up later and you'll get your science brain back in exchange for something else.

Underground knowledge. It is what it is.

[notaccurate]

[Hm. Now Luca is looking concerned.]

'It is what it is' doesn't sound like a positive thing here.

[aubins]

It's accurate. Why, what do you think it sounds like?

[notaccurate]

It sound like something I say a lot more than I would like to.

[He knows what it means, bruh.]

[aubins]

Then there's not a whole lot of need to explain it then, is there?

[notaccurate]

I suppose at that point we would have to trade a story for a story, hmm?

[Which. Isn't the most appealing thing, but it is strange to see such a sudden shift in Yuri.]

[aubins]

You can do, if that's what you want.

[ he's. not really confirming either way. ]

[notaccurate]

[Luca is silent for a fair while, all the way until they get to the simulation room. But as he's looking over the control panel, he finally speaks up again:]

I'm a foreigner in the country I currently live in. The days where people overlook me, rather than when they regard me with suspicion, are considered the 'good days'.

[aubins]

... Good to see that sort of thing happens in every world. Or multiple ones at the very least. [ his tone suggests this is not good. ]

... So. You have to resort to less than noble methods to get things done? Throw your lot in with questionable people?

[notaccurate]

Sometimes. I try not to, the Valentino family would not be happy if I sullied their name. But I'm in another country and sometimes you have to throw in with unscrupulous people.

[aubins]

[ he just shrugs. ]

And I have people to protect. My people. I don't really care what I have to do to that end.

[notaccurate]

I wouldn't fault a leader for taking care of their people.

[He remembers that from Yuri's profile too.]

[aubins]

Some people would.

[ but honestly, fuck them. ]

Doesn't matter though. If you're doing what you have to do get by then... well that's between you and yourself only.

[notaccurate]

Indeed. You don't have to answer to anyone else about what you choose to do.

...my apologies, for bringing up something heavy like this. Shall I make it up to you?

[He gestures to the console. He can make something nice for them.]

[aubins]

It's not something you need to be apologising for. I just said it doesn't matter to me what people think. [ and there's nothing in his voice to suggest he's lying. ]

[ but he does smile a moment later. ]

But, sure. You can make it up to me.

[notaccurate]

[Luca smiles, and he spends a few moments setting up a rather nice dinner view for them.]

I know we can't eat anything here, but it's more the atmosphere that counts.

[aubins]

[ and they have food at home the vending machine. ]

Oh? What, are you still angling for a dance?

[notaccurate]

I'm angling to enjoy a lovely sunset with an equally lovely man. You start to miss the small things like that, when you're locked in a building with no windows.

[aubins]

I'm used to not seeing much sunlight. But it is funny how you miss something more when you literally can't have it, rather than choose not to have it.

[notaccurate]

Isn't it? That's when you truly appreciate the small things.

[aubins]

[ before someone dies and you have to figure out who killed them. ]

There's probably some philosophical saying for all this, but I'm not sure I believe half of that navel gazing anyway.

[notaccurate]

I'm sure it all boils down to 'live in the moment' anyway.