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[Welp, there sure are a lot of interesting rumors filtering through public conversation. It would be easy to let them run their course and watch everything spiral into chaos, but alas. He likes a whole one (1) of the affected candidates.]

Hm~! We've sure got a lot of exciting candidates for Guardian, or whatever it is, this season! Accepting bribes sounds pretty normal, and who isn't in debt with the shopping channel, so you two have my vote! And I for one think that a ruler in Everglade without powers would be pretty neat.

What about everyone else? You heard any interesting rumors lately? I'd love to know. Voting is super important and all~. Oh, and if any killjoy candidates want to deny the rumors... I guess that's fine too. Just make it fun.

Except the Santa Claus killer. That's just bad. No vote for you.

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[She's biting back a very obvious laugh, she's having way too much fun with this.]

Idle gossip? You seemed so upset about it and willing to call me a liar, so I hardly think you find it idle.

But, to each their own, I suppose. Isn't it better if a Guardian candidate is truthful about such a rumor as this?

No.

Being a public authority figure doesn't make who you fuck anyone's business. [... Well, it's Smoker. Of course he's going to say that. He could be court martialed and executed for sleeping with the enemy. \:|/ ]

I am calling bullshit though. You don't seem his type.

[HE WILL EAT SO MUCH FUCKING CROW!!!]

[God, she's having way too much fun poking at any button she can remotely find at this point.]

"Not his type"? Then what do you think his type is, darling? And honestly I'm offended at such a comment, how rude. [She's not, at all.]

Uh-huh.

Not you. [WAVES A HAND GESTURING TO ALL OF HER. BE MORE INSULTED.]

[She's snorting at that and just leaning back in her chair.]

I wouldn't expect someone like you to have any taste to begin with, so it's hardly a problem. Though I'd say the tips I make every night certainly shows more than well enough that there's many people who I'm their type to.

Oh. You work at --

One of his...?

Hm. Okay.

Which one? So I know to avoid it when you're there. [THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE...]

[Congrats, Smoker, she's actually barking out a laugh.]

You can't avoid me if you go there. Kind of comes with the territory of being a branch manager, doesn't it?~

Disgusting.

So long as you're not on stage.

Which one did you say it was?

Where's the fun in telling you? You seem like such a prude that I doubt you'd come out this way, anyway.

I make my living just as honest as anyone else in this place, after all~

[UGH. NOW HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO RUN INTO HER. AND HE WILL BE EVEN WORSE OF A RED-FACED MORON THAN SHE THINKS.]

[ALL THE STILTED, AND YES HE IS BLUSHING.]

I am. Friends aren't.

[This is beautiful and she's just going to take all of that in and change her tone from annoyed to almost cooed. Just to fuck with him, really.]

While I might not be your type, doesn't mean the other girls, or guys if you go that way, wouldn't be. I'd rather someone be getting paid instead of no one, after all.

[SUCH A SQUICKED FACE.]

[Gross gross gross!]

Fantastic. [SUPER SARCASTIC GROWL!]

[Okay, okay. She's chilling out for a moment with a small stretch to pop a shoulder.]

If I may take a serious moment here and give you a suggestion, darling? Perhaps you should work on how easily you get flustered, it's not a very cute look and doesn't give you much of a poker face if it's that easy.

Fuck off!

[He'd rather she was still teasing him than taking pity!!!!]

[This is fabulous, but she's keeping a calm exterior and expression for the moment.]

Mmm, nah. Unless someone other than you is offering, I guess.

[SHUDDERS AND TWITCHES AGAIN.]

Ugch...

I'm sure you can find.... [PUSHES A HAND AWAY LIKE TRYING TO GET RID OF HER PHSICALLY.] Someone I GUESS. [Shudder. YUCK!]

[AND THEN A DRAMATIC SHRUG.] Then again, you do seem pretty desperate. [Smoker enjoys DIGGING HIS OWN GRAVE APPARENTLY. It's a new hobby.]

[She is only doing this to completely fuck with him now, oops.]

Oh, darling. I don't need anything of that sort.

[Uh, oops, lich.]

I only need one thing~

[... Yeah he's MORE chill with her as a skeleton. It must be instincts. He's too much a dog, and it's like he knew she was hiding something, so now he actually relaxes a little.]

What's that?

[Worth noting, he KNOWS an animated skeleton, so... eh. STRANGE THE THINGS THAT WILL BOTHER HIM OR NOT.]

[Well, shit, that's not exactly what she expected. But it's fine, she'll humor this conversation for a little bit at the very least.]

Something not quite as tangible as what others need to survive. Something most can't see~

[SPREADS BOTH HANDS AND SUPER SARCASTICALLY AGAIN:]

Let me guess, love?

[It's sarcasm. He's already putting pieces together with her video of torturing the guy -- LEGALLY, but he remembers keenly how most people are altruistic here and either have better prison systems than his world, or it's just unknown to them.]

[Shakes his head.]

[And gestures respectively to pushed down sunglasses and ears.] Real talk, I don't speak up as much as I read, watch, and listen.

