Height
6'0" / 181cm
Body Type
Toned
Smokes
No
Drinks
Occasionally
Drugs
No
Sign
Capricorn
Education
Military
Occupation
FAC Special Dispatch
Income
Special Division Payband 1
Children
No
Pets
No
Hobbies
No
( here to stake my claim, but also so we don’t get captcha cucked. a day or two after the initial flurry of mating season activity comes one simple message: )
[Double-take one: What...is that username? She should be a little more careful. Shalom is lucky that Rahu is probably the only one here with the context to read it properly.
Since she made her vow to protect her, Rahu is just about to chastise when she's hit with double-take two: unsolicited smiling emoji.]
Was that really necessary? I don't understand your angle, but I'm sure you have something up your sleeve.
Is it? I only met you after I arrived at the Villa.
[It feels like ages, but it's only been a handful of weeks by now. The assassin had gotten her hands on Rahu's information between their second and third meetings. Like a star burning behind the haze of smoke, Rahu can see Shalom reciting her own failures back at her in the aftermath. It still feels half like a dream, as if her dreams weren't always filled with one unchanging, relentless thing. Rahu feels defensive of the fact that, no matter what Paradeisos schemes Shalom has in her hands, there are things she'll never know about her.]
Regardless of where we are, my goals haven't changed, and I'll uphold my promise. Where are you planning to take me? [She doesn't doubt for a second that this has already been planned.]
If it sounded like two different messages, don't you think it could have been two different messages? I was trying to post to avoid humiliation, not advertise for it. [And the benefit of text, at least, is that whether she's flustered or not is obscured behind her strict and unflinching words.]
Is this internet slang here in the casino or from your home? [He seems to read fine, so it's not like he's struggling with reading or writing. But she kinda is - it's not often it's every word like this.]
For what? Praise for nothing is meaningless. I wrote an introduction for myself; the rest just proves I didn't play along well enough. Save the praise for when I've pulled something off. Then sure, say it to your heart's content.
Heh...but I escaped with something only a little embarrassing. [It really does sound like someone has a praise kink she isn't aware is really a praise kink and just takes satisfaction in a job well done, or maybe the reality of that just hasn't set in yet.]
They really are a pain. Shackles aren't convenient no matter how you dress them up.
I didn't say that, but if you want to make wild assumptions then I can't stop you, either.
You said yourself these things are restrictive. Don't you feel bound by them? To me it's like being chained... though it takes much more to restrain me.
Wait, you're interested in meeting?
[Two very different things in their respective messages to be taken off guard by, and yet
One MIGHT say that, but it MIGHT not be advisable or correct. [She would not say that! Hum... She's thankful for the shift in topic, regardless. It doesn't matter how much of her observation was correct in the end; this is useful for trying to see if there's any motivation behind how the House is trying to play them.]
It's not every day someone used to a comfortable life ends up in that position. Usually it would take something very important worth fighting for to make that happen. I'm sure the conveniences here are a little harder to swallow, but I've heard there are ways to get your hands on them.
[ Unfortunately for Hilda, she enjoys teasing - even when it may not be advisable.
She types before she can stop to think what this might imply. ]
...It was important. Is important.
[ Thankfully text doesn't betray facial expressions and she can move right on from it and hope that Rahu won't say anything. ]
There's people I know from home who have been here longer than we have and they both said something similar. Which means more of what happened at the beach.
[ There's a pause before - ]
Not that I'm implying there should be more between us! And I'm not saying that I disliked it or anything - I did enjoy it - I just don't want you to think that there's any obligation.
[Obviously, it's noteworthy. Rahu is used to coming through communications for information that might be meaningful. Beyond that, however, without more pieces of information, she can't infer more than that something must have changed.]
Six months is the longest so far, from someone who hasn't started behaving like a local. It'd be impossible to last that long without walking the walk, even if you're swimming upstream the whole time.
[When Hilda's message starts coming through in a way that reads to her as flustered, Rahu feels a quick rush of unease, once more out of her element. She seemed so bold before...but unless this is a front, then of course she should consider that this was all disarming for the other woman, too.]
Take it easy. We were both under the influence of something we didn't expect. And for me, it's been a while. I don't have any expectations either way.
That's about the same amount of time I've heard from those I've spoken to as well. Six months here feels impossible to think about.
[ What Rahu had seen at the beach hadn't entirely been a front. She's just never been in a situation where she's felt possessed by feelings that weren't necessarily there to begin with. Rather, the flustered nature of hers has everything to do with the fact that she didn't want to impose upon Rahu that there was an expectation from her to continue interacting with her like that. ...Circumstances of survival here aside. ]
I know, I just usually prefer getting to know someone a little more beforehand, you know?
But for what it's worth I enjoyed it. ...And I wouldn't mind spending more time with you in general laced meat aside.
A little more time for the acquaintance and a different location. We got lucky not to be seen by anyone passing by the area.
[This is what the kids might call coping... because there's no way. There's just no way. Though perhaps her attention was just elsewhere.]
Since we're basically neighbors, no doubt we'll see more of each other. [She can't continue to ignore what's already been brought to light, and any lingering feelings of awkwardness will just have to be pressed down so she can keep moving forward.] If it does take six months or longer, what will you do?
Tell me about it. Although if it helps, after speaking to others, I don't think that would have been that strange of an occurrence.
[ In other words they weren't the only ones who had been subject to semi-public (or downright public) sex. ]
I'm not sure. To be honest, I've always taken things one day at a time. Then again, I've never had to play a game that requires me to do the things they're asking us to do. And if I'm being honest...there's a war going on at home. It would be easy to say that I'd rather stay here but I have mixed feelings about it.
