[3rd Soul] [video]

[soundmind]

I think--

[Well, hello, Genessia, you done being nutso? If not, too bad, because Maka is here anyway rolling a ring back and forth on what looks to be a desk. Since when does she have a ring? Who knows, she wears gloves mostly so how would anyone know. What's she thinking? About that--]

I'm getting rusty doing all this hanging back stuff, I haven't fought with a weapon or even had a spar in a while. Guess I don't make much time for it with work.

[A pause.]

Bah, I'm just making excuses, I'm starting to sound as lazy as Soul. Anybody know about a place where weapons can be bought or something like that?

[Yep, that's...that's definitely a thing.]

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WHAAAAAT IT'S AN ACTION TAG?!

[symmetrophile]

You make that sound as if you're admitting defeat.

[Wait, that voice sounds like it's coming from behind her. So, too, the sound of a door closing.

Which would, of course, be because a certain young and somewhat newly-ascended god has just invited himself in. Without so much as a hello or an if-you-please, even!

The nerve of these reapers, just coming and going as it pleases them!]

WHAAAT IT'S A COMMENT SPAM 1/idk

[soundmind]

No, I'm n--

[She stops mid-huff both when she realizes that someone came in without her noticing.

It takes another moment to process the voice that spoke.]

[soundmind]

[Then, as though shocked by her chair, Maka bolts up and faces the uninvited death god.]

...[She thought he went back home, she thought that she was just alone here with her dad and a creepier Stein now. Not seeing Soul in a while is bad enough, but after that...exchange she had with Kid, reassuring him that she'll be there with him through his grief, well...]

3/4

[soundmind]

[It felt like that getting ditched thing she hates so much.

It's not with a whimper or a bang that she acts out next, it's a tentative step and then a full RUN INTO HIM to throw her arms around her friend.]

[soundmind]

You stupid jerk, you stupid jerk! Where have you been?!

[Ignore the insults, she's actually really relieved to see him.]

[symmetrophile]

[Kid's reflexive step backward at Maka's advance merely ends up with that impact marginally "softened" by his back having a sudden rendezvous with the door behind him.

Spare them any knock-knock jokes, gosh.]

Maka!

[There's the old rigid fussiness startled out of him, before he smooths down his own ruffled (and proverbial) feathers. You're wrinkling his shirt, Maka. This may or may not have everything to do with why he's darting his gaze around uncertainly.]

--Napping, to answer your question. I understand I lost track of time.

[How do you lose track of time and nap for months without noticing?

Please don't Maka Chop him.]

[soundmind]

IT'S BEEN MONTHS!

[That awful sort of desperate shrill tone only when Maka is truly upset comes out, and she hates it, but she can't control it.

He's going to have to learn to accept it, because she's not letting go, only squeezing tighter as though he's going to vanish.]

Napping. You freaking idiot, I was so worried, I thought you ran off on me again.

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[deathsought]

You should ask Ruby.

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[soundmind]

Ah...I don't know anybody named Ruby.

[But she's not much of a social person as a whole, shhhh.]

Do you know where I'd find her usually?

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[deathsought]

Ruby Rose.

{ A sigh. }

Try asking about her scythe.

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[soundmind]

[That...doesn't really help, she still doesn't know anybody named Ruby.]

Does it summon her or something? Because I use scythes, too, and I never heard of scythe users being summoned that way. ...Or at all.

[Maka.]

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[hemoeroticism]

Why not just make your own? ☆

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[soundmind]

I don't have the tools, and we weren't exactly taught stuff like that in art...

[Funny considering she goes to a murderdeath school.]

Unless you mean get really creative and use a fork or something.

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[hemoeroticism]

I use my own blood.

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[soundmind]

[There is visibly a pause, a look of surprise as though he said something she's familiar with.

And she is, she definitely is. Other people can do that besides Crona? So...]

What...what color is it?

[Video]

[notsoholyspirit]

...You still have it.

[Statement of the obvious for the win!]

[Video]

[soundmind]

--Huh?

[Oh. Oh, shit--Maka immediately snatches up the ring and puts the hand holding it into her lap, as though that would erase any evidence of people seeing it.]

O-of course I do, it was Mom's, I wouldn't let something like that out of my sight.

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[notsoholyspirit]

[Papa is smiling like an idiot, lopsided. He hadn't wanted to make her uncomfortable, but to know that she still kept it--and with her--meant a lot to him.]

I'm glad.

[Video]

[soundmind]

Hmph.

[No, not uncomfortable, just embarrassed. She realizes it's immature to keep acting like she doesn't have feelings of sentiment, but it's a habit at this point.]

By the way, Kid decided to drag himself back home. I already boxed his ears for leaving.

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[weapongeek]

[Did somebody say something about weapons? And then she heard "Soul". She must be this "Maka" girl that she heard about from Spirit. but remembering what he told her....]

Well, if you'd like I could make you one. I made Crescent Rose myself.

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[soundmind]

Wow...you can do things like that?

[She looks totally fascinated, all right.]

That's so cool!

[Wait. Hang on, didn't somebody tell her about a person to look out for?]

Excuse me, are you Ruby?

[Video]

[weapongeek]

Mhm!

[What?]

Yeah, that's me. Are you Maka?

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[whiteas]

If you haven't already spoken to Ruby, you should ask her, but for.. simpler weapons, I would suggest some of the blacksmiths in Fayren.

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[soundmind]

Ah, so you know Ruby too? This is the second time she's been mentioned to me.

[Fascinating.]

She must be quite a weapons expert...our weapons are a little unique, so I can't just consult any old blacksmith. I don't think my friend would accept that either since...[she breaks off, shaking her head.] Sorry, I don't want to bore you with the details.

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[whiteas]

Of course I know her, she's my partner.

[ Weiss shakes her head. ] In our world, most hunters and huntresses forge our own weapons according to what we need and want out of them. Ruby is just more enthusiastic about weapons than most. Every single weapon a hunter and huntress carries is unique to its user. I don't mind hearing details.