I don't know what all Sutcliffe got up to, and most everyone seems to think the Everglade can rot and burn. But I'm assuming you're too smart to be quite so open as to say "hey let's legalize torture." So what exactly, are your plans with it?

[Holds a hand up to add some clarity.] My world did allow for torturing criminals. I spend half of my time in my last base trying not to let my own men set criminals on fire to get information out of them. And my boss is a murderous fuckwit who'd take my head over just the rumor running around. Good enough for him. So I get it. I've seen more of the dark side of justice than the kids here.

But I hope you have a better plan in mind than to just personally enrich yourself no matter what happens to the others. Otherwise we're going to be at greater odds than just this.

[Oh, so he paid attention to that, did he? Interesting.

Any of her notions of fucking around has died down for the time being and she's just leaning back against her chair and ignoring something moving in the background. It's one of her pokemon, really, so not big deal.]

Love doesn't do shit to sustain someone like me, tried that a long time ago and it almost drove myself and my brother insane. I'll be frank with you here, the kind I am now feed on emotions in general, some find certain emotions stronger than others. In my case and my brother's, suffering was the strongest to us. It's not necessary as other emotions work, but it's what sustained us the longest.

[There's a small wave of her hand, eh.]

I was asked to do what I did, but back home I did about the same. But it was due to the greed of people who wished to seek treasures or some other grand gesture that was complete and utter bullshit. Those that had a good reason or a tough fortitude got what they wanted, those that didn't generally... ending up giving up and leaving after we'd taken what we could from them for whatever time they were there. Some died, but that was due to stupidity on their part with the challenges, we never outright killed anyone, not our style. You don't have to kill someone to get them to suffer, after all. And, I'll have you know, that man in that video didn't die by my hand, I don't do that.

As for Everglade itself? I want it to be more open than it currently is, some of the regulations set in place are bullshit as far as I'm concerned. Rules on necromancy, rules on hunting, that sort of thing. There's five cities for humans to have, so I think it's fair enough to let those non-humans here live their lives as they need to and if someone gets killed due to being too stupid to leave... then that's on them, they knew what they signed up for with Everglade.

Merely... I want to be able to keep an eye on things and I just can't trust those against me or those that have been in charge this last previous session, you know? I want this to be a legitimate safe haven for non-humans and for humans to get their noses out of it. I've seen it both as this creature and as an elf when I was alive, the damage that humans do due to their own misguided human-centric ways.

That's it, really. Nothing hidden, nothing that's just to benefit me, I've been feeding just fine in these times.

[Solemn nod.] There's a lot worse than death.

[Lights up a fresh pair of cigars in thought.] Are the humans without pendants able to leave? I was under the impression that they were trapped within the barriers, just as people in the archways are trapped in their worlds.

[And possibly illusionary. Hah.]

[And a quiet noise.] I'm not considered a human in my world -- [Raises a hand again.] Not that I'm a fishman like Namur or Jinbei. I'm a monster by my own words and choices, by my strength and power making me less mortal, not by my species or race. The marines don't discriminate -- in theory. But I've seen that theory pushed to breaking point. I don't like the idea of four of the cities being for humans, and one city being for everyone else. It's stupid. Besides, Fayren might have a dragon as a guardian. Fishman Island in my world... I don't know enough of the politics to say for sure. How much is propaganda and lies, what is true. But I know the islands that didn't join the World Government were all ripe for ruin by -- warlords, criminals, and slavers. Fishman Island has extra circumstances, in that it's location is the only way for pirates to get through the second half of a tract of ocean, into the New World, it's called. It's a headache. But for here, I don't think any one city isolating itself is good for anyone. Not the city, the residents, or the other four.

I've already been through death, twice. [That's the most casual tone on the face of the planet about it.]

Those people aren't really real, not like how were are. I'm sure you know that. If they were then they could move cities just like we can. [A little bit of research never hurt anyone and she's heard that argument time and time again.]

[The last part has her remaining quiet, merely watching the screen as if something else is going to happen. But she's finally speaking after a moment or two.]

I didn't say it was going to completely shut us off from everyone else. But what other city here can someone like a vampire or werewolf hunt other than Everglade? Whether it's state or not, there's a bias for that sort of thing and it's something that should be fixed. This alternative methods of eating is bullshit and nowhere near as useful as the real thing, I've tried, in my case.

If the other cities won't let them hunt, then they should at least be allowed to do so here and that's the point, to allow that freedom. If other cities want to lax those restrictions to allow them to, then I'm all for it, but you know as well as I do that that's not about to happen.

It did seem a bit surreal, particularly with the bounty system, but that won't stop others from treating them like they are.

Hunting is only a means to an end, Lydia. Or do you prefer a different name?

In any event, it shouldn't be the primary goal. I'm The White Hunter in my world. I spent the last four years here trying to get used to the idea of not hunting pirates 24/7. I've met vampires who've adapted, I'm sure the others can as well. Though in your case....

I don't suppose hospitals want you lurking around feasting, or is it just that it's less fun for you that way?

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