Sure it does, but there's always the next thing. When you're always moving forward, commendations like that don't last long. Especially when you're keeping yourself motivated.
What did it take to shift your dedication like that? It doesn't sound like an easy break from commitment.
[Mild, as most of her messages over text are. She writes formally, her words a pillar, for the most part. But she's more invested in the answer than those basic words might betray; just what, exactly, is the meaning in moving on for him?]
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counterblowing) wrote2024-07-01 10:03 pm
@MBCC-S-017, text.
🙂
( that’s it. teehee, as they say. )
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Since she made her vow to protect her, Rahu is just about to chastise when she's hit with double-take two: unsolicited smiling emoji.]
Was that really necessary? I don't understand your angle, but I'm sure you have something up your sleeve.
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Isn't it funny that this place thinks we lack an appropriate bond?
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[It feels like ages, but it's only been a handful of weeks by now. The assassin had gotten her hands on Rahu's information between their second and third meetings. Like a star burning behind the haze of smoke, Rahu can see Shalom reciting her own failures back at her in the aftermath. It still feels half like a dream, as if her dreams weren't always filled with one unchanging, relentless thing. Rahu feels defensive of the fact that, no matter what Paradeisos schemes Shalom has in her hands, there are things she'll never know about her.]
Regardless of where we are, my goals haven't changed, and I'll uphold my promise. Where are you planning to take me? [She doesn't doubt for a second that this has already been planned.]
welcome event overflow: rinne
Excuse me? I was trying to present myself in line with what this system seems to expect. I believe I succeeded to the best of my ability.
What a weird conclusion to reach based on that.
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u wer askin ppl 2 ☆ praise you ☆ lyk a gud girl. u sure??
felt lyk reading 2 diff msgs ryt der
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Is this internet slang here in the casino or from your home? [He seems to read fine, so it's not like he's struggling with reading or writing. But she kinda is - it's not often it's every word like this.]
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nah i just h8 typing on dis thing
they shud give us real phones
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Heh...but I escaped with something only a little embarrassing. [It really does sound like someone has a praise kink she isn't aware is really a praise kink and just takes satisfaction in a job well done, or maybe the reality of that just hasn't set in yet.]
They really are a pain. Shackles aren't convenient no matter how you dress them up.
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ok!! y don't we meet n i know about u~ i'll find plenty of things 2 praise, i bet
w8 shackles??
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You said yourself these things are restrictive. Don't you feel bound by them? To me it's like being chained... though it takes much more to restrain me.
Wait, you're interested in meeting?
[Two very different things in their respective messages to be taken off guard by, and yet
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ofc i am. i lyk meeting ppl so let's meeet
welcome event overflow: hilda
One MIGHT say that, but it MIGHT not be advisable or correct. [She would not say that! Hum... She's thankful for the shift in topic, regardless. It doesn't matter how much of her observation was correct in the end; this is useful for trying to see if there's any motivation behind how the House is trying to play them.]
It's not every day someone used to a comfortable life ends up in that position. Usually it would take something very important worth fighting for to make that happen. I'm sure the conveniences here are a little harder to swallow, but I've heard there are ways to get your hands on them.
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She types before she can stop to think what this might imply. ]
...It was important. Is important.
[ Thankfully text doesn't betray facial expressions and she can move right on from it and hope that Rahu won't say anything. ]
There's people I know from home who have been here longer than we have and they both said something similar. Which means more of what happened at the beach.
[ There's a pause before - ]
Not that I'm implying there should be more between us! And I'm not saying that I disliked it or anything - I did enjoy it - I just don't want you to think that there's any obligation.
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Six months is the longest so far, from someone who hasn't started behaving like a local. It'd be impossible to last that long without walking the walk, even if you're swimming upstream the whole time.
[When Hilda's message starts coming through in a way that reads to her as flustered, Rahu feels a quick rush of unease, once more out of her element. She seemed so bold before...but unless this is a front, then of course she should consider that this was all disarming for the other woman, too.]
Take it easy. We were both under the influence of something we didn't expect. And for me, it's been a while. I don't have any expectations either way.
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[ What Rahu had seen at the beach hadn't entirely been a front. She's just never been in a situation where she's felt possessed by feelings that weren't necessarily there to begin with. Rather, the flustered nature of hers has everything to do with the fact that she didn't want to impose upon Rahu that there was an expectation from her to continue interacting with her like that. ...Circumstances of survival here aside. ]
I know, I just usually prefer getting to know someone a little more beforehand, you know?
But for what it's worth I enjoyed it. ...And I wouldn't mind spending more time with you in general laced meat aside.
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[This is what the kids might call coping... because there's no way. There's just no way. Though perhaps her attention was just elsewhere.]
Since we're basically neighbors, no doubt we'll see more of each other. [She can't continue to ignore what's already been brought to light, and any lingering feelings of awkwardness will just have to be pressed down so she can keep moving forward.] If it does take six months or longer, what will you do?
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[ In other words they weren't the only ones who had been subject to semi-public (or downright public) sex. ]
I'm not sure. To be honest, I've always taken things one day at a time. Then again, I've never had to play a game that requires me to do the things they're asking us to do. And if I'm being honest...there's a war going on at home. It would be easy to say that I'd rather stay here but I have mixed feelings about it.
What will you do?
welcome event overflow: rokurou
Sure it does, but there's always the next thing. When you're always moving forward, commendations like that don't last long. Especially when you're keeping yourself motivated.
What did it take to shift your dedication like that? It doesn't sound like an easy break from commitment.
[Mild, as most of her messages over text are. She writes formally, her words a pillar, for the most part. But she's more invested in the answer than those basic words might betray; just what, exactly, is the meaning in moving on for him?]
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..... It's a long story. But, naturally, there was no serving him anymore once I was detained.