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PROMPTS

1) A thief in the night. You're sleeping peacefully, when suddenly you're awoken by the faint sound of rustling. It's quiet, so it could just be the wind, or perhaps you've a pet that's making the rounds? Surely that's it. Yes, you had better go back to sleep and ignore the shadow that moves across your bedroom, searching for wherever you keep your valuables.

2) Backed into a corner. One wrong turn, and you found yourself down a dark alleyway with three--no, four men pointing daggers at you, one of them gesturing for you to open your coin purse. You're contemplating what to do when a hooded figure comes swinging down into the alley and lands hard on one of the muggers, followed by two daggers thrown at the shoulder and thigh of the other two nearby. Just as you're wondering what happened, more dark figures with knives come rushing into the alleyway. Looks like it's just you and the hooded man against these assailants now.

3) Wildcard. Make up your own scenario!

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I've got a pretty good guess, yeah.

[ IT'S THE SAME REASON AS IT ALWAYS IS. Or at least, she's pretty sure of that. She perches on one of the boxes, pressing her fingertips together. ]

It tends to happen a lot, wherever I go.

You wanna talk about it?

[he takes a seat on a box opposite her]

Edited 2019-03-14 01:18 (UTC)

It's going to sound completely fake, I'm warning you in advance.

[ That's not a no. ]

Try me.

[he just grins]

Okay, so...

My friends and I are investigating disturbances at different points of history in order to correct them before they end up growing so large that they end up completely overtaking the correct course of things and lead to the inevitable end of humanity?

[...]

Cool. Cool cool cool.

I warned you. I did.

Wait, how does that explain those guys?

Oh, you know. The sorts of people who cause disturbances in the first place, and don't want things getting fixed.

Or maybe they just saw a girl wandering around by herself. It's a fifty-fifty chance.

[thinking]

Like some kinda secret doomsday cult?

Or, you know, people who don't believe that there's any way THEIR particular meddling could possibly end badly for them.

Wild. How do you usually deal with this?

Usually, I have -- friends, with me. They deal with the fighting, I deal with the fixing.

Just your luck you'd get noticed by a guy like me, huh?

[grins]

I was! You won't hear me denying that.

...

I don't have a whole lot to give you as a reward, though...

[ She's genuinely apologetic about that part. ]

[he waves a hand]

Don't worry about it. Looking out for the little guy s'all part of the job.

Edited 2019-03-14 21:40 (UTC)

Is that so? What does that make you, a hero of justice?

Basically, yeah. I'm the head of the imperial army, and I got a long-standing network of spies and thieves from before that are mostly still good to work with me after my promotion.

[ "You're way too pretty to be the head of an imperial army." No she can't say that. That's possibly rude?! ]

Huh, is that so... should I be calling you 'Your Grace' or something?

[IT'S KINDA TRUE THO

he laughs]

Hah! No, that gives me the chills. Just Titus is fine.

[ Ritsuka is very used to being around pretty people but this is still a new one for her. ]

Okay, so no sucking up. Got it.

Yeah. I'm the "actions speak louder than words" kinda guy, anyway.

...Yeah, you seem a lot more like a hands-on kind of guy.

Ehe, is it that obvious? I hate sitting back and watching when I could be in the middle of something.

[ She laughs, nodding in agreement. ]

Yeah, I know that feeling. I do my best, even if I can't fight that much.

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